Survivor main, why do you NOT run the meta?

In two words....its boring.

I don't main survivor, but when I play my Jeff, I run Autodidact, WGLF, Any Means Necessary, and some other perk like Lightweight or Resilience. It's vastly more fun to not have a crutch and play the game casually (plus Autodidact and Any Means Necessary feel so damn good when they work).

Autodidact is so good when you actually get skillchecks.. Best is when the first skillchecks appears right as you start healing, and you manage to get 4 skillchecks in a full heal, next heals are insta-heals (or you get screwed and don't get any more skillchecks for 2 heals)

This guy gets it.

I personally run BT and Adrenaline, so I could counter campers. I play swf and its obvious how you can counter Campers with BT. As for adrenaline, If someone is hooked and they are being camped. I'll have one of my teammates 99 the last ten. And when I unhook the last person and take a hit, the other guy finishes the gen and I go up one health state. So in the end its for killers that like to camp.

I don't because it gets boring running the same perks all the time. Survivor is so easy that it's nice to switch it up and do different builds.

Because im a contrarian. For all the people here that dont already know me for being a "stupid ######### knowit nothing survicor main who just wants to make killers lives hell" i run whatever feels aestetic and pleasing. I play bill since survivor skins are just aestetic and using his perks unbreakable and BT feels right. I ran these back before unbreakable was considered a meta perk. Back when adrenaline ds and balanced were much stronger. Aside from that i run leader and bond. Bond is always been considered good. I mostly run whatever feels like fun cause alot of killers just kinda ######### about every survivor just logs in to troll and make the killers life hell and every decision a survivor makes is only to target and harass killers with trolling. And i think that joldong that perspective is ignorant and kinda fücking #########. So basically i just run perks that domt give killers a reason to cry because i swear that is really all they do. Although im sure if given enough time theyll eventually just start unironically demanding that survivors just not be allowed to bring items or perks or even queue up even u less they are bad so.

Bbbbeeecause it's a game where people can play how they want o_o

personally I just really like trying out different perks to see how well they synergize. one that I'm really interested in right now is running OoO with spine chill. that way I know I can look around and locate the killer without giving away my location without a significant head start on buggering off 😋

I love messing with non meta perks and making them useful. I think I get more excited when new killers and survivors come out for their new perks and what new combinations can be made, even if they're not strong, but fun instead.

I like variety, but my current meta is Iron will, Quick and Quiet, Head On and Calm spirit.

With so many people using doctor/infectious fright/Spies from the shadows now, calm spirit sees a lot more use.

Iron will and Q&Q are not only good for losing chase. They're good for confusing a killer during a chase, especially those who use sound to determine whether you've vaulted something out of line of sight during a chase.

Head on is super gimmicky, but at least for me it sees a lot of use. People are sleeping on it. Especially with the help of Q&Q, it can really help get you out of an otherwise deadly situation. Like if you get trapped in the basement. Or to knock your teammate off their shoulder when they least expect it. Iron maiden is probably it's hardest counter, but typically by the time they're no longer stunned, you've made enough distance to not be M1'd.

Other than that I switch up perks constantly. Dance with Me would also be decent with a Head On build.

I never used DS before it got nerfed, now I only use it if there's a lot of camping and no slugging because if they're going to slug anyway, DS won't get used. Adrenaline is really good, but only once all the gens are done. It's too situational for me because I never go into a game thinking we'll get that far. Especially not at R1 in solo.

I used to love dead hard, but it was always a 50/50 of working. I don't get people saying it's OP when half the time you'd use it, you'd get hit, and get your exhaustion back like.. that's a slap in the face. It's mostly used to gain distance in chase as opposed to dodging a hit anymore. I didn't think it could get worse and then dedicated servers dropped.. I don't know what I prefer, people's awful ping or dedicated's god awful hitboxes.

I never use BT unless someone asks me to or I need to save people for a challenge. Typically you shouldn't be saving people if the killers terror radius is still on the hook. The only exception would be a face camping killer and I don't like to assume every killer is going to be this lame. Not to mention the counters to BT that make it useless. If you're asleep with Freddy, insidious, if you're affected by the undetectable status, or any stealth killers it's a waste of a perk slot in most of these cases.

Unbreakable is just situational, but definitely a clutch perk when it sees use. Some people like to argue that you recover faster so even after you use it to get up its still useful, but that's only good if anyone is willing to help pick you up or you're no mither and no smart killer will leave a no mither on the ground.

I don't run meta perks on either survivor or killer. I run whatever I feel like running, depending on which killer I using and how I want to play. As survivor, it depends entirely on who I am playing with, what perks I have available for that character, how many and who is in the chat group, how I feel like playing that night. It helps keep the game interesting for me. Sometimes I will just use 4 random perks see how it goes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Because it's boring. It's easy enough playing survivor so I run what ever I want because it literally doesn't matter.

Let's see. For DS, I only see a situation to us it maybe one in five games. Most times if I get tunneled like that, I get slugged for a minute anyway. Wasted perk slot most of the time

BT, useful against a camper, but rushing a hook that's being camped is not my style. I only run this if I have a challenge to "unhook safely" in order to ensure I can get it.

DH is horribly unreliable on dedicated servers. I run Sprint Burst now so that I can control when I need the speed. I tend to play more stealthy.

Adrenaline is ridiculously niche, only useful if you're injured and in a chase or if you've been slugged. Also relies on gens being completed and in the majority of my games, the other survivors are potatoes so that's unlikely.

Unbreakable is once per game and requires you to be slugged and abandoned for it to be useful even then. Pointless.

My typical build is self-care, sprint burst, iron will, and calm spirit. Lots of things to avoid detection and to help slip a killer in a chase as well as to keep myself healthy in the event I need to run past a killer for an exit, etc.

That's one reason why I "like" playing killer. There aren't many meta perks but many good ones. And you can address different builds to all your killers, So it's not always a toxic surv with OP full altruistic builds that makes killers give up their game. However I can't deny the fact that Ruin used to be essential for newer or less experienced killers to give them hope of winning.

I often don't live long enough to get the benefit of Adrenaline. DH is a bit dodgy, not always working when I want it to, DS just screams "tunnel me!", as does BT.

Also, one of the reasons I find DBD fun to play is because of all the different combinations of perks to try out. So even if I run a meta perk (never more than one at a time), I get bored of it quickly and try something else.

BORING

With how easy the game is for survivors, its actually sad to see people run those perks, but i get it, some players need help.

The fact that you can stack them is the problem of META, on their own, its not a problem.

I like to run bond, iron will, dead hard, and usually borrowed time. I will sub BT our for unbreakable or DS. Usually unbreakable. DS almost never works because killers play around it and using it as a minute of immunity is gross.

To address: DS, BT, Adrenaline, DH

It's because these perks don't define a "playstyle" (except Dead Hard, I quite like that one), they just make normal actions better.

I take a lot of joy in creating builds, and thinking about perk synergies, so just slapping on "the best" feels kind of hollow.

I think using them occasionally is fine, I don't usually run decisive, but having one in your build isn't bad. Everyone makes mistakes, and it's nice to have something that forgives making a mistake. Or using it to counter hardcore campers. But I'll never run all four of those at the same time. I feel like people who do run that build, do so to make up for them being bad. You shouldn't need 4 get out of jail free cards. I've seen survivors run Adrenaline, DS, DH, and either unbreakable or BT because they were bad at looping. And I feel that builds like those encourage camping.

I'd much rather have a forgiving perk like DH or DS, with spine chill or another information perk, an exhausting perk like balanced landing, and then something like prove thyself for gen speeds.

I just like to run different builds. Although when it starts feeling like I'm going against the same killer over and over again and they're being jerks, I will swap over to a meta build.

i play better when I run perks that don't give me any extra escapes.

I never run any of those, because I want to get better at chases and the game without relying on those. Maybe someday, I might if I feel that I'm getting good at it. I've been playing since June. I like to run deja vu to find the 3 closest gens. I also really like iron will, so my survivor won't be so loud. I've been running calm spirit lately because of all the doctors. My last perk is either windows of opportunity or kindred.

Maybe I'll try a meta perk build one day and see what happens.

I run Meta because I cant trust me team to save me. Especially now that it take 10min+ to find a game sometimes, I'd rather not risk losing BP or pip at all.

In that selection of perks I only run DS when I solo Q. I just get farmed and it can be really annoying to be tunneled.

I still run Balanced Landing and DH or Head on together because I find myself in need for one or the other mid chase a lot.

BT and Adrenaline are Eh. BT is easier to counter than DS, and Adrenaline is such a hit or miss perk I rather bring useful consistent perks instead. Same way with DS though. I either get slugged when I have DS and picked up immediately when I don't