How soon do you give up a chase?
After 20 seconds? After the third pallet drops on your head? Once you enter a loop zone with an experienced survivor? Or do you keep chasing them until you lose track? What's the best strategy for this?
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This is what I do when I play killer.
Out of position survivor, they're not near any major loops or pallets, or ran past them: continue chase until downed or end if they manage to get to a loop.
Pallet heavy area, survivor drops pallets without looping: continue chase
Pallet heavy area, survivor loops decently before dropping: eat one or two, see if they're running to another loop or if they're caught out of position. If the former, end chase, if the latter, continue chase.
Looping proficient survivor in general: abandon chase after 10-15 seconds
Spot another survivor on a gen: end chase
Survivor who's used exhaustion perks and are vulnerable: continue chase
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When I feel it is right.
If I know I'll get them in under a minute, at best, then I'll go for it.
If it's going to be a hassle, I'd rather chase someone else around a generator than a double pallet jungle gym that happens to be right next to the Killer Shack.
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I usually give up if they have a really strong loop, but sometimes i use bad judgement and waste time anyways
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Whenever I want to, which is usually when the chase is boring me.
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I like to entertain the chase until the loop potential gets too strong. Whether it be an almost infinite or killer shack adjacent to jungle gym/L wall with a pallet.
There will always be that game here or there where you play just for fun and chase for too long even when the survivor t-bags and flashlight blinds you on pallet breaks/vaults.
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If the survivor is in a good looping spot I try to make the survivor waste the loops if they don't I move on.
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I don't.
I either get them or i lose them.
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Usually if I find a survivor that drops a lot of pallets fast then I follow them around breaking as many as I can until I either A: get them down or B: run into another survivor because when I chase the other survivor they will most likely try to run to the area where that survivor wasted a ton of them making them a easy down
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If I’m thinking about it 30 seconds or if they juke my blinks a few times in the chase.
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If I can't get the first hit within 15-20 seconds then if possible I switch targets. If I know that the someone is on death hook then I chase them till there down. If a survivor is in an area I want to get rid of palettes in then I chase for as long as 40 seconds. The time waste is paid off with a section of palettes removed. No longer than that though.
I typically just stop chasing as soon as possible. Though I also play Legion so I have to chase a bit differently.
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When I spot someone else or the survivor start to lead me to places that are almost infinites.
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This is basically how I treat it too, plus an internal timer of how long I've spent chasing, if I feel like it's longer than 1 minute I'll consider dropping it to return to protecting gens (plus I don't play a strong chase killer - Mikey, so I'll try to throw down EW3 when I can and it's personally better for me to suddenly drop a chase to scare gen jockeys than to continue chasing the obsession/strong looper). Also if I get spammed notifications from discordance that a problematic gen is getting abused.
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I give up after a gen or if I realized they are way above my skill cap as killer
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I've got a bad habit of continuing the chases far too long. There's good advice here and I think, unless I feel I have a good chance to catch them, I'm going to start breaking off the chase after perhaps 20-30 seconds instead of keeping it going longer. I've got into chases and they've gone on that long several gens have been done without me realising it.
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Yeah I have that habit too until recently and I realized that some SWF groups will have a "chase me" guy who is really good at looping to distract the killer. Yesterday I was in a game where this guy kept baiting me to chase him. He kept vaulting in and out of windows while running to trigger the survivor notification and I completely ignored it and just focused on patrolling the generators. I ended up killing everyone except him. Sure enough he was the highest ranked survivor.
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