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Why do killers drop you near gate and just melee the gate switch?

WarMachine2101
WarMachine2101 Member Posts: 10
edited December 2020 in Ask the Community

I started fully playing the game a few months ago and feel I have become mainly accustomed with the game and understand a lot, but the one thing I cannot grasp is why if I’m the last survivor and the killer closes hatch, after finding me they’ll just down me, bring me to the gate (sometimes letting me struggle out, just so when I try to get the gate open they down me again) just to begin looking at me and then hitting the gate switch, looking back, and then hitting it again. I don’t understand because as far as I’m aware, I’m as helpless as a toddler when downed.

If anyone else sees this, I’m editing for clarity: I meant that when the killer brings me to the gate, they’ll let me struggle out, only to pick me up off the switch a second after I start trying to open the gate, and then place me down and start hitting the switch and looking back to me, just letting me bleed out. It may have been because I mainly saw this when I was maining Bill, but in all the matches this has happened I had used his perk before the endgame collapse, but if they wanted me to escape, I don’t understand why they wouldn’t let me struggle out since I was clearly doing nothing on the ground.

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Answers

  • horrortale_sans
    horrortale_sans Member Posts: 651
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/213744/why-do-killers-drop-you-near-gate-and-just-melee-the-gate-switch

    he is telling you to open it

  • Rydog
    Rydog Member Posts: 3,275
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/213744/why-do-killers-drop-you-near-gate-and-just-melee-the-gate-switch

    Usually when the killer is hitting something, they are trying to communicate "Hey, do this." Killers who want to farm will also do this at gens, they'll just run up to a gen that people are at and start whacking it, as a sign that "I'm not gonna kill you, just do the gen." Same goes for killers who down someone and pick them up, then hit the hook, or walls, pallets, etc. It's the killer's only method of communicating to survivors.

  • taimea
    taimea Member Posts: 84
    edited December 2020

    to be a troll/ a**. they are messing with you knowing you are helpless to do anything about it. if they close the hatch on you right in your face or something and pick you up and hit the door then just dont do anyting and just stand there or if they pull you off the door and hit it then odds are they just want to get a kick out of watching you try it escape. wish we could report it as trolling or something. ( unless we can report it ??)

  • Gunna_Stalk_Ya
    Gunna_Stalk_Ya Member Posts: 15

    Obviously means either 3 things: They are farming you and probably not letting or will let you escape after farming for BP. 2. They just being an ashole. or 3. They don't wanna be that toxic so they let you get this win, GG's.

  • illusion
    illusion Member Posts: 887

    They could just have been being a tool, but that seems like a very specific thing for them to do, leading me to believe they were trying to help while maximizing XP. As someone who also plays survivor, I can't see the point of them carrying you to the gate. It wouldn't bother me any more to bleed out at the gate, than to bleed out anywhere else on the map.

    Killers get xp for closing the hatch, plus it triggers the collapse, allowing you to open the gates even if you don't have enough gens repaired. Letting you struggle free gets you xp and downing you gives them xp, extra during the collapse. I would assume that them hitting the gate switch was to indicate that they want you to open it. Since you were playing as Bill, they could have assumed that you had unbreakable available. Though, if it were me, i would let you open the gate first (so you get the xp for it), then down you (so I get xp for it), and let you crawl out. That way there's no misunderstanding.

    There is an outside chance that they were hitting the latch because they were trying to open the gate for you, and didn't know how, though i would not expect to see that on a regular basis.

  • RepostRiposte
    RepostRiposte Member Posts: 793

    Since this was posted back in December I'm guessing they were trying to do the tome challenge for grabbing survivors