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Great, great game ... but I would sure appreciate it if I could save between rounds, or every five rounds or something like that. Getting to the end of hard and losing by one balloon ... that's just wrong. Give us reload! 5/5
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Medium can be won with darts and cannons. Hard needs darts (to start with) then cannons and boomerangs.
Two tips: always buy the left side upgrade, never buy the right side upgrade. Also, as in the first version, keep those monkeys well-packed to concentrated fire as much as possible.
On hard, make the groups cover for each other misses and be always prepared to buy spikes, specially during the early yellow levels and the black levels.
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The key to winning hard is using the tacks to break up the black bloons. Using that strategy with lots of bomb towers and tack towers at the U-turns and all four corners of the crossing should get you through hard without too much trouble.
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Beat hard with 47 lives left. Used a couple monkeys, a couple cannons, and all the rest were tack towers. Plus a ton of road spikes. I never had close to enough money to build a supermonkey.
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I just noticed you can place road spikes on the side of a straight road in a way that some balloons go past them. A bit of a bug?
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Okay, it's possible... I just beat hard, albeit with only 17 lives, so no badge. Still, at least I see that it could be possible. A handful of unupgraded dart towers, then cannons, then spam the tack traps all day long.
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For me hard badge was solved like this: build bomb till you encounter blacks. Then bouild multiway turrets. Till the end ;)
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For hard, you want your forces to hit one side before the other - start with a monkey on the far left or right so he gets a full shot at each row of bloons instead of having to divide his attention. I go with two monkeys (full upgrades), then tack towers (fast shooting), then a cannon just before the lead balloon. Cannons after that, use road spikes to break black bloons.
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can someone post a guide to the hard badge? i've tried it like 10 times and i can never get further than lvl 30 - my technique is to start with dart monkeys, get four upgraded to piercing darts, then tack my way to bombers, which i upgrade with bigger bombs. i really don't think there's anything wrong with my technique, but whenever those damn black bloons start coming in full force i get boned
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tivaelydoc
I added a couple tack towers earlier on to thin out the blacks and a freeze tower or two and it worked just fine with no loss of life. Thanks!
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JohnSteel, are you joking? I beat this game on hard two or three times a day, everyday, no lives lost. I think there is a lot of people that would agree that my strategy works.
All you got to do is this:
!http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9660/monkeysx8.jpg!
As long as you only use 3 tacks per level for the first 20 levels, then your good. When you get to level 25 levels and other Black Thunder levels, then just spam them from the beginning with tacks, but try to hit them in bunches, not in singles. You don't have to follow my strategy exactly 100%, but mine works.
I think the hard is too easy. It's barely worth 30 points in my opinion. I think there should be a harder mode.
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Here is another strategy for hard:
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9660/monkeysx8.jpg
Upgrade boomerangs immediately. The other upgrades are optional. Only use 3 tacks per level until level 20.
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Not a bad strategy... Your boomerang placement left the normal arc widely off the path, and relying all on bombs seems to allow a lot of yellows through... Perhaps a little change in placement and/or a few dart monkeys would make it more effective? Also, you mean road spikes, not tacks, right? Tacks are an expensive tower that is not very useful.
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Ok just finished the medium challenge, and it was pretty tough. So, I'll share my strat.
Here's a picture for reference.
!http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/Radeonrose/bloons2medium35.jpg!
I started out with the center cannon on the left side of the middle row. It lasted me until level 4, where I needed a tack at the end to catch a few stragglers. Level 5 was the same.
Around 5 or 6, I added another cannon next to the first one.
After a 3rd one, I added my first boomerang monkey in the upper left corner.
By the way, I never upgraded the cannons, but upgraded the monkeys to multitarget.
Essentially, the 'rang monkeys serve to destroy the blacks so the cannons can handle the rest. Tacks were needed here and there, but this worked.
I'd be interested in seeing other successful strategies outlined.
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Got The Hard badge with 44 lives left. Hard Lvl is Very hard. good challenge. Also a good use of Bomb towers, n tacks
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That was close. So many bombs going off at the end the computer lagged and I couldn't put tacks down fast enough on the last level.
Matter of opinion but glue works pretty good on the black ones as they hide behind the larger balloons.
So I got the last badge and don't need to play this ever again.
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OMG!!! finally finished the hard badge!! and I must admit that I have developed quite a decent strategy - mostly unupgraded cannons (~20) with about 10 fully upgraded monkeys for "black bloon support". This strategy lets you play quite relaxed... (no bloon even got close to the end) of course I had to lay down spikes - but not that many - and certainly no "spike spamming". I finished the last level with all 50 lives and well over $3000 that could have easily been invested in a super monkey..................... whew......
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Easy is easy. Medium just do this: http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1971/allyouneedkw0.jpg
Only buy cannons if your getting own'd by blacks, only buy boomerangs if your getting own'd by bloons. Upgrade boom'rangs immediate; cannons later
Video for hard:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=22457856
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frustrating at first on hard, but a big improvement in terms of balancing over the first game. once i got the tactic on hard was able to do it with 48 lives left!
well done :) 5/5
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Just finished hard w/ 48 lives. Mostly cannons, with some tacks near the entrances to pop blacks. Spike whatever other blacks get through.
I found it helpful to use the freeze towers to slow things down, letting the cannons get more shots in towards the last few levels. From there, I actually used boomerangs for the purpose of popping frozen blacks.
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Compleated hard with no lives lost. 3 canons and 25 tack towers in the end, no upgrades. A lot of monkey glue in the final stages. Started with a canon, then build up eight tack towers, then reapeated twice, one canon and eight tack towers.