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What's the record for the longest match?
Just curious. I had one over 50 minutes once I didn't even know matches could go that long(haven't put that many hours into dbd like only around 80 hours)
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Now a days servers time out at an hour. Under modern times for a recorded match it would probably be the infamous Skull Merchant game that ended relatively close to that hour mark.
Back in the old days when the servers went longer and there were hatch stand offs games could go much longer.
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I think the longest recorded in the modern day was 53 minutes. Chess Merchant vs. Team Eternal.
There were talks about matches going until server timeout during the Chess Merchant era, but I have not seen recordings of that. Servers time out at 60 minutes (1 hour).Back in the day, before the time limit came along, I have heard examples of hatch standoffs that took several hours. The most stubborn players would often end up in ridiculous stalemates that would last for way too long. This is the reason behind the End Game Collapse and the subsequent one-hour time limit.
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There were talks about matches going until server timeout during the Chess Merchant era, but I have not seen recordings of that.Don't know why I didn't remember initially, but I am aware of such a recording (this is an edited down version). Knight actually, played by Hens. I watched it years ago and it has footage from the survivor side as well.
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I remember Lefty going 4 hours for a hatch standoff. He won.
Good times.
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I think the longest one recorded in history is about 6,5 hours long. A 6 hour hatch stand-off from lefty(aka Theentityslefthand) and he often actually won them. in fact, people literally went to watch his stream for long stand-offs.
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Actually streamer JG Dahrk regularly does "Myers locker standoff" matches that time out the server. They are legal (despite tweets at him they are going to get him banned, Mandy herself has replied to people multiple times defending him) because either JG or the survivor can choose to end the match at any time. Either JG pulls them out of the locker, or they come out and let him have the Tombstone.
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In modern DBD a random pub skull merchant took the best comp team in the world to a 50+ minute game. It almost caused the server to shut down due to the time limit being reached. This game is famous because it's basically the game that killed the three gen strat.
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DBD has been around so long we have this gap between those that know and those that don't. In this case those that played DBD before EGC and after.
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that’s so true bestie. It is funny to read about the tombstone myers out and about now though. That made me genuinely laugh out loud to read about.
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Yup. I never played before they introduced EGC, but I understand that hatch standoffs were awful from people describing it.
Even after EGC, servers used to take 2 hours to close the game (iirc) and just shut down with no actual end of the match.
Now it's a hard 1 hour limit that closes out the game, which is still pretty egregious. Although I suppose the 4th iteration of this is the surrender option, which cuts that down even farther.
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Prior to EGC and being able to close the Hatch, iirc, I had a game go on for over 6 hours via Hatch Standoff.
It's been 6 or 7 years, so my memory is fuzzy, but I also seem to recall a bugged-out Claudette stuck on top of Shack for over 6 hours as well.
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