Nuclear Nightmare review

[Honeydew]

I played the game a while ago and I disagree with the Lethal Company comparison.

Simplifying the game down to "Lethal Company but it basically looks like The Thing (1982)" is completely dishonest. There's a bunch of other minor or secondary stuff in both games that separate them but I'll only mention the basic core elements. Lethal Company's basic gameplay loop is to land on a planet, collect scrap/items, and eventually sell it. Nuclear Nightmare's basic gameplay loop is to go around a large map, but the objectives are much different than simply collecting scrap. You have to complete various objectives around multiple sites around the map- things like taking photos of hazardous materials, flipping switches to silos, turning on satellites, etc.

Even though I disagree with the comparison part of the review, the part about the performance being pretty rough was on-point. I thought the game was capped at 30 fps even though my frames were on unlimited- turns out the ♥♥♥♥'s poorly optimized even in the main menu. In-game it ticks up to an average of 40-50 fps with somewhat rare but large stuttering when driving.

The review should focus more on the performance problems and ditch the Lethal Company comparison.

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Originally posted by Honeydew:

Simplifying the game down to "Lethal Company but it basically looks like The Thing (1982)" is completely dishonest. There's a bunch of other minor or secondary stuff in both games that separate them but I'll only mention the basic core elements.

So you know full well they're primarily identical but accuse me of being dishonest for drawing the very obvious comparison regardless?

Originally posted by Honeydew:

Lethal Company's basic gameplay loop is to land on a planet, collect scrap/items, and eventually sell it. Nuclear Nightmare's basic gameplay loop is to go around a large map, but the objectives are much different than simply collecting scrap. You have to complete various objectives around multiple sites around the map- things like taking photos of hazardous materials, flipping switches to silos, turning on satellites, etc.

Correction:

Lethal Company: Arrive on a planet, collect a bunch of shìt while avoiding monsters and then leave.

Nuclear NIghtmare: Arrive on a planet, flick 3 switches to turn satellite on, take selfies (which can be the switches) while avoiding monsters and then leave.

Optionally collect some survival stuff you come across but they're not necessary. You only need a handful of pictures (which again, can be the switches themselves) before extracting. Despite the game being new and the map huge, solos are already managing to extract like 3-6 minutes on the harder difficulties.