Has anyone passed without an artifact?

[Rex Rex]

I found more than one YouTuber who could go through a huge world of 4 difficulties. Everyone goes through the artifact, no one manages to save it. I haven't been able to walk for 15 hours

[zimny5811]

If you mean: if anyone managed to win a final wave without using relic to save the battle? Then the answer is: yes, a lot of people did that. Looking at steam statistics, about 1/3 of all Dome Keeper players managed to do that.

[MsDeliana]

It's absolutely doable! I even did it by accident once. I was supposed to show my partner what the relic looks like when it explodes, and that was of course the one time when I managed to beat the final wave...

[Rex Rex]

Can I link to the video?

[Rex Rex]

I speak for passing on the largest possible map and maximum difficulty. Everyone I see on YouTube goes through this difficulty only at the expense of an artifact.

[zimny5811]

It will be hard to find a video. People usually don't put stuff like "huge map" or "I beat final wave" in the video title. Even YAFI (You Ask For It) difficulty is rarely mentioned. Also since games was rebalanced multiple times since release and stuff like new gadgets/caves were added, to see how it looks like now, you would need video from season 5 (current season).

[Rex Rex]

No, well, I find a lot of videos where people play on 4 difficulties and in 4 worlds, but they don't survive the last wave. Every single one of them passes it only at the expense of the artifact. Even now, just now, I have watched as many as 14 videos and have not found anyone who could pass this. There was only one player who almost could, there were only 4 aliens left, but even he lost. Everyone wins at the expense of the artifact

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

It's totally doable (I did it on the largest map on hard difficulty, not the hardest though), if you manage to get powerful enough quick enough, and chew through the waves without even taking a scratch you are probably ready, also stockpiling a bunch of metal helps

[Rex Rex]

What is the point of a comment on the difficulty below the maximum? If we are not talking about 3 difficulties, but about 4. I don't understand what the point of this is at all.

[Rex Rex]

Originally posted by zimny5811:

If you mean: if anyone managed to win a final wave without using relic to save the battle? Then the answer is: yes, a lot of people did that. Looking at steam statistics, about 1/3 of all Dome Keeper players managed to do that.

There is no such achievement in the game - first of all. Secondly, everyone who passed this difficulty could not win the final wave and used the artifact. I never found anyone who could do it.

[Rex Rex]

Originally posted by MΛRCUS HΞLIUS:

It's totally doable (I did it on the largest map on hard difficulty, not the hardest though), if you manage to get powerful enough quick enough, and chew through the waves without even taking a scratch you are probably ready, also stockpiling a bunch of metal helps

What is the point of a comment on the difficulty below the maximum? If we are not talking about 3 difficulties, but about 4. I don't understand what the point of this is at all.

[Rex Rex]

Originally posted by zimny5811:

It will be hard to find a video. People usually don't put stuff like "huge map" or "I beat final wave" in the video title. Even YAFI (You Ask For It) difficulty is rarely mentioned. Also since games was rebalanced multiple times since release and stuff like new gadgets/caves were added, to see how it looks like now, you would need video from season 5 (current season).

I did it yesterday! I passed this difficulty without losing to the wave and saved the dome! It wasn't just not easy, it was almost impossible. I needed a lot of things to win, which could just not happen to me.
I played for an Engineer (for a Surveyor, I just didn't want to). The Tesla dome is very broken, extremely strong protection. I used the Garden, but I improved only the ability of the roots and nothing else. The most important thing is to find a "portal", because if you have one, then you can not improve the speed and transportation. As a result, I improved only the drill, as much as 40 coins, and the rest of the parameters were at the level of 4 iron. Whatever you understand, I had too much water, I simply had nowhere to spend it, because I melted unnecessary artifacts into cobalt. I was also lucky and got an artifact for rebirth, and I improved this rebirth to level 2, that is, 2 Rebirths.
Here's a look at how many conditions are needed to win in this difficulty mode and on a huge map. Every single youtuber has not passed this wave! They didn't even kill half of that number of aliens! there is not even a question of passing. And I finally did it!) As soon as I learn how to make a video, I can release it on YouTube so that others can see that it is possible)

[Rex Rex]

Originally posted by MsDeliana:

It's absolutely doable! I even did it by accident once. I was supposed to show my partner what the relic looks like when it explodes, and that was of course the one time when I managed to beat the final wave...

It's so nice to hear such a flattering comment from you. I probably watched almost all the videos on the passage on this difficulty and on this size of the world, and no one went through the wave on their own, without the help of the final artifact.
Please tell me, which build did you play? I'm interested, very interested. Which character, which dome, etc.
I was probably able to do it after about 20 hours! And that's thanks to the new Tesla dome and the saving of iron, due to the artifact of the "portal", without all this I would hardly have passed.

[zimny5811]

Originally posted by Helix:

Originally posted by zimny5811:

If you mean: if anyone managed to win a final wave without using relic to save the battle? Then the answer is: yes, a lot of people did that. Looking at steam statistics, about 1/3 of all Dome Keeper players managed to do that.

There is no such achievement in the game - first of all. Secondly, everyone who passed this difficulty could not win the final wave and used the artifact. I never found anyone who could do it.

Oh you are right, there is achievement for beating final wave, but it does not take into account run difficulty. So scrap that.

[zimny5811]

Originally posted by Helix:

Originally posted by zimny5811:

It will be hard to find a video. People usually don't put stuff like "huge map" or "I beat final wave" in the video title. Even YAFI (You Ask For It) difficulty is rarely mentioned. Also since games was rebalanced multiple times since release and stuff like new gadgets/caves were added, to see how it looks like now, you would need video from season 5 (current season).

I did it yesterday! I passed this difficulty without losing to the wave and saved the dome! It wasn't just not easy, it was almost impossible. I needed a lot of things to win, which could just not happen to me.
I played for an Engineer (for a Surveyor, I just didn't want to). The Tesla dome is very broken, extremely strong protection. I used the Garden, but I improved only the ability of the roots and nothing else. The most important thing is to find a "portal", because if you have one, then you can not improve the speed and transportation. As a result, I improved only the drill, as much as 40 coins, and the rest of the parameters were at the level of 4 iron. Whatever you understand, I had too much water, I simply had nowhere to spend it, because I melted unnecessary artifacts into cobalt. I was also lucky and got an artifact for rebirth, and I improved this rebirth to level 2, that is, 2 Rebirths.
Here's a look at how many conditions are needed to win in this difficulty mode and on a huge map. Every single youtuber has not passed this wave! They didn't even kill half of that number of aliens! there is not even a question of passing. And I finally did it!) As soon as I learn how to make a video, I can release it on YouTube so that others can see that it is possible)

Congrats! It is not easy to do for sure. Probably even I would have hard time to pull it off most of the time. And yes, Tesla Dome currently is broken strong, so expect hard nerf in next update.