It'll keep you entertained till the next coffee break. I'm stuck on the last level.

Nano War

Anyone got any other flash game gems? Yes, I know we've had such threads before - but maybe there are some new favourites?

Vector TowerD and Handdrawn TowerD are my poisons

Nope, pretty busy today actually. Will try when I get home.

Never too busy to post on QGL though!

Yay something else to do at work other than watch 6ft under. (<3 my job).

This game makes me feel dirty.. like some std infecting everything.

Busy too...took to long to load :(

And yeah never too busy for QGL, it's an addiction :(

same here:

insanely busy training my flunkees, but always able to squeeze in some quick qgl lovin

Try this one.

Spin the black circle

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/Spin%20The%20Black%20Circle/

Vector TowerD

I had forgotten about this! So much for my productivity.

Try this one.

Spin the black circle

Stuff of nightmares.

last edited by eu4ia at 13:46:17 10/Dec/08

edit: finished the game!

last edited by TiT at 13:55:29 10/Dec/08

Well done! What did you do on the last level? I've pretty much given up.

Spin the black circle

Wow. That gets really really really really hard. Haha. Once I got up to the level with the spinning circle in the middle with the 4 round holes and the flaming thingies, I gave up.

Too addictive! Needs more levels though.

http://games.ign.com/articles/932/932980p1.html

f*** you trog, ive done nothing for the last 90 minutes or so


2.8milli

trog, what is f***in secret to that vector TD i keep getting to around level 30 - 35 and keep getting stomped

heaps of those blue slow down towers, the level 1 blue ones, with a bunch of other towers around them

Dont f*** with the other level 1 towers tho, theyre s***.

And the level 3 towers seem pretty s*** too.

Also a good balance

but yeh i get to like level 45 and just have nothing

trog, what is f***in secret to that vector TD i keep getting to around level 30 - 35 and keep getting stomped

which map are you doing? I've completed all the beginner and normal but get pwned on Extreme every time :(

the beginner ones :\

Ahh Vector....

As soon as i can (without losing any lives or whatever they are) i get the red missle one, the big red one. Then i set it to target Close and keep adding more of them when i can and upgrading them 2-3 levels too. Surround them with range and attack boosters and cover the entire map in basic blue slow-down lasers.

That way the enemy takes ages to get anywhere and in the meantime is being shot to all f*** by red blocks (normally sitting in middle of map but reaching most of it)

I do something similar to Mantis. I try to find a spot in the map where the VT have to pass by at least twice and clump as much crap into it as possible. I do my best to position bonuses in a way that they stack on everything then I go to town upgrading my towers.

Just like Mantis I use s*** loads of blue towers to keep everything moving slow.

At this stage I have cleared out the beginer maps and I think one of the next ones.

last edited by Taipan at 14:11:08 16/Dec/08

see i dont use bonuses at all, i just buy more lives


are the bonuses any good?


Also I built one of the big red towers and it was kinda s***, way too slow imo

I finally finished the second map... tons of blue level 1 towers and level 2 purple towers, with bonus power ups increasing the purples to 150%, then upgrading them as the cash roles in. I didn't bother upgrading the blue ones. The secret with the purple ones is they are powerful but need a rest between firing, so having lots of them is better than a few that you've upgraded.

The blue ones have a small range, so put them on the edge while the purple ones can sit behind em (you'll be upgrading their power and range later on anyway).

are the bonuses any good?

f*** yeh they are! I usually get a couple of interest bonuses (1-2 depending on the map) and the rest extra damage ones, sometimes (again depending on the map) with a range on. I can do most of the Normal difficulty levels without losing a life that way.

I do similar to Mantis as well. The trick is lots of blue towers - not just to slow everything down but also to spread everything out as much as possible (so your towers are working on as few targets as once).

If you can get an early level 3 red tower it'll probably suffice for several levels with no need for any other upgrades, so you can save a bit of money.

Also I think I figured out that upgrading a level 3 tower is more efficient than building a new level 3 tower - but only up to a point, cuz eventually you need multiple things shooting. By the end of the whole level I might have 8 or so fully upgraded l3 red towers.

HOWEVER, the red towers are almost f***ing useless against the little green bastards, so you need to either have a s***load of them or have a few other towers in there to help out. An upgraded level 3 green is OK but I think you mightttt be better with an l3 purple (although I don't usually bother, my reds usually sort it out).

man, i wish my home computer was powerful enough to run this game on the higher levels, im sick of playing at work :\

Vector TowerD

holy s*** I started playing that at 7.30pm the other night and before I knew it, It was approaching midnight - addictive+

I've pretty much clocked every level now
There's another version out on the tubes which has unlimited money
good for planning strategy but other than that its just hax

are the bonuses any good?


Also I built one of the big red towers and it was kinda s***, way too slow imo

you can't do 50% of the maps w/o using the +25% damage booster
you stick 4 of those in a square and build level 2 or 3 red towers around them + some blue-2 and heaps of blue-1 towers over the other sides of the towers to slow them all way down

last edited by tequila at 15:59:33 16/Dec/08

Seriously f*** that TD game :(

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1525/raaaaaagejpgxc8.png

Quality, not quantity Scuzzy.

so more upgrades? Cus you know theres like four of those awesome rocket tower thingies and like lots of more power dodads

dude ! dont build the blue towers around your damage upgrades. build rocket towers around them. blue towers do f*** all damage

i'd put more blue towers around the edges as well

RAD

bah I was trying to find one where a guy beat the game with 4 or 5 towers, 2 of them were the blue freezy ones so they must be pretty useful. Can't find the vid though.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/EvilDog/z-rox

rock your brain

hand drawn towerd is freakin addictive

Dam I stayed up till 1:30am last night playing Troggles games :(
Dam you Troggles :)

wait what


when i used my damage powerup things, they didnt display on the screen like scuzzys. Do you actually have to place them on an empty block or something?

Oh well, i still beat the first level, yay

Giant red towers arent so bad

scuzzy, for that map I had on the middle block (from left to right):

2 vertical rows of L2 purple (set to Close firing)
2 vertical rows of power ups
2 vertical rows of L2 purple (set to Close firing)
1 row of L1 blue

Then I had the wall surrounding the middle block covered with L1 blues.

I only upgraded the purples once the middle block was completed (except the blue row, which I added later).

I only lost 3 lives with the first round with those fast yellow ones.

To get started, I used one L1 red and one L1 green, then sold them later.

Dam I stayed up till 1:30am last night playing Troggles games

It's turned into a time sink for me as well :(

i've beaten the beginner levels mainly spamming the level 2 purples and the level 1 blues + some red missle towers

purple + blue slow things down heaps

when i used my damage powerup things, they didnt display on the screen like scuzzys. Do you actually have to place them on an empty block or something?

heh yes :) they don't upgrade all the towers on the screen, you place them like a normal tower and they have a radius effect (ie, any tower within 3-4 squares will get the damage boost)

scuzzy's arrangement of damage boosters is pretty good (ie, put them in the middle) - if you put l3 red (ie, rocket) towers around them they will lay down the serious smack. If you replaced one of the damage boosters with a range booster, the rockets will reach almost the whole way to the top and bottom of the screen as well, so they can attack almost everything, anywhere.

Heh, I was actually thinking about posting a thread asking for help on how to complete the extreme maps.. I didn't realise I was like, the greatest player of this game anywhere. Dammit!

I didn't realise I was like, the greatest player of this game anywhere. Dammit!

Patience young gwasshoppa.

trog ya bastard!

Ok for you newbs still struggling, I just had a quick bash - maybe these screenshots'll help to show how I do it

Level 13
http://trog.qgl.org/up/vtd-lev13.jpg

Level 25
http://trog.qgl.org/up/vtd-lev25.jpg

Level 30
http://trog.qgl.org/up/vtd-lev30.jpg

The last screenshot was a 'hard' one (with the greys) and it totally smashed them before they'd even gotten up the left hand side ... note I've still got 2 bonuses in storage as well (probably would put them in the middle island as damage boosters at some point in the next couple of levels.

hmm I had only a few L10 reds and a L10 purple and then some cainer rocket things(2.5k ones) 4 x L5

21% interest too

Granted it was on beginner level

troggles can you fix the third screenshot, I'd like to see whats going on for pro tips :)

oops soz, fixed

from level 30 I was able to use basically the same thing just clicking 'next' for the next 5 levels or so... had to do some ugprades.

rad, I'll try it out

what is with 13k in the bank? why wouldn't you just spam missle launchers and upgrade them around the middle island

what is with 13k in the bank? why wouldn't you just spam missle launchers and upgrade them around the middle island

you could do that, but I find its better to keep as much in the bank as possible (so you keep earning interest) and just upgrade when yuo need to. That level is pretty easy really cuz (with lots of blue towers) you can slow their approach for ages and whale on them.

The hardest things to destroy come around level 43 (can't remember if there's another batch later) and they're the green ones - red sucks against them. However usually you can brute force it with heaps of rocket turrets.. I usually throw in a few high-end green lasers as well and upgrade them a bit but I suspect a decent purple would be more useful there. Almost every game of it I've played recently though I have NEVER built a purple.

i go with the spam purples and blues with some red rockets as backup

Don't stick your red rocket just anywhere

i am on the beginning level and i can only get lev 49 :( i sux

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/vectoid.jpg


died by the skin of my teeth on this one :\

freezing towers are awesome. i highly recommend them.

Yeah I got some more dollars and points this time around :3

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/606/radsgo0.png

could have even been more frugal as they never got past the the red turrets along the second ring. Finished with 4,157,119 points or something.

last edited by scuzzy at 19:45:33 17/Dec/08

maxe, that's the s*** - try spraying some more blue towers around though, even if you don't have any "real" towers near by - they'll help slow up the movements of the creeps so your other towers have more time to concentrate on ones that are actually in range.

I went with the suggested L3 red plus L1 blues on "Elemental-ish" map and am now basking in the glory of my victory.

Extreme maps next!

this game is the bomb! sapping my day up nicely.. anyone ever just go all interest powerups? I've just done that on the first map and ended up with like 2.5million after finishing level 50

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I have made it to level 18 of "The Splits" (one of the expert levels) and can't get any further. Making some progress and I have an all new strategy I'm going to try out over the weekend to see if I can make some headway. It's f***ing hard though; the fast ones are what kills you because you don't have enough firepower or slow towers to take them out, so I can usually only last 2 waves of them. Even if I had a rocket tower I'd be screwed, and I can't afford enough blue towers to slow them down enough.

i dont know how to post pics

but i finished switchback

http://www.users.on.net/~gdmckenzie/Level%201.jpg

f*** THIS GAME

I got to level 20 on Splits. My awesome new strategy idea failed miserably; I need a whole new rethink.

Spin the Black Circle is AWESOME!

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/vector.jpg

lols

i dont think the purple ones down the bottom even fired once

lol on that level i cant even get past level 3 without one going over

Nice bank balance there maxe ..... f***ed if I can get mine over 10k let lone anything like that.

trog do me a favour if you don't mind post screen shot of what your start on The splits looks like. I am having a s*** of a hard time it in the begining.

last edited by Taipan at 19:02:07 18/Dec/08

okay i dont get hoe the interest works... you need to build up money right? like if you have 20% interest and only $100 as your round ends, you only get +20$ so $120 right?

How do you guys get sooo much money? Do you just try and use the minimum amount of towers you can to kill stuff early and let the money pile up so your interest works for you? Or something else? Is it 'fun mode' or cheeting or something?

Yeah I saw maxe's stash and realized I was doing something wrong with the money myself. I tried to be as tight with the cash as possible in a game lastnight and ended up having 70k in the bank. once you get over 10k pretty much everytime you hit the send VT button it gives you a good whack of cash and makes upgrading pretty easy.

last edited by Taipan at 10:23:09 19/Dec/08

How do you guys get sooo much money?

build as minimaly as you can and upgrade towers only when needed, eg the expensive red rocket towers don't need upgrading if the HP of the enemy is lower than the damage of the weapon.

build as minimaly as you can and upgrade towers only when needed

Pretty much this yeah

Get all interest upgrades for your first 3 or 4 bonus points, then concentrate on having as much cash in the bank as you can


Pro-tip; if you know for sure you have to build something, hit "Send Vectoids" first, so the interest is calculated on the money you had before you bought the tower, not after (you can build towers mid battle fyi)

Makes a big difference in the earlier levels

trog do me a favour if you don't mind post screen shot of what your start on The splits looks like. I am having a s*** of a hard time it in the begining.

Dude so am I! I'm getting nowhere fast. I've made it to level 20 but that seems to be as far as I can get (and only done it once).

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7079/towerdefensewinpd6.jpg

thanks to maxe's tips of interest (and anyone else that helped)

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Hahahaahahahahah that is awesome

lol massive

Yeah saw a couple of video's on youtube of guys that had done the exact some thing.

Lv 13 is like 100x harder than lv 15 on that nano war thing.

200k in bank, level 10's everywhere :D

http://i41.tinypic.com/ixxmaf.jpg

who has completed the up and down map?

Yeah I have infi but sorry no screens of it because I am a linking noob.

who has completed the up and down map?

Me. I'm stuck on The Frog map - best is level 28.

*edit: Yeah, no pics from me either. I didn't think to take a snapshot. I used L3 purples (on the verticals) with powerups and L1 blues

last edited by eu4ia at 12:22:22 23/Dec/08

that up and down map is killing me, got up to level 49 so far

haven't finished this cell game yet level 14 is hard :/ computer cheats moves everywhere at once where i only get one mouse pointer... :/

Well i passed level 14 now level 15 is just a fing c***

yeah pave i have been to level 48 but get swamped by the hardest ones. i need to try something different i reckon.

i have been using red3 and blue1 with a single damage powerup and the rest as interest.

it's not gonna beat me though. i ain't a quitter.

i nailed up and down as such:

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3074/vectorupanddownzc5.jpg

last edited by infi at 00:21:49 24/Dec/08

hey pave i beat up down




just sayin

pics or it didn't happen

how do you get so much money...

the key i found it to get interest upgrades to 18%, and buy biggest weapons early. i get the red3 as soon as possible. then accumulate $$. use blue1's liberally to make the most of the high damage units because they are so cheap.

then create 2 columns of red3's and purple3's each with a damage powerup.

profit.

All those are easy to do with maxe's interest tip....

however i bet none of you have finished the frog??? i cant get past level 20-25 ... :( anyone managed it??

Level 32 on the frog for me. So frustrating! I set up L1 blues only on the left side (where they enter) to halve the number of enemies being dealt with by my towers in the middle.

FROG IS A PAIN IN THE ASS!!

But yes your strategy is a good one. Also I have found from youtube demos that selling early units to buy upgraded ones seems superior too.

As is the damage powerup.

Woot finished level 15 of nanowar

Woot finished level 15 of nanowar

hax.

Seriously, well done. What's your secret strategy?

Nano war was good! 15 levels isn't enough. I played some of the submitted ones and they were fun. My strategy was to stack nanos onto a big one to keep the smaller nodes generating more. Once I had outnumbered a node I would take it. Neutral nodes, wait until the enemy wears it down, you will have less to waste nanos on to take that node. otherwise.. ZERG RUSH! :D

I'm still struggling with The Frog level. Has anyone finished it?

http://e.imagehost.org/0619/frog.jpg

Frog is very hard but try using more blues on one side to slow down one half of the units straight away. The highest I have gotten is.
26 I think.

Yeah, I have previously tried having more blues on one side... but only got to around 28 or so.

The secret to level 15 is to move and takeover as much as possible as quickly as possible and whatever is closest to the cells you don't own you must use before you use the others and yo msut constantly move everything which is a bit of a pain because teh computer can do it all at once if you had like 2 mouses that would be a bonus. Their are 4 keys to the 15th level in nanowar.

1 - Rapid expansion
2 - The middle cell
3 - The quadruples at the bottom of the big cell
4 - Optimal space utilisation (The theory behind this is to use the cells that are closest to the cell you want to takeover and collect a certain amount of cells at a distribution cell or a cell that is relatively close to all cells.)

As for vectorTD I used level 3 rocket towers 2 mostly upgraded and just the blue ones for taking out stuff, it got really close towards the end, positioning really gives you greater control. The upgrades are to expensive and the overall damage capacity of the level 3 rocket towers becomes less effective.

Did you complete frog?

ARRGGGGGG f***UING FROG MAP!! DIE IN A FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't get past 34 on The Frog. I get killed by blues, even though I have about 25 lvl1 blues and a few lvl2 ones. You fellas reckon the frog is hard, try the other 2 extreme maps, No Left Turns is just stupid actually. This is the best I can do on the extreme maps:

The Frog: 34
The Splits: 20
No Left Turns:6

I might be able to get a bit higher on the splits, only played it a few times.

Yeh I've pretty much given up on the Extreme maps. From what I can tell its not like there's a bunch of fun you can have trying to solve it in various ways - there's probably only a handful (if that) of alternative sequences of tower deploys you can follow to complete the maps. I don't really have the patience to trial-and-error it any more. I'd be interested in seeing a complete solution if/when someone finds it but I'm out (for now!) until I find another TowerD game :)

trog, have you checked out Defense Grid: The Awakening? I've been thinking about buying it.

Yeh I've seen the trailers, it looks pretty cool!

A non-time-wasting flash game: http://www.mazapan.se/games/BurnTheRope.php awesome

walkthrough in case you find it difficult: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/april08/ropewalkthrough.txt

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lol, that was a MASSIVE time sink!

trog, have you checked out Defense Grid: The Awakening? I've been thinking about buying it.

Looks just like a 3d version of your average TD game, $30 is a bit steep for that imo.

Latest effort on the Frog - level 34. I think I'm throwing in the towel at this point.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7135/frogyb7.jpg

i just wish i could double click on my towers to select all... or alt click to select a few... because at times i need like 3 towers to target 'soft' targets... with low hp and i need the rest smashing the hards... eg i need more control over the ai... quickly....

also its f***ing stupid how you need to progress to the next round to get your interest bonus, eg if you sell a bunch of towers... then click to next round... to get your interest... which is so hard to get much of in frogger... you will start the toids coming :(