I know this is just my personal experience, but I’m sure this has happened to other players as well. It’s extremely frustrating, and it highlights a major issue with the new Nuclear Thunder game mode.
I had received a 500% Silver Lions booster and decided to jump into a Nuclear Thunder match. The match I got into was already in its final stages, with 30 kt nukes already available. It was practically over. Just to give you an idea of how far along the match was, the airfield was destroyed almost immediately after I took off.
The match lasted around 7 minutes after I joined, meaning I earned only a tiny fraction of what I could have earned by playing a full match.
Aside from venting my frustration, I’d like to suggest two possible solutions:
- Make the “Join battles already in progress” setting apply to Nuclear Thunder as well, so players who disable it won’t be placed into matches that are already underway.
- Alternatively, when playing Nuclear Thunder, boosters that would normally last for a single match should remain active if the player joins a match that ends in less than 10 minutes.
This would help prevent frustrating situations like this while allowing Nuclear Thunder to fulfill its intended purpose as a way to farm SL.