I don't understand broken keys...

[Astrostars2025]

They don't have any purpose unless I bring addons on them, but even then they still seem pretty useless. Has anyone found a use for them?

[HarmonikaGuy]

you can open the hatch with them

[Astrostars2025]

Originally posted by Walter White:

you can open the hatch with them

They can not be used to open the hatch

[Perberos]

if I am not wrong, I remember doing some rift quests with them. They are used for the "consume X keys". But yeah, very useless except for extra aura reading, it might help for different task like sneaking nearby the killer or coop gens without wasting a perk slot.

[Lovely Homer]

Green Keys: Can't open hatch, but have decent amount of charge for aura reading
Purple Keys: Can open hatch, but have short amount of charges
Red Keys: Can open hatch and have the longest duration of charges

[Bonsai9795]

Originally posted by Spaceman20290:

They don't have any purpose unless I bring addons on them, but even then they still seem pretty useless. Has anyone found a use for them?

Aura reading primarily BUT the other thing I used to use them for is to try to bait franklins demise XD I havent took a key since i started playing anymore so idk if they changed the design BUT when I used to do it broken keys looked just like a normal key so was good to bait franklins with: essentially it made them maybe take that over another perk to take a key off you that wasn't any good for hatch opening anyway. Win-Win.

[Munqaxus]

Originally posted by Spaceman20290:

They don't have any purpose unless I bring addons on them, but even then they still seem pretty useless. Has anyone found a use for them?

A killer kept track of the items players brought in. Keys and maps were both at 0.9% usage. I don't even get keys and their addons on the bloodweb, I use those bloodpoints for toolboxes and medkits with those addons. I think maps are nice to quickly finding totems, but that's the only use I get for maps too.

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[￭ Yuri ￭]

it would be interesting if all items had an iris version, and not just the map and the key, after all, what makes sense is to keep only 2 iris addons per item, and not the items themselves, which in principle is the "power of survivors" (such as killers).

iris toolbx could only have increased charges compared to green and keeping the same speed. The iris medical kit could have more charges than the green one and keeping the same speed and the iris flashlight only increases the charges compared to purple, but working the same as green/yellow.

Would be interest, but I think it will create a lot of complaints, just like the HUD system that wasn't all that good.

[Glimmer]

Aura Reading.

DbD players try to read addons for items challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[☆AkaAkoVT☆]

Maps can have some uses in pointing map features out to allies (with the right addons), so they're a bit more useful than keys.

[boginho]

Originally posted by Spaceman20290:

They don't have any purpose unless I bring addons on them, but even then they still seem pretty useless. Has anyone found a use for them?

it's was meant to be like bait hahahaa bcs when killers see survivors in the lobby holding broken key , it's not shown as broken , it's normal :) hahahaha

[Harmonica]

Broken key is kind of nutty with addons if you're using Open Handed. But rarely better than a medkit unless you're hard stealthing.

Originally posted by ☆Hello, I am friend cat!☆:

Maps can have some uses in pointing map features out to allies (with the right addons), so they're a bit more useful than keys.

Yeah the map with glass bead addon is decent for marking undropped palettes or put it on yourself if you're a healer so others can find you. But this was a while back, since then there's more perks that help you locate others with auras, plus the HUD, and no hatches to mark, making it mostly a fun thing to find in a chest. Best use is mostly marking an exit gate and dropping it there, or in the corn maps to mark generators.

[Campers wear Pampers]

green keys for window tech

[Amaterasu]

At least it does something, the map addon with track the hatch is complete useless after they changed the hatch mechanic.

[Munqaxus]

Originally posted by Pat Fenis:

Green map is amazeballs with detective's hunch + bead, even without the perk it's good for totems with the killer belongings thingy and a stamp.

You don't need a map with Detective Hunch. And you don't need Detective Hunch with a Red Map or a Green Map with Red Twine. That's perk/item inefficiency there.

[Hex: Offender]

before keys and hatch got reworked we often called the broken key, chase-bait. if killers saw it they'd assume it was purple or pink and not wish to let 4 survivors exit out of the hatch so they would get chased/tunneled. often used by good loopers.