What do you do in this situation as Killer

VonCrow

Imagine yourself in this situation (probably happened to you plenty of times):

1. Start of the game, you patrol and you find a survivor working on a gen. You're playing an M1 Killer.
2. There is a jungle gym just in front of the gen, imagine like the bus in autohaven. The survivor goes straight forward to the jungle gym.
3. Now you have to make a choice: commit to a hard chase and get 1 down losing 1 or 2 gens or...not commit, ignore the survivor and keep patrolling, which means you lose that gen because the survivor is gonna go directly to it (even while you're looking, he knows he is safe).

I guess it depends on the killer and the situation but...what do you do if 5 of 7 gens are in this same situation? When you commit? You slug? You just injure? You full commit and then tunnel?

I would like to know what do you do as Killer there.

Onyx_Blue

Simple:

You get a hit or the strong pallet dropped. Then you leave them alone to pressure the others. You should never be hard commiting to the first survivor you see in a match. Aim for pallet drops and injuries as priority. Then aim for downs when you have people healing and/or injured doing objectives.

The survivors are in control of the momentum at the start because you are not pressuring anything and they have free reign of which gen(s) to do. The killer is tasked with playing well and swinging the momentum back onto their side; through rotational pressure, hooks, downs and intimidating the survivors into resetting the team to full health before focusing gens again.

PrettyFaceKate

It depends on the type of killer, how much of a headstart the survivor has, if they're taking correct pathing to the tile, how the tiles are connected together and the gen placements.

It's impossible to give a definitive answer without considering all the variables. In general, you want to decide what part of the map with gens thereof you want to keep and what portions and gens to give up. Look for gens closer together and preferably in areas with fewer resources.

Also, 1 or 2 gens will probably go early anyway if the survivors are not potatos. What matters is how many gens you can keep later on.

If many gens are in strong areas, then you will just have to suck it up and do your best. RNG can destroy either side's chances. It's just the nature of the game.

Samwise444

There are a lot of unknowns, so I will list factors I consider at the start of the game.

1. Where are all the gens located? If there 3 or 4 gens in a specific location, I will patrol their first. If the survivor is leading me away from that and I know other people are in the area, I will leave them. If not, I will down them. I accept that gens will be done, but if the survivors are closing themselves in and sacrificing strong loops, that is a win for me and I will commit.
2. What is around the jungle gym? Is this a stand alone tile with one pallet or can you easily chain it? If it is easily chained and not in the gen location I am trying to protect, I will leave it. If it is not easily chained and I can get a quick down I will most likely stay. If it is easily chained and in a gen area I want to control, I will definitely stay. Staying will allow me to eliminate some pallets that will benefit survivors late game.
3. Are there other people around? If there is no indication that other people are around, and the are going to an area I don't want to protect, and they have chainable tiles, then I won't chase. If they don't have chainable tiles, I will probably chase. If there are other people around, I will chase. Most matches survivors spawn together, which means there is a likelihood of others being here.
4. What killer am I playing? You said M1 killer but that means different things to different people. If the killer is a chase/loop killer, then I will stay no matter what because I can get a quick down. If it is a power up or set up killer and all three above things aren't in my favor I would leave it. At least you can guess where one person is and come back to them.

EmpireWinner

So many factors to put in place such as gen placements, map, additional tiles, which killer you are playing,etc

My first option is(try) to land my frist hit and bail on the chase to patrol gens

Kind_Lemon

use insidious and wait until the survivor comes back into an area in which you can easily get a hit (be careful of LOS, and completely disregard this plan if the survivors are comms SWF and using outside programs to gain an unfair, unintended advantage).

DaKnight

@VonCrow said:

Imagine yourself in this situation (probably happened to you plenty of times):

1. Start of the game, you patrol and you find a survivor working on a gen. You're playing an M1 Killer.
2. There is a jungle gym just in front of the gen, imagine like the bus in autohaven. The survivor goes straight forward to the jungle gym.
3. Now you have to make a choice: commit to a hard chase and get 1 down losing 1 or 2 gens or...not commit, ignore the survivor and keep patrolling, which means you lose that gen because the survivor is gonna go directly to it (even while you're looking, he knows he is safe).

I guess it depends on the killer and the situation but...what do you do if 5 of 7 gens are in this same situation? When you commit? You slug? You just injure? You full commit and then tunnel?

I would like to know what do you do as Killer there.

It depends on the killer, but most M1 killers I like to run 1-2 chase perks on. If it's an M1 killer who gets their first hit for free (wraith, legion, etc), I typically just run enduring. If it's an M1 killer with a 32m terror radius (demo, cannibal); I will usually run enduring / bamboozle.

Having to chase survivors through jungle gyms / shack as pure M1 can be a disaster without bamboozle. And it will be very hard to not eat multiple pallets throughout the game if the survivors are good at looping.