Anyone beat the TOURNAMENT ?

[phoneplace]

I was wondering what car and driver you use? I am hitting a brick wall 4 missions short of the TOURNAMENT.

[Reiyyuu]

I get to the last part with the first character zed "the dude". My deck focuses on bash dmg. I only use 1 weapon which is the drone because it can give the enemy fragile and if player use only 1 weapon the deck becomes smaller so the rotation is fast.

[Wiotts]

Not beaten yet, but my best run was indeed with a small deck (1 weapon card), and card draw in it.
I think not taking dammage is far more important than actually doing dammage, espacially in first turns.
So armor cards are very valuables, because in last combats, you can't be out of danger, and drawing an armor card every turn is (i think) the best way to win theeses fights.

[Mathesthos]

Beat it during the first demo period, Best I did for now is the section before the boss.

[phoneplace]

Ok ..... What I get is.

1. Short Deck.

2. Armor Cards.

3. Git Gud. : )

Thank's if you think of anything else , PLEASE post. : )

[Thndslz]

I did. Although heavily savescumming. Picked Zed and Hot Rodent. Manage to pick stupid ammounts of bash stat items, the rng helped me too. I only managed to beat after getting certain cards to avoid one of its drone phase. I had 18-22 cards in my deck.

From the demo to the EA version the game got much, much harder. Some cards are MANDATORY now as such containing the rage, punch buffs and the fragile debuff. Also felt the demo was more methodical and unique because now if my deck isnt crushing a enemy or two on the first turn i know i will get out of the combat with at very least -30hp.

[phoneplace]

Wow .... Good to know. : )

How do you savecum in this game?

[Thndslz]

Just leave to main menu and you can retry any fights.

[Mathesthos]

From my observation, the opponent will only play 3 cards per turn. (so I have my doubts the flame debuff is worth it).
So if they can't close the gap to use their weapon in 3 moves you're save or they opt for a bash.

Also some weapons have preference over others. The sawblade/minigun car for example opted to use the buzzsaw over the minigun.

[Flavalicious]

Closest I've gotten is with starting character and the blue car (2nd in the listing). I was about 1 city away from the end. On that particular run I had something like 180 potential HP and cleared the first 2 or 3 checkpoints with very little roll over damage. On that play through i didn't run into any of the other racers though..... Any run where i go head to head with them, I can win but i leave the fight so smashed up its beyond recovery for the long run.

So far best tactic I've found is get really far out front or even really far behind, especially in battles against 3 enemies, making them burn all their cards to catch up stops them from damaging but this gets tricky if your initial hand is bad or you get a split spawn

Overall i think balancing towards scrap generation and the way the cities work is an area that could use some overhauling. You get piss all for scrap per battle until your about halfway through the map, most of the randomised events cost you around 30 scrap either automatically or by chance which ends up being the equivalent of like 2 or 3 battle nodes worth of work sometimes, then you get a choice between repair or chopshop, I think ive only ONCE went with the chopshop because it was the only time I had virtually no damage. Even repairing 20hp seems manditory when you have 2-4 battles between the next node (if its even a repair node, otherwise 6-9 battles). Additionally even if you bypass repair or chopshop by hitting the scrap nodes in the town, you get like 5-9 scrap per node or maybe a random car part, its like REALLY bad lol. You obviously don't want to be swimming in scrap because it would make repairing to full everytime too easy, but as it stands now it doesn't seem like a choice between chopshop or repair, its always repair lol

[phoneplace]

GREAT! feedback gang : )

i will try the leave to menu and hope it works for me.

I will also keep my eye on the 3 card play. : )

[veevoir]

Lean deck seems to be the thing that carries me farthest. Just like AI has lean decks and it can always do what it needs to do. So make sure you need that part with 4 cards.. or do you really need 3 weapons loadout, when the only thing that will happen is your hand blocked by weapons you cant use in your situation.

Also ABS means Always Be Skidding. Skid decks are not a penalty, they are a boon if you get it right. With correct positioning - bad RNG will do nothing - and good RNG will help you. Better use all Handling and skid on your turn - than reserve some (and not use it) then enemy repositions does handling damage - forcing you to skid anyway but not on your terms.

PS: also for the same reason - watch out how and when you skid the enemies. They can really hurt you by accident :P

[Flavalicious]

lol so i had a bit more luck running the blue 2nd car and getting that giant wrecking ball back attachment, applies fragile, can combo with the missile launchers to make for a 1 turn knock out.

But also found a path through the middle of the map where there is no repair station for like 5 town nodes....like bruh. I got to like the 4th chop shop and i had a whole 65 scrap on me even though i wasnt spending it. Would win 2-3 fights, have 50-60 scrap, hit a 50/50 event, lose 30-40. LOL.

Definitely needs a few balance passes :)

[phoneplace]

Indeed : )

[Lord Holland of Wessex]

I always pick a route before I select staring point. Got 2 nodes from the end point using "swift daddy" and the monster truck. Using one weapon and bashing enemies to death. Had the handling damage at insane levels.

[Gizmo]

I got to the boss but its so cheese you get his health down to around 130-150 and he just turns on God mode because he cant take any damage and he spawns in 2 drowns that de-buff the ♥♥♥♥ out of you that have 40 health each well the boss just has free range to keep attacking you and i'm only guessing you have to kill them both before u can start hurting him. I feel you should at least be able to keep damaging him or he should at least take half damage for him not to take any is just dumb and broken. I do enjoy the game but I seem to struggle with beating it atm sadly.