Defense Grid

Shamikebab said:
Which part of "most of the game can be done" sounded like "getting into the top 50 can be done"?
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His point is that other towers are actually better when used to their strengths.

You're having a bit of a moan saying the game can be completed (on easy btw?) by spamming gun turrets. Most strategy type games can be completed by spamming but even other types. Do people complain that they can complete MW2 without using the knife and can get to the end just using the rifle? ;)

The story mode is pretty easy, the next story mode offers more of a challenge when going for golds. Some challenges can be very difficult and just guns won't get you through.
 
Yeah I know, but when I say the game, I mean the main story. I have completed most of the challenges on 360. Going through them again now on PC.
 
Chong Warrior said:
But there are two difficulty levels of the main story are there not? Why argue such a trivial point?
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I think you can only "complete" the story by doing the main missions. The advanced missions are for a bonus challenge after the game is finished.

It clearly isn't a trivial point because you asked me if I was playing on easy :confused:
 
I'm with Shami... there is no difficulty setting. Theres story mode and thats the only 1 you can play initially and thats the only 1 you can complete the game on. The Story Challenge can be seen as a harder difficulty but since you can't play it initially, its not technically 1.

The final level is quite good once you figure out how to make the path long, finally got my Long Road achievement on it.
 
I can't work out how people get massive resources, most I've ever had after a mission is about 15k, I sure as hell won't ever get near a scoreboard!

And I've not got many achievements left, just can't get some of them.
 
platypus said:
I can't work out how people get massive resources, most I've ever had after a mission is about 15k, I sure as hell won't ever get near a scoreboard!

And I've not got many achievements left, just can't get some of them.
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The people with ridiculously high (i saw 66k or something) score almost certainly have something dodgy going on. Even with Command Towers at full upgrade you'd be looking at 45% more if they die in that area and interest just couldn't make up the other 20-30k resources you'd be missing.
 
Score isn't just worked out from resources. For a start you get 24,000 just for keeping all the orbs without one getting stolen.

Also the longer you keep all the orbs in the hub the more resources increase. So even when they steal them and are running off, even though you kill them all the time it takes for the orbs to return you're score is affected slightly. Also tower timing plays a part... the longer you keep holding back and hold onto resources the more they increase. All small change but they do add up.
 
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Chong Warrior said:
Score isn't just worked out from resources. For a start you get 24,000 just for keeping all the orbs without one getting stolen.
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I know... but assuming you built a killzone with a Command tower you'd get 45% more from kills so you'd be looking at maybe 10-20k directly from enemy deaths, you've got to spend some of that on towers so thats 75% off and less interest. You'd still need at least 30k worth of resources when you finish
 
The way to get a high score is to build lean, whatever you don't spend (or spend as late as possible) earns you interest which then earns you more interest. How many cores you have a hold of dictates what percentage of possible interest you will earn.

If you build a load of towers and they never even get close to the cores then the chances are you will be earning interest on a very small amount.

I was playing the last level yesterday and trying to break into the top 100. My previous best was around 125,000, I ended up on 135,00 or something by trying to bag as much interest as possible. Towards the end I was getting something like 1000 interest per second. With this kind of cash you can spend lots on defense towards the end but you have to save to get there.

If you are earning big interest then it pays you to keep a hold of all cores. If you are earning interest on very little then it doesn't matter if they have the cores for a while.

Hope this helps.
 
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