Tunneling
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It's ok to tunnel regardless.... No reason needed. Play the game your way.
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i have been told i could get banned for tunneling someone…i may be stupid then my bad. its been a while since i played
thank you though!
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You cannot get banned for tunneling, they specifically say tunneling is not a bannable offense. It's an intentional mechanic that was placed into the game.
People who say this are confusing "targeting" for tunneling, aka harassing a specific player. Tunneling is not targeting and involves actions beyond just trying to get them out of the match as swiftly as possible. For example, in one match, bleeding someone out unnecessarily to the detriment of your ability to actually win the match, and then trying to get back into their lobby to do it again, or playing on their team as a survivor afterwards and trying to sandbag them.
People don't like tunneling, but it is a part of the game and nothing bad will happen to you if you are tunneling out a survivor to efficiently remove them from the match and nothing else. People will likely whine and complain at you, but you can just ignore them, you aren't breaking any rules.
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I see im sorry, i usally just go after each of them evenly, though the game goes so bad i need to tunnel (Skull Merchant main)
it was my friend who told me that, they have more hours so i stupidly agreed with them not to tunnel. thank you for clearing it up.
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Is wanting to win not a good enough reason to tunnel? In reality you can tunnel when you want. The choice is ultimately up to you if you decide its the best time to do so. Now I wait for the moral warriors to downvote me.
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I mean I wouldn't blame you if you did. However I would recommend agaisnt tunneling that surv not because I think it's rude or something like that, but because most of the time that situation the survivor is just trying to bait you into a chase due to probably having anti-tunnel perks (mostly decisive strike and dead hard) so you waste a lot of time on them and likely lose a lot of pressure on the team.
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You can but usually people who do that or try to get your attention is usually because they got Dead hard and Decisive Strike ready
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Play however you want within the rules and don’t feel bad about it
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It's allowed to tunnel whenever you want! But bear in mind that survivors that clearly want your attention usually are doing so because they have antitunnel, so take care when deciding to chase them.
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Its just a personal decision, but tunneling can also hinder your personal improvement.
Against most survivor teams you dont need to be good at your killer if you tunnel. So you are not ready if you get a strong team. Against them you suddenly need the chase skills to tunnel and they will bring anti-tunnel.
In short: you can get a lot of wins with tunneling, but you will feel absolutely helpless against some players.
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You can tunnel whoever you want, but I'd probably not tunnel them personally. Sounds like they want your attention. They've probably got DS and DH, so they want you to waste your time chasing them. I'd ignore them for a bit.
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Slug comes to meta now because if team runs two guys with ds,dh with shoulder the burden then you cant tunnel and even spreading hooks gets more violeted by this build so slugging is answer or smart play which is some combination of slug plus tunnel.
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You're not allowed to tunnel, ever. If you swing at another survivor but the unhooked survivor takes the hit, you're still guilty of tunneling. In fact, you shouldn't even be near the hook to tunnel in the first place. Dirty camper.
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And what tunneling makes you worst at? Chase oh no with tunneling you are in chase the same as if with another survivor only difference is that tunneling has bigger impact on getting hooks compared to chasing and hooking another survivor its like doing one work till the end and finishing it and then going to start another compare to doing one work while stoping it and starting doing new one so on.
As you said its personal choise, you will get more wins on average but still with it you will get teams that will destroy you even if you tunnel or not. So calling it unskilled is kinda out of window because tunneling doesnt wins chases just by exixting and experience in chase is obtained throug chase no matter which it will maybe hurt you little in different areas like macro or making judgements and making dicisions mid game because you just tunnel all 100% of times but nothing crucial in the end.
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That would apply if you tunnel the good survivor. But that would be a bad decision, normally you target the weak link. If you get them tunneled out, longer chases later doesnt matter that much. And after the second death its over anyway.
Im not calling tunneling unskilled. Im calling it detrimental for getting better. If you are already good and want to win, its a good idea.
And its hurts like hell for everything macro. But most killer are bad at it anyway.
Like i also get matches where i cant keep up with survivor, but most of the complainers (both sides) have them far to often. If they would share gameplay many on this forum could point out how to get better, but they wont. They just want to complain.
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It hinders developing your game sense and macro play. It's not unskilled to tunnel, but good killers know the best time and opportunity to do it. You can try to fall back on it as a plan B, but if it's your plan A, you will run into major problems if the survivors you're playing against brought anti-tunnel perks and don't fold under the pressure of getting tunneled.
Examples
How a bad killer uses tunneling: Wraith gets a survivor on the hook and then uses their stealth to hover nearby. They wait for an unhooker and then either chase them off or force them to trade, slugs them, and tunnels the unhooked person. They don't try to spread pressure, their entire win condition is centered around exploiting survivor altruism and hoping people won't just try to rush gens when they realize this is happening.
Examples of how a good killer uses tunneling:
-They get a survivor on the hook, then go hunting for another survivor. The survivors misplay by unhooking before they fully leave the area, so they double back to punish this.
-They patrol a bit but don't find anyone, so they patrol back to the hook to proxy camp it and force a trade/tunnel. The survivors aren't efficiently pressuring generators anyway.
-They brought Barbecue and Chlli but don't see any survivors, which means the whole team is nearby and they have no reason to leave the hook.
-There's a tightly clustered group of generators, so they hook nearby them so they can simultaneously patrol the gens and make it difficult to unhook without them being able to tunnel
-They left the hook, but spotted a survivor running in for the rescue, so they chase them. If the survivor forces the unhook anyway, they tunnel the unhooked survivor to punish this misplay.
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It doesnt hurt it that much because macro is something that highly depends individualy like some have it great and others even with ton of hours through experience have it not that good compare to others that have less experience than them, tunneling makes it little worse but still unless you turbo tunnel one guy and stay near hook to not loose him.
So its not that huge of a deal unless you play like comp dedicated hardcore sweat and go full tunnel at 5, this has few excaptions like when you know who you play against and you know they are very good but its rare other than that tunneling doesnt make you worse only negative is you win more so you may get stronger opponents but thats it no big deal.
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Thanks for all the advice guys. Ill work on improving how i play, im just coming off a game with a sweat Ace who ran DS, DH, Vigil and Windows and got ran like a mutt. when should i generally leave chase?
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