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Would you remove hatch mechanic?

Faulds
Faulds Member Posts: 903
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I see many people saying that hatch is an unfair mechanic since it gives a free escape to the survivor.

As far as i'm concerned, i'm fine with it since it creates a gameplay that would be non-existent otherwise. If Hatch wasn't there, the killer would have to search for a survivor that would be hiding for years... or until the killer disconnects. Thats why I don't think it would be a good idea.

What's your thoughts?

Would you remove hatch mechanic? 38 votes

Yes
15%
GibberishCleviteidcBenOfMilamHex_Ignoredshinobu149 6 votes
No
84%
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Comments

  • Nathan13
    Nathan13 Member Posts: 6,707
    No

    No, because of the reason you stated.

  • sizzlingmario4
    sizzlingmario4 Member Posts: 6,898
    No

    You said it yourself.

    One survivor would have no incentive to try and do generators - it's hopeless.

    This is why 2v1s are worse than 1v1s, because you can just have two survivors waiting for the other one to die and neither of them are doing anything/both are just hiding who knows where.

  • Clevite
    Clevite Member Posts: 4,335
    Yes

    Just make the EGC start when there is one survivor left alive

  • Pizzasauce
    Pizzasauce Member Posts: 940
    No

    Oh the sweet relief once the hatch is found.

  • Aurelle
    Aurelle Member Posts: 3,611
    No

    The last survivor deserves a chance to escape imo.

  • BenOfMilam
    BenOfMilam Member Posts: 911
    Yes

    Hatch sort of has the problem of encouraging highly selfish behavior from survivors. "If I let all my teammates die, I can escape through hatch and win!" I can't count how many games I've played as killer where one survivor just waits for everyone to die and then goes looking for hatch (or worse, they farm their teammates off hook without BT so they die quicker).

    It also has the problem of encouraging killers to slug for the 4k. "If I hook this survivor, the last one can find the hatch and I won't get a 4k!" I can't tell you how boring it is for you and your friend to take turns getting slugged and revived for 10-15 minutes.

    The problem with removing the hatch is that Dead By Daylight does not have an in-game timer to prevent matches from taking 30 minutes to an hour, so the last survivor could just be a locker jockey until the killer DCs. There's no actual reason for a match in DbD to take too much longer than 10-15 minutes, with particularly stalemate heavy matches taking around 20 minutes.

    Hatch and EGC are really just band-aids for an easily fixable problem: The game has no time limit.

  • TheBigGopher
    TheBigGopher Member Posts: 122
    No
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2683642#Comment_2683642

    Usually I find the hatch first, I dont know what's up with you. The last survivor at least deserves a chance, and if you notice he's a dick then be a dick back.

  • idc
    idc Member Posts: 51
    Yes

    Just so they would stop making challenges in the archive for it.