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Honest question for killer mains.

Garboface
Garboface Member Posts: 426

How funny do y'all find it that the act of tunneling makes people quit and get banned? I suspect this is the payoff. I mean 4 or 5 gens left renders any other argument as to why...just bogus. Probably saying the quiet part out loud but any of you willing to be honest?

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  • KatsuhxP
    KatsuhxP Member Posts: 1,608

    I personally only find tunneling funny on arrogant people that think they are the greatest, other than that it's just a normal thing I do because I won't handycap myself for no reason. The thing that people got a matchmaking-ban for a while, because they died to quickly is simply bhvrs fault, and they will fix that themself - quitting is a thing I never do myself and laugh everytime someone does it, especially if they failed themself.

  • PetTheDoggo
    PetTheDoggo Member Posts: 2,005

    Well, I think it's pretty funny. If player quit during the game for any reason other than IRL emergency, it's just sad. Learn to control yourself a little…

    I personally try to wait to get someone out of the game at like 1-2 gens left, unless survivors really asked for it, or by accident…
    Survivors who quit for tunneling, usually simply has fragile ego and their performance in the game did not back it up.

  • vol4r
    vol4r Member Posts: 907

    It's not fragile ego.

    It is just not fun to not be able to participate in a normal gameplay.

  • XDgamer018
    XDgamer018 Member Posts: 713

    same can be said abt survivors genrushing into oblivion…

  • vol4r
    vol4r Member Posts: 907

    Depends on what genrush is for you.

    If that's simple efficiency, then no.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 10,350

    They didn't force you to quit, you chose to quit. If a killer is tunneling you then the game will be over very quick for you. Hasting that is just hurting yourself over ego.

  • XDgamer018
    XDgamer018 Member Posts: 713

    the game being over within 5 minutes. or 4 gens popping in my second hook bc map design being ass yada yada (i want to burn swamp to the ground so bad)

  • Roco45
    Roco45 Member Posts: 344

    Not true at all, especially with BHVR removing going next. There have been dozens of games so far where I've been held hostage in the match by a toxic Killer and a toxic Surv who is being toxic to teammates to exert some control over the match that the Killer is ruining. So much so that I often alt tab and play a different game on PC in the meantime. To think, BHVR disabled the system that would have given out DC penalties to Survs who get tunneled out too fast or who die with afk crows over them.

    The real hurt to ego is Killer mains who act like making the match miserable for other players is their god given right. It's never a shock to see how toxic a Killer plays, see they are a TTV and then going over to the TTV to see that they are in fact a mouth breather, clasping onto some form of exerting digital domination since they're lacking in their personal life.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 10,350

    The OP is about being tunneled, not being held hostage which can be reported.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 12,666

    Well, my friend, last night I played a game as Skull Merchant on Léry's and there was this one Renato who disconnected right as he was about to get sacrificed, and in the end he complained about tunneling.

    Now, I have no idea what he was talking about because he was not hooked twice in a row. In fact, at least two survivors were hooked before he was hooked again, twice.

    I don't think this was fragile ego or poor performance in the game, Renato played well, but I have no idea what it was.

  • PetTheDoggo
    PetTheDoggo Member Posts: 2,005

    Tunneling is simple efficiency too…

    It's simply the outcome of dying quickly and trying to blame the killer for it.

    I can agree tunneling at 5 gens is lame, but I would never DC for it. Why even DC when you are about to die?

    It's not like there is nothing you can do about tunneling. I am usually more annoyed by my teammates than killer, because simply they don't know what to do about it.

  • PetTheDoggo
    PetTheDoggo Member Posts: 2,005

    He may played well, but he still died and it's easier to blame the killer than trying to figure out what he could do differently. I would say that comes to ego, because it seems he consider tunneling the only way for him to die.

    And really, DC when he is about to die in few seconds is very funny to me, simply because it doesn't make sense.

  • katoptris
    katoptris Member Posts: 3,326

    No it an ego thing and it the same way when I beat a killer who then cried about a Gen rush

  • I_Cant_Loop
    I_Cant_Loop Member Posts: 2,276
    edited July 2025

    Nobody is forcing people to “quit and get banned”. If you DC because you got tunneled, that’s on you. Also, it’s incredibly stupid because why no just wait until you’re dead on hook and go to the next match and avoid the DC penalty. Just wait that extra minute and then go to the next match. I play solo queue survivor and honestly I get a lot of satisfaction when I get tunneled out but the other teammates escape because I was distracting the killer for most of the match. If you’re constantly getting tunneled, then use anti-tunnel perks and use it as an opportunity to help out your teammates by keeping the killer occupied.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 12,666

    Yeah, it was odd. Like, he is already dead at that point, might as well get the bloodpoints, especially during the anniversary. He wasted a cake for no reason.

    Maybe he didn't like the fact that he was the first to get found. But tunneling? No, he wasn't tunneled. Not even the wildest definition of tunneling would include that Renato's experience, he played a normal match.

  • Garboface
    Garboface Member Posts: 426

    It happened pretty much all night and sometimes I was lucky enough that the killer was so terrible that even tunneling didn't resurrect their moribund results for them. My main gripe is when they bypass other wounded survivors just to deliberately troll by rebooking me. Sorry for the inconvenient truth, just what it is.

    Then, the cherry on top, it should be obvious to anyone of basic thinking capacity, that this is not an experience one would like to repeat and would thus like to die on the hook. Nay, here comes Feng or Jake to unhook me as the killer is still "proxy-camping". If I'm tunneled once, there is a great likelihood I am going to be again. No, bp ######### is not my ambition when cueing up the game.

    I suppose these killers defending this behavior played call of duty against players who memorized spawn points and shot at the wall where people spawned with fmj rounds and loved it's efficiency...if only for the people they played against. It only follows right? Let's hear a testimonial about how folks stayed in games like that...game after game. Surely, there is merit in such an argument.

  • Garboface
    Garboface Member Posts: 426

    My bad, I know better than to post here.

  • Dramzar_Myers
    Dramzar_Myers Member Posts: 135

    Usually I don't tunnel people on purpose (I mean wait for unhook and go for them) and I don't try to make them ragequit at all. But there's three situations I will technically tunnel someone:

    1. I went for survivor and he led me to the recently unhooked teammate. I didn't want to tunnel, but I'll just switch target because his antitunnel protection ended and he's higher priority target

    2. I want to gather my own statistics on some killer builds. So I try them with and without hard tunneling so I can test how many kills I can get.

    3. Someone was toxic and I want him SUFFER)))))