How does getting tunneled make you feel?

Seeing as I'm usually good at running the killer for at least 3 gens, it just makes me roll my eyes lol

No matter what the outcome is for me personally, I know nobody's going to have a lot of points and it will have been a boring match for everyone involved

Honestly it's a mixed bag for me. I get why some Killers do it, because if generators are flying or you're going up against a sweaty team then you need every advantage you can get, but from a survivor's perspective it can be infuriating. Not only does it lead to a quick game over screen, but if you brought in a really good item or offering such as party streamers, then it makes that quick death that much more painful, which is why I'm usually hesitant to bring anything good in and just rely on what's in the map.

When I'm being properly tunnelled (by that, I mean not being silly enough to wander into the killer's path or not escape properly - I mean REALLY tunnelled), it's normally because I've pissed the killer off sufficiently, and because of that I tend to see the funny side. Had a hilarious match earlier today against Nemesis where he tunnelled me for 4 gens after a couple of pallet stuns, where it was ultimately the female zombie which got me, as she and Nemesis cornered me. In fairness, I could see why, although I was playing fair, and I don't blame Nemesis for doing it, although tactically it wasn't his finest moment.

On the odd occassion it's just a killer choosing to or a bad save, sure it's frustrating, but nothing I find worth getting upset about because it's just one trial, and the next one will be different.

Same. It's annoying, but I understand it and get more frustrated at the game and myself for not being good enough to loop better.

If I see a person on 2nd hook early in the game and I unhook him, Ill follow where he goes so that I can either

1) heal him where he feels comfortably safe

2) take a hit for him if the killer is close by

When I get 'tunneled', more often than not, I don't think it's intentional. More likely the person that unhooked me disappears and hides, while I am injured, making pain sounds and leaving blood trails. Even when I follow the person that unhooks me, if the killer is hot on my trail, the teammate is not willing to take a hit and just keeps running ahead of me.

The only way to remove tunneling and make it obsolete is to make all survivors share 12 hook states, so that targeting specific survivors will be pointless. It would be the healthiest decision. Unfortunately, the devs don't care enough about this core game issue to change anything.

Nah they need a REAL Anti-Tunnel perk.

Fight or Flight: “If you’re in a chase with the killer for more than 30 seconds without being injured Fight or Flight activates, giving the survivor 14% Haste effect until the chase ends”.

That way survivors must give up a perk slot to use this situational tactic. If you’ve been chased for more than 30 seconds without getting hurt I consider it a tunnel. That’s basically 1 gen if people double up on it. It’s like having Hope and Blood Pact at end game collapse. Unless the killer has ranged attacks, or some mobility they can’t really get you. Most killers that tunnel are M1 killers like Ghost Face, Freddy, Myers, WRAITH, and WRAITH. Don’t forget WRAITH. The Tunnel King. Even then Wraith can uncloak to remove this buff, but he can’t hurt you while cloaked. If you have a vault, pallet, or flashlight you can fend against the Tunnel King. So it’s fair.

We def need some real anti-tunnel perk(s) in the game. Off The Record would be better if it also suppressed scratch marks. Or even a version of suppressing your tracking for a short duration after escaping The Killer's grasp.

With that said, I totally understand that some circumstances call for it. However, I wouldn't say I like getting tunneled unnecessarily, such as when no gens have been completed and The Killer is already dominating. Or the "going out of your way" to tunnel me, that's annoying. It's more like WHY?

Like a challenge. It turns into running practice under all circumstances, no matter how unfortunate. In the moment I likely am pissed, but it's ok in the end.

My friends and I start to play dirty back. It usually doesn’t end up well for the killer.

I think some killers are so used to tunneling they think they are going against the same “casual” players every time.

Depends how much freezing I get during chases.

I actually don't mind chases when the game works and If the killer wants to tunnel I don't hold it against them unless they bm me.

It depends. Usually feels bad because I just waited 5 minutes to finally start playing and I'm going out soon, generally with not many BPs if I don't get to do gens or something, but other times I can see from the start if I'm going against a sweaty killer and I'll gladly get out of that match and next to the next one.

When I GET TO play I always get the darn hackers

Honestly? I hold high respect in my ability to stealth and never be noticed throughout the entire game so whenever I get found, i'm not too upset or surprised at it, hell even my ability to Loop although I need to polish it a little more before I can confidently say it with my chest. Even when I screw up on a gen or something. I'll also go for saves when I can and make sure I take Aggro for the person I just saved if it's not safe. Least to say, I get pretty miffed whenever the killer tunnels, camps, slugs or anything near that level without reason and I'm talking like, Start of the match outright camping/tunneling for no reason at all and then says 'Had to secure a kill, stay mad, stay bad' type BS. That's just an unnecessary amount of BS and toxicity for like, no reason at all.

Whenever the killer has an actual reason to Tunnel, Camp or Slug such as no hooks or even sacrifices and the game is almost over; i don't get mad it cause in the end, it's a game and you gotta do what you gotta do but it's those scummy, no-brain, stooping low crappy killers that get me when they decide to pull off toxic stuff for no reason and then complain about it when they get backfire or dare to say GG when they know that game pissed off everyone and their mother.

In the end, Tunneling or anything following it doesn't really bother me because if there's anything i've learned from DBD; it's not the unnecessary amount of toxicity, it's to let it go and move on because the killer had to do what he/she/it had to do.

This, i agree with. If you're tunneling and camping from the VERY start like 5 - 4 gens, it's an intentional cause that done to piss people off. If it's done from gen 3 , it's understandable since you might not have gotten a kill yet and Gen are popping fast. As for anything below it, if you get tunneled or camped/slugged at around gen 2, ya can't really complain about it since the killer has to do something.

Killers look for the weakest survivor now as it is, but with shared hook the tunneled survivor won't die too early, so it will have a less devastating effect. Having 4 survivors on dead hook is not as bad as having 3 survivors. Moreover, it will make the teammates think about taking protection hits more to extend this 12-hook farm as long as they can.

I get why some killers might do it at high mmr or high level gameplay or whatever. If youre playing against a diehard team of toxic survivors then yeah it makes sense but more often than not i see crappy killers do it and they use forums like this to validate it. Like people who suck at playing killer are hearing from killers who play at high mmr that you have to tunnel and camp when the high mmr killer is talking about THEIR lobbies, not a lobby of rank 9-20 solo survivors, which is what most of this killers end up against. Then they cry even harder when the bad strategy that gets them to purple and lower starts to blow up in their face miserably and reinforces the idea further that they must tunnel and camp to stand a chance.

Is it a legit strategy? In high mmr in certain situations, yeah. Against a bunch of green to grey solos, its just easy mode.

Its gross to see in solo because the killer thinks that kills equates to skill even if its just by using a lame busted mechanic in the game. I usually bring bt especially in solo because you see soooooo many campers and tunnelers in solo.

More often than not its a ghostface too for some reason.

Depends on the scenario. If I just ran a baby Hag or Bubba for like 4 gens, then I'm chill with it, because I get it. Same on if the Killer is struggling to get downs all game, hooks me when 3 gens are about to be popped, hooks me during EGC, or my teammate is chasing them around hook/farms me. (The last one being annoying, but not something I'll fault the Killer for- they can't control my teammates just like I can't.) Heck, even when the Killer comes back to hook (Especially at basement or something) I might be a little annoyed, but I get it.

The only time tunneling and camping really annoy me is when you mix it with a Killer that is already doing really well, and it feels like salt is being added to the wound. When you know your team isn't doing well because the Killer does a good job at ending chases quickly, but then they decide to tunnel when they already have a ton of map pressure, I get a bit frustrated with it, since it becomes a situation where it feels unnecessary and I know me and the other Survivors won't be getting many points. Extra points of 'Just... Why?' Get added on to the mix when they also have great add-ons and a really harsh slowdown build. Or NOED with a slug for the 4k.

Idk, I 100% get the need for Killers to tunnel (I've had to do it, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone that hasn't, so I do think it's a necessary evil) but at the same time, it feels a lot more like the sort of thing where it can easily just feel like absolute overkill, which just doesn't really feel great.

With these queue times? I get frustrated as heck, bruh. Wait 3-5 minutes into a 1 minute timer because one survivor is always busy, and then the game loads almost as long as the queue only to get a bad spawn and downed less than a minute into the game.

No idea how people can tolerate these long queues just to play a role that is supposedly weaker than the role with all the iconic characters and unique game play elements.

Absolutely. They certainly aren't wrong. I guess I am lucky that everyone queueing doesn't feel the same. I do not mind 3 second queues as my preferred role. But doing the daily almost seems to be a net loss. Not sure the bonus 300 experience is even worth it given I could probably get more than that just sticking with killer. Lol.

If it happens after I was healed or if I was the only one the killer could find, I don’t mind. I also get it when the gens are almost done and the killer hasn’t killed anyone yet.

If it is a killer that immediately goes after me right after unhook when they have other targets and lots of game left, I get annoyed. I never used to run DS before the latest nerf. After the nerf I experienced an increase in tunneling immediately off hook. DS is almost always in may build now.

I never click or teabag either and I'd say in 95% of games the killer tunnels.

It's just frustrating. As a solo player, you have to rely on your teammates to have any chance of playing in those situations. Most people are bad at the game and play selfishly, so when killers choose to end the game for that person, it's usually over.