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Letting me escape when I crouch — Killers your input please?!?!?!
Whenever I feel I am going to lose or be caught by the killer, I start crouching in front of the killer as my way to concede. Sometimes all of my teammates are dead and I have 4 machines to go so I concede. Anyways, sometimes the killer let’s me go when I crouch and allows me to finish machines/escape. Why do y’all do that??
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I'll kill you and take my 4k, why should I let you go?
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If you played well, or your team were extremely poor, I'll let you go aslong as I'm not doing any challenges and you weren't my last BBQ stack. If you're toxic none of this applies.
Additionally, I'll make sure you keep your item by repeatedly swinging at it if you drop it.
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Maybe they took pity on you and let yo go away.
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Lots of Killers are nice people.
I'll usually give hatch/exit gate if I felt bad that matchmaking screwed someone over if they were visibly a rank 20 yet stuck it out through the match and didn't give up on hook etc. The way I see it their 5000 bloodpoints is more gain than the smaller amount I get for a sacrifice.
However I'm currently grinding for rank 1 so often I'll just take the 4k if I can in case I double pip.
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Because far more often this game is so damn toxic that if there is a moment like this where you can have some friendly interaction, it's more than welcome lol.
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I'll usually let you go if:
- I had a fun game & didn't feel like a sweaty mess by the end of it
- If I crushed your teammates quicker than you guys could do 1 gen (usually sh*tty matchmaking)
- If you were the only one on the team that didn't BM me
- If you were still trying to do your objective instead of camping hatch (2 survivors left)
- If I'm in the mood for farming/memeing
- IF YOU ARE AN ADORABLE DWEET!
There are many reasons as to why I'll feel like letting a survivor go. Hell, I'll even de-pip for it by letting all 4 of you go if you guys just decide not to be little *ssholes. We need more kindness in this game, so why not?
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Could be a mutual respect thing - something you probably wouldn't understand.
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I like to let the last survivor go unless he was a complete an utter a-hole. Then, he dies if I catch him. I'm not too easily offended as a killer, though, so most of the time I just think behavior that other killers might find upsetting is really funny rather than jerk-ish.
As a survivor, though, I rarely get given the hatch/escape no matter what happened in the match. If I disrespect (which is rare unless it is warranted) I know I'm not getting anything, but it's kind of surprising to me how few killers seem to want to give it for anyone LOL
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What? Give me a good reason why I SHOULD let you go, your just another survivor I'm expecting you to flashlight and tbag me, so sorry if I deserve that 4k
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I almost always let the last person go unless I'm working on a trophy or a challenge. If someone crouches like they give up, give me their item or just does something really funny I'll let them go or start farming with the team.
I don't really take the game seriously so any excuse to just mess around and I'll take it. I find it really adorable when people just straight give up.
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For me it depends on random whims. Some matches I end up more killy than others.
One match I was bringing a surv to a hook for my 4k when I realized that hook had already been used. Then, on my way to a different nearby hook I happened to hear the hatch, so I thought 'hell, why not' and dropped the survivor next to it so they can escape.
Usually though if it'd require extra effort/time to let them escape I don't bother.
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My policy when i down the last person and have had fun during a match, if you give up, you get hatch. If you wiggle, you get hook.
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Booping the snoot goes a long way still. Or the matchmaking shyttd all over the survs and I am not feeling the slaughter impulse.
I'll let the last cutie or two go do the needed three or four gens, and maybe even dent some pallets with my forehead.
They can keep their trinkets I can't use em anyhow.
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I'll often let the last survivor go if one (or more) of their team-mates DCs. Quitting like that and leaving your team-mates in the lurch sucks.
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dominance/submission. I'm not even sure that they're aware of it every single time, but intuitively it's an act of submission. As you said, you do it to concede. In a game constantly setting people off, they probably relax and are fine with defeating you mentally and don't care about the hatch afterward. Sometimes conscious of it, sometimes maybe not. But it's common for many mammals including humans to look down, look away or lower their heads in submission.
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Depends.
If they make me laugh I always let them go; but in general I often give hatch if people are not acting like idiots and such.
The #########? Since when is playing the game disrespectful. They are under NO obligation to let anyone go, for any reason. It's NICE if they do but it is NOT disrespectful to not do that.
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You have to realize something, you and all the other survivors :
The killer don't OWE you anything. If you want to concede, fine, but honestly, the game has been designed in a way where you don't really need to concede since the hatch and the collapse timer make sure that the game will end in a way or another in a timely manner.
I often see survivor trying to pull the Sympathy card to get a free escape, but what they don't seem to realize is that what they are asking me to do is to give them MY points at the end of the game, but you'll never, EVEEEEEEEEEEEEEER see a survivor give you a free hook or kill at the end of the game. What they will give you tho is a nice pack of Tbag and GG EZ in chat.
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eh. depends on my mood. I might kill you. likely will. and you crouching to me saves me time and I feel nothing towards you.
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Actually my last game tonight some hours ago a survivor let me hook them even though I was clearly fine with them both going their merry way when the other 2 survs DC'd
e: and some time ago we got sent to Haddonfield, and while I did some chases I mostly let them party on that one open rooftop-y area? And then when they finished all the gens and opened a door I just wandered around aimlessly waiting for them to leave, except... they didn't, EGC ends and they all scream and die. Turns out they decided to also spend the whole EGC on the roof XD
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To me, that kind of crouching doesn't signal giving up -- it signals begging for your life. It makes me feel awkward and bad, and I usually just want to walk away. If you want to concede, waving me toward you while standing still is the better way.
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Because they’re being nice for whatever reason (there’s multiple). Personally, I just laugh and smack the Survivor upside the head. Everyone goes on that hook.
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depends on my mood, I don't give you free escape just because you crouch in front of me, but I sometimes let babies go, cuz they are cute, but not always. Again, all depends on my mood.
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i do that all the time, because at that point i feel i did what i came for, which is bbq stacks and good score, plus u didnt tea bag and do any bm to me, so why not we all win together and make some points
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Ugh I hate it when the last survivor is one who played well, no BM etc. and I want to give hatch but they just struggle. On rare occasion I even drop them and act funny to make it obvious and sometimes they don't get it.
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If I think the survivor who does that is actually good (and didn't bm) and I destroyed the rest of the team, I'll let them go usually. If I'm in an unusually good mood I'll also let them go. Other than those 2 things, I'll take my 4k and go. Thanks for playing.
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if you do something cute and don't do something immensely stupid like sending the lobby to Haddonfield or Coldwind, then i generally give last guy hatch
unless it's for a challenge or i'm in a bad mood, then it's no mercy
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