Nuclear Option: Beginners Guide (Playtest Version)

Nuclear Option can be played with Hotas, Controller or Mouse and keyboard.

Keyboard & Mouse
The default controls on keyboard are a little spread out so I would recommend taking a few moments to rebind some keys closer to Wasd. Namely; Target select/cancel, Countermeasures & Map are worth rebinding. Keep in mind ‘freelook’ is not currently bind-able and is locket to Left mouse button.

Controller
Some binds depending on the controller you have may not be bound. Eg: Eject set as “Home” by default. Controls you may want to consider rebinding: Flight assist, Eject, Map. The right stick by default seems to be trim control. Currently no bind for free-look. Would recommend re-binding this when the option is available.

Hotas
wip

Pitch inversion
By default this is turned on. This setting can be found on the left side under “Invert virtual joystick pitch”

Graphics settings
“Cinematic mode simply disables all UI messages to allow recording of gameplay without overlays” – B25Mitch (Developer)

Selecting Tutorial Mission
From the main menu select “Missions” on the bottom left side. Left side of the screen there is a drop down menu for all missions available. Select Tutorial at the bottom of the list, then “start mission”Tutorial Mission – Taxi & Takeoff
There is tutorial text in the top left of the screen.
in this section you will use the following controls;

Flight HUD
In the below image from left to right is your speed, rate of climb & throttle.

In flight you will need to reference additional info seen colour coded in the below image;
Dark Purple: AoA = Angle of attack | How aggressive of a turn you are making.
Light Purple: G-force | force exerted from acceleration. High AoA turns at high speeds will put more force on the aircraft and pilot causing the pilot to loose consciousness or the air frame to break apart.
Orange: Direction indicator | Pitch & Yaw control inputs
Pink: Centre Cross-hair | Middle of screen & where the aircraft tries to point towards
Red: Aircraft Direction | Where the nose of the aircraft is facing

CI-22 Cricket

Short description:

IG: Description
Designed for conter insurgency operations and low intensity battlefields, the CI-22 Cricked features robust landing gear and short takeoff and landing capability, allowing it to operate from unprepared fields. While lacking in speed and survivability, the CI-22 possesses remarkable agility and the ability to mount an array of weapon types.

Weapons mountable:

T/A-30 Compass

Short description:

FS-12 Revoker

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SFB-81 Darkreach

Short description:

“The radar jammer doesn’t have all its capabilities implemented yet, but it’s still useful in a couple situations:
1.) using the radar jammer significantly raises the radar floor below which your aircraft is undetectable
2.) using the radar jammer makes “notching” much more effective, in which you fly perpendicular to the radar (put it at your 3 or 9 o’clock) to break the lock
if you are being target by a radar SAM both those techniques are helpful
since the radar SAMs are only semi-active homing, breaking the radar lock will neutralise all missiles tracking you simultaneously from the same launcher.” – B25Mitch (Developer)

Guide is still a work in progress, please comment any ideas/tactics to add to the guide

See you in game ~ Nokkt

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