Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-28856253-20171028150611/@comment-33333968-20171116043839

Sneeble wrote: Why I believe Diggers need to be nerfed.They ruin the experience of a zombie survival game. You're completely geared up and everything yet the digger can just come along and stun you and it's game over instantly, you've either been knocked off the map, caught by an edgar or swarmed by zombies.

Why it is overpowered.

- It can stun.

- It has high walkspeed (same as an edgar, 24)

- It has decent health (a lot of health considering it can walk so fast)

- It can tunnel underground. (undetected by survivors)

Combining all these things together you have a strong speed demon that can stun survivors and also be undetected by survivors, when facing 2 diggers and you're stunned you're basically just a punchbag at this point as soon as you recover from stunning you're stunned again and there's no real way to counteract this other than punching and kicking to stun the diggers (in which probably all of your stamina is gone because you've just used it all to run away from them).

I believe it should be nerfed similarly to the edgar's stats, the edgar has high walkspeed but low health making it balanced. If you're the last man in a zombie gamemode and your against a swarm and diggers involved you're dead. I used to be able to win matches with me and a good teammate but with Diggers now in the game it's almost impossible to win a match alone.

Solutions

- Cap the amount of diggers allowed to be spawned at one time.

- Decrease the spawn rate of diggers.

- Decrease the health.

- Remove stun effect.

(Just one or two of these, not all of them)

Even without the stun effect the Digger is still a very good zombie, it can still deal melee damage, tunnel underground undetected, remain at a high walkspeed and have decent health.

Notes

They are generally OP on small maps as a survivor as you can't really distance yourself from them. Easily knocked off the map or stunned and swarmed.

They are seriously overpowered against a single or last standing survivor.

They are strong in numbers as survivors just get constantly stunned with no way to escape

Open to criticism and comments, please add anything I've missed out and tell tell me if you agree or disagree. This is my first real post about R2DA.

- Sneeble

http://r2da.wikia.com/wiki/Digger Blame the kids who kept wanting zombies to be easier, I didn't ask for it.