Stay Alive!
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STAY ALIVE ===
Based on warcraft 3 map. Try to survive as long as you can.
Starting guide:
Go to a corner wall yourself off, than build research lab and research life regen and armor.
You can find more detail guide in the game by pressing F12.
Old version played by Philippwofl:
More information in the game, just press f12 in the game.
(if you want to use up this map, than plz contact with me.)
Just did pretty well. My game crashed at 124. I think I could have gone a few more levels longer but the lag got really really bad. I know Yawne already mentioned it. His computer is obviously a bit better than mine since he got to 151 before a crash haha.
edit: tried again with lowest graphics and now it froze at 127. Haha, I guess I should stop until new version :P...
Wow build 2 forges. I feel so incredibly dumb for not thinking of that. lol thanks for the tip.
hmm I really have to fix that spawning builder thing. Also if you built too close the forge to other buildings, than the builder wont be able to spawn.
currently I am working on % based armor for the enemies.
Well the trick is to buil 2 forges so one can build the worker while the other one can upgrade
Its so incredible close and does require a tone of luck (movement of units to get it done.. only was able to do it 2 times.. and the 1.t time i realised i was fucked, when i build the first turret and saw - damage...... the 2. time i got to wave 136^^
The wave 150 + was just a test run with some cheating:P
Yawne, I couldn't figure out how to actually make the builder so I gave up. I'm guessing you have to let the builder build for the whole 120 seconds without making any upgrades. It seems that whenever I upgrade something it cancels it. I thought it was just a bug and the builder could never come out, so I didn't pursue it. That second probe would help a lot...wow. Good to know it works at least.
http://sniperwolf.cwtech.at/clip0002.avi Just in case you haven't seen it. If you don't want to use it its fine too... didn't really have to put any effort into it but buying (just kidding .. :D downloadet it ofc) the software.
I always start in the left top corner. I can kill all the nomal monster easily using multishot tower but the ultralisks with 1,2k+ armor are hardly killable (level 90-100) BUT their dmg is too low to break through my 100k health (max duo to a bug) walls. So they just attack my walls for 20+ levels until i can bring them down.
How to get the surround in the middle is my secret, i just wanna say it took me about 50+ tryies and a hell lot of kiting with 2 probes.
My Best so far was lvl 151 when the game crashed (something is causing extreme lag be4 each wave (maybe calculating the new hp or something.. the higher the wave the worse the lag till the point when it freezes and crashes)
You can only get really high (130 +) if you max damage and nothing else best in combination with the long ranged towers, because the units have so damn much armor later (if you do so you don´t need to upgrade the walls at all because the enemies can´t get to you)
The later waves (past 100 need to award a lot more money (at least factor 5 to keep up), but only if you fix the lag issue.
The maximum on income you can have is abou 22k (with 80k income upgrade done), therefor i never got past the 1,3 kk damage upgrade because for 3kk you need like 120 waves to generate it.
The bug when you lose and klick yes on the restart dialog you have negative damage on the towers atm, it only apllies you upgraded damage. Atm you have to manually restart the map.
also do guys at late lvl die because you cant longer kill the creeps and they easily kill your wall or your wall easily hold them up but you can kill them....
Dog22:
hmmm thats might be starcraft 2 bug and not in my map bug. I have an idea how to fix it if its happens again.
Philippwofl:
so you are building to the center?
if you can build to the center plz tell me how, its kind of a exploit. If you can build to the center, than multiplayer will be just harder for you...
Really tough map. Been playing it for a while and my top level is 107. It makes me so frustrated that I can't beat it! Ahhhhhhh!
Anyways, I don't know if someone has mentioned this before but after I reached 107 and lost, it then asked if I wanted to play again (yes / no). I hit yes...started out normally, except my towers had NEGATIVE damage. I thought that was a little strange :P. I'm not sure why that happened; just letting you know. Again, sorry if someone else mentioned this before.
Picture of the negative damage: http://img31.imageshack.us/f/stayalivei.png/
I still need at least 5 starts until i go past level 3. ... lol :p Whenever i do this i can easily surive past level 80
What i noticed is that the income building is kinda useless. It defenitely needs to get buffed a bit.
Also : if you start there are several 0+6 Armor monster. Without dmg upgrades you need to attack it twice to inflict 1 dmg -> needs some time. I always start with mass walls, 1 x regen, 2-3 turrets. Now either 2 times dmg or 2 times HP ... depending on if my walls already have red hp or not.
to make it more clear. armor amount = damage absorbed. So if you dont upgrade damage of your turret you wont be able to kill anything.
Somfi:
thats not a bug, thats the armor. (that why now I thinking about implementing % armor.... probably I will use both armor. btw its really sad that sc2 doesnt use w3 % armor.) all the other guys here can survive the start than you can too.D yust go to the corner and first upgrade the walls.
Well ye, the bug that mobs only take 1x dmg per shot even tho the cannons got the 160 dmg upgrade is pretty doable upto the mobs start to have 1k + hp. Cant realy beat that, and i know that its not the way its supposed to be.
so ye, guide dont help shit vs bugs :)
Yawne:
LoL, how the hack did you wall in the middle? ( thats why starting levels hard, so you couldnt wall in the middle)
somfi:
read f12, there is basic guide which should help you to survive the first lvl-s.
Fun map but its kind of retarded towards the end, got to wave 145 when my wall breached to a boss with 16k armor http://yfrog.com/3mstayalivewave145bossj .. couldn´t harm it with 320k damage and maxed damagebuff long ranged towers, on 146 my sc2 crashed .
The start is way to hard now, its an endless grindfest till you can finally start playing for real... Beside that looking forward to see it in multiplayer.
Just tried abit again to be sure.
This time all goes fine untill next wave of SCV, one of em comes up and got 56 hp or something. got 10x turrets firing at him and he doesnt even loose hp.
Just tried latest version and its totaly bugged for me. Got 4x turrets with 1x dmg and 1x speed upgrade. First level one guy comes to me, kill him easily. Next one coming up takes down all my turrets, somehow some of the units only take 1dmg per shot, even tho they got 0 armor and the shots do 4+ dmg....
http://sniperwolf.cwtech.at/clip0002.avi uploading will take like 60 minutes
recordet the video with 60fps to make sure it's still smooth while beeing speed up. i dropped into windows 2 times cuz of the program i recordet with -> if you want cut it out but i don't really care at all
i dare you to use this video to ruin my build :p
no, now I will figure out something that will really only effect late lvls, I dont want that player reach the lvl where they are impossible to die.