Tunneling

Tunneling and Camping on the Hook is part of the Game. Survivors got some Anti tunnel/camping Perks and mechanics to prevent that from being successfully used by a Killer.

There is BT, DS and some other (kinda non meta) perks which can help. You can also fake the u hook, take a hit and then unhook the Survivor. A better Version of that is take a hit and try to bait the Killer away from the Hook, so other Survivors can safely unhook.

In most cases (if you have at least 2 Friends with you), there is little to no chance for the Killer to make hook Camping work, if you are prepared for that scenario.

If its a Basement Bubba or a Oneshot killer:

Rush Gens and escape ASAP, there is not much you can do about it and chances are high you will get downed too. Good swfs let their mate die and move on to the next match.

These days I'll only tunnel if a survivor teabags at a pallet or does the clicky click with the flashlight - because that tells me they want my attention and/or believe they are significantly better than I am. They've thrown down the gauntlet, and I assume they are prepared to face the consequences. Otherwise, I'll try to chase as many people as I can. If I down the same person that just came off the hook, I'll slug them so their friends can pick them up, and I'll go chase someone else. I'll even dropped chases when I realize it's the person fresh off the hook.

I'm not playing this game to get off on 4ks or "wins" so tunneling doesn't appeal to me as a "strategy to win". I just want to have some fun chasing, hooking, and killing survivors when I play killer - or being chased, dodging, and escaping as a survivor. I don't feel like there is a challenge in downing a survivor fresh off the hook - even with BT or DS.

EDIT: Sorry, OP, to answer your original question. Tunneling, IMO, is when you ignore everyone else to go specifically after one survivor because you're trying to get them out of the game as fast as possible. If they are unhooked in front of you, that means the person who did the unhooking is also vulnerable. So unless you were aiming for the other person and accidentally hit them, it could be considered tunneling. However, if you dont rehook them again right away, I don't think it qualifies as tunneling.

Tunneling is fine whenever the player thinks it is to their advantage. Sure, it sucks as a survivor, I hate it when I get tunneled, but the truth is, it is more of a problem with my lack of ability than it is with the killer. No one wants to admit this, but only bad or entitled players complain about tunneling.

Majority of people say that the chase and interacting with the killer is the most fun part, so naturally, tunneling shouldn't be an issue. The problem arises when people think that the killer should give them a chance to regroup, though they'd never do the same for the killer. Rather than taking responsibility for their or their teammates incapability, they usually resort to attacking the killer player for not playing in a way that they want them to play.

Also, it is mandatory to tunnel every little turd who does their best to tank a hit with Borrowed Time when it is obvious the killer is going for the unhooker.

Tunneling okay

I don't really care that much about tunnelling unless its strictly malicious. If you stun a killer once, and he focuses you the entire game (including proxy camping the hook so he can instantly chase you once you're off it) then it becomes problematic. Killers unintentionally tunnel pretty often, sometimes survivors are just unlucky or out of position. But when a killer does it JUST because they hate you, and is trying to do whatever they can to make sure you don't have fun? Thats extremely problematic and unhealthy for the game. Same thing as facecamping your first down and things like that, stuff done strictly to ruin another players experience is not good for game health.

Tunnelling is part of the game and your Survivor friends need to come up with better rescue tactics.

Tunneling shows a lack of skill from the killer. It's unnecessary. Of course, most people here mistake not tunneling with being nice.

If the survivors make an unsafe unhook in your face, then by all means punish it. Personally, I like to give survivors a chance to get away from the hook. That's it. After that point, if I stumble across you again, you're getting slugged.

From a personal standpoint, I would much rather be slugged than tunneled out of the game. Tunneling may very well be part of the game, but that doesn't mean people have to be happy about it.

That isn't a problem with tunneling. It's a problem with bad teammates. Why should the killer be punished for making the best decision in that situation?

Facecamping and tunneling are “legit” strategies at 5 gens? Weird all that does is lose the game for killer. It’s almost as if the best strategy as killer is to force pressure on gens and not spend the entire game pressuring 1/4 of the team. Also I play both sides, I actually prefer killer, and even if I’m having a rough game I don’t resort to tunnel/camp strategies because I played poorly and/or the survivors played extremely well and the game should play out as such.

Then you're complaining about the wrong thing. Don't complain about tunneling, instead, complain about bad teammates performing unsafe unhooks.

It was the best choice. Why shouldn't he go for you? Complaining about tunneling is asking the devs to some way nerf it, which punishes the killer. Why not ask for a perk to where if a survivor does an unsafe rescue, you get healed instantly and your rescuer loses a health state.

It isn't a jerk move to make the best play.

Thankfully, that is only your opinion and not a fact. No, you don't have to like tunneling, but trying to insult the killer and disparage them for making the best decision for the situation reeks of entitlement. Just because you make certain decisions doesn't mean others who don't play the same as you are bad or as you call them, jerks. Some people like to play competitively, and as such, will punish survivors for mistakes.

Why down the unhooker when they can down someone who is already down a hook state? To spare your feelings? Do you walk up to a gen that is 80% done and think to yourself, oh, the killer is clearly struggling due to the large size of the map, let me leave this gen alone and go work on one that has zero progress? No, you don't. It's the same thing.

Listen to this wisdom. This person gets it. This is the truth no one wants to admit.

Yep, it is. 🤷‍♂️

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Tunneling is when the killer ignores the people unhooking - downs and hooks the rescued survivor all while ignoring any other survivors in their sight.

I don't tunnel - feels scummy to me and I don't need it to get a 3/4k.

With that being said - some people think they need to tunnel or enjoy ruining the match for others - which is their prerogative.

I am VERY RARELY actually tunneled in the game - when I am - I just hang in as long as possible through looping/struggling to allow my teammates more gen time. I do laugh when the match ends and the killer only gets 1-2 kills due to tunneling.

the problem is, there are many situations where you can't do anything because you got hooked in a deadzone or stuff like that. Of course you can say "killers wanna win, it's just the rational decision and not their fault" but then it's a game balance problem. It's a very cheap playstyle that often gets rewarded. I think a lot of the game balance was getting hold together by killers playing "fair" and not hard tunneling every match and pre-nerf DS being very common. Now that DS is gone more or less, killer gameplay has gotten much easier if you don't care about a good, exciting game and just wanna win for your ego (by securing the win early).

I honestly don't get why people do stuff like that to others. The only thing you can do is try to ignore it. I'm sure you'll get better! 😉

I wouldn't mind those being basekit, but I would like for DS to work twice (after both unhooks) at the very least.