Let's talk about Omega Blink...

travel and speed

Before I get into what Omega Blink is, it's crucial to understand how Nurse works.

Nurse's travel time doesn't take actual distance into account. Instead, she a minimum and maximum amount of travel time hard-coded in based on how long you've been charging your blink.

The minimum amount of travel time is 0.25 seconds. The maximum is 1.5 seconds.

So, if you wanted to blink at the max range (20m), then you would get there in 1.5 seconds. Divide the distance by time, and you get a travel speed of 13.334 or 333.334%.

What is it?

Omega Blink Nurse is a Nurse running both of her range-increasing add-ons, those being Kavanaugh's Last Breath and Heavy Panting.

The effect of these add-ons is that they increase Nurse's range by 4m and 6m. Combined, her first blink goes from possessing a max range of 20m to 30m.

Now, the game doesn't want to increase the amount of time you're blinking for. So if you're supposed to go 30 meters, then the game still wants you there in 1.5 seconds. To do this, it increases your speed massively from 13.334m/s to 20m/s or 500%.

But that's not the big problem.

The problem

The problem with Omega Blink is that the side effect is that it also makes your short blink faster in speed. There are multiple video comparisons.

Let's say you're blinking 12m away (max distance of a chain blink). Double Range will get your there sooner because they increase your speed.

Travel time is an essential element to being able to outplay/counter a Nurse. Lowering that time means that unless the Nurse herself screws up, you are going to die. In fact, that's arguably already the case with Nurse but you at least have some control of when and where. Omega Blink gives you the finger and says you're dead immediately if the Nurse is remotely competent.

Old vs new Omega blink

Omega Blink is nothing new, but an old monster that has resurfaced. I should preface this by saying that this is before my personal time in DBD, so I'm going to be using what's available in the "archives," if you will.

Old Omega Blink had the same interaction I mentioned, however, they did not increase the charge time of your initial blink. This meant that the add-ons also tampered with your muscle memory but were a force to be reckoned with when mastered.

New Omega Blink doesn't quite work like that. When the Nurse was reworked/nerfed to have her blink recharge system and had her add-ons overhauled, her range add-ons were changed so that they would also increase the charge time of her blinks to compensate for the new max range. So blinking 7m away will still feel like 7m worth of charging but blinking more than 20m will require you to charge a bit longer.

Removal and return

As I mentioned before, Nurse was reworked some time ago. I'm unsure about the technical aspects of it, so I'll put it simply and say that measures were put in place so that Nurse's range add-ons did not increase her reappearance speed. Range add-ons were still her best but now only because they increased her map control.

However, in patch 5.5.0, Nurse was completely recoded. She had a multitude of bugs that plagued her and with this recoding, many of these bugs have been addressed.

As a side effect, however, whatever measures were put in place to stop Omega Blink have been lost. A great demonstration of this is shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x-shHZpCzg

confusion on the devs' stance

All of us have likely seen the post by now claiming Range add-ons increasing speed was intended. However, this flies in the face of previous statements made by the devs.

"Many of her add-ons also had downsides or effects that hindered players' muscle memory, causing them to be very rarely used. Others had unintended side effects that made them much stronger than intended (notably the range add-ons which in turn granted reappearance speed, sometimes referred to as "omega blink")." - Peanits, https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/93557/designer-notes-nurse-changes

Now, this might be the copium talking but I'll play devil's advocate and assume they meant THIS: Nurse's reappearance speed is meant to increase when blinking past a range of 20m to fit the 1.5-second travel time limit. This does NOT mean that her short blinks should be traveling faster (as they currently are with range) as an intended feature.

Still, I'm baffled. Nurse is the strongest killer in the game, bar none. Her mere existence is the subject of much controversy within the community but this? I... I don't know. I don't know what to think. I don't know why Pyramid Head and Freddy get mostly worthless add-ons, but Nurse gets this abomination.