Question on ‘tunnelling’ for killers
Please state wether you are a killer or survivor main and if you play both sides please.
So tunnelling and camping is obviously a problem… don’t get me wrong. I’ve played a hell of a lot of killer on console but it’s been more survivor for me on pc but still have a lot of killer hours also.
BT was introduced for tunnelling, and of course it is very strategic to use this perk to bait a hit from the killer, no doubt about it. Now in my eyes as a killer if someone wants to use that perk to save their team mates you should expect to be chased.. not all the time. But if a survivor is going to take as much advantage over their perk than what it was intended I don’t see why I can’t (according to the survivors rulebook) keep going for them.
usually I don’t… but if someone’s blocking my way, obviously trying to bait a hit.. I will wait 12 seconds until but wears off, and a lot of the time they stay standing there until the last 5 seconds when they realise what I’m doing.. then I get them down… they wanted to bait the hit, so I countered the bait by waiting and then hitting.
this is the one that just happened and made me write the post, someone unhooked their team mate, they were injured, I went to chase them and the survivor who got unhooked just body blocked me at the door obviously baiting my hit, so… I hit them, not before there team had already gained distance on me, even with the unhooked survivors endurance, was the closest survivor to me.. so I chased them.
my question is… would you consider the killer to be ‘toxic’ or a tunneller When I was obviously intended to go after their team mate first? Would you say that if a survivor wants to bait that hit so much to make more time for there team, that it is a invitation for me to chase them?
obviously it was always going to happen as a mechanic with that perk, baiting hits can definitely be essential, but you’ve chosen to use the perk that way and should face the consequences if I decide your the survivor I want.
P.S. I did not once focus this survivor I only had a 2k game anyway.. plus they all would have survived if they weren’t being stupid by trying to get my ruin on the last gen when they got the last 4 easy. And I was barely patrolling I was having a chilled game.
P.P.S I was playing trapper, barely even placed many traps.
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Of course they called me a tunneller in end game chat just fyi
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I play both sides and neither of those situations do I consider tunneling and I just roll my eyes and ignore them if anyone ever accuses me of doing that because there will be no talking it through with them
I prefer not to tunnel but if you're going to actively get in my way when I am trying to go for the unhooker, that's on you, not on me.
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Survivor main mostly, but I've played Killer, too.
No, that's not tunneling to me. Don't worry about what they said.
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95% of the time someone complains about tunneling or camping in after game chat it's just sore losing. Just ignore it.
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I play both sides. That's not tunneling. The survivor used their BT offensively as if they were healthy. They weren't interested in getting distance. They wanted to protect their rescuer and were hoping you would play by the "rules" and let them go after hitting them. They made themselves a target and that's their own fault.
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have to point it out when they do say it, but I just wanted to make the discussion more to know what everyone else thinks. Mostly I’ll ignore the one baiting if I can but when they physically block me from going anywhere the countdown starts 😂 sometimes I’ll hit them and just carry on but not at that point of the game. It’s really the same scenario with DC where they hide in lockers purposefully, expecting you pick them up so they can stun and run and then they expect to be left alone 😂 I’m like Nahh mate 😂
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That’s why I brought it here. Just more of a discussion on peoples thoughts when they are not heated from the game 😂 once people are calm and look at it in a forum they will admit that it’s not tunnelling. But once they are in a game and that happens they will be sure to say you’re a tunneller and wouldn’t admit otherwise. This is why I’m willing to bet not a single survivor in this thread is going to say it’s tunnelling (unless they just come out of a game where they were tunnelled) 😂
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I play both sides. Body blocking with BT is a pretty dumb play in general if the survivor doesn't have DS. I'll let them hand me a 4k. Don't really have a problem with that.
If I down and immediately re-hook, then I know that person doesn't have DS and I can tunnel them out with zero consequences. I don't know why survivors think it's smart to telegraph their build like that early in games.
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The survivor wanted your attention, they got it. Not tunneling.
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I'm as anti-tunnel as it gets, but if a survivor is using their BT to body block or take a hit, then it's completely fair game.
If they have something to say about it, grab the popcorn and laugh at their stupidity.
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Place a trap in front of the locker if they try to bait DS. Then go back and smack them when they come out.
Wait. Can you place a trap in front of a locker and then pull them out of while still standing in the trap, so that they fall on the trap after stunning you with DS, or do they have trap immunity after the DS stun?
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I've never tried it myself but one of those "Three tips as a survivor against every killer!" videos on The Youtube I was watching when I was bored one day said that you get a few seconds of invincibility when you're dropped by any means (So presumably that includes DS) from being hit by a trap.
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To echo other comments here, if a surv wants to hinder your pursuit of a teammate with BT bodyblocking, they've surrendered any right to complain about tunneling.
BT is there to help you get away, and if someone willfully hangs around in your face after the unhook...well they get what they get.
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I had a guy call me a tunneller because i slugged him of the hook, he got up and after 20s i slugged him again with a far away shot as huntress. I killed him last btw. Stop caring about what ppl say in chat. Just tell them to consider improving or ggs
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Imho, tunneling is when a killer is specifically targeting a single survivor and disregarding other options. If you were chasing someone else and they were bodyblocking, then attacking the bodyblocker wouldn't be tunneling. They were asking for attention. They got it.
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I play survivor ill tell you right now tunneling is not an issue at all. The problem lies in camping the only thing a killer is doing when tunneling is teaching the survivor a lesson on how to loop better.
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i play both sides, have plenty of hours and.... anyone who thinks that is bad is dumb. The survivors who cry and complain about camping and tunneling are the ones who stay by hook. Downed a jeff early in game and seen a claudette behind a rock while i was trying to snipe with bitter, ignored her because no hatchets and didnt care. I hook him and she is nowhere to be seen but i refuse to waste time when 1 gen was already done. I hooked him by shack and as i leave i spot her and she starts looping at killershack and because jeff had kindred she could see my mindgames. Called me out for camping and said i wouldnt be able to catch her... blendette got hatch and never took chase and when she did she had aura reading :| anywho that jeff died on hook because she refused to 1v1 or run the loop instead she hid and avoided my line of sight and then on steam the jeff said i facecamped.
survivors like this arent good or just are dumb. When i get camped after looping a killer its a compliment and same for being tunneled. if my teammates refuse to 1 for 1 when they havent been hooked i blame them and i blame them when the killer loops around my hook. You punish bt plays and you punish saves, thats how you play killer. if you just go for another survivor and play fair the whole time you cant alway win. I posted a video to youtube of a 18-19 minute match against a good console swf. I made multiple wrong choices in how i left and didnt play mean, the only reason i 4k is their greed.
Dont be afraid to play to win, as long as you arent tunneling and camping for no reason you are good, but punishing survivors is what you do. and if you come across a good survivor who still doesnt understand then they are either new or just dumb, most people who play this game alot understand the struggles of each role
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There literally doesnt need to be any conversations about camping or tunneling. People can argue for and against, valid startegy vs unfair.
The only hard fact that remains is it puts people off the game the more they see it, the gane is dying slowly and will continue to do so, its stale and boring and changing a bunch of perks isnt going to change anything about how people play.
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I agree and disagree at the same time, although you are on point they can’t just change a load of perks and call it a day but it will shake things up and if they make continuous changes to mechanics and perks to shake things up more often it could keep the game more lively and fun to fun to play. I can already see a lot of issues with the update coming
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I had a time with what seemed to be a relatively good/experienced swf especially when it comes to saves. Downed someone by a pallet, seen someone waiting to pallet me. So I downed them… by another pallet. Hooked the first one and went to pick up the next, lo and behold they are waiting to pallet me, then spot their other team mate coming over.
great for me, now I know there are no gems being done whatsoever I’ve not got to push gens and because the downed survivor would not move from pallet and he was so close to the hooked survivor the other two they were stuggling to heal or unhook because I was ‘camping’ them.
I think they expected me to pick them up and allow the free save them go check gens that I know we’re not being done
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i play both sides, mostly survivor but i don't consider it tunneling. if someone is bodyblocking and you just wait bt out and then down them immediately afterwards, it's just one of the options that the killer has to your bodyblocking gamer skillz. it's not tunneling, it is just an option imo
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