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Do you give the last survivor the hatch?
I consider myself a Killer main but I play plenty of survivor too, but one thing I almost NEVER see as the survivor is the Killer letting the last survivor down the hatch.
When I play Killer, I (almost) always let the last survivor down the hatch, especially when there's been disconnects.
The only exception to this is if the last survivor has been an ######### all game (pallet/flashlight combos etc general swf behaviour you know) or if I don't know where the hatch is and I genuinely can't be bothered looking for it, which is rare but does happen.
I doubt I'm the only one that does this so I'd like to see how many killer mains actually do this or at least try to, I almost never see it happen while I'm playing as survivor and I very rarely get so much as a thank you for doing it so am I wasting my time on good etiquette? Should I just stop bothering if no one else makes the effort to do this anyway? Need y'all to inspire some hope in me
Survivor mains also welcome to comment I guess
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I did that 2 matches ago.
It's not a standard though, they have to be royally screwed over by fellow Survivors for me to consider that.
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I never GIVE the hatch. You either find it or you don't. I will concede game if I get rushed to ######### and haven't been able to gain effective momentum at any point during the trial. I'll open the door myself and walk away. Doesn't really matter because survivors still won't leave as they feel I'm obligated to give them evader emblem, but I just afk in basement corner.
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I'll give the hatch if I feel someone's earned it, either by being "royally screwed over" or just having a good enough game.
T-baggers, OoO users, and other people who bore me just die, though, and I'll even carry some to hatch so I can close it in their face if they're both toxic and bad at the game.
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I don't know... giving the hatch freaks me out a little if I have them already/have caught them/seen them (i.e. walking around with them to find the hatch) mostly because one time I did this ages ago as a relatively new killer because I thought they played well and deserved it and the I got massively abused by the other survivors. Even got told they hope my family dies of cancer. So, since them it kind of freaks me out. If anyone really wants to let them go I'd say just go AFK somewhere or stomp gens/false patrol etc. I've just fallen into a trend of not caring and just wrapping up the game though so I don't give the hatch anymore. Sad I know.
If you're nice, they hate you, you lose, they abuse you, you're playing normally and win, they'll hate you. Killer is almost a lose/lose role sometimes. I've also had moments of being nice to survivors only to have them throw it in my face later in the trial or get no thanks at all if they make a dumb mistake at the gate and I let them go anyway because I was just doing a daily or a new build etc.
It's not all terrible though, I have got some really nice messages while playing as killer but they are very rare, and to be fair I think I get thanks more from survivors who I save in a desperate situation as a survivor than ones I show mercy to as a killer.
This is from someone who is considered a survivor main too, I get why killers don't give the hatch, I don't bother giving it anymore, it should just be found normally.
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I do not give hatch after devs ######### up emblem system, most of times giving hatch now denies me of pip leaving with safety only.
I used to give hatches a lot before revamp.
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Depends on mood. If someone dced early and this person wasnt ######### to me or other survivors (teabagging, stupid saves, sandbagging) they have good chance for it.
Unless i know them for dcing themselves before, then they are moried on sight no matter what.
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I never "give" the hatch. In fact whenever I can I drop the last survivor near it and mori them right there or close the hatch in front of their silly faces.
I despise any killer that let the last survivor leave without trying to stop them.
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I always appreciate it when the killer gives me the hatch. It's a nice gesture. I've tried to say thank you a few times, but I'm on PS4 and almost every time the player has had messages turned off, so I stopped trying.
When I play killer, I sometimes let the last survivor have the hatch, or now that the EGC exists I may give them the exit gate (I get points for closing the hatch, dangit). If the survivors have been rude, I definitely won't give the hatch. If there are two survivors left and I find one camping the hatch, I will absolutely sacrifice them and give it to the other one.
The other day, I had three survivors left. Downed one, hooked another. The third one left the hooked survivor to die. The downed one showed me what locker the third one was hiding in. It had me laughing, so I sacrificed the one in the locker and gave the downed survivor the hatch.
I usually just treat the hatch like, "Eh, whatever." I'll choose a survivor whom I'm okay with surviving, and I'll make sure they're the last one standing. If I find them first, they get sac'd, but if they escape, that's fine, too.
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If there were DC's early in the game I'll be a nice killer but that's the only exception. If it's a fair match then no. They're all getting the hook.
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I always give the hatch if someone DC'ed, or if it's a Jane ;)
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It depends if the survivor was actually decent and could run me around I will give them hatch. But if they couldn't pull their weight they go on the hook.
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situationally, sure
if the survivor was really good and their 3 teammates weren't, i'll intentionally leave them for last so they can get hatch
if they're an adorable baby survivor i'll probably give them hatch
if someone makes me laugh i'll give them hatch
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basically what miaasma said. though often times, i usually close hatch for those extra points, but let them take the door instead!
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Rarely. If some losers DC-d early on first down, maybe. Or if the last survivor seems very inexperienced, I may do it as a gesture. Otherwise, no way. I work hard to get those kills. And I hate it when I'm given the hatch as survivor. You downed me, you deserve those points.
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I don't trust survivors. I've had too many games where a 4 man SWF literally flocked me to save their friends while also tbagging after every pallet. As survivor, they farm me off the hook in the killer's face, ruining my points and depipping me. Sandbag me, etc. I kill 2, slug one, hook the last, and then hook the slugged one. No one's getting the hatch if I can manage to get them all down.
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I don't typically give survivors the hatch. I give it on disconnects sometimes, but only if I can find it. I'm not wasting time so both of us can look for hatch when I can be in another game. The other time I give hatch is when I'm playing casually and just to have fun. At that point I don't care if they take hatch
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Why'd you give it to a last surv who now unconditionally can get it by themselves?
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I never give the Hatch. You have to earn your escape, no matter what.
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I used to let the last one out if it had been a good match but with the amount of toxic behaviour these days, I only give them the hatch if I feel they were screwed over by their team.
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Depends on the last person/the group if i'll give them the hatch, good players get it toxic ones don't
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Shirtless David = 85% chance of getting a hatch escape.
I don't normally give people the hatch, unless they got screwed over by their teammate or they were very respectable in the game.
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I normally don't give the hatch. Not anymore. Not with all the ######### out there.
Sometimes, when I feel really bad for someone (because he got bodyblocked by a mate all the time, got farmed etc.) I give the hatch.
But if the last one is a toxic piece of s**t, I will carry him to the hatch to close it in his face, hook him in sight of it or mori him on it. Works best with Wraith or Freddy. Just stand on it and wait.
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If they find the hatch first then yeah, can't really stop that.
If I feel like they deserve the hatch (they played good and weren't toxic or just annoying to play against) then I'll walk away. Otherwise I'm closing it.
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So, I'm a new killer and usually get 4 escaped every matche, usually unable to even HIT a survivor. Then one match, at complete random, the entire team seemed to have trouble really hearing me. As hillbilly. With no addons. It was such a massacre, I looked for the hatch, but just couldn't bring myself to close it due to how the game went. So I just walked away and gestured to him to go in when he found it. He said thanks, and that was it.
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Pretending giving it counts?
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I will let the killer hook me if he offers me the hatch.
I will only let the survivor get hatch if they weren't toxic and had bad team mates
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I only allow it depending on how they played. Cocky and the like, they eat the hook. Determined to escape even in the most dire of situations, or if they accept their death, they might get off free More likely to let them free if the game went quick or there was too many DCs too quick, they need BP too.
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Yeah, I do it relatively often. If the match was pretty chill, I don't mind letting the last one go.
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I have once or twice. I do it if the Survivor in question got badly dicked by his team.
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Before EGC I would almost always do so
When it got implemented I stopped being kind
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I'll give hatch if I'm in a good mood or there was a DC. c:
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I only give hatch if the survivor was boned over by another survivor who was being a dickish, sandbagger of a teammate.
I love to mori the offender in front of them, nod, then carry them to the promised land.
LMAO.
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I will generally only do it if someone either DC'd or killed themself on the hook super early or if multiple people do so in succession.
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If I downed a survivor, carrying them to a hook and if the hatch sound is somewhere nearby while carrying, then yes. The survivor gets the hatch.
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I used to but survivors ruined that
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I used to more than I do now.
I often give it to survivors who are solid runners. By which I mean good at getting away and juking, not "I can run around this pallet and pile of junk 16 times."
Since the EGC however I think I just hate the hatch more. I hate that it spawns with 0 gens done and they can get out without doing anything. It makes me suspicious of the people left at the end and think that they were non-contributors so I don't really want to give them the points.
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No mercy to the entilted survivor crybabies
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Completely depends on a lot of things.
If I like a specific player a lot, or the survivors got screwed over badly by DCs, or I just had a very fun game, then yeah I will give someone the hatch.
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Nope, Entity put me there to kill. If I have a cypress mori, I might even drop the survivor close to the hatch to begin crawling, just to mori then before they get to it. Works great with moris that involve dragging the survivor back such as Wraith or Legion.
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If I have 4 bbq stacks then only people I dont give hatch are bs main building window runners or insta med users.
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ha no xD
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Not getting that fourth sacrifice can really screw you with the new scoring system. Especially in purple/red ranks.
That being said. If the game really went pear shaped for the survivors in a very obvious way and I know I'll get at least a pip, I still might let the last survivor get the hatch.
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It depends entirely on the survivor.
If it was a fun and challenging match I have no issue to give them the hatch, I even bring you there on my shoulder.
Or if your team are just potatoes and screwed you over, like just goofing around and griefing and you are the only one that did some gens I will let you gleefully go.
But if you are toxic af you die.
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I will only give the hatch if I have all 4 stacks of BBQ, they have a DC or I feel like they were pretty much carrying their team while their team did nothing
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I usually do unless the survivor did something that irked me off. 🙂
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spot on, at red ranks that would be a depip for being nice to the survivor whos team got destroyed. so it'd atleast give me a black pip for the 4k lmao
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Used to, not anymore the community has too much nasty elememts. No one uses chat to be respectful or friendly just spend most chat trash talking so if your team screws you i have no sympathy. I wont be disrespecting or trashtalking but i will sacrifice you. The pip system makes pipping a nightmare so letting one go at red ranks can potentially safety you if you let a survivour go.
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I pretty much always do. Dont see a reason why i should not.
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Only if the rest of the survivors DC and I'm in a good mood. I don't feel any obligation to the survivors due to how often I run into SWF jackanapes
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I only play killer for the dailies now, when doing so I make as many as possible crawl out a gate. Whether they can make it is their problem.
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