Can survivors jump in hatch during the closing animation?
I ask because I always body-block the hatch until the survivor gets far enough away just to be safe.
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I think it favors killer animation, so if you've pressed 'close hatch' before they've pressed 'leave through hatch,' then it'll close it on them.
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I believe it favors the person whose button press is registered by the server first? So if the Killer's command is read first, the Survivor will jump and be stopped by the closed door. If the Survivor's command is read first, the Survivor jumps through as it is closing on them.
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From my experience, it will only play one of the hatch-interaction animations (whoever's input registered first). If survivor was able to begin jumping into the hatch, killer will be blocked from closing it until the hatch-escape animation is complete. Same thing happens if killer hit their button first; survivor will be unable to hop into the hatch while the killer is in their "close hatch" animation. Of course, killer can't interrupt a survivor who opens the hatch with a key either.
When in doubt, just stand on the hatch itself as killer; your hitbox is large enough to prevent survivors from being able to interact with the hatch while you stand on it, leaving you free to close it once it opens.
Maybe someone somewhere has encountered goofy latency where both animations were able to be active simultaneously, but I have never seen this happen in practice.
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From my observations, hatch is one of the few things in the game that follow a first-come-first-serve rule and is handled entirely by the server. Which means a higher ping puts you at an disadvantage.
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I've seen Survivors jump into the hatch as I close it, and they got kicked out of the animation. It was funny.
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So while what animalmak said is true, it can still be offset by latency issues. I have had a few moments where a survivor has jumped into a hatch that appeared closed on my end.
So the short answer, No.
The long answer, Sometimes.
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I dont think so, but sever jank can make it look like it sometimes.
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Yes, they can.
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They could have had a key.
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Wasn't a key, it was latency.
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No. It comes down entirely to your connection to the server. Whichever is registered first, jump or close, will start and prevent the other one. So while it SHOULD be who presses the button first, if someone has better ping it will favour them.
Also as the killer, you can stand on the center of the hatch to bodyblock it and prevent the survivor jumping as it opens.
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how do you know? You could have just not seen the key
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I know because there was no key. Really not sure how else to explain this ^.^"
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It’s pretty buggy. I’ve had games where the survivor gets “stuck.” On their friends screen it shows they escaped, and when EGC is over, my screen and theirs shows they died. Not really surprising considering all the bugs in the game tbh
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keys are sometimes hard to see, specially during the game.
he could have found one in a chest.
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I understand that but I'll say it again, there was no key.
That is my answer take it or leave it, I'm not sure why you find it so hard to accept.
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I'm just asking, how can you be so sure?
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I believe killers have priority in closing the hatch but survivors have priority in opening it with a key
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