Nuclear Escalation feedback for a stanalone mode

Agm65 and munition camera tried to replicate far cry 1 camera fly through from main menu

how could they ignore such serious problem and probably easy to fix

Welcome to War Thunder, you seem new here. This is a regular occurrence.

new my ass, my account is probably older than your irl age.

Last I checked I am not 11 years old. And if you have not noticed Gaijin ignoring bugs in your 11 years of playing this game, you really have not been paying attention.

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Who was asking for this bruh

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oh-my-god-bro

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Lowk feels like this Mode is dead already. Searching on both US and EU Servers results in nothing, and when I join a Game, it’s either about to enter or already is in Phase 2
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At 11.3 makes sense (SPAA is by far the worst at the lower BRs imo), isn’t taking me long than ~5 minutes to get a game at ~14.0

Might aswell just queue up for 14.0+, as I only face Su-30MK2/MKK anyways

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Would be my advice

This would be easily fixable with persistent servers …

  1. The queue would be needed just once for the session.

  2. Getting into a finished match would not be a problem because another one would start right after the current one ended.

This does not fly well with the uptier/downtier system, tho, but it does not work well with NE anyway, so getting back intonfixed BR brackets and adopting oersistant servers would alleviate most matchmaking problems.

I want to play in the 11.0-11.3 range and it’s virtually impossible to play, i guess i won’t buy the av8b premium if this matchmaking is not fixed

It’s not the spaa, it’s that US AV8 have auto win agm154 and everyone is playing those, playing with redfor you get into matches very fast becouse noone wants to play it, using 1970s planes against 1980s and 1990s weapons and planes is not really optimal and rhe only advantages (kh31) was nerfed into the ground.

But when it’s bluefor getting broken weapons everyone just accepts it i guess …

alive and well
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14 minutes just to get thrown into a match thats almost over.
very hell yeah

probably a year of development and they to just ruin it
bravo

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Bruh, I have waited for 55mins XD

I wish SU39/SU25(add KH25UPM) move to 11.0, the SPAAs over 11.3 is too crazy

gotta make sure EVERY match is full you know? - gaijin

new way to make people waste premium time ig

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When you do queue for a match finally, it’s a game that’s almost over because somehow “join active battles” doesn’t apply to NE whether if it’s on or not.

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Just tried for a week, the balance is simply ridicoulous and keeps getting worse.

First gaijin nerfed the kh31, and it was kinda understandable, but never reverted the double sampt and hawk arrangement so bluefor has twicr as much medium range AA on the map (wich is gunny becouse there are more SAMPT on the single map than the ones defending Italy) .

At that time i was already abusing gbu39 against buks and no nerf or nothing …

Then the buks were too strong for the poor blueside, so no more ARH SAMs but saclos S300 and with a single targeting radar LOL, taking out those wth gbu39 was too easy i even stopped doing it for lack of fun.

Then the RCS reduction for agm154 and gbu39, now everyone knows the trick and redfor has no AA 5 min into every match (since 11.3 becouse funny av8b(NA) ) .

Now i was trying the german 11.3 and Israely 12.3 , osas stopped intercepting munitions every single jdam and agm65 i fired got on target …

Using 11.3 urss with less missles and janky airframes flarakpz and gepard tried to intercept everything at every distance …

So since Nuclear thunder started the only weapon the redfor had (the KH31) is now useless against medium and long range AA, the redfor AA now is nerfed in every single component and BR, and bluefor got game winning weapons litterally en masse , everything without a single move by gaijiin…

Getting into bluefor matches at 11.3-12.3 takes 10+ minutes becouse everyone wants easy points gangabangin redfor and noone wants to play the always losing side wich litterally cannot do anything effective in the game mode.

Delete SACLOS AA in convoys, rebalance redfor and bluefor medium and long range AA , if the gbu39/agm154 combo has to stay this strong the kh31 should make a comeback.

Especially the convoy SACLOS SAMs, redfor litterally cannot deal with those until 14.0, they have few TV missles and every single one of them gets intercepted, meanwhile 11.0-13.0 redfor convoy SAMs do not even attempt at intercepting bliefor missles.

Tl.Dr : gaijin only rebalanced stuff to nerf redfor wich was initially strong, then stopped taking care of the mode balance, now bluefor is so handheld there is no way to play redfor effectively.

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I am not sure where to write this, but after playing around in Nuclear Escalation, I have to say that the AI should be much less effective at intercepting ordnance. IRL the Tor was famous for being one of the first SAM’s that could do this semi reliably, but in game Osa’s an Roland’s are doing this reliably.

Realistically, Roland’s and Osa’s should have no ability to do this, as should Hawk’s and older Buk’s or S-300’s. At 12.0 and below, player launched ordnance should simply not be intercepted by the AI. It’s not fun, and it makes planes like the AV-8B NA OP because they arbitrarily have ordnance that functions the way other plane’s ordnance should.

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