Nuclear Nightmare
by BG Productions · 20 Oct, 2024
59 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"?
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Small performance gains
- Bullets blocked by UFOs, Playable Enemy, dead or alive Head Spiders fixed (This bug occurred when you killed a enemy, then a Head Spider would spawn in and lets say you killed the Head Spider. Some of your bullets would be blocked by the Head Spider's radius and the bullet impact FX would spawn in front of the camera)
- Fixed an issue with shooting weapons not registering nearby classifieds and grenades (caused by V7.1)
- Improved shooting responsiveness and hit detection — Shooting now uses client-side prediction, making weapons feel significantly more responsive and accurate, especially for players with higher ping.
- Improved enemy attack interactions — Enemies can now be killed during their attack animation, allowing you to save teammates before the attack finishes.
- Fixed elevator desync — Fixed an issue that could cause elevators to appear in different positions for different players, particularly when an elevator was called while a player was on the other side of the map.
- Improved door responsiveness — Doors now use client-side prediction, making opening and closing doors feel much more responsive in multiplayer.
- Barricade improvements — Barricades are now single-use and remain attached to the door after being placed. They will no longer automatically unequip when another player opens the door, and their animations have also been improved.
- MP5 and Revolver buff — Slightly increased the effectiveness of both weapons.
- Fixed MP5 firing bug — Fixed an issue where the MP5 could continue firing while the player was attacked.
- Added ping display — Your current network ping can now be viewed from the pause menu.
- Fixed Dog death audio — Fixed an issue that could cause the Dog's death sound to repeatedly play when its body was shot.
- 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
Current Release
Build 24372290
Uploaded Jul 29, 2026
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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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