Sometimes its the survivors own fault that their teamamte gets tunneled

Some of it is deliberate tactical move, some of it is teammates refusing to take the heat for their unhooked teammate, and some of it is just spite.

I run BT and I still try to get the killer's attention when I unhook.

I don't understand why you're explaining yourself? Tunneling and camping are legitimate strategies currently. Do they feel bad as survivor? Yes and I play survivor 99.9% of the time, but that is simply the state of solo. Even new killers can do both those strategies just fine. BHVR approves it, I don't understand this apologism and trying to explain why you did. It's simple, you did because it's relatively simple and easy in solo survivor due to lack of co-ordination and won in the end. Tunneling is justified as long as you want to win.

Yesterday I had an Oni who was trying to tunnel out Mikaela, we somehow kept her alive for a while (I took a down for her cause she was death hook and I even took a BT hit while she was unhooking me to protect her since I could still spare a hook. In the end he did get her despite all our efforts, but the game ended in a draw. He got a 2k and we got a 2E.

That actually felt pretty rewarding because it could have ended in a worse situation (if he had strong gen defense perks he'd probably get more kills). The problem isn't those strategies specifically, it's that those strategies require co-ordination and communication to counter or perks and solo survivor lacks the first two. Tunneling and camping are not something hard to do in their current state, nor are they hidden behind a killer perk. They are accessible strategies to every killer and every level of killer can use them. It obviously requires a lot more effort from survivors to deal with it especially when solo. But that's a game-design flaw.

That's arguably the dumbest S I've ever heard on here so far. Are you really trying to tell me that you physically cannot display skill in the game against a player unless you get the Kill or Escape at the end? Right, because this hasn't been debunked dozens of times already.... DBD is not dominated by RNG at all and external factors like teammates and maps.... You're right everything in DBD is purely skill based. DBD is hockey.. We can agree to disagree, I don't judge people based solely off endgame results regardless of Survivor or Killer. I also factor in how they played during the match. When somebody is pulling off hard flicks and techs, not falling for any mindgames you cannot argue that they weren't good simply because of the endgame result. You can win a match and be dogwater, you can lose but be a top percentile player. Context matters and that's why current MMR is a bad system that nobody really likes

Respectfully, You're coming off as the typical burnt out player that refuses to concede anything is wrong with the SBMM system, you just double-downed on the copium when they left it unattended for a year and convinced yourself there's no alternative playstyle because you wanna play by the rulebook (Kills = Skills Hockey). To each their own, play how you want and more power to you. If you think playing hyper-efficient every single match on either side without ever taking a break to just let things happen organically then that is definitely a personal thing that I have no control over. You definitely don't have to do that at all for pub lobbies unless you're trying to break Supaalfs 500 winning streak, but again more power to you if you believe you have to hard-tunnel at the beginning of every single match or else you're a failure. You'd be just as good of a player as you are now if not better if you focused more on macro/micro than endgame results. Against top teams yeah you have to play more dirty, but be honest even at top MMR you can have a positive record and snowball most of your lobbies if you play cards right without hard-tunneling every match. Tunneling is fine and necessary to put pressure on insanely strong teams that have good RNG, but I strongly disagree that its necessary against every single team. There's no reward for reaching 3000+ MMR anyway except facing more cheaters and the same sweat squads that you already get at 1600-2500 except more frequently.

I understand not playing down to the level of competition because you can screw yourself over by underestimating people, but if you run mostly meta (which I assume you do based off how you view MMR and Killer) you do not have to play like your career is on the line to prove you're good at the game. The highest form of skill expression in DBD is not mindlessly M1ing corner generators 3 seconds into the match or 3-hooking one player to start the match, its how you hold up in-chase and how you perform under pressure between all the little interactions (When to make hook plays, How to maximize resources, When and how to take protection hits or bodyblock, pathing and connecting tiles, When to drop chases, when and how to mindgame tiles, hitting skill shots etc.). In comp it makes sense to fixate on the endgame results every match, but in pub lobbies? What you did in the game matters more than anything. You think the community uses Corner Claudette or FaceBubba as examples of top %? Hell no, they respect the Survivors and Killers that make skillful plays, win or lose

Only the obnoxious players in the community will ignore the context of a match and say "You 2kd instead of 4k'ing on Garden of Joy vs a SWF? You're bad!" - Ignore those types and don't become one

Despite being really good at Nurse, Spirit and good at other high tiers I still elect to main M1s because its more challenging. Even against top percentile players I can secure hooks and win chases, the end results don't change what I do to players throughout the course of the match. If I out-mindgame them at strong loops, perfectly read their 50/50s every time then it doesn't matter if they escape against me because I'm still capable of competing with them and winning my 1v1s. Yes, I do have to tunnel or proxy at times by default because I play M1s without always stacking slowdown while still going against strong teams, however you will never convince me that you're better than me for simply 4king on a facecamping Bubba with Deadlock meanwhile I'm 8/12 0k'ing or 1k'ing/2k'ing/3k'ing/4k'ing the same caliber teams on the most broken maps as Ghostface using info/chase builds. I honestly do not care to secure a 4k every single match anymore or else I'd just play Range Nurse and Alch Ring Blight all day. Forcing yourself through that level of pressure and unrealistic expectation in a game with so much RNG is for the birds as you called it. I used to think I wanted that every match and then I realized I was burning myself out and being jaded about sweaty lobbies all night

Apparently to some people it’s all or nothing 100% of the time and I refuse to play the game that way. In my opinion its immature and shows a lack of experience if people call others bad simply because Kills/Escapes. Context matters and its the only reason that most veterans are still playing the game. If everybody only cared about Kills/Escapes the game would be dead fast

There's too many factors out of a players control to put all of the credit or blame onto one persons shoulders alone. When I win, unless the Survivors/Killer were BM'ing I'm purely humble because I know that RNG and game balance can help me in multiple situations. I judge others' and myself based off our performance in clutch moments and when I take my chases with them COMBINED with the results, not just the results.

We all know somebody can easily hide for hatch/gate and let their teammates die or hard-tunnel a weak looper at 5 gens as a high-tier character. Do I sweat? Of course, but that's not an everyday thing. I also play some days for game clips and fun too while I smoke or have company over, I can't possibly have fun by playing my strongest build and dirtiest playstyle for every single match. You have to make it interesting to prevent burnout

Rpd, Badham and garden of joy are the maps where i have zero complains when killer tunnels and will also do the same as killer if the unhooked survivor is in a bad spot