Why are the devs showing so much favoritism for Nurse?

I'm not asking for a nurse nerf? I just wanted to know why they changed the subject to gen regression perks? I just think, however, nurse could use some add-on changes do you not agree? :)

Nurse has a low kill rate in all MMRs. At high MMR she's above the median but not even in the top 5. The data released doesn't support any nerfs to Nurse.

In terms of the M2 attack, I'd rather see Pig get her attack changed back to an M1 if we want consistency. Legion is a different matter since their M2 applies Deep Wound but Pig's is just a straight movement speed buff and nothing else.

About point 2, the green addon that reduces fatigue does it by only 0.3 seconds, only 10% of a 2 blink chain with no hit. No combination of addons can reduce fatigue by 50%.

About point 4, that's because Nurse is the only killer in the game that moves slower than survivors. Blight, Spirit, Wesker, Legion, etc can all chase survivors normally while waiting for their powers to recharge. Nurse can't.

About point 5, she does get a longer fatigue if she misses a blink attack.

Eh, I think it's just... BHVR and y'know...not too fast to the draw to get down to important stuff, lol

1. Her blinks are basic because she physically cannot chase survivors conventionally and functionally has no basic attack, and her attacks were designed to emulate basic attacks as closely as possible.

2. Her fatigue doesn't affect her recharge. No matter what, you'll always make distance because Nurse is slower than survivors.

3. I have no idea what you're saying here, tbh.

4. It's not just main method of transportation, it's her only means of chasing.

5. No punishment for missing? You have a 0.5 sec attack animation followed by an entire extra second of fatigue. Assuming you blinked twice, that's 3.5 seconds of looking at the ground while slowed to a crawl. You can say Nurse isn't as difficult as people make her out to be, but it's disingenuous to say she's not punishing if you don't know what you're doing.

There are tiles in the game that you can use against a nurse that would be an easy hit for a m1 killer. For example the walls/ tiles on the edge of maps.

I believe basic kit nurse is fine. It's only range add-ons that wreck the counter play of nurse.

Her second blink attack really should be a special attack. It would make it kess common to have situations where perks get nerfed because of their potential on Nurse, and it would not significantly change their regular gameplay orherwise.

shes tough to balance, and with swf as broken as it is, nurse is perfectly fine in comparison

plus lowest kill rate :P

I think the big problem is that nurse isn't easy to nerf.

When you make her blink attack m2 you need to speed her up because it's not realistic to hit anyone without a blink but all perks should work for all killers so you need to compensate.

Same goes for fatigue. When you want it to be punishing when she messes up you need to speed her up because blinking is her Form of movement and in the end we want to make her more fair not just bad so no one plays her.

So nerfing her isn't that easy because you don't want her to just run down survs and the blink on them and you don't want to end up with wesker but her can go through walls.

Now you could go and say we'll then we rework her completely but bhvr don't really like that. On one site it's money cause it costs to rework her but you can't really sell her and on the other hand you risk to lose player and after Freddy bhvr don't want to take a beloved character away from the players that lover for what she is op or not plus it's a money thing again

If they actually decided to balance maps this problem would go away

The main reason nurse is so strong is because she ignores the biggest weakness most killers have being bad maps

By making maps balanced the average killer would be much stronger and you would actually be able to nerf nurse without backlash

Simplest explanation I can think of is that the balance team tends to focus more on the average/low MMR skill level and much less on the upper ends. Most of Nurse's problems aren't going to show up until someone is pretty good with Nurse. Same reason Alchemist's Ring and MDR/Cherry Blossom somehow exist on Blight/Spirit

Not that I am disagreeing with your reasoning but Blight and Spirit are both very capable of going toe to toes with well coordinated SWF groups, blight is arguably better than nurse on any map that doesn't have verticality as one of its main features.

No more than 2 regression perks.

What is the composition of the build with which Supaalf is doing his marathon of chain victories, currently?

One anti-gen perk, one aura perk, one "exposed" perk and one terror radius perk.

So, everything should be forbidden, on the nurse...

The problem is not so much the perks as the people who face the nurse.

Even if of course, there are combos which are fatal. Ex : Midwich + Darkness Revealed 😫

Are you thinking of the classic use of "Make your choice + Floods of rage" on the nurse?

Even if that wasn't what you were thinking about, it raises an interesting point.

When Amanda came into the game, the nurse already existed.

So the developers knew that, potentially, Amanda's skill could do something very dangerous with the nurse.

Although, if you think about it, just using Make Your Choice is pretty effectively dodged, where it gets very complicated is when it's combined with Floods of rage.

No I am more thinking of Starstruck Agitation on Nurse, or really any selection of gen slowdown perks stacked together.

MYC isn't a perk I really like on Nurse, it just forces survivors to play immersed which is very annoying

Aren't the potatoes the players being slaughtered by Nurses and not the ones who can can do a chase against Nurse?

I stopped reading at this point:

Nurse, unlike literally every other killer, has no way to catch and hit survivors other than blinking to them (unless they're being really stupid and giving away free hits). She's the only killer that's literally slower than survivors.

If you're going to ignore the basic mechanics that justify her blink attacks counting as basic because she cannot reasonably be expected to get them otherwise, and mention this as your first point, then I've little reason to believe anything else you've got to say has any serious thought behind it towards balance.

She doesn't negate skill, but I agree that she can be unfun to face, especially if you face her often at high MMR...at the same time, going against SWF over and over is not fun either. She is the final boss of the game and that's a good thing.

By turning the nurse's teleported attack into a special attack, it would force to modify the whole game's skills working on attacks.

Because if we turn her basic attack into a special attack, she would not be able to use any skill based on the hit, which would be completely stupid.

The problem with making your second teleported attack a special attack is that in most cases, the hit is actually made during the second blink.

The first blink is often used to get closer to the target.

Sometimes you can hit the survivor on the first blink, but it is quite rare, and the more experienced survivors you face, the more anecdotal it becomes.

"You could argue that since Nurse doesn't play around loops normally that she shouldn't be rewarded normally"

That's why the survivors have to adopt a radically different behavior than if they were facing a "walking" killer.

Because the nurse is not impacted in the same way by the game environment, the survivors must use the environment differently.

statistically she does, but that implies that the stats actually mean anything so take it as you will

For sure, if exclusively players who were good at nurse played her, her killrate would at bare minimum be around 90% or so