Sparing Survivors

If one particular survivor is a hard worker (focussed on getting gens done, good at keeping a chase up etc.) while the other survivor(s) just hide somewhere on the map, I try to give them the hatch.

Even when I play killer, I stay a solo survivor at heart.

I dont spare toxic or skilled survivors. Not cause i treat both as the same, quite the opposite. I respect good survivors and i dont want to pity them. And giving hatch feels like a pity price.

If someone is good at nodding and dbd communication, i may give them hatch too. But i generally dont give hatch in tense games, only in stomps. Not out of disrespect, i just dont care about hatch in general... like at all.

I'm a really, really merciful killer since I don't care about rank and I role play that my killer is resisting the entity. (Unless I am playing a killer that isn't being forced to participate ie ghostface, clown, soon deathslinger etc)

There are days where I'll put on the big boy perks and sweat it out, but most of the time I'm just a memelord. People just jump on hooks sometimes I don't know how to explain it.

I always leave the last one standing in the match go or the last one that gets knocked down. But.... if you teabag me being overconfident.... I kill you guilt free

I used to see it happen maybe one every week or so that a killer would give the hatch to someone. Haven't seen it in probably six months. But I do see tons on slugging at five gens now and face camping every single person, so...

Just had a game with an Oni who got his road rage but didn't pop it until he hooked someone and then face camped. Someone made the save. He downed her, stepped around me to tunnel. Guess what? I DC'ed. I'm tired of the same thing in every single game. I'm not even sure I'll finish this Tome because I am tired of facecamping or slugging in literally every single game.

There are a few ways to get me to give you mercy.

-absolute defeat (only 1 gen done max, sometimes 0 gens done, everyeone else died)

-You played smart but brave (getting saves, protecting, etc. But not if you are toxic)

-If you want to live more than you want to prevent me from getting kills. (I do this by patrolling the doors, and if I find the last survivor on one towards the end of the clock, I will approach them. If you are last alive and keep opening the door, even as I am standing within grabbing distance, you can go. Though, I'll probably whack you on the way out)

There are a few other times, but most people already said them (you got your stacks/challenges done, you played maturely and did objective while everyone else flopped around like their controllers had drift and they were trying to play on a WII controller)

I spare survivors for lore reasons related to pig, always leave 1 to run. Never 4k. But if I do 4k its because they were toxic in some sense.

If it was a good match and I got my personal goal done, I'll let the last one go or take them to the hatch. I'm a pretty bad killer in the way that I generally just want to have fun and don't care about kills.

I tend to only let the last survivor escape if they played well and fairly. 5 gens done, good at looping, doesn't flashlight click or t-bag, etc. If they made it to the gate with all that in mind and got it to at least the last light as the last survivor, they've earned that escape. I'll down them for the points, but then they can run free.

If I feel like it... there's no secret recipe. 2 games can play exactly the same but in one I might give hatch, in the other I won't.

But if you struggle, you won't get hatch period

@meatisadelicacy honestly, that might have been me. I recently had a game where that exact scenario happened. If it was you, I was farming a kill challenge with Oni I had active for a few days and wanted to get rid of it for new ones. And honestly, Waiting to use your power and getting 2 downs for a survivor unhooking is a pretty good tactic with oni. It's a guaranteed free 2 downs if not more when more than 1 comes running.