Loop Hero Guide | Advanced Tile Combos

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thank you for watching! If you'd like to catch the action live, be sure to drop in and say hi on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/alexandercoccia Oh, and there's a secret combination that I will be talking about in another video... didn't want to spoil it here :)

[@anthonybraun1161]

I spent an hour playing necromancer was fun :) I could have gone longer was on loop 17 build was fun to do attack speed & summon quality

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[@MrAskmannen]

When using the desrt tiles and river, make a mental note that when a river turns into an oasis it loses the ability it had as a river (i.e it reduces attack speed instead of doubling tile bonuses) Also both thickets forests will turn into the same tile (burned forest) when lined up with the storm temple, thus it is more beneficial to spend your forests for magic damage gains, and your thickets for attack speed gains.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Great points!

[@Darkendragon]

FYI Bloody groves have 1 major down side that most probably dont realize, and why I stopped using them. they stop any unit from spawning anything that requires them to die. for example if you have a bloody grove and battlefield affecting the same tile, the grove will devour the enemy and you'll never see a ghost spawn in that area. same goes with vampire mages and not getting any tomes aftewards. so if you plan on using bloody groves, you shouldn't bother using any other units that require the enemy to die to get something else to spawn.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

GREAT POINT!

[@patricioolmos6198]

I like to spawn bloodgroves and ruins so the worms doesnt escape when I down them

[@Gunrun808]

Get ready for this combo. If you put a battlefield next to a ransacked village it will replace one of the ghouls with a chest. (But when the village transforms you will no longer get the chest)

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thats pretty good!

[@ryanminer6605]

Another great combo is that if you have unlocked the watchtower and have crossbowmen. You can stage more powerful creatures near the campfire and have an easier time getting loot. One combo I frequently do a lot is to have ransacked villages on both adjacent road tiles at your campfire. Pair them with a blood Grove and you can absolutely wipe out ghouls and vampires, same with fleshgolems.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Aye! Great combo! Good tip :D

[@Gaden6893]

This is succinct, thorough, and well laid out. Thanks for the vid!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words!!

[@steffangls]

ive been searching for this for a while now, thanks

[@AlexanderCoccia]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!!

[@ballom5191]

A small tip you forgot to mention. Not only blood grove prevent zombies from cannibalizing, they also prevent them from resurecting, because the grove take the place of their corpse It also prevent vampires from summoning bats if the fight started with 5 monsters are there will be no space cleared by a monster death. For the same reason it prevent vampire mage to turn into book...and now than I think of it it might prevent monsters to turn into ghost.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Great tip! Thanks for that!

[@johnphillips4887]

3:26 Blood groves next to burned forests become hungry groves.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yes! I knew I missed something lol

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Damn I even set up the board to show that specifically ahahahahaha sometimes I just forget :(

[@internetuser8922]

You also get hungry groves if two blood groves are adjacent.

[@ih8mylife]

I think a Blood Grove becomes a Hungry Grove whenever it doesn't touch a Forest or a Grove. I guess Burned Forests don't count.

[@zaubergurke5468]

i Like to use the Blood Grove together with ruins, since it prevents the worms from escaping. thus, as long as i make sure the wormtiles are the first i battle they never shoot from the back and always die.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Great tip!

[@rw8353]

im 20 hours in and haven't bumped off the first boss, but I'm hopeful . Thanks for the vid

[@spamrme1654]

one tip I picked up was get warrior's evasion to about 40, and use Oblivion to destroy Lich's Palace tiles, reducing the Lich's health and damage by 5% each.

[@willw5868]

I beat him a few hours in doing a bunch of vampirism and max health and letting blood grove eat him. Blood grove in range of camp is really important, I lost my first encounter with the boss but would have won if blood grove had been there. Didnt know to destroy his palace tile thingies but I hear that can be helpful as well.

[@TuberTugger]

@@willw5868 Curious if it would be better to use hungry grove instead, given how much 5% more boss hp is.

[@willw5868]

@@TuberTugger Interesting question, Ive never tried that. Hungry grove does attack the hero tho, but its not a lot of damage. In a build with a lot of defense that would probably be a really good play, defense would almost completely block the groves attacks. Even other builds I feel like adding about 30 damage every once a while is worth it for taking 5% of the bosses HP. Not sure tho, would be a good math problem.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

A lot of excellent advice here 😃

[@thejuiceweasel]

Oh wait, I can't touch the road with my river to create reeds, is that because I haven't unlocked the bridge? The river stops just short of being connectable to the road tiles.

[@TuberTugger]

Yes, you need the bridge unlocked

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Aye! Must have that bridge!!

[@TuberTugger]

Amazing video! I love me some loop hero. Keep it up!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thanks a ton!

[@jrs1986]

moreover, hencethereforth, ergo great info!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lol I'm happy to help

[@skycapturer6737]

I discovered a way to maintain high attack speed during boss fights, you need to put a ruins adjacent to the campfire tile. So when you enter the fight the Worms will make ranged attacks and recharge your stamina with each of their attacks. Also they do less damage due to damage reduction of the ranged attacks.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Good strategy! Really unique :D

[@elsewhereprince3969]

I stumbled onto the shipwreck and the siren on my own but was stumped by the jellyfish. At this point in time my encyclopedia is only missing the final boss.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Nice! :D

[@CazaresComedorDeCasadas]

thank you very much!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

You're welcome!

[@ChronoBard]

Thanks so much man. I'm loving this game and all the cool hidden things

[@AlexanderCoccia]

You're welcome!! Thanks for watching!!

[@pedaleou]

so... why don't figure out the hidden things by yourself?... youtube videos will destroy the fun of experimentation...

[@ChronoBard]

@@pedaleou Everyone is different my dude. People who have fun figuring out every little secret have an awesome skill and patience. I only play games about an hour a day, so I like communities who share and let me experience awesome things in games that I never would because I would lose interest in the game before finding it. No fault of the game, just who I am.

[@pedaleou]

@@ChronoBard ah... ok! just saying that the game would be great fun when you find those little secrets by yourself ;) but if you want to rush it to have fun no problem!

[@achimsinn7782]

idk if you already made a video about that, but how about some specific combinations that are good (or bad) for certain characters. Like the golden cards look like at least 2 of them are very specific for one character

[@AlexanderCoccia]

I'll see what I can do!

[@patricioolmos6198]

Idk the name of the card but the one that lets you resurrect is godtier with necromancer(?

[@kzzs997]

Nice combos, thanks man

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Glad you like them!

[@Rolgi]

Can you maybe do a video about the most optimal camp setup?

[@hackdotx4060]

if you're going for camp set up, then rushing the mud huts and build 2 of them so you get rid of the camps and open up more space

[@Rolgi]

@@hackdotx4060 Did not know that yet. I was saving the mud huts and farms for last. That's a very nice tip

[@elsewhereprince3969]

I’m late game and I actually built and then destroyed mud huts so I could have farms with eight fields.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lots of good tips here! Yeah that's something I can do soon 😊

[@Rolgi]

@@elsewhereprince3969 But isn't 8 more mud huts at lvl 4 a way better deal?

[@Ado90Gaming]

Well laid out!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thanks! I hope it helped!

[@elkugelblitz]

Thanks!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

You're welcome!!

[@cjhill3372]

I just started getting into Loop Hero. I am surprised I am here considering how often I watch your Marvel Snap videos 😂

[@AlexanderCoccia]

That's awesome!

[@Mofriese]

Smith's Forge next to a cemetary (I think) spawns an empty armor - it's a tank that takes 1 damage max per hit.

[@hellshounds23]

the forge will do that after the 6 counter hits 0

[@Mofriese]

@@hellshounds23 oh

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah! Living armor tends to drop great loot too!

[@nickhart7280]

Is the bridge required to place a river next to the road? I tried to do it last night but couldn't place the river that close

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yes!

[@yugen]

Another interesting trick: If you want to put a river through your town, you can create a town chain and then oblivion one of the towns and build through it then keep expanding the town on either side

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Ahaha thats cool! Thanks for sharing that one 😃

[@ZebraMetal]

Ok I feel a bit stupid but why is the forest card at the beginning providing a 6% increase in attack speed instead of 3%?

[@Hstan8]

I suspect rivers actually provide a 2x multiplier effect to the tile itself which is additive. So the landscape tile effect is calculated as : Base Stat x (number of adjacent rivers x 2). 1 adjacent river = 2x tile effect 2 adjacent rivers = 4x 3 adjacent rivers = 6x This is based on my observations in game.

[@ih8mylife]

@@Hstan8 That's what I've noticed, too. It's weird...

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah, rivers are pretty insane. They help A LOT!

[@MerlinCross13]

Isn't there some sort of combo with Graveyards? I'm missing a skeleton enemy it seems.

[@Moley1Moleo]

You can get them to spawn skeleton archers. I don't know the precise conditions, but I think they have a chance to spawn on higher acts, and with enemies on nearby tiles so that they get to do their archery. So just put several cemeteries together on a high act and I think you should get them.

[@TuberTugger]

As Moleo has said, it is just a chance at higher chapters. So just place them often and you'll see skeleton archers eventually.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah thats an interaction I haven't quite pinned down yet.

[@yugen]

@@Moley1Moleo Level 3 the skeletons get the archer ability.

[@piratekai8377]

do you lose your buildings if u move a chapter?

[@AlexanderCoccia]

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you're referring to your cards, then no, once you unlock them they are yours

[@RecklessSatyr]

Nice video. Found vamp mages by accident. Btw: can you start a second river after the first can't be continued?

[@ih8mylife]

No you can not :(

[@TuberTugger]

Nope. You'll need to oblivion whatever is in the way and keep going.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah, only one river :C

[@moverweel1]

The Temporal Beacon, Bookery, Vampire Mansion combo doesn't seem to work for me. At least, not in act 3. I always get normal vampires. Does it matter if there's any tile on the road in-between itself?

[@AlexanderCoccia]

The bookery has to be depleted!

[@moverweel1]

@@AlexanderCoccia Ah got it. Seems I need to work on my survival skills a bit more then :) Thanks!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lol anytime

[@Lunarl4ndr]

What happens to a river if you obviously it in the middle?

[@indigenoussober407]

I’m wondering, if you place a wheat field between two villages, does that give the extra health bonus to both villages?

[@byteheist]

Yes it does!

[@indigenoussober407]

@@byteheist wew!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

yeah!

[@internetuser8922]

I got the achievement for killing each monster type, but my encyclopedia is still missing a slot. It's the slot after the goblin archer. Do you know what monster goes there? Also, have you seen anything about the secret interaction that creates a dimensional rift & the optional bosses based on the game devs?

[@WhiteCavalier15]

After the goblin archer I have the Ghoul

[@AlexanderCoccia]

I do know about that little trick, just figured I'd keep it a secret a tad longer to not spoil it before making a video about it 😃

[@mdjv]

what the point of the temporal beacon other than getting the mage ? i didnt get half speed time :)

[@the_neuron]

Sped up time refers to how fast is the day cycle in the upper left corner. It speeds up respawning of enemies and anything else related to day counter. It works for me.

[@TuberTugger]

Passing of time is the rate a day goes by. Not how quickly you move/attack. It basically increases the spawn rate of all the tiles while you're in its aura.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Aye!

[@diswhoiaml3470]

I've never gotten an overgrown field placing them next to a village... Was this changed in an update to the game or is only present in certain platforms?

[@jack0lantrn]

You get an overgrown field when placing a field card adjacent to "A Village?" tiles. Placing them next to regular villages gives you a regular field.

[@diswhoiaml3470]

@@jack0lantrn How is that different from what I said? If I remove the village it becomes an overgrown field. In any other scenario it remains a field.

[@jack0lantrn]

@@diswhoiaml3470 I don't understand your question then :/ they've always behaved the same way. You can place a field next to a "Village" tile. If the village is removed, or the field is placed next to a "Village?" tile, then it becomes an overgrown field. No disrespect meant by this, but you know the difference between the "Village" and "Village?" tiles right

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

curious on good placements for chrono crystals

[@electrodynamo8098]

i've always found if the loop has a diagonal section. to put the crystals on the corners in the diagonal section. i tend to put meadows around them since the crystals affect everything in a 1 tile radius. and hope for my river placements to brush up alongside the meadows that are doubled by the crystals

[@Dkidlee]

I am having trouble getting cosmic orbs to drop do I need to beat chatper 3 first ? Beat chapter 1 and 2 multiple time, also been spawning cosmic slime, mage vampire and watchers

[@AlexanderCoccia]

They should drop in chapter 2.. do you have time shards? Maybe you're just having some bad luck

[@Dkidlee]

@@AlexanderCoccia ya it was bad luck. Finally got some in chapter 4

[@McWerp]

I tried overlapping the bookery and Vampire and didnt get any vampire mages. Do you need the beacon too? Or is that only for the watcher mage?

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Bookery has to be depleted for it to work!

[@McWerp]

@@AlexanderCoccia but... How many freaking loops does that take? 7? after you place it? Thats a bit too grindy for my taste... Can kill the boss by 4 or 5 usually...

[@fritothedemon6647]

@@McWerp then just don't do it if you don't like it you smooth brain

[@m1ttal]

McWerp Place bookery on a corner of the road. You can visit it up to 3 times per loop this way.

[@yugen]

@@McWerp Read the game descriptions, every passby of a bookery depletes 1 charge. If you place it on a certain tile you can deplete 3 charges as you walk past it. It starts with 20 charges. Too grindy? lol

[@RawdogLaw]

Blood groves also stop fire worms from escaping

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Aye!

[@mrcm6124]

Hello Mr. Coccia, we haven’t seen you around school lately. Are you still working at BR? We’ve missed you.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Not at BR anymore! But I miss everyone at that school too. Wonderful place to be. Lots of good memories there, even from when I was a student myself 😄

[@Iverath]

Does not "adjacent" in this game mean it works diagonally too?

[@AlexanderCoccia]

No, diagonally doesn't work for adjacent bonuses

[@Iverath]

@@AlexanderCoccia If I place a mountain next to 2 other mountains (where one of them is diagonal) I get 12hp instead of 6hp. Perhaps there's something wrong with the wording on mountains, and that it counts itself? Edit: rocks seem to count diagonal mountains as well.

[@KIWI-un8fs]

@@AlexanderCoccia that's why rivers stacks x2 its effect for the buildings inside the corners, so a sneaky river, with a ton of curves its really op when you are using thick forest...etc

[@Moley1Moleo]

@@Iverath - the two mountains count each other mutually, so a mountain next to one other mountain is two adjacencies. (Rather, we count the single adjacency twice.)

[@TuberTugger]

Diagonal shouldn't work but I believe it used to at some point in development. For example, the battlefield was just recently patched to no longer turn into a shipwreck diagonally.

[@jakdaxter4848]

great vid

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Thanks :D!

[@Kain20XX]

what is magic damage?

[@reticentsins]

It's just a straight +damage that can't be resisted like how skeletons and some enemies take lowered damage I believe.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Aye!

[@omdzsful]

I love these tutorials. Unfortunately it’s kinda spoilery for me as I just got into the game but on the other hand I died the first two times because I thought I can only retreat at camp

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah, it was a hard game to cover. It was impossible to not spoil things sometimes while still trying to provide value. Also the game has been updated since I posted this, so I am sure there are lots of new things to discover now :)

[@dilanka_eikshana7266]

I miss your dota 2 content

[@AlexanderCoccia]

I know, I really appreciate you guys and maybe soon I'll have some Dota 2 content to drop

[@dilanka_eikshana7266]

@@AlexanderCoccia yay I cant wait. I only play dota 2 and minecraft.i rarely play terraria as well. I cant wait for your dota 2 content.

[@NagleShrowd]

Do rivers also buff suburbs?

[@internetuser8922]

I need to test this as well, they are in the "landscape" card category, but they are buildings. Not sure, need to do science.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yes they do.

[@yugen]

Would be interesting to create a row of suburbs, delete the surrounding towns with oblivion, then buff them with river. Probably not very practical though

[@somedudeok1451]

Sadly, I already knew all of those and I think I know all of them now. Which is a bit of a bummer. I would've liked even more combinations, as the devs have only explored the tip of the ice berg in terms of what combinations *would* be possible. Like Oblivion the middle of the Mountain Peak to get a Volcano that erupts every few days spawning lava slimes across the map, or turn a meadow touching a desert into a savanna. So many more possibilities.

[@darkcheaker]

Well it's a 1.000 version of the game.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Yeah I'm sure there's more coming!

[@ballom5191]

Oblivion + mountain is already good as it is. use oblivion, put a rock/mountain, rinse and repeat and you got easy farm of orb of change.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@ballom5191 Orbs of change are useless beyond a certain point.

[@ballom5191]

@@somedudeok1451 So is everything at some point. Late game you will constantly use them to craft new camp items in hope of having some of the strongest : herbalist's sickle, antique shelves, alchemist's shelf, count's chair, blacksmith's hammer and farmer's scythe .

[@WhiskeryMage61]

this was great. thx. only on chapter 3 after 10 hours. very difficult game + playing too much age of empires.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lol yeah it's a terrific game but it's not easy

[@HitanBot]

The way the river works is so odd, I would have thought it either didn't stack or was 8%, 6% Is an odd one. Gotta check how It works with mountain peaks now

[@johnyshadow]

It could work like this: (2x1) + (2x1) + (2x1) = 6

[@HitanBot]

@@johnyshadow Yeah that's what i'm assuming it is but it seems odd that the rivers each add their own value

[@johnyshadow]

@@HitanBot Just a different mathematical approach. (Though I admit, I assumed 8% at first glance too.) It really only matters on those 3-river bend tiles. With 2 tiles the result is the same. 2*x + 2*x = 4x (x = any bonus) 2*2*x = 4x And to just put it here: 2*x + 2*x + 2*x = 6x 2*2*2*x = 8x

[@AlexanderCoccia]

The math around the river is a bit strange, but hey, I think it works to our advantage lol

[@johnyshadow]

@@AlexanderCoccia Um, no? You literally get *less* of a bonus the way it works.

[@XSasuken22X]

Never use forest + river, only thicket.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

In later chapters using forest to pull the bosses faster is beneficial

[@yugen]

I use the forests for treasuries off in a distant corner then recycle my cards with bookery for oblivion and replace them later on once the river reaches them

[@XSasuken22X]

@@yugen treasury is trash.

[@yugen]

@@XSasuken22X i beat the game and got most of the achievements with it, it's a good way to handicap yourself if the game is too easy for you

[@FyresGames]

You've forgot the hungry grove

[@AlexanderCoccia]

lol did I? :C

[@Professor_Kovu]

Your like to dislike ratio is legendary

[@devchawda9414]

100: 0

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lol but then someone's gotta ruin it

[@johnnymetonymic]

I literally just finished my first run. I had 22 health and bailed right before the boss. I don't have any of these cards.

[@AlexanderCoccia]

lol you'll get them in time!

[@Unotch]

I haven't even heard of this game... why the hell are my recommendations full of this? KZbin!?!

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Ahahahahahaahaha sorry about that :(

[@Unotch]

@@AlexanderCoccia Not your fault mate. Gave you a thumbs up anyway. It's good content ... i just have no clue of what ^^

[@AlexanderCoccia]

Lol I appreciate that! Cheers!!

[@jacob5061]

Isn't the fun in a game like this figuring out the mechanics/combos on your own? If you're not doing that and just looking at guides what else is left of the gameplay lol