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Nurse feels awful to play
This probably isn't new to a lot of you but I thought I would share my first real night of playing nurse even though I have a lot of hours in the game as whole. So a bit of a rant.
So with the new tome I figured I would give nurse a try. I havnt really played her at all and thought this would be a good time to pick her up.
I figured all the complaints about her were overblown. Oh boy was I wrong.
Blinking is so inconsistent. Sometimes I'll end up a floor above or below me without me looking up or down.
Sometimes I'll just stop mid blink on a rock. Like #########? I can teleport through entire buildings but not a 3 foot rock?
Attacking after a blink seems to pull me towards nearby objects A LOT more than with other killers.
After blinking I sometines can't attack. Before fatigue has activated its like my mouse clicks won't register and I simply eat the fatigue.
Lunges seem to be incredibly short, but that might just be my inexperience with her.
Dead hard. Oh man is it depressing to finally land a perfect blink only for dead hard to "lol no hit for u" and restart the chase all over again.
It's no wonder you hardly ever see nurses anymore. It's way to frustrating. I don't think I'll be picking her up again after her challenges are done.
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It's actually the best time to play nurse right now. The hitboxes are so messed up you can hit a survivor from much farther away. You don't need to be super accurate with your blinks at this moment.
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No.
The hitboxes were NEVER messed up, it was always just a case of bad latency and desync that would have literally ZERO impact on the nurse in particular.
Also, yeah, Nurse feels AWFUL to play, and it's the main reason why she see's so little play. It's sadly a trend with DbD killer design, where they feel the need to make the experience of playing the killer directly related to how strong it is. The strongest it is, the most unbearable it is.
There's literally NOTHING fun about the way the exhaustion plays out, losing control of your character, and in particular your vision is one of the most aggravating design feature you could ever put in a game.
The second most aggravating design feature would be to have controls you have to wrestle with, and that's precisely the second part of DbD killer design.
Trying to land a hit at the end of a Oni dash is painful, trying to bounce around with the Blight is awful, trying to hit someone with your very janky throw up projectil as plague is just the opposite of fun.
I'll be honest, I'd rather have killer with weaker abilities but actual fun gameplay and control, ones that dont shame my screen around and mess while making fight with some awkward abilities than having something like the nurse, with extremely good ability that comes with a huge load of constant kick in the nuts.
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the only time to play her is exploiting the hit boxes? yeah so you agree they nerfed her to dogshit
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Only if your ping is bad...
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She use to have a normal lunge but they stealth nerfed it because survi ors kept complaining and still do complain about her having elastic arms.
It seems they have also given her her own "aim dressing" that is attracted to obstacles more than survivors and seems to remember them if you pass over it while lunging.
Can't count how many times i glanced at a wall while a survivor did a 360 and hit it while staring out into the open.
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No lol she's still by far the best killer in the game. I'm just saying that it's the best time to play her because every hit is BS.
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I play alot of nurse and there are some flaws but once you get used to her she is amazing but that's my opinion on her she was better with more bliks before the nerf but I find if you use your first blink to catch up then use your second when u kow what direction they gonna go ur garteed a hit. I domt blink or chase in two story building midwich is OK tho once you get the aim right. I learnt to play her when I hit red ranks and yea it was hard to get the hang of her again hut there ain't many good nurses out there as it takes a bit of time amd alot of losses to learn her right.
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I hate playing the Nurse, but for some reason she feels better after the rework.
Not sure why, but it feels like I can control her better and have better aim. Might just be a placebo because I ran her to lv35 for the Perks I wanted, and stopped there a couple years back. Been a long time since I played her, but with the new Tome had to break her out, and I'm finding her easier to play.
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I Feel like she probably is extremely good once you memorize all the work arounds for her bugs and "features", but I can't imagine putting that much time and frustration in her to get to that level. Seems like if they gave her some QoL fixes and changes it might be better.
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How is slower blinks, darker edges and shorter lunges with no addon variety better?
I use to play her base kit with nothing to farm bp for my other killers and survivors and she was 1000 times better and less buggy with more reliable controls
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I find Nurse awful to play for very different reasons: I don't find her difficult. After learning the basics of blinking, it kind of doesn't feel like I'm earning my kills any more. It's just going through the motions.
Even when I get a bugged blink, 9/10 times I just immediately down the survivor in the next set. There are even less survivors that know how to play agaisnt Nurse than there are who can play agaisnt Spirit. I get the whole "respect the Nurse players" thing, learning her isn't easy, but once you have a few dozen hours the only challenge is learning the dead-blink zones on new maps and maybe the occasional anti-Nurse squad.
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Probably because I didn't play her prior to the rework. That and I know better how Survivors move, so she doesn't seem as oppressively hard to control now. I can judge Blinks better than before.
I don't see her much though. Used to be a reasonably common Killer to face in Purple Ranks and up, but there don't seem to be as many people playing her as usual. See a lot of Trappers, Freddys, and a fair mix of Onis, Blights, and Pigs.
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She is the slowest killer in the game with blinks.
I did a test on ormond and it took 30 seconds to cross with nurse and 24 seconds with deathslinger.
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Opposite actually, she feels terrible right now.
It doesn't work like that at all.
It's almost impossible to hit survivors when you blink to them right now because they turn their hitbox so much when they move around you that it almost always misses- and also it's messing with how the games aiming works so your attacks get vacuumed into terrain for some reason.
Some blink hits might register out of whack, but it's not worth it the trade of is far FAR worse she suffers immeasurably from the new patch. I was literally playing her non stop before the update, now I can't play her at all it's just a nightmare experience.
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I had a relatively positive experience with her the other day. I did well with her in the beginning but kinda fell off after that due to 1 or 2 half-decent survivors being present. It ended up being a 1k or 2k even though I feel I deserved more for how bad they as a team had been playing. And there wasn't even a Dead Hard in that match. Makes me want to use NOED. But I walked away thinking "Yeah. I can work with this." Nurse wasn't the unplayable garbage I thought her to be.
Despite that, I can't disagree with anything you've said. I constantly would blink forward 2 inches even though I held down the blink for a least a second or two. I blinked to the basement by accident which was stupid. I swung pretty much anytime a survivor was near me. When they were inside me I could hit them at least, but her lunge is laughably short. You have to sniff the survivor's hair just to hit them. Then there's the constant waiting on the charges to come back.
See, this is why Nurse's nerf was not the one we needed. Her basekit was fine and her add-ons made her broken. But like we saw with Hillbilly, the devs just had to mess with the basekit. So now she's a killer who is nigh impossible to learn, and people who've already learned her win very easily and very consistently, at least on PC.
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I can't stand trying to play as Nurse, she feels awful on PS4. She was a difficult but fun challenge before her rework, but after she's nothing but a frustrating miserable chore to attempt. A 4k and max BP every single match forever still wouldn't feel rewarding enough to justify the headache that playing Nurse is.
She is not fun.
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You need to practice more, stop complaining.
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So you decide to play the by far hardest Killer to learn in the game and realize that it does take more than a handful of games to be somewhat good with her?
At this point, I dont know anymore...
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I've played as Nurse before but 10 games at most. And what baffles me is that you indeed get stuck when you try to get through the rock, on Ormond, for example. Why I cannot get through it? I thought that maybe I just looked down and it prevented me from moving forward but no. Even when I'm standing right there, she doesn't blink.
And yes, when with other killers you know this hit shouldn't miss, with Nurse you just hit the air behind the survivor's back 😐
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She was once a fun killer to learn and play ( i play nurse on console) before her rework i got really good with her to point i felt confident to take on swf, after her rework tho man she got horrible, they added that stupid power bar and left her fatigue at same time just awful should been one or the other.
However i started to play her again recently before new tome came out (which im glad i did lol) im getting use to her again which im glad but there are times when its testing.
I got sick and tired of all killers feeling same run around a loop until pallet drops, break pallet repeat, its dull and in top of that seems devs are doing everything they can to make sure killers have little to no gen defence (imo) so i relearning nurse.
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For the rock thing, it's simple you won't blink through it unless you charge enough to have your blink be put on the other side of the rock, so if you charge it a bunch but your blinks ends up a millimeter inside the rock you'll blink your face on the rock .
Inconsistent blink, that happens, sometime you'll look up to blink on a 2nd floor and you'll end up on the first floor, but it doesn't happen that often.
The pull toward object, it sometime happens and it's infuriating but i mean i've been away from DbD for like 2 months and was rank 13 killer ithink or a little higher and just made it to rank 6 playing mostly only nurse and 4k except 1 game in Lery's, she's still amazing but you need to learn how much charge get's you where, she's all about muscle memory.
Also you probably only played 1 game because you didn't talk about the blink bug, this happens once every 5-6 games.
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Its like anything in this game just muscle memory I just enjoy playing her coz you get the complacent survuviurs that assume all nurse players are bad and when u 4k on a map like ormond they get wild lol.
90% of nurses Iv played against are bad but you do get that small percentage of decent ones that jusy destroy everyone.
Try sticking. nurses calling, surge, corrupt and STBFL. That build neva let's me down
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Erm, no. If you read my post you'll see most of my complaints are bugs. I'm fine with putting time in to learn a new killer but the amount of issues with nurse make it not worth while.
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Even completely bugfree it would not be worth to learn Nurse. You can have almost the same results with Spirit, which is way easier to learn. Even if Nurse would be bugfree, you would still feel like a total fool when starting to play her, trust me.
Not saying that those Bugs should not be fixed, they 100% should. But I highly doubt that the experience for someone who plays Nurse for the first time would be that much better.
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I played about 10 games I think. Are you referring to the audio spam blink bug? No, it didnt happen to me but I've seen it first hand before. It's my understanding it's another one of those "sometimes it happens sometimes it doesnt" bug.
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You're probably right, she's a very high skilled killer for sure. If they would give her a QoL pass to get rid of atleast the most major bugs I feel she would be atleast a little more forgiving.
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So I’m against the common thought posted on these forums, and the op as well, as I love Nurse right now. Before I go into more detail I highly recommend shadow born with her, it feels so much better.
I used to hate old Nurse, she was way to strong and felt to easy to play, now while she’s still the best in the game she feels more fair. I love landing perfect 1 blink hits. I also feel her power fine add on-less, and back to its good old self with cool down and range add ons.
As for the blinking with rocks, it just takes practice, you have to blink just a bit further than what it feels like it should be. It took me about 10 hours of just playing her to get the muscle memory down on blinks.
I get the frustration, but I personally love Nurse right now, and how fun she is to play.
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Why do I need to hold blink longer if I'm going to blink through a rock? For other objects I just hold blink for as how "big" it is (if that makes sense) and off I zoom through it. Rocks just seem to be a blink ender for no apparent reason other than to annoy you.
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thank you 👍 this had to be said
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Yeah exactly that one.
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You won't play the nurse well if you only have 10 games with her. Play one entire week and come back, you won't say the same things.
Anyway, it took me a month to master her more or less. One week after that month of learning, I was decent, pretty dangerous, most of the game were 3k, with a lot of mistakes tho.
Now, 5 months later, I'm unbeatable, 4K every games, and choosing who to chase in the game to have 12 hooks, managing survivors' resources for them.
Concerning the lack of mobility, (I read 30s for Nurse and 24 for DeathSlinger), just put range blink add-ons. So 6 seconds less than other killers, but you end your chases so fast if you're good with her, way faster than the majority of killers. So you catch up by far the loss of 6 seconds of crossing the map.
Oh, and blinking through rocks, or scraps, etc, it's just a matter of charging milliseconds longer than what you did. Practice. While you are uncomfortable with her blinks, little loops like rocks would be your nightmare, then it will be another loop you don't care.
She's rough to play, to learn. Playing here as a nurse beginner is painful, and survivors will bully you, and you have to assume you'll lose a lot, don't play to win, don't play to tie play to learn her. Don't swing if you're not sure to land the hit. I won't say more, because there are nurse guides saying everything you have to know as a nurse.
And if you're really thinking Nurse is bad, well, go see SupaAlf videos, and OhTofu Nurse videos.
Gl hf
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I have no doubt I'll improve after a week. The problem is I don't want to put in the effort simply because she has way to many problems that make her a hot mess to attempt to learn.
I like her power and game play, it's ok to be tough, but playing around her bugs is not fun and ultimately is why a lot of people don't play her I feel.
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Actually, bugs are quite rare. The only bug I encounter quite "often" (often, for a bug I mean, but it's 1 game over 15, and maybe 2 times in that game), is the spam sound and charging blink. And I think it's a problem of internet, not the game.
The second thing I consider to be a bug is dead zone. Midwich is fixed, I don't have any problem with it, and it's by far her best map (you go to the center, and from the center you have access to anywhere of the map but hey, that's not the topic). The only zone I never blink like I'm going to blink through it is the hill that a lot of maps have. I blink on the hill, then I blink when I want to go. As a nurse, you have to disrespect pallets, but hills... It scared us.
And concerning the inconsistency of blink up and blink down. You'll often be trapped by the Basement, that's a thing. When you want to blink forward, look the survivor's head. Blink up from a long distance is pretty inconsistent, I agree. Just be patient, as a Nurse, you'll always catch up. And blink down, I always blinked properly when I wanted to go down so...
It's a matter of where you're looking at. You never want to overcharge you blink, and less when you can blink down, because instead of blink near your position, you'll blink down, and it will destroy your chase because you have lost the LoS, and you have to blink up with a short blink which is super inconsistent.
As a Nurse, you can always improve, and that's why I love this killer and I feel rewarded to put a lot of effort into learning her (and sacrifice, because damn I hate when survivors bully me, and I don't know how much games I was bullied with "ez" and "uninstall the game ur bad").
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