Yet another Tower Defence Game.....

[potoba]

Originally posted by: Flatscan

Originally posted by: KhoiFather
Somebody tell me how those people in top five scored over millions of points? What the ish?

I calculated 24,416,959 as a hard upper bound (assumes 0 spending) for Switchback. The 58M score is almost certainly a hack of the score submission.

• Score has 2 components: destroying Vectoids and bonus when starting a new level.
• Individual Vectoids have a point value of 100 x their $ reward.
• Bonus has a point value of 2 x interest paid for that level.
• Speed does not affect score. Both time spent during a level and time between levels are irrelevant.

so why din they hack the elementalish map?

 

[Dessert Tears]

Originally posted by: potoba

Originally posted by: Flatscan
I calculated 24,416,959 as a hard upper bound (assumes 0 spending) for Switchback. The 58M score is almost certainly a hack of the score submission.

so why din they hack the elementalish map?

Elemental-ish's top monthly score of 23,815,608 by AllStar30010 does look suspicious, as it's over twice the #2 score. Do the Splits's top monthly score is ridiculously high at 29X (!!!) #2.

If you mean "why didn't one user hack all the maps?", there are several plausible explanations:

• It would be too much work. There are a few approaches to submitting a hacked score. If there's a map-specific input (name, code-word, or other), each additional map could be substantial work.
• It would be too obvious.
• The user simply got bored.

 

[Verse914]

finally beat it (easy map) after about 5 or 6 tries...sold most of my purples, greens, and lower reds and went with the strategy of missiles and blue guys.

4,053,850

http://i23.photobucket.com/alb...vectortd_finished1.jpg

 

[HigherGround]

12,000,000+

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: HigherGround
12,000,000+

16.7 million on same map.
#1 on daily leaderboard
#15 on monthly leaderboard

That map was really easy. The first time I played the round-the-twist map and scored 6.3 million. I made some poor choices, and I'm sure I'll do better next time (if I play that map again). This was only my second time playing the game.

 

[HigherGround]

first time on medium (round the twist)

10,000,000+

still overbought/upgraded on numerous occasions.

 

[KhoiFather]

Tell me how to beat the Frog map cause it's killing me!!!

 

[spacejamz]

why did the other other thread with the 'alien' lookin bad buys get locked?

that one was awesome...

 

[TallBill]

LvL 22 on Frog.. just cant get further..

 

[TecHNooB]

Tagged for future reference

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: spacejamz
why did the other other thread with the 'alien' lookin bad buys get locked?

that one was awesome...

I've been wondering that myself. That game was based on the game on this thread. That game just got a revision update which added a few nice things. If you choose the fun category, then you can start the game with 10,000 gold. They also added a few more towers, the nicest of which IMO is the boost tower, which adds up to a 50% damage bonus to all the towers it's touching (up to 8 towers). One warning though: they made juggling very difficult, because it takes a couple seconds to sell a tower, and the amount of time increases with the number of towers you sell.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: spacejamz
why did the other other thread with the 'alien' lookin bad buys get locked?

that one was awesome...

I just played it this weekend and did my best yet. So I took screenshots, came here to post them, and the thread was locked. I'll just continue the thread here.

My most successful maze yet. I killed the two big flying aliens on the difficult levels 49 and 58.
Several endings, including the last two flying levels from the link above

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: TallBill
LvL 22 on Frog.. just cant get further..

I made it to level 31. I had to use the bonus on level 30 to get 3 extra lives. I'm not sure how to beat it either.

My strategy was to start with a green on each side near the top so that each would get two swipes at the creeps. Then I started to build up red in the middle, and on level 31 had 2 5th or 6th level rockets in the middle.

Edit: I just made it to level 35 and got #10 on the daily leaderboard. My strategy this time was to focus on planting purples and greens on the left and right near the top, where they would get two shots at the creeps. This worked much better, but I still don't see much hope in beating this map.

 

[zylander]

Finally finished a game without my computer crashing before the end. Finished snaking path and lost 1 life. Ill try the frog one now, may get bored though.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: spacejamz
why did the other other thread with the 'alien' lookin bad buys get locked?

that one was awesome...

I just played it this weekend and did my best yet. So I took screenshots, came here to post them, and the thread was locked. I'll just continue the thread here.

My most successful maze yet. I killed the two big flying aliens on the difficult levels 49 and 58.
Several endings, including the last two flying levels from the link above

PSA: that one really is impossible to beat on hard. after level 90 a full map of BFG barely makes a dent in the creeps and the map can't hold enough DCAs to kill the flyers. I cheated with unlimited cash and lives to see the end.

pic: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/O...s/lvl100withcheats.jpg

the bosses around 95 have over 1.5mil HP

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
PSA: that one really is impossible to beat on hard. after level 90 a full map of BFG barely makes a dent in the creeps and the map can't hold enough DCAs to kill the flyers. I cheated with unlimited cash and lives to see the end.

pic: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/O...s/lvl100withcheats.jpg

the bosses around 95 have over 1.5mil HP

I was suspecting as much. Really, if every single flyer had 5% less HP, the game would be a blast up until level 89 (I don't know what happens after that). As it is, it is too random to do well each time you play. Those 3 endings I posted took maybe 50 times playing the game to get 3 that were somewhat good. And even then, it was impossible to get through level 89. But you confirmed my fears that it is completely impossible.

By the way, how do you get unlimited cash?

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Btw, anyone played DesktopTD 1.5? 4 new towers including a damage boosting one.. pretty fun

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
PSA: that one really is impossible to beat on hard. after level 90 a full map of BFG barely makes a dent in the creeps and the map can't hold enough DCAs to kill the flyers. I cheated with unlimited cash and lives to see the end.

pic: http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/O...s/lvl100withcheats.jpg

the bosses around 95 have over 1.5mil HP

I was suspecting as much. Really, if every single flyer had 5% less HP, the game would be a blast up until level 89 (I don't know what happens after that). As it is, it is too random to do well each time you play. Those 3 endings I posted took maybe 50 times playing the game to get 3 that were somewhat good. And even then, it was impossible to get through level 89. But you confirmed my fears that it is completely impossible.

By the way, how do you get unlimited cash?

the final group of flyers has over 500k HP, it would take more than a 5% reduction. for unlimited cash/lives i used 'scanmem'

 

[potoba]

Originally posted by: kalrith

Originally posted by: TallBill
LvL 22 on Frog.. just cant get further..

I made it to level 31. I had to use the bonus on level 30 to get 3 extra lives. I'm not sure how to beat it either.

My strategy was to start with a green on each side near the top so that each would get two swipes at the creeps. Then I started to build up red in the middle, and on level 31 had 2 5th or 6th level rockets in the middle.

Edit: I just made it to level 35 and got #10 on the daily leaderboard. My strategy this time was to focus on planting purples and greens on the left and right near the top, where they would get two shots at the creeps. This worked much better, but I still don't see much hope in beating this map.

Yeah, i got to level 28-29 or sth. It gets ridiculously hard after that.

 

[shortylickens]

I admit it, I'm hooked.

Did they ever make anything like this back in the NES and SNES days?

 

[bearxor]

As for Xeno Tactics, it's impossible to beat without cheating. I gave myself unlimited cash and only lost one hp the whole game, level 100. I have 57 fully upgraded air towers. One of the choppers got through.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7816/img008ot2.jpg

 

[fLum0x]

beat it on my first try with 1 leak

4.125million

 

[grohl]

Originally posted by: bearxor
As for Xeno Tactics, it's impossible to beat without cheating. I gave myself unlimited cash and only lost one hp the whole game, level 100. I have 57 fully upgraded air towers. One of the choppers got through.

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7816/img008ot2.jpg

Link for unlimited money? Using Game Cheat I got like $5000 which wasnt enough to make it to the end.

 

[GasX]

Can anyone get through the second level of The Frog without losing a life?

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
Can anyone get through the second level of The Frog without losing a life?

I made it to level 35. See my post earlier on this page for more details. I also made a spreadsheet noting exactly what towers I used for each level and took screenshots of a few of the levels. If anyone wants them, let me know, and I'll post them later.