Tunneling! Because reasons!

I think my 'strategy' of doing 8 hooks before moving onto kills isn't compromising the game but I know that's not what you mean :D. The recent change to three gen and to face camping is unintentionally teaching more players how to play the game efficiently.

Also I'm not sure that certain things weren't intended. After all Almo who made a lot of decisions early on is... quite honestly... well... how do I say this without getting my post deleted... missing some tools in the shed? Maybe that's nice enough? I don't know.

In any case, anybody who says 'I think Insidious Bubba is really quite cool' should have nothing to do with gameplay design. Yet they did and their influence can be still felt in numerous parts of the game which are absolutely miserable.

Tunnelling is hand over fist the strongest strategy. Only a fool would argue otherwise. Killers don't need to do it to win, but there's no denying it is the most optimal for two simple reasons. 3 hooks across 3 survivors is 6 health states and nobody eliminated. 3 hooks on one survivor is 4 health states and one survivor removed from the game. The fewer survivors there are, the slower everything else is which increases the chances of the killer winning.

However it's equally obvious it's awful for the games health. Only reason DBD succeeds the way it does is lack of competition. The base concept is absolutely excellent but the potential is absolutely squandered for the sake of greed and constantly dumping new content on the game every few months and not giving the game the polish it desperately needs.

True but I didn't get into that because I'm trying to cut down on my post length :D. Some were unlucky but most made pretty bad mistakes and some were just overtaken by greed either pressing their customers too hard or not giving the game the support it needed. It is still staggering to me that there isn't real competition for DBD.

Exactly. I remember the time when people were afraid of DS, including me because this perk really did its job well done, the killer could still tunnel you, but a good player with the old DS could be quite risky.

The tunneling situation is so miserable that I want even the most broken version of DS back ( 1 minute immunity without conpicuous action).

Nah.. DS doesn't need to be buffed. It needs a complete rework into something else and it's current effect - with 5secs - needs to be basekit. It's not healthy to be forced to use a perk to counter tunneling

Tunneling sadly does have a place here (it's an elimination game after all) and our heroes often don't have what it takes to escape the violent killer. Many changes were made to make playing as a "normal" killer more bearable, but the side effect was it made tunneling easier too.

As a whole tunneling is probably hurting the game just due to sheer rampancy (though it's atleast going down recently). It should be a option, just not the go to one. It definitely needs more cowbells just ask our heroes here.

It doesn't always give the best results but it's the easiest way to usually get the best results.

We have feelings?

We play to have fun (though we play rough) and as long as it's exciting we don't care about the outcome.

If a killer is unable to target a single survivor in the worst of situations then the game will be broken at its core.

It falls into that unfortunate state of being oppressively strong while also being the most efficient way of winning as killer.

I sadly can't think of any way to rectify it without making miserable for either side. Limited amount of hook states shared between survivors? Then some unlucky sod gets insta-killed on hook because the reserves ran out, and that's not fun. More basekit advantages for survivors? Then it becomes too one-sided and punishes killers just for trying to play the game. Hooks that teleport when you linger too close, like the cage? Then defending a hook becomes nigh impossible.

It's a very, very difficult problem to solve.

Tunnelling is quick and easy way to win. This wouldn't be so bad if the counter was equally easy. However, countering tunneling is hard and this is in my opinion the main issue: doing it very easy, as it requires no specific perks, killers or add ons and can be done at any time with minimal skill requirements. Meanwhile in order to counter it, you need specific perks, a good map, you need to be a skilled looper and ideally you'd have teammates who take hits for you.

Also, to answer the main question, yes, I do think it is not good for the game. As explained above, even a completely new killer can tunnel pretty effectively, but new survivors stand practically no chance to do anything against it, which probably turns a lot of new players away.

Tunneling:

It's needed in the comp game because 92% of killers can't win against strong survivors. In normal dbd it helps if the survivors bring overpowered stuff. Tunneling usually achieves the best results. From the killers point of view. As a survivor it sucks if the team isn't good, but other than that I think survivors have enough counterplay for tunneling. 

I'd be happy if tunneling wasn't necessary sometimes, but right now weaker killers don't have enough time to hook everyone. 

I play both sides, mostly Survivor, and the feelings of playing Killers and Survivor are very different. As a Survivor, I can bring everything and still easily win the game if my teammates have some smarts. As a Killer, I don't have the luxury of bringing what I want to play and bringing perks that let me really play the game. 

So the feeling of playing Survivor is very relaxed while having fun.

While Killer is very stressful, very competitive and very frustrating

It would be chaotic, but also pretty fun.

I'm a little conflicted on it.

I think it's probably the worst part of playing survivor at the moment. It's pretty unhealthy for the game and really not fun for everyone else in the match.

I think some bigger changes to the game would be nice -- remove collision from survivors with endurance, longer endurance off the hook, not skipping to the next hook stage if the survivor is rehooked consecutively within a certain time frame, more rewards to the killer for spreading hooks (Grim Embrace, BBQ, and Pain Resonance are fantastic examples of healthy perks imo).

On the other hand, almost nobody brings any of the perks that help make it not the best and easiest option to do. DS + Off the Record + being half decent at being chased should make the killer lose if they tunnel you outside of a couple of S tier killers like Nurse, Blight, or Spirit unless your teammates just aren't touching generators.

Wait... are you saying DBD Roblox doesn't have tunneling? That they care about other people's feelings? Damn, I'm playing the wrong version of this game!!!

As a proper response, I don't notice tunneling as much as some others say they do. Even when I do get "tunnelled", I can say there's a significant amount of "wrong place/ wrong time" moments, where I have unluckily or stupidly crossed paths with them, and most quite rightly take advantage of that.

Of course, then there are those trials where it's very obvious that's what is going on. And sure, it could feel annoying, but in those cases (which don't happen nearly that often) it's time to switch the mindset to using it as adapting to chases and practicing more. Tunnelling doesn't mean they'll get you. It means they can try.

What I would say though is that people going for the unhook do need to be more careful of getting the save. No need to save a.s.a.p, and they're fine to hang about a bit. Unhooking them in front of the killer is asking for it and should only be done if time is really short. Likewise, body-blocking with the hook endurance will often result in the killer targetting that unhooked player, so cries of "tunnelling" then really feels like whining.

As I write this, DBD is currently #13 in the top games on steam charts, seems like it's doing fine for an old buggy game even after all these years of tunneling.

It should not have a place in the game. Tunnelling is too effective and it ruins the fun for the survivor that had one chase and then was deleted from the game. It is highly effective and removing it completely from the game may require that killers get other tools to make them competitive. Let's just hope those new tools are fun to use and to counter.

Nah, I'm not that good but I'm trying to live as long I can. And mostly your mates coming to help before the third hook.