A Proper "Nerf Nurse" Thread
What is this thread?
I know some people are definitely tired of seeing "nerf nurse" threads, especially the ones with little to no contributions towards providing proper feedback an ideas, so I went out of my way to collect some of the community's best ideas towards lowering Nurse to be on par with other killers.
This is not a thread about me complaining about Nurse, while I do have my issues with Nurse, this thread is entirely devoted towards community ideas. I want people to have a place to properly discuss potential ways of balancing Nurse in a productive way.
Community's Ideas...
Special Attacks:
Many people in the community want Nurse's Blink Attack to count as Special Attacks. It's pretty common knowledge that Nurse's Blink Attack counts as a Basic Attack, which grants them access to slowdown such as Sloppy Butcher as well as Exposed perks such as Make Your Choice and Star Struck. These perks can be really problematic in a casual setting so reducing the effectiveness of such is a good start.
Pallets:
As many of you know, Pallets are borderline useless against Nurse, and while you can stun a Nurse while they are Blinking (which requires good timing and skill), doing so will in most cases still result in a hit. To make things more fair for the survivors who get the proper timing down for such, many people in the community believe that the Nurse should lose all of their power's tokens and be forced to recharge their power when stunned by a Pallet. Which would require the Nurse player to play around Pallets more cautiously, using their ability to go through walls to their advantage to avoid said Pallets.
Reduced Terror Radius + New Lullaby:
This one community idea is meant specifically to reduce the potency of Star Struck on Nurse but allowing Nurse players to use Exposed perks. Reducing the Nurse's Terror Radius does not completely elimination the usage of Star Struck but makes it less likely to be used in certain settings, however due to the reduced Terror Radius, survivors might not be alerted so much to the Killer's positioning, so a Lullaby mechanic similar to Huntress or Trickster is meant to supplement such.
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Comments
you're just wrong. i don't speak for anyone except my dbd friend group but we all enjoy running nurse 1v1s and getting chased by her in general. and i know we are not the only ones that feel that way