Tower Defense Updated
01.28.2010 by Atahell - 38 CommentsPosted in Starcraft 2 TD
The new update contains a new HUD and "devastate".
There we are again. A little comeback here with a new update on the Tower Defense. As you can see we have a new GUI/HUD and another new function (requested by the community): The “Devastate” Button. This helps you defeat a chosen unit. For example if a unit with 20 hp is escaping and another unit has about 2000 hp the towers may shoot at the 2000 one. With the devastate button (which requires some kind of micro) you can force your turrets to kill this unit. This unit will be literally devastated by all towers in range. You can also just double-click the unit instead of pushing the “devastate-button”. There are also some balance fixes and engine updates. So enjoy the new Update and feel free to give us feedback in the forum.
Nice, but i miss a speed button
I hope this is a joke… It’s imposible to beat a whole wave… I hope this’s really a joke.
Also I had to reload the page three times before the turrents start firing.
Test it properly.
Well done this “devastate” , with it, I finally finished the game in easy mode. I’ve been tryin’ to beat the game from 2 weeks ago, but now I did it.
))))))))))
I’m very happy with that. Thanks a lot for this crazy-fun-mind-blowing game. Hopefully my monitor survived once more
Indeed, the game looks more realistic and nicer! Thanks for the hard work guys, I like the game and play it a lot!
Cheers!
I think that the game is still too hard to play. You should be like a rocket scientist or very patient to find the best way to invest the very small amount of money that you earn on easy level. I haven’t tried the normal and hard levels, but the easy level in this game is the hard level so…
Maybe the programmers should correct the HP of the troops, vehicles and planes or the damage of towers so more people can enjoy the game, not only the sworn gamers. Ask how many players have successfully passed the normal and hard levels.
Anyway the is really fun! ENJOY!!!
A pretty nice game
I would say it’s almost final 
Then go ahead with the Zerg version 
common .gl guys.. Keep up the good work
Game has potential but it’s WAY TOO HARD!
Try listening to your players like REAL game developers. Also, try looking up the word EASY in the dictionary, because it doesn’t mean HARD AS ALL HELL.
Ohh dude… Actually on update we have lowered easy difficulty by 15% and it is still too hard?
The game looks very nice but the toweres do NOT shoot. I try every type of towers with upgraded range but nothing..
I have not saw the boss! After 45th vawe with 50 blue thors there were… nothing! Where is boss?!?!
Did anyone win on hard?
Yes! I suggest giving more money for kills on Easy Mode. After all, Easy should be easy!
Very hard, sometimes frustrating, but yet very addictive game, I like it
Please implement a fast forward function in a future release.
Found Bugs:
- range-display of towers is not very accurate
- if you resize the browser screen or go to fullscreen, the towers don’t react on enemies and are even shown after quitting => the only solution is to completely reload the flash site.
Anyway thanks to everyone who contributed for creating this game.
you’re not the first one,Rave_Zero with this request. We’ll look forward to create such a feature but i won’t promise anything.
One thing that is frustrating is that when you get to the green units, the rocket towers target the marines and not the banshees. Even if the marines are behind the banshees, they still favor the marines. I am pretty sure this is a bug but when you get up that far, to have to micromanage your units, it sucks.
It would be nice to be able to save games, instead of having to go back to level one every time.
I’ve never played this type of game before. Is there a tutorial for beginners? you only get $4 per unit killed. How are you supposed to make more than 3 towers. There needs to be a tutorial on how to get past the first couple waves with such little money or maybe I’m overlooking how to get money… dunno. The help & tips buttons don’t really tell me how to play.
Hi there! I hope that you guys are working on the EASIER version of Starcraft 2 TD. I played the game many times on easy, but every time as far as I get is the first BLUE wave on 32nd level. The only reason I can’t get further is that I can’t earn enough money to upgrade and buy more towers.
I like the game a lot, that is why I’m still waiting for the EASIER version of it.
Thanks!!!
Very good work, I’m impatient to see the reel map you will creat in the game !
For me it’s really not too Hard,
it’s very cool to not finish a game in 5 minutes.
Overall Impression: Fun game, blisteringly difficult, with an odd distribution of difficulty…
Pros: Starcraft, almost ’nuff said there. It is fun, challenging, and has a nice array of tower types and upgrades.
Cons: Normal and Easy modes are nearly impossible due to the rather extremely large jump in health of units from green to blue and the amount of money you have earned by this point does not allow for the amount of towers and upgrades needed to survive many levels past this point. I have managed to get to level 35 one time (Level 32 fifteen times) on easy, and 32 on Normal (Level 30 eight times).
Tweaks: Some of the upgrades are also rather sporadic. There are unequal gaps between levels, and some upgrades just make very little sense. (By the third range upgrade of sniper towers the area already covers the whole gameplay area of the map…and yet there’s still two more upgrades beyond this…why?) That’s just one of the examples I could have used.
Bug 1: Rocket towers aim for foot soldiers/troopers rather than the flying units, even if the troopers are just entering the map and the banshee/helicopters are already on the second half of the track.
Bug 2: Rocket towers tracking/hit collision settings are off on the second half of the very upper track. If placed in the middle between the second and third portions of the track, rockets will miss a good 75% of all targets on the second half of the last third of the track, the area of the last curve into the “red zone of death”/the end of the track.
Commentary: I have been told that the only strategy anyone has come up with to beat this game is to play it on hard mode and use only ice and rocket towers, with a good amount of luck. Not sure if this is true, as when I attempted it I failed miserably. If this is true; however, then I fear the game needs to be adjusted to allow for full use of the resources given to the player.
Final Words: Once again, this is a very promising and fun tower defense game, it just needs some work to really be top-notch. Next time y’all update I will provide my personal play-test experiences again so y’all will have some more feedback. Thanks for listening and for creating this game!
-Matoyak
P.S.: I too, add my voice in the request for a “fast-forward” option in this game…that would make playing much more enjoyable in the early levels especially.
-Matoyak
Thanks for a great FREE TD game! Is it possible to play this without being connected to the Internet? I paid for a flash game download pak that could be launched and played without an Internet connection. This pak included a TD game called Ravine. Has anyone looked at Ravine’s targeting options?
“Easy” STILL seems more hard than easy to me.
Thanks again!
bug in the range of the slow tower. It fights the lastest item that it can but not the very first item that it can
It’s been two weeks since I start playing this games and as far I can get is 32nd level. I tried different strategies, but the result is always the same: NOT ENOUGH MONEY! I’m sorry guys, but this game for me is starting to SUCK. I hope, that the EASIER version of it is coming up soon! I may check back after week or so.
Thanks!
Listen to your community, good lord! Every single person has said how obnoxiously hard this game is, yet you don’t even care and keep it the same? Way to show gamers you don’t give a crap about them at all.
I finally beat it on easy, but I am a hardcore gamer so that doesn’t say much. Awesome game, but need to change easy to EASY, not UNGODLY hard for the average gamer. LISTEN TO YOUR COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please make a “super-easy” mode or “noob” mode for the casual gamers. I can’t even get to the double digit levels on easy mode. I’ve tried several times with different towers and placements but it’s just too overwhelming for them.
Make easy a piece of cake like the definition of the word dictates. If it’s easy, anyone should be able to beat it no problem and then step up the difficulty if they so choose.
Stop crying like babies .. the easy mode is easy .. I played it through the second time I played ..
If your are good you get to level 45 with a clean record.
Hints: build 2 gatlings at the beginning and do not waste money with things like range for 120 credits
After level 7 you should have build them to level 3 and than save your money (or build a missle tower)
If you saved your money you have 786 credits before level 11. Than you need a missle tower for the tanks and you can build them to level 2 .. upgrade step by step to level 3
Before level 16 you have 3 towers level 3 and 1182 credits and you only sit and wait to get the units killed.. Than as always you need fire power – buy level 4 damage for the missle tower an see the how easily the Mechs get killed ..
For the heavier soldiers you need laser towers (also later for the 99 blue ones) .. invest the 762 credits in the laser tower (look for a position where you cover most of the road in highest range) .. here you need to update during the run to targets level 3.
Level 18 & 19 sit and wait .. result: 1502 credits
Level 20 I upgrade laser to 4,3,3 – credits 507
Level 21 upgrade missle tower to 4,4,4 (one during run) credits 1017
Level 22 upgrade laser 4,4,4 (one during run) credits 917
Level 23 collection credits 2957
Level 24 upgrade laser 5,4,5 credits 2257
Level 25 collecting credits 4057 (missle tower attacks VIKINGs and that is good!!! Laser tower the BANSHEE)
As you see there is no problem till here and you have enough money .. (duration 20 minutes)
From here several strategies lead to the finish but I guess all have a lot of missle, laser and freeze towers in it.
Level 26 if you build it good you do not need to build something to pass that level perfect credits 5557 .. after finishing I build another laser tower 5,4,5 credits left: 207
Level 27 & 28 collecting money 2397 & 3697
Level 29 upgrade missle tower to max – money 1897
Level 30 the perfect money level 3897
Level 31 another missle tower 4,4,4 – money 3252
Level 32 the first blue level .. upgrade both laser to max – money 2572
Level 33 collecting money (if build good) money 4792
Level 34 build another laser tower 5,3,5 and upgrade during run to 5,4,5
Level 34 max both gatling + freez tower (2,1,2) upgrade during run to (4,2,2) + upgrade missle tower to (4,4,5) .. maybe you miss some
Level 35 if you build good you only collecting money
Level 36 another freeze tower (3,2,2)+ max missle tower
Level 37 another max laser tower (devastate the first BANSHEE)
The rest is up to you .. in some levels you need the devastate. Level 45 I do not got perfect I missed 7 Mechs..
I been playing for about a week and now I cannot play because it is glitched. Non of my towers shoot so I can’t defend lol. Please help!
i love sc td plzz. make some more improveaments
this game is too hard. ikaruga is the only game in mind i can think of that goes beyond this game and contra comes up right behind. starcraft was hard enough when i was nine and melees are still impossible this day now. but this tower defense game is just too hard. too many options to work with in placement, it needs to me more structured in placement availablitly like starcraft. the weapons need to be able to fire faster or hit harder like starcraft. the pause button should allow the player to build new buildings without enemy progress like other tower defense games. all the upgrades need to be fixed. it should be cheaper to afford a full level two gatling gun then to buy two level one gatling guns. this tests a user’s comprehension of investments before and maybe even during a particular wave. if one gun does 2(X) damage at the same fire rate as two guns doing (X) damage each, then in tower defense theory, the one strong gun that can take one marine out with each shot should cost the same as about two regular guns that can take out half a marine each. cmon guys did you actually think about what you expected from people when you said EASY? easy should be somewhat challenging but very very playable. playable enough so anyone can actually build some thought on strategies for later levels. also the intensity of each wave builds up way too fast. you could increase the number of waves for each unit type that appears starting with extra marine waves up until wave 5. this would solve alot of ammo and money problems and allow players to get a better feel for the game. eventually when you get the to the fast waves with the wheels there either isnt anything that shoots fast enough to wipe them all out or you just cant get enough damage into them. other than that tho everything is awesome. perfect weapon set. light and fast gun type, heavy and slow missles, powerful sniper tower, multihit (wish it had splash) lasers, and slow towers. pretty basic mix of enemy types with varying palette swaps for extra goodyness
game has same bug, so we can finish it.
if u click right button u can choose (probably) play then next (wave) and all units disappear, and we have still 0/40
^^ yeah i figured that out after trying to fix the bug of towers not shooting for me, but lame to beat the game that way. Cheating = only cheating yourself
, will never really become good at something you cheat at
seems good jusrt cant get the towers to fire
It is nice game, interesting, but quite hard even on easy level. I would like to suggest some additional function for towers, something that is available at Bloons Tower Defense game. You can set for which target tower will work – First, Last, Strong, Weak. That will allow to keep more balanced firing power over units and better utilize tower’s strenghts. Thank you.
Yes, using tips from here above it not so hard. A few strong tower strategy works much better then lots weak towers.
Please make this a downloudable flash game as i dont have internet access at hope and weekends are realy boring
I beated the game on easy and yes it was hard finally a TD that requires some effort great job DEVS screw the people that are whinning about the game being to hard go play mineswiper or something
great game
extreamly hard this game… ive gone mad like 7 times, maybe you should start with a bigger amount of money… but the idea its awesome, really liked and im fighting to finnish it but its really really hard and ive just played this game in easy mode
Freeze tower has bug, maybe. It’s always choose first units to freeze, even when units are in others tower coverage. You can have a situation when even three towers busy freezing the same units (one his last in the range and other his first in the range) while other units running away freely.