How to use the skeleton key?

[Guardian of Potatoes Raph]

I have it but no clue how it works

[Molon labe]

Find the hatch, open it

[I Play Without Monitor]

Originally posted by 奶凍:

The hatch appears when there are 2 generators left
It opens when there is only 1 survivor left
The skeleton key opens it regardless of how many survivors are left

The hatch appears at the begining of game. It OPENS when there are 3 generators left and 1 alive survivor.
I've found it many, many times at the begining of match, but NEVER when i actually could use it(liek if u cri evritiem).

[Arch]

Conditions for hatch spawning is 3 generators or less left.

Conditions to use hatch are skeleton key or hatch opens for the last survivor.

So basically you can escape a little earlier.

[K Utah]

I don't know sometimes I find the hatch where it wasn't before

[Bimmy]

Entity ate my first skeleton key.

[oxymic]

The hatch appears when only 3 generators left

[Aropitaro]

The hatch is always in the map, it spawns instantly, however random EVERY TIME (with like 5 different spawn locations), it only OPENS with one survivor when you have 2 OR MORE gens complete, I have located the hatch at the start of a match and gotten the minimum Generators necessary to have it open then wait for me to be the last one (only when the others deserve to die because they are not doing anything but waiting for me to do all the work) only for it to actually open because i am the last remaining to escape with en extra 2k score.

[Kaileris]

There is a problem with the hatch, and that 75% of them are invisible until they are opened. I was just in a match 10 min ago where my whole survivor team died except me and because I knew the spawning location of this hatch, it just magically appears and opens up right infront of me even though it wasnt visible there when I am waiting for the last guy to bleed out.

This wasn't the first time I hatch camped invisible hatches either. Just this morning I was hiding in the two story building in auto wrecker haven and the hatch wasn't visibly there and I was holding the skeleton key the whole match. Same thing happened where the hatch just magically rises from the floor board after my whole team died. This destroys the purpose of me bringing a key even...

[Aropitaro]

Originally posted by Cassiel Archangelic:

There is a problem with the hatch, and that 75% of them are invisible until they are opened. I was just in a match 10 min ago where my whole survivor team died except me and because I knew the spawning location of this hatch, it just magically appears and opens up right infront of me even though it wasnt visible there when I am waiting for the last guy to bleed out.

This wasn't the first time I hatch camped invisible hatches either. Just this morning I was hiding in the two story building in auto wrecker haven and the hatch wasn't visibly there and I was holding the skeleton key the whole match. Same thing happened where the hatch just magically rises from the floor board after my whole team died. This destroys the purpose of me bringing a key even...

you what to know whats worse than losing you skelly key from a glitched hatch, needing to restart your game but if you do you lose EVERYTHING i have had my game open for about 10 hours now because i got a Very rare T3 perk i dont want to lose

[Nathair]

Originally posted by PeterM™ | KennyS' Fanboy:

The hatch is always in the map, it spawns instantly, however random EVERY TIME (with like 5 different spawn locations), it only OPENS with one survivor when you have 2 OR MORE gens complete, I have located the hatch at the start of a match and gotten the minimum Generators necessary to have it open then wait for me to be the last one (only when the others deserve to die because they are not doing anything but waiting for me to do all the work) only for it to actually open because i am the last remaining to escape with en extra 2k score.

the hatch does not visibly appear until there are 2 generators or less left to do, assuming a typical 4 survivor game.

If you've seen a hatch before completing 3 generators then the map has bugged.

[Kaileris]

Originally posted by Spooky Skeleton:

Originally posted by PeterM™ | KennyS' Fanboy:

The hatch is always in the map, it spawns instantly, however random EVERY TIME (with like 5 different spawn locations), it only OPENS with one survivor when you have 2 OR MORE gens complete, I have located the hatch at the start of a match and gotten the minimum Generators necessary to have it open then wait for me to be the last one (only when the others deserve to die because they are not doing anything but waiting for me to do all the work) only for it to actually open because i am the last remaining to escape with en extra 2k score.

the hatch does not visibly appear until there are 2 generators or less left to do, assuming a typical 4 survivor game.

If you've seen a hatch before completing 3 generators then the map has bugged.

This isn't entirely true either. This afternoon some mates ask me to play KYF and we had 1 genie left to do. We got the Thompson house map and the hatch wasn't visible either, and we were trying to test the skeleton key. It magically appears after 3 people left the map.

[Aropitaro]

Originally posted by Cassiel Archangelic:

Originally posted by Spooky Skeleton:

the hatch does not visibly appear until there are 2 generators or less left to do, assuming a typical 4 survivor game.

If you've seen a hatch before completing 3 generators then the map has bugged.

This isn't entirely true either. This afternoon some mates ask me to play KYF and we had 1 genie left to do. We got the Thompson house map and the hatch wasn't visible either, and we were trying to test the skeleton key. It magically appears after 3 people left the map.

I have seen it in multiple occasions, however we are all unaware of the TRUE reasoning behind the trapdoor appears/operate so we should honestly stop trampling each other's findings/investigationing (because we most likly are all correct while talking about cercumstances we aren't aware of) until not only the game comes out of "early access" or "Alpha/Beta" to say how exactly mechanics work for the game or until a DEV comments below \/ (comment plz, we luv u) and actually explains how the trapdoor is meant to work to then have a DEV trample and hook us for our idiotic reasoning and over complicating something that could be a randomize a number of 1,2 or 3

[Aropitaro]

Originally posted by PeterM™ | KennyS' Fanboy:

Originally posted by Cassiel Archangelic:

There is a problem with the hatch, and that 75% of them are invisible until they are opened. I was just in a match 10 min ago where my whole survivor team died except me and because I knew the spawning location of this hatch, it just magically appears and opens up right infront of me even though it wasnt visible there when I am waiting for the last guy to bleed out.

This wasn't the first time I hatch camped invisible hatches either. Just this morning I was hiding in the two story building in auto wrecker haven and the hatch wasn't visibly there and I was holding the skeleton key the whole match. Same thing happened where the hatch just magically rises from the floor board after my whole team died. This destroys the purpose of me bringing a key even...

you what to know whats worse than losing you skelly key from a glitched hatch, needing to restart your game but if you do you lose EVERYTHING i have had my game open for about 10 hours now because i got a Very rare T3 perk i dont want to lose

My game closed for some reason and i lost everything :(

[asianbooha]

Originally posted by ...:

Entity ate my first skeleton key.

im so sorry

[Aizeenʕ·◕‿◕·ʔ⁾⁾♪]

At least a lot of talk about how you find or camp the hatch but no explanation on how the key actually works when I want to use it for opening the hatch, very helpful!