Nuclear Option
Fly near-future aircraft with immersive physics on intense battlefields, facing land, air and sea threats. Wage war against AI or other players with an array of potent weapons. Wield tactical and strategic nuclear weapons, capable of annihilating anything in their path.
Nuclear Option is a early access, flight and action game
developed and published by Shockfront Studios.
Released on October 15th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 3,062 reviews of which 2,864 were positive and 198 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 17.49ā¬ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600K CPU or similar
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB DirectX 11 supported GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- VR Support: TrackIR, HOTAS, Gamepad, Mouse and Keyboard
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really nice middleground between arcade plane game like ace combat or project wingman & autism auto-infliction torture chambers like war thunder or DCS. in comparison to AC/PW, it's worth noting there's very little "real gameplay" - optimal fly-ins require slow buildup in either climbing to avoid AA firing angles or flying extremely close to the ground to avoid radar(sub-15m close to the ground). engagements are extremely brief as it's best to fire once and immediately leave; no craft has either the ammo or countermeasures for sustained fighting, on top of dodging AA or two different lock types being functionally impossible (one lock is already a huge ask) besides ammo scarcity, craft are expectedly fragile. even glancing gun hits or indirect detonation from a near-miss instantly render your craft unusable in combat due to engine or wing loss that leads to loss of control. it's also possible to "headshot" any craft by destroying the cockpit, which instantly kills the player/bot controlling them thus, a lot of ingame time is just flying back and forth rather than actually fighting. even if you don't take damage, you still have to go back to comically far away bases to reload, and even the best performance at landing and rearming is agonizingly slow some things are very forgiving: you succesfully land as long as your pilots don't die and whatever's left of your craft comes to a complete stop vaguely near your airbase. even if all that's left of your plane is the burning cockpit you unceremoniously T-pose out of, you get a succesful sortie credit and your craft is repaired for free. you don't have to taxi near an arming or fuel truck to initiate a rearming process, you just have to be parked sorta close and you instantly get your loadout refreshed. some things are really unforgiving: gforce massively limits your maneuvering by giving you a softcap of 10s during big moves before you black out and lose view/sound/control for about 5s, making cool plane moves largely vestigial (on top of them not helping at all with missiles xd). hovering with your helicopter when you find a good cover spot is actually a terrible idea, as not moving puts you in vortex ring state & you have a window of about 1s to counteract it with full forward motion before you are trapped into a crash. ultimately, the primary skill ceiling in the game doesn't seem knowing the mechanics of flying or deploying your weapons, as much as it involves reading the map and charting an optimal attack. since the time investment for each flight is so high, you might as well make it count i'd appreciate a option to increase all flight speeds, increase radar floor, a way to make AI munition & fuel trucks naturally populate 'allied' highways to allow for quicker rearming via higher risk landings, an option to disable gforce, and a proper third person camera with UI. understandably all of this would be VERY arcadey, and the devs are committed to some level of realism so probably not happening unless they open up modding more.
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The 'simple' controls of an arcade flight sim with a complex flight model, radar, and weapons systems. It's like all the fun parts of DCS without having to read a manual or figure out what the 500 buttons in each cockpit do.
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Hidden gem, love the game, if you think war thunder and ace combat are too simple but you just canāt dedicate enough time to the complexity of dcs, then PLAY THIS GAME NOW
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Simulator disguised as an arcade game slowly tricking you into learning things. On the surface is just seems like a fun colorful sandbox aircraft game, there's big explosions, cool planes, and extremely simple controls that are very intuitive. However, underneath are realistic aircraft flight models that even rival expensive simulators, weapon systems that function like real weapon systems, sensors that work like real sensors and the best aircraft damage models that exist anywhere, bar none. This makes Nuclear Option very easy to learn, but very difficult to master because real world tactics are key. Nuclear option also has something that you cannot find anywhere else, and that is dynamic combat environments. Didn't bother shooting that enemy convoy? Well now they've made it to your airfield and are shooting your hangars and refuelers. Decided to avoid the enemy carrier group? Well now they've moved into the bay and the enemy can launch fighters from right outside your base. Conversely every action you do take, from jamming a radar to blowing up a factory helps shift the fight in your team's favor. While Nuclear Option is a fantastic single player experience, it is even better in multiplayer, being able to co-ordinate with other players in real-time. Nuclear Option has something for everyone, whether you just want to see things explode in a nuclear fireball, or if you're a hardcore flight-sim nerd who always gets makes sure they're on glideslope before final approach. This game replaced DCS and WarThunder for me, 11/10.
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Pros: Recreate Operation Rolling Thunder Do cool stunts Get laser tattoed Nom on some corvettes Spam rockets Conduct 'tactics' (optional) Perform air superiority in a helicopter Use nukes as air-to-air munitions Smack into a mountain at mach yes RWR disco Boop someone halfway across the map who was too lazy to fly low Engage in nuclear tomfoolery Recreate Desert Storm Sunbathe in nuclear hellfire Cons: Be subjected to Operation Rolling Thunder Get rammed by someone who stalled doing cool stunts That laser tattoo lit your engine on fire The corvettes nom back Rockets have no cons, praise be Lynchpin Be tactic'd Get shot down by an air superiority helicopter Get nuked in the air Dodge one mountain only to smack into its cousin RWR disco Get booped by some revoker halfway across the map because you were too lazy to fly low Be subjected to nuclear tomfoolery Get Iraq'd Sunbathe far too close to nuclear hellfire 10/10 game I still dont know what im doing
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Online players
181
Developer
Shockfront Studios
Publisher
Shockfront Studios
Release
15 Oct 2023
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