Keys, Hatch, MORI? and poor design
Hi there, have you ever played solo queue survivor and when there are only 2 of you alive you can see the aura of the last survivor crouching on the hatch? Have you ever been the last survivor but the killer found the hatch before you and now you are in an unwinnable situation simply because the gates opened near each other?
Or have you ever been playing killer and killed one person only for the game to end immediately because 3 SWF (or well coordinated solos) just found a key or brought one of their own at no cost due to the save add-ons?
Every one of these scenarios is the death of any good game design and an absolute error in the game, something that belongs in a beta testing only to be apologetically removed in a patch note.
I play both killer and survivor, on ps4 and pc, rank 1 every month, and I think the idea of the hatch is not only good but important. Notice how I said the “Idea” of the hatch.
Getting steamrolled by a killer for any reasons, is stressful and being the last survivor alive leaves clearly no way to win if there are more than 1 gen to do, and let’s face it, the killer can patrol all 3 until he finds you even if so, the hatch is a good idea, it leaves a little bit of hope to the last survivor who truly cannot win without it, and there is NOTHING less fun in a game than having no chance at doing something, so the hatch is not only lore friendly, but a good design, as a killer destroying a game and getting 3 kills is generally enough to pip and make points, on a personal note i don't like to slug and wait minutes looking for the hatch so i am happy to kill the third survivor and let the third one escape “IF” they find the hatch which is not even guaranteed.
This is good game design, However, the “key” purple or iridescent, is the death of that idea as it allows for a well coordinated group (usually swf) to simply end a match by finding it. No counter-play, no alternative, no downside with add-ons to keep the key or even a white ward.
To my subjective personal account, nothing is more frustrating in the game. I make my way to rank 1 usually one or 2 days after rank reset, leaving me with about 1-2 weeks of good/ average survivors trying to make their way back to rank 1 as well, and i find that 1-2 week after every rank reset all i ######### see are twitch streamers with 3.5 vews with 4 man SWF who bring a key, or simply duos and trios that also bring keys, and like I said earlier i don't sweat so hard in dead by daylight, and i miss the keys in the loading screen a lot, especially on console where my TV is further than my monitor on PC, (the key being so small) this leading to multiple games in a row where i am robbed of my gaming experience, i don't mind getting beaten, seriously. But the game just ends because 3 or even 2 survivors escaping thru the hatch is absolutely ridiculous and should be promptly fixed.
REBUTTALS, i found that people have really ######### rebuttals to such claims and answer generally with:
“it's a rare item its not that common”
and : “just focus the person with the key idiot”
Or my favorite: “it's so rare it never happens to me”
- The item's rarity is meaningless as you can use add ons AND offerings to save it, and it does not matter to survivors with over 1K hours just like i don't run out of scalped topknots and lion's fang on ONI.
- if you focus the person with the key, not only is it not fun for the survivor but their SWF will simply tell them to take their key, as killing a survivor does not get rid of the key.
- and lastly It does not matter how many times it happens to you or me or bob or uncle Phil, every time it happens its unfun and robs you of gameplay, thus poor design. if it only happens lets say 5% of games but its unfun and frustrating 100% of the time happens, its an issue.
0 counter-play other than to be playing ultra sweaty optimal MORI to make sure the game can't get to such a point, that is not fun and the killer equivalent of Keys, it just ends the game faster at the cost of making the other player feel like #########.
Nerf keys or rework them and killers I am certain will gladly nerf or rework mori, remove the ability for a player to end the gameplay for the other players, fix the game.
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