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Why does everyone like playing meg, nea, feng and claudette

I just keep seeing those same survivors over and over and im like where are the janes, jeffs, etc. Most people would probably say because of their toxic looking cosmetics or being able to blend into the environment

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  • DbD_Enjoyer
    DbD_Enjoyer Member Posts: 459

    I like to play Kate because of her ass and Elodie because of her wonderful scream that sounds like music to my ears :)

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814
    edited May 2021

    They're all free (Feng is free on console), and female survivors are better for stealth purposes.

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,028

    jane and jeff, dont have nearly as many cosmetics as the others you mentioned, and Claudette is cute (not the new version tho, sad face), and female survivors tend to be easier to hide with, tho i think they have louder moans of pain if i remember

  • th3
    th3 Member Posts: 1,845

    It felt better controlling a smaller playermodel. Using one of the males just felt clunky after getting used to Meg, Nea, Feng etc.

  • Zozzy
    Zozzy Member Posts: 4,759

    They are shorter and harder to see.

    On the game i can see male heads over some of the structures and throw trixter knives at them but i can't see the females.

  • Hoodied
    Hoodied Member Posts: 13,020

    I'm gonna create a ruckus



    They are all hot so us gamers main them

  • thrawn3054
    thrawn3054 Member Posts: 5,897

    They're free helps alot. Lots of cosmetics is another point on their favor. Lastly Jane and Jeff are ungodly loud.

  • Kirkylad
    Kirkylad Member Posts: 1,927

    The girls just have better cosmetics honestly.

  • Squirrel_Thicc
    Squirrel_Thicc Member Posts: 2,677

    Because they're female survivors, female survivors are objectivity more popular. And...they're free, well feng is free on console at least.

  • katoptris
    katoptris Member Posts: 3,181

    I run feng cause she a gamer and the fact she competitive like me.

  • DemonDaddy
    DemonDaddy Member Posts: 4,167

    Starter Survivors with the meta perks, just usually means they are the first to have a majority of load out options

  • C3Tooth
    C3Tooth Member Posts: 8,266

    Because Meg Nea Clau are default survivor?

    A new player forced to play the same 7 survivors. Usually they will attracted to a character they play for a while, and main happens.


    I wish Devs only give Trapper and Dwight as default for playable on both side, remove other 6 survivors and 4 killers. Give new player 45.000 shards so they can get any characters they want. From there the diversity will gain

  • Gardenia
    Gardenia Member Posts: 1,143

    I play Jane, we exist~

  • miketheratguy
    miketheratguy Member Posts: 2,719

    I began by maining Dwight, Meg, Claudette and Nea because those were the free characters that I felt had the most useful perks for my playstyle. Now that I've begun prestiging and teaching perks between characters I find them mostly interchangeable except for Meg, who I like playing the most because I find her cute.

    When I start building up extra BP I'll move onto other characters like Jeff and Kate, etc.

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    Because most players aren't good enough to handle Jeff /s

  • swager21
    swager21 Member Posts: 1,019

    meg has good perks and shes one of the OGs

    nea because of no0b3

    feng because most people have an asian fetish? idk

    claudette because self care and blendette

  • JHondo
    JHondo Member Posts: 1,174

    I play Nea the most because of the lore and cosmetics. As an artist I just kinda connect with her I guess. I'd probably be a Jeff main if he had some cooler cosmetics because I also really connect with his lore.

    Feng has some cool looks and was my first survivor so I play her a lot too.

    I also play a lot of Felix because I like his look and imo he's kinda hot lol

  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,531

    Mainly because they are free and attract newer players

    We need more Jeff mains though

  • Jasix
    Jasix Member Posts: 1,245

    Everyone doesn't.

    Meg and Claudette are free so a lot of people start with those survivors.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 16,287

    Several reasons:

    • smaller (which I would say is not the main reason, I would guess, otherwise we would not see so many colorful cosmetics used)
    • free, so people are most likely starting with one of those Characters
    • better Cosmetics than male Survivors, at least in my opinion, females get more cosmetics and prettier ones, so you have a larger variety and more chance to be unique with your looks
    • Old Characters, players who are playing for a longer period of time will most likely play those characters for a while and they are less likely to main another Character, because they would need to get all Perks again.
  • sulaiman
    sulaiman Member Posts: 3,219

    I play Claudette because she is the superior stealth character, and thats my playstyle. You can do it with others too, i do play Jeff that way, but since killers use brightness filters to cheat on visibility, you have to take the edge.

  • Rivyn
    Rivyn Member Posts: 3,022

    Bunny ears go flippity flop.

  • FreddysMain
    FreddysMain Member Posts: 289

    Maybe because they are free, I main Meg though even if i have other survivors.

  • whammigobambam
    whammigobambam Member Posts: 1,201
    edited May 2021

    Being the first survivors played and we got to know the game with kinda reserves a spot for some as survivors we want to play well with and keep alive and fight harder for rather than a loud grunting man or some other unfamiliar sound byte.

    Also when I go down and see survivors standing around the scream Meg makes matches how I feel to a T.

  • ALostPuppy
    ALostPuppy Member Posts: 3,398

    "toxic looking cosmetics"? Tf? Since when were items of clothing considered toxic? You people have an extremely unhealthy obsession with this word I swear.

  • gibblywibblywoo
    gibblywibblywoo Member Posts: 3,772

    Female characters are smaller and easier to hide in plain sight with. Also female characters, lets face it, have the best cosmetics.

  • TheRockstarKnight
    TheRockstarKnight Member Posts: 2,171

    A combination of factors.

    - Those four are some of the oldest playable Survivors. This is meaningful for multiple reasons.

    If you started in 2016, you had a 60% chance to have your first Survivor be Meg, Claudette, or Nea. If you start in 2021 you still have around a 42.06~% to pick one of them as your first Survivor, unless you're on console or you buy DLC right off the bat.

    Streamers probably play one of these characters too. People are more attracted to characters they recognize. If you've watched someone play Nea a couple times, you're probably going to pick her to play as - assuming you're new to the game.

    - They are all free.

    - They are all female; which is relevant because it gives an advantage.

    All Survivors have one of two character models, and the female one is smaller. In a game about evading from an unstoppable Killer, being a tiny bit smaller and shorter can make a big difference.

    It also doesn't hurt that being smaller makes it easier to 360 out of the Killer's FOV, crouch under their FOV, or see where you're headed in chase.

    There's also the fact that this is a slasher horror game.

    Any horror nerd worth their salt can probably name 6 or 7 Final Girls. And even people only tangentially aware of slasher films know the gist of the Final Girl trope.

    By contrast, how many of you can name a Final Boy that isn't either Tommy Jarvis or Andy Barclay?

    And do you think anyone unaware of Child's Play or not intimately aware of Friday the 13th will know who those two are?

    - They all have perks that are attractive to newer players.

    Meg has one of the strongest teachable perk loadouts in the game. Claudette has Self-Care and a perk that tells you when and where your teammates get hurt as well as a perk that speeds up Self-Care and makes healing your teammates easier. Nea has Urban and an Exhaustion perk. And Feng has Alert and an Exhaustion perk.

    - And all of those characters also receive a large amount of cosmetics. IIRC Meg has almost 100 skins, and Nea, Claudette, and Feng all have over 50.

    Cosmetic variety is going to attract players and the odds of having a cosmetic someone likes enough to buy goes up the larger your amount of cosmetics.

    And because people buy the cosmetics BHVR is going to keep making them.

    ----

    TL;DR ::: It's advantageous to play as them and they're popular characters with good base perks and a lot of cosmetics.

    It's something of a miracle you ever see anyone else.

  • premiumRICE
    premiumRICE Member Posts: 798

    cause they are sexy as hell

  • FondaDix
    FondaDix Member Posts: 173

    I'm a killer main and I think it's gross that well know streamers even use brightness filters. I don't know why folks have difficulty with this whole concept of cheating and what it is. Turning down your graphics quality on top of using filters is....cheating.

  • DragonMasterDarren
    DragonMasterDarren Member Posts: 2,850

    smaller frame plus usually darker clothes = easier to hide

    since stealth is a pretty useful tool in this game a lot of people generally play the female characters to make this a lot more effective

  • WormMilk
    WormMilk Member Posts: 118

    They just feel alot more easier to control. When I play as any male character I just feel as if he's not moving fast enough and that he takes up so much screen space. Most of the female characters back story are also presented with the idea that they're pretty athletic too so it kind of drives the mind set that they move faster than others.

  • DwightFairfield
    DwightFairfield Member Posts: 1,246

    Because they like staring at ass while running from a killer

  • WiiFitTrainer
    WiiFitTrainer Member Posts: 788

    They're all cuties except for nea.

    I'm not sure why more people don't play Kate as well, she's fiiiiine.

  • dnj510
    dnj510 Member Posts: 438

    Probably for the cosmetics. Plus, female survivors are able to hide better within the environment than their male counterparts. And as someone else said, they are free to play as.

  • Ryan489x
    Ryan489x Member Posts: 1,501

    I've been seeing a hell of a lot of fengs when I play killer for some reason.

  • ShamelessPigMain
    ShamelessPigMain Member Posts: 1,877

    Because they're filthy casuals.

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,669

    for me thats because i never really bothered putting points into anyone that wasnt Claudette, as they are all just reskins.

  • IOIOO
    IOIOO Member Posts: 61

    They are like the symbol of pros

  • notstarboard
    notstarboard Member Posts: 3,903
  • Kate_Main_01
    Kate_Main_01 Member Posts: 504

    Nea has the closest thing to 'edgy' street clothes for the female characters.

    Meg is an OG character. Once the graphics update comes out she'll actually look cuter too which will boost people playing her.

    Feng is the OG Asian girl and admittedly has some pretty adorable cosmetics. And with her Technician skill she's a great starter for people learning to hit the skill checks.

    Claudette is Blendette. She's also arguably got the most grating female scream which I've known some people to choose for that reason.


    Personally, I am surprised there are not more Kate players. She's got some really fantastic cosmetics (some of her Rift clothes, like the sweater with the backpack, are adorable) and her sounds are a lot less obnoxious, though that's subjective. She's also got a pretty awesome backstory and has total Final Girl vibes. I suspect that once we get her graphics update and she's 'hotter' we'll see more of her.

  • Akito
    Akito Member Posts: 673

    I started playing Dbd in Nov 16. I remember one Dev Stream where a girl who looked like Claudette sang a song with a guitar. I was impressed and since then Claudette become my main. Sometimes I play someone different of course, but she's my main, my rootes. And she has the most items/the biggest inventory.

    Call it.. emotional reasons.