Be honest. How much tunneling is your fault?

As I soloq survivor I would say tunneling situations are more like the following in my matches where tunneling occurs


-35% of tunneling occurring when the first survivor has had a good chase, multiple gens have popped before the first hook or they take awhile to find someone they can down

-40% of the time the killer will just tunnel for seemly no reason from the survivors perceptive , even if only one gen done and even if you try to take protection hits for the tunnel out they ignore or slug and still go after the tunnel out.

-15% the survivor players genuinely just ran into the killer again right after being unhooked or are afk under the hook / other situations

In my experience, people giving up and afkers don't get tunneled out and are just ignored by the killer or slugged on the ground as they go for the others.

I think "fault" is the wrong term to use altogether.  Tunneling is always the Killer's choice, whether they tunnel right out the gate, or if Survivors baited them, made mistakes, or just completed too many gens early on.  Even if the Killer chose to tunnel in endgame, it wouldn't necessarily be their "fault", nor would it be the Survivors' "fault" for doing their objective.

I can recall a match from some years ago when I ran Boil Over against a Blight in Lery's.  He started off chasing Yui, then came after me to chase me off a gen.  He downed me, and I managed to wiggle out with Boil Over.  From that point, he relentlessly pursued me until I was dead.  Even after I wiggled off numerous times with Boil Over, he still chose to keep coming after me while the teammates pushed out the gens.  So I wouldn't say that case of tunneling was my "fault," but I can acknowledge that I deserved it.

Sometimes like 50% of tunneling is due to reasons like loosing two gens before one hook, survivor bodyblocking the killer with unhook protection or saving others with flashlight,background player from him or running around with sabbo and dennying hooks these are just reasons where survivors give killer a opportunity to tunnel its like you running with flashlight and seeing killer picking up someone face towards you will you let him have that down or would you take that opportunity and get save? I bet you would go for save like 90% of survivors (counting all that would just go for it even if they would fail it). Other things like moments where someone who was hooked wasnt healed and somehow gets near killer or his chased teammate leads killer to him than killer sees injured survivor and he is chasing someone who is in better location or healty than its easy choice (same as you would you do hard work in quarry for same money or take desk job in office for same money?? humans are lazy creatures like all others so they will pick the easiest and most beneficial option thats out there unless they chase other goals).

Tunneling isnt always killers fault same with survivor its not his fault either it could be killers choice from the start or once two gens poped and you were unhooked, it could be your teammate for not healing you and then someone lead killer towards your location or killer wondered around map and found you things like this happen, or you did something like bodyblocked with antitunnel protection and killer has standart for punishing that and not doing fool from himself so someone is always in fault it depends on situation and saying its all killers fault or survivors is extream for both, it all depends on situation its set in and the circumstances.

0% of the time it’s the survivor’s fault. I tunnel because I choose to because it is the best play to win.

I would say that in maybe 15% of my matches, a survivor will do something stupid that “justifies” tunneling, like bodyblocking with basekit BT or getting on a gen near their hook. So I guess if you want to use fault as in, they made a misplay and made it too easy, probably around 15%.

Everytime i an tunneled it is my fault because i am hot garbage at the game. Though i will say i rarely get tunneled it happens like once maybe every 15-20 games. I dont bother to run meta most of the time because being the Medic Bill or running around as Scene Partner,and Bardic Inspa Nic Cage is more my style. Its frustrating when it does happens to me but it happens so rarely for me that i just kinda go move on to next game but i do understand most peoples frustrations when it happens to them over and over again.

I think I understand what you’re saying, but I feel it still doesn’t change the outcome. No matter why the situation starts, tunneling is a choice the killer makes. Flashlight saves or bodyblocks don’t force a killer to tunnel. The killer chooses to do so because often times it’s the choice that will give them more advantage.

Tunneling is choice that killer initiates either when he wants to or is given a opportunity that begs for it (meaning if you put your wallet in real world on chair in train and go to toialet and your wallet is gone when you come back its your fault too isnt it? ofcourse the fault part falls more to thiev who decided he will take it but you made it easy for him to take it, you gave him a opportunity to steal it with no issues unlike if he had to pickpocket your so its your fault kinda too, this is exsample in defferent maner but key thing is the way is same if survvior who is unhooked and injured runs into killer who is chasing healty guy and gives him opportunity to go for faster and easier chase that is way more benefical for killer objective isnt it survivors fault to?? or taking bodyblock after someone unhooks the survivor and killer wants to go after him then you just making your tunneling easier and more tempting then it would normaly be if you run away).

Flashlight may be reason someone tunnels because if killer has hard time getting downs and hooks are dennyed from him by flashlight saves while gens fly he will might focus his full attention on the flashlighter who is causing him problems (100 people have 100 reasons and goals so its if you do something to someone lets say guy 1 he might be ok and still go after the same survivor but guy 2 can see it different and will go full on the survivor with flashlight, there is always some reason and same with bodyblocks or sabbo if you know someone is problem and causing you more trobles than you would normaly have then you might think eliminating that problem first helps you for future).

Yes, sometimes tunneling can be a reaction to something. But claiming that most tunneling is reactive is where I disagree. Tunneling happens because it’s efficient, which is why if gens are popped too quickly, a killer will start to tunnel, because it’s more efficient than going for fresh hooks.

Pretty much, tunneling doesnt have just one reasom it happens its mostly due to gens being done fast and killer has dew hooks so he knows getting kill and one pair of hands from gens is right play for him to get more time and chance for win (its effective strategy that has benefits compare to just hooking new survivor after each chase), other reasons can be like doing something killer doesnt like (people get mad on things that maybe doesnt make sence to us but for them its valid, like if someone goes turbo tunnel for survivor who is playing with flkashlight and got save we might think he is mean and insecure but he might got some bully squads before and had enought of flashlights or swf teams that were toxic we downt know why he does it but there might be reason that we can see because "we arent in his shoes"). The fact that its more effective than sluging or fresh hooks and camping is because it reduces gen speed the most from all other options its just one survivor less on gens while someone is chased,hooked,has to heal or deal with hex perk like devour etc., thats why unique hooks were in last ptb worthless because if you want people to tunnel less you have to give them reason (same if you want people in city to travel more with public transport instead of cars so there arent traffic columns you have to give them some solid reason for doing it).

And if tunneling works because it’s efficient, then it doesn’t make sense to say players who tunnelwouldn’t do it when it is most efficient. Players who tunnel regularly do it at the very beginning, because that’s where they get the biggest payoff. And that has nothing to do with survivor mistakes at all.

Some players may tunnel from the start because its most effective way and they want to but then other thing is what is survivors stand as answer if killer cant kill that survivor fast enough and whole game is just kill one guy mission then he will might reconsider that playstyle but its players choice how he plays. So in short if that blight knew he will just tunnel one out asap before the two gens even poped and he was decided in the lobby then there is nothing changing that and its not survivors mistake (they can have some like when they make it easier for him but its still mostly his part while tunneling is there).

This still isnt the majority of tunneling I would say maybe the half because Im getting lot of bodyblockers lately and they kinda dont seem to understand that even with ds they make it for me chasing them way more benefical than going for healty guy (mostly if I didnt have very hard time getting them down in chase) so remowing their protection for extending my time on the survivor i want to chase and making them one shot down or easy slug is their free choice and as every decision it has its benefits and risk like all things in real life even the fact its the game its still there so things like bodyblocks after unhook are their fault because they decided to do so, different thing is when killer goes right after them but it still can be their teammates fault for saving them into killers face or when killer was near doing some stull like kicking gen,breaking pallets or walls,setting traps etc. its just all on circumstances and the pure he tunnels because he wants to narrative isnt just true for 100% as I mention above with wallet exsample or now with bodyblock its just action and reaction things we live in nothing more.

Honestly it all depends on who what when and where

for people to get consistent results, as I have read through most of the responses

iv'e realized most of the players have 2 different experiences like gen rushing leads to survivors dying and survivor sad or the survivor experienced a killer getting rage bated and tunnels and loses or killer just tunnels because killer can.

I honestly don't understand why people just hate on someone else for just having a different experience in general hence a lot of people having down votes for having a different experience as a survivor yet people don't know its random of which killer you get and

its random on how a killer behaves because everyone has at least experienced every single killer or survivor scenario if you play long enough.

Tbh iv'e played at least 30 hours of DBD in the past 2 days and most of the matches my teammates are idiots doing nothing but hiding and one doing a gen (mainly me) and then every one else tries to go for the unhook and gets themselves killed or I get tunneled out because I'm doing something in the game and a match were I was in a party with 3 ttvs who either sucked or ratted me out to the killer.

this right here tells us how random it is, no matter of fact this whole page highlights how random the experience is on playing survivor. pls no hate I'm just telling the facts.