Devs..you seriously ######### up
Do I was getting back into doing challanges in order to get the next time level done when I played a nurse match..i was running two green addons..one for fatigue, one for the cooldown..and i must say..it was the first time i saw just how badly nurses changes have been in practice...just to be forthright..I chased an ace on an auto haven map and I noticed I was never able to keep up with him..he would always be just out of reach and by the time I could blink twice , the cycle repeated.
Tracking was slowing, letting him get free running distance was slowing and just getting around the map felt like a chore..so can you seriously say..that your satisfied with the results on the nurses changes..because if you ask me..? She fell far..far from where you wanted her to..why?
1.. the scenario I just described..my blink accuracy and predictions were not the issue it was the distance granted for free that caused my rather frustrating round..frames have also sadly dropped once again...
2.. you wanted people to play her in new and creative ways but the very cooldown you administered to her is preventing that from happening as you cant have a reasonable hope to win without at least 1 cooldown addon which was changed before release..not really a fair idea imo since the nurse couldnt even be tested properly due to the state of the ptb..
3..McLean I believe said he sidnt want to see nurse played less or destroy her..well I can say first hand that goal was not achieved..because you not only discouraged people from playing her you made her more stressful for far less reward than previous..the absolute worst way to have handled the situation..this goal while I hope was genuine cannot be achieved unless something is done..its not fair to those who learned her, those whom legitimately knew how to play..because you pushed too far..you did..and here I am explaining to the best of my.power why..so we can hopefully fix this mess..thank you if you decide to comment or at least read..otherwise this was for nothing
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Git gud and don't blame the devs for your own shortcomings.
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I completely agree with you, almost anyone who played Nurse regularly can tell you how dumb and frustrating player her is now. There is no additional amount of skill needed to play her other than the ability to control your rage.
It only served to limit her, and rather harshly (you're blinking easily <60% of what you were pre-patch and that is NOT slight) without giving her any other tools to achieve new gameplay other than through addons. But those same addons are the entire reason for the changes, and they still failed at accomplishing that goal, as there are still at least 5 dud addons that won't be used outside of memes and some that still mess with muscle memory.
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Noted
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The changes went against their claim of their goal and were ultimately counter productive
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I like how you bring up maturity when OP plays one game as nurse and feels the need to come to the forums to rant about it.
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Lol kind of odd for a nurse main to play 1 game in 3 months give or take..
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Not odd now, she's totally unfun and very very frustrating to play.
I cannot stress this enough it feels like no one plays her on the balance team because this is basic stuff that you see and dislike within a few games max.
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Nurse is dead! She can't keep up against very strong teams anymore, spirt and Billy perform better + are technically easier + less unfun/frustating.
There is legit no reason to play nurse anymore unless you know you go up against a weak team. But it still wouldn't make fun
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Nurse is still arguably one of the best killers in the game. Sure the fun value may be down because you have to wait a few seconds before spamming blinks everywhere and newbies will have a harder time learning her but she still outshines everyone else minus spirit.
There was a video in one of these type of posts with no addons that showed she could still catch survivors running in a straight line if you double blink. It took 2-3 double blinks at a 32 meter range with the survivor knowing the direction to run beforehand. This situation is not common place with so many walls and other objects getting in the way as well as not knowing your location and even if it works out perfectly for them, just leave them and find someone else. As a killer, don't take chases that will waste too much time. Pressure someone else in a more vulnerable spot.
Also, even with the time gained from running straight, it's still quicker then if you were playing most other killers and being looped at every turn. The only thing that would really hurt is if you mess up your blinks a lot because then you're losing more time then normal which it why she's not beginner friendly.
IMO Nurse went from sss tier to just s tier. Fun value has dropped but most people played nurse to curb stomp which was their idea of fun, not the blinking itself. I don't know anyone who was like "Oh wow look at how cool this is that I can blink around!" It was more "Wow, look at how these survivors can do little too nothing to stop me even when I mess up!"
Take all this with a grain of salt of course but I think the majority of people complaining are people who can't spam anymore with no consequences and people who can't get easy 4k's. There are plenty of good players saying she's still fine, plenty of good players saying she's trash with many average players raging about it from both ends. Personally, I think it'd be fine to get rid of the cooldown and put her back to base but even with the cooldown, I think people are overreacting when they say she's trash.
TL:DR She is weaker yes, she lost some map pressure and it's silly that to waste her time efficiently you just run straight which isn't always doable. "Fun" factor has also went down. She's still super strong anyway in good hands. It's just harder to curbstomp people and she's super beginner unfriendly.
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Your entire argument hinges on blink spam = reward, but that's not true. Blink spam = more blinking/more distance traveled. It does not give you a reward like a hit or down unless you know how to aim with the blinks which is part of her intense learning curve.
All this change did was punish you for using your power like you should to traverse the map, force you to hold blinks and do unnatural m1 killer actions when you should be blinking to move even 2 feet in front of you. You can get looped in the worst way that takes even less skill than running around in circles, literally just running across the map and breaking LOS if you can. Her counterplay went from skillful to no skill at all, before you had to choose whether to fake running past a corner or double back. Now the best play is almost always running straight past it, and fake her after she catches up 5 minutes into the chase.
She's still strong but who wants to play her when everything about her is punishing you? How are you gonna enjoy it while getting kicked in the face by the constant 99% or what have you. I have uninstalled since she was the only killer that was enjoyable and also viable at high elo (Hag couldn't cut it anymore when everyone knew to run a loop once and never repeat it :/ ) and when it felt like I was actually playing pain simulator 2019 I just shut the game down and freed up valuable space. We've joked about how bad it can be to play the game over the years, but this change doesn't feel like a joke that should've left PTB.
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Blink spamming is honestly rediculous as thanks to her design she cant really move unless she "spams" and everyone agreed her addons were an issue but what they didn't agree on was making a cooldown that rewards for nothing on survivors..they didnt even test properly..
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I play on console and even with the bad frames and stuff I enjoyed playing nurse. after some practise I also went rank one with her and it felt fun and rewarding even versus good swf teams. I never used addons so I didnt care for these changes. But honestly she is now one of the killers with really bad ultra rare addons. These are just a joke. Nvm
When the nerf went live I played a lot of nurse and she got just unfun. Even to just travel over the map feels painful. Of course I get my kills, she is still strong but Im better off playing another killer instead of suffer and sweat through an endless circle of blink fatigue cooldown walk search los.
In the first few days you saw some nurses on ps4 trying her out. But now it seems like no one playing her anymore. Whats the point of the nurse being the strongest killer if you never get to see one. At least on console she seems gutted.
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Yeah its just..so clunky and so silly
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Sadly, devs are not gonna answer to any posts about nurse
They didn't respond to any feedback during nurse PTB, so they don't, and will not respond in future too
Nurse is officially another legion
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