Tunnelling is a Joke!

Don't lump everyone into an assumption.

I don't get triggered or grumpy over being tunneled and neither do any of the players I SWF with. (One of the reasons why I SWF with them they don't go auto blaming tunneling and camping for any kind of game outcome).

Its just part of the game and the killer may go for an early elimination or not.

Things to learn to avoid being eliminated early.

1. Don't get found first, play less overtly and more stealthy at game start till the killer is occupied elsewhere then slam a gen. If you run everywhere all the time you are gonna get found early.
2. Run with a plan, layouts aren't that complex and tend to be pretty similar across most maps, there is usually a better way to loop most structures... learn it.
3. Build to counter the mechanics that you struggle against. Are you good at gens but get caught in chase then take chase and info perks, are you good at chase but miss skill checks on gens then take gen perks, do you dislike being slugged take anti slug perks. You can build to try and counter most things.
4. Realize that early elimination, like many games, is just part of the game. It could happen to you accept that fact. The very threat of elimination and non-participation is what makes games of DBD so intense. Without it the game would be very bland indeed, learn to love that aspect of the survival horror. The game's excitement level depends on it.
5. Lastly someone eliminating you early isn't some personal slight or attack on your fun, its just gameplay don't go spilling a bad gaming attitude into the real world and abusing other players over a game.

These 5 simple points can make any game of DBD fun when playing survivor, even if targeted and eliminated early.

"In my opinion, the community should stand up and acknowledge that both sides fun should be seen equally. Just because there are 4 people doesn't mean that it's OK for the one to have no fun on the expense of the 4."

Just one note I want to address here, is that in an elimination game the threat of elimination can be part of the fun. Its survival horror the point could be made that the higher the stakes for survival the higher the fun. If there wasn't that level of potential threat then DBD would completely fail to emulate the slasher films its based on.

That visceral and final element of the game should be celebrated not lamented even if it happens early because it is that intrinsic threat that makes DBD exciting to play. If people find that threat unfun I'd rather they played something else than try and ruin what DBD is.

Just imagine DBD if there was no elimination or no threat of early elimination and perhaps even if you just kept respawning and wins were based on endgame score not eliminations. It would be the blandest experience imaginable.

Yet the concept of fun is often touted as driving for that very bland kind of experience. Which I think kind of misses the point of DBD.

I'd hate to say it but this isn't some important social justice moment. No one is taking a stance against anything here, its just the usual BS of someone whining about getting eliminated early in an elimination game.

Last time I checked whining about a game wasn't really a thing worthy of commendation. Is the bar for accolades really that low these days.

It has nothing to with not caring about someone else's experience or being motivated to ruin someone else's experience. The kind of mindset that thinks like this... is the real problem.

Its entirely possible to tunnel, camp, slug, blind, BM, stun, bleed out etc. and be competitively as "mean" as possible in a game and still be a completely amicable thoughtful caring likeable person in real life.

That's why these things are called games they are parody's of life not life itself. The inability of players to separate their game experience from a real world experience is what leads to a lot of toxicity. Your concept that gameplay is somehow linked to human decency is a great example of this.

There is an old table top gaming saying "if you are gonna dice rage, you shouldn't play games with dice." and its very true.

So we have a bunch of people who dice rage... does that mean we ban dice from a game? No that would be silly.

Remember in something as trivial as a game its not what happens to you that matters its how you react to it. If you react poorly to established game elements then maybe that game isn't for you.

There are plenty of online games where you can't be eliminated early or even at all and you just respawn endlessly and winners are calculated by score tally at game end. But then there are games where you can be taken out, sometimes early, sometimes harshly.

Should all games be one or the other or should players recognize when they find one style unfun and look for an alternative?

Camping and tunneling can remian in the game as "tactics," but they should not be something the killer can do for free; especially when countering them costs the survivors a perk slot or two.

It costs ZERO perk slots to hang out near the hook or head back to it when the unhook happens. Meanwhile, the survivors have to equip perks like Kindred, Reassurance, Camaraderie, Deliverance, and none of those are a guarantee.

It costs ZERO perk slots to chase, down, and re-hook the same survivor twice in a row. Meanwhile, the survivors have to equip perks like Off the Record, Decisive Strike, Baby Sitter, For the People, and none of those are a guarantee.

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Change the base game mechanic for hooked survivors. Make it much harder for killers to camp/proxy hooked survivors. THEN, add perk(s) that let the killer camp as easily as they can currently. Make camping cost a perk slot.

Change the base game mechanic for recently unhooked survivors. Make it much harder for killers to tunnel the same survivor repeatedly. THEN, add perk(s) that let the killer tunnel survivors as easily as they can currently. Make tunneling cost a perk slot.