Thanatophobia is a Unique Perk belonging to The Nurse.
Prestige The Nurse to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Thanatophobia for all other Characters.
Description
Their courage fades in the face of their undeniable mortality.
- Each injured, dying, or hooked Survivor afflicts Survivors with a stack-able 1/1.5/2 % Action Speed penalty to Repairing, Sabotaging, and Cleansing, up to a maximum of 4/6/8 %.
- Increases the Action Speed penalty by a further 12 %, if there are 4 Survivors, who are either injured, dying, or hooked at the same time.
"She plays with us and revels in our pain."
History
Change Log
Patch 2.6.0
- Buff: changed the penalty modifiers to a stackable 3/3.5/4 % up to a maximum of 12/14/16 %.
Patch 4.3.0
- Nerf: no longer applies its penalty to Healing actions.
- Buff: now applies to Totem-Cleansing speed.
- Buff: increased the Penalty percentages from 3/3.5/4 % to 4/4.5/5 %.
Patch 6.1.0
- Buff: further increased the Penalty percentages from 4/4.5/5 % to 4.5/5/5.5 %.
Patch 6.1.2
- Nerf: drastically reduced the Penalty percentages from 4/4.5/5 % to 1/1.5/2 %.
- Buff: added an additional +12 % Penalty, if all four Survivors are either injured, dying or hooked.
- This adds up to a maximum Penalty of 20 % when all four Survivors are injured.
Trivia
- "Thanatophobia" literally means "Fear of Death".
- It is a compound word consisting of Θάνατος ("Thanatos") the Greek name of Death and -φοβία ("-phobia") the Greek suffix used to form nouns describing a fear of a specific thing.
- In the Game files, Thanatophobia is often misspelt as "Thatanophobia".
- The icon of Thanatophobia is also used for the "Custom Game" Tab in the main menu.