I dodge all key lobbies.

I play normally. If the key works then whatever, at that point either I've lost or they've lost, I couldn't care less. I don't know if I'm really lucky or what, but I've seen multiple survivors escape via the hatch a whopping 2 times in the 2 and a half years I've been playing this game. I've seen a single survivor use a key maybe less than 10 times so I don't get all the fuss surrounding keys, they rarely ever do anything in my games.

I just throw Franklins on

90% of matches don't even make it far enough for the hatch to spawn, so I wouldn't bother.

I'll always dodge keys. A match with a key will just never be a good match.

DbD is a game of scales. At the start of the game the scales are completly to the survivor side. But everything that happens in the match slowly makes the scales go to the killer.

Injures require healing. Pallets get used, survivors need to be unhooked when gens get done the patrol area of the killer gets smaller etc etc.

And once the scales are tipping towards the killer it's very hard to tip them back. Especially once a survivor dies the progress of survivors tend to grind to a halt.

The thing with keys is that they come on effect usually right as the scales start tipping.

A match with a key has 3 outcomes

1) you destroy the survivors before the key comes into play. And yes you've won but stompfest aren't exactly the most enjoyable matches.

2) the survivors destroy you making the key redundant. Being at the losing side of a stompfest is even less enjoyable.

And 3) you face survivors of your level and right when things start going in your favor the game is over. That's like playing a racing game and the plug being pulled out when there is one more lap left. It's extremly unfun to have a game that could have been good just end in such a anticlimax.

9/10 when survivors escape with a key they really still had a chance to win normally

So yeah it's just not worth it to play against keys. And as long as survivors can escape without doing all the gens it will never be worth it to play against a key. Cause it robs you of what could have been enjoyable matches

I usually tryhard when I see keys, usually with Devour+Undying+Ruin or something similar. I don't dodge keys because I'm better than most other killers those people face (not trying to brag, most killers aren't very good at the game) and I would prefer them wasting the key on me than use it to bully someone else.

You don't like keys because you don't want the match to end too quickly.. so you make the game end faster by tunneling out a player if you don't back out all together.

Oookay.

Bullying isn't just taunting. 2 survivors getting hatch after 3 gens are complete and making fun of them in the endgame chat is also bullying, which is a very common thing I see.

If I see a key or if the majority of the group has items I equip Franklin's. I've seen people tilt and throw the game because they wanted to retrieve their precious key or purple items badly.

But if you feel better dodging or "tunneling," do what you have to. You don't have to follow anyone's silly made up house rules.

I will dodge depending on what killer I'm playing as but for the most part I just try to play around the key by either eliminating the key user before 3 gens are done or use Franklin's. Thankfully most key users also bring a hatch offering so I know where to go if the hatch spawns to shut it down before multiples can escape.

Key change the way killer play - same way by me when someone uses OoO - you can play it - no problem, but with this you got my attention to the very end of the game. Its supertoxic - All survivors complained about old good mori - but Keys allows not just one person to leave the game (like the mori) it allows everyone to escape. Its a very bad feeling the key - hatch mechanic. Even if you play like a god as a killer, you may be rewarded with [Bad word].

The funniest lobbies are those where it's 3 toolboxes and a key. Really guys? you feel like you actually need them?

Your options are dodge or franklins. I usually dodge, the game is hard enough without allowing them an early escape. I probably wouldn't be as bothered but if they get down to 1 gen and then 3 jump out I'm looking at ENTITY DISPLEASED and less points. So why bother? why would anyone accept a game where the other side gets a shortcut to victory? it makes no sense.

Sometimes though I'm not bothered. I'll go in with franklins for the sole intention of taking their key for the fun of it.

Although my focus will be directed more to removing the keyholder earlier, I play mostly as I would any other match.

The keyholder is the most dangerous survivor, due to how much a match can be swerved from a decent outcome to a disaster. Therefore, it's quite possible that anyone who has a key for a match and knows the killer would have seen it would be mentally preparing themself to be targetted moreso. If they don't, then they're either relatively new or ignorant.

Ngl keys don't help me whatsoever, I somehow never find the hatch with or without em LOL.

I'm rn in the process of prestiging, so I have lots of items and add-ons to burn. That's the only reason why I bring keys (and flashlights) haha. Never get to use em, really.

But from what it looks like, the killer tries to kill me as usual, or knocks it out of my hands, so pretty much what the others say.

stop comparing moris to keys...

That's very telling.

I'll just leave this right here. Keys aren't the end of the world. I just take it as a challenge.

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/231375/nurse-is-sick-and-tired#latest

I play with my partner and my friend, but when we get an AFK killer i never bring a key or find one :( my friend got lucky and got the trophy. it is one of those things hopefully will get it eventually.

I play the match out to the best of my abilities anyways.

I try to keep track on who or where the key is.

I wont tunnel off hook, but if I come across the key holder, they are chosen for death. Example: come to a gen; 2 survivors running away; will chose key holder to chase, even if I get a free m1 on the non-key holder.

Once key is on the ground, use it as bait.

Honestly about 50% I am not pay attention to the survivors in the lobby. Usually Reddit mobile, thinking about how to use/change build, or spending BP(I stock pile them 200k + so when I spend them it makes more of a difference)