Why shouldn't a killer tunnel?

But you see, this depends on everyone agreeing with your definition of "fair", which sounds like "Killer has to play suboptimally" so I suspect you're not going to get much agreement on that.

The problem is, nobody wants to sit on gens longer than they have to. Extending gen times is not the answer. Its already a boring mechanic. I really wish they would just come up with something new for survivors to do to escape. Thats one of the few things I think F13 did better than DBD is they made the finding the parts and fixing the car and all of that just much more interactive and fun.

Havent read this whole thread, so somebody mighta said it already. The biggest reason not to tunnel is BP. You end up with a lot more BP if you spread the love. Nobody really ever seems to mention that. Ive seen plenty of hardcore tunnelers "win" a match with 15k BP. I try my best to play in a "fair/fun" way n pretty consistantly walk away with 25-32k BP even if some survivors escape. Same is true on survivor side. Take some chases, eat a hook, help your teamates n youll get more BP in the end. Tunneling n gen rushing both suck cuz nobody gets as many BP as they could. Idk, maybe i just have a different definition of winning. (The games are more enjoyable too)

There is always someone on each team that is terrible at hiding from the killer so most the time they say tunneling when they are just bad at not getting caught.

If they care about survivor fun. That is the only reason not to. Oh, well, I guess if you have low self esteem and let other people influence your opinion. It is like those Hillbilly one tricks who refuse to run Bamboozle. Get lost in the sauce and believe they are inferior for using the perk. That is less a reason, and more a consequence, but still.

To play the game effectively as a killer, you must evenly distribute your attention across the 4 survivors.

At times, some survivors will require a bit more attention than others - this is called focus.

When a survivor has become a priority target for the killer, the killer can lean their focus towards them. Likewise, when a survivor has proven that they are either not a threat, or simply too much of an investment to catch - they lose focus.

To play effectively as a killer, you should be very careful about who you commit your focus to and how evenly you spread your precious pressure.

Tunneling, however, is the complete disregard of 3/4 of your players.

When you focus 100% on one survivor instead of evenly spreading your pressure - this is having tunnel vision.

I'm not talking about a chase that trails on for more than 45 seconds, I'm talking about campers who relentlessly chase down and try to kill survivors 1 by 1 instead of spreading the attention.

Knowing this, there are 4 typical counterarguments against tunneling:

Sportsmanship - Someone unhooks a survivor right in front of your face, they don't have BT. Do you smack the helpless person and put them back on the hook? You totally can - the survivors made a complete fumble and delivered a kill into your hands. However, in the spirit of good-fun, it's more than agreeable to let the victim of the hook-bomb go and chase after the teammate that made the critical mistake. There's nothing stopping you from going in for the kill on the weakened and misplaced survivor as they flee from the hook - but it's good sport to let them run to catch them later. At the end of the day, we're all playing to have fun, just because someone gives you an inch doesn't mean you have to take it if it spoils the fun for someone else. This isn't mandatory, but the Entity feeds on hope, it's best to give some every now and again.

Entertainment - We all want to have fun. Not only is tunneling pretty unfun overall, as it has very limited engagement, but it's also incredibly drab for survivor players too. One survivor player is rendered helpless - the target of unbridled ire from the killer - while their allies watch helplessly from the sidelines and hold down M1 to repair. It's a snoozefest. Tunneling survivors is just not very fun for anyone involved, least of all for the other survivors who are made to have nothing better to do. It's one thing to be nice/mean, but it's another choice to be engaging/boring to everyone else in the game. The question, at this particular point, is - why play the game the most unfun way imaginable? Even if it's instance based, why tunnel a survivor off of the hook when you could be doing much more fun things with the match other than that? Not interacting with the majority of players is boring - even for the Entity.

Strategy - It's almost never a good idea to tunnel in the long run. While certain survivors can paint a target on their back to become a priority to focus, or make a blunder that you cannot go without punishing - this is fair enough. However, if you're chasing an injured person off the hook, while other healthy survivors complete objectives, you are failing to mitigate their success. Two hypothetical situations: You chase/hook one survivor and the other 3 were working on generators - one comes for the save. 50% of the survivors are working on generators at this point, and only one is unhealthy. You can either: leave the hook for the save and chase another survivor off of their generator, lowering their generator efficiency to 25% and forcing the team to spend more time healing AWAY from gens - or you can proxy camp and focus on the unhooked survivor afresh. At that point, survivors are working just as fast as before - perhaps even more so now that they realize the strategy at play, which may increase their generator efficiency to 75%. Without injuring survivors, they have nothing to pull them off of generators or distracting them. Tunneling is a very, very poor strategy that has many opportunities to backfire. By spreading your attention across multiple survivors, injuring them and forcing them away from objectives - you can play the long game and walk away with more BP, more kills, and more 'wins' than before. The Entity wants to feast on the despair of your prey, it is a shame not to strike fear into their hearts.

Effectiveness - It's no secret that tunneling is questionable in effect. Many survivors run perks that counteract tunneling and provide a useful rebuttal to would-be tunnelers. Even in their absence, survivors have a great amount of time to complete their objectives so long as you turn a blind eye to one or two players altogether. By Tunneling, you're kneecapping your potential BP yield, and wasting a lot of your time - in game and in real life. It's just not a prudent way to spend your day, or time in match. If you want BP, don't tunnel. The Entity feeds on Hope, Despair, and the interaction between survivor and killer - if you fail at these, the Entity is far more likely to be displeased.

If you Tunnel, you're not playing for BP, you're not playing to win, you're not playing for fun, and you're not playing for sport.

If you're tunneling, why bother playing the game at all?

That being said, play the game - and tunnel not.

Its the only way to play these days, survivors still complain about it even though they can counter a killers retaliation after 3 gens popping at the start. If they removed ds this game would actually be balanced because of the long hook timers. But of course survivors cry to the daddy devs, killers become milk servers and survivors became the milk drinker. Devs provided the milk. Lol