Killers - Sparing Survivors?

I'm extremely susceptible to memes. As Piggu, booping my snoot is an instant I-won't-harass-you-for-the-rest-of-the-game card. If all survivors boop, it's now a meme game. Same if most of the survivors boop, because I don't want to be stuck just attacking one survivor while the others do gens - that's not fair.

As any killer, I'll be placid if a survivor doesn't run away from me for any reason - if they just stand there (not afk, though, I'll take a free hook if you can't be bothered to cancel your lobbies), or keep working on a gen or opening a chest in front of me despite clearly seeing me. I respect moxie, though I'll probably start hitting the generator to see if I can get a reaction out of you. And that doesn't extend to totems - you do a totem in front of me, I pluck you off. And either way, once you start running away from me, or once I leave and encounter you somewhere else, you're free game again. Unless you keep acting cute.

If a survivor gestures 'come here' at me and I'm not committed to an achievement, I'll passively follow them until they either indicate what they want, or it seems clear they didn't actually have anything in mind.

Pointing at me depends on context - some survivors do it to be friendly and others do it to BM, so it takes a little scoping of their behavior to figure out if they're being cute or rude. I'll nod at survivors that crouch in front of me, but I'll shake my head and run away if they start doing the crouch-headbob thing right up at my legs. And if I see survivors touching each others' butts, I hit them. I enforce a strict no fun lewds zone.

I often spare survivors for no particular reason - I have more fun leaving people slugged on death hook than finishing them off, and I like doing stupid things like putting downed people in piles or picking them up myself - but things that always trip my mercy function unless I was going for an adept/difficult rift achievement is if you meme at me, if you give me your item and don't take it back, if you surrender as the last survivor, if you had afk/ragequitting teammates, if you got sandbagged, or your teammates hatched out and left you behind.

I’ve never been snoot booped. I usually spare survivors if they’re the last survivor in the match, I have them downed, and I catch them inches away from either the gate or the hatch. At that point it becomes “ah, you got close enough. Go ahead”.

If the best survivor was really ######### good, and are the last alive, i'll give'em hatch, otherwise i'll just nab the sacrifice points & hook them

Definitely try item drops! Snoot booping is a little less likely to work because it won't be clear if you're being friendly or BMing (which some survivors, when cornered as the last man, resort to.) Non-Pigs aren't... trained, for lack of a better word, to assume pointing is a friendly gesture. Item dropping is pretty widely recognized as a sign of respect or a plea. Some killers still won't care, of course, but I've been saved by giving up my lunchbox several times. You can also drop your item at the exit gates as a sign of thanks for a good match, if the killer's there, and that's an even nicer gesture because you're not asking for anything in return.

The last time I gave a survivor hatch was a week ago, another survivor called me out saying I gave hatch to the useless teammate, so now I am too paranoid of giving survivors hatch. Anxiety issues :P

I suppose if I play against a good survivor that does well in chases, I'll probably let them go if I like the way they played.

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I let survivors go if I'm playing Hag and they have not much of a chance against me.

I never give Hatch, unless the Survivor is clearly being targeted by their team.

Otherwise, if they deserve Hatch, they'll get it themselves.

Usually if someone is sandbagging their team mate or farming them off the hook right in front of me. This type of behavior, I try and go easy on the person getting griefed.

Also if there's disconnections/rage quits, I usually go much easier. Get my BBQ stacks, harass 'em here and there and that's about it.

Honestly, it varies from game to game. Sometimes I'll give hatch/escape if the survivor hasn't played toxic or has played well. But generally if I'm low on BP, someone else has escaped, etc. I probably won't.

If you boop me you leave! And survive.

but don’t act like an ass towards me and get cocky.

i let the last person go usually unless they are being toxic then I’ll kill them all.

I think I've had so many toxic experiences that it's VERY rare for me to give last survivor hatch, no matter the circumstances.

I appreciate that. It's not every match that there are toxic survivors, but it seems when it is bad then it's REALLY bad. Oh well, on to the next match! GL in the fog!

I let at least one person go in many more matches than I don't.

If they are clearly new and don't stand a chance I will almost always let them go, they probably appreciate an escape much more, even if it's not fully "earned".

If you play well and it's a great game but I still down you at the end I let them go also. However if I get annoyed by you for some reason then you are gone for sure.

It's very variable as to what annoys me about a player's behaviour but if they loop me for ages in an annoying way and are clearly very good then I have earned my kill, but it really all depends on how I feel about them during the game. It's rare that I consider someone's behaviour in game to actually be toxic, that word is thrown around for people just playing well.

However generally if it's a good game then last person I normally let go. Also depends on challenges a lot, if I have done my objective I am much more likely to allow the escape.

Just to avoid favoritism I have one rule that I will always stand by. If I hear hatch on the way to the nearest hook I will give it to you if I don't tough luck.