90 hours and I can't beat map 4, hints?

[crowtalker]

I enjoy map 1 and 2, but those trees on 3 and 4 leave me with bad feelings. It feels like too much micro for a tower defense or a factory builder. Generally speaking there is no micro in either. On top of all that crazy micro, the enemies are way stronger and faster. I have tried dozens of times and come no where close to succeeding. I have ninety hours and now that everything is unlocked I wish I could start over because I am at a dead end. Everything unlocked map 1 and 2 are too limited and 3 and 4 are not fun and I'd rather not play them.
I saw the road map and it sucks knowing not much will change for the next year.

[Hefty]

speed run bro, use ballista with priority armour to strip and the 1 block range spike trap and speedrun the map, sometimes you can rarely get lucky and have iron but even full iron near perfect build it still nearly impossible. good luck.

[crowtalker]

Originally posted by Hefty:

speed run bro, use ballista with priority armour to strip and the 1 block range spike trap and speedrun the map, sometimes you can rarely get lucky and have iron but even full iron near perfect build it still nearly impossible. good luck.

Thanks buddy, I got it ballista and and a couple of spikes along with the iron and some luck got me there. But I am not going back ;)

[Connery]

I am still stuck on level 3. No matter what I do I cant seem to find anymore than 2 crystals.

[crowtalker]

Idk if it helps but I always search diagonally

[Oink]

That's insane. This is my first automation game and I beat it all in about 15 hours. I played it while sitting in queue on WoW. Level 4 was by far the easiest level because of how easy it was to get iron going compared to the other levels.

I always clear the map to the castle to unlock all the obelisks. from there, I just use each different tower for the different mobs. The saws for high health mobs are most important. From there, some armor piercing like the bomb tower....rockets for flying mobs and then the magic tower thing for the magic shield mobs. It's super easy, I don't use any of the slow or continous dmg towers

I don't know what to say, I assume after 90 hours you have all the upgrades?

[Longbow]

Originally posted by Oink:

That's insane. This is my first automation game and I beat it all in about 15 hours. I played it while sitting in queue on WoW. Level 4 was by far the easiest level because of how easy it was to get iron going compared to the other levels.

I always clear the map to the castle to unlock all the obelisks. from there, I just use each different tower for the different mobs. The saws for high health mobs are most important. From there, some armor piercing like the bomb tower....rockets for flying mobs and then the magic tower thing for the magic shield mobs. It's super easy, I don't use any of the slow or continous dmg towers

I don't know what to say, I assume after 90 hours you have all the upgrades?

I gues props to you. Probably used to pretty fast gameplay?
Anyway, I fully agree with TS and find the game very difficult for what it is. In 56 hrs now and since about 40 hrs fully tier 2. Level 1 and 2 are too easy, once tier 2 is unlocked, 3 I only beat once so far, but 4 I need to be faster than my almost 40 yr old brain can handle.

[Sör Jizz]

My tips for lvl 3 and 4:
- spread out wood production more --> each chopper should access +3 trees with no overlap from other wood logging ranges
- Beginning: start with 1-2 ballistas and when needed fill up with the cheap 50 wood canons during the first few rounds, add some of the anti-air towers and maybe the piercing wood collumns..
- Parallely, build up your eco and see to find and mine iron ore as fast as possible
- Meanwhile aim for ~4 saw mills and ~4 stone refining machines
- once you got iron production running (2 iron drills + ensure for enough coal fed into the plant) --> build a lot of the saw towers. Those towers will bring you in a "relaxed" situation for the coming waves.
- Next you should strive to develop the rocket towers (without those you will never make it past the armored air mobs)
- After that, you need the electric shock tower
- Once you reached max towers, replace all cheap ones with the more expensive ones

Also, in lvl 3 and 4 I started to only use the "larger" light ray towers to get an overview of the map. I believe this was also a crucial factor for me to beat lvl. 4.

That being said. I also find this game a bit too stressfull!
I would love options to:
- slow/increase game speed
- difficulty changes