Guide: How Escape Hatches WORK (Updating regularly)

[NoBravado]

Updating every time i get more info.

This game is pretty buggy right now so it not spawning or just not opening could sometimes happen and you're ♥♥♥♥♥ out of luck.

Tip number 1:
Yes they spawn randomly PER GAME, not randomly around the map.
Or so that has been my experience all day and throughout the BETA.

Tip 2:
You need at least 2 generators up and running to guarantee a high chance of the spawn of an escape hatch.

Tip 3:
Everybody but you needs to die.

Tip 4:
Escape hatches generally (Not always) spawn very close to the main 2 story buildings of the map.
On rare occasions it can spawn inside the building.

Tip 5:
There's only 1 escape hatch.

Tip 6:
The killer can catch you mid animation jumping into the hatch.
They're also likely to camp the hatch if they're not dumb.
Let's just hope they don't find it, or you.

Tip 7: You can use a skeleton key to open the hatch if you're able to find it before hand and have the set amount of generators running.
I have not seen if everybody has to die/leave in this case.

Tip 8: You can hear the hatch open if you happen to be near by when the last person dies.


Hope this gave you some insight, because i had lots of trouble figuring this out on my own.

Later i will take screen shots of every oddly placed and easy to find escape hatches on EVERY MAP i have successfully had a spawn.

Oh and, just one last tip..:
Don't be a ♥♥♥♥ an let your team mates die in hopes of a spawn.
'Cause it still has a chance it won't spawn.

[Wretched72]

For tip 3: it's if you're last person, so if everyone else walks through the gate the hatch appears but you could probably just walk through the gate yourself unless the statuation complicates it

[Solo]

It actually spawns every map guarenteed BUT it requires 2 generators not 3 for it to surface. Tested this in beta and it seems to be maintaining the requirements. You can still find the unsurfaced hatch without having the generators it can spawn in building as it seems when its the factory building its more likely to spawn inside and ive already found hatches in the middle of nowhere, next to generators, and even in the middle of the cornfield.

[NoBravado]

Originally posted by ىℴℓℴ:

It actually spawns every map guaranteed BUT it requires 2 generators not 3 for it to surface. Tested this in beta and it seems to be maintaining the requirements. You can still find the unsurfaced hatch without having the generators it can spawn in building as it seems when its the factory building its more likely to spawn inside and ive already found hatches in the middle of nowhere, next to generators, and even in the middle of the cornfield.

Originally posted by Wretched Egg:

For tip 3: it's if you're last person, so if everyone else walks through the gate the hatch appears but you could probably just walk through the gate yourself unless the situation complicates it

Very helpful, and yea 3 was suppose to be 2. Typo.

[Valmar]

Hi. Are you sure it wont always spawn? I think I read it will be always present elsewhere, or listen to devs or anything. Maybe Im wrong ofc. Are you sure about that?

[NoBravado]

Originally posted by Valmar:

Hi. Are you sure it wont always spawn? I think I read it will be always present elsewhere, or listen to devs or anything. Maybe Im wrong ofc. Are you sure about that?

I'm positive.

Maybe what you heard is that it won't always OPEN.
I do in fact remember being able to visibly see it on the ground in BETA.

Now it seems harder to find.

[Realm]

I've had a time where I could hear the hatch noise but the hatch itself was just invisible, so sometimes it can bug out badly.

[Wretched72]

I noticed something on the beta as the killer. When it was down to the last person, they activated another generator and the hatch icon in the corner disappeared. Does that mean it locked again or just a bug?

[Sendokami]

So will it only spawn if 2 generators are up? Wow that really harsh on the players whose teamates disconect. That explains why the hatch dident open for me when I was the last one alive. I hhad one DC and the other two got caught before I could finish one generator.

[NoBravado]

Originally posted by Wretched Egg:

I noticed something on the beta as the killer. When it was down to the last person, they activated another generator and the hatch icon in the corner disappeared. Does that mean it locked again or just a bug?

Could be both, but i put my bets on a bug UNLESS it was the last generator. Then they could have just left through the gates.

But again could be bug unless you're talking about you could see where the hatch was?

[Wretched72]

Originally posted by NoBravado:

Originally posted by Wretched Egg:

I noticed something on the beta as the killer. When it was down to the last person, they activated another generator and the hatch icon in the corner disappeared. Does that mean it locked again or just a bug?

Could be both, but i put my bets on a bug UNLESS it was the last generator. Then they could have just left through the gates.

But again could be bug unless you're talking about you could see where the hatch was?

I had no idea where the hatch was and it wasn't last generator so not sure

[Fanfiction aficionado 4000]

actually camping the hatch as a killer is a bit of a bad idea, if a survivor sees a killer standing in one spot or walking back and forth over it continuously then the killer might as well be shouting "hey the hatch is right here!!!" therfore they'll just hang back and wait until the killer leaves. I've lost the last suvivor several times because I camped the hatch and when I had my back turned they rushed it. really what a killer should do is find the hatch and keep an eye on it, try not to tip the survivor off to it's location and keep looking for them while making sure they don't get to it.

[ShipShrecked]

Why did you just super necro this?

[Fraktar]

Originally posted by chris the zombie gamer:

actually camping the hatch as a killer is a bit of a bad idea, if a survivor sees a killer standing in one spot or walking back and forth over it continuously then the killer might as well be shouting "hey the hatch is right here!!!" therfore they'll just hang back and wait until the killer leaves. I've lost the last suvivor several times because I camped the hatch and when I had my back turned they rushed it. really what a killer should do is find the hatch and keep an eye on it, try not to tip the survivor off to it's location and keep looking for them while making sure they don't get to it.

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