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Killers and Tunneling

LustForBP
LustForBP Member Posts: 611
edited December 2019 in General Discussions

(Edit)

since the discussion keeps going off topic, or my point to be exact, here’s an edit.

my main point is about the penalty instilled on survivors that are tunneled without the killer going to other survivors or attempting to kill other survivors. 5 gens still up and the killer targets one individual, even if gens are completed during that time and the one survivor has kept the killer distracted BECAUSE he’s tunneling, that survivor is not rewarded and more so penalized post-match or death

A survivor loses pip, time wasted in the match, and receives little to no BP.

Oh, and for the record since it matters so much to the toxic majority, I am a killer main. I see the issue with this sort of tunneling.


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(Original Post)

Why is tunneling not penalized? Or hook camping? It’s quite irritating when you play back to back games with nothing but killers that tunnel causing you to lose rank.

if as a survivor, I loop a killer for an extended period and get tunneled and killed, why am I penalized more than a killer?

Yeah, it’s part of the game, blah blah blah. But there can definitely be some system involved to not award killers for chasing the same survivor for “X” amount of time or for hooking a survivor “x” amount of times before messing with other survivors. What is more aggravating than playing in a game, spending 5 minutes running from a killer that’s tunneling and end up de-pipping because of it?

Survivors can be just as toxic with advanced looping but once a killer gets a hold of you, they can ruin your entire game out of spite. It’s happening too much recently on Xbox, to say the least.

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  • MrsMaliciousX
    MrsMaliciousX Member Posts: 736

    its not...if a killer isn't running an obession perk and someone is the obession..EVERYONE gets slugged

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    it’s got nothing to do with that. I main killer and when I play survivor I see this too often:

    killer gets looped because he chases too long, finally catches the survivor, hooks, waits around or constantly circles the hook. When a survivor is brave enough to unhook them, the killer will literally ONLY chase the injured.


    DS isn’t necessarily a counter because it’s a one and done perk. If you miss the skill check, gg. I literally am a killer main and tunneling is all to an abusive tactic as well as slugging. It’s completely unfair to Survivors.

  • Steel_Eyed
    Steel_Eyed Member Posts: 4,033

    You’re missing the point.

  • 28_stabs
    28_stabs Member Posts: 1,470

    Why do chases last too long? Is it because you are bad? There are no counters to genrush. You can only slow down repairs a bit. Also, killer can chase only 1 survivor at a time.

  • Steel_Eyed
    Steel_Eyed Member Posts: 4,033

    You unfortunately. He was twisting the argument against survivors to show how flawed the argument is.

    Quol above said it best.

  • Steel_Eyed
    Steel_Eyed Member Posts: 4,033

    That’s good that you have perspective but the argument is flawed.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    go back and read all I’ve posted. I’m an average red 4 survivor and main killer. I main clown and get 4ks nearly every day with him. So... what’s the problem? And you prove my point, killers are already stacked with perks, so why boost tunneling?

  • JC316
    JC316 Member Posts: 693

    Just because you can, doesn't mean others can as well, especially with matchmaking bugged so horribly. Fact remains that tunneling is a valid and effective strategy. I used it quite a lot as a rank 13 killer going against red rank survivors, because it felt so damned good to kill the guy that ran me ragged. I've changed now, because there are more effective options, but if I get that one guy that knows the maps well, he will die once I catch him.

    The bottom line here is that survivors will gripe about anything and everything when the game doesn't go exactly as they want. If you're good enough to run people for that long, then you're good enough to avoid them, do gens, unhook, and THEN run them to death and get your pip. It sounds like you want to poke the bear, then get mad when he bites you.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    Thanks, it’s aggravating that nobody has a legit reason for tunneling.

  • Sonzaishinai
    Sonzaishinai Member Posts: 7,976

    There is a penalty

    The person who made the unsafe unhook gets less emblems and bloodpoints

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    First, I’m far from mad. You’re a rank 13 killer and you’ve already started tunneling. At that rank, you should practice playing without tunneling. I play in red and I don’t tunnel and I get 3-4K every game. You have no legitimate reason for tunneling except the fact you get looped and have no counter for it. That’s toxic. Which is my point. Killers like you are toxic because someone is better than you.

    If I’m being looped and cannot catch the survivor, I leave. I only worry about them when I catch them off guard. Looping is a survivors tool for survival. Very few survivors intentionally get into chases with a killer, and I avoid them as well. Survivors are limited in avoiding tunneling because it’s just that, focusing on one survivor. I’ve had survivor teammates body block for me and the killer still focuses on me.

    It’s a terrible strategy actually and will only make you less effective at the game when you face a gen rushing team. If you can’t effectively kill off a squad without focusing solely on one survivor then you’re not a good killer. As I’ve listed, there are plenty of methods of clearing survivors without tunneling. I don’t even care about slugging because survivors have counter perks to that. When you tunnel, you eliminate a survivors chance to pip, gain BP, and enjoy the game. It’s a toxic tactic.

  • Deltin
    Deltin Member Posts: 240

    He doesn't have to do anything. it's a game with multiple ways to play it. he can play how he wants.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    That’s a survivor penalty and it’s actually counterproductive for a survivor because it takes away from a survivors potential for a “safe hook”. You all are literally making more excuses for a killer tunneling and I’m assuming it’s because you lack gameplay on the other side.

    I’ve achieved red rank on both sides and mostly play killer unless I’m with my group. It’s very very unnerving to be tunneled and as a killer I find no fun in chasing one person. I’ve tried it before and lost because of the team completing gens. My argument comes from it being completely unfair to the survivor on the other hand.

    They can be a great survivor and lose rank because of a toxic killer. It’s unfair. Killers are given many tools to beat survivors and yet most of the community finds it completely fair to tunnel. That’s sad.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    Do you just choose to ignore the fact I’ve consistently labeled myself a killer main?

  • Deltin
    Deltin Member Posts: 240

    if i see 4 tool boxes i bring an ebony, if i see 2 or more flashlights, lightborn to piss them off. if i see 2 or more medkits, sloppy / franklins, keys, franklins / ebony

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    You admit you intentionally tunnel because a survivor is better than you. Take a minute to realize how toxic that is. If you play killer and you get looped for all 5 gens, that’s literally your fault and not the survivors. There are COUNTERS to LOOPING, there are NO COUNTERS to TUNNELING.

    Killers are blessed with perks and add ons to eliminate survivors fairly quickly. A Mirrored Mike with the perks I’ve listed is a prime example. Survivors have no method of countering tunneling or hook camping. Yeah, there’s DS, but as I’ve mentioned, miss the skill check and gg and it’s a one and done perk. Meanwhile, a killer can stalk down the ONE survivor they chose to tunnel and rid them. You can’t complain about survivors having the capability of gen rushing when you risk all your time tunneling.


    Maybe I should’ve specified my peeve against tunneling. You cannot counter it. No matter how good of a survivor you are, it takes one half-decent killer to ruin your game. Name a toxic survivor tactic that can’t be countered and is on the same level as Tunneling?

    DS? One and done perk, possibility of missed skill check.

    DH? Puts you in exhausted, if you fail you’re caught, slim chance of escape.

    BT? Have to be in killers radius (Hook Campers) and lasts for one hit, has to mend self and can still be tunneled.

    Gen Rush? Ruin, Thrilling Tremors, Corrupt Intervention, Thanatophobia, and probably missing other perks

    It takes a really good 4-man survivor team to win or troll a killer. Most survivor teams consist of solo players or 2-man coms. So it’s 1v1-1-1-1

    Most survivor speed perks result in exhausted. Tunneling is a legit unnecessary and toxic tactic that killers use as a petty maneuver as you’ve vastly expressed.

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    Far from an entitled survivor. You obviously choose to ignore my constant, constant reiterating of me being a killer main. Not chasing a looper isn’t the only counter to looping... you must not be very experienced at killer. Plenty of killers are natural anti-loopers and with a few add-ons completely nullify looping except for the occasional pro-looper.

    I actually don’t use DS. I mostly run perks for altruism since I try to help my team as much as possible.


    end game is different. If you tunnel from the get go that’s the issue. Each survivor is bound to be caught or at least chased by the killer once unless they completely just scale the walls and hide, which gets nothing done in favor of the survivors.

    Your excuses for tunneling are:

    1. Survivor is better than me so they deserve to be tunneled.
    2. Don’t get caught.
    3. Decisive Strike, a one and done perk.

    In reality, I’m not an entitled survivor because I mostly play killer as it’s the fastest method for BP right now. I don’t tunnel, I rarely slug, and I don’t chase a better survivor unless I corner them or surprise them. I play with aggressive killer perks to prevent the need in tunneling.

    You are an entitled killer because you don’t see the unfairness in tunneling. You claim to be a survivor main but defend something that makes it difficult to play survivor. Regardless if a killer kills everyone, tunneling is a petty tactic to target and eliminate one survivor. I main killer and I see the issue in tunneling. DS is not the cure all to it.

  • Sonzaishinai
    Sonzaishinai Member Posts: 7,976

    Ok i was not that helpfull with that last post

    I'm sorry

    I play both sides too and i get it, getting tunneled sucks, same as getting genrushed sucks

    But it's a strategy in the game and like (most) strategy's there a counter strategy

    There are 2 ways to get chased as a survivor, you can chase to stall for time for your teammates and you can chase to try an lose the killer

    While the latter is harder that's the one you want to do to counter tunneling

    If you find you get tunneled a lot try running more anti-tunnel perks

    While DS+unbreakable is the most popular it's not really that effective in terms of losing the killer, that's more of a stall chase perk combo

    A combo that really helps me against tunnelers is Lithe+Dance with Me. Just vault a window and dissapear

    Iron will also really helps

    Try and get in the mindset of if he can't find you he can't tunnel you

    Perks like We'll make it, borrowed time, MoM also help to prevent your teammates getting tunneled, same with bodyblocking, and medkits to give the unhooked person another healthstate, wich doesn't make them such an appealing target

    This all assumes ofcourse that the killer wasen't right there when you got unhooked, if thet were then you should blame the teammate that unhooked you, not the killer who took the most effecient way out

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611

    No problem. In order for BT to work, you have to be within the killers radius. We’ll make it is good, but it doesn’t prevent tunneling. Bodyblocking doesn’t either. I’ve played killers that legit tunnel one survivor. Which is my point, I understand tunneling to an extent, as in, you’ve hooked everyone once or twice and now want to eliminate survivors. I’m not for 3 hooking one person right away. Also, lithe works to an extent as it knocks you in exhausted.


    Anyways, I’ve yet to get reason why killers tunnel besides “i can do what I want” “the survivor looped me” or “don’t get caught”. It’s just a toxic tactic and I’ll leave it at that. There’s nothing more that I can say that i haven’t. This community is obviously filled with toxic killers that have no reasoning.

  • SquirrelKnight
    SquirrelKnight Member Posts: 951

    Can i just say this one thing? If you are a survivor and get tunneled, its tike to use that to draw the killer away from your team so you cam be accomplishing something instead of crying that its happening. And likewise for killers if you are being looped then leave and dont chase that person anymore, all they are doing is wasting your time. I know people are upset that killers have all these killing and tough perks, but so do survivors. Could you imagine is survivors had hex style perks that a killer could remove? The killer is the power role and has to kill to win and the survivors have to survive to win. Stop complaining about how it isnt fair that the killer has to tunnel someone sometimes and make use of it. Or go piss off and let the rest of your team lose cause you go full moron

  • LustForBP
    LustForBP Member Posts: 611
    edited December 2019

    Go and read the full discussion. I’m a killer main. The point is, killers abuse tunneling. I played 4 straight matches where I died within 5 minutes and was the only survivor hooked. My team attempted body blocks, crossing paths, etc and I was tunneled. It has nothing to do with complaining and more so bringing awareness to how abusive it is. You can only run from a killer so much before you’re caught. On console, you get hit when you really shouldn’t have. I don’t care about perks that was never my argument. I said killers have perks to be viable without tunneling. Survivors have perks to be viable without trolling s killer. However, killers are vastly above survivors in viability for gameplay. Tunnel and you win regardless of getting a 4K. Survivors are solo when it comes to rank, I lost 4 pips because I was tunneled from start til I died in 4 games straight, without a single other survivor being touched. 3 gens eliminated. I don’t care cause it’s simple to regain rank, but I try to enjoy the game and it takes away from the enjoyment. From a killers perspective, tunneling is unnecessary to win.

  • 28_stabs
    28_stabs Member Posts: 1,470

    You died, because you are too careless. Your teammates and killer didnt waste their time. You were outplayed by all other players (killers and survivors). You are the worst player in all 4 games you talk about. Killers are not guilty that you died 4 times in a row. It was YOU. I repeat, it was YOU. You didnt hide well and you expected to have an easy game.

    Also, killing more than one survivor is not a rule, its a gamble. If there is enough time, killer can choose to try to get more kills. If there is no time to get more kills, nobody have to go after all survivors.

    And Im survivor main!

  • Sonzaishinai
    Sonzaishinai Member Posts: 7,976

    Exhaustion refreshes when you are hooked so you always have it available when you need it

    The reason killers tunnel is because of effeciency

    It's not really a toxic tactic, just like genrush isn't

    3 survivors is just easier to deal with then 4 most of the time that's the sole reason

    Try getting better at losing the killer, you would be surprised how many killers can lose you just by hiding after they lost line of sight

    Try and get in this mindset of 2 different types of chasing

    If a killer puts all their pressure on you and can't actually get you in the end that's almost a garentied loss for that killer

    That's the weakness of tunneling so that's what you need to exploit to beat it

  • DBDIT
    DBDIT Member Posts: 172

    DS is garbage and you REALLY think smart killers don't know when you have it? Killers don't mind slugging because they do it everytime at green, purple and red ranks. DS would be better if it didn't have a time limit.

  • iamscumqueen101
    iamscumqueen101 Member Posts: 101

    Punish killers for trying to get someone lul

  • Deltin
    Deltin Member Posts: 240

    punish killers for killing. punish survivors for surviving. there fixed.

  • JC316
    JC316 Member Posts: 693

    I know how to shut down loops with most killers, but since you're a killer main, you know that it's a constant time crunch. Say you have trapper, sure you can shut down the current loop, but the survivor will see it and bail, costing you precious time.

    Yes, it's A ok to tunnel a survivor that's better than you, but if they're truly better than you, it's going to take a while to do it. It's a HORROR GAME, hiding is the whole idea. How many horror movies do you see where the killer gives the survivor multiple chances?

  • JereBear
    JereBear Member Posts: 30
    edited December 2019

    Okay this probably isn't going to be a popular opinion, but I tunnel when I feel there is a reason to. I'm a survivor main and typically only do killer when I have dailies or challenges for some sort of event. If I am playing killer and I get survivors that loop me I leave them, it's not worth my time to get constantly looped while everyone else is doing gens. That's fine. What I have a problem with is when survivors are toxic for no apparent reason. I'm sorry if you sneak around using Urban invasion and hide around corners from me just to wait until I pass by and drop pallets at me when I'm not even chasing you and don't even know you're there and then proceeded to flashlight me over the pallets? That's just bull.

    This literally happened tonight I chased the person for a little bit, they started looping me so I went off to check on the generators and cut my losses with the chase. Then as I'm going to chase another survivor the same person comes along and starts trying to flashlight me from beside me to get my attention. They basically proceeded to follow me around the whole match to throw pallets down even when we weren't in a Chase and flashlight me even when I didn't even know they were there. If you go into a match with a flashlight and do you intend to not do gens not unhook people and not heal people and you just want to go around the killer and drops it on them and blind them repeatedly? Yeah I tunnel the ######### out of them until they died after the third or fourth time they did this.

    I didn't just do this because I was frustrated with being followed and screwed with, I did this out of frustration as a survivor main with somebody who was obviously doing absolutely nothing to contribute to their team. I literally ended up letting the other three go because I ended up hooking them all twice and this person didn't even bother to try and save any of them their only mission during this match was to bully me with not one not two but three different flashlights. If I get a survivor like that that is just creeping around and doing nothing, or deliberately screwing with me instead of actually participating in the match? You bet I'm going to tunnel them to death. Then I'm going to let their teammates go because they're a piece of crap and dragging their entire team down with them.

  • JetpackRobin
    JetpackRobin Member Posts: 15

    So, I would like to give my opinion on this. I have been red rank survivor and killer. Lower red rank survivor and usually rank 1 and 2 killer. There is 100% times that it is a good idea to tunnel. If you are not running an obsession perk and there is not an obsession that means there is no Decisive Strike and if that person is a weak link then you can kill them to slow down the game. There are definently perks that help killers slow down obviously such as ruin, pop goes the weasel, thrilling tremors and so forth but there are going to be points where those will not be effective. Ruin could be taken out at any time and for Pop sometimes you see another survivor and either go for the gen kick or the survivor. Sometimes you cannot do both as the survivor will gain too much distance and it is pointless chasing. If the gens are being worked on then thrilling tremors isnt that useful. This being said, there are many perks as a survivor that allows you to make multiple mistakes in one chase and still get out. There are too many scenarios to cover one by one. Easy ones to mention that tunneling is viable is that there is no DS, waiting out borrowed time to insta kill someone on a hook to slow down the game later since the killer has to wait the 15 seconds, or just an easy survivor to catch and so forth. Killers should 100% not be punished for this. If a survivor is getting tunneled then they are making a mistake or the person who saved them is. If you are solo queueing I can understand how this gets infuriating since they might go for the save without borrowed time and yes that does suck but there isnt much you can do about it unless you have DS which at high ranks is very common. All in all, killers should not be punished for the survivors mistakes because they already kind of are. Survivors have perks to save them from their mistakes that killers have to already deal with. So if a killer sees a weak link or a strong survivor that is in a bad position they should capitalize. It shouldnt just be "Oh, I just hooked that person. I cant hook them again" If you want that to be the game or thinks that is how it should be played then I'm sorry. Killers are there to kill and punish. Survivors are trying to escape.

    To comment on one thing you said that there are counters to looping which is true sometimes. There are safe loops and unsafe loops for survivors. Against some of the best loops in the game and if the survivor runs them right there is almost no counter to them. Ironworks of Misery is one of the worst maps of this. If there is a survivor that is doing these things well they need to die, and they need to die fast so if you see them start messing up then you should punish them.

    When you say Killers are more viable for gameplay than survivors that is simply not true. Both sides have their hate towards the other side. The "crutch" perks. There is a difference from killers crutch perks and survivors. Survivors can easily find ruin if they know common totem spots, doesnt take too long to find. If you expect NOED, do totems, not difficult. If you consider Pop as a crutch perk then the survivors are just doing that gen fast and the killer has to earn that kick. Survivors on the other hand do not have to earn their crutch perk, just like killers dont have to earn Ruin but have to hope they dont lose it. Survivor get one use of DS which the killer has to eat through it giving them another chance or the killer has to wait 60 seconds. They dont earn it, they mess up and the killer has to pay for it. Adrenaline you do have to earn but if you use adrenaline and the killer has NOED you dont have a right to complain as that is the counter and you get an additional sprint burst with that pretty much that doesnt matter if you are exhausted or not. Both sides are definently viable to play for gameplay, just depends on which side you like more. Just remember both sides have things that are annoying.

    I am 100% aware you are not talking about perks but if a killer is tunneling it is either perk related or just punishing survivors for mistakes. Yes, killers have perks where you dont have to tunnel which most good killers know when it is or isnt a good idea to tunnel. If you are a survivor and are on the receiving end of tunneling all you can do is buy your team time. Survivors freak out when they are 1 person down and killers take that to their advantage. They start playing very scared that they will be next. I do not see killers that will only focus one survivor at a time. If you see that I am sorry but that should be a very easy win for survivors if they have decent perks.

    Killers cannot abuse tunneling like you are saying, there is a time and a place for it and usually killers do not like to tunnel but they want to win also so if you see tunneling they are most likely just trying to create a possible winning scenario for them.

    This was a very lengthy response and you will most likely disagree with it buy here it is.

  • ColaGhost
    ColaGhost Member Posts: 36

    Hey, you know how deal with face camping? Do gens. Seriously if the killer is just gonna stand there n watch the survivor go from first hook to dead, get the like 3 gens done in the mean time.

    Seriously calm your tits with your altruism.

  • StrickxNyne
    StrickxNyne Member Posts: 230

    Killers don't want Gen rush then come to the forums demanding we Gen rush when they camp and tunnel then cry here gens go to fast. They demand we use DS/BT etc and they can't tunnel then come here and cry about how DS and BT are too strong. The bottom line is most are hypocrites and I watch most of them comment against survivors then cry when survivors do exactly what they say. Survivors want a chance at a fun game the killers in these forums act like survivors want a free pass to escape every time and act like they want survivors on hook starting the game. Survivors aren't demanding free or easy escapes, they're demanding their perks work as they once did and penalties exist so killers will finally make those perks useless instead of crying to devs for nerfs of those perks 😂 😂