Nurse is truly dead if no one plays her

Nothing else in the game is as blatantly strong as Nurse and Spirit. Nurse mains still had the option to abandon ship in protest over to the next most broken thing. I reckon once she gets nerfed we'll see a healthier spread overall, including both of them.

1) Servers suck. Unless you live next to one of these datacenters your camera jolts everytime you blink and gets worse the higher your ping goes.

2) Running in straight lines is the only skill require out of survivors now to waste the Nurse's time. Something that would of got you killed before is now a viable tactic.

3) 99% blink charge. Oops you didn't wait long enough. You just wasted 2.9999 seconds and can't even blink far enough to catch up to that survivor.

That's why nobody plays her anymore, people don't have fun playing a 96% speed killer with 6 seconds cooldown on her full ability.

I only can speculate, because I prefer Hag. But when I run survivor, I see basically no nurse beside the one of baby nurses.

I think, before the rework, she was some kind of prestigious killer, the hard to master, unstoppable if mastered kind. With the "promise" broken to not touch her base kit, I can imagine a lot of nurse players are salty and feel betrayed by BHVR and the devs. A lot of them dedicated a lot of time to learn her, prestige her and get everything on her. They didn't care too much about the add-on changes, because good Nurses often didn't even use add-ons. Omega-Blink or 5 Blink for the memes or to be extra sweaty against SWFs on red ranks.

Now this all is gone and even the Nurse, they worked all those years to become good at is out of the window. The nerf to her cool down add-ons (you could play pre-rework Nurse with them) possibly was the straw that broken the camel's back for most of them. Now they have to relearn her and all the investment in her is just gone.

But maybe @Peanits could give some statistical insight on how many Nurses are played after her rework until now. If it's just confirmation bias or if their numbers really dropped.

I've played a lot of Nurse since her nerf. She's near unplayable due to dedicated servers more than anything and I can give you several examples as to why:

• Almost every time you blink, you will experience rubber banding and teleport back a little bit, which more often than not will cost you missing a hit
• You can get stuck in things like trees and various other objects where you literally cannot move at all until you blink again. I've experienced this even after hooking someone, which once again, more often than not will cost you missing a hit.
• When you go for a blink lunge sometimes you'll get an M1 without the lunge, again, costs you missing a hit.
• When charging a blink it can glitch out where you can't actually blink, instead, you have to let go, watch as you don't blink, stare at your hand holding what looks like 20 blinks now, and start over.
• Unrelated to Nurse, but Survivor movement is a lot faster since dedicated servers when it comes to doing things like a 360, and you can get spun incredibly easily, which hurts Nurse a lot as if you miss, you'll get punished heavily.

You have to deal with all of what I listed before you can start judging how the nerf is, which to me it doesn't feel like the worst nerf at least for good Nurse players, but hey I can't confidently say that because of dedicated servers.

Add-ons can also help a lot with making the nerf not feel as significant, although I'm not sure if it's enough to turn me away from playing Spirit simply because Spirit doesn't feel nearly as bad to play on servers.