Your opinion: best tower?

[L7vanmatre]

In your opinion, what's the best tower? (Other than Super Monkey :)

My favorite is the engineer, cheap and once you completely upgrade his house he is nearly unstoppable.

[mo1nkler]

Morter Tower (with the special building unlocked)

[T-Bone Biggins]

Engineer has best damage output for the cost. Even without specialization you can get the cleaning foam for camo+leads before round 24, so it's capable of taking anything. #1 problem is online coop, you cannot sell the turrets for $0 to make room for new towers. I try not to rely on engineers online because of that.

[L7vanmatre]

Originally posted by T-Bone Biggins:

Engineer has best damage output for the cost. Even without specialization you can get the cleaning foam for camo+leads before round 24, so it's capable of taking anything. #1 problem is online coop, you cannot sell the turrets for $0 to make room for new towers. I try not to rely on engineers online because of that.

Ok, thanks, I'll remember that!
(And they also have bloon traps that give a boatload of money)

[young-b-baka-dogger]

Bloonchipper/Spike Factory

Bloonchipper rapes bloons like a child molester at the school fair.

Spike factory because at the 2/0 upgrade it kills metal pieces of ♥♥♥♥ and camo.

[pizzascience]

bloonichiper

[L7vanmatre]

Originally posted by noob:

Bloonchipper rapes bloons like a child molester at the school fair

I feel so bad for laughing at that.

EDIT: Made my post more clear.

[Meteor Strike]

Bloonchipper, although I do favour the Monkey Subs and Monkey Buccaneer too.

Although, I'll often use different tower types in conjunction with each other, such as Glue (with corrosive) and Ice:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=514312121

[Universalgenie]

Ice tower with special building. It can stop every (non-MOAB-class) bloon-rush if you combine an arctic wind with ice shards.

But in most cases I use the arctic wind combined with other towers.

[76561198164174249]

I think the most accurate answer to the OP may be this:

- everyone probably has their FAVORITE towers, but honestly, there really is no such thing as a "best" tower in BTD5 games. :)

The more you play BTD5 games, the more you realize how deep the gameplay actually can be. It probably doesn't take very long to realize that not all towers are great for everything - instead, part of what makes good tower defense games IMO is to have lots of variety of towers with their own individual strengths and weaknesses. And BTD5 has this in spades.

I am personally old skool - I still find Supers [especially with Specialty Building active] to be the "best". With Specialty maxed out, Supers have automatic camo detect. But even for Supers, the 2 paths offer different advantages.

Right side Super upgrades are good against the small stuff but better at blimps.

Left side Super upgrades are good against blimps but better at the small stuff.

Clearly, Engineer is an excellent, low cost tower that can be effective when spammed against all bloons.

Sub is also pretty good and cost effective and the ability is devastating against even groups of blimps.

I could go on and on :)

Still, I think it comes down to personal preference of course and that is why BTD5 is so great - so many ways for people to play and have success.

But of course, to go to super high rounds [round 500+], you gotta have basically 3 things:

- "strong", correctly created Temples;
- lots and lots of Snipers;
- lots and lots of 4/2 Chippers.

cheers and have fun!
-les

[pizzascience]

Originally posted by lestatar:

I think the most accurate answer to the OP may be this:

- everyone probably has their FAVORITE towers, but honestly, there really is no such thing as a "best" tower in BTD5 games. :)

The more you play BTD5 games, the more you realize how deep the gameplay actually can be. It probably doesn't take very long to realize that not all towers are great for everything - instead, part of what makes good tower defense games IMO is to have lots of variety of towers with their own individual strengths and weaknesses. And BTD5 has this in spades.

I am personally old skool - I still find Supers [especially with Specialty Building active] to be the "best". With Specialty maxed out, Supers have automatic camo detect. But even for Supers, the 2 paths offer different advantages.

Right side Super upgrades are good against the small stuff but better at blimps.

Left side Super upgrades are good against blimps but better at the small stuff.

Clearly, Engineer is an excellent, low cost tower that can be effective when spammed against all bloons.

Sub is also pretty good and cost effective and the ability is devastating against even groups of blimps.

I could go on and on :)

Still, I think it comes down to personal preference of course and that is why BTD5 is so great - so many ways for people to play and have success.

But of course, to go to super high rounds [round 500+], you gotta have basically 3 things:

- "strong", correctly created Temples;
- lots and lots of Snipers;
- lots and lots of 4/2 Chippers.

cheers and have fun!
-les

you got it right

[Dolan]

I'd say Meerkat spy XD

[L7vanmatre]

Originally posted by lestatar:

I think the most accurate answer to the OP may be this:

- everyone probably has their FAVORITE towers, but honestly, there really is no such thing as a "best" tower in BTD5 games. :)

The more you play BTD5 games, the more you realize how deep the gameplay actually can be. It probably doesn't take very long to realize that not all towers are great for everything - instead, part of what makes good tower defense games IMO is to have lots of variety of towers with their own individual strengths and weaknesses. And BTD5 has this in spades.


I am personally old skool - I still find Supers [especially with Specialty Building active] to be the "best". With Specialty maxed out, Supers have automatic camo detect. But even for Supers, the 2 paths offer different advantages.

Right side Super upgrades are good against the small stuff but better at blimps.

Left side Super upgrades are good against blimps but better at the small stuff.

Clearly, Engineer is an excellent, low cost tower that can be effective when spammed against all bloons.

Sub is also pretty good and cost effective and the ability is devastating against even groups of blimps.

I could go on and on :)

Still, I think it comes down to personal preference of course and that is why BTD5 is so great - so many ways for people to play and have success.

But of course, to go to super high rounds [round 500+], you gotta have basically 3 things:

- "strong", correctly created Temples;
- lots and lots of Snipers;
- lots and lots of 4/2 Chippers.

cheers and have fun!
-les

Yep, you're definitely right!

But you go to round 500+?!? Holy crap! To be honest I would have gotten bored by round 100 XD

But yeah, it really is personal preference.

And thanks for telling me about the Supers' upgrades, to be honest I never really saw the point of having a Super Cyborg when you could have a Sun God (other than cost).

And you have fun too! ^_^

[76561198164174249]

^ Hey no problem! We are all here to share information about a game we all love :)

As for my own highest rounds?

- In Flash BTD5, I have gotten as high as r350+ in Apop mode;
- In Flash BTD5, I have gotten as high as r300+ in normal Solo Play;
- In Flash BTD5, I hold the all-Time legitimate Co-op record with my buddy Crushbeast at round 221.

And in Steam BTD5, I have a solo game still active right now at round 1056. XD

I will post screenshots soon, but I believe in Steam BTD5 I am the 3rd player ever to have legitimately passed round 1000...

First person I know of here was user TheLapasRider [his screenshot can be seen under Steam artwork].

Second person I know of to have crossed r1000 in Steam BTD5 is DalekRuler [who posts on the classic NK forums].

Oh and I am also the #1 player all-time in Flash Battles. ;)

cheers!
-les

[L7vanmatre]

:O

Dude, you should get some sort of huge reward or something.

That's amazing!

[76561198164174249]

Originally posted by L7vanmatre:

:O

Dude, you should get some sort of huge reward or something.

That's amazing!

lol...nah...

I just love the BTD5 games. In fact, honestly, they are the only games I have time to play - I truly don't do any other gaming at all.

As for those high rounds? Many of us who love BTD5 also love to try and see how far we can push the game [and our machines]. It takes strong knowledge of the game, decent computers and of course, a lot of DEDICATION.

XD

cheers and have fun!
-les