SC2Mapster

I see no problems with Speed bonus giving 20+ minerals...

The opponent just have to suck less =P

Just found a rather amusing bug. When the temple recieves leaks during armageddon it can attack towers. Aside from the fact that this is pretty randomly brutal to the team that suffers the hole in their maze.. it also can attack towers that are targetted by the nuke, thus preventing the nuke from ever occuring! The ability to attack towers during armageddon should probably be removed.

Also for balance reasons, speed bonuses should probably have a cap. Was getting 20+ minerals from some of the under level 10 waves.

This is a post regarding game balance.. while I really like the setting where all waves start from the top with shared income... sadly this is not the norm.. and the original setting is too hard. That is to say if the bottom lane person makes even a single mistake he starts leaking, and will often perpetually leak afterwards. I think you should reduce the creeps to 7 on bottom and give the last row bonus equal to 3 creeps. It makes it a little harder, but doesn't require the person on the bottom to be pro.

Also.. wave 7 is too hard, and wave 8 is laughable. The hp on the fast wave is much too high, and the regen on the regen wave isn't substantial enough to make a difference. The bosses after the first boss are a bit of a joke now though. They should probably have double hp (though the same regen ammount, not percent) on normal, and progressively more hp on the other difficulty settings. It only takes 2 implosion towers to take down the level 20 boss with a simple spiral maze. He often dies before even reaching the point..

Edit: ignore the comment about the regen wave.. didn't realize it was actually biological...

Played around with the test version a bit, Flechette tower looks good, as does blazing maw. Only thing with the blazing maw is that it looks like that attack continually trails behind whatever it is shooting, the dmg works now, just an odd visual thing to see.

@Salmon85 Agree completely, however some sort of reduced affect or otherwise would be prudent. Maybe the ultra unique towers do a base DPS of some sort but provide their 'insane' effect only to the specific types.

Also, 2 bosses still spawn even if only a top player is left. Can both bosses be moved to that person, or just remove one, so that its more fair?

Actually, with being able to choose your position, auto start is fine imo. Are you able to shorten it? Either way, its fine if I could choose my position.

So, just played through a game on normal as bottom original style. My teammates leaked a lot, so I was semi-fed, so take this all with a grain of salt. BTW, this way 5.3, not the test, which says cannot find map.

The game difficulty has totally shifted. Beginning is much harder, end much easier. I thought 10s the hardest, guy above me (who was the only one to make it to the end with me) thoughts 20s the hardest. Waves 30, 39, and 40 were especially easy. Everything after that was a joke.

Armageddon waves could be do-able imo. I kinda liked the "end when one person leaks" idea. I think the mobs on armageddon should prolly give slightly more cash though. Also, the air units for those waves are ridiculous. In the level 51, guy above me had the equalizer, and i had super dps, only 67 towers. Had the nuker, hellfire demon, solar tower, like 10 implosion shrines, a liquifier as well as a bunch of stuff, and I literally wasn't even touching them.

The real problem I have the ultra unique towers is (AFAIK) they have no affect on Bosses, which is where a lot of the difficulty lies. If it comes between me spending $500 on a tower that will greatly affect every wave and boss vs a large affect on a few waves and not affect the boss... well that decision is easy and I'd choose the more generic effect.

I had to create an account here for 2 reasons: 1. To tell you that you're an incredible map designer and Ret TD is a masterpeice in progress.

2. I'm a bit surprised and disappointed that you removed the ability to choose your position. Experience is pretty important in this TD, as most newcomers get destroyed and vets build wild mazes. I've developed basic strats for all the places but I find building the perfect, huge, complicated and powerful maze to be the best part. It took me many many games but I think I've almost mastered (I use this word very lightly,) East mid and now I have to luck into getting it. Statistically, I'll get my favorite spot 1/8 times, which quite frankly, sucks.

A different, equally whiny, perspective: I got both of my roommates into this game and they frequently choose the top positions for their comparative simplicity. (They've only played a few games and just started figuring out good top mazes) We play today and one ends up West mid, he's unsure what kind of maze to build, eventually becomes the weak link and gets rattled by the other players. Frustrated, he quits.

What's the point of forced positions?

Also, the test version seems to be down?

Im impressed dude, you're really on top of this thing, mad props. This game has definitely taken over most of my SC2 time. As far as the autostart goes, the only real problem with it is tryin to get a good starting position. What I used to do is just leave the lobby if I was in a starting spot I didn't like/want. Apparently a lot of people do, because now as soon as the autostart begins(which is pretty much as soon as you've joined), people log out, leaving us all stuck short people. It leads to a much more negative experience for a lot of people. Just a thought.