A guide for endless mode

So basically this is a guide for endless mode or something idk

Introduction

So welcome to endless mode, the place where life is temporary, death is eternal.

there used to be an image here where did it go?

Also in case you people who have no life, only this game (Like me) didn't understand that this is for new players that struggle with endless mode, i welcome you

Part 0: Absolute, total basics

So this is basically the section for people who didn't play story mode and didn't see the tutorial.


Click/press whatever is the attack button for consoles to swing forwards (Sword and hammer), or shoot (Bow), or stab forwards (Spear (Ew (Or idk (Probably)))). Move sideways AKA strafe when clicking to swing sideways (Sword and hammer) Note: Moving sideways AKA strafing while clicking/pressing whatever is the attack button for consoles does NOT affect the direction of the attack for the bow or spear.

Category 1: Basic

For beginner players. 0-100 hours in-game time.

Part 1: Bronze

So this is the first difficulty and with that, the easiest.

There isn't many tips i can give other than never turn your back on archers, never jump into the funny looking orange liquid and under absolutely NO circumstances waste your upgrade points on clones yet, if you die it's more worth to restart the run than losing a clone this early (Remember, you only can buy 10)

Part 2: Silver

This is pretty much the same as bronze but it introduces some new enemies like spidertron 5000.

Again don't turn your back on archers, don't jump in lava and again don't use your points on clones yet unless you don't care about good runs and just want to play the game.

Part 3: Gold

Gold, the first big milestone.

This is the point of the game that starts getting really difficult for new players. Now there is also a new threat; The jetpack bots. You should also get a safety clone at this point, unless you trust that you don't need one yet.

Part 4: Diamond

Diamond.

This is where the fun begins...

This is the point where you need to stop spinning around that archer bot for "fun."

And you get to finally get knocked over multiple times by spidertron 6000.
You should get armor and get up at this point for multiple reasons. Fire robots can also appear in quantities higher than 4 (Looking at you, that one gold level with 4 fire swords).

Category 2: Advanced

For the average players. 100-600 hours in-game time.

Part 5: TITANIUM

You did it, you reached titanium!

This difficulty tier doesn't introduce many new thin- *Gets cut in half by an mk2 jetpack bot*
Yea, mk2 jetpack bots are the biggest threat yet and you should be really careful when there's multiple of them, they absolutely SHRED you if you don't have armor.
Other than that there isn't much else.

Part 6: Uranium

You thought titanium was hard? Pfft...

So welcome to uranium. The point where the crap hits the fan, (Gotta keep it kid friendly) even for me.

There are a lot of new enemies here, the mk5 robots being the main attraction.
GET CLONES (And armor), you are almost guaranteed to die here at least once.

Tips for some levels: Tunnel of Death, you know you get this level when it's a tunnel full of mk5 hammers, use bow and flame breath and if they start dashing at you dash away from them, they might hit through armor. Hyper coffin, you know you get this when the commentators say "Welcome, to the hyper coffin", shoot the laser raptors first and then the archers and don't let the kick bot kick you (Theres a lot of lava). Death Cube 2.1, it's a big cube in the middle of the arena lol. When you touch the jump pad start walking away from the cube while in the air and shoot everything except the sword robots because they can block (Use aim time for this), then when only the sword robots are left jump onto the cube and lure them into the spike pit.

I'm too lazy to write more here.

Category 3: Expert

For those who are worthy of the title "Clone drone sweat". 600+ hours in-game time.

Part 7: INSANIUM

"Die already!" -Emperor.

This is it, the final difficulty, all the practice, all the dying to spidertrons grenades and rageing, all of it lead up to this very moment... And you die on the first level because it's mk5 hammer spam.

Yea this is difficult, like actually really difficult. So first off all this difficulty doesn't introduce any new enemies at all, it just places more of them and makes more of them armored. And second, there is no other difficulty after this, you can't beat insanium, literally.

Tips for some levels: Fire Ducks: Revenge of the Lava Soup, first, shoot the infantry bot on the hat of the duck on the right and then jump on the jump pad and shoot the laser raptor and then, just complete the level. Also, don't go near the archers. Fire island, it's a small island with mk4 spears, which have shields, hammers make shield wielding spears fly really far when it hits their shield, i'll let you figure the rest out. That level with the huge ramp and lot's of mk5 hammers; Pray

Part 8: Upgrade strategy

"So i know the difficulty tiers but what upgrades do i use?" -You, probably.

Well first of all, i'm a sword main so i can't really say the strats for other weapons but it goes like this:
In bronze, upgrade your energy to 4 bars (Which is the maximum amount). In silver, upgrade your block projectiles to full. In gold, get both levels of fire sword and energy recharge. In diamond, get kick, get up, flame breath and fire resistance. Now in titanium you have a choice, either the safe choice or the "Clone drone sweat" route. The safe choice would be to get 5 clones, bow and fire arrows 1 and then at this point you're in the first level of uranium, get armor. The "Clone drone sweat" choice makes you get max bow WITHOUT arrow width 2, this allows you to shoot through the gap in laser raptors head armor and get aim time, then you get 1 clone and then you're in uranium, you get armor. Then if you went with the safe one you max your bow again without arrow width 2 and max out your clones and if you went with the "Clone drone sweat" one you max out your clones.
That's pretty much it.

Part 9: Enemy prioritisation

"Ok so i know upgrades now, but in which order do i destroy enemies" -You again, probably

This is gonna be a long one.

So this mainly applies to titanium to insanium but here we go.

Titanium: Kill any command bots first, then overseers and / or captains and then spidertrons and kickbots UNLESS there are mk2 jetpacks in which case they are absolute top priority as they are the greatest threat in titanium, and then everything else.

Uranium / Insanium: Your absolute first priority in every single case no matter what other things are in the level is laser raptors, they can quickly and suddenly kill you, possibly ending your run in one swift laser, after that any infantry bots and warfare bots, then mk 5 hammer bots, then any mk 5 archers and sword robots, then mind space and logistics bots and IF the level has a lot of traps kick bots will be your second priority and then the rest is up to you.


If there is anything else you want to know or be added here i will answer or considering adding it. Good luck out there in the arena, and who knows, maybe you will get to insanium?

Category 4: Extra

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Workshop levels

Workshop levels are user made levels that are normally more difficult than official levels, you can enable them by going into settings and in the "Gameplay" section there is the "Workshop" part, there you can switch between no workshop, only workshop and b o t h.

Example of bad workshop level (Sorry to whoever made this): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2571323144


Example of good workshop level (By me (Please subscribe to it i used a month on animating and bug fixing it and it has next to no subscribers AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2558705872

Shameless plug yes, but good level too? Yes (please i'm begging you). Also check out the other "The Bowl" levels.


But anyways you shouldn't play workshop levels until you can get to titanium.

After insanium

Now that you've reached insanium you should start challenging yourself with the in-game challenges or possibly even attempt some of these custom ones:

"Hardcore": No clones, no armor, no fire resistance, no bow or block arrows and no get up. Get to insanium.

"Upgradeless": Self explanatory, only repair and armor are allowed. Get to titanium. /

"Upgradeless hard mode": Same as regular upgradeless but you need to get to insanium and armor ISN'T allowed anymore.

"Actually just straight up impossible mode": NO UPGRADES, ARMOR, CLONES OR REPAIRS.
NO DASHING. NO SIDE SWINGS. GET TO INSANIUM. Please for the love of god don't try this. If you actually beat this challenge then send me a video of you doing as proof because this is just not possible for anyone.

"Level 100": Read the name lol. / / / / (4 is a large amount, maybe they should just learn that i am too good?)

If you have any other challenge ideas i might add them.

2/11/21 update: Changed some things and from now on i will be marking challenges i have completed with a /.

[TitaniumSword3000]

the image with the name "jesus love" mysteriously disappeared so i removed the text

[Spookypizza]

wait this was updated recently?

[in the balls]

nvm on the lucky part
i can get to gold consistently
and then i realize gold is litterally impossible on impossible mode(you would have to get really lucky or be the zallard1 of clone drone)

[in the balls]

got lucky and managed to get to gold on my first try

[TitaniumSword3000]

Updated the guide

[[♡] Scarfish211]

Yes! I haven't played it yet, I'll probably later but anyways, epikness

[TitaniumSword3000]

Did you subscribe to The Bowl 8.0: FINALE?

[[♡] Scarfish211]

Awesome.

[TitaniumSword3000]

This will be finished soon (i think)