Veteran difficulty...

[Red Dragon]

Is it just me or is it really stupid hard to three-star veteran difficultyin KRF without pimped out heroes and upgrades?

I thought I was a pretty decent player in the first Kingdom Rush, I even breezed through the Pandemonium level on second try and now I struggle with veteran difficulty in the middle of the short-ish campaign.

TL;DR: What are your experiences so far, do you also think it's a lot harder than the first Kingdom Rush?

[JD_888]

It's pretty hard but doable, harder than the regular campaign in the first game for sure. Sometimes you might have to repeat the stage a couple of times to know exactly how to optimise tower placement.

[just.dont.do.it]

Well, the first game stayed at pretty much "tutorial" difficulty up until the castle defense, which is quite too long.

In KRF, the first level to give me pause was the final level of desert stage - well, at least it's better that in the first game. As for "pimped out heroes", I think the new approach to hero leveling pretty much covers it - if you're failing a level, your hero will be grinding XP in the meantime, so after some tries you'd end up with stronger hero anyway.

PS: Heroic and Iron challenges, on the other hand (the whole desert stage at least) are, for some reason, MUCH easier. KR had quite difficult heroic levels even in the early stages, but in KRF I'm finding out normal 3-star levels to be harder than heroic/iron.

[Red Dragon]

Originally posted by just.dont.do.it:

As for "pimped out heroes", I think the new approach to hero leveling pretty much covers it - if you're failing a level, your hero will be grinding XP in the meantime, so after some tries you'd end up with stronger hero anyway.

I kind of have mixed feelings about this - what does it really mean to win one of the hardest levels on veteran if you have a maxed hero that you couldn't have done it without?

Originally posted by just.dont.do.it:

PS: Heroic and Iron challenges, on the other hand (the whole desert stage at least) are, for some reason, MUCH easier. KR had quite difficult heroic levels even in the early stages, but in KRF I'm finding out normal 3-star levels to be harder than heroic/iron

I think most desert stage challenges are easy but there are a few difficulty spikes that took me a handful of attempts and I think there is even one I gave up on for now.