Will Nemesis ever get their weapon? (Flamethrower/Rocket Launcher)

I believe it's been confirmed it was left out for being tonally inconsistent rather than for reasons of programming or balance.

I definitely think Nemesis needs something added onto his anemic, critically uninteresting kit, though—if I had my way his power would be changed entirely, and more or less the exact same ability could instead be given to a Licker from the series. Nemesis isn't interesting, he isn't good, and he's also not even really a good adaptation of the character who is notorious for his relentless yet intelligent pursuit. He is constantly using his superior intelligence to track and ambush Jill, to cut off her escape routes very intentionally, and yet in DbD he is just a guy who slaps you with a limp noodle.

I'd like to see a projectile that maybe causes a large area to be rendered unsafe—maybe some sort of bomb, maybe it could be a canister of the T-Virus, that would be interesting. Or he could have a longer-ranged attack where he spears his tentacle into the ground and has it emerge farther ahead.

I see no reason why Nemmy shouldn't be able to hit up Amazon for same day delivery of 1 use Rocket that insta downs anyone caught in the blast, breaking everything around it but it has insane arc preventing it from having any real long range applications

Lock it to Tier 3 and make it spawn in a crate. Make wielding it move Nemmy at 80 or 90 speed. Give it an air raid siren.

I don't see the big deal, it's OK for some things to just be fun and not everything needs to appeal to tryhards

I'd rather give him an addon rework that incorporates more of his sprint ability than giving him a rocket launcher or any other form of weaponry.

Honestly, i'm fine with whatever they decide to do with Nemmy as long as they don't give it any weaponry from his game.

My reason is that any ballistic projectile weaponry such as guns with real bullets or explosive launchers such as grenade or rocket launchers simply just doesn't belong in DBD both tone-wise and gameplay wise.

DBD is first and foremost a slasher inspired game, while it has branched out into other parts of the horror genre, it's slasher roots is still what's most prominent in it's gameplay, all from aspects such as chasing a defenseless victim while hearing intense repeating music that increases the tension of the life and death situation, the damp and dark basement on the map that reeks of death, the hanging of the victims on hooks or killing the victim in a bloody manner with a close range weapon. It is all gameplay that's based and inspired of Slasher flicks, things like Rocket Launchers just don't fit that tone-wise.

While Nemesis did have a flame thrower in the remake, i don't see how they could implement that without it just turning into Deep Wound 2.0 while also being generally map dependant, with narrow pathways being the strongest parts to use it at.

As for the Rocket Launcher itself gameplay-wise, it would be a nightmare to balance. Things like quantity of rocket ammunition that can be carried, the speed of which the rockets themselves travels when fired, the blast radius itself and how much it damages Survivors, etc. Way i see it, you'll end up with the following.

• Rockets would be either too fast or too slow with no inbetween and with a blast zone that is either too big or too small with no inbetween either.
• Blast damage that would either make the weapon itself way too strong if the Survivors cannot see the impact zone from the rocket blast or make the weapon itself be way too situational or useless if they can see the impact zone.
• If Nemesis had to aim for a while before being able to fire, then it would just feel awful to use.
• If the weapon is too strong, it will dominate on all maps. it the weapon is too situational, it will only dominate on indoor map's tight pathways.
• Even if it only had one Rocket that insta-downed, it would still either feel too strong or too situational to play against depending on the speed of the rocket.

People also like to use things like Deathslinger's gun, Survivor grenades or the flame turrets against Xenomorph as excuses for why something like a rocket launcher would be fine, yet forgetting that none of them are comparable in the slightest, as grenades and turret are both only used as defense tools rather than offense and The Redeemer is specifically designed around the game's ground rules as a harpoon gun rather than a normal gun, so that it can still obey said ground rules rather than ignore them.

The people who say ''it can just be balanced'' don't realize that it is not just something that can simply be balanced the same way one can balance such a weapon in a RE game, as Survivor gameplay in DBD is not designed to support it since the mechanics required to make it fair are not there to justify it's existence in DBD.

Even if they were to add some kind of mechanic that allows Survivors to dodge a rocket, it would create another balancing problem as only special weapons gets tied to killer kits, where as any movement mechanics gets tied to perks of Survivor basekits, which again begs the question of how would it affect every other Killer powers and how to make sure it wouldn't just turn into Dead Hard invincibility 2.0.

They've already done a sickness killer with Plague, so doing something related to the T-Virus could probably work too, not sure what exactly what would be though.

The problem with Mr. X is that he just doesn't have anything that would make for an interesting power.

His attacks both in RE2 & RE:Resistance can be boiled down to either going faster or grabbing someone who is close enough to him, both having already been done by other killers already such as Wesker.

His Super Tyrant form being not that much different, he either run fast while dragging his claw in the ground towards you or he leap attack you. You can maybe do something with the leaping as an attack power, however i feel it would be better to give such an ability to an original killer that can allow it to be utilized more creatively like leaping from wall to wall and then attack or something like that.

Even without Nemmy's arsenal, you still have more room to get creative with his power, moreso than what you can with Mr. X

I am hoping that the devs will add more onto Nemmy's powers or reworking his addons to be more interesting one day when he gets a QOL pass, maybe they can even finally add a 3rd zombie.

Also speaking of arsenal, for a character who only used an RPG almost half the time in the original, it's kinda funny to me that Nemesis in the remake never uses any of his weapons outside 1 boss battle and 1 short chase sequence that lasts less than 5 minutes, instead he mostly just sprints and uses his tentacle throughout all of his encounters before the flame thrower boss fight.

They said the overload of GPU thing back in 2021 when the chapter came out, i'd like to imagine that the game has evolved and improved enough at this point that it can handle a third zombie now.