I HATE NUKES

Hello Devs,

well I am a player who is not pressing every second out and so get more stressed than relaxed when playing.

But if I play level normal after 20 to 22 mins I always get nuked. There are no big battles no awesome hundreds of bots rolling through my base no. There is a simply explosion and then its over not awesome at all.

I do not want to download mods or something like that but this is really annoying and robs me of every fun I could have playing.

So my conclusion: I HATE NUKES

Sincerely,
nestar2

They confirmed somewhere, some time ago, that there will be an option in the game lobby to disable certain things, like nukes.

If you play online, many players will easily agree to not use nukes. unfortunately the AI loves spamming nukes right now, which isn't much fun for new players.

A lot of people hate nukes, and they are being worked on.
Currently though, a good way to counter nukes is to scout out your opponent on a regular basis and stop any nukes from being produced if at all possible.

Also, strongly consider an anti-nuke at 12-15 minutes, regardless of whether you have spotted a nuke or not (in all probability one will be coming, particularly against the AI).

Uber i think has been looking at dropping the price of anti-nukes, which will help.

Its been so long since the last big patch, its hard to even speculate right now on what they are doing.

I think I'll do a game between two Normals and see how and when they'll use nukes.

I've already done two hards(Pretty good players) and two easys(absolutely horrendous players) so...might as well...

You'd play horrendously too if you had half the economy of everyone else.

They built 5 factories(3 ground 2 air) they didn't expand and they never advanced beyond basic. I spent 40+ minutes watching them make a ton of terrible mistakes.

Really? I thought they all acted the same.
Huh.

Then again, the easy AI never utilizes their AA fighters, so what do I know?

We were wrong...

well put! we play games to have fun.

but people have FUN in different ways. I think you and I are alike in that we seek to find relaxation in our FUN.

unfortunately, with the necessity of being efficient every second of the game to have a prayer of winning, I think PA focuses more on competitive FUN.

even after tweaking and balancing, I'm honestly not sure you're going to find what you seek in PA. it's just not that kind of game.

Really looking forward to when this game is properly balanced...

I hope Uber is able to pull it off so that the people who don't like nukes right now don't mind them in the future because everything is balanced.

In the meantime, here's some tips for beating nukes.

1: Scout often. If your opponent is building a nukes, snipe it or build an anti-nuke to counter.
2: Build anti-nukes (duh)
3: Nuke your opponent first
4: Spread out your base, particularly spread out your power. That way if you do get nuked, you can recover.

I hate nukes too...
Every game after the 20 minute mark will likely have some nuke play; so spread out the best you can.
I have found that if you get your launcher built somewhere around the 12 minute mark you can usually out nuke your opponent. I try to launch my first nuke by the 20 minute mark; if you can't you need to expect one to land in your base around this time.

Nukes are broken.

There are two solutions. Tell me which one is the better one.

1. Fix them so that they aren't broken.

2. Instead of fixing them, make it so that players can disable them.

Nukes are somehow difficult to handle for a beginner. Top notch players have no problem with that and they can actually enhance their strategy thanks to the dynamic Nukes vs Anti-Nukes.

But it takes some time to get able to. And it is very frustrating if you can't handle still.

Conclusion. It would great to have the option to disable Nukes if so we would like.

I've found that it's not the dynamic of nuke vs. anti nuke, but nuke vs. I can build my nuke faster than yours...

If u get Nuked by minute 20 ur enemy is slow, or u just turteled too much.
I usually nuke ppl by minute 8, if i want to. But i dont nuke all day, it cost so much metal ;P
The 2nd reason is to break defenses, if an enemy turtels hard, he usually had a small base so 1 nuke can whipe out 80% of his eco. Nuke + Gunships = gg

Except any competent player that turtles would put 2 or 3 anti-nukes in that base and retaliate to a nuking with a gunship barrage.

Not to sound cynical or anything, but sounds like you need to build a nuke defense.