Many tips please read: The poison sprayers are doing something. They are OP against shields and do damage in their whole "spray". !!! you want to make sure to place them somewhere they can fire in a straight line to maximize their effectiveness. (flame tower too) !!! The reason you don't see the poison icon is because the 80 poison/sec is too fast. Oogie spawns on the longest path, as long as that isn't the path you most recently expanded. You usually want to destroy shields first, then armor, then health A good tactic is to make a kill zone where all paths gather to make the towers most useful. Universities are OP. Try to start using them around lvl 25 Lookout tower is also insane: it adds the multipliers to all towers attacking the target. Since total damage is calculated using multiplication... yeah you get it. Be sure to upgrade the towers near your tower manually since they can't really level by themselves.
Alot of youtubers suck on purpose to get more activity in the comment section for the sake of triggering youtube algoritme to get more exposure and views.
@@SlothfulSlayer I don't think matt would do that. If you've watched him for a while you will probably agree that he's pretty smart. (He's an engineer after all)
An issue with getting this many towers is you're splitting your upgrades across too many options resulting in each of them being weaker. The best choice is to stick with just 2 or 3 towers and heavily invest into those so they stack up upgrades.
RCE: says that he has been told to take advantage of the houses more Also RCE: places two towers near houses and doesnt even place a tower in the spot where it wud protect two houses, and proceeds to forget about the houses entirely.
Watching RCE play is equally as infuriating as it is entertaining. Shredder blades follow the route of the enemy they hit. Dark grey is shield. White/cream is armour. Each block of health/shield/armour is 100 until lvl16 when they become 1000. Lvl16 is the level after Oogie #1, and the shields start after that. If you want to make lvl 45, you need to make tower groupings. Three or four shredders together is far better than spread out and etc for other towers. Explosives and burn are for armour. Ballistic damage and bleed is health. Lasers and poison are for shield, minus the obelisk. Despite this, ANY tower can be made to attack any of the three and I find this necessary for victory. Example: I always have mortar groups and some radars set for most shield, and manually upgrade them to do so. Last note: on lvl 0, I surround the houses by my tower, even if they'll be nearly useless, as the money over time is well worth it, and is given at each round start. I sometimes swap them with radars and other long range towers later on. And only directly adjacent, same altitude towers count for houses, same as crystals. Diagonals and double stacks don't work. Good'ay
Enjoyed your last video and got the game. Finished the single and the double lane defense. Tips learned from playing the game: -Get radar because they can rip through the bosses like paper. One is enough to kill Oogie. -Make a kill zone and put frost keeps near them. It slow them down and gives more time to kill them. -Get the mana bank and mana generation upgrades early because you're going to use many weapons that use mana. -Poison, flame and shredder together because you get an upgrade where you can deal extra damage if the enemy is bleeding, burning or poisoned. Loving the series and can't wait wait for your next video.😍
It also makes sense to expand strategically in a way that you have short paths and long paths. This will spread the enemy numbers over a longer period of time and will not overwhelm your defences. I also like to place mortars and canons all over the map so they already reduced the shield and armor to zero when the enemies reach the death zone. I remember the difference between shield and armor by saying "knight with the shining armor" meaning armor is the shiny yellow/golden colour.
really enjoy the series. Decided to buy the game myself and already done 18 hours. One thing I learn is dont be too many upgrade cards as it clog up and may not get upgrades you want. Also at the start, place ballistas immediately next to the houses as you get gold from them and if you do it early, by the time you get to like lvl25+ your total income percentage will be quite high. My highest is lvl37 and max ivs lvl45. on that run, 10% of my total income was just from ballistas next to the houses.
the question is how much did you spend on the ballista. 10% of your income might be from the ballista. but each ballista might cost more than what it makes.
You can buy a lot of upgrade cards - but in a run, don't buy a lot of towers. The one exception to 'don't buy a lot of cards' is if you want specific towers to show. Tower cards can clog rewards, but only really matters if you want a specific one. As long as you don't unlock the tower, subsequent cards don't clog your hand.
Alright, about damage over time There's bleed, burn and poison, and bleed only deals full damage to health, burn - to armor and poison - to shields, if it deals damage to a wrong thing, it will still decay like usual but will only deal half the damage So it is more rational to put something that deals poison damage at the start to take down shields quicker
Got this game and I’ve been loving it. Smashed through the single lane but double and triple get incredibly hard. Tips: late game the mana banks are unbelievable. With the cards that give you x% of your max mana a second, the mana banks increase your max mana and it stacks so if you get a handful of mana banks, your max mana can break 1000-2000 and you’re getting 200-300 mana a second. Unbelievable Edit: the only issue with putting the encampments towards the tower is that they won’t consistently do damage and thus they get really under leveled. To keep them as a good last line of defense you have to dump money into upgrading them consistently
This game is dangerously addictive, thanks for introducing me to it! A few tips to throw at you: green = health, white = armor, blue = shield. Part of the problem you ran into towards the end of this run was that you confused the shields with armor and started stacking the wrong damage type. I'd also really recommend watch towers if you use obelisks, since watchtowers boost the damage (per hit!) against the targets they mark, and obelisks have a high rate of fire. Just set the obelisk's priority to 'marked' to ensure they attack the watchtower targets. :)
So, he's learned a lot, but... Still doesn't know to hold shift to put more than one tower down at a time, even though it's literally written on the in-game screen. 🤪 Love you ya daft sod 😂❤️
paths splitting is actually a good thing, it lets you plan out your defenses better by placing more towers to defend from paths with more branches because those paths will have more enemies. The enemies per level get split out evenly to all paths leading into the map, if you want an area to have fewer enemies, try to expand other paths first. Also, yellow is armor, blue is shields.
I'd also recommend the Respec mod. It lets you refund all your card choices and only pick the ones you plan to use plus enough to get upgrades every level, which drastically reduces deck bloat. Since you only get enough upgrade chances to max out ~1.5 towers if you're lucky, this can drastically increase your win rate. Also, take some time to study the upgrade tree. The upgrades you have access to follow the same pattern as the tree. So, if you upgrade Ballista health damage, you get access to a slowing effect on all your Ballista attacks, armor leads to range increases, and shield leads mana infused bolts, while they all lead to +15% crit for each line. Its worth looking at each of the trees and memorizing where the upgrades you truly care about are. Mana banks should always be taken if you can. You'll basically always need them. They increase both your mana regen and your max mana, which synergizes fantastically with Sorcery and Life Steal (which is unlocked by Sorcery). In my last run, I had over 150 mana/sec thanks to this and Savings Account (unlocked by Mana Bank), which allowed me to magically empower all my ballistas twice and have as many particle cannons as my I wanted, plus several more because I had to much money and nothing to do with it ;) That poison card that gave 5% slow that you passed up to take the Mine (I think) is one of the best cards in the game since it can be gotten relatively early and any weapon can be made to do poison damage. When you get universities, remember to get at least the first two scholarship cards, and to specialize each university. Each one gets the chance listed for each stat at the start of every turn, and the odds of success are slightly higher if each university is specialized than if they're all generalized. I'd also recommend ditching mines and haunted houses. They're not useless, but they're close enough to it that its not worth the massive deck bloat as each one adds several more cards to your deck if you select them.
I love the Encampments. Highest RPM fire rate will spread the most bombs around. It's annoying having to keep setting them down to see which gives the most in that area.
07:00 - The upgrade on the very right ... _Building - Mine: Repair and increase tower max health by mining from iron veins._ Iron veins appear to be those small rocky dirt piles scattered across the map. Might be worth a shot? edit: I'm not playing the game myself, mind you. ediotic: uh, nvm :)
If you hold shift after selecting a tower or building, you can place multiples without having to reselect the building. Diversify your damages by tower, rather than upgrading one tower to do a little more of a type if you can. Shredder does bleed/health, which prevents health regen, Poison tower does poison/shields and prevents shield regen, and Flame thrower does fire/armor and prevents armor regen. Mortars are also great AoE and do massive armor damage. Use your priorities to target the damage type, or play to strengths. Shredder and poison tower I usually set to default, as they benefit from hitting the front guy, and hits everyone around it, so will get bleed and poison on everything. Mortar I target highest armor first. Ballistae I do a mixture of all three to help whittle down the numbers for the other towers to take care of, etc. Yellow is armor, Grey is shields, and Green is health.
I've found flame and poison towers to be quite effective. Enemies have health, armor, and shields,- green, cream, blue. Damage bars go from right to left, and you have to do the outermost damage first, so often you need to take out shields, armor, then health. Poison effects shields, flame armor, and bleed health. Focusing to upgrade just a few tower types gives you effects for all element types, and synergizes your attacks. I've found focusing on ballista, radar towers, poison and gas tower upgrades for damage to be effective. Scout towers help multiply damage. I may purchase the other towers, but often don't upgrade their cards. Get sorcery and mana banks to rely less on the RNG of mana wells. You need to surround your houses with towers to maximize gold. Decent strategy is to get all of the starting money upgrades and place towers around all the starting houses. Later in the Game you can replace the unused towers with radar stations, which effectively reduces the price of radar station. Nothing overcomes bad RNG for tiles though. My best games have maps with few branches and mostly switchbacks.
An important note is that for enemies that regenerate their health, armour, or shields, the appropriate damage over time nullifies that. But if you have a high damage/sec cap on your effects, it will run through the meager amounts you were able to put on the enemies at the start and just allow the enemies to regenerate any damage you dealt by the time they reach the next killing zone
Reminds me of a metalocalypse episode about, well that. I think it was Nathan who said something like "we do all this stuff to get someone else to do that for us... so if we could just do it, we wouldn't need any of this..."
Something else of note. When you go to upgrade the towers, it costs more if the progress bar on them is lower. Essentially the towers auto upgrade based on what they are doing damage to. If they are hitting just health, the progress on the health upgrade will increase until 100%, then it will upgrade and start a new progress bar. The same goes for armor and shields. You doing it manually just upgrades it faster at a higher cost. This means towers that are older are better than towers that are newer, just because they have auto upgraded over many rounds.
You're getting better Matt! (And even better in your latest Twitch vid, of which I still need to watch the 2nd half) A couple things I haven't seen you do yet. Universities give a chance of a permanent dmg boost for everything each level. And Mana Banks cost more than Siphons, but they increase your max mana, which scales up Sorcery. It just depends on how much mana you plan to use Edit: Also, there's some upgrades that'll take your max tower health to 20. Not the cards, permanent upgrades from the unlock menu
Hi Mat, strongest tower in the game: Tesla coil. Put it on a big turn on a +3 , upgrade the crap out of it and it will kill anything. keep another tesla down the line towards the tower to catch the insanely fast ones that dont die after 1 hit from the first tesla and upgrade it slowly
Do more with your “Target Priority” options! It’s not “target this, then this, then this.” It’s “target this WITH this AND this.” It’s a logic based system; so if you set it to Most Shield/Most Armor/Progress, it would prioritize the target with those parameters and switch between targets accordingly. If there are no targets with Shield, it will then target the enemy with the most Armor making the most progress. If there’s no enemy with Armor OR Shield, it will then target the enemy making the most progress. Most Armor/Least Shield/Slowest, it will base its target on that hierarchy instead. Adjust the target priority based on the strengths of each tower and micromanaging how you do damage around the paths and you’ll get so much further faster even without the fast forward mod. My record is 48 and I only had down maybe 24 towers. Hope this helps!
Health/Armour/Shield stat bar explained: Green bars are health, white bars are armour, purple bars are shields. You addin more armour dmg when theres shield users doesnt do anything to hurt them; it just needlessly wastes resources.
Whenever I finish the single defence mode, I usually end up with just around +200 mana/sec - Obelisks tend to form a large part of my defence, along with shredder, flamer and poison towers. I don't upgrade any of my towers as they upgrade themselves over time. I also try to keep one path very long for the bosses to spawn on. I try to concentrate my card upgrades for each type of tower, for example I only upgrade shield stats for poison, armor stats for flamer, I always go for bandit as soon as possible and I go for the cards which give extra damage from all towers on bleeding / burning / poisoned. I do go for cards which upgrade all stats on my obelisks though, but concentrating on shield where possible as that is more important in the late game. The house protection stat usually ends up resulting in about 18% of my income and at the start it nearly doubles my income - It's well worth while.
I’m sure Paddy was just re-engineering the strongest shape. Also, thank you for your videos. They’ve helped me find a lot of great new games and really help to brighten the day!
You should check out the crit on bleed/burn/poison cards, stacking sources of bleed/burn/poison can be really good with them. Mana siphons are not worth it when you spam obelisks, you want the mana bank + sorcery, easy 300+ mana/s regen and like 2k mana pool. You also only have 45 levels to pick cards(+ oogie chests), so splitting into many tower types means you cant min/max into the good upgrades on most towers
So the blue stuff he keeps calling armor is shield right? And he keeps putting down the wrong towers to deal with it as a result? It looks to me like Green is health, cream is armor, and blue is shield, and if you see an enemy with all three you can see it follows that order, which is the order he talked about earlier on: "got to get through the shield first, then the armor, then the health."
Poison and burning aside, it's better to focus your defenses between the tower and the first crossroad. Any defence in that section will be able to damage ALL the enemies. Spreading defenses around the map or focusing on enemy entrances, means you're investing the same money to hit less enemies.
Hey matt, i just realized: Since houses gives you gold per adjacent tower INSTANTLY once you go up a level, and since it costs nothing to relocate them; Why not surround em with towers whether it makes sense or not, get the gold, and then immediately replace em?
If you do decide to do another challenge like this, I cannot recommend the radar any higher. They have the largest range of any tower and just a couple can vaporize oogie in seconds. Just make sure they're targeting him. I've had a few games where I didn't even realize he was here until I noticed the chest lying on the path.
Your thoughts on how things work is correct but you need a bit more refining. The poison sprayers are working but can't place stacks on the mobs since you have such high per sec dmg counters. Poison dmgs shields, fire dmgs armor, and bleed dmgs health. So the best type of run would have poison near the beginning of each run. Fire in the middle and bleeding near the tower.
Worth noting that unless the path bends back on itself, it's a little useless to fill in the space behind your tower (on it's own block) as the range limitations means that they'll only have a split second to shoot, and the hit box of the tower is a little jank at times, meaning that they're basically useless.
If you get confused on which is armor and which is shield, just click on a tower. The bar where you upgrade the damage for each is the same color it appears on health bars! (So it’s armor as the tan/white, and shields are the grey/blue)
i have found an op strategy. only use shredder flamer, and poison, so we will use the dot effect to absolutely obliterate the enemy. with the card that deals 10 percent of the enemy dot effect and 4 50% additional effect card so basically deal 4 times more damage. it destroys boss and have AOE too
I watched a video. The absolute most powerful tower is Tesla Coil. If you have a +3 in the middle of a corner, like your early obelisk, and just get everything for it, it'll 1 shot even end game.
Obelisk settings: Least Shield Most Armor Most health So obelisk ignore all gray shield, prefer orange armor and than most healthy and after that it will shoot to shielded enemy’s.
The frost tower by far are the most important tower for me. In any tower defense game a slowing type tower are really important. also the shredder are really weak against boss and enemy with a lot of shield or armor which comes a lot in late game.
Once I unlocked the frost bolts (or whatever it's called) for ballistas and creeping cough for poison sprayers. Each hit of them would slow the enemy 5%... Cue dozens of mortars zeroing in. Fun!
Play mindustry pls (tower defense game where you need to build fabrics to power your turrets and get resources to get upgrades and travel to other areas on the planet) I think you'll like it!
haha my favorite part is him saying im going obelisk and skipping over mana banks and anything mana regen and going oh no im out of mana the very next wave. my best runs have been wave 45 single direction(may not be great but that eye oodgie is a beast ending my run 3-4 times now) and have 110+ mana gen a sec and still running low with all my sprayers and rail guns (haven't used obelisks since i always end up with mana issues)
Invest on shield and armor damage will do the work.. Tesla, poison and particle cannon is a shield damage Flame, obelisk and mortar is a armor damage Radar, shredder and balista is technically health damage
I just... I know that the Mana siphons are supposed to be like sci-fi siphoning tech, but it just looks like a bunch of wizard statues going "OOOOOOHHHH!" around a crystal to me.
You should do a round with only being able to build on 2 squares at a time but you get to keep that unlimited mod on. It would be interesting to see what the strongest combos are and how many rounds you can last. You would hope for a straight line map but as you can see who knows what you will get.
Feel like I should say this, but you are reciprocating well to the comments in the video. It is not uncommon to see some of your colleagues ignoring or disregarding the comments, especially in scenario's where it seems everyone watching is a critique. Keep up the good work :)
This is rough. If you add more towers, you get cards from those towers, which makes it harder to upgrade. You're also building your roads "evenly" - so all your enemies arrive at the same time. This is great if you have AOE...but you were building Obelisks which are single-target. If a road splits, just build out ONE road, this will automatically separate enemies arrival time. Also, purple = shield, not armor. White = armor. Usually it's bad to increase bleed/burn/poison damage rate -- you want to have the rate low so that crit is high! Lastly, you destroy towers WAY too much, this is wasting XP for improving tower strength.
Matt out of context: loves the strongest shape and 3 ways. Haha Anyways, this game is fun. I’m really glad to see you actually read comments and update your strategy based on them
You better focusing on getting and upgrading 1-4 turret rather than unlocking every turret. It would be much more "efficient" And also cheaper and decreasing the mana and coins usage. For example, you can use ballista and tesla coil strategy. Where you can put balista to give supporting damage and getting coins from houses and then you can put few tesla coils at strategic point and then upgrade them as high possible. You can change the tesla and ballista with another turret but the idea is the same.
You should prioritize lowest health on your ballistas closest to the end. Two healthy enemies making it to your tower still does less damage than three or four nearly dead ones.
So haven't watched the vid yet but between your last tower vid and this one, because of you I've bought the game, I also won a game on single path. So I am expecting a win in this video from you.
Mana Banks are really good in large quantities and they don’t need mana crystals so if you have millions of obelisks they are really good and increase max mana
Many tips please read:
The poison sprayers are doing something. They are OP against shields and do damage in their whole "spray".
!!! you want to make sure to place them somewhere they can fire in a straight line to maximize their effectiveness. (flame tower too) !!!
The reason you don't see the poison icon is because the 80 poison/sec is too fast.
Oogie spawns on the longest path, as long as that isn't the path you most recently expanded.
You usually want to destroy shields first, then armor, then health
A good tactic is to make a kill zone where all paths gather to make the towers most useful.
Universities are OP. Try to start using them around lvl 25
Lookout tower is also insane: it adds the multipliers to all towers attacking the target. Since total damage is calculated using multiplication... yeah you get it.
Be sure to upgrade the towers near your tower manually since they can't really level by themselves.
A note about the last tip... if you have a chance to expand toward your starting space, take it so your towers can get two chances to strike.
Alot of youtubers suck on purpose to get more activity in the comment section for the sake of triggering youtube algoritme to get more exposure and views.
@@SlothfulSlayer I don't think matt would do that. If you've watched him for a while you will probably agree that he's pretty smart. (He's an engineer after all)
Another tip, If you hold shift you can place more than one tower without needing to click on the icon again
@@LordKarronz omg *face palm* that's what "faster tower placement" means...
An issue with getting this many towers is you're splitting your upgrades across too many options resulting in each of them being weaker. The best choice is to stick with just 2 or 3 towers and heavily invest into those so they stack up upgrades.
Man just got this game. It is so addictive. Also I'm sending paddy pets, they are virtual and to be redeemed by Matt.
Where did u get it
@@Alfred_DrankYourLemonade steam or if you dont wanna spend money repack games
Referring to yourself as Man is such a mood. Man respects.
RCE: says that he has been told to take advantage of the houses more
Also RCE: places two towers near houses and doesnt even place a tower in the spot where it wud protect two houses, and proceeds to forget about the houses entirely.
How can you spawn with more houses
, I only spawn with 0-1
@@xAr3s1103 Luck of the draw rly
@@SylviaRustyFae No, the more upgrades you have unlocked the more houses you will get at the start until you get 8 surrounding your tower.
I can't watch this series for reasons like this haha
also gets haunted house twice which could increase mana and chooses not to even with gravestones all over the map
Watching RCE play is equally as infuriating as it is entertaining.
Shredder blades follow the route of the enemy they hit.
Dark grey is shield.
White/cream is armour.
Each block of health/shield/armour is 100 until lvl16 when they become 1000.
Lvl16 is the level after Oogie #1, and the shields start after that.
If you want to make lvl 45, you need to make tower groupings. Three or four shredders together is far better than spread out and etc for other towers.
Explosives and burn are for armour.
Ballistic damage and bleed is health.
Lasers and poison are for shield, minus the obelisk.
Despite this, ANY tower can be made to attack any of the three and I find this necessary for victory.
Example: I always have mortar groups and some radars set for most shield, and manually upgrade them to do so.
Last note: on lvl 0, I surround the houses by my tower, even if they'll be nearly useless, as the money over time is well worth it, and is given at each round start. I sometimes swap them with radars and other long range towers later on. And only directly adjacent, same altitude towers count for houses, same as crystals. Diagonals and double stacks don't work.
Good'ay
Enjoyed your last video and got the game. Finished the single and the double lane defense.
Tips learned from playing the game:
-Get radar because they can rip through the bosses like paper. One is enough to kill Oogie.
-Make a kill zone and put frost keeps near them. It slow them down and gives more time to kill them.
-Get the mana bank and mana generation upgrades early because you're going to use many weapons that use mana.
-Poison, flame and shredder together because you get an upgrade where you can deal extra damage if the enemy is bleeding, burning or poisoned.
Loving the series and can't wait wait for your next video.😍
It also makes sense to expand strategically in a way that you have short paths and long paths. This will spread the enemy numbers over a longer period of time and will not overwhelm your defences. I also like to place mortars and canons all over the map so they already reduced the shield and armor to zero when the enemies reach the death zone.
I remember the difference between shield and armor by saying "knight with the shining armor" meaning armor is the shiny yellow/golden colour.
really enjoy the series. Decided to buy the game myself and already done 18 hours.
One thing I learn is dont be too many upgrade cards as it clog up and may not get upgrades you want. Also at the start, place ballistas immediately next to the houses as you get gold from them and if you do it early, by the time you get to like lvl25+ your total income percentage will be quite high. My highest is lvl37 and max ivs lvl45. on that run, 10% of my total income was just from ballistas next to the houses.
the question is how much did you spend on the ballista. 10% of your income might be from the ballista. but each ballista might cost more than what it makes.
@@159asmos maximum cost for a new one was like 220 or 240 gold as had good FNG on that attempt and had the max perm upgrades
@@159asmos Ballista are always worth building around a house. Its not possible to build enough ballista to where it wouldn't be cost effective.
You can buy a lot of upgrade cards - but in a run, don't buy a lot of towers. The one exception to 'don't buy a lot of cards' is if you want specific towers to show. Tower cards can clog rewards, but only really matters if you want a specific one. As long as you don't unlock the tower, subsequent cards don't clog your hand.
how is your highest 37 and max 45??? that makes no sense. max and highest are the same thing or am i just being a 0 IQ person
Alright, about damage over time
There's bleed, burn and poison, and bleed only deals full damage to health, burn - to armor and poison - to shields, if it deals damage to a wrong thing, it will still decay like usual but will only deal half the damage
So it is more rational to put something that deals poison damage at the start to take down shields quicker
Still waiting the day he realized that the purple-blue bar is shield, not armor 🤣
We are all waiting for that day 😂 what an architect rookie mistake
@@mercy9375 Because he has yet to see shield, he only sees armor (yellow) and armor (purple) ;)
Don't worry guys, he knows, this probably was recorded a long time ago, if you check his streams, you'll understand
yep. he should realize that the blue is shield and the yellow is armor, green is health
Shield, armor, same thing
Got this game and I’ve been loving it. Smashed through the single lane but double and triple get incredibly hard. Tips: late game the mana banks are unbelievable. With the cards that give you x% of your max mana a second, the mana banks increase your max mana and it stacks so if you get a handful of mana banks, your max mana can break 1000-2000 and you’re getting 200-300 mana a second. Unbelievable
Edit: the only issue with putting the encampments towards the tower is that they won’t consistently do damage and thus they get really under leveled. To keep them as a good last line of defense you have to dump money into upgrading them consistently
I believe it
This game is dangerously addictive, thanks for introducing me to it!
A few tips to throw at you: green = health, white = armor, blue = shield. Part of the problem you ran into towards the end of this run was that you confused the shields with armor and started stacking the wrong damage type. I'd also really recommend watch towers if you use obelisks, since watchtowers boost the damage (per hit!) against the targets they mark, and obelisks have a high rate of fire. Just set the obelisk's priority to 'marked' to ensure they attack the watchtower targets. :)
Always great to hear that beautiful British voice.
*Bri'i'sh
@@swagatranjansahu3022 bo'o'wa'er
@@r25-j9e true 😂😂
So, he's learned a lot, but... Still doesn't know to hold shift to put more than one tower down at a time, even though it's literally written on the in-game screen. 🤪
Love you ya daft sod 😂❤️
paths splitting is actually a good thing, it lets you plan out your defenses better by placing more towers to defend from paths with more branches because those paths will have more enemies. The enemies per level get split out evenly to all paths leading into the map, if you want an area to have fewer enemies, try to expand other paths first.
Also, yellow is armor, blue is shields.
I'd also recommend the Respec mod. It lets you refund all your card choices and only pick the ones you plan to use plus enough to get upgrades every level, which drastically reduces deck bloat. Since you only get enough upgrade chances to max out ~1.5 towers if you're lucky, this can drastically increase your win rate.
Also, take some time to study the upgrade tree. The upgrades you have access to follow the same pattern as the tree. So, if you upgrade Ballista health damage, you get access to a slowing effect on all your Ballista attacks, armor leads to range increases, and shield leads mana infused bolts, while they all lead to +15% crit for each line. Its worth looking at each of the trees and memorizing where the upgrades you truly care about are.
Mana banks should always be taken if you can. You'll basically always need them. They increase both your mana regen and your max mana, which synergizes fantastically with Sorcery and Life Steal (which is unlocked by Sorcery). In my last run, I had over 150 mana/sec thanks to this and Savings Account (unlocked by Mana Bank), which allowed me to magically empower all my ballistas twice and have as many particle cannons as my I wanted, plus several more because I had to much money and nothing to do with it ;)
That poison card that gave 5% slow that you passed up to take the Mine (I think) is one of the best cards in the game since it can be gotten relatively early and any weapon can be made to do poison damage.
When you get universities, remember to get at least the first two scholarship cards, and to specialize each university. Each one gets the chance listed for each stat at the start of every turn, and the odds of success are slightly higher if each university is specialized than if they're all generalized.
I'd also recommend ditching mines and haunted houses. They're not useless, but they're close enough to it that its not worth the massive deck bloat as each one adds several more cards to your deck if you select them.
I love the Encampments. Highest RPM fire rate will spread the most bombs around. It's annoying having to keep setting them down to see which gives the most in that area.
9:23 You have the internet’s sassiest editor. I love it!
07:00 - The upgrade on the very right ... _Building - Mine: Repair and increase tower max health by mining from iron veins._
Iron veins appear to be those small rocky dirt piles scattered across the map. Might be worth a shot?
edit: I'm not playing the game myself, mind you.
ediotic: uh, nvm :)
If you hold shift after selecting a tower or building, you can place multiples without having to reselect the building. Diversify your damages by tower, rather than upgrading one tower to do a little more of a type if you can. Shredder does bleed/health, which prevents health regen, Poison tower does poison/shields and prevents shield regen, and Flame thrower does fire/armor and prevents armor regen. Mortars are also great AoE and do massive armor damage. Use your priorities to target the damage type, or play to strengths. Shredder and poison tower I usually set to default, as they benefit from hitting the front guy, and hits everyone around it, so will get bleed and poison on everything. Mortar I target highest armor first. Ballistae I do a mixture of all three to help whittle down the numbers for the other towers to take care of, etc. Yellow is armor, Grey is shields, and Green is health.
I've found flame and poison towers to be quite effective. Enemies have health, armor, and shields,- green, cream, blue. Damage bars go from right to left, and you have to do the outermost damage first, so often you need to take out shields, armor, then health. Poison effects shields, flame armor, and bleed health. Focusing to upgrade just a few tower types gives you effects for all element types, and synergizes your attacks.
I've found focusing on ballista, radar towers, poison and gas tower upgrades for damage to be effective. Scout towers help multiply damage. I may purchase the other towers, but often don't upgrade their cards.
Get sorcery and mana banks to rely less on the RNG of mana wells.
You need to surround your houses with towers to maximize gold. Decent strategy is to get all of the starting money upgrades and place towers around all the starting houses. Later in the Game you can replace the unused towers with radar stations, which effectively reduces the price of radar station.
Nothing overcomes bad RNG for tiles though. My best games have maps with few branches and mostly switchbacks.
Øm its kinda funny that you say you need armor dmg, when what you actuly need is shild dmg. The blue bar is shild, White is armor. Love your videos
An important note is that for enemies that regenerate their health, armour, or shields, the appropriate damage over time nullifies that. But if you have a high damage/sec cap on your effects, it will run through the meager amounts you were able to put on the enemies at the start and just allow the enemies to regenerate any damage you dealt by the time they reach the next killing zone
If I could clean myself like that , I'd never leave the house.
Reminds me of a metalocalypse episode about, well that. I think it was Nathan who said something like "we do all this stuff to get someone else to do that for us... so if we could just do it, we wouldn't need any of this..."
Something else of note. When you go to upgrade the towers, it costs more if the progress bar on them is lower. Essentially the towers auto upgrade based on what they are doing damage to. If they are hitting just health, the progress on the health upgrade will increase until 100%, then it will upgrade and start a new progress bar. The same goes for armor and shields. You doing it manually just upgrades it faster at a higher cost. This means towers that are older are better than towers that are newer, just because they have auto upgraded over many rounds.
You should just put ballista's around houses(asap) and put the better towers in good positions.
You're getting better Matt! (And even better in your latest Twitch vid, of which I still need to watch the 2nd half)
A couple things I haven't seen you do yet. Universities give a chance of a permanent dmg boost for everything each level. And Mana Banks cost more than Siphons, but they increase your max mana, which scales up Sorcery. It just depends on how much mana you plan to use
Edit: Also, there's some upgrades that'll take your max tower health to 20. Not the cards, permanent upgrades from the unlock menu
Hi Mat, strongest tower in the game: Tesla coil. Put it on a big turn on a +3 , upgrade the crap out of it and it will kill anything. keep another tesla down the line towards the tower to catch the insanely fast ones that dont die after 1 hit from the first tesla and upgrade it slowly
Do more with your “Target Priority” options! It’s not “target this, then this, then this.” It’s “target this WITH this AND this.” It’s a logic based system; so if you set it to Most Shield/Most Armor/Progress, it would prioritize the target with those parameters and switch between targets accordingly. If there are no targets with Shield, it will then target the enemy with the most Armor making the most progress. If there’s no enemy with Armor OR Shield, it will then target the enemy making the most progress. Most Armor/Least Shield/Slowest, it will base its target on that hierarchy instead. Adjust the target priority based on the strengths of each tower and micromanaging how you do damage around the paths and you’ll get so much further faster even without the fast forward mod. My record is 48 and I only had down maybe 24 towers.
Hope this helps!
Pretty sure the in game tip says "no particular order"
7:54 "the pile of logs"
**insert dialogue here**
Health/Armour/Shield stat bar explained: Green bars are health, white bars are armour, purple bars are shields. You addin more armour dmg when theres shield users doesnt do anything to hurt them; it just needlessly wastes resources.
Whenever I finish the single defence mode, I usually end up with just around +200 mana/sec - Obelisks tend to form a large part of my defence, along with shredder, flamer and poison towers. I don't upgrade any of my towers as they upgrade themselves over time. I also try to keep one path very long for the bosses to spawn on.
I try to concentrate my card upgrades for each type of tower, for example I only upgrade shield stats for poison, armor stats for flamer, I always go for bandit as soon as possible and I go for the cards which give extra damage from all towers on bleeding / burning / poisoned. I do go for cards which upgrade all stats on my obelisks though, but concentrating on shield where possible as that is more important in the late game.
The house protection stat usually ends up resulting in about 18% of my income and at the start it nearly doubles my income - It's well worth while.
I’m sure Paddy was just re-engineering the strongest shape.
Also, thank you for your videos. They’ve helped me find a lot of great new games and really help to brighten the day!
“Let’s play tactically and not worry about stat effects for now”
*immediately invests in all stat damage level-ups and ignores mana upgrades*
Every time I watch RCE/Matt makes me want to become an engineer even more.
Much love 👍
You should check out the crit on bleed/burn/poison cards, stacking sources of bleed/burn/poison can be really good with them.
Mana siphons are not worth it when you spam obelisks, you want the mana bank + sorcery, easy 300+ mana/s regen and like 2k mana pool.
You also only have 45 levels to pick cards(+ oogie chests), so splitting into many tower types means you cant min/max into the good upgrades on most towers
So the blue stuff he keeps calling armor is shield right? And he keeps putting down the wrong towers to deal with it as a result? It looks to me like Green is health, cream is armor, and blue is shield, and if you see an enemy with all three you can see it follows that order, which is the order he talked about earlier on: "got to get through the shield first, then the armor, then the health."
yes, correct.
Poison and burning aside, it's better to focus your defenses between the tower and the first crossroad. Any defence in that section will be able to damage ALL the enemies. Spreading defenses around the map or focusing on enemy entrances, means you're investing the same money to hit less enemies.
Hey matt, i just realized: Since houses gives you gold per adjacent tower INSTANTLY once you go up a level, and since it costs nothing to relocate them; Why not surround em with towers whether it makes sense or not, get the gold, and then immediately replace em?
If you do decide to do another challenge like this, I cannot recommend the radar any higher. They have the largest range of any tower and just a couple can vaporize oogie in seconds. Just make sure they're targeting him. I've had a few games where I didn't even realize he was here until I noticed the chest lying on the path.
Your thoughts on how things work is correct but you need a bit more refining. The poison sprayers are working but can't place stacks on the mobs since you have such high per sec dmg counters. Poison dmgs shields, fire dmgs armor, and bleed dmgs health. So the best type of run would have poison near the beginning of each run. Fire in the middle and bleeding near the tower.
Worth noting that unless the path bends back on itself, it's a little useless to fill in the space behind your tower (on it's own block) as the range limitations means that they'll only have a split second to shoot, and the hit box of the tower is a little jank at times, meaning that they're basically useless.
Ballistas all the way could be fun. 😀👍
If you get confused on which is armor and which is shield, just click on a tower. The bar where you upgrade the damage for each is the same color it appears on health bars! (So it’s armor as the tan/white, and shields are the grey/blue)
Come one come all! This Channel has a TH-camr that reads the comments and learns from them!
Be kind with your tips everyone, he's clearly still learning and it's unnecessary to be so demeaning to him.
18:18 That's how you summon _O b e l i s k t h e T o r m e n t o r_
I’m so glad I woke up to see this video! I love this series - great way to start my day off
Paddy gotta do what paddy gotta do
More Rogue Tower please!
lol...XDDD *rouge tower.
@@rustythecrown9317 oh yeah my bad lol
There are several game devs that have money from me now because of you and the games you play. Keep it up!
i have found an op strategy. only use shredder flamer, and poison, so we will use the dot effect to absolutely obliterate the enemy. with the card that deals 10 percent of the enemy dot effect and 4 50% additional effect card so basically deal 4 times more damage. it destroys boss and have AOE too
That ballista placements near the castle is very effective tho lol
I watched a video. The absolute most powerful tower is Tesla Coil. If you have a +3 in the middle of a corner, like your early obelisk, and just get everything for it, it'll 1 shot even end game.
I HAD to buy this after I started watching your series. A rouge-like tower defense game, such an amazing idea!
Obelisk settings:
Least Shield
Most Armor
Most health
So obelisk ignore all gray shield, prefer orange armor and than most healthy and after that it will shoot to shielded enemy’s.
Watching Rce place ballista at the start but not adjacent to any houses or only adjacent to one house is so hard to watch 😂
The frost tower by far are the most important tower for me. In any tower defense game a slowing type tower are really important. also the shredder are really weak against boss and enemy with a lot of shield or armor which comes a lot in late game.
Once I unlocked the frost bolts (or whatever it's called) for ballistas and creeping cough for poison sprayers. Each hit of them would slow the enemy 5%... Cue dozens of mortars zeroing in. Fun!
Play mindustry pls (tower defense game where you need to build fabrics to power your turrets and get resources to get upgrades and travel to other areas on the planet) I think you'll like it!
love your vids
please keep making good entertainment videos your a great creator man
"I seem to be having some mana issues... maybe I'll put down another Obelisk." :P
haha my favorite part is him saying im going obelisk and skipping over mana banks and anything mana regen and going oh no im out of mana the very next wave. my best runs have been wave 45 single direction(may not be great but that eye oodgie is a beast ending my run 3-4 times now) and have 110+ mana gen a sec and still running low with all my sprayers and rail guns (haven't used obelisks since i always end up with mana issues)
Upgrading all your towers an trying to get each damage type to the same level makes a huge difference
Invest on shield and armor damage will do the work..
Tesla, poison and particle cannon is a shield damage
Flame, obelisk and mortar is a armor damage
Radar, shredder and balista is technically health damage
Your commentary makes this even more fun.
yeah my dog does a lot of 'cleaning' as well
I just... I know that the Mana siphons are supposed to be like sci-fi siphoning tech, but it just looks like a bunch of wizard statues going "OOOOOOHHHH!" around a crystal to me.
Something about this game is really nice.
Thanks for this, and Paddy just decided since you were playing a game for us he'd have a bath :) Thanks once again!
Yes, I was waiting for another rouge tower video
You should do a round with only being able to build on 2 squares at a time but you get to keep that unlimited mod on. It would be interesting to see what the strongest combos are and how many rounds you can last. You would hope for a straight line map but as you can see who knows what you will get.
Radar Tower is an awesome one that he should do. They can do a lot of damage.
Feel like I should say this, but you are reciprocating well to the comments in the video. It is not uncommon to see some of your colleagues ignoring or disregarding the comments, especially in scenario's where it seems everyone watching is a critique.
Keep up the good work :)
Best building is Tesla, just upgrade it loads and it's easy
This is rough. If you add more towers, you get cards from those towers, which makes it harder to upgrade. You're also building your roads "evenly" - so all your enemies arrive at the same time. This is great if you have AOE...but you were building Obelisks which are single-target. If a road splits, just build out ONE road, this will automatically separate enemies arrival time.
Also, purple = shield, not armor. White = armor.
Usually it's bad to increase bleed/burn/poison damage rate -- you want to have the rate low so that crit is high!
Lastly, you destroy towers WAY too much, this is wasting XP for improving tower strength.
Here he is again, my favorite scottish streamer!
Nice to see that you learn from your mistakes, that mine at the start really looked wrong for me, even though I never played the game^^
I love the engineering stuff please build more bridges
Matt out of context: loves the strongest shape and 3 ways. Haha
Anyways, this game is fun. I’m really glad to see you actually read comments and update your strategy based on them
I always try and read them all, it does get hard sometimes though!
Yay new content! Thanks RCE (i think matt, i forgot)
you can select tower then hold shift to place the same tower multiple time without clicking the tower again and again
Love seeing these!!
Love this game and love these videos. How do you get the fast forward mod? I NEED this in my life
You better focusing on getting and upgrading 1-4 turret rather than unlocking every turret. It would be much more "efficient" And also cheaper and decreasing the mana and coins usage.
For example, you can use ballista and tesla coil strategy. Where you can put balista to give supporting damage and getting coins from houses and then you can put few tesla coils at strategic point and then upgrade them as high possible. You can change the tesla and ballista with another turret but the idea is the same.
I haven't even played rogue tower, and watching him play makes me feel pain.
Spectacular content as always, your videos are actually making me want to change my major to engineering!
Sorry to correct ANOTHER thing: green: health, yellow: armour, blue shields.
You should prioritize lowest health on your ballistas closest to the end. Two healthy enemies making it to your tower still does less damage than three or four nearly dead ones.
Thanks, I was really waiting for this video
“No, I didn’t cheat. I just engineered the game to work better.” Gotta be one of my favorite quotes.
Also selecting targets on towers is key
This editing is only getting better :)
Howdy! Love ya RCE
So haven't watched the vid yet but between your last tower vid and this one, because of you I've bought the game, I also won a game on single path. So I am expecting a win in this video from you.
Very satisfying to watch
And fun fact.. That blue bar is shield
That white bar is armor
Bruh I was literally thinking you'd upload rogue tower, and it actually is rogue tower
This is very simple, play with the radar tower, it's really fun to play with
Mana Banks are really good in large quantities and they don’t need mana crystals so if you have millions of obelisks they are really good and increase max mana
use mana banks more to help with the obelisk mana problem