Nuclear Nightmare
by BG Productions · 20 Oct, 2024
20 downloads
About the Game
Join your fellow players in assembling an elite extraction team for a thrilling mission to recover classified materials hidden in the harsh Arctic landscape. Gather the necessary supplies to call in an evacuation chopper and make your escape back to civilization. Will you succeed?
Explore a vast open world with a variety of vehicles and trusty huskies to help you navigate the expansive terrain. Earn points to unlock powerful perks at soda machines, discover new suits, and even unlock dance moves! But beware—time is running out. With a devastating nuclear strike looming from the US government to contain the black goo virus, your mission is clear: salvage critical information about the virus before it’s too late. Can you beat the clock and complete your mission?
Beware the lurking threat of the black goo virus. In this perilous mission, you must test for infections and stay vigilant—anyone, even your loyal husky companions, could turn at any moment. Manage your resources wisely; each vaccine can cure an infection only once, and your inventory is limited to just five slots.
Scavenge for flamethrowers, shotguns, flare guns, and more to defend yourself against the relentless dangers. Will you make the right choices to survive, or will the virus claim you?
Are you ready to face the "Nuclear Nightmare"?
Customize Your Experience: Tailor your world settings to match your unique play style.
Unlock Perks: Enhance your chances of survival with powerful perk abilities.
Tame Huskies: Train your loyal companions to scavenge for items, guard your location, or alert you to dangers.
Navigate the Open World: Drive snowmobiles and fly helicopters to traverse the treacherous terrain.
Dynamic Gameplay: Encounter randomly generated events, enemies, items, and scenarios for a fresh experience every time.
Prepare to confront your worst nightmares in "Nuclear Nightmare." The fate of humanity hangs in the balance, and only you can prevent the impending apocalypse. Will you rise to the challenge, or will you become just another victim of this "Nuclear Nightmare"?
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Improved atmospheric lighting & fog (restoring original version's grittiness while respecting remaster)
- Missing playable enemy model caused by rag doll deaths fixed
- Grenade replication improved
- Grenade death causing camera to fall through ground fixed
- Grenade physics smoother on client
- Spectating snowmobile driver camera position fixed
- Improved player rag doll deaths
- Apex predator kill results in rag doll
- Acrobatic Instructor landing animation not playing fixed
- Minor UI improvements
- Monsters clip through the door while breaking it down fixed
- Cant shoot open glass doors FIXED + better glass break FX
- Spectator replication fixes
Major Improvements
- Major performance optimizations: all areas now load when you first spawn in. This removes mid-game stuttering from level streaming and results in more consistent frame rates throughout the match.
- More realistic ragdoll physics for improved character reactions and immersion.
- New gore system: explosions can now dismember limbs with visible bone detail.
Gameplay & Mechanics
- Snowcats can now run over and kill players or enemies at high speed.
- Helicopter blades are now lethal on contact.
- Improved helicopter damage detection for more reliable interactions.
- New drowning system: players now gradually sink when drowning.
- Random gamemode option added: matches can now automatically select between Imposter Mode and Default Mode.
World & Visual Updates
- Gas station model has been fully remade.
- Emergency lighting updated to use distance field shadows for better performance.
- New idle animation added.
Systems & Interaction
- Hand scanners introduced, replacing the previous keypad system.
- Minor networking improvements for smoother multiplayer performance.
- Match player list issues fixed.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where water was incorrectly dealing fire damage.
- Fixed Russian translation issues in Imposter Mode.
- Fixed Imposter assimilation failing at certain distances.
- Fixed head bob triggering incorrectly during cutscenes.
Settings Changes
Default graphics settings have been adjusted from Very High to High for better performance on most systems.
UI OVERHAUL COMING NEXT!
Patch Notes V6.2:
Match start up logic moved to authority only (Should fix clients crashing when loading into a match or rare crash occurring when start with radios are selected, as well as improving overall networking and desync)
Snowmobile Physics Overhaul (Snowmobiles now have more realistic collision, handle better, and have improved steering)
Camera lock bug fixed (This occurred if for example you were attacked while playing an animation and then did not die your camera would become locked in place)
Imposter mode can be played with two players now (This is fun if you are playing with a friend and do not tell them you are playing imposter mode)
Player can move if being assimilated while doing keypad fixed
Improved metallic look of starting helicopter
- Imposter can see objectives
- Ability to move during attack and death sequences fixed
- Imposter and enemy attacks not exiting victim from tasks/events (includes generators, lasers, computers, etc)
- Camera no longer lags behind mesh during a ragdoll death
- Deprecated old start up load level stream (may have caused client crash on start of match)
- Fixed issues with spawn points for big lobbies starting the match
- Scanner says uncontaminated when done by imposter on tower island fixed
- Player ragdolls falling through map fixed
- Major post process improvements
- Motion Blur (You can turn this off in the graphics menu if you dislike the feature)
- Imposter mode potential crash cause fixed
- Temperature dropping in lobby helicopter fixed
- Fixed crashes occurring during matches
- Barricade Rework, now requires an enemy to hit the door 8 times, if the enemy runs away in the middle of this the barricade and door will stay intact. Additionally enemies play an animation when trying to break open the door. (Barricades should be worth using now)
- Players receiving random fire damage fixed
- Leech attack get up camera animation not playing fixed
- Exiting vehicles on a slope caused camera to become stuck in a tilted position fixed
- Driver now exits vehicle in forward direction
- Monster footsteps slightly increased in volume
- Removal of raytracing proxies (possibly causing AMD start up crash)
- Item spawning optimizations (Should stabilize FPS overall)
Note:
We are starting development of the traitor mode so I apologize if there is a bit of silence between updates. Will get a trailer out with a release date as soon as possible! The traitor mode update will also introduce a few new items into the game as well.
- New Pilot Skin
- Emergency lights spin speed slowed
- Reload occurring multiple times when spamming R fixed
- Can see first person arms when using jetpack fixed
- Huskies not blowing up from trip mines fixed
- Snowcat passenger animation improved
- Duplicate sniper in vehicles fixed
- Player death animations not playing when shot or burned while doing gen or laser fixed
- Flamethrower damage not affecting players fixed
- Cabin lighting blown out fixed
- Start game loading screen speed up (no longer can see teleport to start position)
- Inverted bathroom doors in Tower Island fixed
- Lag at outpost 32 when dog navigating fixed
Sorry all for the radio silence given it was Christmas and New Years. During the time off I reevaluated which direction I want to take Nuclear Nightmare in and this year I want to put more of a focus on gameplay such as infection systems, new enemies, traitor mode, etc. So the new map will be taking a backseat until I feel happy with gameplay improvements.
Happy New Years!
Features:
- Players now drop full inventory on death
- Players can now reinforce spectators that joined the game after the match has already started (This system prioritizes players already in the match so in order to reinforce players that joined late, all original players will have to be reinforced)
Fixes/Improvements:
- Snow on gas stations + gas station model optimizations
- when dropping items the game will select the one that will take the old slot
- improved unequip for glowsticks and flashlights (Fixes an issue where you hold two items at the same time)
- Snowmobile snow kick up particle effect overlapping over fog fixed
- Dogs sliding in sit mode fixed
- Infected corpse not going into normal walk animation state fixed
- Fix for players getting stuck in falling animation loop when joining a game late
- Matches ignoring lobby timer and starting automatically fixed
- Benchmark graphics test improved for more accurate results
- Restart application message on language option (Some players reported language not going back to normal, you will have to restart the application for languages to take full effect)
- New gas canister explode sound
- Drilling rig oil tank photo task was still there despite not being the currently active objective
- Medbay doors getting kicked down on the wrong axis fixed
- All maps now play the nuke siren if nuke timer is less than 5 minutes
- Gas canister explosion stack overflow crash fixed (This crash occurs when a gas canister blows up from another object blowing up, you may have experienced this crash even if a laser went off next to a gas canister item)
- Level streaming values optimized/Crash fixes (Tweaked streaming values to be more optimized for lower-end pcs, i.e. before we tried to load areas very fast by dedicating a high amount of ms per frame at a close range to the POI, Now we load the area from a far distance with low ms per frame with the trade off of a longer load time. However this shouldn't be an issue as areas are loaded further)
- Examine tasks now finish earlier (A lot of players were confused and thought they finished the task when they really didn't, so I made it finish slightly early to mitigate this)
- Drones preparation task counted as classified fixed
- Session error messages updated to be more readable to your average player (i.e. session was made on different version than your application)
- Enemies falling/jumping into/from the sky bug fixed
- Optimizations to generator lights & emergency lights
- Diver skin physics & animation issues fixed
- Diver mask overlapping on snowmobiles fixed
- Rebuilt geometry & texture streams (Should help mitigate potential crashes)
- Global voice chat volume was being affected by master volume now is only controlled by it's own sound mix
- Client's having to press the voice chat button twice on start up fixed
- Major Networking Improvements (Significantly decreasing session disconnects and rubber-banding)
- Voice chat robotic sounding voices/stuttering fixed
- Trip mine explosion causing rare game crash fixed
- Infection test positive result caused extreme lag on low-end hardware fixed
- Fog cutoff too harsh on lower-end graphics fixed
- Tower Island lobby helicopter collision exploit fixed
- Helicopters spawning under landing pads on Tower Island fixed
- Research Center in the forest silent alarms classified floating fixed
I have read a lot of comments about losing hours of grind time for skins. This isn’t necessarily the case because when you first load up the game it should refund you the points for all the old skins you bought in the past, sorry all I forgot to put this in the original update notes for The Remaster update.
We plan on adding/remaking all of the skins that existed in the past but it is a lengthy process of remodeling them from scratch. The plan is to keep adding in the new skins as we create them so you won’t have to wait for a major update.
- Item Capacity UI rework (Made more visible and stylized)
- Apex stun time fixed (sorry all, guess I turned the stun time down to 5 seconds and that accidently made it to a packaged build, now is back to normal)
- Slug queen health scales on difficulty (Normal difficulty will make the Slug Queen feel closer to a regular enemy)
- Optimized enemy spawn code and enemies can now continue to spawn when one is wounded (previously would only spawn new enemies when all were dead)
- Mimics now cannot spawn in solo (Now allows you to play solo full stealth since mimics wouldn't mimic anyone in solo and just instantly know some ones location)
- New generator power down sound
- Infection testing sound removed
- Watcher enemy stun locking fixed
- A potential performance improvement related to animation IK solvers
- Dynamic voice chat UI that shows how loud you are as you talk into the microphone
- EQ and compressor added to voice chat, overall quality improved + input gain rework, stopping it from sounding completely blown out at high values
- Players attacked while doing generator or laser wouldn't play attack animation fixed
- Worm spawn stutter fixed
- Doors when broken down at slaughter would rotate on the wrong axis fixed
- Infection times scale based on difficulty with nightmare being almost instant, hard 30 seconds, and easy changed to 260 seconds. Also remember these are minimum times that a infection can take over, so the chance of turning instantly is still quite rare on Nightmare.
- Global voice chat volume affects 2d volume as well
- Lobby screen UI location name moved to the aircraft touchdown bar
- Improved audio in the forest map
- Hud rework, temperature gauge merged with health icon + reworks to sight UI, and all item slots and icons
- Decal buffer removal (decals are now rendered in the main base pass) (more performance)
- GBuffer format changed to 8 bit (Slight performance improvement on high end gpus, but should be major performance boost on low end gpus)
- Notification UI completely reworked
- End game screen UI changed to merged replay menu with the classified menu + Russian translation now correctly fits on the end game screen
- New generator model and animations for working on the generator
- If first person animations are turned off it now make all actions go in third person
- Removed tentacles on infection player (May have been causing a large frame drop on low end specs when a player turned infected)
Note: We are looking into adding a graphical option to bring back tentacles for the users with high specs
- Particle system resolution brought down (This one is a definite performance booster)
- Enemies no longer stuck on gens + better navigation to generators (Additionally enemies already in route to a generator that gets powered off will dynamically reroute themselves to go back to stalking rather than following the path all the way to the generator)
- Remastered or polished many sounds (includes match start sounds, classified collection sounds, satellite turned on sound, and more)
- Helicopter deaths now cause all players inside to ragdoll to the ground
- A few lasers were bugged on low island fixed
- UI win screen duplicating/overlapping on client fixed
Current Release
28102024
Uploaded Nov 06, 2024
System Requirements
How to Install
NuclearNightmare.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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