What Nemesis changes, to addons and/or basekit power, would you suggest?

id give the zombies their ptb ai (they were actually amazing in the ptb, idk what the devs did but it was BAD), id also have a detection system in place where if they get stuck they die and respawn, also a system where if a zombie is outside 32m-ish from survivors too long, they respawn closer

or id remove his zombies, make his tentacle infect and injure with the same hit (2 hits to down not 3), and add a hinder while infected (like 3/4%) so theres a reason to use vaccines, but not so oppressive that chases are miserable.

I get the zombies are terrible as I used to be a nemesis main. But they def need to do an add-on pass with him (and quite a few other killers). I rotate through at least 10 sets of add-ons as blight. They are all meaningful (yes a couple are broken we get it guys) and can even change the way his power feels(adrenaline vial). All killers should aspire do have the diversity blight does with his add-ons.

Finally fixing the zombie AI. Please. They get stuck way too often. At least have them kill themselves if they are stuck in one place for too long so I don't have to go over there and reset them myself

-Fix zombie AI,so they won't get stuck on random crap or just stare at wall

-Make his addons more addons more useful (addons that inflict survivors with status effects when hit by his power or zombies,an addon that gives lightborn to his zombies,an iridescent addon that lets you attract zombies by punching things?)

Zombies needs fixing and he could have more better addons or bit more interesting ones as well. His base kit however (basides bugged zombies) is fine.

What i don't really get is why his tier 3 tentacle strikes are still giving free sprint burst if the survivors are not infected.

I mean, before lvl 3 i still don't really like it..but at least you have the excuse that you are leveling up your power with every strike and making it stronger. But at level 3? You hit someone that is not infected and give him a totally free sprint burst "because yes", hindering yourself with your own power without getting absolutely nothing in return.

Either:

• Fix zombies to actually be useful, half the time they don't even walk toward the survivor. Make them move a little faster. Improve the AI so that they actually walk towards the survivors. Maybe even that they just always know where a survivor is and always walk toward the nearest one. Create a system that will respawn them if they get stuck for too long.

Or

• Remove the zombies entirely, make his tentacle injure even when not infected, make being infected just cause a hinder status effect, increase the number of vaccines available, and let them be used twice (like wesker)

Or

• Make it so survivors don't get a sprint burst when getting infected.

Yeah, leaving aside more ambitious reworks of his entire kit and concentrating on stuff that is actually something BHVR realistically would do, the glaring issues are the zombies and his add-ons.

Zombie AI and pathing issues have to be resolved, at least the most egregious ones. There are various spots where zombies just get stuck and areas they cannot enter or leave. If those cannot be resolved, at the very least implement the band-aid fix that zombies that don't move for a certain amount of time automatically die and respawn instantly. An even better solution would be to make it possible for the Nemesis player to be able to remotely kill zombies by looking at their aura from afar and using the special ability key. From there, the zombies would either respawn at a random hook as always, or you could even make it possible for the Nemesis player to look at a gen aura and direct the zombie(s) to respawn at the hook closest to that gen. This would not only allow the player to basically solve all zombie pathing issues themselves, but would even make it so that the zombies are much more consistently valuable in harassing players on gens, and an actually somewhat proactive "ability" of the player. AI issues on the other hand are probably more difficult to solve, those are instances where zombies for some reason ignore a player right next to them, which definitely shouldn't happen. One band-aid fix for those issues could be to have the AI direct the zombies toward unfinished generators whenever they are not alerted to anyone. But like, you want the zombies to literally walk right up next to the gen.

Most of his add-ons are indeed pretty useless. That said, with improvements for the zombies, various add-ons would also get more valuable since they obviously make zombies more of a threat. Still, too many of his add-ons aren't nearly impactful enough, and it's lame that the majority of them pertain zombies to begin with, because zombies are a passive part of his kit and nothing the player can really influence or even notice. Add-ons that improve his tentacle strike ability would be great, affecting stuff like the attack's wind-up and cooldown time and reach. Add-ons that make the infection more impactful would also be good, such as Hindered, Blindness, Obliviousness, Mangled, Hemorrhage, the usual stuff.

Finally, tier 3 mutation should indeed be more substantial of a power-up. There are various things they could do, ranging from really simple ones like making him 4.8m/s movespeed or allowing his tentacle to instantly infect and injure, to more ambitious ones like giving him the ability to infect zombies with the parasite when hitting them with the tentacle, which would visually alter them and increase their movement speed and attack range, or maybe on top of infecting/injuring survivors, they would even hold them in place for a moment in this form.

Fix his Zombies which have been buggy since his release and buff some of his add-ons.

Add-on buffs across the board. His are possibly the worst in the game. And personally, I'd like to see the zombies removed for some other secondary power that isn't RNG based.

no speed boost on infection and tentacle applying infection and health-state loss is no brainer.

an idea i had for zombies to be more useful is to give the zombies a lunging attack if your infected that can activate in 6 meters. i think it would have good synergy with his movement speed zombies add-on's and it would reward nemesis play for activate infecting the entire team. zombies will be real threat if your infected.