A Question For Killer Mains

I typically don't tunnel but I know that I lose a lot of matches because of that. With all the items and my lack of gen regression I lose a lot. Tunneling would maybe help me compete but I'm not in the mood to even try at this point.

For me, I try not to tunnel, but at the same time won't go out of my way not to tunnel. What I mean by that is I don't keep track of who was last hooked; if I happen to see you and I can get you down, I will get you down. The only times I consciously tunnel are if I am down to 2 gens and I have yet to get someone out of the game OR if they prevent me from hooking another player. So, if you make a flashlight save or similar, I will likely work hard to get you out of the game.

Tunneling is effective but lazy. I tend not to do it too hard early game when I play killer. I'll sometimes do it mid/late game to secure a kill and slow gen progression. Or occasionally if someone unhooks and I can only see the unhooked surv, often I'll abandon chase with them but not everytime. And I'll hard tunnel anyone who BMs, nothing wrong with playing well but if you teabag/torch click me you can bet I'm taking you down lol.

I intentionally don't pay attention to who's been hooked normally in an attempt to play nice. However at high mmr against good swf groups you are required to tunnel if you want to win with how fast gens go. The only way you're winning against these types of groups without doing that is if they are making a ton of mistakes, goofing around, or you're on one of the higher tier killers.

Sometimes people also tunnel because sometimes intentionally being obnoxious or abusing the "anti-tunnel" built in BT to body block. You had a free chance to live, the killer tried to ignore you, but now you're forcing it. If people do that I make sure they die, they know what they signed up for by doing that.

If I also see survivors refusing to heal and just greeding out gens in my face that's fine, but it just tells me what kind of game we're having. If they're gonna rush their objective then I'll rush mine. If they're chill, I'll be chill.

It's strange how it's acceptable for survivors to rush their objective, but not killers. If killers expected survivors to do what they expect of killers we would be telling survivors to only do 1/3 of a gen, then switch to another, do another 1/3, then switch to another or they're "tunneling/gen rushing". See how silly that would sound?

One last note is that survivors tend to vastly over exaggerate what "tunneling" is. Tunneling is intentionally ignoring other survivors to only go for that guy consecutively. However, most survivors tend to call it tunneling if you just happen to down the same survivor twice in a row, which is not tunneling. Like I said, I don't pay attention to who's been hooked normally and sometimes it just happens to be that same person I run into. I'm not gonna just ignore them and go start wondering around for someone else. There's also when someone rescues but then hides so that's the only person I see, that's not my fault.

I usually try to avoid tunneling unless I'm really spoiling for a win. Tunneling is just a fast way to make a match easier on me, knocking a survivor out of the match quickly can really help lighten the load on a killer. Gens can and will fly with four people but three are easier to manage. There are few times I do it because survivors are really gunning for those flashlight saves, or really want to be chased.

If it's just for you fun that's fine. People will have different opinions what is fun I was just interested why you did find it so. For me it's just strat to win as camping is in some situations. But majority of playerbase find these strats unfun as are gen rushing or bully squads as well.

Dbd does feel more personal than most games so people do take it more seriously. It's game but I think it should be fun for everyone that's all but that's really developers job so just play how you want. Some form of tunneling is pretty neccesary for most games as those gens get done quickly you need someone out rather sooner than later.

Ghostface is weaker killer so tunneling is pretty much needed strat for him to win at some point in the game. I still don't enjoy tunneling right at the start at 5-4 gens as it makes games more sweaty for both sides and that 3vs1 early feels too easy for me or it can even go wrong and all gens get done while you try to get that one survivor out.

I'm a old school 1.0.0 veteran killer main and so I have the very old playstyle and so don't tunnel, I go for 12 hooks as much as I can leaving the unhooked 80% of the time, I get the same survivor if they try too hard to bodyblock or run straight at me, that speed boost and endurance is to get away, not waste my time, if you want to waste my time, i'll get a free hook, for me a real win is 12 hooks 4 kills, a win is 4K and a draw is 3, from 2 to 0 is a lost, I don't tunnel because (no bragging) i'm good enough to know how to play and it's not the best way to play the game and for sure not the most fun one.

End game tunneling is fine but during the match no it's not, most killers we have now are most likely from year 3-4 or younger while old old killers are way more rare and they are most likely those that won't tunnel because they have the confidence and the skills to win without requiring such cowardice tactics, this is what I feel about myself, some killers check what the survivors looks like to then change their perks, I have my build I press ready and alt tab. idc what I face, new killers are insecure and want to win 100% and go mega try hard when having fun could be better.

so well, to answer your question, they are insecure and most likely want the salt tears of survivors, but again some survivors are still salty or call the game boring when you get 12 hooks without using eruption so, you can't please everyone.

-"i just couldn't not figure out the fine line between the killer being toxic, or doing it because it's strategic."

Consider for a moment what I get if I hook three different survivors one time vs if I hook one player three times. I get nothing for three individual hooks. Survivors asking killers not to tunnel one player with three hooks in a row is like killers asking for survivors to get all 7 generators to 33% before they get a single generator to 66% - which would be completely ridiculous.

-"i never thought about how annoying gen rushing could be. at the end of the day, we are both getting our objectives done."

The killer's objective is to defend the generators. If you defend a "three gen" (I assume you know what that is) it's a huge boon to the killer.

Breaking the killer's three gen is roughly equal to removing one survivor from the game. The difference with Nurse and Blight is that because they can move around so well AND chase so effectively they can more or less turn the game around regardless of how far apart the generators are from one another. An extreme example is Nurse on Midwich as she can go up/down instantly. Some killers literally might have to move ~20+ seconds to go from the bottom to the top. And imagine if they had to break a pallet and then pick up a survivor and carry them to a hook. That could be 45 seconds of downtime which is insane.

i suggest you to try to play killer for at least 2/3 months and you'll start to understand it by yourself, trust me. As for me usually i won't tunnel unless certain circumstances happened:

1 toxic survivors (no need to explain here since everyone will probably agreed)

2 gens are too fast (the classic 1 chase = 3 gens done)

3 unhooked survivors that will bodyblock on purpose (especially with the basekit bt)

4 survivors who will finish generators while i'm REALLY close (for instance here i won't be annoyed if they'll complete gens while they are in my TR, i'll be annoyed only if they finish generators while i'm essencially at 4 meter from them). Wanna rush your goal? I can do the same ya know? (just like the killer that will impose to himself a fair gameplay, aka not focusing on killing but rather on chasing everyone equally and giving a fun time for everyone, the survivors should do the same regarding generators... they are free to do whatever they want, but then they shouldn't complain afterwards if the killer will adapt to their gameplay)

5 i see more than 3 items in lobby (usually they'll also bring map offering and broken stuff like styptic agents, anti hemorrage syringe, bnp, etc etc)

6 if they'll bring Circle of Healing and/or Dead hard (heals will be too much fast in the 1st case and survivor that will literally have a 3rd health state)

I hate tunnelling and camping. I don't do either, under any circumstances. If I see the most recently unhooked survivor, even if they're my only target, I ignore them and find someone else. I'll even ignore folks that I feel where unhooked too recently, even if they weren't the most recent.

I like giving survivors a more fun match, and letting them get better BP hauls.

as someone who plays killer pretty frequently I don’t necessarily tunnel but if I don’t have someone dead by three gens I am gonna kill someone who’s on death hook. I don’t drop whatever just to tunnel someone out because thats not fun and its not fun being on the receiving end.

Im playing to win, if tunneling a survivor is what wins me the game, I do it without a second thought, its also giga fun for me and the added rage is icing on the cake!

Nothing personal though, if you dont like it, get better at looping, unistall or deal with it, like there are some godlike loopers that I can tell from 10 seconds into a chase, and I instantly detach, 9 times of 10 there is always a weak link in the team to get out of the game quick.

i only tunnel when i feel like its the only way to win the game and the survivors make it really easy

or when i just didnt pay attention and do it on accident

they are too much to deal with for new killers. not to me, experience matters, if they tunnel like this they won't get any better.

But I think we can agree to disagree for that matter, i'm a very old school killer, I know how the game works, if they think tunneling is how you win, they will never get better.

Who apologized? I don't apologize. The one who should apologize are the three who DCed.

Let me ask you a survivor question OP. When you have a gen at 95% progress do you get off it to give the killer a chance to apply his regression perks? Or worry about if the killer is having fun? If the answer is no that would be dumb and inefficient and risk losing the game, that is exactly why killers tunnel/don't play 12 hook/don't keep all survivors alive until hook 9.

I think it's hard to pick a reason. I don't always tunnel, but I will. And it varies as to why..

Are they an aggressive SWF who brought me to their map and immediately start with the bs? I'll tunnel, they need a -1 to bring them back to reality. Is there one gen left and it's easier at this point to tunnel? Yes.

If someone unhooks and i'm close by, and they disappear and the only person left is the one who just got unhooked, I will down and re hook them. I feel their teammate should have done better than just unhooking and dipping.

At the same time...if I feel a survivor is a "baby," the only one doing work, or that i've just been too hard on them for no real reason..i'll often let them go or give them a break.