Being a successful and competent Nuke Op

[Jerkael]

Rule 1) Get your shit together

Rule 2) Get on the station

Rule 3) Get the fucking disk

Rule 4) Get the vault open

Rule 5) Set the nuke to explode

Rule 6) Leave

You may wonder, "Where's the rule where I kill everyone?"

There is no rule allowing that, and frankly it's unnecessary.

You're not a Death Squad sent to the station to kill everyone THEN nuke it.

You're a Squad sent to Nuke the Station. Not kill everyone. Just nuke it. If you have to kill people to get the disk and get the vault open? Good enough.

If you go around trying to murder everyone cause you got guns? You're shit at Nuke Ops automatically in my view, opinions aside:

Do your fucking job.

[Rai]

And here's my strategy :
1) Get emag, thermals.
2) Run near solar panels while others are busy on something (mostly killing people).
3)Emag all doors to the captain's office so AI can't close them, take the disk, leave the station.
4) Go get the nuke, set it up, get back to the shuttle.
5)Wait for everyone, station explodes, they're arrested or dead, regret that you didn't leave the station.

[DrunkenFlyingDemoman]

You forgot a few points

1) Don't grab the radio and run off
2) Don't hog all the points for yourself
3) Emag or Powersink, Do not choose both
4) Don't announce your presence over the radio
5) Use the fucking pinpointer to get the general direction of the station, no, i don't care how you rate your fucking "Natural sense of Space Direction", turn the fucking pinpointer on, or you'll be lost in space wondering why they didn't give you enough oxygen to last the trip from the shuttle to the station
6) Always remember you have a space suit, jetpack and internals, you can easily slip into space, stop getting yourself killed by the botanist because you straight out REFUSE to back into space, but instead decide to face the botanist that got the gun you dropped, oh, and also,
7) Always keep onto your gun, put it on your belt or stow it in your backpack if you need to use both hands, never, under any fucking circumstances, do you drop the gun, Or an Assistant will murder you in maintenance
8) Don't run straight at Security
9) Do not engage crewmembers in melee
10) When causing destruction, make sure you don't kill yourself or your entire team
11) Try to avoid security if possible
12) If going stealth, prepare all your stealth nidbits like Forged IDs and voice changers, accidentally announcing your true identity infront of the Captain inside a ring of Security will NOT help your case
13) Use those guns instead of bashing people with Fire extinguishers and Cyalume Sabers, getting KO'd by a lucky assistant with a full armory of loaded firearms in your backpack will not help your team
14) Don't shoot your teammates, they have a Red S symbol
15) Don't shoot an Assistant 60 times with the C-20, You know who i'm looking at
16) Get the fucking disk
17) When you get the nuke, set it up and hit the numbers that you were given at the start of the round, you're not supposed to fumble it and push it around and make Security read Space Law, Get a cup of Coffee, Re-read Space Law, draw insulting words with crayons, Re-Re-Read Space Law while standing outside the vault waiting for your slow ass to open the door so that they can pull you out and beat you to death with their fists
18) Put some time on the timer, and tell your buddies the nuke's up and put a deadline down, then get on the shuttle, count down and press those computer buttons, those syndies left behind are probably just being useless, lost in space, killing everybody or dead
19) Always remember the nuke code
20) Get the Fucking Disk

[kevsop]

I'm feeling a lot of resentment here. Watch out for the Madmins folks.

[NotFoos]

I agree with all this, except why even open the vault? That's not the nuke you need to use, Syndies only have the code for their nuke. And frankly, when an idiot spends all his time going after the vault nuke when I'm on his team it pisses me off. Otherwise this is not a bad guide at all.
Also Demo, you forgot one thing. If you are captured and/or on the ground about to die, fucking suicide as soon as you can. You will explode upon death and you want to make sure the crew doesn't get a hold of your backpack full of illegal tech they can research/use against you.

[DrunkenFlyingDemoman]

If you are good at it, it's rare to get captured or killed.

Or, you don't even have to be good at it, just possess common sense.

[Danuis Studnick]

None of you have specifically put "PUT THE GOD DAMN FUCKING NUKE DOWN ON THE GOD DAMN STATION AND NOT YOUR SHUTTLE"

...It's just to hilarious for the ghosts when that happens.

[Name Changing Autist]

Since we're resurrecting this after the amount of terrible Nuke Operatives, turn off the Safeties, your nuke is useless otherwise.