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why does hatch even exist

Member Posts: 70

It makes no sense to me. Why would you give a survivor a free escape it's not like the killer can find a button somewhere random on the map that gives him a kill. So why would survivors get a free escape, and i know that you can slug to get the 4 kill but thats just annoying and a waste of time. It's also annoying as a survivor when there is 1 gen left and you are being chased and the other survivor just lets you die so he can get hatch instead of doing the last gen. Its also really dumb when de tbeag and click their flashlight when they leave through the hatch even though they did nothing to deserve that. I just think it makes no sense. (and yes i know it doesn't count for mmr).

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  • Member Posts: 6,410

    I read it was first introduced as a means of preventing the game from being held hostage and/or carrying on for longer than necessary. Killers can use it to start the endgame.

  • Member Posts: 2,557
    edited May 2022

    Hatch exists to give survivors a place to stand and rest until killer finds them standing there teabagging.

    It is also a place fror Wraith to rest, after a long match he can stand there to gather his thoughts and noed smack the unsuspecting last surv attempting to escape.

  • Member Posts: 2,885

    Or last the full 2 hrs until the server disconnects automatically.....had hackers hijack a game and couldn't do anything and didn't eat to get another dc penalty.

  • Member Posts: 1,726

    Hatch exists so that if the team gets slaughtered at 5 gens, the last killer and survivor have an objective and can end the match. Without it, you'd spend 20 minutes looking around trying to find the last survivor until you either get lucky or disconnect

  • Member Posts: 3,563

    Hatch used to be better that all 4 survivors could escape throught it with a key. But unfortunately that was removed I think it should been just changed that survivors would have to repair all generators before hatch spawns.

  • Member Posts: 3,276

    Sure, thats why it gives points equal the escaüe and gate scores.

  • Member Posts: 5,295

    It use to be you couldn't close the hatch if you found it first. Twitch is full of 30 min hatch stand off videos.

  • Member Posts: 3,572

    When I first started playing I would play the waiting game with the killer for the hatch, and when I say I was willing to wait an hour, I mean it.

    If I still had that mindset and they got rid of the hatch, I would wait until the killer opened a gate for me and hide forever if I thought I wouldnt have a chance of opening it myself.

    You want the kill that bad, gotta work for it...or set me free.

  • Member Posts: 9,713

    Well there is an alternative they could have done - just start the endgame collapse automatically when only one survivor is left. No hatch needed for that, it just becomes a sudden death race for the survivor to open one of the gates or die. You’d still not have games stalling out at that point, it’s just that it would be more likely for the killer to get the last kill.

  • Member Posts: 1,252

    By reading your post: Cause killers shouldnt be entitled to a 4k.

  • Member Posts: 869

    The entity feeds on survivor's hope and eventual desperation.

    Letting the last survivor have hope that it can still escape is ideal for the entity, as is having that hope crushed when yoy shut the hatch and catch them trying to open the doors

  • Member Posts: 3,167

    I remember when Hatch didnt spawn until at least 2 gens were fixed so if you managed to get a 3K with 4 or 5 gen remaining the last Survivor would completely hopeless and what happened? half the time he would go full immersion and wait until you DCd, the other half he would just let you hook him.

    This wasnt something that happened rarely like a lot of the stuff people complain on forums/reddit/generals (full SWAT teams, hackers, godnurses, someone trapping the entire team on Saloon dead end room etc) this happened on a daily basis, It was so common I started to let Survivors fix at least 2 gens when I knew I had the game on the bag just to avoid having to spend 10, 15, 30 or my personal record 47 minutes looking for that last one.

    If they were to remove Hatch most people would be begging for it to come back after 1 week, especially now the comunity is so galvanized against eachother. 4K is not worth 30 minutes looking every nook and cranny for someone...

  • Member Posts: 3,452

    Theoretically that could work. But there are too many achievements, archives, and items interacting with the hatch at this point. It would be a lot of work that I'd be surprised they'd be willing to do it.

  • Member Posts: 9,065

    Hatch is fine now

    Or do 3ks make you mad?

  • Member Posts: 1,333

    Why you can facecamp at egc? Why you give the killer a free kill?

  • Member Posts: 508

    I still have killers slugging for the 4k. So yeah. 3ks make them mad lol.

  • Member Posts: 9,713

    Right, I’m not saying they should get rid of hatch, I honestly don’t have a problem with it. I was just saying the hatch itself wasn’t necessary to avoid endgame stalemates.

  • Member Posts: 3,167
    edited May 2022

    I was thinking, Hatch is very similar a rule almost everyone had here when playing team sports as kids, either football, basketball, volleyball wathever.

    Usually on the park kids play these sports with barely any rules, especially not time rules, you could be playing a match of football for 6 hours straight even if an official one lasts only 90 minutes but there was this one universal rule, once it was getting late and dark, when everyone had to go home someone, usually the owner of the ball, would say "i have to go home, next team scoring a goal wins" so we all played until a team scored a goal, the match was over, everyone went home and thats it, didnt matter if the match was 16-2, that rule made the losing team keep playing because "well we can always win at the last goal" and the winning team didnt care because "even if they score the last goal we won, I mean, 16-1 come on", granted there was always "THAT KID" who would brag on the losing team when winning with that rule, even if they didnt score the goal, even if they werent the MVP, even if they suck at the game but most people didnt, they just accepted the game was over and went home knowing it didnt matter because next day there would be another match, with scrambled teams and even if they landed the worst against the best they could still "win" and have some consolation.

    Hatch and camping during EGC its the exact same, it gives the losing side some solace and the winning team knows they won and shouldnt care that much about that little tiny consolation prize.


    P.D. dont be "THAT KID", nobody likes "THAT KID", he grows to be "THAT GUY" at the workplace and "THAT OLD MAN" at the neighbourhood.

  • Member Posts: 3,611

    The Hatch isn't a "free escape", it's to give the last survivor a chance at escaping. Once the killer closes it, it's nearly impossible to open an exit gate unless you get really good exit gate spawns.

    The hatch is fine, it doesn't need removed.

  • Member Posts: 5,981

    Hatch is not an escape.

  • Member Posts: 1,599

    DbD is the only game I heard of giving the player who takes the game hostage a free win mechanic to prevent them from taking the game hostage.

  • Member Posts: 696

    Why are you comparing Dead By Daylight to any other game?

    Stop.

  • Member Posts: 22,888

    DBD is also the only assymetric horror game to make it longer than 5 years

  • Member Posts: 3,336

    Without the hatch, if you're the last survivor alive and there are any gens left, you're essentially screwed. And if you have gens left and no hatch to close, what triggers the EGC? Like others have said, the end game would often turn into and endless slog if the hatch wasn't in play.

    As the killer, a hatch escape doesn't bother me, as it's not being outplayed, really. And it's better than spending forever searching for an immersed surv.

  • Member Posts: 3,910

    Hatch is a pity escape for last survivor despite the survivors failing their objective, but I also don't really mind since it's a win at that point either way for the killer (assuming it's 3K+hatch and not gate escapes and then hatch). Also cause I don't want to deal with immature players holding the game hostage just because they refuse to die.

  • Member Posts: 3,216

    Pity mechanic disguised as a 'how would the game end" when the EGC could just simply start when a third survivor is sacrificed.

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