Hmm... Had up to the 3 metal balls unlocked, but nothing else will unlock. I've gotten gold on every level possible with the starting balls, but the others are impossible without special ones. I played Undead Mode first, which perhaps glitched the normal mode?
There's a nasty, nasty exploit that comes up with the game's turn-based mechanics. When the battle starts, every character is in his/her turn location. Let's say that you opened Pandora's box and three of the bosses have haste spells. Specifically, one buff gives +10 speed, a second gives +20 speed, and the third gives +30 speed. Let's say the enemies take their turns until the first +10 buff comes out. Suddenly, the turn order rearranges itself so all of the enemies get a second turn. Let's say in this second turn, the +20 speed buff drops. Suddenly, instead of not changing the turn order, every enemy gets to move AGAIN! Finally, the last buff drops on this third assault. If you get those three bosses in Pandora's box, you always lose. Always.
What N4m31355 said: "What's the point of making it a card game when your opponent doesn't follow the rules? AI clearly doesn't send units based on cards and resources."
A prime example is Elder Gornash lvl 3 sends two beholders right at the beginning of the game.
Also, white, naked enemies spawn at enemy portals from time to time. They just hang around doing nothing until you kill them. Either way, a pretty easy game once you fill up your deck with enough gold. Late game, I had a problem with most units costing souls so I ended up never using my beholders again, but even so it was pretty easy to beat everything with a mage deck.
The two-headed giant at the end is ridiculous. Way too much health. When he speeds up at the end, you can only get a few hits off him per stun and his super fast meteor kills you within seconds if you get iced.
Bugs:
A pair of +2 Steel Gauntlets had both +10% defense bonus and +10% denfese bonus.
Centaur's Forest has a minimap tile that shows no exit to the North, but the player can exit through it. It teleports the user to the tile directly North, but in the middle of it.
Also, for those who cannot figure out how to cancel placement, press esc. I thought it was obvious, but instructions would certainly help.
Also, more accurate information should be present in the buy menu, such as initial damage, range, and speed. It could help if there was a range circle on tower placement as well.
Level 8 is way way too difficult. With strategic placement, you can get up to the first two bosses without letting anything through. However, the first two bosses have so much health that three fully upgraded lasers for the land boss and three fully upgraded missile turrets for the air boss don't even get them down to 3/4 health. Without killing these bosses, you do not have enough money to hope to survive the later rounds (which have enemies that have almost as much as a normal boss). The only way to place a lot of towers is to forgo the investment in foundation placing or not upgrading the towers, both which significantly hinder the overall damage output.
This level being nearly unbeatable (various strategies of mine all failing miserably) is an unfortunate mar on an otherwise fun game. Always make sure you can beat your own games before publishing them.
The game is easy, no one is arguing otherwise. As the description says, this is more like a test-run for features that may be in the third game. The tank and arena creation system is actually pretty nifty. If you're wondering the advantage of a large tank: the secondary weapon that does 100 damage is probably the one and only reason to sacrifice size and speed. If you're clever about how you make your large tank, you can be almost as agile as being a small tank.
Also, if you want to have a little fun with a server level, try out Murder Mystery that I created. The third part may get a little laggy if you don't have a tank that can take out things fast/do AOE.
How accurate is the drop table in the Bestiary? I've killed 200 thugs, which should mean the Bandit Leather had a 86.6% of dropping. Is the chance <1% or am I just unlucky?
In 1948, the gas plane always drops a little health at the end of the level for some reason, so the badge is unobtainable. No shot was fired by any plane and the gas plane never flew through any gas clouds (or it'd be missing more than a spec). Other than this slight frustration, it was pretty fun.
A tip for any new player: Do not choose the slowest race in the beginning. If you do, fighting the bosses will be annoying.
Even with 4 levels in speed (with the slowest race), I cannot kill the scorpion's two outer claws since my men are *just* slow enough for the scorpion to take them out with the huge spiked range attack before they can hit the claw. Using magic, I can lower the claw to 0, but no use of reinforce magic or mass spamming (and timing) will allow any troops to ever reach their destination.
I admit it gives a little challenge to the timing, but I think that it is a design flaw that you cannot kill the scorpion with this race without mondo points into speed.
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