(unfortunate souls) Who still play Nurse, thoughts?

I'm newer to nurse and honestly don't have a problem with her. I don't think I'm god tier with her or anything but I don't think she needs a buff at all. I have no problem blinking once to get close and then the second to get on top of them and hit them. Then I wait for my two blinks to recharge and do the same thing. I don't find it that hard or anything that you guys talk about. Yeah it's annoying when I miss a attack but that isn't that often. As for the looking down after blinking, it's annoying to begin with but I got used to it rather quickly. She is still the best imho and the buffs your guys talk about would be stupid. Especially more blinks.

I can only play her in small doses. Way too much effort for the reward now. Too much easy counterplay for smart survivors to utilize. They never asked themselves why anyone would choose Nurse after the changes. There's no compelling reason to take her over Spirit IMO.

She actually does. It's setup time. Can't apply pressure if have to walk places where nobody is yet. So she have to play in very specific way as well. But the punishment isn't that bad compared to Nurse, even though all her setup can be easily destroyed with little coordination or even play against her because of lack of QOL things (she keeps getting teleported to wrong clones, so best strat is run around and trigger all you can while Hag is in chase).

I should also mention that the only add on I use is the flannel sense I'm still getting used to the distance for blinks

Well if I can 4k in red ranks and you can't then I don't see how I'm the baby. I can do it without it but she's not my main and I don't play this game 24/7 I have alot of stuff to do outside of this game. The flannel just ensures that I won't screw up. Maybe try it and then maybe you'll actually be decent with her instead of complaining about her. But hey it's just a thought.

i’ve played nurse since i first got the game and honestly don’t have that many hours with her, i kinda picked up on her power quickly. i’m rank 1 as well and never fail to get 3k or 4k

That's when you're meant to add screenshots that you get matched against not browns or actually use a blink build without walking addons.

She's fine and fun. I still play her every now and then and do decent with her.

When I say that I'm newer to her I have somewhere around 70 or 80 hours with her. So by no means am I an expert. For the first couple hours I would only have a 1k or 2k game but I found it got alot easier when I didn't mind game at all and just blinked directly to them. Maybe it's just the people I go against, I honestly don't know. The only thing I could see changing is the looking down after blinking. Was that a thing on old nurse too?

I feel like the devs should definitely take a look at her and tweak something so that she'd be more fun to play as while still keeping her strength at a reasonable level.

Nowadays I only play her with the add-on which makes her movement speed 4.2 m/s and removes one blink. That way I don't have to monitor the power bar.

You absolutely have to mind game her blinks. I'm not sure where to even begin with that. The quick aim camera flick as you release the blink charge is a baseline high rank Nurse tech. You'll have a very hard time catching red rank survivors at LOS breaks if your aren't mindgaming your blink destination. They can see where you're aiming and can hear how long you're charging for.

I know the distances I'm just not confident in myself if that makes sense. I've ran her without the flannel add on just fine. I just run it because it ensures I don't screw up if that makes sense. Also I'm wondering if the red ranks in my area arnt as bad as everyone else. 99% of the people I play with are casual and I never come up against sweaty swf.

Not to mention, that you simply cannot catch a survivor running around a staircase or statues, or through pride rocks Because you could not blink through those, and the survivor moves faster than you

The cooldown mechanic was just the traditional lazy dev fix but I much prefer it over a bigger cooldown that was necessary for old nurse

Red rank Nurse main here, I still play her since her change, it has done nothing to affect my playstyle. TL;DR in the bottom paragraph; but, Nurse is as easy (imo) as before so here is my not-so-short explanation why:

When I learned how to play Nurse (~6 or 7 months after her release) I played her without addons as at the time they changed her power too much to be predictable. I learned how to utilize my blink amount and when I should or shouldn't blink. A survivor running in the open = double blink; survivor running to a walled off area with a whole bunch of lockers/hidden views = single blink/fatigue and listen for auditory cues on where they are moving to or from. Back then I never blinked right after a fatigue because the more I blink the more I fatigue (i.e. less sight on survivors [not good]). I used my blinks in variable amounts of time (close to than what we have now) to get to the survivors, play variable mindgames, and have fun, all while not 'try-harding' too much.

How does that work with the 'new' Nurse change? Absolutely nothing changed, it enforced my wait a certain period before blinking so I can maximize my visual perception while in a chase, when I need to blink I am left with a view of the ground and audio for my main perception.

Nurse is only as good as you make her and that can be dependent on certain maps or against certain groups (aka SWF groups - tbh I love these groups, they normally are really fun and others are easy to get a 3k/4k but I'm not here to gloat - I usually let most groups go as I can pip easily without many sacrifices at red ranks). But if you have problems with Nurse you either took advantage of then more than 2 blink Nurse addons or blinked as soon as your fatigue was over - obviously neither was fun to play against since that made Nurse easy to catch up to people and break most chances of escaping. As a Nurse main who never did such things I frowned on those kind of Nurse players as it was an obvious game design flaw in her - which has been removed for obvious reasons.

If you want a good build to help you learn her run the following: BBQ and Chili, Thanataphobia, Agitation, and Bloodwarden. That's it. Why? I'll tell ya! BBQ will let you hone in on where survivors are if not in range of the hook, this does not mean you need to go after them, but its nice to know who/how many is/are close or not to a hooked survivor. Thanataphobia slows down the game just a little bit for you to keep the game in your favor. Agitation will speed up your carry speed to faster than your normal movement speed by just a bit, this allows you to hook someone faster and give you more time to get back to learning her ability and playstyle that works for you. And finally Bloodwarden, a lot of people will sit at gates once open against a Nurse because they think they can wait on you to be near and then escape - you are the slowest killer afterall. If you have downed someone most teams will still wait inside or near the gate which gives you ample opportunity to down more survivors - and this will teach you how to play the EGC with her should the survivors get cocky).

TL;DR: Nurse is good if you know how to maneuver around the map with and without using blinks. Not all hits have to be right after a blink. Not all chases end or start with a blink. Have patience and take the time to use her, she is amazing when you get to know her (and you can run them around once you know how to play her!). It's still fun to play her vanilla (no addons, perks, offerings) and just go about happily. My recommendation to play Nurse: 10/10! These Nurse threads should stop as it just takes some time to learn a killer who is rated as "Hard" in the game and not let a few matches ruin it for them; I sometimes have bad matches but that's happens on both sides no matter who you play or run, its just a time of the day/night thing and who else you are playing with really.