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What is tunneling?
I thought not letting survivors escape is the point of the game...
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I mean if you keep going back for the injured guy right when they get unhooked, giving them no time to do anything else fun in the game but die because you said so...
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Whilst tunnelling does happen, I'd wager it's not as common, because it's as much about how it's perceived as it is occuring. A survivor who's freed, yet either by foolishness or pure bad luck wanders into the killer's path, they may think they were tunnelled when, in fact, it's circumstances that's to blame.
As for what it actually is, it's when a killer targets a player specifically to take them out, whether because of opportunity or pure rage. It can feel frustrating for a survivor, and when I'm killer it's only used during endgame if it's the best or only alternative, but ultimately it's a style of attack that's as viable as anything else.
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Well when you run into the last person who was hooked by accident and no one else is around I don't consider that tunneling, that's just bad luck. But if you're purposefully ignoring the other survivors to chase down the person who was just unhooking, that's a bit tunnel-y. I've done it a couple of times, usually in anger at a specific survivor who has t bagged me after stunning or something, their teammates try and take chase but I'd literally ignore them to murder that one person. That's tunneling IMO
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I've also been on the receiving end, like stun the killer a couple of time with a head on and they stip at nothing to make me die lol
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Definition of tunelling:going for same person over and over while ignoring others completely
Tunelling users:people with no balls
Counter play:delete the game
I hope this helped
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it's really just rude. with que times being what they are, then a player just watching a 2min death screen with nothing to do, missing out on points
yeah you should kill them, but maybe instead of rehooking the same guy, you just put pressure on the team by slugging them. they still don't help their team, and still need help, but now you're also chasing someone else and applying pressure there too
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The smart thing to survive is also just playing 4men swf, everyone with a brandnew part and just meta perks, but that would be unfun wouldn't it?
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If a killer is nice enough to do that to give them a chance to play the game, would survivors do the same thing if gens are going to fast and the killer is having trouble hooking anyone would they stop doing gens and let the killer hook people to let them have fun and play the game or do the gens and get out?
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It's not being nice. it's the correct tactical descision. he is still down, but now you're hurting someone else too
you really think survs are nice enough to sit around while you down them one at a time? with one down, another being chased, you've slowed them down by at least 3/4ths if not more on gen progress. you downing one guy has taken at least 3 off gens as you push another
edit: part of the reason survivors turn so blindingly hostile to killers is because of tunneling, be the change you want to see man
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Tunneling is when you win, and the Survivors didn't want you to win.
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not even close
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Tunneling isn't the problem for most of the time, unsafe saves is.
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I have been accused of tunneling in 12 hook games.
Most survivors who try to accuse the killer of 'breaking rules' are doing it as a coping mechanism to avoid taking ownership of losses, because 99% of the time you actually made a mistake that caused the loss. But because DBD survivor culture is... lets be frank, pretty scrubby (https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub) rather than saying 'oh, I shouldn't unhook near the killer and then hide causing a snowball effect, but instead should actively create scenarios where the killer is under enough time pressure that they have to try to attack multiple targets at once' they blame the killer for not arbitrarily selecting a worse target.
So it isn't a logical term at all, and thus it can be applied in basically any context. You are essentially screaming 'why didn't you throw the game for me doing something that is highly negative for yourself and your own enjoyment?' with moralizing about how the killer is supposed to protect other people's fun over playing the game in a completely fair and intended way themselves.
Which is common in scrub culture: it is the equivalent of saying 'Stop blocking, I want to play too!' in a fighting game when you are button mashing and the person is just calmly letting you wiff and punishing you every time. But ultimately if your enjoyment of a game depends on you demanding strangers play by your arbitrary rules you are just bad at the game and are demanding everyone dumb it down and not engage with some extremely interesting mechanics to allow you to be a dumbass in their spaces. Because going for good rescues as a survivor and the interplay of map control and pressure is actually really fun and is like 90% of the game and saying 'TUNNELER TUNNELER' kinda ruins that.
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if you go straight for an unhooked survivor despite there being someone else visible, that's tunneling to me. if they run into you with bt or just throw, or if their teammates just immerse immediate after unhooking, that's different but yeah. your objective is to kill survivors, and tunneling is a valid strategy, it's just not fun for the survivor at all, so i don't think it's unreasonable for them to be annoyed by it.
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"Tunelling" is survivors begging for mercy
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You are not wrong. Dont listen to survivors. Just play the game.
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Tunneling is forcing yourself on one survivor to eliminate them immediately from the game. This DOES make it unfun for that survivor, but it's a a part of the game and they should be prepared for it.
Despite that, just ignore people who say you tunneled. Chances are they just died first and felt they were tunneled. Nine times out of ten, the reason this happens is because of bad plays on their part by staying near you, or one of their teammates creating an easy opportunity for you. I was accused of tunneling by a surv the other day, and here is how the match went: 4 individual downs, and at one point all 4 survivors had bear traps on their heads, then two more downs occurred before I got my first death hook. 10 minutes had probably elapsed in the game before this person died, but I still "tunneled them".
Moral of all this, just go about your business and ignore other people who complain. They are not worth your time.
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I've been called a tunneler for simply hitting a survivor. I stopped caring about other people's opinions.
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Tunneling is the result of a survivor failing or neglecting to safely protect an unhook.
Simply bringing borrowed doesn't count.
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Nah. Three BNPs, a blueprint, and a key.
Come to think of it, perhaps keys are the survivor answer to tunnelling and camping!
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But some people on these forums will say keys are toxic, but tunneling and camping are a strategy.
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It's only a strategy if it benefits the killer. If it benefits the survivors, it's toxic, a 'second chance', or broken.
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Some of the replies in this thread are hilarious and really, really show an issue with the mentality of certain players.
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That's justifiable tunneling, IMHO. I'll do it too against toxic players...ignoring anyone else who gets in my way...and I'll make it my personal mission to make sure they die and let everyone else go unscathed (assuming only 1 toxic player...but let's get real, that is rare...it's usually SWFs full of toxic players). I'll even down everyone else, and carry them to the door and open it and let them crawl out unhooked.
The reason I try not to be toxic as a killer by tunneling and camping, is because it happens too many times to me as survivor...so I change over to killer and just have fun chases...sometimes farm 2 hooks each...but even when I just enjoy the chases without hooks I get yelled at sometimes for not trying to kill them. You're just damned if you do and damned if you don't sometimes.
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The right choice is to hook him again and get someone out off the match as fast as you can to lvl the playing field, is it the killers fault if someone does a unsafe hook in front off there face just seconds after you hook them with no BT or unhook you and run off leaving you there to be found by the killer.
The amount of times i have seen survivors do unsafe hooks then expect me to give them a free pass cause of there teammate's bad choice, and for the record i play more fair then i should unless the team or a player forces me not to, i get my 4 stacks off bbq then just slug if i catch them and just have fun. Only a few times i have seen survivors slow down if its a killer i haven't used much otherwise its get gens done and get out.
It goes both ways survivors want killers to not tunnel but the speed off gens and how fast survivors can get them done can force killers to tunnel, it's a two way street and the problem can only be solved by BHVR if all the killers agree not to tunnel for a week i can bet anything survivors will not be nice to killers in that same week.
The perfect example is moris they got nerfed to hell and survivors know keys are getting nerfed at somepoint so what do they do bring one in if not more, plus a map and a hatch offering.
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There is no definition of tunneling. Just choose any of the stated or find the one you feel suits the matter the most.
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Aaaahhh yeah this makes me glad I'm on console with no chat, I never have to hear from anyone how mad they are at the end of the game XD
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