26:40 The most efficient would be to upgrade universities 7 times (total upgrades) as it's most cost efficient (with each subsequent upgrade the total money spent per upgrade goes up) When you pick 1st card upgrade (3% to all research) most efficient is to buy 2 upgrades Obviously you are limited with space by altars so second best thing to do would be to upgrade the universities evenly or hold the money If you want to upgrade a university 40 times it means you spent 422 for each upgrade and if you built 2 universities with 20 upgrades you'd spend 235 for each upgrade. Note that you'd still have 40 upgrades altogether in both scenarios. I made similar comment with more details previously, but I think youtube decided to eat it because it contained a link to a spreadsheet ;/ If I made a mistake let me know
btw also if you read the comment, do you know if its normal that I lose all of the progress when I exit the game. Like if I have it open play a couple of rounds and all its fine I have all my upgrades, but like if I close it all the cars are gone like also those that should be permanent? I also have like a disk error somewhat of a problem when i start it each time
So I had an amazing run the other day where I had a university at 75% shield research at round 44. I sold most of my ballista so I could afford it. Still won the run. It was incredible. If I had just focused on the one university I would have had 100%. It’s a goal that I want to achieve
Tesla towers are OP and I'm not even kidding. The best way to use them is not to add them as many as you can, but upgrade them instead. Try to find a corner with +3 bonus and put a Tesla tower on it, I can guarantee you one Tesla tower per lane is enough. To have more fun, you can add a poison sprayer in front of the Tesla tower you put before and take the 'poisoned enemy get crit chance' card. There you go, you're undefeatable.
for the deckbloeat maybe a setting to automatically sacrifice unwanted cards when drawn and everytime you fill a sacrifice bar (7 sacrifices?) you draw a card you actually wanted (one that is not marked for sacrifice) this helps avoid choices you don't want, but at the cost of seeing less card when you get a card pick (maybe even seeing 0 cards)
If you do think of hunting achievements, there's this one that I found while perusing through the game's Steam achievements, where you win while never building a single ballista for the whole run... Once I unlock all cards, I'm thinking of trying to get that...
3 University's levelled in a single path would entirely be more cost efficient than upgrading them all equally as it would give you a higher chance for an upgrade in each path for less gold.
no, they are the same chance, since its 3 different percentages and not added together, the only difference is that you have a higher chance of getting the one you want
As far as narrowing down what cards you have in your deck: the game has a system already built in that is could/should be using, as the permanent upgrades (blue cards) all have a marked "required number of cards unlocked" for you to use them, so it could be easily implemented that disabling too many of your upgrade cards would also automatically disable the permanent upgrades, which if you narrow your deck too much would bring you back to have the bare minimum of perks and be stuck with only getting to pick upgrade cards every 3 waves again.
literally, they cut the attack speed by half, upgrades cost 2x as much and they technically cut the shield dps by half. aswell as like 2x mana usage which is a fucking insane nerf
I got your achievement recently its actually relatively easy to get... Just do a single lane map the self terminates and last long enough for it to count.
I think you were looking for the word 'eschew' rather then 'eskew' when you mentioned only buying four towers and noting you could probably "eskew" the teslas.
Would a ballista card mod that lets the ballistae target more than one enemy but they incur a damage penalty, what would be the range where its a good buff, but not utterly busted.
Did they nerf all the towers? My original win was on single lane and I had two teslas at choke points and nothing got past them. It ate shields, armor, and health instantly. I just had to focus my money on leveling those two teslas and they got me my win. But lately, either upgrades cost more money or the towers aren’t as effective because nothing I put down eats shields. Shielded enemies walk right through anything I put down. And during my winning run, I kept my towers equal to the level I was on. Yet now that seems impossible.
they nerfed the shit out of the tesla, half attack speed, 2x upgrade and mana cost, half shield dmg and like a 1 third dmg nerf for the other 2. they gutted the shit out of the tesla tower, like an absolute shut down, the tower sucks now.
@@druco123 ok. That answers a ton of questions. Guess so many TH-camrs saying it was broken lead to that. But my question is what’s the new meta? I can’t get a win to save my life now. At wave 40, nothing does enough consistent damage. I’ve had obelisk towers that were melting prior, turn into wet blankets. The planes suck. I’ve had damn near 10 planes flying around and they chew through nothing at that wave. Tesla coils suck ass now. Mortars hit like wet noodles. Ballistas can only spam and investing in them does nothing. Challenge is one thing but the game feels nigh impossible if you don’t have a very specific rng run.
Because I hadn't done the math yet. IMO it's best to just go all-in on shield damage and ignore the rest, but this footage is old so it'll take a bit for me to catch up.
Wow, no paid promotion indicator at the beginning of the video? How much did Tesla pay you to not care? My uncle works at nintendo and I am gonna have him ban you. (love the videos and games dude keep it up)
Given that the game has a slew of achievements that require a ballista + x run, it's not surprising that most of the content is based around that. I do wish the game let you pick your initial tower from a small handful of unlocked towers at the start.
26:40 The most efficient would be to upgrade universities 7 times (total upgrades) as it's most cost efficient (with each subsequent upgrade the total money spent per upgrade goes up)
When you pick 1st card upgrade (3% to all research) most efficient is to buy 2 upgrades
Obviously you are limited with space by altars so second best thing to do would be to upgrade the universities evenly or hold the money
If you want to upgrade a university 40 times it means you spent 422 for each upgrade and if you built 2 universities with 20 upgrades you'd spend 235 for each upgrade. Note that you'd still have 40 upgrades altogether in both scenarios.
I made similar comment with more details previously, but I think youtube decided to eat it because it contained a link to a spreadsheet ;/
If I made a mistake let me know
btw also if you read the comment, do you know if its normal that I lose all of the progress when I exit the game. Like if I have it open play a couple of rounds and all its fine I have all my upgrades, but like if I close it all the cars are gone like also those that should be permanent?
I also have like a disk error somewhat of a problem when i start it each time
@@wolfgangschuster698 Never played the game but it definitely should be saved. Maybe as you said it is a disc error
So I had an amazing run the other day where I had a university at 75% shield research at round 44. I sold most of my ballista so I could afford it. Still won the run. It was incredible. If I had just focused on the one university I would have had 100%. It’s a goal that I want to achieve
@@philip4534 Doesn't mean it was good tho
Tesla towers are OP and I'm not even kidding. The best way to use them is not to add them as many as you can, but upgrade them instead. Try to find a corner with +3 bonus and put a
Tesla tower on it, I can guarantee you one Tesla tower per lane is enough. To have more fun, you can add a poison sprayer in front of the Tesla tower you put before and take the 'poisoned enemy get crit chance' card. There you go, you're undefeatable.
I'm waiting for more small games like this to just blow up
Nova Drift hasn't really 'blown up' except for a few creators, but definitely recommended (and on sale).
Its probably been said, but the slow visual transition at level 26 to "hell/sunset" is just always awesome
for the deckbloeat
maybe a setting to automatically sacrifice unwanted cards when drawn
and everytime you fill a sacrifice bar (7 sacrifices?) you draw a card you actually wanted (one that is not marked for sacrifice)
this helps avoid choices you don't want, but at the cost of seeing less card when you get a card pick (maybe even seeing 0 cards)
If you do think of hunting achievements, there's this one that I found while perusing through the game's Steam achievements, where you win while never building a single ballista for the whole run...
Once I unlock all cards, I'm thinking of trying to get that...
3 University's levelled in a single path would entirely be more cost efficient than upgrading them all equally as it would give you a higher chance for an upgrade in each path for less gold.
no, they are the same chance, since its 3 different percentages and not added together, the only difference is that you have a higher chance of getting the one you want
As far as narrowing down what cards you have in your deck: the game has a system already built in that is could/should be using, as the permanent upgrades (blue cards) all have a marked "required number of cards unlocked" for you to use them, so it could be easily implemented that disabling too many of your upgrade cards would also automatically disable the permanent upgrades, which if you narrow your deck too much would bring you back to have the bare minimum of perks and be stuck with only getting to pick upgrade cards every 3 waves again.
Oof you can tell this was recorded before the massive Tesla tower nerf (which turned teslas from the best tower, to the worst)
literally, they cut the attack speed by half, upgrades cost 2x as much and they technically cut the shield dps by half. aswell as like 2x mana usage which is a fucking insane nerf
it was very interesting to compare this with aavaak's tesla run
"How would you feel if there was a gamemode where towers were free but cost money to fire?" Sounds about as fun as smash coin mode
I would love to see a run where you only put on Tesla coil down, besides your initial ballistas.
The only think i feel is lacking in this game is multi selection for towers, besides any customizable thingys or mods
Why i cant stop watching these vids?
I got your achievement recently its actually relatively easy to get... Just do a single lane map the self terminates and last long enough for it to count.
wanderbots didn't even realize it was the last round and still won without a sweat...sheesh
Awesome content like always
I watched a Korean win with one Tesla. It was sick. I'm glad you're ready to TAKE CHARGE. lol
I think you were looking for the word 'eschew' rather then 'eskew' when you mentioned only buying four towers and noting you could probably "eskew" the teslas.
I gotta ask? Is the music paid because I love the music when the shading changes
I believe so
@@skyupto15 man I really love that music hate to know it's paid but hey can't cry over spilled milk
Would a ballista card mod that lets the ballistae target more than one enemy but they incur a damage penalty, what would be the range where its a good buff, but not utterly busted.
do we ever see the particle cannon?
You convinced me to buy this game!
what was your shortest game of Rogue Tower so far?
so my games dont start with as many houses and i cant find any information telling me why
It's based on how far along you are with the meta progression, I think.
Did they nerf all the towers? My original win was on single lane and I had two teslas at choke points and nothing got past them. It ate shields, armor, and health instantly. I just had to focus my money on leveling those two teslas and they got me my win. But lately, either upgrades cost more money or the towers aren’t as effective because nothing I put down eats shields. Shielded enemies walk right through anything I put down. And during my winning run, I kept my towers equal to the level I was on. Yet now that seems impossible.
@@MrChibikuro This was on the 3rd. 6 days ago. They’ve updated it since then?
they nerfed the shit out of the tesla, half attack speed, 2x upgrade and mana cost, half shield dmg and like a 1 third dmg nerf for the other 2. they gutted the shit out of the tesla tower, like an absolute shut down, the tower sucks now.
@@druco123 ok. That answers a ton of questions. Guess so many TH-camrs saying it was broken lead to that. But my question is what’s the new meta? I can’t get a win to save my life now. At wave 40, nothing does enough consistent damage. I’ve had obelisk towers that were melting prior, turn into wet blankets. The planes suck. I’ve had damn near 10 planes flying around and they chew through nothing at that wave. Tesla coils suck ass now. Mortars hit like wet noodles. Ballistas can only spam and investing in them does nothing. Challenge is one thing but the game feels nigh impossible if you don’t have a very specific rng run.
So for university, why upgrade them evenly over having specialized ones?
Because I hadn't done the math yet. IMO it's best to just go all-in on shield damage and ignore the rest, but this footage is old so it'll take a bit for me to catch up.
@@wanderbots yea I was just curious, played around a few times and even specializing I only got a few props so far
Hey wander, are you planning on doing a playthrough of Sifu?
Can you put mana banks around a house?
yes but you dont get the money from the house since it doesnt count as a tower but as a support
Can't say your Tesla tower placements were very good...
bro they are good placement, those are the best spots because of the increased dmg and area coverage
and now it's a uni run :P
BOOOOOOOOM
i wonder if there's a limit to the game, even if theoretical.
Wow, no paid promotion indicator at the beginning of the video? How much did Tesla pay you to not care? My uncle works at nintendo and I am gonna have him ban you.
(love the videos and games dude keep it up)
*Kingdom rush flashbacks*
I feel like I'm constantly squinting watching this game
Please please pleaaaaaassseeeeee stop holding thousands and thousands in the bank!!
Your teslas arent patched?
this was recorded a while ago
I recorded tons of videos last week and am still catching up a bit on the YT side of things.
too bad they nerfed the shit out of it
this is still a balista run....
Given that the game has a slew of achievements that require a ballista + x run, it's not surprising that most of the content is based around that.
I do wish the game let you pick your initial tower from a small handful of unlocked towers at the start.
@@BaneWilliams i dont
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