BF2S Forums [Defense Grid: The Awakening]

Peter wrote:

Are you beating him on story missions? Or just random challenges?

Edit: had a look. Wow, you actually beat one or two of his story scores.

Edit2:

Finray wrote:

Check this guys channel, he has awesome tactics on every level.

Oh, We decided taking paths from youtube videos was pretty much cheating

I didn't copy them exactly, he uses primarily gun towers, which I found much less efficent than my own strategies.

FrankieSpankie3388 wrote:

Are you guys even getting any golds? I got one gold so far and it was the level where they enter from the lower left, leave from the upper left, and the cores are in the top right where you can put a tower almost anywhere. Even then, I just barely saved the power cores a couple times.

I've got all golds.

Is it just me or is gun turret spam far too viable?

Yeah thats my only complaint really, Gun towers are too good, too all-purpose, too cheap.

@frankie Golds are easy enough to get on the 2nd run through the levels. Just keep using backspace until you can finish the level with all the cores .

@Finray, now i'm back from my weekend away i'm going to start attacking your scores

My bro has this. Pretty good timewaster.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

@frankie Golds are easy enough to get on the 2nd run through the levels. Just keep using backspace until you can finish the level with all the cores .

Ahh, that's how everybody's doing it, cheaters!!!

About command towers. Do they give a 25% boost in resources from dead enemies killed in the radius or the whole map? Is it worth having more than one command tower (bar for stealth detection)?

Fat_Swinub wrote:

About command towers. Do they give a 25% boost in resources from dead enemies killed in the radius or the whole map? Is it worth having more than one command tower (bar for stealth detection)?

Only get resources within range.

Protip: Concentrate your firepower on one area, and upgrade those towers. You'll only need one command tower then, as that's where most if not all of the aliens will die.

Upgrade the tower to level 3, you'll get 45% more resources instead of just 25%.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Yeah command towers are really good to have in your main kill zones. And I sometimes build them as 'spotters' for Meteor and Cannon towers for when there are a lot of stealth units.

Fuckin' YEAAAAAAA beat your score on Focal Point by a good 1.5k

EAT ITTTTTTTTTTTTT

EDIT: I think that's my first sub-200 score. o.O

Last edited by Finray (2009-05-11 09:45:34)

You have as many lasers as you can fit in to the level. I don't know how long the charge is and unfortunately there's no visual indicator of how long you have to wait for it to charge. Echo (the dev that used to post on the steam forums) has it on his list of things to look at when they're finished with the Xbox version.

But yeah the charge takes a while but you can use it multiple times.

Yeah thats why I use it as an absolute last resort, or sometimes if there's a large group of enemies at the core early on and i want to keep the cores there to stop them being spread throughout the level.

Finray wrote:

Fuckin' YEAAAAAAA beat your score on Focal Point by a good 1.5k

EAT ITTTTTTTTTTTTT

EDIT: I think that's my first sub-200 score. o.O

And i've beaten yours. Only by about 60 points this time though so it should be easy enough to beat again. You're rank 116 and my new score is 112.

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?