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Temporals I find pretty useful at level 1 but only if they're right behind other towers. Also wouldn't concentrating fire just make you more vulnerable to mass racers/seekers?

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Depends on the level. If possible I always find a way to get the aliens to go past a specific part two or more times to maximise the killing power of the turrets there.

Which level do you have in mind, if any?

Mostly the open ended ones where there are multiple paths and you have a lot of places to put down towers. As an example, focal point.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

I'd recommend getting good at the levels yourself before watching those vids. I only started watching them after I had Gold on all levels, because otherwise you're always going to want to do it his way, instead of making your own layouts.

I've adapted a few of his to get high scores too, but find it hard to think outside of the box after watching his. I always get the urge to just do what he did . I'm very happy with some of my own level layouts though

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Teslas are completely useless

Finray wrote:

Oh Swinub, a level 3 Tesla at the exit will take out anyone away to leave with a core on levels with seperate entrance/exits.

Hummm that's a good idea. Thanks.

I usually find that I set up a pretty solid defence but somehow one manages to get through on very rare occasions. A "last second save" tower would probably do well for me plus a lot of the time when I'm speeding up I forget to manage my economy and end up making some bad upgrade choices anyway.

Last edited by Fat_Swinub (2009-05-11 12:57:11)

The game's not rocket science.

Look at the map, even if it's open there will be chokepoints where you can concentrate fire into. On the later levels a little strategic blocking of pathways will make the aliens have to pass through your strongpoint multiple times.

Always upgrade towers. 1 700 point gun tower is better than 7 100 point gun towers (well at least I think so anyway).

Watch out for line of sight, towers don't shoot through each other so a nice way of wasting 700 points on a tower is by putting it behind another one where it loses like 30% of it's firepower.

I tried all the towers on the level each gets unlocked but tbh most of them are too expensive and a waste of a good tower position. 95% of my towers are gun towers, with one temporal in each strongpoint and maybe 1 command to inflate my score. 1 missile in the middle of the flight path will pretty much deal with air units for the whole level. For the last 10 waves or so a meteor with maximal coverage of as many of your killzones as possible will help deal with the spam. The temporals will slow shit down so the meteors actually hit.

Do what yoda said and play the game. Only finray watches video guides lol.

Finray I just beat your Center of Power score by 2k points .

I still don't see why everybody just uses gun towers. I usually mix guns and cannons with a temporal in the middle and a meteor or two. Also for swin, the most important thing in the start is to just block paths first. Look for those choke points and block them the quickest way possible. Try to block any extra paths so they have to go in and out the same way so your guns can fire on them twice. Also, in case you were curious when blocking corners, just two diagnols will block, so long as the corners touch. I'll try to draw it out to explain it.

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Say you're at a corner and that ^ arrow is the only way for the enemies to get through that particular shorter path. You likely won't be able to put something in the top right corner. If you put a gun in the bottom right and top left corner, it'll block enemies because the corners are touching. I used to put the three towers in the corner but it is a waste of money so try to use that to your advantage when blocking paths.

Lol this game is fun.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Heads up, Defense Grid is coming to Xbox Live Sept 2nd, with 4 new maps and a bunch of other challenge modes for 800MS Points.

From Gamespy:

Hidden Path Entertainment's critically acclaimed PC game Defense Grid: The Awakening is now set to arrive on Xbox Live on September 2nd and will cost gamers 800 Microsoft Points ($10.)

This iteration for the Xbox 360 includes a ton of new features such as the Borderlands mission pack and over 100 unlockable challenge modes.

Defense Grid: The Awakening on Xbox LIVE Arcade features 10 different tower types that can each be upgraded twice. These towers all have unique tradeoffs that affect ideal placement, such as line-of-sight attack or ballistic trajectory fire; a large area of effect or damage over time; and minimum and maximum ranges.

Over the course of the game's 10 hours of story play, players battle 15 different types of enemies, each with unique capabilities and strategies, across 24 unique environments. To ramp up the challenge even more, Defense Grid: The Awakening now includes an additional 100 unlockable challenge modes.

The game has been built using Emergent's Gamebryo engine which has been used by the likes of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Civ IV and Bethesda's Oblivion.

Hopefully we'll see the new stuff in the PC version too. The devs always said they'd go back to looking at the PC version once the 360 one was finished, and now it is. Time will tell .

Bought it for the 360, it rocks!

I've been playing it a fair bit recently and I have a beaten a few yes.

There was a patch a month or two again that fixed the Command Towers. Apparently up until that patch they all only gave a 5% increase in resources no matter what level they were. Now they give the correct 25%, 35% and 45% increase. So old scores on the last few levels are all now kinda reduntant. So definitely give them a go at least to 'catch up'.

But i've beaten a few scores on earlier ones as well .

Oh and if you play be sure to check out the new 'health bars' in the options. It's a nice added feature.

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2009-09-06 15:18:24)

Someone on SPUF posted screenshots for the 4 new Xbox maps

Oatmeal wrote:

Here are screenshots of the four new maps:

Onslaught - 1

Forge - 1 - 2

Entanglement - 1 - 2

Infiltration - 1 - 2 - 3

Also, Echo, the community representitive has asked for opinions on the current maps so they know what people look for in a good DG map, so they can "expand" the game accordingly (that sounds promising. they havent forgotten about us ). Make sure to post any opinions.

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2009-09-24 12:59:21)