What does 'tunneling' mean?
"Tunneling is ignoring every other survivor and everything else going on in the game to down and hook one guy over and over. Tunneling is chasing one guy to the extreme that it's not only counterproductive but also detrimental to winning the match." < A Reddit quote which describes it perfectly, for me.
But some people count chasing the same people twice in a row as tunneling. So when a survivor gets unhooked, healed, starts repairing a gen and you find them again. Do I have to respect that survivor on the gen and walk away? Or can I chase them again. I don't know what it means now, "-rep camp tunnel" almost feels like muscle memory.
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If you are playing as a killer then play the way you want. You don't "have" to do anything survivors expect you to. If you want to make up your own rule book to play by then more power to you.
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You are allowed to tunnel if you want, nothing they can do about it.
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In most cases, tunneling is just a survivor's way of blaming you for their mistakes. For instance, if they were recently unhooked, yet run into you, they expect you to leave them alone, otherwise 'YOU FILTHY TUNNELER!'
Now, there are actual cases of tunneling, when you focus down one survivor consistently, as that Reddit quote states. But, again, I wager a lot of the time it's on the survivors. Same with 'camping.'
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"Genrushing" is just the killer's way of blaming survivors for their mistakes. See what I did there?
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Made a false analogy?
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I was making a blanket statement, also thanks for the attention bud
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Aside from all the stupid arguing, this is what "tunneling" originally meant.
It has become common to blame mistakes and coincidence on tunneling/camping. But genrushing is also commonly used to blame survivors for the killer not applying pressure, being bad in chases, or misuse of powers.
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Tried to connect two different terms? Gen rushing is separate from tunneling, because it's based on maps. You can't tell me the unhooked survivor with BT that runs up to the killer in the hopes of being smacked for sprint burst, yet screams tunneler when the killer waits out BT, is in the right. Or the survivor that goes Urban Evasion near the hook they were recently rescued from, and cries when the killer finds them and smacks them.
I did say there are actual tunnelers out there. Some is just on the killer being a douche, others when it can be needed. For instance, if a low skill killer is placed against three far better and one equivalent. If he can't catch the other three, he's going to focus on the one he can. Still tunneling, but it can be taken case by case.
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I'm not trying to tell you entitled players are right, just the opposite in fact. I didn't try to connect the terms, I made a statement just the way you did. I made it a blanket assumption and focused it on a particular set of people. If yours is acceptable, so is mine.
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tunneling means you chased a survivor and they are upset about it
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First, where do you get entitlement from?
Second, 'tunneling' is a blanket statement, which I attempted to break down. You attempted a bit of a red herring by throwing in gen rushing. If you're going to try that, at least break it down and link them in some way that can be discussed, instead of dipping into the name calling.
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What name calling? What red herring?
I got entitlement from survivors who say stuff like "Eww filthy TUNNELER!" when they run into the killer after they get unhooked.
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