Adding insult to injury

First let me say I agree, I agree that its bad the ways the Killer can force an unstable game into a 4K. Some of those ways are certainly NOT entertaining for all players involved, when the last person is slugged.

However now lets consider the benefits, what if the fact that the Killer gets a lil carrot for a 4K is helpful for balance, because it weeds out friendly Killers or Killers who COULD go that extra distance for the Kill but choses to not? Letting Killers be true bastards has REALLY increased the talk about other helpful systems which the game desperately requires.

I am not saying bHVR is playing 4D Chess, but thinking they did all this without a plan or this being a surprise to them seems odd to me.

I've begun to feel this way about the new mechanic too. It feels like the killer is doing a victory dance to show off after they get all the survivors; almost like an official version of teabagging at the gate.

And as you and others have said, they hid the finisher mori behind a 4k, which encourages getting a 4k without caring what means are used to do it. And a lot of people reported increased incidence of tunneling and slugging for 4k in the time following the update. I don't know if the incidence rate of tunneling stayed up, but I do now dread every time a slug for 4k comes around. In the past, I'd just get annoyed by it, but these days I'm finding the combination of that plus the finisher mori just really makes the end of the match feel super toxic.

Beyond that, the finisher mori enables the killer to bypass any chance at the last survivor wiggling off and making a last-second escape. And since certain perks make that more feasible, this is providing a basekit ability to deny players the benefit of their perks. So we get all these negative impacts in exchange for animations that add almost nothing positive to the game.

Did it create slugging, tunnelling and camping? Absolutely not, those existed since day 1 and were far more uncounterable before.

Did it make it worse? It made slugging worse, more specifically slugging for the 4k, but it's impact on tunnelling and camping has been very negligible. While seeing a cool cutscene can motivate players to play more aggressively in order to see it, regardless of how boring the method is, most of the time the real difference will be seen in endgame.

The Finisher Mori could be tweaked into something healthy though.

This is perhaps the only rational post I've seen defending the finisher mori. Personally, I've grown to dislike it more and more over time. Either way though, thanks for putting together a coherent post about it :D

I'd also like to add that the finisher mori gives a basekit ability that denies any chance at wiggling off for an endgame escape. And although people say that's rare, I managed it in a match a few days ago, but only because my last teammate hit all their skill checks on hook. I was crawling to the exit and the killer needed to mori because my team and I got us to a state where she couldn't get me to a hook. But that escape would have been impossible if my teammate weren't hitting every check. Killer picked me up right before I got out, so I wiggled off and escaped just seconds before my teammate's second hook state ran out. I've definitely also spectated matches that could have been similarly close depending on perks. So I don't want to say those situations are common, but they make some of the most memorable escapes and can now just be denied most of the time as a basekit ability (though not in the one example I just gave).

And while I see the finisher mori as much more negative than positive, I just wanted to say thanks for writing a decent post on the topic!

I have a fix for you:

The Killer can now Mori ONE person on death hook per round, regardless of if they're the last one or not.

There, now you can't slug for a 4k and you don't have to worry about this being a problem.

They should put the 2 hook rule to it but I rather it be removed. I lol all these killers acting as if we do not know camping,slugging and tunneling aint a thing befire finisher mori, the point is slugging has increased 100000 folder.

Always trying to use survivor t bag excuse is so stupid because you can progress the game by whacking them out which also give you bp. A slugged person cannot do anything and unbreakable and expo niche and garbage uses is a poor excuse of a solution.

I think the idea of having a sort of final showdown would satisfy the people who dislike the RNG nature of hatch. Personally, I think hatch is fairly balanced since it's somewhat killer sided for M1 killers, and extremely killer sided for killers like Blight. But to satisfy others:

My feeling is that if all other survivors have been sacrificed, the last survivor kind of needs a reason to play out the end of the match. If there's no realistic chance of escape, why even bother? So they should have a feasible means of escape that works for them a decent fraction of the time.

To take away the RNG nature of hatch, making a sort of skill-based hunt-like interaction would work. Some people have proposed something like a chase for this kind of scenario, but I think newer survivors would essentially never escape those situations. What you propose is I think a good start toward a compromise. Giving killer instinct could enable a sort of dramatic hunt where chase or stealth would work, and having both options could work for newer and more experienced players.

Hatch is generally meant to avoid long drawn-out hunts at the endgame and give the last survivor a fighting chance so they have a reason to play it out. And honestly, it does both those things very well except against high mobility killers. So a final hunt would also need to be balanced carefully to be a little killer-sided across all MMRs, but not dramatically so. But I think your suggestion of including killer instinct in the endgame could make the hunt more engaging if balanced carefully.

IDK, feels like it's always been this bad to me.