Tunneling in the Anniversary Event
Title. Been tunneled out at game start in at least half of my matches as survivor. And ones I'm not tunneled out in, I always watch one of my teammates get tunneled out instead. Anyone else experiencing this? I thought it was just me but now I'm convinced its been enough of my matches that it has to be widespread. Killer players just given up on playing normally with the event modifiers? Because I just get hit with the slowdown ability off of hook, rinse and repeat 3 times and I'm dead
List of Matches Today:
#1 Teammate tunneled out by The Lich
#2 Tunneled out by The Plague
#3 Four-man-slugged by Bubba at 5 gens
#4 Four-man-slugged by Huntress at 5 gens
#5 Teammate tunneled out by The Ghoul
#6 Attempted Teammate Tunnel (quit as once on death-hook the teammate disconnected)
#7 Attempted four-man-slug by The Lich at 5 gens (lost at 4 gens, despite using the banquet table to global heal three times, he managed to kill someone and win, albeit it wasn't a tunnel)
Comments
Yeah, but tunneling was complained about occuring too often before the event, with the event giving survivors a lot of strong effects Its been a common occurence for most, but personally I don't blame the killers this time.
As you typed that I started a third match, Ghoul, Lara Croft teammate tunneled out at 4 gens. I never had a problem with tunneling in the normal gamemode before the anniversary event began
People tunneled just as much pre-event.
At least this time the event bonuses make it so you still get a 2-3 out each time. Which I'm okay with.
i only tunnel when i get portals because ######### this #########
sometimes survivors (like my teammates most games) leave the killer no choice by just going invisible and leaving the unhooked survivor to get tunneled, but its happening far more than just in those scenarios
I've never had a problem with tunneling in my games until now. I have never been the target of, or witnessed so much tunneling since May of last year where I watched every Ghoul player abuse his absolutely busted ability to just two-tap people who had been freshly unhooked. I have consistently been tunneled or someone on my team has been tunneled in probably 90% of my games. Going back to look at my DBD stat tracker I saw that almost every single match I played either I or someone else had below 15,000 score because the killer yeeted them out of the match before they could even think about touching a gen or healing a teammate
I mean, you try to play killer in this event and win without tunneling. See how it goes for you and it might make you realize why people are doing it.
It was for some, its become infinitely more-so because again the survivors buffs from food are bs, a guaranteed teamwide heal and then some other buffs (speed/haste, unbreakable pallets or portals).
The survivor buffs are insane, to the point where if they do go against a team that knows to stock the tables, theyll suffer. Yes theyre going to tunnel, because if they don't and you spam tables theyre gonna have a hard time
I have and I never tunneled intentionally (invisibility can make it hard sometimes)
I use furitive chase and friends til the end in my killer games to specifically not tunnel:
I do just fine also lol
I've played just under 50 games of the event as a killer, 22 games as survivor. Out of the killer games I've played against now 18 games of survivors who knew how to stock the table, and did so frequently enough that getting kills was horrible. Im talking 15+ min games just because they knew how and when to heal using the tables. Those games i hard tunneled and im not gonna apologise for. The other games i could play a bit more chill, but im still only playing ranged killers (mostly huntress and jason, with a bit of springtrap) so for weaker and m1 killers this could be horrendous. You have the added benefit on bubba of instadowns so these heals arent as bad (not saying bubbas strong, but your not as badly affected by extra pallets/haste/ healing
The fact I'm getting downvoted when I have the receipts to show that I'm able to win as killer without tunneling is crazy. Literally almost every single game I've had as survivor has either been aggressive tunneling or just straight up camping + slugging. Its not normal and I'm not imagining it, my matches were not like this before the event.
Just played a game against a Lich where they didn't tunnel, my teammates were good and got multiple saves, we managed to get 3 global heals and unbreakable pallets from the tables, but only finished a gen and a half before he was able to have half my team on death-hook and one person dead. Its simply not the guaranteed win for survivors that people have been hyping the event up to being. You need like, a super coordinated 4-man SWF with proper communication to actually make the event problematic. And surprisingly, I haven't seen that yet in the 20 killer games I've played.
I've escaped one trial as survivor in the past 10 matches and it was because it was a default-cosmetic Blight who stopped tunneling once the player he was tunneling DC'd, and then I managed to be the lone escapee since my teammates got caught and the bot is programmed to just leave the trial immediately
Sadly, 3 heals isnt a lot mate. As i said, I've played 15+ mins games where every chase I took i had to abandon because 2 of them focused 1 table when they took an injury and healed them every time i got damage off then popped on a nearby gen when they weren't injured. Those games probably had about 10+ global heals. They got 3 gens done, but would've done more had i not tunneled my ass off from the get-go. You don't need a super coordinated 4 man swf, you need a 3+ man swf who can talk to each other on discord, thats it. It's not a guaranteed win, your correct, but my escape rate is 43% in soloqueue only, I can't imagine if i was playing with my mates, that'd be hell. I'd say its heavily in the survivors favour as long as they use the banquets (which are pretty easy to use, but most soloqueue don't for some reason).
But yeah, I don't have an insane escape rate rn as survivor, probably about 43% (down from my original 60% from the first 10 games). And yeah theres a bunch of tunneling. As said I dont blame them.
I wouldn't blame them if they were losing the match. The problem is they do it from match start, when its not necessary, and continue to tunnel even when they're winning. 3 or 4 banquet tables filled is the most I've seen tbh, and like I said my teammates were rushing them as fast as they could to the point that doing gens would've been more efficient.
For context, my last 20 survivor games since the event started, I've escaped 7 times. That's a 35% escape rate. Total escape rate from the last 30 days, including those 20 matches alongside my matches before the event? 54%. I mean, am I just slowly going insane here or is that not a ridiculous drop in escape rate? Not to mention that my matches are sometimes as short as 5 minutes because I get first chase then singled out until I'm dead.
yeah bro killers are super op in this mode and should be in fact nerfed
The issue is, as I have seen in some of my games, if i hadn't tunneled from the start Id have lost an extra gen or two which couldve cost me the game and made it a 4e, id rather tunnel, then tone it down after a couple of chases if they aren't doing anything insane, than wait and see and then get stomped.
It is a big drop in kill rate, my assumption would be because its the stronger killers playing the event because your average wraith/myers/clown wont cut it, so your going against the stronger killers who are still playing the event.
But i feel you, it is bad, but as i said I don't blame them from it because if they don't they can often get walked on. Now if they continue when no progress is being made, then thats them just pubstomping. still don't blame them, but its certainly less fun and sportsmanlike in those cases.
Its nothing new. They always tunnel more during events, cause the most obnoxious players want to ruin the fun of everyone else.
I mean 90% of my matches outside of this event were also nothing but S-tier killers. I wish BHVR would just show our MMR to us so I can know if it’s just coincidence or if it’s because of my escape rate. I went one week and counted that every other match was either Ghoul or Nurse. When Jason came out then it was every third match was Ghoul or Nurse, the other matches were always Jason. So going against strong killers is nothing new. The fact I managed probably a 60% escape rate with those killers constantly, and dropped to a whopping 35% while playing a wholly survivor sided event, is just baffling me.
Just don’t get how I’m winning on Bubba (the killer who I had to stop playing for half a year because every match was a bully squad sweat fest) without tunneling when everyone else is claiming that the event feels unwinnable without it. And now every survivor match I play feels like a tunnel any-percent speedrun or a 15 minute slugathon. It was supposed to be a wholesome chungus anniversary event, and because BHVR decided to make it survivor-favored I have to suffer being BM’d every game.
Probably just going to have to go back to playing killer now, be the kind of killer player I want to face in my survivor matches.
When did I ever say anything about a nerf? I’m just wondering what all the tunneling is about. Also you’re playing with no perks or addons, and even with that you were able to get 4/5 matches as 2K’s or 3K’s. Throw on a good build and a couple of addons and you’ll probably be able to get a 4K in the majority of your matches. I know I’m not good enough to get more than a 1K with no perks or addons lol
i am not saying my results are bad lol, they are good for perkless b tier killer, but your personal stats do not represent situation overall. You are gonna suck second you get competent team.
out of the 10 most recent matches maybe 2 had bad teams, rest were decent and a couple were really good. The trick of this event is to just get downs and snowball as quickly as possible so if they try to fill a banquet table it’s just a waste of time. It’s why killers like Vecna and Bubba are so good. The more time they spend doing tables, the longer the game will be, because they spend less time doing gens. It’s why I don’t understand killers that keep tunneling every single match. Like, my teammates were never going to get a table filled to begin with, let alone fast enough to be helpful. On top of that, if they do get one completed, it’s just wasteful. It’s usually two survivors that could’ve been finishing a gen in that amount of time. I just don’t see the appeal, it’s never worked out for any survivors I’ve played against. If people think it’s OP then by all means, they should play The Plague. She hard counters basically every aspect of the event.
i am not seeing how getting unbreakable pallet in a hatch is a "waste of time"
Most killers on this forum watch killer CC's and believe they are better than they actually are.
This event has been a hard reality check, hence all the raging.
the longer they spend in the match the higher probability of someone dying, which means higher probability of winning for the killer. The more time they spend trying to get unbreakable pallets and a global heal against an insta-down killer that can play around pallets, the easier it is to snowball into a 4K before the match is over
I will play dirty in this event where everything is in majority of situations survivor sided, if I get chance to tunnel,slug I will and I wont have problem with it its my choice after all.
With what survivors all get there I wont have mercy when its just in majority of my matches genrush team that spams these cake effects over and over and even weakest ones are very strong or take lot of time from killer like invisibility.
Why should I put in worse position myself when the opponent is already in advantage from the start in this event? This event isnt something so special to other ones only its backed by date (10th anniversary) but that doesnt makes is so special only thing that stands up there with the date is how ridicilus and one sided it is but in the name of farming I will play it how I described for more points so let the cakes roll.
ok fine - you’re also playing one of the only killers who can capitalize on the poison with easy one shot downs. Try anyone but Bubba or Hillbilly
I completely agree with you, but it’s a spectrum or scale with killers in the event on how well they can utilize the poison. I played trapper a few games and won at least 3/4ths of those matches because of the zoning potential the poison has. I played a couple matches of Knight, he’s also good around the unbreakable pallets or invisibility. Might be even better than Bubba for the macro required in this event. And I played 5 games of huntress yesterday and only “lost” (it was a 2K) one of them to a team all using double charge addon commodious tooboxes, prove thyself, and one player using hyperfocus stakeout. My build was all aura reading, no gen slowdown, so the event had nothing to do with it. Running dissolution on Huntress and getting a first hit then poisoning them immediately makes every loop in the game a guaranteed down if you know how to path it right. They can’t vault a dropped pallet unless it’s in unbreakable pallet mode, you could always use a hatchet instead in that case.
This event has a lot of fun ways to counter the survivors OP bull crap lol, you just have to pay attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the killers you’re picking, and make sure you can craft a build around those strengths in the event. Like I remember the Masquerade was miserable for Bubba because the party pallets would randomly trigger your chainsaw break animation when you wanted to fake the pallet drop. Or survivors would spam the window block ability on main buildings making it impossible to catch them. This event is more or less the same but survivors don’t have as much control over the big buffs for them. It’s random and you have to complete an entire side objective. Playing killer feels so much easier to manage at least, see a table with progress or a gen they keep coming back to, poison it and move on. Throw poison onto pallets mid chase, don’t let them get distance. If anything it’s at least simple.