What did you prefer Dead By Daylight or Friday 13th

DBD For Sure. Friday the 13 is a Trash Game

DbD easily. The main problem with Friday is that it's basically a dead game and by "dead" I mean not the lack of players or anything like that, but unability of developers to adequately progress further with the game due to the whole thing with legal fight over rights to the franchise.

Also, these games are pretty different, they feel different (at least for me), both gameplaywise and balancewise. Basically the only thing that connects them, imo, is the whole idea of a killer hunting down survivors. So, that being said, it pretty much depends on what type of gameplay you prefer. Personally for me Dead by Daylight is more fun and interesting. And I can't really say anything bad about the Friday - it's just not my cup of tea.

no chance F13 is better, have you seen the match cue? and people moan about match times on DBD, i deleted it after no games all day once

Not a really popular opinion but a mix of nostalgia and the fun I had with friends made that game so wonderful for me. You could have way more friends in one game, multiple objectives. Jason was fun to play and could wreck if you were experienced with the shift learning curve. I left dead by daylight for F13 at the time. Dead By Daylight is still a great game, don't get me wrong that's why I still play it. But depending on the content added in F13 if the lawsuit didn't happen. I might have played F13 a little more.

Lemme tell you about Friday the 13th, since you're asking. 🤣

I started playing Friday the 13th when it launched back in May 2017. Cuz hey, I love that franchise! The idea sounded pretty neat to me. I also purchased Dead by Daylight around the same time, out of curiosity (but I didn't really get into it much until about a year and a half later, after I finally walked away from Friday the 13th).

Friday the 13th was opaque. Like, OPAQUE AS HELL. Entire game mechanics were vague, more vague than anything we currently deal with in DBD. Oh, "considerably improves" such and such? That at least gives you some actionable information about what the perk does. But what about Friday the 13th? What does, I dunno, the Stealth stat do, just to pick out one specific thing? Well, if you asked people on Reddit or the forums, they would tell you that it let you hide from Jason in cabins, or made you undetectable by his aura-reading, or impacted your fear accrual. So I ran a bunch of tests to see what it actually did, and it turned out that it affected the "noise pings" that Jason sees when you run. Literally nothing else was impacted by this stat, not one thing. And the numbers on Stealth and other stats (rated 1-10) were radically disproportionate, and the numbers in some cases meant almost nothing (Stealth levels 6-8, for instance, were effectively identical).

I dug into the weeds with all of the counselor stats. Then with Jason's different powers and skills. Then with weapon stats. Then with item locations and map population mechanics (actually this was one of the first things I hashed out). I reverse-engineered almost everything in the game, because the developers didn't want to define anything beyond vague descriptions.

I made a bunch of exhaustive Steam guides (which you can see here, although I presume they are outdated at this point).

I worked with a team of really good players, including a guy named Pappus (who was super-committed to educating other players on high-level play), to essentially hash out the "meta" for Friday the 13th, as it were. We figured out the best perks to run, how many hits you could take from a huge number of actions, what the best weapons were for demasking or interrupting Jason, how Jason's teleport grid worked, how Jason interacted with objects like cars and water, how many of each item spawned per map, and how many different unique variations there were of each map (including how to immediately intuit which variation you were on, since the maps were static).

Then I got sick of everything surrounding the game. Its sycophantic forum community fervently shouted down serious discussion of strategic play. Its developers effectively abandoned it for months on end; I feel that they used the at-the-time-pending franchise rights lawsuit as convenient cover to avoid devoting even basic bug-fixing resources to it while they shifted gears to work on a different game (Friday the 13th was still rife with awful game-destroying exploits when I left). And the publisher continued to release it on console platforms even in its half-baked state, and got their big payday. They completely squandered a slam-dunk franchise, and the one serious competitor DBD has ever had.

But I wanted something to scratch that itch and, uh, here I am and here I've been. Props to Behaviour for being very diligent about supporting their game.

If the lawsuit never happened and the devs didnt abandon F13, i would have gladly played way more. But it did, and the game suffered.

According to game stats, F13 at peak some days has 1000 players on steam on the weekend

Dbd on steam charts, can have 20000 plus playing in the past few months consistently, and cross play is available. And honestly dbd is just more variety filled than f13, its just unfortunate i like asymetrical games

DBD has a more arcade feel to it and Friday the 13 is more of a horror. personally i prefer the more arcade style dbd

It's a huge opinion based, for me, dead by daylight is better even tho.

There's no option for both.

Friday the 13th really did bring the Genre FIRST into the light.