What was "Old Hatch" ?
I've heard people reference it and I've seen YouTube videos of an open hatch with multiple Survivors alive. How did the hatch used to work?
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It was horrible.
The hatch would spawn in BEFORE there was just one survivor. You could still use a key to open it... making a game at 3 gens = a 4 out.
And for most of dbd the killer couldnt close the hatch. But... they could grab people off of it. Meaning if the killer found it first, if they wanted to win they needed to just stand there and wait for the survivor to go through. But obviously that survivor wouldnt just jump in knowing they'd lose...
which led to hatch standoffs. A situation where both sides are too stubborn to let the other win, choosing instead to just wait there for minutes and minutes until the other cracks. Some went up to like 30 minutes.
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So what triggered the spawn of the hatch exactly?
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It used to be based on a combination of remaining survivors and the number of generators left.
If all 4 survivors were alive, the hatch couldn’t spawn until the exits were powered. For each survivor that was no longer in the trial, the hatch would appear 1 generator earlier. So with 3 survivors it appeared when there was 1 gen left, and with 2 survivors it appeared at 2 gens left. However, it would always spawn closed if there was more than 1 survivor left, and could only be opened with a key. It could spawn as soon as a generator is completed (causing that threshold to be reached) or immediately following the death of a survivor, if that lowered the gen-threshold sufficiently to allow it to spawn).
With 1 survivor left it appeared no matter what (this is the only situation in which it appears today). Once it had spawned and 1 survivor was left then it would open on its own.
The hatch also used to only stay open for a certain amount of time when opened by a key, if there was still more than 1 other survivor left after the survivor who used the key escaped through the hatch. This was originally 30 seconds, but was later reduced to 10 (not long before the hatch was changed to what we have now). During the time it was still open, other survivors could escape through the hatch, so only 1 key was required for multiple survivors to escape and was the main reason keys used to be considered wildly overpowered. If this time elapsed, then the hatch would shut on its own without starting the EGC. If the killer closed it before that happened, it would auto-complete the remaining generators and start the EGC like it does now, even if there was more than 1 survivor left. Using a key was also instant (today it takes 2.5 seconds and you can be grabbed by the killer while doing it).
Prior to the EGC existing, killers didn’t have the ability to close the hatch manually but the action of jumping into it could be interrupted by the killer leading to standoffs.
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I completely forgot that was a thing.
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