The Key to Escape achievement in Dead by Daylight

My friends and I have found a way to earn this achievement with only two players.

For those who don’t know: It is possible to start a public match with a friend as the Killer if both parties have similar ranks (Survivor v. Killer) and if the Survivor (or SWF host) begins searching for a match soon after the Killer creates their lobby. Using this, it is possible to farm out many of this game’s achievements including this one.

How it’s done: Have a Killer and Survivor player, make sure the Survivor is the last in the match with access to the Hatch. Survivor attempts a Hatch Escape only for the Killer to grab them three times. The Survivor may now leave at any time and the achievement should pop.

Why it works: I believe that this achievement is sort of busted (like many others in this game) as it tracks the number of times the Hatch has been ‘used’ even if the person using it fails. This means that one player failing three times then succeeding on the fourth would be tracked as “all 4 survivors escaping through the hatch at the same time”.

While my ‘partners in crime’ would rather remain anonymous, I am of the mind that this achievement is practically impossible with actual random teammates and becomes almost as difficult even with SWF just because of when the Hatch will spawn and how hard the Killer will be trying to stop everyone from getting to that point.

So while I won’t be posting their Gamertags, I will say thank you to B and B for not only discovering this method with me but also for having the patience to test it a second time.

Any questions? Hit me up. Hope this helps those without an elite group of friends or crazy amounts of time on their hands.

Good luck out there in the Fog.