Nurse's Rework Idea - Candles

AnnoyingNarrator

Nurse needs a nerf badly. The reason why is that she fails a pretty important test for a killer to be balanced to go up against: Do survivors have enough information to be able to loop her? The answer in many cases is no. This is because of two main factors.

1. Nurse's addons are some of the best in the game and are hard to understand.
2. Nurse's power does not give enough information to survivors to be able to react too.

My way to fix these two problems is to add a new mechanic to the Nurse in the form of candles that can be carried around. If the Nurse is blinking towards a location within a range of the candle, her target blink location is revealed. The catch is that these candles burn out.

I made another post that goes into more details on how the exact mechanics work, but I instead want to focus on why I think this addition helps solve those two problems.

By adding another mechanic to Nurse, we are also adding more options to what addons the Nurse can have. It gives the designers more wiggle room to create actually intersting addons instead of just gutting the current ones.

When it comes to the question of information, I want to stress that I think that Nurse is not as broken as some people think she is. Rather, I think that by giving survivors a little bit more information on what the Nurse is doing can go along way in making her more fun to up against. On top of that, Skilled Nurses could look another direction to hide where they are planning to blink but have to risk losing sight of their target.

If you want to read more about how I would implement this idea with some actual numbers, look here.

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/330757/nurse-nerf-idea-candles#latest

colley94

You should know by now that Nurse reworks are not what the devs want. They like having a killer that makes people stop playing the game.