I feel bad for NA players

I've said countless times that I fortunately don't see the extreme tunnelling that others claim to see often. I'm in Australia too. I feel like a lot of experiences in gaming come down to regional attitudes. Though I also find most of my games to be chill, but that might simply be a difference in MMR. I imagine the higher one goes in MMR, the sweatier it tends to get.

Dose it happen a good chunk of games, yes. As often as people say it dose probably not. We tend to remember negatives far more than positives. So say every one and four(this is based off if the games I have played and this isn’t me personally getting tunneled as well) games you get tunneled you will remember that one game a lot more then the other three and this it will feel like it happens more often then not.

Agreed. My poor buddy’s not bad at the game, but not good enough to avoid being hard tunneled and he spends half his time playing this game in spectator mode. I always try my best to protect him but it doesn’t really feel like it ever matters if they’re truly trying to get someone out of the game.

The tunneling meta forces survivors to play sweaty and crank out gens as fast as they can because if it’s a 3v1 before 2 gens left, you’re just not getting out. It's a perpetual cycle.

BHVR please get us out of this 😭

It's very solvable tbh. At this point it's just willingness and whether or not it would actually net more profits. We have no information so we can only speculate that the devs must not see a significant dip in earnings to make them act.

It's very clear that the carrot-on-a-stick approach and any other bribery tactics do not work. Hard punishments need to exist.

Something like hooking a survivor twice in an allotted time-frame causes a reverse pain resonance effect where the two highest gens get 25% max progress. Unhook BT should remove collision to punish players for bodyblocking with anti tunnel measures.

Corrupt Intervention and DeadLock also need to be basekit for anything meaningful to happen though.

Yeah, always wanted to live in Australia… except for the bugs; heard the bugs were really creepy there😱

NA East Coast Tunneling is silly extreme

Wonder why tunneling levels differ from region to region, tho🤔

I’d guess that it maybe has to do with the difference in cultures. With Americans typically being more individualistic than the majority of the world. We’re taught that the most important person in the world is yourself and that you should put yourself over others. This could be reflected in game by survivors playing more selfishly and killers playing more deviously.

Would be nice if people stopped vpning to NAE in general. 75% of the time someone is mass slugging and afking or hard tunneling it's a SA player on 200+ ping.

Could be the reason, probably is the reason as to why.

Just seems like there’s something genuinely sinister… almost evil, about it.

Player behavior in DBD low key reminds me of Ghostbusters 2; How the slime consisted of all the self centered hatred, which Ray (character in the movie) perfectly described as “Pure, Concentrated Evil!”

There’s an interwoven sinister darkness to this game that people are oblivious to, that clouds judgment and seemingly possesses certain players to become something contrary to their typical personality or psychological make-up.

Like when a intended spell is cast, or a supernatural door is opened, something else (aside from what was intended) enters in and takes precedence, and isn’t realized until it’s too late, if at all.

Interesting, isn’t it, that NO other games like DBD have succeeded.

Not saying Dark Majik or Necrnomiconian incantation or anything of the likes of ancient sacred rituals were used to conjure power within this creation, at all.

It is interesting though, especially how addictive this particular game is to players, as well as the way player’s moods are greatly altered, and the incredible denial undergone when they vehemently argue they’re not addicted.

Not everyone is addicted to DBD… but many are, I’ve experienced this mania myself at one time. It’s like being poisoned by ultra lust sensations, and the poison continually makes you feel guilty if you seek a remedy, while simultaneously blaming you for drinking it every day, then threatening to take away that erotic ecstasy high if you try to discontinue the indulgence.

Weird, I know🤪

Also, in NA Tunneling amount fluctuates between certain hours of the day/evening.

I experience immense Tunneling between 3PM and 11PM EST on the weekdays, then tapers off in the overnight hours.

Weekends it mostly seems like a all day event.

Nono. Youre absolutely right. As someone who lives in the west coast THE TUNNELING IS REAL. Im a returning player, i played around 2017/18 to maybe 2020 and i can say tunneling was never a big thing but only to toxic players. I only ever tunneled when heated but even so i hated the idea of tunneling. Anyways in 2024/late 2023 i stopped playing dbd for some reasons but mainly because i get tunneled so fast in the beginning. Even with all the fancy perks, they just wait it out. Now i dont know if the killer is just absolutely garbage but talk about bloodthirsty. Or another example is some killers tunnel bad/new players because they cant catch someone who runs them. Ive noticed that too. Im not a BAD player but im not the best either. Its just annoying you have to tunnel out the noobs because you cant catch that one person. (sure wtv its smart but as a retired killer main i think its super sad and a skill issue if you ask me)

It was so frequent a couple years ago that it got to the point my friends and I were wondering if it was a certain age group getting off school that increased the tunneling around that time… tho I don’t believe that to be entirely true. Anyone at any age could be playing those hours after getting off work, or waking up on a different schedule, and it’s all coincidental.

Regardless, that more effort hasn’t been put into curbing the excess abuse of tunneling as a strat (knowing that there’s a proper way to utilize the tunnel, and the abuse of tunneling is a serious issue plaguing players who love DBD for years, now) it certainly validates questioning BHVR’s best interests.

It probably is mostly lower skilled players, I agree with that.

I will say this, however, and it’s bound to be unbelievable to the stans out there, but it’s truth; I’ve watched many highly skilled Killer mains (yes, even the untouchable, purest angel of a streamer to so many, Otz) tunnel first Survivor out like it was the main objective in DBD… not just one match, but consecutively, like they were all teaching their chat a collegiate level course on the only way to play.

Anyone hard abuses the tunneling strat whenever they feel like it, and for some, it’s the means of tunneling has shifted so drastically to where the strategic times to tunnel has become all the time, every match, especially on the first Survivor directly out of the game as fast as possible to the 3v1.

EDIT: btw, not attacking Otz at all, I contrariwise, very much appreciate his content, and will say that he doesn’t hard tunnel often, or need to in order to secure a 4K. Just observed he and other very well-versed Killer players schooling their chat in hard tunneling tactics.

The voice of all knowledge speaks. Well, this thread is solved.

I usually play from between 10am and 1pm (Western Oz time). I like to joke that it's the stay at home mums all playing against each other at that time, and that's why it's so chill lol we just want to relax

OCE in general has a smaller playerbase that I feel I always see the same names frequently, and after so many years you don't come across new babies in matchmaking nearly as frequently as the rest of the world.

I take breaks from DBD for periods up to 6 months at a time, but since I have played for such a long time overall whenever I come back I get grouped against strong SWFs or high ranked killers that all my games are stressful as to try and win, makes trying the new killer or perks not as fun as I would like.