Nightcap sucks and needs help
Nightcap was always bad since Founders. At the time, nobody knew how to play around a stealth character and Damage was too low across the board. So what's wrong with Nightcap? Let's start with her p...
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@Pheesley I’ve always thought that Fung Fu should be reverted to the damage it dealt in Founders but reduce it’s radius so that it can be used as an assassination move against one Zombie or two tightly packed ones. That would help make it a true “assassinate” maneuver, instead of the “i’ll just jump in the middle of a group and try to do something before being swatted like a fly” ability
I find it interesting that we've had a thread on Nightcap being too good and too weak in close proximity to each other.
This usually indicates that the character being discussed is about where they should be. I would say she feels decent to me but is risky to do really well with as she's very fragile when hit. She's small and nimble so can be hard to hit but when she is hit, she often doesn't survive. I certainly can't see her getting any more nerfs, but does she need a buff, or is she in good shape?
- @Iron_Guard8 Personally, she doesnt feel that fun to use.
Like I said, sneaking up on enemies gives no reward, and usually they'll sprint away and a bunch of zombies figure out my location so I have to run. She is really loud when moving and shooting.
The damage she can do feels too low for how fragile she is. If the zombie has good aim and is alert, playing Nightcap becomes very difficult.
In my opinion, her mobility isnt in head to head combat like Imp, but in how Nightcap traverses the map. Shadow sneak allows her to jump large gaps and move very quickly, and is what I have the most fun with.
It's pretty helpful for flanking zombies quickly and aggressively.@Pheesley I tend to play all the characters fairly equally, all are 6-8 grandmaster 1 right now so it's completely possible that because I don't focus as much on one character, I miss things that aren't immediately obvious, like say the station shields pre-nerf, melee attacks not registering, and so on. It's entirely possible they may tweak her so she's more of a sneaky assassin rather than usually these days more of a ranged semi-sniper. She feels decent to play to me, and I don't feel she needs a nerf, that's for sure, but not saying she's 100% where she should be, just that she doesn't feel like she has a massive problem that stands out easily.
If you are playing on a big screen hd tv you can see nightcap blue cloud footprints while they are moving while invisible if you brighten your screen a little.
