Prediction for Nurse on 6.5.0 Live
- Nurse builds will swap to full slowdown.
- As a result, Nurse’s kill rates will go up at least slightly, because quadruple slowdown is much easier to succeed with than Exposed, as well as much stronger.
- As a result, people will complain even more about Nurse when the actual problem is stacking slowdown perks/certain slowdowns being too strong.
- There will be people who miss Exposed Nurse builds because they were way easier to counter (just leave the area/run Distortion to block auras/don’t be close to a recent slug/spread out/hide if she’s nearby/etc) and comparatively weaker, and typically took up at least half her build (Starstruck + Agitation), sometimes more if there are aura perks to assist.
- Quadruple slowdown will make facing Nurse tremendously more painful than before for people, as it is way more difficult to counter and way stronger, especially in solo when people can’t communicate to avoid Incapacitated from Eruption.
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Considering that I do the same....
Would it not be better if you didn't need to do that? Wouldn't it be better if the game was more fun for everyone?
Knight is probably one of the easiest killers to face. He's in the same category as trapper.
Are you actually suggesting that people would rather go against Legion than Knight? I can't believe that for one second.
Sure, but the reality is that it’s not and is probably impossible to balance that way. My main point was that it’s a mistake that so many people label that style of play as being unskillful. If it wins, it doesn’t matter
It's funny, but I can totally relate to your mention of this "paranoia" ... it's true that sometimes I think, "No but wait ... I just gave him the secret technique of the ultimate bluff, kept secret for over 50 years ... it HAD to work!" 🤣
At the moment, since the PTB has just closed, I do like you, as far as I am concerned , I only use the addons allowing to be undetectable after a hit, and the one that makes the survivors scream, because it's the ones that are the closest to the addons that the nurse will have at his disposal, in the 6.5.0; the least we can say is that even if during some games, we feel the difference with the reloads / range addon, in the end, the muscle memory adapts very quickly, and now, I don't pay attention to it anymore 😉
As for his killrate, I don't know how it will behave ... in fact, it would be interesting to know the proportion of nurses who are really beginners, because a decent nurse will have no problem to adapt to the new addons 😀
Obviously, there is no such thing as a perfect game; and besides, camping/tunneling is not a problem and is completely justified in some cases; in fact, it's really when the killer goes into hard camp and tunnels someone for the entire game that it's a behavior that reeks of relentlessness.
In my experience landing the second blink with Nurse is much harder than the first, so exposed builds on her made her incredibly easier. Without that surge of wannabes Nurse-mains that relied on that, we'll be left with true Nurse-mains (that were always terrifying, slowdown or no slowdown) and bad Nurse players who struggle to land that second blink, and thus can't use well slowdown perks. All in all I think she will return to a pre-Starstruck state.
I don't understand, what are you talking about when you say : "(...) landing the second blink (...) is much harder than the first, etc." ?
I don't understand exactly what you mean in your post 🤔😯
See and this is because nurse mains have a hazing period when they first start playing, or at least there used to be before bots were a thing but that specific killer has the hardest learning curve and you get bullied a lot before you start being good enough to smack a squad down like they're nothing
True !
That's part of why I have a soft spot for them. I'm bad enough at survivor to sometimes go against some really new Nurses, who still struggle a lot. I always give them a kill and props in the chat, to pay it forward =)
Nurses are already using slowdown builds. Not every Nurse uses Starstruck.
Dont whine, behavior already did a nerf
This was barely a nerf.