Deliverance & Final Survivors

I don't know why, but I guess either hand yourself over to the killer sooner or don't get caught when you're last.

You don't recall for one simple reason: it was never a thing.

The last hook is insta-death, there are no second chances for that one. That's how it has always worked and probably will always work. The game is over, you lost, and anything else would be wasting everyone's time.

It is very much an argument, because the 4% don't apply for that hook. The opportunity wasn't removed, it never existed.

I understood you perfectly well and I am not mistaken. I've played this game since release.

Listen, the last hook is instant-death. Has always been. Back before the current hook phases were introduced, the last hook was a true instant kill, no cycling through all remaining phases. Ever since the devs added the current phases, the last hook willl cycle through all the remaining stages the last survivor might still have left, since that is necessary to trigger all the score events for the bloodpoints. This gave players the illusion that they could still try a self-unhook, since it takes a moment for the cycling animation to start, having the unhook prompt appear for a short moment.

However, that attempt, since you can't actually complete it, will always be futile, there is no escaping the hook at that point anymore.

The thing you mentioned in the middle is different in that you weren't actually hooked when the game considered you the last survivor. If the killer hooked you as the "last" survivor, but the second-to-last survivor's sacrifice scene hasn't ended yet, the game would not trigger the instant-death hook, since you were technically not the last survivor yet.

But even then, that was removed to stop wasting everyone's time, since you were only not considered the last survivor by a few seconds in which the sacrifice animation of the second-to-last survivor would conclude.

Because it would just be a waste of time for everyone 99.99% of the time.

The killer would just stand in fron of your hook and make sure that you won't get anywhere.

I like the change not only because it prevents unnecessary waste of time but also punishes people that failed to take hook states for their teammates (acted too selfish).

We're talking about the same thing. When I speak of the "final hook", I mean the very last hook that the killer can make.

The game has a special condition for this one: it's an instant kill, as I've pointed out numerous times now. It doesn't matter if it's that survivor's first or second hook of the game, the game mechanics consider it the final one and will sacrifice you immediately.

If you are the last survivor standing, you will get instantly sacrificed on the final hook:

• if you are the last survivor and were hooked twice before, it's insta-kill
• if you are the last survivor and were hooked once before, it's insta-kill
• if you are the last survivor and were never hooked before, it's insta-kill

That's what I mean by final hook, since there is no escaping it, and it's always been like this. If you are the last survivor in a trial at the moment of being hooked, you will always die and always have died, that mechanic has never changed. The only thing that changed, was the animation from literally being instant, to first cycling through all the potentially remaining hook stages that survivor might have left, so that the killer still gets rewarded with all the score events associated with hooking survivors.

The situation you mention above, when you have the option to unhook still, is not the final hook, since the killer hooked you before the second-to-last survivor's sacrifice was ended. That's a completely different thing, and that was changed to how it is now, as to not waste everyone's time.