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What an amazing and truly unique TD game! I ♥ the graphics and the cute animations (the climbing hero is brilliant). Also the changing backgrounds make every level very special and a new experience. Thumbs up, this deserves a 5/5
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Its a platformer version of the kingdom rush TD lol. While I give it a 5/5 for the awesome concept, it is lacking a bit in the tower component. You only ever get the 4 basic towers it seems, upgrades just make them overall stronger, no new special effects or upgrade paths.
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I can understand why there isn't a speed up button (standard with TD's) - however, giants + regular mobs makes tower targeting a nightmare. A simple addition of targeting options for towers would make the game a little better (imo - and I say "a little better" because the game's already pretty great as is).
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For beta players that wanted to transfer the save file, you could probably learn from here: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3/topics/12269
The difference is, you're going to want to move the *.sol files from "chat.kongregate.com" to "assets.kongregate.com". Hope that helps!
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Your rollovers are beyond buggy - you need to build a transparent mouse target sprite over everything to capture mouseevents - right now the animation causes overlap issues
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I don't know if this is just a problem for me or for everyone but when I hover over any clickable button. e.g the towers build spots, or the next wave button.... unless my mouse is in a certain spot inside the circle the note will spaz uncontrollably. Making only about 5-10% of the button actually click able. Which makes this game unplayable.
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ok the fact that the flying crap and magic immune crap runs right by my mage towers why they are shooting something not magic immune and walking really pisses meoff
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A keyboard shortcut for pause would be nice! It also would be great if we could just mute music and keep sound effects. Nice so far, keep improving and you've got a nice TD!
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can anyone knowledgeable tell me how to transfer my save file? i dont even know where to find it in the chat.kongregate.com folder...
From LabuGames: "For beta players that wanted to transfer the save file, you could probably learn from here: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3/topics/12269 The difference is, you're going to want to move the *.sol files from "chat.kongregate.com" to "assets.kongregate.com". Hope that helps!"
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Oh, and the other things I found frustrating: It was hard to scroll, making me lose that crucial life between 2 and 3 flags, and no speed up button for those times you are literally waiting for the golem to get tackled. Other than that, fantastic game!
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I really wish soldiers started with regen. You practically have to time your soldiers so they spawn right before hard waves.
This was a mistake from us (Kongregate). We worked with the developer to fix it, though unfortunately beta save games are not accessible any more (again, not the developer's fault). See the update notes for more details.
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Gotta tell ya, a good way to get a bunch of Kong players to dislike your game is to ask for money too early. 2/3 of the initial cast being "premium content" falls squarely into that category.
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I have a small idea for the upgrade-screen: every skill has a name like: Steel Muscles: Increase swordmen HP by 15%. or longer staffs: Increase Mage´s attack range by 10%
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LOVE the graphics! Aside from what's been suggested here regarding the upgrades, I would also like to see a speed up button, and the time it takes your soldiers to climb down is annoying. I love the fact that when you tell your hero to attack a specific target he doesn't stop to kill everything in between, that's great! However, his pathing does need some work, particularly when he gets lost trying to climb the monster. Not quite sure what the purpose is of being able to select individual people on the towers, makes it a huge pain to select the tower for upgrade. The targeting is weird. It doesn't do lowest hit points or closest to goal, maybe highest or strongest? If you're not going to have default closest to goal you might want to put in where the player can decide. Also, the 11th stage is proving to be somewhat impossible to get a perfect on. Hopefully you haven't made it where you MUST buy the Premium Content to do so. Anyway, overall love the game, look forward to seeing more!
Thanks for the mini review! We're taking notes. Regarding the premium content, the game & level design is already finished before we started making the premium content. So, it doesn't require premium content to finish the game. It's possible that we've just failed in perfecting the difficulty on that particular level. I have made several games so far, and to be honest, I still find it difficult to achieve that perfect difficulty/balance. Thanks! Hope you could enjoy the rest of the game.
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Another thing to add...Need targetting priority. I want my towers to target the cannon bros. When everythings targetting the mammoth my hero and soldiers are getting blasted by the cannon bros and I can't figure out how to get the towers to target the bros instead if there is a way.
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Great game. Loving it so far. Especially the fact tat they characters actually climb the giants to attack...Pretty nice. Maybe I just don't see it but being able to see how far the aura extends around the hero would be helpful to know who's getting the influence. I know the one influenced has a blue circle under them but it's easier if I can see the aura itself around the hero.
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since the newst update clicking has become really sluggish for me, pressing the hotkeys is instantanious but click takes a few clicks for it to register
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The giant enemies are a great variation and definitely add a new layer of strategy.
I did encounter a problem though. When buying/upgrading towers, the tooltip often covers the button and cancels out of the buying menu if I try to click it. Usually only the bottom of the button is visible and clickable. This can also happen on the "send wave" button.
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Third one: maybe I am wrong, but the radius of the hero's aura seems to little for me - it can't even influence the highest part of the 4-level tower, when the hero is near it.
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This is quite an interesting game. I realy liked the concept of big monsters and different objects (boulders, explousions and so on). And the hero with upgrades is cool. Oh, and it's interesting that different parts of one tower have different attack ranges. I already bought the premium content. But I met several things which are bothering me.
First one. I often use the hotkeys, but sometimes my fingers slip and I press the "~" button. When this happens, the starting screen of the game opens. And when I load my game and try to play any level I don't see the level - I see only the main menu picture. So I have to reload the game to play normally. This is inconvenient.
Second one: the swordsman in the fourth level of his tower has too low range to see and attack little enemies near the basement of the tower, so it is idle most of the time. Or is this supposed to be right?
Hi, It's really nice to know that you like the game. And Thanks a bunch for the support! I'm going to upload a quick fix to address the "~" key problem. It's used during testing and I forgot to remove it >_<.
We will consider increasing the attack range for next update along with some bug fixes.
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I think it sucks that you made the BASIC hero's premium like your mage and Archer you should have the basic classes free and have better classes payed for like Gunner maybe? so yeah if you want me to give you a fu**ing dime you better make it so I actually do wanta give you any money at all
I understand that a lot of games contain the "holy trinity" (melee, mage, archers) from the get go, and it's hard to explain this to players. But, our initial release plan is to only include melee hero due to scope and time constraint issue - kind of like Kingdom Rush doesn't have champions/heroes when it's first released. The two other heroes wasn't in our release plan until after Kongregate pickup our game and we decided to create premium content to monetize the game (developers have to eat & pay the bills yada yada...). I hope this could help shed light on what happens behind the screen.
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I think it a great game. It's something a little different from the typical TD games. To be honest, I think the 'Increase Game Speed' button is unnecessary, for now anyway. I just made it through the first level with barely 2 stars lol Its not too easy, and not too hard. Great start to it.
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Perhaps I am encountering a strange bug, but I cannot seem to move past the first level. When the final wave is destroyed, it simply doesn't give me an option to move on.
This is strange. I have never encounter this during development & testing. Did you beat the Golem? Just to be sure, there are 9 waves of enemies (there's wave counter on the top panel).
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I had all tower slots full and I had just selected a sword tower to upgrade to level 4 which completed and I hit a button to use wind magic just as my hero died. After that I could not mouse click anything anymore like BUT i could still pan the screen with mouse by scrolling to the edge. Also if I used hotkey for meteor or beserk it allowed me to target areas for the spell but that was the only mouse function working beside scroll.
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There are a few spelling errors, such as "Get premium contents!" should be "Get premium content!". And I would like to see what each upgrade does before I invest in that branch, because you cant take your points back. Otherwise, I absolutely love the game and hope to see the finished version
Hi! I've fixed the spelling and all upgrades description are visible now. A bit correction, you could actually take your honor points back by clicking the reset upgrades button (which looks like the recycle symbol).
*** Edit: Bestiary added in v1.13. Access it from the world map or in-game hud. Or, you can also press "B" in game to open it. ***
We hear you. We're working to add this in. :)
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Look Gandalf! The legends are true, STONE GIANTS! Quickly everyone, clime up to its face and beat it with your axe's. WHAT?!
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A 'speed up' button isn't a must, it's just what a bunch of lazy brats think they're all entitled to in every single TD.
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Very different, very interesting. Never really seen a tower defense game embrace verticality before, and it really works! Love seeing the giant golems stomping around, with your tiny guys climbing all over them... fantastic.
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I dont know if others had this but on the 5th stage the game suddenly stopped letting me upgrade towers. I could not sell towers, upgrade towers, or even move my hero on the screen. I had to use keyboard commands to active spells etc...
Hi There!
Strange... it's probably a bug. Did you remember what's the last thing you do before it happen? I'll try to find out, but if you can help me reproduce this, it'll be great! Thanks!
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It would be nice if the descriptions were available for all of the upgrades instead of just the ones you can afford. It makes planning ahead a bit difficult.
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great game, but i hate the fact we cant redo earlier levels with new stuff we have unlocked, i know it seems trivial but many people enjoy doing this
We choose to limit the tower levels in earlier maps is to keep the balance. Though, when you replay them, hero upgrades and tower upgrades is still included. Higher level heroes could literally kill earlier enemies with one hit :P
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So I have a question about the premium content. If you buy it now for the beta, do you keep it when the game comes out of beta? Probably a stupid question but I imagine I am not the only one with it.
Yes, the premium content will still be available after the beta. Otherwise, there will be rage, and blood will be spilled, and puppies getting killed :)
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I noticed that you did not have many games here on Kon so I purchased the content to encourage you to continue developing games here. A few notes though. At the end of a battle the button should probably say continue instead of resume, it would be good to know if the speed upgrade increases attack speed also, and most importantly anyone who has ever read comments on a TD on Kon should know that a 'Increase Game Speed' button is a must. Other than that its a great game so far. (3/5 until speed adjust then 5/5, simply takes too long to play)
Hi Khaotica,
Thanks a lot for the support! We really appreciate it.
I realize that the "increase game speed" feature is quite important for players, but ultimately we didn't implement this because of technical difficulties/complexity. We find it challenging enough to develop the basic game because of the giants and the small units climbing them. Mostly, the challenge comes from programming the units navigation & AI. Eventually, we choose to leave this feature to save time. That being said, I'm planning to play around with the code and see if it's doable. But, I can't promise anything :-/
Oh, will fix that "resume" button too.
Heru