Iteuop
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Hi Iteuop, welcome on board! Thanks for the heads up. Below my comments to your findings and suggestions!
@Scarface:
Yes, right now he stops trying after the first fail. Right now I have the feeling this tower needs a buff - at least from the feedback returned by the community so far. changing that calculation and boosting his damage a little might be an elegant option for a buff.
@Mr Iron
In version 0.9.1 I released on Sunday his construct ability was fixed, so that similiar items stack properly! Got a lot stronger by that (you can reach astronomic multicrits with him now). Yes, set boni are not taken into account right now after constructing them into the suit. That was by intention, but doesn't really translate for the player right now..
@Mrs Jilly
I calculated her chance bonus wrong (was stuck at 1%), so that got fixed in 0.9.1, too. Interesting carry!
@Potions
Good call on that, you're right. At the moment I did never transmute a single potion card :-D Except for testing and debugging... Good idea to lower the amount for a recipe there!
@Endless mode
Will do a special poll and write-up for that one soon!
@Drop rate
I didn't touch the drop rate. I figure you just had bad luck in those games. Actually I got a comment bout the release asking if I increased drop rate :-D I agree, sometimes the RNG can be a pain in the ass. Maybe we need some smart drop 2.0 system like in D3?
@Money Bins & Interest
Yep, that was a slight nerf of the Satellite strategy, otherwise this guy would have owned the bonus round :-) How much gold were you able to aquire? Did the Satellite get to some decent damage?
@Finally, donations
Currently not. However I got this questions asked a few times now already and might consider this in a future version. Small, optional donations, like 'a beer for the dev', but no in app purchase stuff whatsoever.
Cheers :-)
Andy
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KronosTheHunter
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Hi there!
Did you try to build the yellow towers over towers you already built on the map? The twist here is, that when you replace a tower all XP, level, items, potions is passed on to the new tower!
Cheers!
The Irish pub is a nice addition to the aura family, but it feels a bit underpowered (unless you've been getting a lot of attack speed potions and not many damage potions), since unlike the herb which, it doesn't effective increase proc rates or get bonus XP, and does increase the amount of overkill the tower produces. Maybe give it a small extra boost to help it along in that regard? Like a non-scaling small crit chance or damage bonus (1%?) attached to the aura?
Or maybe add an active ability to it where you can buy a potion for a big chunk of money? I'm thinking 1k gold for a random potion drop on a 30 second cooldown (numbers are probably off). This would also give players something to do with their cash other than build a laser.
Although that could make the herb witch a bit under powered in comparison... maybe give them both the ability, but have the witch cost less with a longer cooldown, and the pub cost more but with a shorter cooldown?
Iron man: Feels like an investment in the bonus round more than an actual carry on his own right, since he takes so much time to be any good. That said, he's an excellent investment, especially once you integrate a wedding ring. Overall, a fun tower.
Integrating sets is inconsistent, it seems like sometimes he retains the set bonus and other times he loses it. Balance-wise, I don't think it matters too much, but it should definitely be made more clear to the player what is going to happen to set bonuses when he integrates the items, especially for uniques (withered set).
Scarface: As mentioned above, he's practically useless against bosses. Other than that, an interesting addition. One minor complaint: the graphic for his damage cone doesn't match with where the damage is being dealt. It also feels weird to have a tank firing a shotgun that has ability descriptions that make it sound like an assault rifle.
I haven't tried Miss Jilly as a carry yet, but she's an interesting alternative to beavers as stun support, if you can manage to get her some levels via keys etc.
Wedding rings are awesome, other than the RNG hating me and almost never giving them to me before wave 150. Or taunting me by giving me one at an early wave, but not giving me the other until wave 190.
I don't remember where I saw it, but someone commented that it would be nice to see actual current proc chances for towers display in their stats, and I'd definitely second that.
One other thing that I've been noticing: the unrelenting force bonus can be maintained in the bonus round, which is awesome... but then you get a wave where there is a slow enemy right after a fast wave, and it drops. :( super sad to see your super-awesome tower suddenly doing no damage. I'm not really sure that it's balanced or not, but it would be nice if the bonus lasted long enough to actually last through those long gaps that you sometimes get in the bonus round.
Think the 3s are balanced out quite nicely. Otherwise this would become pretty OP by some time... Long range tower in the front row maybe? Miss Jilly could maybe. Wonder what happens if you manage to beef a tower throughout the entire game not losing the bonus. Could be insane :-D
Looks like I have a quest here :-D
glamrune
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well for balancing,i think in "autosave" (whether we go to main menu or just exit using back or home button) need to do so.
i figure that we exit in the middle of ongoing wave,when we resume the game,the wave restarted. It just save progress "situation" at our lastly finished wave,not the ongoing one.
and what i mean "situation",it includes all cards (tower,item,and also potion). This "situation" can be exploited easily. for example,i got 4 pumpkins and 4 wet towel in my item. I transmute all of it in one ongoing wave and i got 2 ring of greed,but i hate that. so i just go to main menu before the wave finished and then resume the game,magically the item back to 4pumpkins and 4 wet towel.
i myself have tried to do that several time and i could easily get impatience wrath set,and i think it just unfair.
hope you would "balance" the autosave,so that reduce the huge exploitation.
*and maybe you would like to edit my post to remove my example,so that not too many players know that,lol*
Hehe Bimolch thanks for reporting that.
Yes I'm aware of the situation and already have tickets for 'proper' saving of progress in my backlog. Unfortunately this is a task which probably will require some days to implement properly.
I really hope to finish it in version 0.10, I'm moving it from sprint to sprint since 0.8 already ^^ Fingers crossed!
you're very welcome andy :)
i found one more b"exploit" related with save file : i can skip the Horseman! lol
using the same trick,just press next wave while horseman running then reload (great for saving life when my main is not ready :D)
^Wow, that's a huge bug. Wish I knew about that when I was trying to play Hard. The Horseman is so difficult in Hard.
@Bimolch, I found the transmute/main menu, exploit early on, and due to that I lost items and towers I needed. If you don't know how to use it properly it's a double edged sword. However still problematic in terms of legit drop.
I found out the second you mentioned but I didn't get the picture, so thanks there buddy. :D
@Andy, you gotta do something about the bonus round, the very first times if you did 1400 sec it was crazy and everybody was like "Holyshit dude, how you did that?!", now somebody popped out and did 200k and he's now first or second on the rank ladder, so yeah, I think I said it all sadlol.
-Also the experience thingy, bonus round = xp farm. I was stuck at 50ish before bonus round and look at me now! I'm a big fancy 90+ and still growing..
-Lastly the more I play the bonus round the more I don't want to play mazebert which sucks because there are so many things and strategy to try and the bonus round restricts the strategies a lot! It's good all you want but a lot of towers aren't viable anymore.
@jhoijhoi : lol,that's really useful,for real. even so,i still can't stand in hard,lol. i'm a bit suck in discovering some great strategy in td games :D
@ManuWins : you're welcome :D but,if @Andy already resolve this bug,anyone that knew about this would be pissed off :p
and i agree that bonus round going insane now. i can't ecen get to 5000! :D
the whole bonus round difficulty and xp-earnings must be re-scaled
TL:DR – Shadow is to strong to be a 240 gold blue tower , needs to either have price and quality raised, or its indefinite increase in dmg needs to cap or be nerfed.
I know there are many actual towers that are meant to “carry”, With the Changes to Iron man , and having wedding rings you can have 3 carry towers pretty much (potion up the ones wearing bands, and Items are for buffs for iron man over potions) but I have run into many problems with this and cannot even come close to the leaderboards because i do not use the Shadow.
I have tried many combinations avoiding using the shadow and cannot compete because of the shadows Bonus DMG stacking.
Towers i have tried :
Frog – Its ability seemed Good and would be amazing, but i do not think its ability applied with reaver, or proporly stacked (you think at 99, and avg dmg of 1m and .1 attack would be able to destroy challenges/horsemen) but no it is not.
Black widow – is an amazing tower, but seemms to just lack the “umph” needed to carry in the long run (with luck u can hit lvl 500, but not to far in challenge cus of the 1 range)
Iron man – Great carry tower if you are lucky enough with Drops to feed his Never ending Lust to be 'strong', but will not fully match a shadows bonus dmg, with or with out potion consuming.
Electric Chair – Very difficult tower to start with, can do good with it if it gets moving, but in the end will fall short in long run.
Scarecrow – Could be an amazing tower if built in the back on a genesha, otherwise again like the chair difficult to get going because of slow atk speed.and in the end fall short on bonus waves cus of Endless mobs and no real time to build up crows.
Other towers i have not tried.- NEver tried their speed/dmg/ “skills” are not interesting.
If a bonus ladder reset does occur (sadly i think if level reset to 20 happens i do not see myself playing unless other new interesting towers added), with the Knus change and Olaf i suggest a Nerf to the Shadows % dmg as well to bring it in check with other “carry” towers since i feel it is even stronger than purples (and its a blue u can roll at lvl 1!)
