Right now, the Russian team has a huge advantage compared to every other nation, mainly because of the BUK systems. Their effectiveness against aircraft is simply on another level, making it extremely difficult for the opposing team to even get close to the battlefield.
Nuclear Thunder is supposed to be an intense, exciting mode where both teams have a fair chance to stop or protect the nuclear bomber. However, when one side has such overwhelmingly strong anti-air defenses, the outcome often feels decided before the bomber even takes off.
I’m not asking for Russia to be nerfed into the ground. I just want the mode to be balanced so that every nation has a reasonable chance to compete. Either other nations should receive comparable air defense systems, or the current BUK implementation should be adjusted to better fit the game mode.
At the moment, matches involving the Russian team feel noticeably less enjoyable because of this imbalance. I hope the developers take a closer look at Nuclear Thunder and address the issue in a future update.
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If it is as you say, then it should be fixed pretty swiftly.
Even to the point of either removing the buk from the mode, or, to give buk to the allied side to make it ‘fair’.
But if they did that on the tech trees for the normal matches (Because the issue extends to there) the common cry is ‘copy paste’, and that would also be the problem in doing the ‘replication’ to the allied side.
It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.
But I do think things like this should be noted and worked on asap.
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Not only that, the existence of the KH-31PD means NATO airdefense is dead within 10-15 minutes. When I play NATO my RWR is screaming at all times, when I play Russia the RWR is whisper quiet outside of player radars after about 20 mins.
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thats what happened when country’s have different missile design philosophy’s
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The spaas in this reworked nuclear thunder are absurdly strong. The moment I take off from the airfield, I’m already being targeted and fired upon by buks.
I played a few matches and lost a few hundred thousand sl without getting almost any kills because I can’t even make it to the front line.
I’m not touching this mode again, as scraping the ground and treetops just isn’t fun.
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This is a serious problem nato tickets are completely gone within 10-15 minutes in the game. Axis players can fly high and go into our side of the map and not die. The axis side has nothing to worry about besides the occasional player. The nato side gets lacked up by 20 buks as soon as they spawn in and they continue to fire at us all game having nato rwr and radar showing a slew of missiles. The imbalance is even worse than last time in nuclear thunder and even in the game itself. Gajin needs to either be bought out or actually listen to the community and stop being brain dead and not answering us or fixing anything. There’s a reason this game has dropped its player count. I’ve had this game for 7 years and it’s been the same thing over and over again. They need a review bomb harder than any other we’ve ever had.
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