Faster game speed + Sapper

[Sokol]

I really feel like this game is too slow once you start grinding the achievements. How likely is that they will finally add a faster option than currently available? Even on faster speed an easy map 40 round take around 10 minutes. Now lets look at the Sapper achievement. Am I really expected to grind this game for 1k hours to beat one stupid achievement preventing me from perfecting the game?

This should be addressed as well as the grindiness of this achievement. It is beyond reasonable.

[Hiroko]

They do this specifically to force you to play for 1k hours minimum, and when you get close they will add yet another achievement that requires a year of playing to accomplish. They don't want a one and done. They want you to keep giving it to them.

[Ackranome]

It is a marketing concept to keep people playing as it appears on steam charts. If games don't have players most think of it as "dead" and won't buy it. So, it is in the interest of the devs to sell the game therefore add "achievements" hence "Sapper" which has been out for a long long long long time and yet is one of the most unachievable achievements in this game despite it just being a "grind" concept.

[Rick]

I have played for 1 thousand and i only have 3,800,000, is true that i use towers who avoid the achievement, but most of BTD6 achievements are crazy, need long grinding time

[Sokol]

Origineel geplaatst door Ackranome:

It is a marketing concept to keep people playing as it appears on steam charts. If games don't have players most think of it as "dead" and won't buy it. So, it is in the interest of the devs to sell the game therefore add "achievements" hence "Sapper" which has been out for a long long long long time and yet is one of the most unachievable achievements in this game despite it just being a "grind" concept.

I do not believe this is the case. Steam Achievement Manager exists. Getting the achievement is not the issue, it's a thing of getting it legit way. I am pretty sure most people who have it, got it through SAM. Also 1 skill point is behind it which is just dumb, you are not getting this achievement before you get max lvl.

[Evilsod]

I think you grossly overestimate how many people are playing to grind the achievements over finding it fun...

Sapper was badly designed from the start, but it is what it is. The real stupid addition was the non-retroactive Daily Challenge one. That's the kind of ♥♥♥♥ that makes achievement gamers straight quit though.

[patio.gurnisson]

I'd like to have an ability to speed a game up, but it's not that necessary for the standard round 100 games. Makes real sense when you go to 200 or 300. So if it would be possible to speed up a regular game only since round 100, that would be ok to me.

And if you want to get that achievement, try apopalypse mode and the CT races. If failed attempt at CT races does increase the count of popped bloons of that type, i think it's the best way to grind it fast.

And in general, yes, play game for fun while it's fun. You'll realize this with time, if not yet :) I still didn't play the polyphemus map for that reason, it's not fun to me and i don't need monkey money so bad to have to play it. Maybe sometimes later, and may as well be never...
Same for the odysseys, i skip most of them because they're too long and don't allow freeplay (and the point of freeplay is to test your crew against all rounds up to 100). Playing them i feel like i'm doing a very specific job, and this is not good for a game.

[ZenCookieGod]

when you get to round 150 or higher you should have the option to increase the fast forward to up to 7 times or something like that