My Mortars Can Hit The Whole Map! - Rogue Tower

Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
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[@MRTN13]

Not sure why this channel got recommended to me out of the blue. I also didn't expect to watch a dozen videos about a tower defence game. But the commentary makes it very entertaining and the TD games is way more strategic then I thought. Keep those videos coming, great job!

[@Twistedcrescendo]

Welcome, and enjoy the plentitude of videos! If you're looking for more tower defense games he has a mass of playlists on them :)

[@snipost]

This exactly what MRTN13 said. Keep going

[@connorcarnahan3090]

As soon as wander got mana bolts I immediately thought: "If he does get move mana banks immediately, he is going to lose".

[@kiwiboy1999]

Yup, that was a derp move.

[@zarnox3071]

"I wasn't using mana for much."

[@kevintran3753]

I am also here to also thank wanderbot for playing games like these it got me into these game thanks

[@captaintaco2845]

status effect upgrades like make them suffer don’t do more damage they just make your existing damage take effect faster which is bad for things like vile consumption and the poison slows effect

[@joshuadrinkwater4254]

He knows.

[@profskweeze9582]

Watching you do double defense and completely neglect one side was so hilarious 😂 sometimes you're brilliant, sometimes you're...special hahaha love the rogue tower vids keep it going

[@grummelcramer7554]

After using every tower, and leveling them to 50-100 so they are as strong as possible I can confedently say: Tesla Coil is the Strongest Tower in the game (at a high lvl). You can win even 3 way by just using tesla coils. 1 Tesla coil on every path is enough to get to round 30 (at that time your teslas should be around lvl 50). Than building a second tesla coil in each path and bring it to lvl 50 will be a almost garantied win. The hardest part is finding a map with good tesla placements an all paths!

[@AC-rx6fr]

He has already won the 3 way, its just going to take a while until he posts all of the pre recorded vids

[@daskadse769]

I just finished a run with more or less exclusively tesla coils and can confirm. Also, if paired with a crit build, you easily reach 50% crit for 2x, 3x and 4x, which can easily put out 10k+ damage in a single coil tick. As you said, placement of the coils is key though. There are only a few tiles that work _really_ well with them, usually where you can place them up high on +2 or +3 with the path curling around, so that enemies with normal speed get hit 3-4 times.

[@Takadox74X]

I don't wanna end up getting too nitpicky or backseaty, and maybe you've already figured it out, but the Tesla coils have pretty pitiful base damage and range. They are at their most efficient when at really ideal +3 corners, and with some gold dumping into them to raise their base damage. Especially with crit scaling, and pairing some Frost Keeps near them to keep enemies in range. They struggle to do much without the right investment and without high ground. Hope this helps. Pretty sure sooner or later Teslas will receive a nerf anyways, and the game is more about finding your own strive and having fun anyways I suppose. So just keep it up and thanks for the videos. You helped tide me over while waiting for the game, and I still enjoy watching. Love the new thumbnails too btw!

[@chaleowin7732]

Hold down shift when placing towers/buildings.

[@pharynx007]

i feel like that last run did die because you had no mana. you had just swapped to mana bolts, so they only fire if they have mana? so half of your last line of defense couldn't fire.

[@chromaticblue3976]

Yeah, he was already going at a slight mana deficit when everything was firing, so that just screwed him.

[@LecherousCthulhu]

This game can be boiled down to some simple things. The entire game is about regeneration cancelling and sustained damage. Almost all enemies regenerate up to 300/sec of hp, armor, and shield. So you just need to pair the anti-regen with the health type and then create a situation where you're dealing up to 10k damage to an enemy over time. You can see the enemy health types and the amount of HP they have as well as their regeneration in the monster book in game. Mortars and Ballistas are good because they are the first towers you get ahold of that can deal all regen cancelling dots. Meaning that you can technically beat a run with just ballistas or Ballista Mortar. The Dev Agrees, which is why they put in achievements to do that exact thing

[@isaacshafer9261]

Been spending most our lives living in a mortar paradise

[@ajknight2677]

I absolutely love seeing the mortar spam, but I definitely think you have to places a few upgraded obelisks when the rocket robots come out since they are pure armor.

[@Jac0ben]

I saw someone complete it (lvl 45) with only mortars, acid throwers and frost towers

[@starlightbreaker561]

I'm pretty sure the lookout tower affects everything under their range. Enemies will regen their hp unless: Poisoned for shields, burning for armor and bleeding for raw hp

[@wanderbots]

It's only one at a time, which can be quite useful still, but less useful than that.

[@crazybeatrice4555]

Lookout tower isn't really that good from my experience.

[@benriker2732]

As an FYI "Shift" does appear to allow for multiple placements.

[@adamfreed2291]

I did some math for the universities, and the most gold efficient way to play them is to only put it to 7% before buying a new university. I show my work below. For the sake of convenience, let's call the number of universities you buy N, and the percent chance of giving you an upgrade P. The cost of N universities at P percent is given by the equation 500N + 10PN(P+1). 500N represents the initial cost, and 10PN(P + 1) represents the cost per upgrade. The average number of upgrades you get for N universities at P percent is given by P/100 * N, assuming they are independent probabilities. (For a more specific breakdown, the odds of getting K upgrades is given by P^N * (N choose K), and the average is given by the sum from K=0 to N of P^N * (N choose K). Luckily, this always works out to P * N. Since P is a percentage, we divide it by 100 to get an equivalent decimal value.) Thus, the cost per upgrade is given by the equation 50,000/P + 1000P + 1000. (The first equation divided by the second, then simplified). To find the minimum, we start by solving for where the derivative is equal to 0. The derivative is given by the equation 1000 - 50,000/(P^2). This is equal to 0 at P = 5 * sqrt(2), which is approximately equal to 7.07 Testing at P = 5 (derivative is -1000) and P = 10 (derivative is 9500) shows that this is a minimum and not a maximum. Since 5 * sqrt(2) is between 7 and 8, and you can only upgrade the university in integer increments, we must solve for the cost per upgrade of P = 7 and P = 8, and compare them to see which is lower. At P = 7, the cost per upgrade is approximately 15,143. At P = 8, the cost per upgrade is 15,250. P = 7 is more gold efficient. QED

[@blackhole2641]

The lookout tower add every stat it has to every other tower that hit the marked enemy, and it mark only 1 enemy

[@Kianwan]

Fast enemies where what killed you, but you dont want the upgrade that deals more fire damage based on the speed of the enemy?

[@lilithkitsune7152]

I feel like someone must have told you by now and also this could still be an old build. But holding shift does now work to place multiple of the same type of tower

[@marwannovaniyanto7553]

"dont use 1 type of tower" me after seeing someone clear 45 level with only 1 type of tower (he only use balista for the start) : sure

[@jacobwigginton3515]

Link?

[@LoneWolf-vg3jy]

There's something incredibly mesmerizing when the mortars all fire at once and you watch the streamers follow the shells until they impact.

[@ixtiander999]

I think the mana bolts killed you, your started running out very fast after you got that and then a lot of your defenses shut down. Mana bolts are very good but getting them without investing in mana regen feels like suicide

[@Ethan13371]

The ghosts are committing tax evasion! they must be turnip ghosts.

[@Shoe_Horn]

Wander, I absolutely love the new thumbnail for the series. Very funny.

[@electronsympathy]

Won a Ballista only game today. Avoided Mana Bolts like the plague. Starts really good, but the damage to mana spent ratio plummets hard in mid to late rounds, and you spend so much on mana fixing that miss out on just simply building more ballistas.

[@renegadereaper3205]

when your mortars enter the modern age and can hit anything from miles.

[@evenk6233]

Hold down shift when placing towers/buildings so you dont have to manually select the tower.

[@Jikkuryuu]

That's neat, I think I saw the lookout tower gaining armour exp from the burn damage a marked mob was taking. I don't know how useful the tower itself is, but it seems easy to level.

[@i2Robert]

Once you upgraded your ballistas to magic you rapidly ran out of mana making everything that uses mana shut down, honestly if you would have added like 3 more mana banks you would have been able to run though that with no problem, good run and great video nonetheless though

[@kevincolwell3066]

I wonder if the watch tower paired with a few other towers targeting progress near the end would help clean up better then the mines. It still feels like the lack of a fast firing tower does make clean up hard

[@abhijeetsasmal5081]

Tesla towers are super OP. I completed the whole game single lane with just using tesla, encampment and crossbows . All we have to do is upgrade 1 tesla to 30 multiplier for all and get all crits. It 1 shot everything.

[@brianmcneal2548]

A Wanderer I just wanted to point out a few misconceptions you have about the game shredders can turn Corners straight lines are probably your worst enemy because it means that the enemy has a straight line to your base if they have to turn corners and they usually have to take a longer route to get between the squares and spotting towers work on anything in their range so put them near Junctions and where everything comes together

[@joshuadrinkwater4254]

..spotting towers don’t work like that. And he already uses corners as much as possible, he literally can’t do anything about the straight lines.

[@Jikkuryuu]

I think when he says "straight lines" he means "no branches." Slightly misconveying what he's thinking is both a LP/Streamer thing and a Wander thing. It's sort of a courtesy towards content creators for us to try and figure out if what they say _can_ mean what we expect them to mean. Not at all required, just a nice thing to do if you can.

[@brianmcneal2548]

@@joshuadrinkwater4254 it literally says spots enemies in the description and it has a zero tick rate and an aoe. So it's either a typo or I'm lying check it

[@joshuadrinkwater4254]

@@brianmcneal2548 it does not have an aoe. It has a range. it picks one enemy and, while it’s within its range, adds it’s base damage, health, shield and armour stats to all damage done to that enemy. When the enemy leaves it’s range or dies, it, according to its targeting, chooses a new one. The chosen target is marked with a circle around it. In addition to this, he knows shredders can turn corners, he also know they do not stop until they reach the end of the track or they reach their pierce limit. He even remarks on this the videos after he unlocks them. He likes to put them near the start because then the shredders hit the most targets, as when the path splits, the shredders choose randomly where to go, reducing potential dps as opposed to when all the enemies are in the same lane.

[@martinbuhrer3893]

Ok, I'm 2.5 minutes in and my tower misplacement allergies are already acting up...😆

[@loganshaw5]

There a way to quickly proc the look out tower. Just quick killing the target near the watch tower. The more multiplier on the watch tower the easier it is to happen.

[@dankmemes7796]

Well next time don’t miss the house goofy goober

[@ProstoLyubo]

I am 99% sure lookout marks only one enemy at a time. It renders a crosshair only under a single enemy. From the other hand, Coil tower animaton looks like it hits all the enemies.

[@danthiel8623]

Music is baller!

[@shuragravity370]

I'm not sure what you did to your settings but for me in the top right where it tells you "Hold Shift: Smooth Cam" mine says quick place towers or something along those lines and I can place multiple at a time not having to reselect my tower.

[@rngesus8057]

priorities matter, but not their order

[@Mr.Ali_Ryuji]

I see there is one KZbinr use only one Tesla tower and upgrade all multiplier to 88 to win the last waves. All he did is using grave tower and magic market addition to fast upgrade.

[@SerAsmodeus]

Wander! Buddy! Look at your mana you goober XD

[@joewilson3393]

19:30 Coat it in a toxic substance so the shrapnel poisons you?

[@remliqa]

I really bother me that he misplace that ballistae and squandered that house's adjacency bonus.

[@trutwhut6550]

Why not use shredders more?

[@trutwhut6550]

Also using mines to heal the rocket chip damage seems necessary for late game survival

[@roslolian11]

@@trutwhut6550 not really. You just need to have them burning and they wont heal armor. Aside from flame throwers lots of weapons can deal burn damage including ballistas and teslas

[@danthiel8623]

Sheeeesh!

[@mdenouden3y6]

Nice game. I think the reason you died is because of a lack of focussing down enemies with the mortars and a lack of upgrading towers. Less mortars with more lvls do more damage. 15x15 does more damage then 2 towers with 8x8. The higher this goes the bigger the difference.

[@Fathermax]

I realy think shredder would have been a good call, good job nonetheless. Love your vids

[@Jac0ben]

Haha I spent ages reeeeeing coz 2 of your starting ballistas weren’t touching houses haha

[@Among0Shadows]

glad I wasn’t the only one

[@TRAILLER]

when there are splits in the road lengthen the furthest from the tower to spread out their swarm. because when they bunch up the defence get overwhelmed. (using that I got to 19 on my third run after I spotted that pattern on my second run)

[@slaxblake]

why placing towers next to the houses?

[@roslolian11]

The lookout tower is pretty good it has a wide range and applies its stats to every enemy in the area. As the game progresses you will have lots of towers so the enemy gets applied the debuff on every tower hit so it makes ballistas and Bi planes esp deadly.

[@molleboy0312]

bro love your videos. people are idiot dont listen to them. nothing worse then back seat gamers :D. you do you and keep makeing good videos..

[@teratoma.]

why arent your videos numbered?

[@wanderbots]

YT hates numbers now. Had to nix them to save my job.

[@jaidengabriel1675]

@@wanderbots dang

[@SilentVinyl]

Neat

[@diegovieira3050]

Best game!!!

[@zacktheripper9263]

First.