TUNNELING IS NECESSARY

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Because pressuring only one Survivor and just letting the other three do whatever they want is a good way to get few points and depip.

Seriously, slugging is the way to go if you want to 'win', not tunnelling.

Tunneling is the one thing I loathe running into as Survivor. When I play killer I won't tunnel. I will slug off the hook of the opportunity presents itself before chasing the rescuer; either the rescuer had Borrowed Time and the freed Survivor has to stop and mend, or the rescuer doesn't and I keep that person off of gens until they get picked up. If the person has Unbreakable, either they're forced to use it or they get picked up and it takes the healer from what they're doing.

One way or another, I'm letting up to 2 or 3 people off gens for at least a little while.

But you agree going after the same person all game until they die is not necessary at all, correct?

I tunnel everyone at the same time. It’s necessary.

Lol at this point it don't matter what rank you are. Rank 20 Killers are getting paired against red ranks all the time and vice versa.

Depends on what you qualify as tunneling. Is it necessarily tunneling if I don't find anyone and go back towards an unhook but the person that was just on the hook run right into me? Do I slug them and pass up a hook state at 3-5 gens still up or do I gamble on getting a DS out of the game early or a 2nd hook early? Is that actually tunneling? If it's not, will I still be called a tunneler despite going for the smarter play?

To me tunneling is targeting one person purposely to remove them from the game despite others throwing themselves at the killer to try to get them to change targets and despite the 2nd chance meta.

If I'm playing killer and you unhook and I can't find the unhooker but the injured Survivor is right there I'm going for the smarter play and targeting the easy prey in front of me. If I'm playing Survivor and someone unhooks me without borrowed in the killers face I'm not going to hold it against the killer for downing and hooking me a 2nd time because my supposed teammate decided to just farm me.

"Tunneling" is more complex than some people make it out to be. Scott Jund made a video about the entitlement issue that touches greatly on tunneling after he was "called out" for tunneling despite video from his perspective showing he clearly wasn't.

In regards to the OP here though, true tunneling (focusing solely on one person to remove them from the game immediately) is not necessary but what many consider tunneling (not seeing anyone else and going for the already injured target) can be necessary to progress the killer objective.

It's pretty situational. But it is unfortunate that if you want to compete with gens speeds, you have to combine tunneling, patrolling hooks, 3 genning and slugging.

3 genning and patrolling hooks close to those gens is at least strategic, but it's not fun for survivors. Nor is it fun to be constrained to one area as killer because if you leave you lose the 3 gen and die.

Tunneling is a curious one. It's interesting to see how frustrated survivors get when they are put in the position of the killer, ie chase after chase after chase with no break in between, instead of having their otherwise nicely paced matches of high action chases, paced by chilling at gens. But it does not let them do the rest of what they can do in game so i can understand how frustrating it is. I don't think its healthy for the game for it to be necessary.

Slugging is just boring for everyone. It's sad that it's necessary.

In a perfect world survivors would have an objective that puts them at risk of interacting more with the killer, that needs some brain power to complete and is completed at a reasonable time, so then survivors could get a bunch of extra tools to deal with camping tunneling and slugging.

Unfortunately we live in a world where the objective survivors have is holding one button on a thing for 80 seconds, reduced to 47 with 2 people.

I don't really like that these practices are necessary, but it's been a while since ive stopped feeling bad about doing it in game. It's definitely better to play like an arsehole and have a chance of winning than playing nice and fair for some M1 gamers to then act like they outplayed you because of bad game design.

Sure go watch my Twitch VODs and judge the survivor's for yourself. Like I said tho @Respectfulnancymain has seen me play so feel free to ask them for their thoughts too. Same with Musicnerd.

Sounds like the game is just not fun. So why are we playing?

Yea like people have said tunnelling is not required to win games. If you tunnel someone fast enough to death it might work but it usually won't. Instead you should be slugging, which is absolutely required to win against a decent team or you're not going to.

Funny because my particular main kikler has the opposite. Tunnelling is TERRIBLE for Pig, both for rank AND my powers.

Slugging is more necessary than tunnelling and people don't hate you for it as much.

Honestly, it's killers like you that have brought about this "second chance meta" that a lot of other killers complain about. You make statements like this and follow through on those actions, then survivors will do whatever they can to survive.

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The way I see it is tunneling is a great way to swing the game in your favor and possible "win". But, it is an unfun way to go about the game and is generally used if you are unskilled. This is a great way to climb the ranks, but you will never be as good of a killer as someone who does not want to tunnel. In the long run, it hurts you as you won't learn the tricks needed to become a better killer, as you rely on cheese strategies. And when you run into survivors who all run DS, you'll have a lot of issues/probably lose.

That said, I tend to pick 3 and only focus on them. This means that I might chase the 4th survivor if they are caught out, but I will never prioritize them. If there are 2+, I will only go for 1 of the 3 and force them to play super safe as death hook approaches. Before this, I would proxy camp hook a lot and tunnel a decent bit, but I noticed this held back my skill as a killer. I'm hoping one day I can improve to the point where I won't need to "assign" one survivor as my AVOID.