In my opinion, the air defense system in Nuclear Escalation needs a rework.
Russia has the S-300, which is extremely powerful sometimes even overpowered; to level the playing field, long-range Patriot systems should be added for European nations.
Furthermore, the air defense mechanics need reworking so that the AI can distinguish whether a specific aircraft poses a threat. It’s absurd right now: if you fly even slightly higher, you’re immediately destroyed by the S-300, and its missiles are impossible to “notch” (evade via beaming). We need better AI threat assessment; why is every aircraft that climbs even a little bit instantly destroyed? I might want to drop a GBU-31 JDAM, for instance, but I can’t before I reach the necessary altitude, I’m taken out by the S-300 or other excessively powerful long-range AA vehicles. It’s ridiculous to fire at every aircraft flying just above 300 meters. The AI should only engage aircraft that are performing aggressive maneuvers or getting too close to critical strategic objectives, or the engagement range needs to be significantly reduced.
The whole balance is wack. The last test iteration of Nuclear Escalation was pretty balanced with HAWK/S-75 for the 10.0-11.0 bracket until they decided to change it to I-Hawk/Buk (which nobody asked for).
Munition interception by actual SAM sites is wack. Full Martel payloads will do nothing to I-Hawk. Osa-AKM is such a superior SAM to the Roland 3 platforms that it isn’t even funny.
Don’t even get me started on ItO90M bracket and how its spammed all over the battlefield (or the cracked Airfield AA systems on that same bracket). I refuse to believe people genuinely have fun in those brackets. If anything, only 13.7+ should be facing those platforms.
I’d also point out the naval rewards for the 1000th time since the first test iteration, but I guess they think it’s absolutely fine at this point.
Oh yeah, and we should talk about rewards of 13.0+. Apparently, on the ItO90M bracket, you get more rewards for killing a tank than killing a SAM site radar - because that totally makes sense, right?
They had 5 months and a ton of feedback bro. Insane stuff.
totally, please dont say Ito 90M to me it’s so overpowered just like every SPAA, maybe if they made smarter AI not spamming with missiles AI this gamemode would be actually enjoyable cause now it’s tragic, u want to notch ITO-90, Roland, OSA anything but u cannot because if u fly a bit higher up u will get destroyed by S300 or BUK
i main F-16I Sufa, this plane long ago should have Anti radiation missiles but still dont have it, i shooted all 4 of AGM88 from F/A-18 Hornet onto one S-300 and all of them got destroyed like i cannot even kill those S-300
