just to clear up some doubts
I've been playing Dead by Daylight for about 3 or 4 months, but even after all this time I still don't know what tunneling is, can anyone clear this doubt for me? because even some friends have already warned me about it and I have no idea what it is
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When killer focusing only one survivor until dead, the sooner the better
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thank you 👌
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I would say the "bad" and "unnecessary" tunneling would be defined as the killer going after one survivor from the start of the game without having a good reason to do so. Being so tunneled visioned that even if the whole team tries to protect that one survivor the killer won't switch targets or being so tunneled visioned that the killer ends up throwing the game because they only went for one survivor instead of spreading pressure.
What might seem like tunneling but really isn't intentional tunneling is if the killer keeps finding the same survivor who got unhooked recently. Sometimes it just happens and the rest of the team is just being too stealthy. I usually try to let them go, but I can't keep giving second chances when I can't find anyone else.
Then comes necessary tunneling if the killer wants to win. Sometimes you need to tunnel when it's down to like 2 gens left. It's easier to just kill a survivor to make it a 3v1, so you can't really blame the killer at that point because it is necessary for their win condition.
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To go into more detail, tunneling is intentionally focusing on one survivor and chasing them repeatedly until they're dead, ignoring any other survivors in your path.
It's often the best play to get someone out of the game ASAP and make the rest of the game easier, or if you're down to 1 or 2 gens left and you need a kill to slow the game down.
Whether survivors like it or not, it will always be a strong tactic - even if the game gets balanced around the killer being able to get 12 hooks without doing it. If anything, balancing the game in such a way will just make tunneling stronger.
It's not tunnelling if the survivor runs at you off hook (whether they want out of the game or they want to use their endurance effect to body block for their rescuer) or they just happen to bump into you shortly after being unhooked, nor is it tunneling when a survivor is unhooked while you're still close and their teammate hides. As much as the survivors will complain, you're not going out of your way to chase them in these instances - you're just not letting them go when they're right in front of you and it's the correct play to down them again.
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It means the survivor died and felt bad about it.
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See I have been using Forced Penance on alot of my Killers and Survivors have stopped body blocking for thier friends off hook and I have no idea why..... Muwhahahagaha 😈
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Why not just ask your friends what tunneling is when they're warning you of it?
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because in the middle of the chase it's hard to remember that, and even asking a few times they don't hear much, just enough to say they didn't understand anything
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I'll tell that to my friend bald dwight the next time I manage to knock him behind the walls and he accuses me
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thank you for the explanation
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Thanks for this explanation, I had this question for a while.
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Except in practice people also use “tunneling” to simply mean downing someone twice in a row, or chasing someone who is injured over someone healthy, or even simply going after one survivor for a really long uninterrupted chase. The word is kind of a meaningless buzzword at this point because of all the other ways people use it.
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