Some things I forgot to mention: 1. There is now a way to swap reinforcements without resetting the whole tree! 2. Add customization to hotkeys 3. The things I want to see through is not any can you beat videos
You can edit the settings.lua file that resides with your save files I think, and that allows you to edit the hotkeys. Is it too convoluted to be useful to the average player? Definitely, and they should change this. But it may be useful for some people reading this.
@@thunderred5263because he loves these games and wants them to be better. Hate isn't the oppisite of love Apathy is. If he would've seen the game bored him and left like unfourtanutely most of the mobile users were conditioned to be, that would be apathy. Leaving the game to rott away instead of assiting in alteast giving it the chance to be better.
I think he was just busting my balls a little. I mostly gave my thoughts on the game because people wanna hear what I think (I don't know why my opinion matters to some people, but I am flattered by it nonetheless) I lost faith in Ironhide a long time ago, and I doubt me and others giving our critique matters at this point. But I would be lying if I said that glimmer of hope is not there somewhere inside me.
Lots of the comments here are pretty unfair against the game. The game is decent, the balance is objectively better than Vengeance (at the very least pre-patches) and I'd argue even Origins, "It's boring" is a subjective non-argument and you can feel boredom playing ANY game, "too easy" not only do people experience difficulty subjectively, but Alliance has objectively a lot of elements that rises its difficulty compared to stuff like KR1 main campaign where things are simpler with the answers more obvious. And while not visually very interesting, the first area has easily one of the most engaging gameplay out of all the first areas in the series. "No postgame levels" every single KR game launched with little to no postgame levels at first. In general there seems to be this negativity bias surrounding the game to an extent which leads to a lot of bias and in a few cases outright misinformation against the game.
Well said and I completely agree, except for the part about the first aera being the most engaging, but as is evident, my opinion on the game is kinda irrelevant.
It’s tuff to hear when a creator loses enjoyment over one of their main pieces of content - but as we grow and mature, ppl change and there’s no point pumping out videos u don’t even enjoy. Though I found your channel quite late, I had a great time watching some of your videos and hope you realise how much these videos affect ppl, u vids really helped w cheering me up when I was down etc. so thanks and gl w whatever u do in the future🙏
It's a worse game with less monster variety and levels that are way too zoomed in versus the first 3 games. You can't gauge how big the monsters are in this game. I feel like it was conveyed much better in the first 3. Plus there is no incentive for replay nor do the challenges. No matter how bad or great you are with the levels, you get the same amount of skill points. Plus no wolves or fast monsters.
It was a tough video to make too, having a youtube channel has always been a goal for me since I started following youtube channels as a kid. Now I have it and I find it difficult to let it go, but at least I accomplished a lot with it, and I am grateful that it even happend in the first place. Thank you for the kind words, I am glad I have been able to entertain you, it really means a lot to me!
I think there is an info popup in level 2 that explains you can click on enemy portraits, but I am not entirely certain. For the heroics and irons, most of them are a bit meh yes, but levels 13-15 have pretty good irons and heroics. Level 14 iron especially is very difficult. So if you should want to try one or two more at some point, those would be the ones to try.
@@Cozyn3z Not sure what you mean by good hard, but I felt like 13 iron was decently fair once you found a good strategy. And 15 heroic was a bit better than 15 iron imo but both seemed fair.
@@Mmlh1 I meant if it's fun and interresting at the same time as hard. Good hard would be Nightfang swale iron (That's right I said it and meant it) Bad hard is a bunch of slow, uninteractable and boring elephants slowly marching to the exit on the 4th hammerhold iron
This game also suffers from the Ancient Necropolis syndrome of having to go through 15 minutes of gameplay just to get to the hard part where you might actually lose lives
You will be in for a treat after I release my Insanity Mod for KRA. The game is awesome for modding, especially the irons, which I tried to turn into puzzles.
His point is the game is mid and not that enjoyable for some of us longtime dedicated fans. Don’t you think the game should be re-playable fun without having to resort to mods?
@@josephc8440 Why the hostility towards mods? Some modders in varying games did brutally beautiful work, especially in terms of putting the danger counter up times eleven.
@@__-tp4tm no hostility at all! I’m just speaking about the quality of the game. The value of day one release content vs the cost of money and time needed to enjoy the game. Mods are probably the only thing keeping people playing after they beat the campaign.
Another thing is that I personally think the game is too easy, I was able to no lives lost almost every level first try, hardest difficulty, first play through, no knowledge of what I was up against. Personally I think the difficulty was over hyped
The game does tell you about the encyclopedia thing in I think the 2nd level, its neat QoL feature.... if the original encyclopedia was still here, such a baffling change to make.
I have one or two major problems with vengeance and alliance too. Like everyone, I miss the encyclopedia so much since it was so thrilling to unlock all the enemy icons, kinda like a collector's pleasure. But I also miss the old drawing style of the game, which was more cosy and unique imo
The encyclopedia at least was on the steam version of Vengeance. I didn't feel much of a change in style going into vengeance, but alliance got a lot more cartoony with certain units and towers, which doesn't fit with the overall comic book style.
@@Cozyn3z nah I'm talking about the whole atmosphere... The new polished map for instance (even if I like it, I fancied soooooo much the old brown classic one), or the sketchy enemies with minimalist traits and no eyes etc... It was very particular, and I lost that impression ever since vengeance. True for the map on Steam though, what a shame for a mobile player like me (can't do the no mouse challenge :/ )
I honestly feel like that with every new kr game after origins, Ironhide decides to just remove a random thing from the previous games for no reason other than laziness (largest example being old star system as well as iron and heroic challenge restrictions)
and about the encyclopedia....some dev said on a post on steam "it was removed so the game isn't that big" which i could only understand this as an argument for mobile,for the most part I enjoyed the game but quite a number of things changed in favour of new players
@@dan34577 I feel like that's the wrong choice, removing things for new players. Kingdom Rush was one if not, their most well received games for a long time, part of why is I assume, it really delivers on the whole Tower Defense game in terms of difficulty and mechanics
@dan34577 This is why I drift away from the company, the new Ironhide appeals to new players, not to veterans. I think it was the wrong move to change the reward system. But as a whole there's nothing wrong with this mentality
Sad to hear, because the campaign and the challenges in the last area are one of the hardest and most fun levels I have ever experienced in a Kr game. This I have heard from a lot of people. If only you had reached that point. I hope you find the motivation to give it another try one day.
Everyone just says they are hard, I have not heard anyone say they are the most fun levels, but that sounds cool. If it's just hard I will probably just enjoy it less, means I have to play more than necessary. I doubt I will go back, but maybe after some time the fan in me will get tempted to dabble in it again.
@@Cozyn3z it can feel very chaotic so if you're into that I think you'd enjoy the third area. unlike the first two areas you're constantly shifting your focus between heroes, enemies and towers
I think you're just feeling burned out. It's pretty normal, give it some time, do what you want with your channel, as niche as the KR saga is, the community will always be here for support. Stay strong my dude. Focus on what you like.
It's not burn out, this has been slowly happening over the last 4 years. I was burnt out after I made Champion and I think I was back at it in 2 months or so, and in that time I played some other games too I believe. Now playing games feels like a choir, before I get to the fun part.
@@Cozyn3z I see. I think what you want is to experience new things, games used to be fun back in the day because everything was new and maybe you didn't had as much worries as you do now. Much like a joke, it stops getting funny after the third time or so. My advice is for you to try new stuff, not talking about games, but other hobbies where you don't find yourself bored with monotony.
Completely respectable opinion, but it's a shame that your love for the franchise and videogames as a whole is slowly fading away. I'll still check the channel though, you made me consider listening to metal, which isn't something I thought I would do, so I'm grateful for that. As for me, I'm actually having a lot of fun with Alliance! I just got into the thurd area because I'm taking my time with the game, playing one or two levels a day. The new heroes and towers are a breath of freash air for me, just using the imp pit as my only barrack changes my strategy compared to other games a lot. I'll have to see in the long run, but so far I'm really liking Alliance (and I really gotta finish it quickly to stop improvising the xX_KingdomRushPro_Xx comments on Voduke's polls)
I think I was never that passionate about video games to begin with, that was just what all my friends where into, but it was fun when it was fresh and new. However whatever you did as kid stays with you, and I may not play as much kingdom rush anymore, but my love for the games will always stay with me, I mean I do have 700 steam hours on the first game, so I have played my fair share. Good to hear you are enjoying alliance, I envy you:) If you want to get into metal, my go to recommendation is always *Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East* The greatest live album ever recorded, from one of my favorite bands, I love my extreme metal but I will never stop jamming the mighty Priest!
I feel the same way in regards to the game being rather lackluster. The encyclopedia is gone and I know there's the alternative but the alternative imho sucks, I want to see the enemies in my own pace, not having to find the enemy on a particular level just so I can see info about them, it feels tedious and a waste of time. The upgrade system feels linear, I much prefer the upgrade system in the first 3 games, because I felt like that actually mattered, felt less linear, and felt like I can have more room to maneuver in regards of creating strategies, and considering I suspect the new upgrade system is all because of the fact that all of a sudden can buy new towers, which adds some variety and new strategies, feels more like the devs simply milking us for money. The tower placements feels lazy, the tower placements in in KR 1 or KR 2 had more compared to Vengeance and Alliance, allowing us to strategize whether or not we want to fill the map with towers or focus on one particular part of a lane, that's not to say we can't do that here, but it's to a lesser degree. All in all, I think the game is fine, the artstyle of the units is much better imo compared to Vengeance, but other than that, it didn't really feel like it was worth the wait nor the money for me.
I felt kinda the same way about Alliance. For me, I think it was my own fault in that I had hoped/expected too much from it and even though the game is fine, it doesn't do anything super intriguing. I mean, how can it? By the time you release your 5th tower defense game in a series, you have kind of exhausted all of the really interesting possibilities. There are some new ideas in there, but they don't shake the game to its core to revitalize the love for the series
I want to share this in case it benefits you. There was a time I was really bored of games and decided to change myself so deleted every games on phone ( it's the only device I play on ) Then the next day I get a huge surge of energy to play games again. Really wasted my data usage redownloading games, but I gained a strong feeling of wanting to play that still persists until now. Although ironically, I don't have time to play games nowadays
same. had so much fun playing the first time but replaying on impossible (did first playthrough on normal) I was like yea... I'm 10x more interested in the TH-cam video I have playing in the background. and the iron and heroics drag on for WAY too long in my opinion. I'll definitely play the mini campaigns when they come out, but I don't think ill be playing alliance much until then.
The thing that annoys me about alliance is that if it wasn't for the lackluster irons/heroics and the mediocre wave layouts/pacing of the 2nd area this would easily be my favourite game in the series. Its just these 2 rly big issues that drag it down for me
1:17 you know I never thought of that, thats actually really cool and something I enjoyed from Vengence in Herioc challenges where they restricted you to specific rules to enourge creativy, now added with Heroes. Another thing about it is Premiums were allowed because well both kinds of players would want to use them, since it's only in a stage that was already completeled th value of the Premium isn't taken. Though I do wish you could've a Test stage where you can see what you getting for your buck, instead of adevertised it.
The enthusiasm people have put in this game even before it came out is frankly so stupid. The more you get enthusiastic for a thing while waiting for it, the more you'll be disappointed in the end because the expectations you had were not satisfied. Btw i enjoyed a lot playing alliance but it definetly does not had the replayability of the other games (Vengeance excluded)
I see where you are coming from, but I have actually had the opposite happen recently. I was super excited for the new Malignancy to come out for almost a year, they had very quickly become one of my favorite bands. When it finally arrived I played that thing over and over again, it completely crushed me, and I still jam it on the regular. This never happens for me, but I love it even more than their previous material which made me a fan to begin with.
Iron and heroic challenges are indeed lower in quality, I never cared about them in other games but not having the choice of doing them if you can't beat the next level makes the game feel one dimensional, and while I disagree heroic and iron challenges in the first 3 games ever had interesting modifiers, these are still cheaper and more boring. I think they made iron and heroics so low in quality because.... it doesn't matter as much. Not that many people care, I am a bit sad levels with special towers don't get full focus on those towers in challenges, but that's about it, very few people play challenges, and they wanted to put their time elsewhere to things everyone will care about. About not getting any upgrade points for them... it does suck. maybe they're trying to appeal to people who completely hate doing any sort of challenges (irons and heroics are somewhat like challenges) or it's just easier to control and to make sure you are making decisions about your upgrade tree untill you beat the whole game. 2:13 Yup. that will be your ego thinking you already know everything the pop up tips could tell you. Having no stats is a big downside, but I think they we're on the right track, getting to access the enemy info while in a level if you're curios is a great adition. If only they realized pop up cards don't cut it To unskippable cutscenes, I guess you're right. I don't think they we're a MASSIVE problem but definitely annoying if anything, maybe they just didn't figure out how to have them skipped, since these aren't just prerendered cutscenes but dialogue, and games tend to preder to skip just the current part of them so you have more control and don't accidantelly skip it if you wanted to see them. But leave the tutorial alone, I know we aren't the ones to bother with good design of a tutorial, and waiting for the enemy to walk the whole line was dragging (for those 6 seconds it took, and only one time so it was okay anyway), but it is a good tutorial for new players, and hating on it just because WE don't need it is cruel, when in terms of tutorial design it's supposed to be that way. I am surprised you didn't bring up the mini campaigns, that would be a valid critique. Waiting 3 more months for probably just one endgame pack of 3-4 levels when aliiance costs more than previous games feels almost like a scam, especially knowing how long it was in development. I know you probably don't have the time or care enough to do a video of similiar quality like with vengeance, but this is just a quick rant with nitpicks you came up on the fly (several of which are wrong, sorry)
@@Cozyn3z Eh, I might be mixing things up since I see a lot of people who complain on alliance say the tutorial is too slow, but I probably took that from the first area being too slow and unskippable cutscenes sort of applying to the tutorial as well.
@@danielplocica8766 You are, I never thought about the turorial being an issue, though I think the first game handled it just fine, nothing wrong with learning a little as you go, and the alliance tutorial did include some of that too. Either way I don't really care how it's done, as long as it is there. As you said I don't need it so I feel indifferent, and it takes max 30 seconds to get through
I literally finished the game the same day I bought it. I hate how easy it is and I hate that there are no bonus levels. I kinda played it just for the lore instead of the actual gameplay. It's probably the easiest KR game yet (or maybe Vengeance, both are very very easy). When I compare it to a game like Origins it's simply laughable how easy this campaign is
I feel like the only hard part of the game is like 3 of the levels in the last area on impossible and their heroic challenges. The rest felt pretty easy to me and i'm not even that good. I 100%'d the game in just 23 hours and like 5 of those where mainly due to the lvl 10 hero challenges anyway
Ngl I feel the same thing, you can just arcane wizard the entire campaign on veteran, the heroes are kinda random and lowkey cringe, and the entire game feels detached and unconnected to the previous games. suddenly everything goes back to normal and Vez'nan gladly gives back everything he conquered and everyone are happy and forget and forgive about the years of brutal war, and mountines of dead and destroyed communities from Vengeance and former games, and evetything we did in vengeance amount to literally nothing as all of that plot progress disappears into thin air, and the linereans suddenly have their entire army back fully equipped and well trained as if they have not suffered extreme casualties and were reduced to a meager group of poorly equipped villagers during countless losses in vengeance, things feel forced.
me personally I didn't feel like the story was *too* disconnected, Kingdom Rush always had this cartoonish yet brutal conflict between good and evil, so the two arch enemies joining together to beat a common enemy despite all the soldiers who fell in their previous wars fits imo, plus SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING AHEAD you do find out in the last comic panel that Vez'nan did it all for his own benefit to get the corrupted crystal of Elynie back. but I agree that it doesn't make the most logical sense how Linirean forces are suddenly fully capable yet again and I also don't like how Vez'nan gives away all the territory he spent conquering in Vengeance, like you said it feels like it was all for nothing.
I feel like the towers are cool but they're somehow mega similar... No fadt or very fast attacking towers is really, and i mean really boring. The towers have 3 attack speeds, average, slow, very slow
I played nearly 12 hours in the first weekend that it was out but in the past 2ish weeks I've played only 4 hours, still haven't finished the campaign even though I've had plenty of time to. Guess I just lost interest don't know why
The game offers a commendable level of difficulty, but it's not currently worth the purchase. In my opinion, a release in October would have been more ideal, as it could have included at least a mini campaign. Even the original Kingdom Rush had that. Sure, here's a revised version of that part of your comment: By the way, the game explains that you can click on an enemy's picture, but this might not be clear to all players.
I dont think I played the same game as people who say the game is difficult. Having two heroes makes the game's difficulty a joke. Out of all the levels that currently exist, there is only one that is actually difficult. Unless you purposely choose a bad hero and tower combination, an average player should complete every level within 2 tries even on impossible difficulty. And this isnt me secretly flexing that Im super good, I just dont think the game is nearly as difficult as origins for example. Origins had me playing each level for multiple hours, some of them I couldn't even complete so completing most of alliance in 1-2 tries felt disappointing difficulty wise.
I think the prize would be fine, if only things like the unskippable cutscenes and the encyclopedia was there, makes the game feel unfinished. Honestly the first 3 games almost felt too cheap for me, I would have had no problem paying more for those.
The game does tell you that you can click on enemies to check their stats, but still, I do want the encyclopedia to come back. Im personally a big kingdom rush enjoyer, a glazer some might say, so I do still enjoy alliance a lot. I am definitely dissapointed by the fact that iron and heroic challenges give you nothing though, I wish there was like a special skill tree that you can ONLY upgrade by getting special runes from iron and heroic challenges, but i doubt that will ever happen. I still am glad that alliance is a lot better than vengeance in terms of difficulty and tower + hero balance, which I know doesnt say a lot, but I definitely thought that kingdom rush was gonna fall off the face of the planet after vengenace, and im just glad thats not the case.
This is the EXACT same issue i found with alliance (and vengeance) is that there is no incentive for players to do the iron and heroic challenges other than getting the achievements for them. And I find this quite sad due to the fact that the challenges were a BIG part of the gameplay, even if they were shorter than the normal levels, and they were pretty much required to be completed (to some extent) to have enough stars for needed upgrades. (that is if you arent playing on easy) They were no pushover! You had to experiment to see what worked, and the enemy layout wasn't the same as in their original levels! So you couldn't use the same layout that you used to beat the level. But now, after ive done all of the iron and heroic challenges, i can't say that i'm satisfied. The enemy layouts are WAY too similar, and they either give too much gold to work with OR they have low enemy quantity. I've found vengeance to be MORE difficult on veteran than alliance, even without premium towers, impossible difficulty isn't much different.
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance felt easier than all the previous titles. I'm not sure if it's because I've played all the other titles and completing all Iron and Heroic challenge. Now, with two heroes and their skills, it feels less about strategic tower positioning and more like an RTS gameplay scenario. I miss the superior range of the archer tower. The music isn't helping much, and the story feels forced despite the twist at the end. I beat level 15 in Veteran mode with only rocket gunners and got three stars no problem. Also, there's still no endless mode available yet.
Hot take: Opinions on alliance arent valid when coming from someone that didnt play the last area It really is just that much better than the rest of the game. It like playing a whole different game after the first 2 areas.
I don’t understand - the first two campaign stages and especially the iron and heroic challenges have always been pretty easy, especially in the first game. If you haven’t even played the last area’s iron and heroic I don’t think it’s really fair to say it’s boring. Besides the most fun part of all the games is the elite levels.
Yes they have often been easy (There is exceptions to this, pagras and twin rivers for example) My problem is not that they are easy, I can't expect to be challenged when I have played as much KR as I have, it's that they are boring, lacks interesting waves and a different feel from the campaign. The main campaign has always been quality, I like the campaign more than elite levels in Origins and to a lesser extent Vengeance.
I think Ironhide has put themselves into a really awkward position where they are both trying to keep a property alive on nostalgia and get new players. I don't think this would actually be the case but I think ironhide is worried about alienating new players by making the new games more difficult, I've been enjoying alliance but it and vengeance truly don't scratch the same itch in terms of difficulty as the original trilogy, especially 1's iron and heroics. Part of that is that i'm playing the games as an adult and not a child but there is most definitely a noteable decrease in difficulty which alienates the same longterm fans they are banking on the nostalgia of. I think another part is that tower defense games as a genre really only have so much room for innovation. A lot of abilities on both towers and enemies end up rehashed in the games bc you kind of have to. All this to say, I don't really know what the answer is, I personally would love a very difficult skill intensive KR game to release but they also kind of have to innovate and there's not much left to try.
I think Ironhide is banking on modders doing their part to scrath that itch, so that way they can focus on bringing in new fans. As I have stated I don't think there is anything wrong with this, the veteran players are hard to satisfy, and even more so when it comes to difficulty. We have played so much KR and now difficult mods on top of that, so Ironhide will struggle to challange us without alinating casual players.
i really believe vengeance was a step in the wrong ditection. there were obvious advancements such as the graphics and new tower system. but there are huge detrimental factors that carried over to alliance. the monetization is just, why? i already paid for the game and now have to pay extra for more content. the new upragade system is still terrible, there is no incentive to doing any of the challenges or even getting 3 stars. the game is also kinda easy somewhat, im able to get through it quite well even on veteran (the original was a struggle). man it sucks they removed the encyclopedia.
Imagine if they just not release the game until they cooked up most of the future content for the next 2-3 years Each time they release a new game, it’s automatically inferior to the previous versions cause it’s literally not finished yet. I like the game but man I can’t recommend it to new players at all. Competition is fierce compared to the early days
Alliance is like the better vengeance, but think of it like a seethrough bandaid, or perhaps even just a piece of scotch tape over an infected wound, it’s become clear that ironhide has tarnished the former quality of their games, Alliance is definitely a step in the right direction, but it honestly felt lackluster, the new lore wasnt all that great, and the worldbuilding was nothing compared to the trilogy, i’d still play it over vengeance though.
@josephc8440 Yeah I saw this video in my recommened titled "Why are video games so gay now?" apparently the triple A industry has gone full woke. I didn't even know, and this has been going on for years lol.
@@Cozyn3z You and me both! since AAA began to drop half finished games and bring in micro transactions/dlc I’ve been done with gaming. While I understand this is the most profitable model, I just miss the days when it was passion over profit. And as a small company in Uruguay, Ironhide understandably tries to balance financial incentives with how receptive they are to the community. I will still forever play kingdom rush since it was one of the first games my dad let me play on the PC, but it has lost its spark for now. Best of luck with whatever you do after TH-cam🤝🏾
i was just talking about how easy this game is and how it lacks content, the voice acting is great but its the worst kingdom rsuh game imo and its easy ive never beat a game first try on veteran before this game
Ever since vengeance the games have gotten a lot more cartooney. The gameplay is there, but it's all the same and gets stale fast, just kill all the enemies before they reach the end of the road, maybe find a easter egg as well. The power levels of heroes has gotten less balanced with every installment, and boss battles just don't really feel like boss battles anymore, all they really are is an enemy with lots of HP that maybe have an unfun mechanic attached to them. Levels aren't difficult anymore, and enemies are still slow so the "oh god that fast enemy is halfway down the path" moments are instead replaced with "oh no that really slow enemy with ludicrous amounts of HP might get to the exit at some point if i don't deal with them in the next half a minute" moments. not surprised you don't enjoy this game, everything fun about the games has been leaving with every new game and for once I myself can't bring myself to finish the game on the "impossible" (very possible from the looks of it) difficulty
The heroes in allience are the most balanced they've ever been lmao. Idk where you're getting the HP statement, cus it's the exact opposite of my experience - Where there is always a cheeky stalker, a floating eyeball or a void spawn running at mark 3 to the exit. Honestly your whole comment sounds like you didn't even play the game...
The heroes in alliance are in the exact same boat as the heroes in vengeance and to a lesser extent frontiers, where every one of them are outshined by a select few who have all of the power, as for the cheeky "mak 3" enemies, they are actually relatively slow compared to other enemies of different games, only getting close to the exit because of their high health or some ability like invisibility or teleportation. Honestly your whole countercomment sounds like you didn't even play any of the games prior to vengeance...
@@brotherironer5061 Ye bro, tell me they have high health at 70 xD "Getting close due to abilities" - So? Invisibility, speed ups and blink are not "high health" and make the game more dinamic. Rocket riders had more than 400 hp and basically a better version of the ability of the stalkers from Allience and you are complaining about Stalkers having teleportation? Give me a break... If you are going to complain about overloaded health pools and unfair abilities look no further than the OG. Trolls - basic unit from 2nd zone with 336 hp, compared to? - Cultist with 240 hp... Or to mindless husk, which has only 320 hp? Necromancers with 840 HP that summon armies of skeletons and being impossible to deal with without Tesla or meteor? How about the DLC Pillagers with 3360 HP? Yeties had 2400 HP and in Allience the only units that exceed that are 2 of the 3 "mini boss" units, while the closest ones with less hp are the tamed stalker and the 3rd form of the Evolving Scourge with 1660 hp... How is that considered high health for these games? You know what actually is high health for a non-boss unit? Twilight Golem with 5k HP from Origins. Ah, but I guess that one doesn't count cus he doesn't move slowly, so if he gets to the exit it must be because of his medium speed, not because of his 5k health pool lmao. And no, the heroes definitely aren't like in Vengeance and frontiers. I played with all of them and asside from Vesper, they're all quite powerful in their own field. Vengeance has heroes that are just objectively bad in every way to others. Same for Frontiers. If you think Allience is the same, then you haven't played with the heroes enough. That also mostly applies to the towers - though they are not perfectly balanced, the descrepency in power is way smaller than in Vengeance, Frontiers and the OG, only close to Origins I suppose. I've played all the KR games lol.
@@manolgeorgiev9664 Ok, they have higher health? It's almost like the other games had towers with better DPS and thus units had higher HP to compensate, whereas towers in alliance have lower DPS, making enemy health a lot more of a problem. Also it's nice how you use the lowest health enemy in the entire game to explain how enemy HP isn't high, how about we compare the lowest health fast enemy of every kingdom rush? -Wulfs from KR1 have 42 health -Sand hounds from Frontiers have 35 health -Hyenas from Origins have 45 health -Clockwork spiders and Mogwai from vengeance are tied at 40 health -Cutthroat rat and Glarelings are tied at 70 Health There's a striking difference with one of these, can you see it? Invisibility and blink are fine on units, as long as those units are easy to kill in their respective games. you mention rocket riders and trolls having higher HP to units in alliance, yet leave out how it's because of the higher DPS of kingdom rush 1 towers and units compared to alliance towers, this means that units like rocket riders needed to have more health, otherwise they would be killed too quickly by the higher damage towers of the original game, this is also because the paths they went down were longer, as kingdom rush 1 levels were prone to long winding paths with lots of tower overlap, so they were also being shot at for longer It's interesting how you mention kingdom rush 1 units, especially the necromancer, which you claim is "unbeatable without tesla or meteor" without realizing that it is, in fact, very beatable without tesla or meteor even when there are multiple of them, it shows that you never really tried different strategies out, not to mention most of the other units that you talk about having very high health pools, it's almost like pillagers and yetis were present in a game with 2 instant kill tower abilities, polymorph would make it 3 but it isn't an instant kill ability even if it effectively allows you to kill the enemy outright, and yetis and pillagers only ever came out in great numbers during the final waves when you should have more than enough insta kill abilities bought to deal with them. I do agree with you that twilight golems are a bad enemy design, they have high health and armor and they move quickly with AOE damage, there was also never more than 2 of them on screen at any one time, which is something that you have left out of your description of them for some reason. I agree with your hero point, they aren't in the same boat as the heroes from vengeance or frontiers and I was wrong about that, I still stand by what I said about them being outshined by a select few heroes though, specifically the dragon heroes, which is the same for kingdom rush frontiers and vengeance
@@brotherironer5061 KR1 may have higher overall DPS on towers, but you still have a single hero compared to Allience's two and the reinforcements are also weaker by comparison (I'd say the heroes in KR1 are also overall weaker, cus of less abilities, needing to level up during the level itself and no hero specials, though KR1 gives you the OP meteor panic button). The tower DPS isn't that much different either: The Artillery and BB are very closely comparable to the tricannon, both by function and damage; the Royal Archers are about 10% weaker compared to standart KR1 Archer towers, but even out with 2 DA heroes. Comparing the T4 to Hideout is tricky, because Hideout misses some of its shots, but comparing it to Musketeers - the DPS is slightly higher for the Royal Archers (and more convenient, because there's less damage lost from overdamaging a low health target), compensated by the Musketeers' longer range; Arcane Wizard in KR1 is about 12% stronger than the one in KR5, which is the biggest difference as far as I saw (didn't even look at the tesla, cus everyone knows it's broken). That's disregarding tower abilities. Don't forget that Arcane Wizard in KR5 can also buff the damage of towers arrownd it, basically boosting their DPS way above KR1 standarts. Comparing the glareling to the early runners is not fair, when they are a 3rd zone unit. There's a lot of them, but most upgraded towers can 2-shot or 3-shot them, while some like the brewmasters can 1-shot them. I wouldn't categorise them as high health by any stretch, especially for the last third of the game. Fair enough when it comes to the cutthroats though. I can't get over how you dismiss the rocket riders and the necros. A higher DPS and the long winding paths don't cover for how stupid they are to deal with. Rocket Rider ability is literally a better teleport on a much harder to kill unit, so your criticism that such abilities are only okay if the unit is easy to kill applies to the Rocket Rider much more than to any unit in Allience... I still consider Rocket Riders' health pool to be more agregious than anything in Allience... Demon hounds and Snow hounds also, but they can at least be blocked with a barrack, shot with artillery for high splash damage or rooted with hideout... When it comes to trolls, their health is still unreasonably high for a basic unit. The high innate health regeneration makes it even worse and the slow drummers that speed them up make it *even* worse. Like with the rocket riders and the necros, the (arguably) overall higher DPS from towers doesn't compensate in my opinion. About your point with the one-shot abilities: I personally don't think that 1-shotting should be a staple mechanic that you *need* in those games. I've always disliked how cheep it felt. But with that considered, Allience has the 1-shot zap and polimorph from KR1 and a high damage single-target rocket (that 1-shots almost everything) with the Rocket Gunners. So suggesting that KR1 was somehow more instakill-heavy, therefore it was reasonable to have such high hp units as the Pillager and Yeti, doesn't work. When it comes to Mini Bosses, they too, like the twilight golems, are rare. The only time you can get overwhelmed is if you don't deal with the glarelings properly in the corruption valley mission. The only mass of slow high-HP units happens on Eyesore Tower with 12 evolving scourges, but if you preprep a defence, you'd kill most of them before they evolve.
I don't wanna play other games, my enjoyment of making videos have carried me through playing games when I had to in this past year, I just don't have that much time to make videos anymore when there is other things I find more enjoyable.
The biggest disappointment is this game... I mean, I would never expect such a lazy sloppy game. It is short, no new features, we did not get an endless level again and I finished it in 6 hours. Thumbs down
Some things I forgot to mention:
1. There is now a way to swap reinforcements without resetting the whole tree!
2. Add customization to hotkeys
3. The things I want to see through is not any can you beat videos
You can swap reinforcements without resetting the whole tree doofus
@@professorevil1903 I stand corrected 🧍♂
You can edit the settings.lua file that resides with your save files I think, and that allows you to edit the hotkeys. Is it too convoluted to be useful to the average player? Definitely, and they should change this. But it may be useful for some people reading this.
the game tells you to click the portait for enzyclopedia
Cozynez the type of guy to rant about alliance just to later buy all the following DLCs to do a no tower challenge
It's called constructive criticism
@@thunderred5263because he loves these games and wants them to be better.
Hate isn't the oppisite of love Apathy is.
If he would've seen the game bored him and left like unfourtanutely most of the mobile users were conditioned to be, that would be apathy.
Leaving the game to rott away instead of assiting in alteast giving it the chance to be better.
I think he was just busting my balls a little. I mostly gave my thoughts on the game because people wanna hear what I think (I don't know why my opinion matters to some people, but I am flattered by it nonetheless) I lost faith in Ironhide a long time ago, and I doubt me and others giving our critique matters at this point. But I would be lying if I said that glimmer of hope is not there somewhere inside me.
@@alexcat6685 that's literally what I said
My favorite was KR Frontiers but i agree with it being a big drop off after KR Orgins@Cozyn3z
Lots of the comments here are pretty unfair against the game. The game is decent, the balance is objectively better than Vengeance (at the very least pre-patches) and I'd argue even Origins, "It's boring" is a subjective non-argument and you can feel boredom playing ANY game, "too easy" not only do people experience difficulty subjectively, but Alliance has objectively a lot of elements that rises its difficulty compared to stuff like KR1 main campaign where things are simpler with the answers more obvious. And while not visually very interesting, the first area has easily one of the most engaging gameplay out of all the first areas in the series. "No postgame levels" every single KR game launched with little to no postgame levels at first. In general there seems to be this negativity bias surrounding the game to an extent which leads to a lot of bias and in a few cases outright misinformation against the game.
Well said and I completely agree, except for the part about the first aera being the most engaging, but as is evident, my opinion on the game is kinda irrelevant.
It’s tuff to hear when a creator loses enjoyment over one of their main pieces of content - but as we grow and mature, ppl change and there’s no point pumping out videos u don’t even enjoy.
Though I found your channel quite late, I had a great time watching some of your videos and hope you realise how much these videos affect ppl, u vids really helped w cheering me up when I was down etc. so thanks and gl w whatever u do in the future🙏
True. but also they changed the games for the worse so I get why its not fun for him
It's a worse game with less monster variety and levels that are way too zoomed in versus the first 3 games. You can't gauge how big the monsters are in this game. I feel like it was conveyed much better in the first 3. Plus there is no incentive for replay nor do the challenges. No matter how bad or great you are with the levels, you get the same amount of skill points. Plus no wolves or fast monsters.
It was a tough video to make too, having a youtube channel has always been a goal for me since I started following youtube channels as a kid. Now I have it and I find it difficult to let it go, but at least I accomplished a lot with it, and I am grateful that it even happend in the first place.
Thank you for the kind words, I am glad I have been able to entertain you, it really means a lot to me!
Sooooo, when all the mini campaigns come out, wanna do alliance with only barracks?
We all need to oil up so maybe that will motivate him
@@er1kplay millions must oil up
But what if this game gets the vengeance treatment, and gets in a perpetual loop of awful mini campaigns hmm?
@@Cozyn3z but daddy cozy, i need my favorite kingdom rush youtuber 🥹
@@er1kplay Agree with ya, Kingdom Daddy is dearly missed
I think there is an info popup in level 2 that explains you can click on enemy portraits, but I am not entirely certain. For the heroics and irons, most of them are a bit meh yes, but levels 13-15 have pretty good irons and heroics. Level 14 iron especially is very difficult. So if you should want to try one or two more at some point, those would be the ones to try.
You are right
Level 15 iron gives us king denas, awesome
Are they good hard? The main thing I crave is quality at this point, if it's just hard I just get even more bored lol
@@Cozyn3z Not sure what you mean by good hard, but I felt like 13 iron was decently fair once you found a good strategy. And 15 heroic was a bit better than 15 iron imo but both seemed fair.
@@Mmlh1 I meant if it's fun and interresting at the same time as hard. Good hard would be Nightfang swale iron (That's right I said it and meant it) Bad hard is a bunch of slow, uninteractable and boring elephants slowly marching to the exit on the 4th hammerhold iron
This game also suffers from the Ancient Necropolis syndrome of having to go through 15 minutes of gameplay just to get to the hard part where you might actually lose lives
Yeah I felt that on the first Iron in the second area, and it just soured the experience for me who was already bored with the game.
You will be in for a treat after I release my Insanity Mod for KRA. The game is awesome for modding, especially the irons, which I tried to turn into puzzles.
His point is the game is mid and not that enjoyable for some of us longtime dedicated fans. Don’t you think the game should be re-playable fun without having to resort to mods?
aight, I will give it a whirl when the time comes
@@josephc8440 what are you arguing with? did he say that?
@@josephc8440 Why the hostility towards mods? Some modders in varying games did brutally beautiful work, especially in terms of putting the danger counter up times eleven.
@@__-tp4tm no hostility at all! I’m just speaking about the quality of the game. The value of day one release content vs the cost of money and time needed to enjoy the game. Mods are probably the only thing keeping people playing after they beat the campaign.
Another thing is that I personally think the game is too easy, I was able to no lives lost almost every level first try, hardest difficulty, first play through, no knowledge of what I was up against. Personally I think the difficulty was over hyped
Voduke probably overhyped it just a little bit, though I don't know how hard it gets later.
Having no real encyclopedia is incomprehensible but the game has so much potential.
The game does tell you about the encyclopedia thing in I think the 2nd level, its neat QoL feature.... if the original encyclopedia was still here, such a baffling change to make.
I have one or two major problems with vengeance and alliance too.
Like everyone, I miss the encyclopedia so much since it was so thrilling to unlock all the enemy icons, kinda like a collector's pleasure.
But I also miss the old drawing style of the game, which was more cosy and unique imo
The encyclopedia at least was on the steam version of Vengeance. I didn't feel much of a change in style going into vengeance, but alliance got a lot more cartoony with certain units and towers, which doesn't fit with the overall comic book style.
@@Cozyn3z nah I'm talking about the whole atmosphere... The new polished map for instance (even if I like it, I fancied soooooo much the old brown classic one), or the sketchy enemies with minimalist traits and no eyes etc... It was very particular, and I lost that impression ever since vengeance.
True for the map on Steam though, what a shame for a mobile player like me (can't do the no mouse challenge :/ )
I honestly feel like that with every new kr game after origins, Ironhide decides to just remove a random thing from the previous games for no reason other than laziness (largest example being old star system as well as iron and heroic challenge restrictions)
i think the star system was changed this way to be more foregiving for new players to the franchise
and about the encyclopedia....some dev said on a post on steam "it was removed so the game isn't that big" which i could only understand this as an argument for mobile,for the most part I enjoyed the game but quite a number of things changed in favour of new players
@@dan34577 I feel like that's the wrong choice, removing things for new players. Kingdom Rush was one if not, their most well received games for a long time, part of why is I assume, it really delivers on the whole Tower Defense game in terms of difficulty and mechanics
@dan34577 This is why I drift away from the company, the new Ironhide appeals to new players, not to veterans. I think it was the wrong move to change the reward system. But as a whole there's nothing wrong with this mentality
Sad to hear, because the campaign and the challenges in the last area are one of the hardest and most fun levels I have ever experienced in a Kr game. This I have heard from a lot of people. If only you had reached that point. I hope you find the motivation to give it another try one day.
Everyone just says they are hard, I have not heard anyone say they are the most fun levels, but that sounds cool. If it's just hard I will probably just enjoy it less, means I have to play more than necessary. I doubt I will go back, but maybe after some time the fan in me will get tempted to dabble in it again.
@@Cozyn3z it can feel very chaotic so if you're into that I think you'd enjoy the third area. unlike the first two areas you're constantly shifting your focus between heroes, enemies and towers
I think you're just feeling burned out. It's pretty normal, give it some time, do what you want with your channel, as niche as the KR saga is, the community will always be here for support.
Stay strong my dude. Focus on what you like.
It's not burn out, this has been slowly happening over the last 4 years.
I was burnt out after I made Champion and I think I was back at it in 2 months or so, and in that time I played some other games too I believe. Now playing games feels like a choir, before I get to the fun part.
@@Cozyn3z I see. I think what you want is to experience new things, games used to be fun back in the day because everything was new and maybe you didn't had as much worries as you do now. Much like a joke, it stops getting funny after the third time or so.
My advice is for you to try new stuff, not talking about games, but other hobbies where you don't find yourself bored with monotony.
I appreciate your support, and I do really like this community, there are some really cool people here
Completely respectable opinion, but it's a shame that your love for the franchise and videogames as a whole is slowly fading away. I'll still check the channel though, you made me consider listening to metal, which isn't something I thought I would do, so I'm grateful for that.
As for me, I'm actually having a lot of fun with Alliance! I just got into the thurd area because I'm taking my time with the game, playing one or two levels a day. The new heroes and towers are a breath of freash air for me, just using the imp pit as my only barrack changes my strategy compared to other games a lot. I'll have to see in the long run, but so far I'm really liking Alliance (and I really gotta finish it quickly to stop improvising the xX_KingdomRushPro_Xx comments on Voduke's polls)
I think I was never that passionate about video games to begin with, that was just what all my friends where into, but it was fun when it was fresh and new. However whatever you did as kid stays with you, and I may not play as much kingdom rush anymore, but my love for the games will always stay with me, I mean I do have 700 steam hours on the first game, so I have played my fair share.
Good to hear you are enjoying alliance, I envy you:)
If you want to get into metal, my go to recommendation is always *Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East* The greatest live album ever recorded, from one of my favorite bands, I love my extreme metal but I will never stop jamming the mighty Priest!
I feel the same way in regards to the game being rather lackluster. The encyclopedia is gone and I know there's the alternative but the alternative imho sucks, I want to see the enemies in my own pace, not having to find the enemy on a particular level just so I can see info about them, it feels tedious and a waste of time. The upgrade system feels linear, I much prefer the upgrade system in the first 3 games, because I felt like that actually mattered, felt less linear, and felt like I can have more room to maneuver in regards of creating strategies, and considering I suspect the new upgrade system is all because of the fact that all of a sudden can buy new towers, which adds some variety and new strategies, feels more like the devs simply milking us for money. The tower placements feels lazy, the tower placements in in KR 1 or KR 2 had more compared to Vengeance and Alliance, allowing us to strategize whether or not we want to fill the map with towers or focus on one particular part of a lane, that's not to say we can't do that here, but it's to a lesser degree. All in all, I think the game is fine, the artstyle of the units is much better imo compared to Vengeance, but other than that, it didn't really feel like it was worth the wait nor the money for me.
I agree with you
I felt kinda the same way about Alliance. For me, I think it was my own fault in that I had hoped/expected too much from it and even though the game is fine, it doesn't do anything super intriguing. I mean, how can it? By the time you release your 5th tower defense game in a series, you have kind of exhausted all of the really interesting possibilities. There are some new ideas in there, but they don't shake the game to its core to revitalize the love for the series
"You're gonna make Kingdom Rush Alliance excites me right?"
"Right?"
I want to share this in case it benefits you.
There was a time I was really bored of games and decided to change myself so deleted every games on phone ( it's the only device I play on )
Then the next day I get a huge surge of energy to play games again. Really wasted my data usage redownloading games, but I gained a strong feeling of wanting to play that still persists until now.
Although ironically, I don't have time to play games nowadays
Sounds like a -deciding to turn my life around at 2 am- situation
same. had so much fun playing the first time but replaying on impossible (did first playthrough on normal) I was like yea... I'm 10x more interested in the TH-cam video I have playing in the background. and the iron and heroics drag on for WAY too long in my opinion. I'll definitely play the mini campaigns when they come out, but I don't think ill be playing alliance much until then.
The thing that annoys me about alliance is that if it wasn't for the lackluster irons/heroics and the mediocre wave layouts/pacing of the 2nd area this would easily be my favourite game in the series. Its just these 2 rly big issues that drag it down for me
Yeah I could tell where the second area was going and just called it quits there, at best I was only mildly entertained up until then.
1:17 you know I never thought of that, thats actually really cool and something I enjoyed from Vengence in Herioc challenges where they restricted you to specific rules to enourge creativy, now added with Heroes.
Another thing about it is Premiums were allowed because well both kinds of players would want to use them, since it's only in a stage that was already completeled th value of the Premium isn't taken.
Though I do wish you could've a Test stage where you can see what you getting for your buck, instead of adevertised it.
hope the community releases a difficulty mod soon, it is so boring to play even in impossible mode.
I completely agree
I'm just glad for the banger videos that you did make. Don't cry because it's over. Be happy because it happened.
My feeling exactly! Though I wanna make it clear I still have a few things left I wanna do, but when that's done I am not sure what happens
The enthusiasm people have put in this game even before it came out is frankly so stupid. The more you get enthusiastic for a thing while waiting for it, the more you'll be disappointed in the end because the expectations you had were not satisfied. Btw i enjoyed a lot playing alliance but it definetly does not had the replayability of the other games (Vengeance excluded)
I see where you are coming from, but I have actually had the opposite happen recently. I was super excited for the new Malignancy to come out for almost a year, they had very quickly become one of my favorite bands. When it finally arrived I played that thing over and over again, it completely crushed me, and I still jam it on the regular. This never happens for me, but I love it even more than their previous material which made me a fan to begin with.
Just the comeback of Darklight depths to save alliance lol.
Does deathcoils return in the late game?? :O
@@Cozyn3znah the game sucks the whole way through
Will you make videos on the kingdom rush vengeance pirate kings DLC?
No, I refuse! to play anymore vengeance it's a lost cause
Iron and heroic challenges are indeed lower in quality, I never cared about them in other games but not having the choice of doing them if you can't beat the next level makes the game feel one dimensional, and while I disagree heroic and iron challenges in the first 3 games ever had interesting modifiers, these are still cheaper and more boring. I think they made iron and heroics so low in quality because.... it doesn't matter as much. Not that many people care, I am a bit sad levels with special towers don't get full focus on those towers in challenges, but that's about it, very few people play challenges, and they wanted to put their time elsewhere to things everyone will care about. About not getting any upgrade points for them... it does suck. maybe they're trying to appeal to people who completely hate doing any sort of challenges (irons and heroics are somewhat like challenges) or it's just easier to control and to make sure you are making decisions about your upgrade tree untill you beat the whole game.
2:13 Yup. that will be your ego thinking you already know everything the pop up tips could tell you. Having no stats is a big downside, but I think they we're on the right track, getting to access the enemy info while in a level if you're curios is a great adition. If only they realized pop up cards don't cut it
To unskippable cutscenes, I guess you're right. I don't think they we're a MASSIVE problem but definitely annoying if anything, maybe they just didn't figure out how to have them skipped, since these aren't just prerendered cutscenes but dialogue, and games tend to preder to skip just the current part of them so you have more control and don't accidantelly skip it if you wanted to see them. But leave the tutorial alone, I know we aren't the ones to bother with good design of a tutorial, and waiting for the enemy to walk the whole line was dragging (for those 6 seconds it took, and only one time so it was okay anyway), but it is a good tutorial for new players, and hating on it just because WE don't need it is cruel, when in terms of tutorial design it's supposed to be that way.
I am surprised you didn't bring up the mini campaigns, that would be a valid critique. Waiting 3 more months for probably just one endgame pack of 3-4 levels when aliiance costs more than previous games feels almost like a scam, especially knowing how long it was in development. I know you probably don't have the time or care enough to do a video of similiar quality like with vengeance, but this is just a quick rant with nitpicks you came up on the fly (several of which are wrong, sorry)
When did I hate on the tutorial? I didn't even mention it.
This video is pretty much a bunch of nitpicks yes, as I stated I don't think the game is bad at all, I just don't care about that's all.
@@Cozyn3z Eh, I might be mixing things up since I see a lot of people who complain on alliance say the tutorial is too slow, but I probably took that from the first area being too slow and unskippable cutscenes sort of applying to the tutorial as well.
@@danielplocica8766 You are, I never thought about the turorial being an issue, though I think the first game handled it just fine, nothing wrong with learning a little as you go, and the alliance tutorial did include some of that too. Either way I don't really care how it's done, as long as it is there. As you said I don't need it so I feel indifferent, and it takes max 30 seconds to get through
I literally finished the game the same day I bought it. I hate how easy it is and I hate that there are no bonus levels. I kinda played it just for the lore instead of the actual gameplay. It's probably the easiest KR game yet (or maybe Vengeance, both are very very easy). When I compare it to a game like Origins it's simply laughable how easy this campaign is
I feel like the only hard part of the game is like 3 of the levels in the last area on impossible and their heroic challenges. The rest felt pretty easy to me and i'm not even that good. I 100%'d the game in just 23 hours and like 5 of those where mainly due to the lvl 10 hero challenges anyway
I hear there's the exciting cursed bargain sequel coming out in october😀
@@Cozyn3z I just hope it's harder than the base game. I can't spend so much time waiting just to complete the game in one day
Did you play irons too? Blighted farmlands and corruption valley irons are wild.
Way to be impatient geez. The bonus levels are and have always been DLC material -_-. This is obviously coming in future updates.
Ngl I feel the same thing, you can just arcane wizard the entire campaign on veteran, the heroes are kinda random and lowkey cringe, and the entire game feels detached and unconnected to the previous games.
suddenly everything goes back to normal and Vez'nan gladly gives back everything he conquered and everyone are happy and forget and forgive about the years of brutal war, and mountines of dead and destroyed communities from Vengeance and former games, and evetything we did in vengeance amount to literally nothing as all of that plot progress disappears into thin air, and the linereans suddenly have their entire army back fully equipped and well trained as if they have not suffered extreme casualties and were reduced to a meager group of poorly equipped villagers during countless losses in vengeance, things feel forced.
I never cared about the story, but what you are saying sounds pretty accurate haha
me personally I didn't feel like the story was *too* disconnected, Kingdom Rush always had this cartoonish yet brutal conflict between good and evil, so the two arch enemies joining together to beat a common enemy despite all the soldiers who fell in their previous wars fits imo, plus SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING AHEAD you do find out in the last comic panel that Vez'nan did it all for his own benefit to get the corrupted crystal of Elynie back.
but I agree that it doesn't make the most logical sense how Linirean forces are suddenly fully capable yet again and I also don't like how Vez'nan gives away all the territory he spent conquering in Vengeance, like you said it feels like it was all for nothing.
I feel like the towers are cool but they're somehow mega similar... No fadt or very fast attacking towers is really, and i mean really boring. The towers have 3 attack speeds, average, slow, very slow
I played nearly 12 hours in the first weekend that it was out but in the past 2ish weeks I've played only 4 hours, still haven't finished the campaign even though I've had plenty of time to. Guess I just lost interest don't know why
I feel you, stopped playing after the first level of the second environment, I don't think I will finish it
Try the vengeance dlc. It has the most unique final level and great wave design.
At least you've still got forsaken valley no stars no hero to work on. You know you can't escape it, it calls your name.
I have no idea why ironhide chose to make vengance and alliance easy asf and leave it up to modders to make the game challenging
Because money :(
The game offers a commendable level of difficulty, but it's not currently worth the purchase. In my opinion, a release in October would have been more ideal, as it could have included at least a mini campaign. Even the original Kingdom Rush had that.
Sure, here's a revised version of that part of your comment:
By the way, the game explains that you can click on an enemy's picture, but this might not be clear to all players.
I dont think I played the same game as people who say the game is difficult. Having two heroes makes the game's difficulty a joke. Out of all the levels that currently exist, there is only one that is actually difficult. Unless you purposely choose a bad hero and tower combination, an average player should complete every level within 2 tries even on impossible difficulty. And this isnt me secretly flexing that Im super good, I just dont think the game is nearly as difficult as origins for example. Origins had me playing each level for multiple hours, some of them I couldn't even complete so completing most of alliance in 1-2 tries felt disappointing difficulty wise.
@@raleufr defeated all levels impossible stargazer first try lol
And i was someone struggling with frontiers allot
@@solearcarese5679 Difficiulty is subjective. All of the base games without challenges are easy.
I think the prize would be fine, if only things like the unskippable cutscenes and the encyclopedia was there, makes the game feel unfinished. Honestly the first 3 games almost felt too cheap for me, I would have had no problem paying more for those.
The game does tell you that you can click on enemies to check their stats, but still, I do want the encyclopedia to come back.
Im personally a big kingdom rush enjoyer, a glazer some might say, so I do still enjoy alliance a lot. I am definitely dissapointed by the fact that iron and heroic challenges give you nothing though, I wish there was like a special skill tree that you can ONLY upgrade by getting special runes from iron and heroic challenges, but i doubt that will ever happen.
I still am glad that alliance is a lot better than vengeance in terms of difficulty and tower + hero balance, which I know doesnt say a lot, but I definitely thought that kingdom rush was gonna fall off the face of the planet after vengenace, and im just glad thats not the case.
This is the EXACT same issue i found with alliance (and vengeance) is that there is no incentive for players to do the iron and heroic challenges other than getting the achievements for them.
And I find this quite sad due to the fact that the challenges were a BIG part of the gameplay, even if they were shorter than the normal levels, and they were pretty much required to be completed (to some extent) to have enough stars for needed upgrades. (that is if you arent playing on easy)
They were no pushover! You had to experiment to see what worked, and the enemy layout wasn't the same as in their original levels! So you couldn't use the same layout that you used to beat the level.
But now, after ive done all of the iron and heroic challenges, i can't say that i'm satisfied. The enemy layouts are WAY too similar, and they either give too much gold to work with OR they have low enemy quantity.
I've found vengeance to be MORE difficult on veteran than alliance, even without premium towers, impossible difficulty isn't much different.
Yes! You bring something important up here, they need a differnt feel than the campaign. That's a fun way to add difficulty for everyone.
It's all because of those damn heroics
Nah it was the whole experience... They were especially boring though don't get me wrong
Only saving grace would be modding: Making some units go faster and creating interesting levels.
I hope it will, but even then I don't care much for Vengeance mods
@@Cozyn3z Yeah, it's a lot of work and without tools, quality suffers.
Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance felt easier than all the previous titles. I'm not sure if it's because I've played all the other titles and completing all Iron and Heroic challenge. Now, with two heroes and their skills, it feels less about strategic tower positioning and more like an RTS gameplay scenario. I miss the superior range of the archer tower. The music isn't helping much, and the story feels forced despite the twist at the end. I beat level 15 in Veteran mode with only rocket gunners and got three stars no problem. Also, there's still no endless mode available yet.
Hot take: Opinions on alliance arent valid when coming from someone that didnt play the last area
It really is just that much better than the rest of the game. It like playing a whole different game after the first 2 areas.
the opinions are completely valid it can't be that the game is boring shit for much of its content even playing on impossible
Eh, I agree that the last area is much better than the first two, but when only a third of the game is noteworthy, that isn't really a praise xD
Totally agree, factor in the iron and heroics and it's even less than a third that's good (At least judging by what you all say)
I would Like if they returned to The Frontier origins gameplay but with The hero changes of The newer games
I don’t understand - the first two campaign stages and especially the iron and heroic challenges have always been pretty easy, especially in the first game. If you haven’t even played the last area’s iron and heroic I don’t think it’s really fair to say it’s boring. Besides the most fun part of all the games is the elite levels.
Yes they have often been easy (There is exceptions to this, pagras and twin rivers for example) My problem is not that they are easy, I can't expect to be challenged when I have played as much KR as I have, it's that they are boring, lacks interesting waves and a different feel from the campaign. The main campaign has always been quality, I like the campaign more than elite levels in Origins and to a lesser extent Vengeance.
I think Ironhide has put themselves into a really awkward position where they are both trying to keep a property alive on nostalgia and get new players. I don't think this would actually be the case but I think ironhide is worried about alienating new players by making the new games more difficult, I've been enjoying alliance but it and vengeance truly don't scratch the same itch in terms of difficulty as the original trilogy, especially 1's iron and heroics. Part of that is that i'm playing the games as an adult and not a child but there is most definitely a noteable decrease in difficulty which alienates the same longterm fans they are banking on the nostalgia of. I think another part is that tower defense games as a genre really only have so much room for innovation. A lot of abilities on both towers and enemies end up rehashed in the games bc you kind of have to. All this to say, I don't really know what the answer is, I personally would love a very difficult skill intensive KR game to release but they also kind of have to innovate and there's not much left to try.
I think Ironhide is banking on modders doing their part to scrath that itch, so that way they can focus on bringing in new fans. As I have stated I don't think there is anything wrong with this, the veteran players are hard to satisfy, and even more so when it comes to difficulty. We have played so much KR and now difficult mods on top of that, so Ironhide will struggle to challange us without alinating casual players.
i really believe vengeance was a step in the wrong ditection. there were obvious advancements such as the graphics and new tower system.
but there are huge detrimental factors that carried over to alliance. the monetization is just, why? i already paid for the game and now have to pay extra for more content. the new upragade system is still terrible, there is no incentive to doing any of the challenges or even getting 3 stars. the game is also kinda easy somewhat, im able to get through it quite well even on veteran (the original was a struggle). man it sucks they removed the encyclopedia.
sure they will fix all the ishues in the future (copium)
Clicking the enemy is told by the game
Imagine if they just not release the game until they cooked up most of the future content for the next 2-3 years
Each time they release a new game, it’s automatically inferior to the previous versions cause it’s literally not finished yet.
I like the game but man I can’t recommend it to new players at all. Competition is fierce compared to the early days
Mini campaigns have always been DLC content
The game did tell you, you did miss that you can click on enemy pictures for the encyclopedia.
Yup yup, classic me
Just curious, what is your nationality?
Belgian
@@Cozyn3z Alright, cool! Love the accent. Thanks : D
I just wanted my encyclopedia!!!!!!! 😭
Alliance is like the better vengeance, but think of it like a seethrough bandaid, or perhaps even just a piece of scotch tape over an infected wound, it’s become clear that ironhide has tarnished the former quality of their games, Alliance is definitely a step in the right direction, but it honestly felt lackluster, the new lore wasnt all that great, and the worldbuilding was nothing compared to the trilogy, i’d still play it over vengeance though.
I like that description \m/
No way he is cat now
Where have you been brah brah?
@@Cozyn3z i was in big long sleep
@@kapselpl7290 Doesn't matter, you are here now!
Is blud danish?
I knew this day would come
With The state of the gaming industry as a whole it’s easy to see this coming from far away
Just letting you know what's going on, I have not thrown in the towel yet. Just don't be suprised if I stop uploading at some point.
@josephc8440 Yeah I saw this video in my recommened titled "Why are video games so gay now?" apparently the triple A industry has gone full woke. I didn't even know, and this has been going on for years lol.
@@Cozyn3z You and me both! since AAA began to drop half finished games and bring in micro transactions/dlc I’ve been done with gaming. While I understand this is the most profitable model, I just miss the days when it was passion over profit. And as a small company in Uruguay, Ironhide understandably tries to balance financial incentives with how receptive they are to the community. I will still forever play kingdom rush since it was one of the first games my dad let me play on the PC, but it has lost its spark for now. Best of luck with whatever you do after TH-cam🤝🏾
Funny how you made the video 4 minutes and 20 seconds long
I have a feeling of deja vu
I feel you, but I did not say outright I'm quitting, just I'm not sure if the show will go on for much longer
i was just talking about how easy this game is and how it lacks content, the voice acting is great but its the worst kingdom rsuh game imo and its easy ive never beat a game first try on veteran before this game
Ever since vengeance the games have gotten a lot more cartooney. The gameplay is there, but it's all the same and gets stale fast, just kill all the enemies before they reach the end of the road, maybe find a easter egg as well. The power levels of heroes has gotten less balanced with every installment, and boss battles just don't really feel like boss battles anymore, all they really are is an enemy with lots of HP that maybe have an unfun mechanic attached to them. Levels aren't difficult anymore, and enemies are still slow so the "oh god that fast enemy is halfway down the path" moments are instead replaced with "oh no that really slow enemy with ludicrous amounts of HP might get to the exit at some point if i don't deal with them in the next half a minute" moments. not surprised you don't enjoy this game, everything fun about the games has been leaving with every new game and for once I myself can't bring myself to finish the game on the "impossible" (very possible from the looks of it) difficulty
The heroes in allience are the most balanced they've ever been lmao. Idk where you're getting the HP statement, cus it's the exact opposite of my experience - Where there is always a cheeky stalker, a floating eyeball or a void spawn running at mark 3 to the exit. Honestly your whole comment sounds like you didn't even play the game...
The heroes in alliance are in the exact same boat as the heroes in vengeance and to a lesser extent frontiers, where every one of them are outshined by a select few who have all of the power, as for the cheeky "mak 3" enemies, they are actually relatively slow compared to other enemies of different games, only getting close to the exit because of their high health or some ability like invisibility or teleportation. Honestly your whole countercomment sounds like you didn't even play any of the games prior to vengeance...
@@brotherironer5061 Ye bro, tell me they have high health at 70 xD
"Getting close due to abilities" - So? Invisibility, speed ups and blink are not "high health" and make the game more dinamic. Rocket riders had more than 400 hp and basically a better version of the ability of the stalkers from Allience and you are complaining about Stalkers having teleportation? Give me a break... If you are going to complain about overloaded health pools and unfair abilities look no further than the OG.
Trolls - basic unit from 2nd zone with 336 hp, compared to? - Cultist with 240 hp... Or to mindless husk, which has only 320 hp?
Necromancers with 840 HP that summon armies of skeletons and being impossible to deal with without Tesla or meteor? How about the DLC Pillagers with 3360 HP? Yeties had 2400 HP and in Allience the only units that exceed that are 2 of the 3 "mini boss" units, while the closest ones with less hp are the tamed stalker and the 3rd form of the Evolving Scourge with 1660 hp... How is that considered high health for these games? You know what actually is high health for a non-boss unit? Twilight Golem with 5k HP from Origins.
Ah, but I guess that one doesn't count cus he doesn't move slowly, so if he gets to the exit it must be because of his medium speed, not because of his 5k health pool lmao.
And no, the heroes definitely aren't like in Vengeance and frontiers. I played with all of them and asside from Vesper, they're all quite powerful in their own field. Vengeance has heroes that are just objectively bad in every way to others. Same for Frontiers. If you think Allience is the same, then you haven't played with the heroes enough. That also mostly applies to the towers - though they are not perfectly balanced, the descrepency in power is way smaller than in Vengeance, Frontiers and the OG, only close to Origins I suppose.
I've played all the KR games lol.
@@manolgeorgiev9664 Ok, they have higher health? It's almost like the other games had towers with better DPS and thus units had higher HP to compensate, whereas towers in alliance have lower DPS, making enemy health a lot more of a problem.
Also it's nice how you use the lowest health enemy in the entire game to explain how enemy HP isn't high, how about we compare the lowest health fast enemy of every kingdom rush?
-Wulfs from KR1 have 42 health
-Sand hounds from Frontiers have 35 health
-Hyenas from Origins have 45 health
-Clockwork spiders and Mogwai from vengeance are tied at 40 health
-Cutthroat rat and Glarelings are tied at 70 Health
There's a striking difference with one of these, can you see it?
Invisibility and blink are fine on units, as long as those units are easy to kill in their respective games. you mention rocket riders and trolls having higher HP to units in alliance, yet leave out how it's because of the higher DPS of kingdom rush 1 towers and units compared to alliance towers, this means that units like rocket riders needed to have more health, otherwise they would be killed too quickly by the higher damage towers of the original game, this is also because the paths they went down were longer, as kingdom rush 1 levels were prone to long winding paths with lots of tower overlap, so they were also being shot at for longer
It's interesting how you mention kingdom rush 1 units, especially the necromancer, which you claim is "unbeatable without tesla or meteor" without realizing that it is, in fact, very beatable without tesla or meteor even when there are multiple of them, it shows that you never really tried different strategies out, not to mention most of the other units that you talk about having very high health pools, it's almost like pillagers and yetis were present in a game with 2 instant kill tower abilities, polymorph would make it 3 but it isn't an instant kill ability even if it effectively allows you to kill the enemy outright, and yetis and pillagers only ever came out in great numbers during the final waves when you should have more than enough insta kill abilities bought to deal with them. I do agree with you that twilight golems are a bad enemy design, they have high health and armor and they move quickly with AOE damage, there was also never more than 2 of them on screen at any one time, which is something that you have left out of your description of them for some reason.
I agree with your hero point, they aren't in the same boat as the heroes from vengeance or frontiers and I was wrong about that, I still stand by what I said about them being outshined by a select few heroes though, specifically the dragon heroes, which is the same for kingdom rush frontiers and vengeance
@@brotherironer5061 KR1 may have higher overall DPS on towers, but you still have a single hero compared to Allience's two and the reinforcements are also weaker by comparison (I'd say the heroes in KR1 are also overall weaker, cus of less abilities, needing to level up during the level itself and no hero specials, though KR1 gives you the OP meteor panic button).
The tower DPS isn't that much different either: The Artillery and BB are very closely comparable to the tricannon, both by function and damage; the Royal Archers are about 10% weaker compared to standart KR1 Archer towers, but even out with 2 DA heroes. Comparing the T4 to Hideout is tricky, because Hideout misses some of its shots, but comparing it to Musketeers - the DPS is slightly higher for the Royal Archers (and more convenient, because there's less damage lost from overdamaging a low health target), compensated by the Musketeers' longer range; Arcane Wizard in KR1 is about 12% stronger than the one in KR5, which is the biggest difference as far as I saw (didn't even look at the tesla, cus everyone knows it's broken). That's disregarding tower abilities. Don't forget that Arcane Wizard in KR5 can also buff the damage of towers arrownd it, basically boosting their DPS way above KR1 standarts.
Comparing the glareling to the early runners is not fair, when they are a 3rd zone unit. There's a lot of them, but most upgraded towers can 2-shot or 3-shot them, while some like the brewmasters can 1-shot them. I wouldn't categorise them as high health by any stretch, especially for the last third of the game.
Fair enough when it comes to the cutthroats though.
I can't get over how you dismiss the rocket riders and the necros. A higher DPS and the long winding paths don't cover for how stupid they are to deal with. Rocket Rider ability is literally a better teleport on a much harder to kill unit, so your criticism that such abilities are only okay if the unit is easy to kill applies to the Rocket Rider much more than to any unit in Allience...
I still consider Rocket Riders' health pool to be more agregious than anything in Allience... Demon hounds and Snow hounds also, but they can at least be blocked with a barrack, shot with artillery for high splash damage or rooted with hideout...
When it comes to trolls, their health is still unreasonably high for a basic unit. The high innate health regeneration makes it even worse and the slow drummers that speed them up make it *even* worse. Like with the rocket riders and the necros, the (arguably) overall higher DPS from towers doesn't compensate in my opinion.
About your point with the one-shot abilities: I personally don't think that 1-shotting should be a staple mechanic that you *need* in those games. I've always disliked how cheep it felt. But with that considered, Allience has the 1-shot zap and polimorph from KR1 and a high damage single-target rocket (that 1-shots almost everything) with the Rocket Gunners. So suggesting that KR1 was somehow more instakill-heavy, therefore it was reasonable to have such high hp units as the Pillager and Yeti, doesn't work.
When it comes to Mini Bosses, they too, like the twilight golems, are rare. The only time you can get overwhelmed is if you don't deal with the glarelings properly in the corruption valley mission. The only mass of slow high-HP units happens on Eyesore Tower with 12 evolving scourges, but if you preprep a defence, you'd kill most of them before they evolve.
For me, it seems its too easy
fair opinion
for me the game is in the middle soo far but maybe the updates will surpise me
Yooo granpa woke up
I honestly loved Vengeance, alliance is just boring imo.
It’s all mage, too many flying mobs and the game is too easy.
Too short of a game but other than that very good.
Yesssssssssss
Do you listen to death grips
No, but the name is interesting and seems familiar
@@Cozyn3z I think you will like their music because it's metal influenced especially on their album jenny death
@@SuushsJshsjsj I might give it a try, but I doubt I will like it since I don't like hiphop at all
@@Cozyn3z ok that's fair
sadeg :(
Why does this translate to burning :(
You Sound very danish
You should play other games if you want, not all content has to be from kingdom rush
I don't wanna play other games, my enjoyment of making videos have carried me through playing games when I had to in this past year, I just don't have that much time to make videos anymore when there is other things I find more enjoyable.
i am not having fun playing this game
Have all the non enjoyers gathered on this video? Because I thought I was the minority and even then I think the game is decent
Ærgerligt
10-8x3+5=?
Shii idk someone help me I don't have time for this😢
-9
@@spokogosciu641 10-8x3+5=10-24+5=-14+5=-9
I hate math
-9 easy
Game so badblud lost hope in gaming genre😭
I know this comment is all in good fun, but I did make it clear twice that I think the game is good.
@@Cozyn3z yeah i know i just emphasized on your opinion from the first half of the video
Typical Frontiers fan
KR1 was always the one for me, but I like all 3 of course
@@Cozyn3z that makes sense ,game didnt choose a path of basik towers into mixing, and instead goes into more deck pick
Vengeance hate justified
The biggest disappointment is this game... I mean, I would never expect such a lazy sloppy game. It is short, no new features, we did not get an endless level again and I finished it in 6 hours. Thumbs down
Mini campaigns are not part of the game from launch, it is dlc content and has always been. Saying the game has no new features is straight up false.