WTF is the meta?!

[Balgore]

Im sick and tired of getting REKT on medium. WTF am I supposed to do? Ive tried merc heavy, doesnt work. Tried turret heavy, doesnt work. Tried ground units, doesnt work. Tried focus on primary and secondary weapons, not enough. Tried Avenger and Paladin rushing, they DO NOTHING for huge overcosted units they're absolute garbage, worse than a T1 cyclone turret. Tried air units, doesn't work. Tried rainbow build little bit of everything, doesnt work.

Im always overwhelmed, the weapons are never enough. All of my turrets and units seemingly do NO DAMAGE, miss more than half the time, the heavy costed super units (avenger and paladin) seem to literally do noithing even with FULL upgrades and all weapon systems. ONLY thing ive noticed do anything, are ground rangers, and air cyclone. All other turrets/units seem to miss, or do no damage, and have terrible ROF.

WHATS THE META I give up.

[Бубубу]

Dunno whats your problem, so I will tell you about the strategy I used a couple of times on ultra hard. The enemy infantry in the game is pretty weak, your guards can hold them, you just need a full circle of them. So in the beginning you should focus your resources on making a full circle, I believe you need 6 guard towers and 4 archer towers, fully upgraded. Then you may want to build some anti-air defence, so you should build a couple of fighters. For myself I make 12 or 14 of them in the end, but you can experiment and try to feel how many you need. After that siege levels will come. They are the toughest levels you can encounter, because the big guns will obliterate you.
Your best bet is having fighters and a couple of cyclones to effectively damage them, but the main thing you will probably need is your main starting gun. You should at some point upgrade its bonus armor damage and try to double its damage (up to a hundred) in the forge. Also at some point you need to research and place a shield aegis and research the ability that will refresh it. With that you can effectively tank incoming attacks. Ah yes, I forgot, I do not reccomend building towers early on not because they are bad, but because you need to make your personal army first. They will act as a shield to your fragile Taur and will still do decent damage. But there is one tower you can build early on: the talos, a tower that defends agains rockets. Build them around the perimeter, 5 should suffice. This will allow you to significantly reduce enemy's damage output.
With all that you should be good and can build your defences how you see fit. The sentinels are indeed a bit underwelming, but are still useful. They just need enough investment and other units for cover, or they will be destroyed quickly. I believe them to be especially good on siege levels. I make use of every tower at my disposal except probably SAM sites, because I do not need them (fighters combined with other turrets are enough).

[Balgore]

Thx for the advice, I will try what youve said. One thing I havent dumped a lot into is the guard towers, and maybe thats key early game? From the resources you're talking about in the later game, it seems to me I have a LONG way to go.. Is there an end? Ive made it to day 30. I feel like that was far, but now that im reading this, maybe its not. Ive never come close to unlocking all tower slots, let alone filling them. At most ive had 10 small slots, 1 ultra large, and a couple large.

[Бубубу]

Originally posted by Balgore:

Thx for the advice, I will try what youve said. One thing I havent dumped a lot into is the guard towers, and maybe thats key early game? From the resources you're talking about in the later game, it seems to me I have a LONG way to go.. Is there an end? Ive made it to day 30. I feel like that was far, but now that im reading this, maybe its not. Ive never come close to unlocking all tower slots, let alone filling them. At most ive had 10 small slots, 1 ultra large, and a couple large.

Yeah a full circle of guardians and archers helps A LOT. So thats the first thing you should make. And yeah there is a final boss. He comes at level 50 and if you fail to defeat him, he will come again I think at level 75 or/and at level 100. The fight is cool and epic but after your victory there is nothing beyond free play. You cannot fully upgrade your Taur at level 50 and without a proper strategy you will not be able to defeat the boss (I won't tell you >:D) so most likely you will need to last 75 days.
The game has its issues and the developer is pretty slow and doesn't like to talk to the community too much, but the game looks cool and has a pretty unique gameplay and interesting mechanics, so good luck on having fun.

[Balgore]

Originally posted by бубубу:

Originally posted by Balgore:

Thx for the advice, I will try what youve said. One thing I havent dumped a lot into is the guard towers, and maybe thats key early game? From the resources you're talking about in the later game, it seems to me I have a LONG way to go.. Is there an end? Ive made it to day 30. I feel like that was far, but now that im reading this, maybe its not. Ive never come close to unlocking all tower slots, let alone filling them. At most ive had 10 small slots, 1 ultra large, and a couple large.

Yeah a full circle of guardians and archers helps A LOT. So thats the first thing you should make. And yeah there is a final boss. He comes at level 50 and if you fail to defeat him, he will come again I think at level 75 or/and at level 100. The fight is cool and epic but after your victory there is nothing beyond free play. You cannot fully upgrade your Taur at level 50 and without a proper strategy you will not be able to defeat the boss (I won't tell you >:D) so most likely you will need to last 75 days.
The game has its issues and the developer is pretty slow and doesn't like to talk to the community too much, but the game looks cool and has a pretty unique gameplay and interesting mechanics, so good luck on having fun.

Your advice has paid off tremendously. Im already in the high 30s just using walls of guardians with rangers behind. And I have cyclones behind them. Ive unlocked the final gun, that huge cannon, and upgraded the CD time on it fully, and man does that make a huuuuuge difference. The ability to completely refresh all of your shields seems key also. Just now getting the avenger, and i can see its utility late game. But man does it suck if you rush for it early lol.