Definately my assassin build. This was in the demo, before the nerf to the sacrificial knife, I had the king at 1 hp, reached him quickly using free soul movement, and a power boosted shotgun to kill him through his own units. I got so far in endless (only mode back then) that the board started with half the board filled with white units. I considered this a true victory since half the board is like all of his units and all my own converted black ones.
i love how every rogue-like has that one build that turns it into a cake walk, but it requires almost every single component or it fall apart. what's amazing to me about tyler is its obvious how much happens in his videos that we don't see, all the failed runs and the time spent strategizing
I love that gimmick in rouge likes, my favorite is the slime ring + all items that trigger in enemies death in otherworld legends It is just a complete room and boss cleaner if you play it right
Hell some of the most prominent ones have SEVERAL. Take the binding of Isaac for example, I can come up with several builds that take seemingly terrible items and combines them into an unstoppable force.
I love NL, easily my favorite content creator rn. I think he genuinely just gets tilted and makes hasty, bad decisions in this game. I watched him and was like "no way it's this hard" bought the game, and won first try on Normal lol. Granted I also watch Tyler and have watched all 3:30 of the NL attempt so I had some intel going in, but I'm still unconvinced the game would have been that hard going in blind.
@@IAmTheWar NL is entertaining, but he's definitely far from skilled at these kinds of games. I don't really watch him often, but I do notice him making a lot of mistakes that probably a lot of slightly above average players will catch. There's a reason after all that a lot of people initially bought Slay the Spire because they wanted to not make his mistakes.
@@CalebTerryRED the game won't let you fire at all if you even have a chance of dying on that turn and instead it takes a shield while doing no damage to the enemy pieces. So yes bypassing it would be very useful
@@poppymon007 very useful for going faster? The folly shields have exactly one use, and it is to stop you from shooting while in check. Losing them is like exhaling: Sure, you lost some air, but you're going to get it back within the next two seconds
@@poppymon007 using a shield doesn't take a turn though, there's literally no downside. enemy pieces take the same damage with or without the shield, It's literally just saying "are you sure?"
Tyler, I believe this is how the shield/bypass mechanic works: As you mentioned, there is some element of randomness as to the spread of bullets. Therefore, if there is a non-zero chance of the spread "screwing you over" and causing you to deal non-lethal damage, it won't let you shoot without first destroying your shields. However, if there is a guarantee to kill the enemy (no amount of bad bullet spread can prevent the piece from dying), it will instantly shoot without forcing you to destroy your shields. I could be wrong, but this seems to apply consistently to all applicable scenarios.
The shield bypass only works when the enemy is right besides you because the game the game calculates your firepower power vs enemy HP and see if you're safe or not. If you have less FP than enemy HP, they game will trigger the shield.
@@Sentient_Blob the opposite is also true, folly shielf wouldn't protect you while the only enemies putting in check is pount blank evenbif you're spreading is so large that you can miss point blank
@@Sentient_Blob love how Tyler hearts the comments who describe the mechanic correctly, i noticed this in the previous video too, it's neat to know he reads the comments & replies
I don't know if you are ready for the secret bishop Boss or not but here's the way to summon him Get red book When you are at floor 12, kill the king while letting a bishop survive Good luck
I've heard something about mod support for this game, which got me thinking about a mod concept. Specifically, allowing players to choose pretty much any 10 Black *and* White cards they wish. This would result in the potential to have absurd builds on both sides. (Perhaps a consequence of choosing any particular card would be that said card would be the only one available for the rest of the game. Or that could be a mode within the mod...)
I would be interested to see that mod happen. I've been trying to do stuff, but I forgot how tedious it is when you have to try booting up the game everytime you want to test it. I don't know much about modding though, so maybe there's an easier way to do what I'm trying to do.
Yea i noticed that as well and chuckled but more like in "i totally sympathise" kind of way because i know how hard it is to evaluate upgrades in roguelites while still trying to keep the video pace going. It is hard. His first instinct was actually pretty good. In a game where most reliable way to kill something is to shutgun it into its face August Presence can be a big downside..so meh. but for his build it was actually pretty good. Hope that makes sense. Cheers!
Yesterday I got 3 holy gunpowder, high focus, crow's blessing, 2 engraved scope, cornered spot, courteous jousting, and extra barrel. This is the best sniper built I've ever got, ever. I literally just need to right click, fired 3 times and win..
2:45 the random bloom is totally intended, and designed to be played around. removing it is fine for TF2, but not here Edit: have you heard of the true final boss yet? If you wanna fight it, here's a hint: you'll need the book.
I think Tyler forgot that the soul slots only give +1 firepower if they’re empty, and most of the time they were filled. So it encourages and rewards using the souls more often to keep the slots empty.
@@TheMarioExpertMan Theocracy is Another card That buffs White. it Gets rid Of the King, And you Need to Kill all The bishops To win A round. It doesn't Affect the Final boss Tho
I think the red book would have been a perfectly fine choice considering you had the moat... :P And the ammo regeneration does sound insanely good. It would make up for the enemy pieces being faster.
I've been subbed since btd battles 1, and btd 5 days. I just don't understand how not only you find the coolest strategy games but only have less than 500k subs. Don't worry you should hit a million this year if you stay on track. Love watching your vids man
I think how it worls for when you have an enemy unit right beside you (or in check), I think you have to have more power than they have max HP to be able to take them out and not have them take your shield, as I have noticed that in the past few videos. I may be wrong, but that is my hypothesis on how the shields works
in the first 10 seconds of game play you have shocked me. do you know how many runs i would have succeeded in if i knew you could reload without having to move
You should check out a game called Nomad Survival. It's in the same sub-genre of Vampire Survivors, and it does a lot different to where it feels like a different experience.
oh yeah since peggle like rougelike is (apparently) a crazy currently so I want to recommend Roundguard as a game to check out, it's a peggle like rougelike that I'd say is very good, even surpassing Peglin in my books.
correct me if im wrong but i dont think having knockback would acualy be to bad because there is no way to nock somone into a space that puts you in check without you already being in check as all you ar pushing them away from you not towards you meaning its impsible to push enemys to check you if you are not in check already but im probably missing something
@@dr.blockcraft6633 but you would have to be directly in line of sight to the knight for the knockback to work not in any place where the knight could check you unless knockback can be aplied diagonaly but even then its imposible to get into a check with said knockback as knights ony take in L shapes
Tyler you cant shoot someone far away in check, only up close like you said but the reason is because in chess the king could kill that queen! remember the moves you cant make to kill as the king you can as the shotgun.😁
What was your strongest build?
Nothing cause I don't have 10 dollars for the game 😀
@@CharaMads Pirate?
Definately my assassin build.
This was in the demo, before the nerf to the sacrificial knife, I had the king at 1 hp, reached him quickly using free soul movement, and a power boosted shotgun to kill him through his own units.
I got so far in endless (only mode back then) that the board started with half the board filled with white units.
I considered this a true victory since half the board is like all of his units and all my own converted black ones.
@@CharaMads there's always the demo
You post at midnight for me, worth it.
i love how every rogue-like has that one build that turns it into a cake walk, but it requires almost every single component or it fall apart. what's amazing to me about tyler is its obvious how much happens in his videos that we don't see, all the failed runs and the time spent strategizing
I love that gimmick in rouge likes, my favorite is the slime ring + all items that trigger in enemies death in otherworld legends
It is just a complete room and boss cleaner if you play it right
Like the fact that he never showed the moat before but mentioned that he wanted it
Hell some of the most prominent ones have SEVERAL.
Take the binding of Isaac for example, I can come up with several builds that take seemingly terrible items and combines them into an unstoppable force.
After Watching Northernlion play this game, it made me realize that the game is a lot harder than you make it look
Well I mean it depends on how good you can read the board
Tyler actually is the master of strategy
I love NL, easily my favorite content creator rn. I think he genuinely just gets tilted and makes hasty, bad decisions in this game. I watched him and was like "no way it's this hard" bought the game, and won first try on Normal lol. Granted I also watch Tyler and have watched all 3:30 of the NL attempt so I had some intel going in, but I'm still unconvinced the game would have been that hard going in blind.
@@IAmTheWar NL is entertaining, but he's definitely far from skilled at these kinds of games. I don't really watch him often, but I do notice him making a lot of mistakes that probably a lot of slightly above average players will catch. There's a reason after all that a lot of people initially bought Slay the Spire because they wanted to not make his mistakes.
Yeah, as someone who is bad at chess, I can confirm. Game is hard.
I read somewhere Tyler that if you hold Shift before firing, you can bypass the Folly Shield's without losing them.
Losing them doesn't actually mean anything though. It's just to let you know you're doing something risky
@@CalebTerryRED the game won't let you fire at all if you even have a chance of dying on that turn and instead it takes a shield while doing no damage to the enemy pieces. So yes bypassing it would be very useful
@@poppymon007 very useful for going faster?
The folly shields have exactly one use, and it is to stop you from shooting while in check. Losing them is like exhaling: Sure, you lost some air, but you're going to get it back within the next two seconds
@@poppymon007 using a shield doesn't take a turn though, there's literally no downside. enemy pieces take the same damage with or without the shield, It's literally just saying "are you sure?"
@@CalebTerryRED right, yeah excuse me for being silly I hadn't actually watched the entire video yet
pretty sure the pawns have to protect the king because as we see, if the king dies then they get obliterated by lightning sent from the heavens
Tyler, I believe this is how the shield/bypass mechanic works:
As you mentioned, there is some element of randomness as to the spread of bullets. Therefore, if there is a non-zero chance of the spread "screwing you over" and causing you to deal non-lethal damage, it won't let you shoot without first destroying your shields. However, if there is a guarantee to kill the enemy (no amount of bad bullet spread can prevent the piece from dying), it will instantly shoot without forcing you to destroy your shields.
I could be wrong, but this seems to apply consistently to all applicable scenarios.
The folly shields don’t account for different arcs, so if you have a sniper build the folly shields go off even when you’re guaranteed to kill
@@Sentient_Blob oh interesting
The shield bypass only works when the enemy is right besides you because the game the game calculates your firepower power vs enemy HP and see if you're safe or not. If you have less FP than enemy HP, they game will trigger the shield.
@@Sentient_Blob
the opposite is also true, folly shielf wouldn't protect you while the only enemies putting in check is pount blank evenbif you're spreading is so large that you can miss point blank
@@Sentient_Blob love how Tyler hearts the comments who describe the mechanic correctly, i noticed this in the previous video too, it's neat to know he reads the comments & replies
I'm so proud of that second queen, figuring out who she really is. Such an icon
@@KCzz15 wdym
@@KCzz15 ?
bruh moment
@@KCzz15 Chess pun lol
@@Misty_FT sorry I don’t smoke
I don't know if you are ready for the secret bishop Boss or not but here's the way to summon him
Get red book
When you are at floor 12, kill the king while letting a bishop survive
Good luck
Not gonna lie he couldve done it without knowing this run
Not that he needs to, just that he is afraid of the red book
@@Snukkuri with a reason
you also need theocracy
@@watchmychannelorelse that's the clever part because theocracy makes you kill all the bishops instead of killing the king.
I've heard something about mod support for this game, which got me thinking about a mod concept. Specifically, allowing players to choose pretty much any 10 Black *and* White cards they wish. This would result in the potential to have absurd builds on both sides.
(Perhaps a consequence of choosing any particular card would be that said card would be the only one available for the rest of the game. Or that could be a mode within the mod...)
I would be interested to see that mod happen. I've been trying to do stuff, but I forgot how tedious it is when you have to try booting up the game everytime you want to test it. I don't know much about modding though, so maybe there's an easier way to do what I'm trying to do.
Player chooses 10 black mist cards
@@obiwancannoli1920 And with that, 10 courts of the king (or 9 and the forced Homecoming)
A "Creative Mode" mod like that would be awesome.
@@steam-powereddolphin5449 10 Homecomings versus 10 Iron Scopes
Missed mate in 1 from double rooks at 3:34...yeah, can relate
Noticed it too.. However, after Ra8 there is always K(N)c6 or K(N)e6 - moving with the knight soul 😉
Knight soul...
I very much enjoy that the renamed the card that replaces a bishop with a queen backup to "genderqueer."
What was it before?
No it's very cringe
@@lordshennington2756 it was "crossdresser" originally.
@@Stormer13 Ahh ok, thank you!
Wait does that mean the king has multiple partners since the bishop is also the queen?
I love how at 6:24 he's like August presence Meh and then says it's really good.😂
i mean it is really good it's just not as fun as making your ridiculous offense even more wacky
Yea i noticed that as well and chuckled but more like in "i totally sympathise" kind of way because i know how hard it is to evaluate upgrades in roguelites while still trying to keep the video pace going. It is hard. His first instinct was actually pretty good. In a game where most reliable way to kill something is to shutgun it into its face August Presence can be a big downside..so meh. but for his build it was actually pretty good. Hope that makes sense. Cheers!
Yesterday I got 3 holy gunpowder, high focus, crow's blessing, 2 engraved scope, cornered spot, courteous jousting, and extra barrel. This is the best sniper built I've ever got, ever. I literally just need to right click, fired 3 times and win..
2:45 the random bloom is totally intended, and designed to be played around. removing it is fine for TF2, but not here
Edit: have you heard of the true final boss yet? If you wanna fight it, here's a hint: you'll need the book.
Ominous
The red book?
@@FrostmilkDragon yes
we have sniper king now, SMG king, revolver king, rocket launcher king when
There's grenade king
max firepower, max spread, max range
I personally REALLY struggled with hard mode, so good luck with that!
I think Tyler forgot that the soul slots only give +1 firepower if they’re empty, and most of the time they were filled. So it encourages and rewards using the souls more often to keep the slots empty.
Nah, he just stopped caring, I think.
He explicitly said that +1 firepower was no longer enough of a difference for him to use his queen souls when he didn't need them.
Tyler, take The Red Book for your next run, while it makes Bishops more annoying, there is a secret boss associated with it
the only thing to be aware of is you MUST have no enemy king piece and have the bishops act as kings
it also needs theocracy
@@le_shibe I have no idea what that means lol
@@TheMarioExpertMan Theocracy is Another card That buffs White.
it Gets rid Of the King,
And you Need to Kill all The bishops To win A round.
It doesn't Affect the Final boss Tho
@@dr.blockcraft6633 ah right ok
High firepower sniper builds make this game look easy lol. gg
0:17 A "Shotgun" blast
I think the red book would have been a perfectly fine choice considering you had the moat... :P
And the ammo regeneration does sound insanely good. It would make up for the enemy pieces being faster.
13:02 "Too little, too late, bishops! I won't be needing to focusing on you and pawns any longer"
I've been subbed since btd battles 1, and btd 5 days. I just don't understand how not only you find the coolest strategy games but only have less than 500k subs. Don't worry you should hit a million this year if you stay on track. Love watching your vids man
Me awake at 11pm for the 172733th time this month waiting for the upload
every time.
same lmao
Snipin's a good job mate!
It's challenging work, outdoors, I can guarantee you'll not go hungry
14:49 I'm glad they changed the name of the cross dresser card to genderqueer. It's in much better taste.
major bruh moment
... Those aren't the same thing, though.
@@michaeledmunds7056 yes, and that's exactly why it's better
i like that they changed the name on the bishops turning into queens card
Sniping's a good job, mate!
The sound effects are beautiful
“Welcome back to ShockCock King” Where can I pick up -that- game XD
Tyler actually is the master of strategy, makes any strategy game look insanely easy
17:12 Somehow I don't think I've heard 'Let's try and get some kills, here' in chess.
Seems pretty alright
Seeing Tyler pass the red book physically hurt me
Do you want to deal with bishops that can change their color?
I think how it worls for when you have an enemy unit right beside you (or in check), I think you have to have more power than they have max HP to be able to take them out and not have them take your shield, as I have noticed that in the past few videos. I may be wrong, but that is my hypothesis on how the shields works
Absolute chess prodigy prodigy
What happened to the endless mode of the last backpack hero?
Same question here!
I think that it got boring so he quit, or he is trying to space out the uploads!
editing probably
Like that specific run got boring
he mentioned that if it died early into the next video he wouldnt post it
man you're right the sniper moat is op installed an hour ago and won in 55 min with only 5 or so runs
in the first 10 seconds of game play you have shocked me. do you know how many runs i would have succeeded in if i knew you could reload without having to move
“I’m actually having a blast with it.”
Pun intended?
whenever u play this again, take the card that says it lifts a piece, its really cool
14:30 Got close to being cancelled there
commentary wholesome and entertained nice
14:30
that's what the police said
11:49 red book unveils secret boss
Pikemen is absolutely terrifying for me
Looking forward to more of this!
Crossdresser being renamed to Genderqueer is an interesting detail
bruh moment
@@EvanG529 ?
8:14 is when the moat + sniper starts
Shotguns are really powerful
finally a dungen crawler for me, a chess player
“King with a shotgun” sounds like a music video name lmao
hes a true sniper now
Having a ‘blast’ with it, heh
whenever you cant post gameplay you should post a 4second clip of just you saying "hey, tyler not here"
thank you for listening my advice on old video
Next run you do, please take the red book. It’s so much fun!
You should check out a game called Nomad Survival. It's in the same sub-genre of Vampire Survivors, and it does a lot different to where it feels like a different experience.
This game makes me realise I dont think ahead fully.
At 3:34 if I was controlling white you would be in checkmate
this game is cool as hell!
oh yeah since peggle like rougelike is (apparently) a crazy currently so I want to recommend Roundguard as a game to check out, it's a peggle like rougelike that I'd say is very good, even surpassing Peglin in my books.
Another soul slot doesn't give you more damage if you never use up the souls you gain
On floor one he is using a shotgun
On floor ten he is using a bolt action sniper rifle
Dont know if you know this but there is a secret boss fight you can unlock
great video
Imagine not being early
imagine
imagine
Right?
Fr
Could not be us
i respect the card "genderqueer", big fan of the name :3
correct me if im wrong but i dont think having knockback would acualy be to bad because there is no way to nock somone into a space that puts you in check without you already being in check as all you ar pushing them away from you not towards you meaning its impsible to push enemys to check you if you are not in check already but im probably missing something
Knights.
depending On how The knockback Works, bishops And Queen's Maybe?
But you Can knock A knight Backwards into Checking you, probably.
@@dr.blockcraft6633 but you would have to be directly in line of sight to the knight for the knockback to work not in any place where the knight could check you unless knockback can be aplied diagonaly but even then its imposible to get into a check with said knockback as knights ony take in L shapes
There is a secret fainel boss in shotgun King you need to get the red book and 1 bishop
-shotgun- *sniper* king
Shotgun king becomes awp king
so i dont get it why do you have to get out of check if the peace that puts you in check isnt gonna move?
Probably for the sake of difficulty
2:45 what is it with people complaining about random bullet spread in games? It's funn and random wich I like also its more realistic
yoo clean run
3:35
unfortunately there was a 0% chance you would be able to kill that rook
you didnt have any bullets in the gun lol
Hear me out:
5D Shotgun King
3:35 shoulda been ladder mated smh ai
Tyler you cant shoot someone far away in check, only up close like you said but the reason is because in chess the king could kill that queen! remember the moves you cant make to kill as the king you can as the shotgun.😁
what does the blac flipped card do?
It just gets disabled
@@Galo0120 ah
Just disable it
Shotgun got SLUGS
You skipping the Red Book so many times brings me pain.
It's weird how the average person in the west thinks shotguns have no range. I guess good job, Hollywood and CoD.
I have to ask this, how did intern play without thinking and won first try, while you have to use 100% of your brain to survive
GET THE RED BOOK
Take a shot every time Tyler forgets about the moat
Alcohol poisoning
Finally Chess got an Update
The AI could’ve easily checkmated you on floor 4 if it wasn’t stupid.
Does Tyler sound different in this one?
Honestly, as much as I love the shields. They suck. There will be moments where I kill a piece and a secondary piece that was behind it kills me.
Nice
i thought in chess white goes first
Day 587 of telling Tyler that he never finished his minecraft series and that he should finish it.
Welp election day off from school was boring lol
Day 547 of agreeing
Imagine having a day off
Day 1 of agreeing
@FrostyAshs
A New Chalenger Approaches
@@ninjamaster238 This new challenger will most likely be like the others. A failure within 10 days. Only the strong survive
@Garrett Howard
I guess we will see
big W
That empty soul slot one seems shit to me, you lose the bonus after every kill
Basically Doom entrnal in an nutshell...
You can fight a secret boss if you have the red book and leave a bishop on the board after the big white king fight
hello i had 9 fire power on floor 5 then 10 on floor 7 and 11 on floor 9 and cuz i am stupid i lost there
I just realized that you are actually the bad guy in this game...
*meet the sniper start playing*