Nuclear Dawn: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''The [[Title Drop|Nuclear Dawn]] [[Apocalypse How|devastated the world.]] [[After the End|But today,]] [[World War III|the war still rages on.]] As the survivors join the blue banner of the Consortium, or the red standard of the Empire, which side will ''you'' choose?'' - Nuclear Dawn trailer.}}

 

 

 

The game itself plays a bit like [[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]], with large, class-based teams competing for strategic points, as in that game's Conquest mode. But there's a big twist- one player takes the role of [[A Commander Is You|a commander]] and has a [[Top Down View]] of the battlefield from their team's command bunker. From there, the commander can [[Ridiculously-Fast Construction|quickly]] build structures and place them anywhere within the base's power grid.These include Assemblers to build other structures, [[Sentry Gun|turrets]], [[Heal Thyself|Supply]] [[Infinite Supplies|posts]], [[Respawn Point|spawn points]] and the power generators to keep it all running. [[Instant Expert|He can also research upgrades for the troops]], issue them orders and use [[Support Power|Support Powers]] like [[Death From Above|artillery]] and area-of-effect healing. [[You Require More Vespene Gas|Resources for all this are generated]] by the points that the FPS players capture. The objective of the core (and so far only) gametype, Warfare, is to destroy the opposing side's command bunker.

* [[AKA-47]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted,]] the real guns that appear have their real names.

* [[Back Stab]]: Can be done by Stealths with the Assassin Kit. [[Hitbox Dissonance|The hit detection can be a bit wonky though.]]

* [[Class and Level System]]: You gain experience for actions in game, with additional bonuses given for aiding your squad members or following orders. Leveling overall confers generic perks, called "gizmos", such as larger magazine sizes or more damage, while leveling each class grants class-specific gizmos. [[Character Customization|One of each can be equipped at any given time. There are four classes, each with two or more available "kits"]]:

** Assaults are [[Jack of All Stats|Jacks Of All Stats]], with 200 health, frag grenades, the widest variety of weapons and [[Visible Invisibility|the ability to spot cloaked Stealths]] using their [[Goggles Do Something Unusual|Thermal Visor]] ability.

** Exos are [[Mighty Glacier|Mighty Glaciers]] with ''[[Made of Iron|600]]'' health and the ability to mow down players with a Gatling gun, or hammer structures with [[Stuff Blowing Up|a rocket launcher.]] ([[Energy Weapons|Or a laser cannon,]] if you're Imperial) They can enter "Lockdown" mode, [[Stone Wall|becoming immobile but gaining vastly increased accuracy.]]

** Stealths are [[Fragile Speedster|Fragile (only 100 health) Speedsters]] that can equip dual blades to [[Back Stab]] opponents, a [[Sniper Rifle]], or [[Stuff Blowing Up|remote explosives to attack buildings.]] [[Invisibility Cloak|They can cloak,]] becoming completely undetectable except to Assaults using their visors. Commanders can spot them on radar if they are in range of a radar tower.

* [[Cosmetically Different Sides]]: There are only slight variations between weapons. The only large differences are [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|flame turrets]] for the Empire and [[Make Me Wanna Shout|sonic ones]] for Consortium, and how each side extends it's power grid: Imperial Relay Towers have unlimited range but must have line-of-sight to other Towers, while Consortium Wireless Repeaters have much shorter range, but can transmit through solid objects.

* [[Emergency Weapon]]: All classes are armed with a pistol for backup. It can deal surprisingly high damage in the right hands.

* [[The Engineer]]: Supports with the Engineer Kit. They can use their [[Magic Tool|blowtorch to repair friendly buildings and damage enemy ones.]] They can toss [[EMP]] grenades to temporarily disable enemy buildings and blind players, and drop "Daisycutter" mines. They have a shotgun for personal defense.

* [[Infinite Supplies]]: Commanders can build Supply Stations to provide health and ammo to the troops.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: Used by Stealths. It's a fairly efficient one in that the Stealth can even attack while cloaked, though doing so drops it. Unfortunately for the guy [[Back Stab|he just stabbed,]] [[Captain Obvious|that's a small comfort.]]

* [[Ridiculously-Fast Construction]]

* [[Sentry Gun]]: All over the place. These are the commander's offensive and defensive weapons, as he does not have direct control of the troops. They're critical for defending areas and [[Hold the Line|holding the frontlines]] if troops need to retreat to heal and resupply.

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Assaults and BBQ Supports are armed with frag grenades, various kits have [[Land Mine Goes Click|mines]], Saboteur Stealths have remote explosives, and Siege Exos have the M-95 L.A.W.S. rocket launcher and the [[Energy Weapons|X-01 Pulse Cannon,]] respectively. Oh, and there are [[Sentry Gun|rocket turrets]] [[Death From Above|and artillery cannons.]] Oh yeah, lots of [[Stuff Blowing Up]].

* [[Tech Tree]]: The commander can and should research upgrades for the troops, perhaps most importantly the "Advanced Kits" upgrade, which among other kits enables access to Exo siege weapons- critical for advancing into enemy lines.

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