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before balance nurse, I believe BHVR should buff low-tier killers, nurf toxic SURV playstyle and SWF

nam
nam Member Posts: 63
in General Discussions

Well, at the beginning, let's think about why more killers choose to practice nurse, even practicing nurse is the most suffering thing.

The only reason is, SWF teams are too strong, and some low-tier killers are too weak against them. There are many reasons, including, SWF can almost always choose an advantage map, SWFs can save Aura perks for others OP perk combos, and they have DC channel.

Besides, playing killer can often infuriating or depressing. Especially when facing toxic SWF: flashlights, stuns, infinite recover from dying combos. Maybe those combos are not strong, but they are toxic.

All of these force killer players to pursue a powerful character: the nurse, even practicing nurse is such difficult.

According to the above, I believe the root of all toxic, is SWFs too OP. If BHVR want to make a better environment, they should firstly nurf SWF's strength, and toxic perk combo. If they do so, killer players will get less pressure, they will be willing to play low-tier killers, and choose less toxic playstyles. After all, which horror movie fans don't want to main those license killer?

Comments

  • ImNotBobDylan
    ImNotBobDylan Member Posts: 221

    Yes please change every other killer, survivor, and the color of OP's house, but don't nerf Nurse.

  • Raptorrotas
    Raptorrotas Member Posts: 3,253

    Won't happen, this community doesnt judge survivors and killer equally.

    "Survivor needs to be buffed to the level of "Survivor with friends on comms" because the devs can't modify "with friends" or "on comms" and they cant nerf survivor because poor solo survivor is apparantly too weak. Can't nerf "god" survivors because "baby" survivors would suffer. And as far as i remember SwF cant be seperately adjusted because the devs 1) dont want to and 2) the survivors would be able to dodge said adjustments with lobbydodging till they#re "just 4 randoms who happens to be in each others friendlists and on a discord call to just talk about their days, the weather and cute boys, but not the game".

    On the other team we definitely, without alternatives have to nerf the top killers to put them on the level of the "average" killers. So we nerfed Billy, Nurse, Spirit and now Nurse is targeted again. No mercy for "baby" nurses tho because "god" are too good.

    sigh

    Sadly the most... reasonable? ... route would be to "buff solo to swf" and simultaneously "close the killer tier gaps" for killers ( buff/adjust all killers so they'd all be in the S-B tier range of the current S-D tier lists). But as already said, won't happen cuz the community doesnt want to be actually fair.

  • SuzuKR
    SuzuKR Member Posts: 3,910

    Why would you nerf SWF? Buff solo to their level and rebalance around that. You aren't stopping people from using things like Discord even if you remove the ability to SWF, since they could just time solo queue to get on the same team anyways. And removing ability to SWF would literally kill the game.

    SWF is fine, so is Nurse. People playing with friends or using options in the game is not toxic.

  • ad19970
    ad19970 Member Posts: 6,463

    I 100% disagree. Thing is, in a game like DBD, overpowered killers are always much more problematic than underpowered killers. Because with underpowered killers, even though it's not ideal, killer players can just not pick those killers, and instead use killers that are indeed viable.

    Survivors don't have that option when it comes to avoiding overpowered killers. Whether they want it or not, they will have to go up against an overpowered killer if that's what the killer player picked.

    Which is why nerfing overpowered killers in general should always have priority to buffing underpowered killers.

  • Rise432
    Rise432 Member Posts: 162

    how to make soloq survivor experience even more frustrating 101