Killers: How Merciful Are You?
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It honestly depends on the vibe of the game. If I can tell the survivors are babies, I try to let them get some work done. If survivors are clicking and moonwalking.... totally different ballgame. If i'm at 10 hooks, the team isn't ratty, and there's no bm's, the remaining get out. Bloody party streamers sweeten the deal for sure.
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Depends on much they squirm
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Mm.
If someone brings streamers, it's probably going to be a duo escape and 2 hooking everyone.
If it's a showboating SWF - bye bye. And I'll remember them for next time.
I just had a game on Ghostface (not one of my best killers) and was doing my normal thing - trying to get 1 hook on everyone before I start in on the killing. Next thing, their Yoichi decides that, since he got me to shack and managed to drop the pallet on me, it was time to start the flashlight strobing - and if there's one thing that's guaranteed to make me abandon every bit of my chill and bringing every bit of my focus to bear on the game, it's that crap.
They had 3 gens done, with 3 hooks.
They were dead before they got a 4th done.
The salt in postgame was schadenfreude-tastic.
Best of all, I got queued into them in my next game - and muhahaha, I was on Artist.
I stan Steve too.
I stan on his head and jump up and down repeatedly.
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I only give the hatch if a survivor rage quits early, like at 4 or 5 gens
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I never feel bad for 4King or refusing to give hatch/gate. Ideally, I want a 4K every time. Don't care how good a survivor played or how much they deserved to escape. But a 4K isn't practical, especially when free escape hatch takes it away. So I want a 3K at the least, since it's the new 4K.
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Uhhh it depends on the game. Sometimes I'm just so immersed into it or it's so sweaty that I just kill as many as I can and let it end that way LOL. But majority of the time I'll give hatch or let 1 escape and I'll just run around breaking walls/pallets for points.
Also if someone DC's at the start or middle of the game I'll usually let at least one of the ones that stayed out cause it's unfair to them.
If I happen to find a survivor in my match that seems like they're REALLY new, I'll kinda go easy on them (i say as a still fairly new killer). Which is probably a controversial stance, but like ... today for example I had a squad and I THINK they were a swf? I'm not 100% tho, but 3 of them clearly knew the game and how to loop/save. There was this Leon that I kept finding doing silly newcomer mistakes like not looking behind, crouching when i was right next to him, not fully running until it was too late and I could hit him. So after the other 3 died I decided to give the Leon hatch. even after hatch spawned he was still doing gens so i had to down him and walk him to the hatch. he wouldn't crawl to it so i picked him up AGAIN and put him right on the hatch so the button to escape was on his screen....... 1min later he finally escaped lol. idk if he just didnt want to or he just didn't really know how. But yeh... so... depends on the match HAHA.
Oh... Steve's I'll usually let go tho <3
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Yui = free escape.
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Yes. People who play Survivors most of the time always want an excuse for the gamedevs to nerf the Killers, just enough to use perks against them, not really to win but to troll the Killer. Nothing is wrong with thinking this way because Survivors need to learn that they are not invincible.
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No. They don’t deserve it. Survivors are trolls cuz they think that they are invincible when they can troll the Killer. They’ll make any little excuse for the gamedevs to nerf the Killer. You wanna know why? It’s because they do it in hopes of a rework where they have an advantage over the Killer all the time. Survivors need to learn that they are not invincible, nor are they worth throwing a trial for. They’re like those people that think the victims in a horror movie are the only character worth a crap.
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I almost always let one or 2 escape... I feel bad if I don't. That is not going to happen if they are toxic though. Play nice and so will I.
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Much better.
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I am very merciful.
Usually only doing 1k or 2k, the last 2 always free to escape.
Btw in high rank I seen subtle cheaters like every 3rd game, since I playing like this, never seen a cheater, and survivors bringing fun perks, I also stopped bringing gen slowdown, its casual fun. Survivors are chill just like me. Perfect.
Killing them would only make me to go against very meta focused groups and tryhards, so no, wont happen
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Yui must die!!
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If I see someone being trolled or sandbagged by their teammates, I will make it a point to let them out. If I don't see it I usually feel pretty bad when told about it in end game. If I am about to get a 4K, I usually let the last person go. If there is a d/c or two, I let them farm out points. If they bm heavily, probably no one is getting out though.
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This is the problem with this game. Nicey nice killers giving free escapes.
Play the game with grace and respect, sure. But just giving free escapes is feeding the entitled survivor mindset even more, and setting expectations on all killers.
It's "Dead By Daylight" not "Kumbaya Simulator".
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This is why mmr so great, if you let survivors escape you will get nicer survivors to play against.
If you 4k all the time or most of the time you will get serious survivors who will do anything to escape, so everyone can find the company they want. Want to take the game very seriously sure, want to just chill and have fun in a party game, again great
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Facts
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That’s only if you want to be friends with them, which is not what everyone wants to do. It’s called playing the game. There’s no easy way to play the game by being nice to Survivors.
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Well you can still kill them if you are finding your games became too easy, and there is a good chance that other survivors will kill them for you. Like you hooking a survivor, and teammates just let the survivor to die, even though you are miles away from the hook.
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I never thought of it like that.
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The problem is that at higher mmr not only your games will be very frustrating, but many subtle cheater is present there, so you wonder what have you done wrong why u couldnt catch the survivor as if it was little fast, when in fact just so many cheaters playing, and mostly at high mmr.
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I don't think i have ever seen a survivor or swf be merciful so why should i ever be merciful?
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Yknow, I'm all for being merciful.
Being it I think someone is doing adept so I won't kill them or giving a second chance when I downed everyone because of a missplay from their part early in the game. Even giving mercy kills as survivor when the killer gives up after the gens are done, even if they could've gotten a kill or two.
A killer like that even happened to me this week, so that just makes me want to do it as well <3
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Mm.
If I see someone obviously doing an Adept, I'll generally let them go - I know how annoying these can be.
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I have a very soft heart. If survivor shows ANY signs of giving up (stops running, ignores danger, doesn't wiggle), I'll just let them be.
I know how it feels to be so done already, they might have a bad day or previous games, i'm not here to make it worse.
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It varies. I tend to follow a general rule of "expect to sweat, hope to goof around". I'll be more try hard if I'm using a killer I don't play often, goof around/ let people go if I could otherwise get a win.
If someone proves a one down wuss or otherwise DCs out the gate, I'll go easy if not outright farm.
On the flip side, if the team leaves someone to die on hook when I've done nothing to stop them saving, i go for the kill.
Or if I kill someone I'd meant to let live (miscounting hook states or, in one instance, mistaking a Meg for my last BBQ stack) I'll go for the kill on the rest to be fair to the one I killed.
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