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Tunneling is not part of the game?

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  • Power_Guy
    Power_Guy Member Posts: 1,562

    You do realize, if 'tunneling' were punished, unhooked Survivors would THROW themselves at a Killer to let their friends get away, because the Killer would be punished for hitting them.

    Because they were just unhooked, and thus hitting them would be 'tunneling'.


    But I'm sure Survivor mains are fine with that. They see nothing wrong with such an abuseable mechanic. Just like the camping one!

  • Sluzzy
    Sluzzy Member Posts: 3,130

    Tunneling is a free perk for all killers. No consequences.

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814

    You're the one taking this personally. I'm simply pointing out that hardcore tunnelling is, by very definition, extremely punishable, because any decent team will slam gens while the person you are senselessly trying to kill predrops every pallet because it's pretty damn obvious what you're doing since you were doing it from the start of the trial.

    Which leaves babies and solo's as the only ones that that will ever work against.

  • konchok
    konchok Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 1,719

    Using perks to fix flaws in core game design is an issue and what actually gets abused as pre-nerfed DS shows. So rather than sticking your head in the sand like an osterich, you should learn to have an actual discussion.

  • Tizzle
    Tizzle Member Posts: 696

    Why would the Killer ever hook anyone until all four Survivors were bleeding out with these changes?

    Stop tunneling and camping but yet propel slugging into the stratosphere?? (which is even more unfun).

    Horrible ideas.

  • Lord_Tony
    Lord_Tony Member Posts: 2,109
  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    Ask yourself the question:

    Why do you trust so little in your skills with a killer that you go after a just unhooked injured survivor instead of the unhooker or anyone else?

  • Lord_Tony
    Lord_Tony Member Posts: 2,109

    It's not about skill it's about going against 3 survivors instead of 4.


    Having 3 opponents creates an insane amount of pressure on survivors.


    So again, why would I not go for the injured guy first?

  • Zixology
    Zixology Member Posts: 1,062

    "Survivors do everything in their power to complete their objective."

    Nothing a survivor can do will eject the killer from the game early.

  • Jasix
    Jasix Member Posts: 1,245

    It obviously is a part of the game - so I think your inquiry is disingenuous to say the least and meant only to start yet another boring circular thread.

    With that said - I don't ever tunnel as killer (I play 50/50 killer/survivor for 4+ years). I play killer how I would like to play against other killers. I find it interesting that the main proponents of tunneling are "killer mains." I have been tunneled out in less than 3 minutes and find that type of gameplay unfun as a survivor - so would never do it to someone else. So yes - it is part of game play - that doesn't mean it is viewed as fair by the majority of players or remotely fun for the one being tunneled.

    But hey - if tunneling is what it takes to make you feel good about yourself and your game - go ahead and do it.

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    so you admit you have no confidence in your skill to reduce the number from 4 to 3 without tunneling. duly noted.

  • Marigoria
    Marigoria Member Posts: 6,090

    Totally agreed. I play solo, and the only argument some people on here have is “use x and y perk then”. It’s like they don’t realize half of my perks are already to help me in solo Q so I can’t equip all these perks to fix a design flaw.

  • Marigoria
    Marigoria Member Posts: 6,090

    Using 👏🏻 emojis doesn’t make your argument look any better.

    A killer even when they lose, they still have the opportunity to play the game and do something about it. A survivor hardcore tunneled since the start of the match, does not.

  • MeltingPenguins
    MeltingPenguins Member Posts: 3,742

    because I trust in my skill to 'break the chain' even if i don't go for the weakest link. grow some actual confidence.

  • Alionis
    Alionis Member Posts: 1,025
    edited May 2021

    Why is that your only possible conclusion for tunneling? Because it definitely isn't mine.

    I'm going by efficiency, and it's more efficient as killer to reduce the number of survivors quickly than to essentially play a 4v1 the entire trial when only ever going for the next survivor.

    In a 4v1, when I chase a survivor, there are 3 progressing the objective. When I hook the survivor, there will still be 2 progressing the objective and 1 going for the unhook. When I find the next survivor to chase, there will still be 1 progressing the objective. No matter what you do here, there is someone progressing the objective. As soon as you bring that number to 3v1, there will be frequent periods in which survivors can't progress their objective, which is good for when you are the killer.

    I'm sorry, but your argument that killers tunnel because they are not confident in their abilities is silly.

  • Lord_Tony
    Lord_Tony Member Posts: 2,109

    tunneling is of course a legit strategy.


    Bringing the survivor group down to 3 early as possible significantly puts enough pressure on the game.

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    A person who is confident in their abilities doesn't feel any need to prove themselves. That's why you see insecure people being loud and angry all the time, because anything can threaten their fragile egos.

  • noctis129
    noctis129 Member Posts: 967

    Where does it say that? I couldn't find it. Does it also say that camping isn't part of the game? How many rules are there? Is the rules only for killers to follow? This is interesting.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,299

    Well, tunneling is a legit strategy, just regarded as "scummy" by most players. It is part of the game, always was, and always will be.

  • MrPeanutbutter
    MrPeanutbutter Member Posts: 1,586

    If I’m in a match where it seems like it’s going to be a fairly easy game, I will go out of my way not to tunnel. But if I’m in a tough match against experienced survivors I know that tunneling might be necessary to get one survivor out early and make the rest of the game easier.

  • stikyard
    stikyard Member Posts: 526

    Tunneling is a part of the game.

    It's just ######### to do it to someone early on as, you relentlessly remove them from the game.

    It can be increasingly frustrating when survivor cues are close to ten minutes long.

  • Alionis
    Alionis Member Posts: 1,025
  • Power_Guy
    Power_Guy Member Posts: 1,562

    True, but if Killer's don't eliminate someone fast...they lose.

    Gen speeds are so damn fast, and the only way Killers can slow them down is by:

    1. Hooking (A temp fix, as Survivors can be unhooked)
    2. Killing. (The only permanent way to reduce gen speeds by a large amount)


    When Survivors whimper about how 'unfair' and 'unfun' camping/slugging/tunneling is, they are either forgetting, or don't care, that they are the only consistent tools across every Killer for slowing down gen speeds & buying some time. All they care about is how they don't consider it 'fair' for Survivors to knock them out of the game. Which, and I repeat for all Survivors reading this; This is the Killer's goal. it is in his name.

    Our goal is to 'relentlessly remove them from the game', as you put it. It's not up to the Survivors to decide WHEN we can kill them, or 90% of them would say 'Never'. The nature of PvP games is that someone will get knocked out first. You can't limit that without literally screwing over the Killer's goal.

    And that's not counting the thousands of times Survivors will literally follow me to the hook, know that I can see them, then screech in end game chat 'YoU wErE cAmPiNg!', or get unhooked, heal under the hook (or start cleansing a totem 5 feet away) and 'StOp TuNnElInG!'