Reverse Tunneling

So are you complaining about "reverse tunneling?" I usually don't see it unless the Killer is running obsession perks and leaving the obsession alone. Or that one person could be quite stealthy, too. I don't see it as complaint-worthy.

Tunneling 3 out of the 4 is just what a toxic killer would do.

I can't say I really do this for no good reason. Really only unless everyone is throwing except one person, then I'll just ignore them and let them have hatch. But I've had a few killers who just completely swerve every time they see me and I've always assumed it's because I'm playing their main/a survivor they like, or because my cosmetics tend to be pretty ostentatious and they approve.

I tend to ignore survivors obviously trying to pull chase by being as obnoxious as possible unless I have nowhere else to go, especially if I suspect a SWF and they may be the designated looper with a build for it. Why not just stride past them and chew on the Ada that is likely playing pure genspeed?

If I'm crushing too hard at 5 gens I'll update my objective to double hook all survivors before going for kills, just as a bit of a challenge.

I am a serial hatch giver though. I don't care about getting the 4k at all. 3k is a win and that's enough. Often means that if any survivor has done something that catches my attention, they're a likely hatch candidate. Performing some sick mind game or crazy risky save that worked, being cute and/or silly, or being the victim of a sandbag are great ways to guarantee I'll leave you alone once you reach death hook.

It depends on the context.

I recently played a SWF with a friend who’s a Mikaela main. The killer refused to even injure her the entire match as the killer had a Mikeala charm on the hook. She played quite sweaty with the other 3 of us and even tunnelled a Dwight out early game. My friend thought it was lame as she just wanted to play normally.

I once had a game against a Ghostface who had a pride charm on his hook. When he saw mine he was teabagging/nodding. He played normally, but gave me the hatch at the end.

The first example is favortism to the detriment of teammates, the second is just a wholesome moment between two players. When I play killer, I never deliberately avoid a survivor unless I know they’re insanely good loopers. When I do 4k, I always give last survivor hatch unless they’ve been toxic. That’s just a rule of thumb for me. The other exception may be if MMR screws someone over and I get a baby survivor in my lobby. In that context, I will play nice as it’s not fair that MMR puts these people in matches which they’ve lost before they’ve even loaded in.

So I guess (long answer short) a little favouritism/wholesome interactions are okay. Outright keeping one survivor alive just to tunnel/kill the rest out isn’t very sportsmanlike. I also hate it when a game turns friendly after you’ve died… you die with like 20k BP’s whilst your teammates get to farm. Not cool.

We tunnel everyone and everything here.

I typically dont pay attention to who im chasing at any time except for a mild awareness on trying to not kill someone too early unless i really think its needed to have a chance at winning, generally if you enter my FOV you are a valid target regardless of your hook stage or whatnot.

I will typically only ignore a player if they have been 2 hooked before the games progressed far and thus leaving 3 players on a 4 or 5 gen situation or if im aware the player is going to be hard in chase and waste my time or run loops i am not good at running, like shack or if im aware they are trying to pull me away from a particular area because if you dont want me to be at location X, then I probably want to be at location X.

I'll do this occasionally if i see other survivors deliberately sandbag someone. Particularly if there are multiple. I usually take pity on the person being bullied, maybe other stuff like being left on hook till 2nd stage, or if they arr clearly super new to the game and can't run chase.

Considering that I once had the last survivor accuse me of tunneling him after I caught him on an exit gate... there would probably be someone who would ACTUALLY complain about anything.

I feel like "tunneling gens" was said in jest...

Why should it be in jest when its quite usable synonymously for "rushing" in dbd? Both is "doing the objective efficiently, effectively or tunnelvisioning or wearing blinkers" ( these things you put on horses for carriages so theyre less distracted by other stuff)

I think its the negative connotation the (survivor) community has build up with that word. They do not want their derogatory term for killers used against themselves.

Survivors cant "tunnel", its called "rushing" for them, but remember that "gen rushing" doesnt exist because its just "doing your objective"

How many of those are through hatch? 🤷‍♀️ besides, isn't it confirmed by practically everyone that the official dbd stats page is just wrong?

Not quite correct, because speeding is against the law. BHVR specifically calls out tunneling as something that is not against the rules. So this would be like getting mad at someone for driving 60 mph on the freeway when the speed limit is 60mph because you want to go 50 mph.

I do this too. There are so many killers who don't seem to know when to drop chase. If a surv is obviously good at chase, then I'm not letting them juice me for 2/3 gens. I'm going to go find someone easier to chase and get round to downing them later when they are in a bad postion or comitting to a save.

No sorry, the analogy is there are acceptable times where your car can go 50, some times when it can go 70. Just because YOU want to drive 120 when the circumstance literally makes YOU the person who is in the wrong is the angle I was going for.

The accuracy is hilarious