I've discovered the lamest way to finish the mission 4 and 5 where you have to resist for 5 minutes. I called it the G.T.F.O. -- The Acronym stands for : Get The F*** Out :p -- Instead of building defenses, just build a long chain of energy relays (and every 7-8 ones a solar station) and voilà ! If your chain is long enough, it will act as a fuse, delaying the death of the farthest energy relay and allowing you to resist for 5 minutes easily.
TheNeRD14 : "Just missed my 75% hit rate move 6 times in a row... I sense a disturbance in the statistical force..."
Way to understand statistics... Missing six times in a row an event that has a 75% chance of happening isn't a disturbance, it's randomness. You hit in the 25% chance to miss 6 times in a row, nothing more. Do 100, 1000 or even better 10,000 attacks, before you can complain about bad numbers.
About the game : good ideas, some good systems, but the pace is way too slow. I'm still wondering whether I'll get the hard badge before February...
Wow, what a potentially good, yet actually boring and disappointing game. I'm told that I can "collect the parts", so I try that. Doesn't work, I HAVE to pick them up. That alone proves my point. I would have loved more reaction from the AI. I tried a lot of things and got nothing but generic answers from it. I even insulted it, nothing.
Good game.
Could be perfect with levels and variety : by putting obstacles on the grid, changing the size of the grid, putting different rules (rotation allowed or not, limited number of tiles, limited time), also by adding special tiles, adding "puzzle" levels where only one solution exists given a a few tiles, etc.
Do people at Kongregate read the comments and play the game before adding badges ? It's obvious this game has major flaws (VERY limited inventory, bad controls, items blocking you, no autosave while dying = game over and pet death = permanent) that makes it a frustrating game. It didn't deserve that hard badge.
This game sure is boring. There's almost no variety in enemies (no very fast but weak, armored, stealth, etc. that you usually see in other TD that somehow force you to adapt your strategy). There's only 6 towers and only 2 are really useful (basic and super), I've simply never used the others except to test them, too expensive and not efficient enough. Past level 10, the number of waves and the general slowness of the game become really boring and repetitive. The game in itself is well done, but apart from the badges, there's no incentive to keep playing. You've finished the first 10 levels, you've seen everything.
My winning set from the left column : 1) booster, booster, piercing facing right, cannon facing right, booster ; 2) eye ; 3) nothing ; 4) eye, sticky ; 5) nothing ; 6) eye, sticky ; 7) nothing ; 8) same as 1 but facing left. Works like a charm and strangely, only the eye/sticky blocks got cheesied/eaten. The other blocks never got touched even once.
@aleistersnake : there are 2 spells that allows you to capture buildings. First "Hypnose" transforms enemy troops in your troops so done at the right moment, you can capture a building (especially if the enemy weakened it). Second, " Support" summons a pack of troops toward a building to attack/capture it. Besides, any other spells can considerably weaken your enemy so that it cannot attack anything. You just need the right skills for that.
The last badge is not hard, it is impossible. It take at least 2 seconds for the shape to draw entirely, it leaves us only 1 second to type our answer since we receive a +3 sec. bonus for each good one. Even on easily recognizable shape it's clearly not enough if we are suppose to chain 20 of them.
I'm really happy not to live in a world where the gravity is the same as the one in this game. "real world Newtonian physics" ? I don't think so. A sun with a mass of 264 inexorably attracting my ball even though it is a lot nearer from a planet with a mass of 348 ?
This game sucks because it's all about LUCK. Everything is random, the way the guards and the targets move follow no logic. You can think as hard as you want, nothing will help you if a guard suddenly decides to turn around after each step like a paranoïd or if he checks the same corner for so long that not even your invisibility can save you. If guards followed paths (like you know... patrols) you could memorize, there would be something interesting about this game. Sometimes I can kill the target and no one find his body before I can escape, other times, I can't even move from the corner until I get killed.
This game could be very funny and addictive if it wasn't for a VERY bad idea : every time you turn your turret to aim at incoming bugs, the game pauses (the enemy stop moving and you stop shooting) ! It's very annoying, as if the game is lagging, except it isn't. Should a bug come at you strafing, and it becomes ULTRA annoying trying to shoot at him while moving...
Really fix that or put an option to deactivate it. Besides, it ruins the fun : you just have to keep moving your mouse to keep the game paused, thus letting you aim with ease. No reflex needed.
Just like Achievements unlocked 2 is one of the worst idea and one of the most terrible sequel, this game has nothing to do with its predecessor and is a terrible sequel TOO. It lacks originality of course (being a sequel), is more frustrating and less funny. Too bad, some games are so awesome and original they should never have a sequel. TiTOL 1 is one of them.
OMG, this game is worse than its prequel, slower, less strategic. Units, especially heroes, takes forever to attack, and when they finally launch one, the do not respond to orders until they are finished... Let's talk about orders, why can't I say to my units to hold their positions, why do they ALWAYS have to move forward ? We need more different orders, I also want all of my units to move at the slowest unit pace so that they stay grouped. And there are only 16 levels and not enough gold per level, so you end up grinding the same one again and again... how well thought. :/
I already think Epic War 3 is boring, you've succeeded in making this one worse, too bad considering the potential.
I think I know how the ranking works ! If you zoom with [Ctrl + scroll wheel], you can see at the end of every side mission, out of the normal game screen, three values : Kill / Temps (time) / Dmg.
I think you have to kill as much as possible, as fastest as possible, ending the level with as much life as possible (I had 275 life at the end, the Dmg value was 2576).
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