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Ash i know about the nuke bonus, fixing now

Just wanted to comment on some possible directions in which the TD could go from here as it seems to now be fairly bug free:

Firstly, 50 levels is probably more than enough for any TD, you want the game to be enjoyable without being extremely lengthy (which it can already go over 1h 30 min for complete game).

Secondly, as far as re-playability I feel that five options are easily available from here in my point of view.

1) Make rounds random ie. the order of bio/armor/psionic/massive/greed is variable and is not fixed.

2) Add challenges for players to accomplish for rewards or titles

3) Add encounters that players can summon which are unique, difficult to kill but give great rewards.

4) Make units with different abilities ie. things like 50000 hp mob that has armor which reduces all tower hits to 1 damage.

5) Add games within the game itself (best reference to this is Skibi TD from WC3 for sure).

I did also want to comment on the greed round. Ive seen it done in other TD's but usually they make it something like (air, no weaknesses, all same unit image..) rather than multiple speeds/armor types/sizes which is awesome initially but does two detrimental things:

a) it extends the length of the game unnecessarily (can add 2-5 min per round of greed currently)

b) is very graphics intensive even for good computers... you don't want situations where its 4v4 and a greed round makes you scroll to the side of the screen so that you get more than 2 fps.

I believe that a greed round is a great idea if implemented in such as way that it fixes these two overlying issues. Ways to do this is to make all units in greed rounds fly, and therefore not path through a maze, which keeps the speed of the game high. The second change would be to keep all units of a greed round they same unit image/armor/speed. I feel that this is less important that just making the greed units fly, because you will already see fairly significant changes to the frame rates by just having less units on screen.

Raht, thats only the secondary weapon used for air, it also has anti air

ash, the nuke has a huge splash

darcphnx : found that bug and fixing

Now that things seem to be working smoothly. I have added a poll to the page (upper right) as to what should be added next.

Also, just a reminder, if you haven't already donated, now would be an excellent time, seeing as we have a fully playable fairly bug free fun map now!

I really appreciate it! -VE, -Ghost

awesome guys

sounds like things are generally working right now , I'm worried game may be too easy.

I'm going to make the following slight adjustments in next patch:

1) adding a very small cool down to carrier and medivac

2) reduce cooldown and price of baneling

3) cut the fire speed of spore implanter but add the random targeting trigger from he ultra uniques

4) make sure kill team is only doing single target damage

5) increase difficulty slightly across the board

I still think wave 20 boss as Organic is set too high. tried it with 6 T3's and 1 T5. Did single target and only managed to remove 30% if that on shield.

Karallys, yes I know Lvl 49 is supposed to kill your towers and to everyone else catching that, I didn't ask for them to stop attacking. But clearly it isn't functioning properly if they stop moving through the maze and just go on a killing spree with whatever's closest. It seems clear to me that they were designed to move, stop, fire, move, stop, fire. And the AoE just seems too harsh. It should kick apart some of your maze, but completely destroy it? That's a little harsh.

Warl.. Yes wave 49 is supposed to attack you, and its also a short down time between wave and final boss intentionally from what I understand. Kara, I don't think you quite understand the value of that fleshy wall... The 'Kill Team' Attacks their way to each waypoint (although they have been known to pop a few caps off into turrets not in their way :P). if you wrap the perimeter of your base with fleshy wall (or build an external pathing area with dps coverage not in the maze itself), you can hold the group off long enough to not even lose a turret. (If they have to run all the way around, because they can't kill the fleshy, they usually don't attack anything, giving you that precious 5-10 sec of DPS time to kill them). Also a good idea to maze exposed area's with the T5 towers, and pop the shield at beginning of wave.

Usually that wave just annihilates top players would didn't build accordingly to that.. The only dmg I ever take from those, is that occasional cap they try to pop at me, from over the top of the fleshy wall (random...)

Warlyik: Congrats on finding out what was causing the issues with the Acid Spore Implanter :D

Veridian: Just got through a game of 6.5, looked great and played really smooth. Went munitions, some towers definitely got overpowered by the weapon adjustments (like the burst rocket launcher) and do better against air now as they should. Really liked the last round you put in lol, great music selection.

@war: I believe wave 49 is supposed to attack you. Hence why the wave is called kill team. ;)

Yes they can cause serious devestation and the 1 mineral tower, does nothing to try and prevent this except hoping u kill them at range away from your expensive towers....just finished it as munitions and I do not think they need a air slow....basically took down wave 30 myself this time with a line of high velocities. Yes energy can slow down air units and munitions is supposed to be the anti-air class.

And that was on original income top spawn 4 players, BTW. So wasnt both just 1 but same thing would have happened I think if i got them both at same time anyway.