Why do killers expect me to play against such build?

There is one big misconception that shows up in every balance discussion: "But I'm playing solo queue 😥"

There is no solo queue!

As long as SWF and solos are in the same queue, solo players will be at a disadvantage. This game simply cannot be balanced for both at the same time.

This.

Except Eruption is a perk that only works against people not on comms, if you suspect you're up against a SWF why would you ever bring it over more reliable gen defense like CI/Lethal/Pain Resonance/DMS/Deadlock/etc. when you're only getting 9 seconds of regression from Eruption?

-"if a Demo ran CoB and Nowhere to Hide, but paired it with something like Blood Echo and Gift of Pain. Would you class that as a meta build?"

STBFL is meta on Demo and Nemesis for an extremely good reason : you can play the game with full stacks almost without penalty. That would be way worse than just STBFL and 3 gen defense perks (or even a random DH and the whistle to protect it).

GOP sucks. If you could stack Thana, and 6 stacks of Dying Light and GoP on a survivor then yea that would be a crazy penalty. But it just doesn't work.

Likewise Blood Echo just has too much not going for it to really be a strong perk.

Cause base Gen regression is 1/4th of progression

Cause loops can be ran and connected

Cause Both Survivors and Killers are smart...

It does nothing if they are healing quickly and body blocking - a favorite tactic of coordinated SWF teams.

-"Upon being healed, the Survivor suffers from a 10/13/16% Action Speed penalty to Healing and Repairing until they are injured again."

You put Gop on them and they heal. Then they force you to hit them in a chase and don't go down. The same friend that healed them before with +90% heal speed then heal them again. Now there is no penalty.

All the while the 4th player has been slamming gens. The other two now come to blast a gen with 3 people using prove while you are still chasing the other guy.

Not in the eyes of many

Also thanks for answering the question

I cant believe this post came from you considering you think GoP is good.

-"Many people also think Distortion and Deliverance are B-tier perks."

Smart people don't think Deliverance is bad as it is super meta in comp. Deliverance is somewhat bad in solo queue and less than 3/4 man teams due to the very real meta of first person hooked = tunneled to death.

Distortion is "ok". It's useful in a SWF to know that the killer is running lethal or I'm all ears. But lots of killers can detect you without auras and then you wasted a perk slot. This is fine if you have a team build with 16 perks but that sucks if you are solo.

If you couldn't use voice coms in a SWF then distortion would be garbage.

I mean to be fair the Blight's build (Eruption, Call of Brine, Overcharge & Nowhere to Hide,) is pretty OP. I've been against a Wesker who ran a similar build who also sent us to a small map with an offering. He was on top of us before we could even move to figure out where the Gens were, let alone move or touch them.

So I can understand your frustrations OP.

Didn't say anything about being a survivor main. I play both sides about the same amount. Killer is currently 2 pips behind survivor but even still I've had more losses as survivor than I have as killer. Some killers are so broken once you learn their mechanics getting a 4k is pretty easy without the current meta stacking or hook camping.

Average survival rate went down from 47% to 39% but people say the game isn't at all killer sided and survivors are just acting all entitled.

If GoP is amazing then then why do I not see more people using that perk in regular games? It gets very niche play in tournaments.

If you play optimally as a non Blight/Nurse you are likely hard tunneling so the perk is pointless.

All those also have a requirement to even activate thats why they have no cool down.

BBQ you have to hook a survivor and if they are within a certain range you can't see them anyway.

Bitter Murmur a Gen has to be completed and you only see them for 5 secs if they are within 15m of the Gen and then 10 secs after last Gen is done.

Nurses they have to be healing within a 30m range of you.

No Where to Hide requires the Killer to kick a Gen and for 5 secs all survivors auras within 15m range are revealed

Floods of Rage requires a Scourge Hook which we all know can be messed up with RNG. But the Killer has to hook the Survivor on a Scourge Hook and basically works as a reverse BBQ. For 5 secs all survivors auras but the one unhooked are revealed.

So again those activation requirements are why they have no coolndowns....either thier range is limited or a few hoops have to be jumped through

-"I mean I'm not saying its a bad perk, its pretty decent. Its just there are other perks out there that are much more consistent and better than GoP."

That's basically the problem. If a perk is just "OK" but there are much better reliable perks that save more time every game then use those instead.

Most people might not agree but Bamboozle is a great perk on the right killers. You can basically force pallets much faster and that saves a lot of time. Many survivors don't know how to run tiles if you play the Bam card. And the ones that do know how to play against it are forced to play in a sub optimal manner.

Many of the "unfair" maps are made much more tolerable with BAM. Haddonfield is a night and day difference for example if you use it. But then there are maps like the game where it is almost worthless.

Maybe they expect you to play against such builds because you readied up to play a game, and MMR matched you against each other?

If your matches are too hard, lose more games.