Is meta fun?

The META is only fun while it is used on casuals, after it's used on other meta users it is just depressing.

When you use the META on people not running the META themselves you have an absurd advantage. This let's you crush your enemies with ease and affords you several mistakes and removes all of the pressure from your role.

When you use the META on other META players the game just becomes a super competitive "Sweaty" match of intense plays where a single error will unmake you.

If you like competitive play, use it all the time. If you like chill games, only use it every third game or so and mix up your builds.

@DudeDelicious I gotta ask then, have you ever had Buckle Up be useful?

Fun is subjective.

I'm not win at all costs but I don't want to be stomped either.

Times I've tried a fun killer build its mainly the survivors that have had the fun. Wouldn't be so bad but you know what survivors are like - want to rub it in or be waved off at the exit gate.

For killer these days Ill usually run Ruin, PGTW and BBQ for every build and one 'fun' perk which I change out.

As a killer you have a bit more freedom to define your own fun.

You really can play, meme or rp all you want and nobody can stop you.

But as survivor you compete with 3 others, who may have different definition of fun and winning. That's where most of the frustration lies.

If you just play item collector, go in with Plunder's, Ace and a White Ward you can get your value out of the match. To you it's fun and BP wise it's smart. But all the time you "waste" searching chests and 2 perk slots that don't help you survive and/or do gens better hinders other survivors who just want to escape asap.

You may have a blast but in their eyes you ruin their game...

That's DBD...

I personally love playing my own perk combinations but luckily or sadly kind of the most of my favorite perks are meta perks without even knowing or before the got meta. Pop, I always LOVED pop, the 30sec was back in the days just really niche, it was hard to pull it off but I loved it and used it often on some fast killers, now its meta oof.

Spirit fury, I love it and it was a long time ago meta, its still strong but not that popular atm. I love BBQ, I use it on almost every killer, not just because of BP, I just love getting rewarded for doing my JOB and hooking survivors and find directly the next to chase. Theres nothing I hate more as killer then just running around without a clue where everyone is.

I typically only use 2-3 builds, a healing build, a boldness build (Head-On, Iron Will, Q&Q and Inner Strength: Beautiful loadout) and my No Mither build (NM, DH, Resilience, and Iron Will). I find my Boldness and No Mither build to be the most fun, No Mither being the most interesting to play, though I win more with my Boldness build and winning is extremely fun to me.

Personally, using meta perks ready depends on how you have fun, some want to win, some want to relax, others wanna bully the killer, while another person just wants to survive--Really depends on what kind of playstyle you like :/

Well some people’s metas are different from a “general consensus” meta.

My survivor build is Spine Chill, Iron Will, Dead Hard, and Small Game.

Now I don’t usually have anxiety but holy ######### Dead By Daylight gets to me every time if I don’t have Small Game because usually when I don’t cleanse every totem, there’s NOED. (Though Dead Hard isn’t really a must I just like it more because 1: I play on PS4 where latency is at its worse and 2: I can extend a chase slightly longer).

But Spine Chill and Iron Will are an absolute must have for me and are my true meta perks that I absolutely don’t want to enter a match without.

However it appears that Killers have a more uniform meta. Like BBQ and Ruin (and if they have Ruin they take Haunted Grounds) and most Killers take these perks. Certainly no BBQ will make the game harder for Killers than opposed to if they did have it.

So it’s kinda a matter of play style and what Killer is chosen.

I use three meta perks but not because they’re meta, but because they’re the most effective for me and for me, I do like winning.

The thing about the "meta" build for survivors, is that theyre very good second chance perks. Some people find there fun in just the basics of the game, the gen doing/killer chasing parts, and these perks really help them do that, and dont just get them dead quickly.

Just because its meta, doesn't mean theyre just slaves to it. Its meta for a reason, and its stupid to make yourself weaker without a reason, just because "harder is funner"