Wonderful news! Keep up the good work! The mode is already great and it has such a good foundation for future improvements!
whats the MSM? im guessing an upgraded version of the current one (still worse than my goat)
(im pretty sure that photo is of a model vulcan but still better)
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you a million times…very, very, very good job. Keep it up. This gamemode was very funny. :)
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This is probably among the best news the game got in a very long time, I hope you guys keep up the good work. o7
This event was a really nice surprise, and hearing that so much of its good features are considered and tested for the future is just amazing to hear!
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Not Nuclear Thunder related but while you’re here are there any plans to have some other events return or potentially added permanently to the game in the future? Mainly the likes of the Great War event from last year’s April Fools or the Battle of the Atlantic event?
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Unfortunately, our bots require some improvements to their flight model. They use a simplified model, which allows them to fly significantly better than player-controlled aircraft. In a mode where they spawn unlimitedly, I’m afraid they’ll put too much pressure on players. We actually conducted most of our testing with bots, and this was noticeable. We have plans to improve the bots in this regard.
Yes, I agree that the imbalance in the number of players waiting is alarming, but that’s mainly because the event has a huge online presence; it’s currently the most popular game mode.
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How about fixing the obvious imbalance of available planes? And Might as well stop everyone from bringing their own stuff
To kinda side track, do the osa’s in this mode seem pretty hard to survive? or am i missing something?
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i dont think theres an “obvious imbalance” the mig29 and yak141 both hold there own super well and imo the mig29 is better than the f15 and f18 simply because the missiles
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For all the players that aren’t that used to jet fighting, and you play USA, try the A10 warthog, and turn on countermeasures.
I still struggle with russia,and i used to get the phantom before,but now , i get the A10,stealth rounds ,and i just have fun. Even managed to get the nuke and won the game from a sure loss.
Never thought i’d have so much fun only with the warthog,missiles were next to useless to me(except the ground ones,i’d still die from those sometimes,but only because i ran out of flares or i pushed too much) .
Quite honestly i didn’t expect this outcome, the warthog is so slow, but in this mode ,it’s one of it’s best things,as most enemy jets are going so fast, they don’t get the chance to get you on target properly, and many russian jets don’t have a lot of ammo.
The A10 is so underrated.
Agree.
It was gonna be one of us 😆
AI controlled SPAA are just broken. They can track and fire on players through the map and are much harder to defeat.
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Surely the SAMs which fire on the move are known, right?
Yes, this is a deliberate simplification. More realistic behavior—firing from short stops—requires significantly more development and debugging time. The main problem is the interaction between such SAM systems and the columns they cover. Improvements are still in the longer term.
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@BVV_d is this the “Air superiority” mode you mentioned in that Q&A video?
Also could we have a section on the forum to discuss this mode as it’s being developed. We are almost at 5000 messages in this thread in 2 days. Hard to keep track of what has been posted already.
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I’m glad you’re being transparent about something for once.
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i think they should take the F14A and F14B out so theres no pheonix spam but so far as im concerned MIG29 and YAK141 vs F15s F16s and F18s is about as balanced as it gets considering they all have there ups and downs for example
the F15 is the fastest but cant turn great
the f16 is probably the best all rounder
the f18 turns the best but looses speed the quickest
the mig29 has an ok flight model with HMD and R27ER/R73
and the YAK141 is in the same boat just with VTOL capability
F15,f14 and f18 vs mig29, yak and a mig23 totally fair. russia is a joke in that game mode also reflected in player numbers
Thanks for the Answer, realy appreciate it :)
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Hey @BVV_d are there any plans of adding helicopters in a mission like this? just like how you guys did it with the SEAD or would this be hard to do due to the big size of the map which would make heli travel times too much?
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