Survivors Taking Game Hostage To Exploit Hatch

It's not the same, since the survivors will eventually die. They have a path out of the game, just waiting (bleeding out takes 4 minutes). The killer can't just wait it out, if the hiding survivors are dedicated to not being found, he cannot do sh*t until the survivor give up or make a mistake in hiding. The only way to get out in a timely fashion would be to DC and get a penalty for that. Really fair, right?

Taking the game hostage has nothing to do with undesireable / uncounterable situations, it means you can not finish the trial on your own, since the other party is preventing you from doing so. Slugging does not keep you from dying, it just prolongs it. So it's no hostage situation. The only way a killer can take you hostage is blocking you without hitting and then holding you there for as long as he wants.

I can't argue with Sonic.

STEALTH? ARE YOU ######### KIDDING ME? It has absolutely NOTHING to do with stealth if you totally abandon your objective to hide from the killer and hope someone else dies or the killer disconnects. You take no risks whatsoever, you do not even try, that's just super lame and time wasting. A real STEALTH player is like a shadow or ghost, touching gens here and there but really hard to find. He will take some risks, even if it's only to taunt the killer a bit. He will certainly not sit in a corner.

The proclaimed mechanic would have absolutely no impact on your stealth if you still try to do your objective. Only when not touching a gen for like 10 minutes it would reveal you or something like that, nothing that would hit you in normal survivor play.

So what if the OP stopped searching? You would do the same eventually when you just can't find them and they do NOTHING but hiding.The survivors were STILL NOT DOING GENS, even when the killer just idled on the spot. Do I really have to spoon-feed you why this problematic and rightfully bannable behaviour?

I mean, Holding the game hostage for me is basically when someone is doing something that the other player can do nothing about. I have never really interpreted hiding in an obscure corner of the map as taking the game for hostage. It just "prolongs the time a survivor can stay alive". That why I only view slugging for the 4K somewhat as taking the game for hostage, cause sure there is a timer, but it's way to long and both survivors can't really do much of the situation unless certain perks are on play, but hey what do I know.

Yes, with doctor this situation should not arise, or if you equipped whispers. But thats not the point. You cannot know if the survivor team will abandon gens when down to two people so you JUST IN CASE take whispers with you. Killers cannot be changed in lobby anymore, so I also cannot switch to doc if I see 4 blendettes. I do not want to play doc all the time, neither do i want to take whispers with me every game. Luckily I don't have to, bc this situation is rare. Still, from time to time survivors do that, and it's just a giant waste of time and totally unsportsmanlike. And saying that the killer just needs to try harder in this situation is extremely cynical, when the survivors LITERALLY do not have to do anything fancy to avoid being found (crouching through the map and hiding in a locker is far from rocket science).

For good sake, don't try to frame such a mechanic as a convential nerf, it wouldn't be! It would only affect you if all remaining survivors fail to proceed with your objective for a considerable amount of time, say 10 minutes. Only if all of the remaining survivors do not touch a gen this whole time, do not have any interaction with the killer or another survivor (meaning something like healing / mending), only then you would get revealed to the killer so he can find and chase you. You do not get exposed, you do not get down or injured or sacrificed on the spot. The entity gets mad at you that you do not play its game properly, so it helps the killer to find you. The reveal could be something like aura, killer instinct, or my favorite, crows that do not disperse until you do a gen for like half a minute or you get into a chase. Do you really want to tell me that such a thing would be a nerf for conventional stealth play? It totally wouldn't. We already have the afk crows, and no one complains about that. This mechanic would just add another layer to this afk punishment, adding another punishment for survivors idling around not doing anything productive.

Your comparison with undetectable is flawed, btw. Yes it's a passive effect, but it won't help the killer at all if he does not move (apart from camping, which is equally cheap). On the contrary, the survivor gets their "stealth" from moving as little as possible and not doing anythign else. Not very skillful play, don't you think? Imagine Splinter cell with this approach, would he get any mission done? Of course not, but he will never be found!

We are definitely in a stalemate here honestly but I can see your point of view. But like I said, the survivor by hiding is not taking the game hostage cause it's not preventing the killer to end the game in any way. With good map awareness or a small map this is literally no problem and will not happen in 90% of the games. It only takes as long as the killer or survivor permits it to be honestly, the killer is either doing a bad job (unless it's a huge map) or the survivors are absolute ninjas. I have had several game like this but I usually don't DC or believe they are taking the game hostage, Yes it's boring when it happens but you can still find them and down them normally. While slugging for the 4K has a fixed timer your basically rendering one survivors entirely useless while the other can only either wait for the killers mercy or risk getting the revive just to potentially restart the whole process again. Which is the reason most survivors who gets slug in the 2v1 usually DC. Instead of waiting the whole 4 minutes and possibly cocking their teammate.

When a survivors camps they aren't doing objective but they are not stopping the killer from doing his job, when killer slug for the 4K you are essentially stopping the survivors from doing any real objectives and just have to painfully wait for the timer or risk everything.

That is my view on things and I personally don't really sound to biased to neither side (I believe).If you view that situation as taking the game for hostage than ok, I respect your opinion and I am not trying to change it. Just trying to make you view both situations and while they suck, I rather be the killer searching for immersed survivors then getting my body stuck on the floor like a sack of ######### not available to do nothing 4 painful minutes. Even if we disagree on this subject lets at least just admit both situations are super boring and not fun at all.

@BabyDweet795

"Tap a gen then urban evasion to the other end of the map." Thats why I wrote you would have to work for like 30 seconds until the crows disperse, so you have to take some real risk of being found to get rid of them.

"killers finding a way to take a unfair advantage of it." I do not think thats exploitable, since it would only occur in the rare case that survs do nothing. I would say the survs are taking an unfair advantage in such situations currently.

How about a different approach? When the killer did not find anyone after 10 minutes running around the map (so it does not work when jsut afking in a corner), he can go into his basement and trigger the EGC with the usual rules (two minute timer to open a gate and get out, like with the closed hatch). Then the survs do not have to do gens anymore, but "just" a gate. That should be feasible, they can even split up and do both gates simultaniously. Of course that would also trigger end game perks like noed. Or if the EGC is to much, just power the gates, then the killer can open a gate if the survs still do not want to do anything.

"Also I think they should remove the killer lock." I do not mind the killer lock, to be honest, I only rarely switched killer in the lobby (most notably switching from hag to someone else due to multiple flashlights). And I guess they still want to add MMR again and use the data gathered for improving it.

"thats stopping the killer from doing chasing and gen protection" so here is the big grey area. Before you start a chase you need to FIND the survivors. For me finding a survivor is basically another one of the killer objectives in my eyes. It's find, chase and protect gens at all costs. That is mostly the reason I don't think hiding in any situations is taking the game hostage. The only real way for me for a survivor to take the game hostage is to literally get in a spot where the killer can't do jack about. Neither injure him, grab him etc.

"Thats also the view from the devs, btw," pretty sure someone recently added a photo of Peanits actually saying hiding wasn't taking the game for hostage but it is reportable. Not to sure though, been a while since I had checked the other pages.

Well, at least this argument was fun and civil XD. But yeah we both have really different ideas about this whole taking a game hostage scenario. I play on both sides so I do understand the idea of hiding for to long as taking the game for hostage. The important thing is that we understood each other ideas and respected them.

They can get banned?

Way to take my words out of context. I said that the one's who refuse to do the gens in hopes of the other survivor dying is them being immersed AF and refusing to do their job. That's not surviving, that's screwing the other survivor over, and holding the game hostage. Nice try tho

The screenshot from peanits was acutally in this very thread and supports my claim :):

Yeah, it's nice to have an actual civil discussion here, thats quite rare in this forum. Usually accusations and misunderstandings are exchanged, I'm no saint there as well ^^.

Hatch was never added for this purpose?

Hatch is in the game since launch. The only purpose is to give the last survivor a chance to escape, not to prevent hostage situations. EGC was added to do that.

Probably all the players who started playing after the hatch was added to the game.

@Lost_in_the_Fog

And I agree...never said I didn’t, but it’s the same when a survivor uses immersion as a strat against a killer who has killed half the team. Just kind of tired of listening to “one is a strat the other is holding the game hostage” comments.

Sometimes there is no other way but to immerse. Even as annoying as it might be.

It has become ridiculous. Matches are being extended well past the 20 minute mark on occasion because the last 2 survivors hide and refuse to progress the game. Survivors should absolutely get crows if they take no altruistic action, chase action, or objective action for 5 minutes.