Train Station Map

[NO, This Is PATRICK]

Anyone wanna help me beat train station with 5 feats of strength? I can never beat it.

[Casey Ryback]

Don't build Violators and/or Kairos and should be sweet.

I'm more than happy to help

[Captain Sandwich]

Originally posted by Casey Ryback:

Don't build Violators and/or Kairos and should be sweet.

You're just going to beat this dead horse to a pulp, aren't you?

[Casey Ryback]

Originally posted by Captain Sandwich:

Originally posted by Casey Ryback:

Don't build Violators and/or Kairos and should be sweet.

You're just going to beat this dead horse to a pulp, aren't you?

Captain Sandwhich, I know thissounds bad, so let me explain why I wrote that.

Violator Cons (please list the pros for me on train station because I cannot find any):

* Runners and Broods <-- Violator is absolutely pathetic against these
* Up to 5 soakers on a single wave <-- Violator is pathetic against these
* Hoverers, which twist and turn there front armor since there are alot of turns on the paths. <-- Violaotor will try not to shoot these
* Laser Boss <-- Minimum of 225k health on 5 FOS, up to 525k health with 4 players. A level 3 violaotr will do around 9k damage per 10 seconds (single shot), while it regenerates its health, not effective at all.
* Up to 5 Walker Warriors on a single wave between 35k to 110k, depending on how many players join
* Up to 18 walkers and 12 rhinos on a single wave, it would be a nightmare to try and focus killing the single walker that the violator shot, if yuo dont, it will start regenerating its health on 5 FOS because the time between each violator shot is 10 seconds.


Kairos Cons:

* Hits single target
* only hits once every 5 seconds
* Slow field Dispenser covers a much larger radius, and slows everyone, making your kill zone 40% more effective (if you dont have a main kill zone area and you spread your towers out all over the map, or build many level 1 towers instead, then that is also a bad idea on 5 fos)


Please list me the pros for both Violator and Kairos on Train Station 5 FOS please.

[antisocialmunky]

You can watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvvU_EZKso

but I personally build 4 l2 cannons + l3 range spire + 2 L3 focus towers next to the core. Seems to work well especially since they will take out anything attacking the core.

[NO, This Is PATRICK]

Alright thanks guys

[Casey Ryback]

Originally posted by NO, THIS IS PATRICK:

Alright thanks guys

Hey Patrick, did you end up beating train station on 5 FOS? If so, how many attacking towers did you end up having?

[Sephrioth]

i build only gatling towers :D well slow mines too but rest only machine guns :D

[John Sheridan [GER] Diamond]

Originally posted by antisocialmunky:

You can watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvvU_EZKso

but I personally build 4 l2 cannons + l3 range spire + 2 L3 focus towers next to the core. Seems to work well especially since they will take out anything attacking the core.

hello, This is going to be a quite short statement of my side lol..

The key on this map is the ACP with range spire. Use 1 ACP togeher with a charged range, to affect this whole turn. Spent a lot money into the acp then. If you need, you can use also 3-4 MC towers to let them stay there all the time. Optional you can also use 1 Focus, for the boss, but it isnt ever needed. Slow mines are optional too, but usefull.

Kairos/violator are ever no-go

[Hauteclere]

Finally beat this map, solo with all 5 FoS. Used Skye with: Gatling Laser and Drone Launcher; Gatling, ACP, Range Spire, and Slow Field; Armor Shredder, Corpse Explosion, and (whichever perk it was that adds a lightning bounce to your hits).

Drone Launcher + Armor Shredder rips through heavies. Seriously, I just shot 6 Drones at the boss when he appeared and he was down in 10 seconds. I think Skye's passive also helps it a lot.

Otherwise, the strategy I used is pretty similar to the video. Same first three Gatling placements, but then a range spire in the middle, and later added an ACP (around wave 4 or 5) to the bottom left of that square and a slow field dispenser in range of the range spire. By wave 8 all of them were fully upgraded (except the range spire which was still level 2) and hardly anything even got past the kill zone at all.

Finished with 2915 core health. This one really was a crazy map to figure out.

[Viccentelena]

Finally beat this after a lot of try, ended up with just 2 overcharged Gatling gun and this is it (actually that configuration work for a lot of pre-dlc maps). For the rest of the configuration i used:
_skye (best character to use with a drone launcher)
_drone launcher and tesla. (Drone launcher is seriously broken, i shouldn't say that but, they should nerf it, it has the highest base DPS, is boosted by some perks way more than other weapons, and you don't need to aim it is a shoot and forget weapon.)
_perks i used Tactical juxtaposition (boost a lot the drone launcher), Unstable Core (for those few runner that may pass, but you can actually put something else it was almost a wasted slot), and Reinforcements (this is actually the key one, it makes the mobs stop around the Gatling)


I actually don't get the hype around the ACP. Every time i tried it i found it a total disappointment. It is as useful as half a dozen of level 1 Gatling: it just lower a bit the health of the mobs, just for them to regenerate it in the few next seconds.
Every time someone advice to use a level 3 ACP, i achieved way better efficiency with 4-5 level 1 lightning or a single overcharged Gatling (depend of the map)

But i agree: kairos, canon and violator are just bad, and scatter laser may be the best turret in normal mode, but with health regen FoS enabled, you should never use it.