'Nuclear Thunder' is a sad excuse for an April fools event

I’m really unsure what the idea behind this event was, and I have 2 main critiques for it. Now things could still be added or changed, and I hope they will for this gamemode.

Firstly is the lack of info. For context, I play almost exclusively with tanks. I’d love to play with jets as well, but that’s such a long grind away that I can’t really, and I don’t want to lay down a day’s salary for a single jet. So these events would be perfect right? Well no, because I can’t play them, because I have no idea how high tier aircraft and their systems work, or what keybinds I need. Now there technically are tutorials for this, but to access these you need top tier aircraft. So I stand basically no chance when playing now unless I do extensive research, which all needs to be looked up externally.

Now for my second point. Tutorials and how these aircraft work I can look up and teach myself. It’s very frustrating and annoying, but there is technically something I can do about it. My second complaint is a lot more direct:

How is this mode different from the recent SEAD event exactly? It feels exactly the same, now just with 2 extra bombers. April fools events used to be super creative and intuitive, it was often worth it to install the game for these events alone. And now we get a reused gamemode that’s very similar to the base gamemode to begin with, but with 2 extra aircraft? Really? That’s all the creativity you could muster?

I was really hoping for something good this year, especially the last 2 April fools events didn’t hit that hard either, but we just continuously keep getting less…

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I’m in the same boat (or tank lol). I’d love the Tu-95 for silly GRB stuff but I have no high tier aircraft and no idea on any of the controls, I am dead weight for the team and can’t earn points. The game does tell me the key bind for chaff though, so I guess that’s something…

A lot of April fools events are just testing for future features. The modern event with T-90 vs Leo, the Mad Max one with the destructible wheels etc.

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Exactly this, if you don’t have top tier jets there’s effectively no April fools mode for you.

Them testing stuff is more than fine, they’ve been doing that for ages. But we used to get something fun allongside it, now it’s just “here, have these bombers in a reused gamemode ig”

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