Possible nurse changes (to make her require more prediction without outright nerfing her to hell)
i'd like to propose the nurse having an obstructed view while traveling during a blink (alterable through addons) where while she actually travels (ie is flying through the air towards her target) she has her vision blur and darken and possibly even dulled audio. perhaps while charging a blink, she can no longer see scratch marks or blood, as the pain from the blink causes her connection to the entity to worsen. Possibly give her a insidious "visual frame effect" while charging a blink blurring her peripheral vision
this would make you have to predict where the survivors are turning to, and make it harder to insta blink to someone, turn around knowing instantly where they duked to, and blink towards them and down them. it would require more precise blinking and prediction, because if you blink too far in a direction a survivor could then move out of your vision easier.
I'd also like to suggest that some extra blink addons don't stack (such as Dark Cincture) so having rare addons is required for extra blinks.
if the nurse had this blindness change where she can no longer see during blinks (or is really distorted) i'd suggest that addons lessen this effect. any addon that Increases fatigue duration should decrease the the sight penalty (as your already being penalized by not being able to see, so missing your blinks will now be your penalty.) (also any addon that increases fatigue duration should do it drastically)
Charge speed addons/addons that decrease fatigue time would also increase the blur (possibly even blacken the nurses view during a blink making her rely entirely on sound) as the penalty from missing a blink would be lessened (i also believe these addons should have a far greater effect, making the blinks have far less fatigue time)
You could also increase the lightburn effect, to make flashlights and party streamers more deadly to her, by (if doing it to her mid blink) causes her to be dropped out of her blink immediately (with no stun mind you). this would be hard to pull off solo mind you unless your already a fair distance from her, but if a team mate is with you, they should be able to target her and stop her to get her off you
Please let me know what you think in the comments of this post and upvote it if you think there's any merit to my ideas
edit : i play both killer and survivor at red ranks so the people saying that I just need to learn her or that she's in a perfect place are well, wrong Imo... Nurse is inherently very very good (imo too strong) hell it doesn't even take a good nurse to 4k. My suggestion was to simply implement counter play by making her vision blurred during the blinking phase making it harder to loop survivors. Considering she already negates pallets and most "normal" counter play I thought It might be a fair change.
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"nurse doesnt require a nerf stop demanding free hooks"
Im all for changeing / nerfing Nurse when it happens with the nerf of 4 man CWF.
She not getting changed and thats final
Did you even read the post mate :/
I believe the devs had said at some point they wish to look into tweaking nurse. i just wished to put my ideas out on how she could be tweaked to retain her power while nerfing her.
Is this a SWF buff? seems like it, sorry, but I don't agree with these changes, tbh Nurse is in a good spot right now, is she powerful within good hands? Yes, but she has an incredibly high skill floor, as in bad hands or moderate even she can preform very poorly, high risk high reward.
This would make the Nurse complete garbage. She's fine where she is.
Nurse should instant-down anyone within 4 meters of her path of travel, and at her destination.
When in doubt, strawman.
Your suggestion would make Nurse Freddy-tier. I'd suggest that you learn to play her so that you can get a better feeling for which changes could be reasonable.
I'd leave Nurse as she is, just some of her add-ons might need some adjustments.
Lol exactly.
"Nurse is fine, git gud".
*assuming i don't know how to play her
*gets consistent 4k's at rank 3 (highest i've been because i don't care about rank)
*suprised pikachu face.
But on a serious note the one thing that makes nurse so good is her ability to know where survivors are within her vision, and immediately travel to them to attack them. this simply opens up more blindspots for survivors to hide within.
They were planning on revisiting her add-ons while not touching her power.
I dont follow, define "know where survivors are in her vision" you realise that every killer knows where a survivor they can see is? Not like Nurse is the only killer with eyes. Also, you cant change direction midblink, so what do you mean by "immidiatly attack them" If anything Nurse is bad at tracking thanks to fatigue. Like I said earlier, Nurse is in a good place with how hard she is to play, just because you cant braindead loop her or escape easily providing the player is a good player.
on another note, can somebody get the "killer main btw meme" up in here? I feel it's appropriote.
@Maelstrom10
After reading your post, of course I assume you aren't an experienced Nurse player.
And hey, it's not a bad thing and I don't mean it in a bad way that you are lacking experience. It's a genuine advice when I suggest to get more experience in order to get a better feeling for reasonable changes.
Oh boy, suggesting a reasonable change for the Nurse to make her more in line with the Spirit, on the DbD forums? Rookie mistake...
This dude must've just got his arse beat by a good nurse.......
As been mentioned..... in the hands of a player who has invested their time into nurse they are actually rewarded-------> this is how games should be-----> practice and be rewarded....
A player who has not practiced or played nurse much will get stomped by rank 15s because she requires skill and time needs to be invested into her to get that skill...
Nurse can be predicted
Yup, and considering the only responses I'm getting are killer mains assuming I'm just a bad survivor who thinks the nurse needs to be "nerfed to hell". No I've put in the time to learn her and consistently get 4k's in red ranks. (I play both sides equally)
People just don't want nurse touched just like they don't want d strike or noed touched.
a risk that isn't even a risk with range/extra blink addons. and considering most of them run ruin as well it's completely unwinnable. nurse is stupidly strong on her own but her addons just make the game seem like its single player game against computers
@artist Range/extra blink add-ons don't help a player when they can't blink in the first place. Yes, some add-ons/combinations are too powerful, but that doesn't mean that the player simply has to select Nurse as killer to win a match.
People tend to ignore the add-ons because it messes with muscle memory unless it's a 3 to 5 blink or omega blink nurse. Yes it's hard to face her but no killer is flat out impossible to beat.
the same could be same with every killer. if u don't know what you're doing, perks/addons wont make u win. that doesnt change the fact that there are nurses that use these addons and become insanely better because they understand the basics of blinking
all killers for that matter, knowing the basics is all u need when ######### like noed, instasaw, etc. exist
Just remove her or rework the power like they are doing for freddy. She's broken