Nuke Command!? O.o

WarpZoneWarpZone Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6264Members
edited November 2002 in NS General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">There's got to be a downside...</div> I was scrolling through the config menu, minding my own business, when I discovered there was a "nuke" command that the commander can apparently <i>bind a key to.</i> I don't know what this "nuke" option does, but I can immagine very few people who would ever need to bind a key to it, and all of them are archetypes.

Perhaps it's a command that was removed in early playtesting?

<i>"No fair! Nuking the entire station is too overpowering! Either remove the nuke or give aliens a way to destroy everything everywhere on the map at once, too."</i>
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Anyway, I'm curious. What is this mysterious "nuke" option, developers?
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  • LazysamLazysam Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 101Members
    its the grenade launcher, dont ask
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    Haha, I had mentioned this had to be removed to Flayra a long time ago (nukes were in playtesting, but toally unbalanced, they will come back later on) <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Soulja-RagsSoulja-Rags Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5809Members
    Interesting.....
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  • reasareasa Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8010Members, Constellation
    very
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  • BigrickBigrick Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3750Members
    just make the nuke a little detpack that a marine has to drop in the enemy base and then a alien has to munch it to destroy it, or even better the alien swallows the nuke, runs to marine base and boom! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->


    I'm serious! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • TabrisTabris Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4273Members
    Nukes..... well if you guys get those... scrap the seiges <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • standard1standard1 Join Date: 2002-10-02 Member: 1408Members
    wasnt the siege put in place of the nuke?
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  • LogoLogo Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7626Members
    I'm curious on how someone could launch a nuke indoors <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GibbyGibby Join Date: 2002-04-26 Member: 518Members
    Probably not launched. Just placed. And despite it's sounding completely unbalanced, I'm curious as well.

    Alien equivalent? Deadly acidic plague!
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  • Trevelyan_006Trevelyan_006 Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3876Banned
    i dunno, cost a 100 RPs, has a 15 second timer, aliens can destroy it (or a skulk can pick up in mouth, cool!)
    and it destroys anything in blast radius (this includes marines, marine buildings, and all alien stuff...

    i can see it now:

    Portable nukes, for the marine on the go... sometimes you just gotta turn the base into molten glass
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  • whiskaswhiskas Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5020Banned
    wow a nuke being detonated indoors, on a space ship,

    how smart
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  • Cool_HandCool_Hand Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8172Members
    rofl so true whiskas
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  • TieomTieom Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1774Members
    Maybe if it was a Mutually Assured Destruction weapon. Of course, they may just throw the ship into the nearest sun, but self-nuking would be more dramatic:
    "We can't hold em!"
    "Dropship, this is the commander. Get clear NOW!"
    "Roger that commander."
    (Sounds of aliens and gunfire in the background, including an Onos Primal Scream)
    "We're clear commander."
    (Sounds of multiple somethings battering on the outside of the CC, the gunfire has stopped)
    *flip* *click*
    "Initiating nuclear self-destruct sequence."
    "Five..."
    "Four..."
    "Three..."
    (Small punctures start appearing in the walls of the CC)
    (Commander pummels the nuke button)
    "Two..."
    (An onos horn comes through and gores commander through the stomach, he's still alive, barely)
    "One..."
    "See you in he-"

    A slight rumble as the shockwave washes over the dropship...

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    Sorry, I have a flair for the dramatic...
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  • Sh0tSh0t Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 3882Members
    starcraft cut scene please
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  • KhaosKhaos Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1183Members
    Be cool if it had that nice Starcraft voice to it!

    "Nuclear Launch Detected."

    Followed by the round of Oh **obscenity**'s common with nukes <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    The nuke was removed because of a very viable, unstoppable, and boring tactic:

    1) Build up base defense.
    2) Advance tech tree to nuke technology.
    3) Do nothing.
    4) Continue to do nothing.
    5) Having saved ~1000 RPs up, drop multiple nukes in each hive room.
    6) Laugh at the aliens back in the readyroom.

    Nukes may/will be reinstated when a method of deployment can be done that is fun, balanced, and different (it could probably be done a la CS's C4, but that's, well, been done).
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  • LejLej Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8209Members
    <img src='http://cmsu2.cmsu.edu/~lxt84310/nuke.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

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  • OALensOALens Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8228Members, Constellation
    ha you killd them wen thy wher bilding.... <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • LejLej Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8209Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--=OA=Lens+Nov 11 2002, 01:18 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (=OA=Lens @ Nov 11 2002, 01:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->ha you killd them wen thy wher bilding....   <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No I didn't. They shot at me. But i wasn't alone. I had a fellow skulk. He died <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> . After that battle i killed one more marine who was spawning. Then i had like 4 hp. I chewed a little at ther infantry portal. Then i died.

    <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'> -POWER</span></span>
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    It doesn't have to be you standard NS Forum admin friendly, US grade Nuke

    It would most likely be a neutron bomb, (you know one that only destroys living matter rather than structures)

    I can see though how a nuke/neutron bomb could cause balencing issues though
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  • OALensOALens Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8228Members, Constellation
    ok sorry

    awery time a skulk kill me im am bilding <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • KhaimKhaim Join Date: 2002-06-28 Member: 841Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    NOTE: in the config menu, the 'Nuke' is the Jetpack, NOT THE GRENADE LAUNCHER.
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