u/Dry-Investment-8750

nuclear thunder is superior to ARB in every way even with the balance issues, so I won’t be touching ARB in this game again until they make nuclear thunder permanent, and of course, fix the balance issues that were plaguing the mode, but I think everyone who plays nuclear thunder feels the same, that even in it’s unbalanced, relatively broken state, it’s so much better than ARB it’s not even a contest.

Nuclear thunder feels almost like a real war, like a Battlefield game, and ARB feels like a Call of Duty shoebox.

I can’t go back to the call of duty-esque shitfest that is normal ARB after experiencing nuclear thunder, as flawed as it was. huge maps, you respawn, you progress through the map like a theater of conflict, you can use even weaker jets to their full potential, because the maps are large and it allows jets that might not be the best at dog fighting or air superiority to excel their historical roles, like bombing, you can also use glide bombs, etc. Bombing actually matters in this mode even more than air combat.

Once they fix the balance issues with the overpowered SPAA and the Russian bias issues of the Russian side winning a lot, on top of not giving us enough rewards for playing the mode, and not having different tiers of the mode for expanded BR ranges, lower BRs etc. Once they fix all that, this mode will be perfect, but even in its current imperfect state, there’s no chance in hell I’m going back to normal ARB, normal ARB feels like the demo mode of the game compared to nuclear thunder

nuclear thunder is superior to ARB in every way even with the balance issues, so I won’t be touching ARB in this game again until they make nuclear thunder permanent, and of course, fix the balance issues that were plaguing the mode, but I think everyone who plays nuclear thunder feels the same, that even in it’s unbalanced, relatively broken state, it’s so much better than ARB it’s not even a contest.

Nuclear thunder feels almost like a real war, like a Battlefield game, and ARB feels like a Call of Duty shoebox.

I can’t go back to the call of duty-esque shitfest that is normal ARB after experiencing nuclear thunder, as flawed as it was. huge maps, you respawn, you progress through the map like a theater of conflict, you can use even weaker jets to their full potential, because the maps are large and it allows jets that might not be the best at dog fighting or air superiority to excel their historical roles, like bombing, you can also use glide bombs, etc. Bombing actually matters in this mode even more than air combat.

Once they fix the balance issues with the overpowered SPAA and the Russian bias issues of the Russian side winning a lot, on top of not giving us enough rewards for playing the mode, and not having different tiers of the mode for expanded BR ranges, lower BRs etc. Once they fix all that, this mode will be perfect, but even in its current imperfect state, there’s no chance in hell I’m going back to normal ARB, normal ARB feels like the demo mode of the game compared to nuclear thunder

EDIT: 26 in-game score*. This mode DOES NOT respect the players' time AT ALL.

Never happened before. WTF is this BS. Happening to anyone else?

True BVR chads know that the radar filters have been messed up for a while. You'd hit the filter to "hide missiles", thinking that now your TWS cycling wouldn't cycle through dozens of enemy missiles and ordnance before cycling to the next jet, because that BS always got you killed since you didn't have enough time to get your full opening match BVR volleys off since you had to cycle through every goddamn missile and bomb the enemy team launched. But it didn't work, it was broken since the feature was released (typical), so you'd still cycle through enemy missiles and bombs even though they were technically "invisible", you'd still cycle through them you just wouldn't see them, so in other words the radar filters didn't do shit.

But now, either in this update or the last one, they fixed it, so if you disable missiles on the radar filter, you will ONLY see jets and ONLY cycle through jets.

This means you can cycle through enemy jets ONLY, rapidly BVR launch your missiles into every enemy jet you see in about 5 seconds, then start notching, evading, RTB, and get easy multikills on the way back to base. No more wasted missiles locking onto enemy missiles and bombs!

Happy hunting, BVR just got a lot more effective. Happy missile spamming!

Some of you will say I should've gatekept this information so I don't contribute to ruining top tier even further, contributing to added missile spam... OH WELL! Pandora's box has been opened and it can't be closed!

Do with this information what you will.

True BVR chads know that the radar filters have been messed up for a while. You'd hit the filter to "hide missiles", thinking that now your TWS cycling wouldn't cycle through dozens of enemy missiles and ordnance before cycling to the next jet, because that BS always got you killed since you didn't have enough time to get your full opening match BVR volleys off since you had to cycle through every goddamn missile and bomb the enemy team launched. But it didn't work, it was broken since the feature was released (typical), so you'd still cycle through enemy missiles and bombs even though they were technically "invisible", you'd still cycle through them you just wouldn't see them, so in other words the radar filters didn't do shit.

But now, either in this update or the last one, they fixed it, so if you disable missiles on the radar filter, you will ONLY see jets and ONLY cycle through jets.

This means you can cycle through enemy jets ONLY, rapidly BVR launch your missiles into every enemy jet you see in about 5 seconds, then start notching, evading, RTB, and get easy multikills. No more wasted missiles locking onto enemy missiles and bombs!

Happy hunting, BVR just got a lot more effective. Happy missile spamming!

Let this video serve as a tactics guide to anyone who wants to do well in Nuclear Thunder. Raw, unedited footage.

I have no idea about how it works or anything, I didn’t play it last time, but if there’s any chance that my 14.7 Rafale can absolutely shit on all kinds of jets that are much lower in BR, this is gonna be a goddamn massacre.

Will be posting in this same thread later to update what happens

I am simultaneously the luckiest and unluckiest person when I play this game

If you need clarification or have BVR-related question I will answer.