Murderthon Generators and Escape

Survivors win Murderthon by completing the Westcord trial objectives faster than the Mask can convert downs into electric-chair deaths. The headline rule is simple: repair five of seven generators, open an exit gate, and leave—or, if you are the last subject standing, play for hatch when it appears in your build. Everything else—chests, Class gadgets, loops, and chair saves—exists to protect that clock. This guide is the macro companion to getting started and looping.

Because the game is still Roblox alpha from Chilly Creations, treat timings as habits rather than frame-perfect gospel. Confirm skill-check feel, hatch rules, and gate interactions in your live client after patches. For Class tools that accelerate the plan, open Classes. For binds, use controls. Redeem codes for Shards when you need Mask practice on the other side, and keep Tools handy for pre-match checklists.

The win condition in one paragraph

Four Classes spawn into a trial with seven generators on the map. Completing five powers the exit. While you repair, the Mask hunts, injures, downs, and chairs survivors. Saved teammates return to the objective race; ignored chairs snowball into a three-person or two-person economy that cannot finish five gens. Late game is gate holds, last-second saves, or hatch contested by a Mask who knows you are alone. If you only learn chase tech and never learn when to touch a generator, you will lose beautiful loops.

Five of seven: how to think about generator math

You do not need every generator. You need five. That means two gens can be abandoned forever if they sit in a death trap—and that is often correct.

Early trial (7 → ~4 remaining unfinished toward the five)

• Split pressure. Two and two on separate islands beats four people stacked on one machine that Pierce can teleport to.
• Kick off the safest gens first: cover, a nearby vault or vent, and a short path to another objective.
• Assign roles loosely: one player may chest for items while three repair, but nobody should chest for an entire minute while zero gens move.

Mid trial (race to the fifth)

• Protect nearly done gens. Leaving a gen at high progress to ego-loop across the map is how Masks stall forever.
• If the Mask commits a long chase, the free teammates must convert that time into bar progress—not loot tourism.
• When two gens remain toward the five, stop opening brand-new dead-side machines unless the contested ones are truly unplayable.

Three-gen and two-gen pressure

Masks with gen control (Pierce blocks, some Sheol/Fate zoning) want you panicked. Your answer is disciplined finishes on the two safest sites, not random multitasking that leaves five gens at 40%.

Skill checks and cooperative repair

Skill checks are the tax on every repair tick. Missing them wastes time, can alert the Mask, and turns a safe gen into a beacon.

Habits that matter:

• Look at the check UI; do not watch the Mask’s distant terror radius while your finger misses the window.
• If you are injured and shaky, tap progress in shorter commits when the Mask is nearby instead of full AFK repair.
• Cooperative repair means two survivors on one gen only when you need a fast finish under pressure—or when a Mechanic toolbox is accelerating a contested machine. Otherwise, split to deny teleport and patrol value.
• Call on the communication wheel when you are about to finish a gen so teammates can pre-position for the next objective or a save.

Mechanic players change the math: a Toolbox-boosted gen can be worth stacking briefly. Everyone else should default to split pressure unless the fifth gen is a clutch finish.

Chest priority without throwing the trial

Chests are real value—items and resources that stabilize chases and heals—but they are not the win condition.

Open chests when:

• The Mask is in a long chase on the far side
• Your team already has multiple gens progressing
• You specifically need a heal, tool, or utility before a contested endgame

Ignore chests when:

• Zero or one gen has meaningful progress in the first minutes
• A teammate is on death hook / final chair risk and you are the only free body
• The fifth gen is one commit away and the Mask is busy

A clean rule: chests are a bonus layer on top of an already moving generator plan. If you cannot explain which gen you will touch after the chest, you are stalling.

Exit gates

After five generators, exits become the new objective. Gate opens are loud, channelled, and punish greedy solo attempts when the Mask is free.

Gate habits:

• Prefer the gate with better approach cover and a backup path if the Mask arrives.
• Do not all four stack the same switch if the Mask can down the entire huddle—send a scout, start open, and have a second player ready to trade or body-block.
• If someone is dying on a chair during gate open, decide deliberately: finish the open if the save is impossible, or interrupt for the save if one more survivor meaningfully raises escape odds.
• Once open, leave. Farming a chest or teabagging a pallet while the Mask returns is how highlight-reel deaths happen.

Endgame against info Masks (Lens) or teleport Masks (Pierce) means assuming the open is watched. Stagger entries and use Class tools—Enforcer blinds, Cloaker windows, Saboteur chair denial—on purpose.

Hatch for the last survivor

When you are the final Class alive, hatch (when present in your alpha build) is the second win path. Exact spawn and contest rules can shift in patches—verify in-client—but the macro mindset stays stable:

• Stop greed-repairing hopeless gens if the Mask is camping the only unfinished machine and you are already alone.
• Play for information: listen for the Mask, use Recon if you still have charges, and avoid sprinting scratch-mark highways across open ground.
• Contest carefully. A hatch sit that donates a free down is worse than a delayed gate if a gate is somehow still viable—but solo gate opens against a healthy Mask are often fantasy.
• If you downed teammates earlier through bad saves, hatch is your apology plan; do not throw it by looting mid-map.

New players should still learn five-gen discipline first. Hatch is a last-survivor tool, not an excuse to ignore objectives from minute one.

Electric chairs and save timing

Chairs are the Mask’s scoring beat. Every successful chair pushes the lobby closer to a lost economy.

When to save immediately

• First chair of the match while three teammates are free and gens can still move
• Teammate on high death risk and you have a body-block, Enforcer blind, or Saboteur plan
• Mask is clearly leaving for a gen kick and the unhook/rescue window is clean

When to delay or refuse a suicidal save

• Two teammates already injured and hovering the chair with no pallet or blind
• You are the only healthy repair threat on a nearly done fifth gen and the downed player is on early chair state
• The Mask is camping with full resources and a trade would simply hand them a second chair

After the save

Heal or stabilize if Medic is alive, then return to generators. A save that turns into a second chase with zero gen progress is only a delay. Saboteur should value chair sabotage windows that force the Mask to waste time; do not wrench every chair if gens are untouched.

Deep chase after a bad unhook is covered in looping; the macro point here is tempo.

When to stop a generator for a rescue

This is the decision that separates coordinated lobbies from solo-queue chaos.

Leave the gen when:

• The save is likely to succeed and keeps a fourth (or third) repair body in the trial
• You are on a low-progress gen and the teammate is about to die
• You have a Class tool that flips the chair fight (blind, sabotage, heal commit)

Stay on the gen when:

• The machine is seconds from completion and finishing it opens gate pressure that forces the Mask off camp
• Two other healthy teammates are already committing to the save
• You are injured, resource-empty, and would only donate a second down

Talk with the wheel. Silent triple-commits on a camped chair while a 95% gen sits alone is a classic loss pattern.

Class jobs inside the objective plan

Class	Objective job
Mechanic	Accelerate contested or fifth gens with Toolbox
Medic	Convert saves into healthy repair bodies
Handyman	Keep chase tiles alive so gen committers get chased less
Saboteur	Tax chair conversions so the Mask loses tempo
Recon	Reveal patrols so repair islands stay honest
Enforcer	Blind for saves and gate entries
Cloaker	Break chase so you can re-attach to gens

Pick the fantasy that supports five gens, not only the fantasy that looks cool in chase clips. Full kit text lives on Classes.

Mask pressures that target generators

Know why your bar stops moving:

• Pierce teleports to incomplete gens and can stall after chairs
• Fate traps approaches so greedy repair paths become downs
• Lens turns information into sudden arrivals on loud machines
• Jammed cuffs the person who was about to finish or sabotage
• Divide removes vent escapes off gen tiles
• Sheol zones repair spaces with ranged pressure
• Ripe / Sin force you off gens through madness or rush threat
• Plague (live infection / area-denial style) can punish clustered repair—re-test after balance passes

Answer systemic pressure with split repairs, disciplined leaves, and Class tools—not with four people hugging one machine.

Practical match script

1. Spawn: mark nearest safe gen and one backup.
2. Minutes 1–3: split repair, one opportunistic chest max.
3. First down: decide save vs convert time on gens—do not all three swarm blindly.
4. Mid: protect high-progress machines; rotate dead tiles.
5. Fifth gen: call the finish, pre-position for gates.
6. Gates: open the safer switch, leave when open.
7. Solo: hatch mindset, no vanity loot.

Common objective mistakes

• Four stacked on one gen all trial
• Chest simulator while gens sit cold
• Ignoring the first chair until someone dies
• Suicidal triple-save into a camping Mask while a fifth gen is free
• Opening the worse gate because it is closer to your ego loop
• Never learning controls so skill checks and wheel calls fail under stress

Related reading

Return to getting started for day-one flow, looping for chase defense, Classes for gadget jobs, controls for binds, codes for Shard boosts, and Tools for redeem and loadout checklists.

Generators and escape are a resource race. Five completed machines, disciplined chests, timed saves, clean gates, and honest hatch plays beat any single flashy vault. Run the objective plan first—then let chase skill protect it.