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Broken killers (powerful and weak)
Starting with the obvious.
Doctor: his power has too much range. He can find everybody within x meters of himself just by holding a button for a tiny amount of time. Then the shocks stay on you and stack. The person who has 3, screams so often you can’t get away. The doctor is way too over powered. (Also, saying he is difficult in the challenge rating is not true easiest killer to play)
Nurse: needs to be made faster. Or get rid of the exhaustion if you only blink once and don’t attack. The standard survivor will always be able to outrun the nurse.
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Um I don't see why either one of them needs to be touched at all. Nurse is still the strongest killer in the game and aside from a lot of bugfixes she does not need to be changed at all. Doctor's power is only as big as his TR 32 meters and you can deny the static blast by hiding in a locker or using calm spirit. This power is how he finds survivors and applies pressure, without the shocks staying on survivors he would have very little pressure. He also needs to wait to use the static blast as it does have a cooldown, And when you have 3 stacks when you snap out of it and don't fail the skill checks you don't scream. Also Freddy is much easier to play than doctor you actually need to time the shocks instead of just spamming snares at every loop, and freddy can cross map teleport by just "holding a button for a tiny amount of time" where as doctor's static blast only tells him where survivors are and applies 1 level of madness.
Also inb4 bait poster
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Nurse is one of the top three or four killers, she's just extremely hard to master. But in the hands of a Nurse main she's extremely deadly, the ability to completely ignore obstacles in a chase makes her chases very short and gives her some additional efficiency getting around the map.
That being said, Nurse is also I think the least fun killer to play. I can't stand using her because of the annoying wheezing every blink. I completely understand her potential for greatness but I would rather play her with her terrible add-ons that make her blink less in exchange for speed than play her normally. She doesn't need a buff, because she's already quite powerful if you play her well, but she does need a revamp because she's so unfun and has such a steep learning curve for new Nurse users that she's one of the least popular killers in the game despite having one of the coolest sounding abilities in principle.
If I was changing Nurse, I'd go with:
- Allow her to keep her head up and look around while stunned from a blink. That would at least make it less annoying. And if that's too powerful, simply make the blink refresh timer slightly longer to compensate.
- Make the Plaid Flannel add-on (which shows the exact spot Nurse is teleporting to) part of the base ability. That add-on is mainly only useful for new Nurse players who don't have muscle memory yet of how far they're blinking. Veteran Nurse players won't use it because to them it would be a wasted add-on slot. So just make it part of the base kit, that will help new players out when they start playing Nurse without them having to give up an add-on slot or spend bloodpoints to get the add-on in the process, all without significantly changing how veteran Nurses play.
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I don't think Doctor is "broken", his tracking is amazing and he has a decent chase ability with his Shock but his lack of a quick movement ability to get around the map or any way (without using perks) to get close to people before starting a chase keeps him from being in the top five or six killers. (The top killers, Spirit and Freddy and Nurse, all have an ability that is good in a chase and also a way to get around the map quickly.)
Finally I don't think any of the killers are broken in the sense of being so bad they can't reasonably keep up with survivors. Most of the killers are in the "good enough" bucket where if you play well you can win. The top killers simply have a little more leeway for mistakes than the average ones.
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I suggest you put a few more hours into the game, you're clearly new.
What you say is "the obvious" is only what newbie players say is "the obvious". There's a learning curve. So start learning and curving.
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Calm spirit makes static blast useless. Use it.
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Id be happy if they just fix nurses bugs. Since her rework I have difficulty blinking. I often fail to blink through objects. I try to go upstairs and I stay on ground lvl. I try to go down stairs and I stay up stairs. While teleporting on top of a survivor my auto aim locks onto a wall or debris.
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It doesn't make it useless. It just takes away it's precise tracking. Even with static blast, it tells you there's a survivor nearby, and still inflicts madness.
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Mate, doc is okay and nurse is actually the best in the game if you know how to play her. Your new here, try not to make any drastic calls till your more experienced.
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True, you do get whispers for one second.
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When we talk about doctor it's true he's been given a bit too much.
Right after his much needed rework he was doing great, but then the next patch it gave him even more which was not needed.
It could be worse but he's not the biggest offender, that'd be Pig. She relies on trap-tunneling strat to secure some kills which is rather cheap and boring for both killer and survivor, it leaves no interaction whatsoever due to the trap disarm RNG aswell, she requires a rework just right after Bubba.
And well, perhaps trapper/wraith could use some love too, I mean, the trapper is the symbol of the game after all.
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You people are too invested in a post that wants a Doctor nerf and a Nurse buff.
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you are clearly not serious right? you saying killer is op have you even thouth of all the jungle jims, to another jungel jim survivors have on several maps obviously you are a rank 20 noob complaning on stuff you don't know what you are talking about play the game more and learn more then I suggest you can start talking
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I understand what all of you are saying about the doctor. However, I see more people dc as soon as they find out it’s the doctor then any other killer. His power just has too much range. If I walk up to a geney that’s been even slightly worked on and use the area Blast. I am highly likely to find at least one person. Cause most people hide around the generators instead of trying to move off and find a different one.
and as for calm spirit. It’s only effective after you get it unlocked. Which for most characters won’t be for a long time since you need to be 35 to have the chance to get it in any character that isn’t jake.
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I was going to get to the pig eventually. I was caught. Bombed. Hooked. Got off the hook. Did one puzzle box and spent the rest of my short life running from the killer. No time to check another puzzle. Since apparently you need to find the right puzzle in a very short amount of time.
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So close. But 15 killer, and 12 survivor. Not 20. I main clown.
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I don't always complain about how a killer is OP but when I do it's a mid tier killer. KEKW
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I'd personally put Doc higher than mid tier. I'd say top tier. Probably A or high B tier. If you know what you're doing, you can deny god pallets with Doc. Essentially making them no longer god pallets.
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