Is giving door/hatch common?

I give hatch to survivors that I want to show my respect to. For example when I realize that they try to do everything in their power to carry their team or they are incredible in chase. It's not every match but every so often it happens.

Sometimes I'll even let multiple survivors go, if they only lost because of bad luck. That happened yesterday. I had a Kate that was pretty good in chase and I was about to lose the match. But then she got unlucky and I landed a very scatchy hit on her that could have won me the game. Instead I picked her up and let her wiggle out and escape through the gates along with the others. They beat me fair and square and if we were to play the same match again they would win anyway.

As killer I'll do it the majority of the time unless I'm doing specific challenges like emblems or kills.

As survivor I see it maybe 1in10 games to give a rough estimate.

Something I have noticed is that people don't slug for the 4k as much as they used to. It used to be about every other game and now it's closer to like 1in5 maybe more. People seem to have chilled out a lot from my personal experience.

When we're killer it depends on our mood or if they get the 4%.

As survivor, rarely as its more likely they're gona slug for the 4k.

On the occasion I play basement bubba and manage to 4k I'll end up giving the last surv hatch. Usually, they don't trust me, but I still like it cause it shocks their expectations like "why are you doing this." I don't think it was me in your game, but good to see other basement bubbas plugged-in to that as well.

I love to dunk survivors in the hatch. I wish there was a custom animation for it.

If I'm steamrolling the survivors, I usually try to save the survivor who's had the worst luck for last (e.g. someone I've accidentally tunneled, or got sandbagged by another survivor, etc.) and dunk them.

Might been me as bubba was you yui? If it was me I just like to give door to last one especially if I feel I was too merciless.

Yeah I give hatch or gate way more than I get it myself partly because of that. I used to not like be that sweaty killer slugging desberately for 4K but instead being friendly one. Most survivors do get very happy when killer let's them escape. Recently though I have not given hatch for a while because im sweating to reach bigger kill total but I still don't slug. Maybe I farm few games at some point though with last 2.

It's far from being common.. At least in my own experiences, but I don't mind that at all. In fact, I'm somewhat grateful for them ending it ASAP, you know?

I don't like being given the free escape. We're a team, even in solo queue. I don't care if I have done the most work and played the best; The fact that the rest of my team got sacrificed and I was the last one alive is all I need to know. I don't deserve the free escape. If my team falls, I'm supposed to fall aswell, no excuses.

While playing as a killer, I do tend to give them those free escapes if I see them playing well enough or not using any items; Yup, the moment you're using items just like everybody else, you're no longer gonna receive my royal treatment even if you've managed to loop me the entire match. Thing is, most players don't deserve them, they truly do not.

I feel especially bad if I wanna give them the Hatch or escape, but fail to locate the Hatch! At that point, all I'm doing is wasting our time, and I'm pretty sure that time is more valuable than being given some free escape.. Which, if I fail to locate at the time limit that I set for myself to find the Hatch, I simply hook them and apologize afterwards for wasting their time.

But, yeah. It is very uncommon. It has used to be a lot common back in the day, but ever since the playerbase widened and a new era of competitive players entered the community, we're no longer having people giving them to each other.

I do it pretty much any time i play killer. Unless they hid while someone was on hook or if I know they weren't doing anything to help the team out. If they seem new though I won't hold any of that against them.

If they're super new, say, only their 2nd game.

im gonna start doing that

I used to do this, but then MMR came out, and I stopped.

The reason why is simple:

If the survivor wasn't good enough to best me, and if I'm simply decent at killer, not good or the best, then giving them a win will mean that I've just artificially raised their MMR rating, which will put them up against killers who actually ARE good or the Best, and they'll end up having to suffer playing against that for a few games.

DbD is a multiplayer school of Hard Knocks. By showing any clearly outclassed survivors "Mercy" or "Pity" and handing them a win, you're ensuring that they'll go up against much more difficult opponents, and thus your "Act of Kindness" will inevitably result in more suffering for them down the line. I don't want Survivors quitting the game because they they get frustrated from being constantly outclassed, so for my part, I draw the line at me. If they beat me, then they're ready to take on some bigger fish in this pond, if not then I did them a favor by keeping them at my/their level where they're challenged but not getting entirely steamrolled every match.

This is all still assuming that the MMR actually does anything, but tbh... Better safe than sorry, right?

Actually giving hatch neither raises the survivor's MMR nor lowers yours. The game treats a hatch escape as a zero-sum game. Neither the survivor or killer's MMR is affected.

While on the subject, we need to stop acting like showing survivors mercy is setting them up for suffering in the future. If the MMR system is working correctly (and who knows, really?) and a survivor's MMR outpaces their skill level, they'll just lose some matches and their MMR will come back down to the appropriate level. No big deal. Let's not pretend that murdering survivors is a favor we're doing for them.

Yeah. iirc it was originally discovered by data miners but then later confirmed by the devs.

It's on the DBD wiki though, and as we all know wikis are never wrong.

Why using item is big thing to you? But i kill good players because they annoy me most likely but if their team really was bad I might let them go.

Each to their own really. I'm just not fussed by my numbers anymore, or my monthly rank. I just want to enjoy the game, and I like helping other players enjoy the game a bit more. When I let a surv go we both know I'd beat them so I still get a challenge and the feel of winning. I just sacrifice like 1-2k bp so the surv can get 7k plus and a survival 😊

I stopped, because I ran into too many survivors who still trash talk after being given hatch. Not really going to waste energy giving a free escape to people who don't appreciate it in the first place.