The New Nuke (It'll be around forever, eh eh eh)

[Roomba]

Honestly, I always felt that a single lucky/robust player being able to lone wolf it and single-handedly win the round was one of the major flaws in old nuke mode. It led to everyone making a mad dash for the station, ignoring any attempts at communication because all these other buggers would only slow them down and discouraging the hell out of new nuke ops. Everyone wanted to be the guy who shot the captain in the face before he even stepped out of his office and set off the nuke two minutes into the round.

The new nuke mode definitely does more to promote teamwork. It's still possible, but unlikely, that a single superrobust dude singlehandedly secures victory for either side, but for the most part whichever side works better as a team that round, nuke or crew, is going to come out on top. I think that's more important than variety. Plus, as mentioned, there's definitely still room for alternative playstyles. I've seen a round in which a small team quietly infiltrated as engineers and spent the better part of an hour quietly reinforcing engineering and murdering anyone who walked in before they brought the nuke in.

Even  if new nuke has flaws, I'm not sure the way to solve them is by bolting old nuke on top of it.