Shredders are OVERPOWERED in Rogue Tower!

Just when we thought games couldn't get anymore addictive, Rogue Tower comes along and combines the addictive and fun nature of a roguelite with a tower defense style gameplay. The result is a hugely replayable game that's just missing a fast forward button! This is part 4 where I discover the incredibly overpowered shredder towers!
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[@keganleberman]

One thing I've learned that might help, don't buy a tower if you don't plan on using much/for a while. When you do, you introduce the upgrade cards for it into the stack of upgrades you might get per round which means less of a chance of getting cards you might want for towers that you are using.

[@MisogynyMan]

I can't figure out if its best to unlock a lot of towers so you can buy them cheap, or if its best to specialize for more powerful (and expensive) towers. Usually end up with 3 maybe 4 different towers that I upgrade and choose cards for as much as possible.

[@AlcorSalvador]

@@MisogynyMan My best runs have at least 1 of every offensive tower (besides particle cannon). I have gotten to 34 on triple this way.

[@MisogynyMan]

@@AlcorSalvador I'll try it next time

[@mandowarrior123]

@@MisogynyMan lots is better, but only ones you don't unlock the other upgrade branches for. I've been doing the ballista only and ballista + 1 achievements and the trick is really not unlocking useless things like haunted house, and generally ballista are op and other towers upgrades aren't great. You in fact want to unlock no trees til you get ballista armour damage I & II, and then get longbow whenever it appears. The other approach is full diversity but tower upgrades are rarely worth it. With mana towers the sorcery tree is vital, with condition builds the condition upgrades replace specific tower upgrades. Quite a few approaches work, so long as you limit your card pool.

[@AlcorSalvador]

@@mandowarrior123 following up on what he said, if you can get lucky (with an unoptimized card tree) and pull all 3 bandit cards, mana bank, 3 sorcery, and haunted house before the first Boss, as long as you set up proper stripping lanes, you can get away with 0 upgrades and run base towers and just level them through the roof with the rediculous amounts of gold gained. (Anytime I have money, I drop a manabank, if I need money I will sell manabanks) Fun fact, you can get higher than 100% on universities and *still* not get the stat you wanted boosted. I've had a 90% miss 3 rounds in a row as well so ... Get them to 10% and call it a day...

[@nico_53]

The oogie always spawn on the longest path form the tower where you didn’t expand when he spawn. If you use this information you can prepare a trap for oogie and spawn him where you want and max out the defence in that place

[@trjozsef]

Also if you set the tower to least armor most health it gets picked.

[@sabion1500]

You can hold the shift key while buildung multiple towers of the same typ like mana siphons. By doing this you dont have to select them all the time.

[@ehsan6194]

thanks

[@cheeen]

He hearted a comment saying the same thing in the previous video. I guess he just forgot

[@mahziel]

He's been reminded and even commented on it several times xD It's fine 🙂

[@_-Anthony-_]

@@cheeen prerecorded probably

[@nathanleech4933]

Just a little tip, but you should really think about upgrading your strong towers like obelisks and teslas instead of just spamming cheap towers like ballistas quite as often.

[@mrstatue.a3087]

Jumping on here as well, if you have really expensive towers like the obelisk that use a LOT of mana, you probably wnat to get your slow from ballistas (upgrade their health damage to unlock their slow) or poison damage (which eventually slows based on poison). If your using a shredder which hits that many enemies, upgrading shield and armour damage to unlock poison and fire on them would be really good. If that poison also slows then you get a lot of value out of that tower. Also ballista slow eventually turns into 3% chance of freeze which, if you have a massive choke point with lots of ballistas, actually triggers A LOT.

[@elduquecaradura1468]

@@mrstatue.a3087 not to mention that you can mix poison spreader with creeping cough, two or more frozen keeps and something that does area damage. With some investment you can do a place where the enemy barely moves (even fast ones)

[@skylarion2848]

If you just get a super leveled Tesla ( about level 80 and higher ) Having it able to do all 3 damage. Then getting the Crit by tower level. You can just have that 1 tesla 1 shot everything in the entire round. Only things that may get past it are the enemies that spawn enemies...that..spawn..enemies.. But yes. You can just do that strat. Obviously you will have other towers as well so they will most likely finish them if they didn't get 1 shotted.

[@Tepalus]

Let's just say you can win with only ballistas. Took me about 2h to do so, but only because I didn't have the upgrades unlocked.

[@Anvarynn]

I always find the first triple split and turn it into the "graveyard" I always end up with super ballistae that do all three DoTs + slow + chance to freeze, and I go for "crit based on level" early and just build for CC and DoTs 99% of the time I won't go higher than a shredder in terms of expensive tower. Just ballistae, shredders, mortars and the poison/fire/frost towers. Been getting consistent 45's after only a day

[@ignis488]

best boss killer is radar/ bi-plane, just set its priority to most everything, when they fire they fire a lot. Also the planes hang around that area cause you didn't adjust them, so they're prioritizing progress instead which waste a lot of their damage potential

[@richardwright1352]

Yes @Real Civil Engineer

[@kingarthur83rd]

this. just this. Ive found using 4 radars and prioritising shield and armor over heath absolutely rinses bosses and latter stage enemies.

[@flyingminecraft7178]

Also he didn't really upgrade them all that much, which didn't help

[@richardwright1352]

@@flyingminecraft7178 yeah he didn’t upgrade them much whatsoever if he had upgraded all of the tower in “the death zone” he would of been better off

[@charlestonianbuilder344]

hope he sees this!

[@robw1571]

Watching Matt play this game is like trying to explain email to my grandparents.

[@karrachr000]

So something that you may want to consider when picking upgrades, is that once you pick one, you add all of the subsequent upgrades to the pool as well. Example: you buy the mortar tower, and you now have the chance of seeing the +1 health, armor, and shield upgrades. The reason that I bring this up, is because when you buy a large variety of towers early on (like you did in this video), you make it less likely that you will be able to upgrade any of them far enough to unlock their most powerful upgrades. I find it more effective to purchase one or two towers that fill niches, and I focus on upgrading them until I get to a point where I need to further diversify.

[@cheeen]

It's important to manually upgrade your towers based on their highest initial multiplier. It's more efficient than building more towers Edit: it's

[@Roy666Batty]

Came here to say the same, it is fun seeing lots of different towers but you can complete the game with just two obelisk that are upgraded to like level 100. One upgraded tower to level 20 is cheaper and better than Buying 5 or so Upgrade upgrade upgrade Live the videos though, strongest shape makes me chuckle every time lol

[@graeme.davidson]

Also choosing card that align to your towers strong points poison for shields, flame for armour, shredders for health and ballista for clean up and scout towers to multiply the damage and focus on the boss. That's how I got my first win.

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[@Gurktomatens]

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[@guhsher1851]

Everytime I cry tears of joy and think of architect suffering when he uploads

[@Gurktomatens]

@@guhsher1851 Yeah, Same!

[@XelaSlade]

I always look forward to him and his quirky gameplay monologue. It helps me unwind after the day 😤💙

[@pwingupwenguin7002]

Yup the best

[@dashadowgirl]

@@guhsher1851 architect suffering is just the best :D

[@johnkennethpoblador1002]

Here's some tips :3: Obelisk Pros- Amazing at dealing damage to enemies with high HP pool. Cons- Very mana hungry, sucks at clean up. Radar Pros- Amazing with slow, high HP enemies (especially the oogies) great for thinning out massive crowds Cons- Not very reliable early game as it often miss on small enemies. Particle cannon Pros- Great single target dmg Cons- Pretty much got power crept by Radar and mortars Frost Keep Pros- Amazing for stalling enemies Cons- Very RNG reliant as the frost flakes need to hit the enemies to be slowed (can be bypassed by purring 2-3 frost keeps) Poison and Flame throwers Pros- Great AoE dmg Cons- reliant on long maps for the DoT to take effect Encampment Pros- Great for catching those "Le missiles" and the purple babies and for catching any leaks. Cons- Pretty weak on split maps and on short maps Shredder Pros- Amazing AoE Cons- Lacks single target dmg Lookout Pros- Amazing with obelisk Cons- not really good outside of obelisk support Tesla Pros- Great AoE, very cheap and reliable Cons- falls of late game Mortars Pros- Amazing AoE especially with frostkeep sprayers combo Cons- slow fire rate Balista Pros- good?? Early game Cons- everything, it's just straight up bad tbh :((.

[@lstt89]

Ballista with frost arrows are the best thing ever... But you need to unlock it and draw it.

[@deathtrooper9003]

I don’t know what your talking about man, Ballistas are probably the best single tower with proper upgrades. With +3 range, all elemental damage, and frost bolts to slow the target all you gotta do is set up lines of anti shield, armor, health and you can basically just watch rounds go by

[@blackbeard3449]

Tesla are op, aavak made a video where he won with only Tesla and ballista

[@utoesc6241]

@@blackbeard3449 You can win with any combo quite easily on single mode if you don't get an early split. Solo balista is already doable, but quite hard as the price of them is just prohibitive after some point. Any second tower you use will then look completely OP when combined with a balista carpet.

[@jallalsvengeance1277]

I recently discovered that outpost are really good especially when one is stacked on an obelisk. When a tower targets an enemy marked by an outpost the tower has the damage stats of the outpost stacked on its own while attacking the enemy. Maybe something you could try next video

[@felwarksmith6239]

Also good with flame/poison sprayers

[@spamuel98]

"Looks like most of the enemies down here are getting through with shields" *ignores the upgrade to shield damage to get more gold per kill*

[@danteeightsix9069]

It can be beneficial to have the enemies go all the way through to towards the tower so those towers can level, otherwise, you'll have to level them yourself. - Advice from an architect

[@awolfyira5929]

A few main pointers to anyone trying the game: DOT towers and upgraded DOT can do massive damage, setting a few at each entrance to the map/portal means as soon as things spawn they take damage until they reach the main choke point Frost towers or slow in general can keep enemies held nearly in place, allowing DOT more time to work and for any AOE tower like flamethrower or poisonsprayer to hit stacks of enemies and continue to apply even more DOT Don't take so many tower cards to start, the more towers you have the more upgrade cards flood the unlocks after each level Instead of getting a tier one damage boost for each tower, prioritizing taking the same one means that one tower gets a bigger boost, leading up to a high crit bonus and every tower getting a tier one bonus anyway Spamming towers in the late game isn't beneficial except in rare cases, upgrading existing ones boosts both their multiplier amount and their base damage A rare case for the above mentioned tip is surprisingly ballistas, as long as the upgrade "Ballistas slow enemies for 5% of the damage they deal" is unlocked Early game banditry is your friend, you can place down your towers sooner and get a choke point set up early. Any damage taken can be healed during the rest of the game

[@ktaragorn]

Radar didnt get the love it deserves lol. Both bosses went down so fast because of it.. does a surprisingly good job against the bosses..

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

it's got a lot of base damage even if its stats for armor/shield are low has a fast attack and the base damage adds a lot to the multipliers for each stat, with good priorities you can easily get them to knock out small groups of enemies or take out some of the tougher ones like bosses very quickly. Just large groups or enemies that spawn more are their weakpoints.

[@phyozayyan9850]

Hes back with the shredder AND KNOWLEDGE?!?! Engineering does pay off

[@chameleonfoot]

22:39 you have all your radars on progress. I like the set them to either most armor or most shield, and then most health.

[@ArdanTiefling]

Yay, another rogue tower video, these are so fun, I love seeing this game

[@allicuddles]

The little "Vam-pir-ic...*manic giggle*" really got me. 🤣🤣🤣

[@marcuschay8834]

USE THE OUTPOST, the outpost is one best things you get in this game, and what I like to do is put 3 particle cannons at your "keep" and set each to a differnt priorty

[@inclineddecent1408]

We need dat g wagon 10 hour videoooooo matt

[@inclineddecent1408]

At least a 1 hour version

[@lolialf]

you can hold "shift" to be able to place the same tower multiple times, instead of repeatedly pressing the tower over and over

[@gmorri10]

A couple of tips: 1) defense in depth; a) let your defenses closest to the tower level up some before you start placing forward defenses, b) you use less defenses if you focus on choke points until much later, c) in order to not overwhelm your choke points, make sure to have various lengths of paths such that mobs get to the choke points at different times, d) add forward defenses to separate paths much later in the map in order to soften targets before they get to your main choke point (by the end of the map, you will need a primary choke point, several other backup choke points, and some softening defenses; 2) use radars (set to health priority) and particle cannons (set to shield priority) at high elevation in the middle of the map for oggies; 3) you need over a 1k mana to maintain several obelisks late game, sometimes as much as 2.5k if unlucky on cards and using 4-5 obelisks; 4) if you can get past level 40, you are likely going to get to 45 (39 and 40 are rough ramp ups); 5) targets take damage in this order: shield, armor, health (put your defenses in that order on the path taking into account the defense's range). 6) tesla's and slow towers (set to fastest priority) have very limited range, make sure to place them higher spots and corners for maximum AE. 7) outposts add damage (done by any other defense) to whatever they target, use them in late game especially at choke points and closest to the tower.

[@muktakanodia1495]

5:16 aw, the sawblade just cut through the wood like it was wood

[@StevieThundr]

GG, a tip i found out recently - hold shift to place a tower multiple times. No more having to reselect it!

[@bhear9457]

I have to say, put the radar tower on "most health, most armor, and shield", and add more radars will take down enemies quickly.

[@joaofilipesantos7410]

This is one of my favourite series. Of the new games you've tried recently... Timberborners and infra are always in our hearts

[@DarkInos]

Did play the game a bit after seeing your videos. Teslas are quite good at start useless in the end it feels.. Frost towers do nothing to targets with shield or armor almost. So I just keep poison + flame towers as far as possible from base, to burn through shield + armor, then use frost towers on all +3zones where they walk around.. to slow everyone and deathzone them there with shredders at locations that can attack the start ideally as their blades just pass through everyone almost from start to half the map.. all rockets etc. Shredder doing 2k+ dmg will clean the map :D

[@SylviaRustyFae]

Bosses always walk down the longest path that wasnt most recently expanded. (So theyll nvr show up on a new tile you reveal at start of round; unless there are zero other paths)

[@AJS-ow4zu]

Hey RCE! Congrats on 1M subs! Been watching since you were around ~75k, and you've introduced a ton of games to me like Timberborn and Super Auto Pets which i love! Some tips tho for Rogue Tower. You can also use the 1-3 number keys to upgrade towers quickly. Health is 1, Armor is 2, and shields is 3. Its best to focus a towers initial strongest damage multiplier, but keeping everything as balanced as possible is also good, as any upgrade increases a towers base damage. You want your towers to ideally be leveled up to 1/2 or 1/3(if you have a lot of towers) of the current level you are on. And for the poison tower and flame thrower, is best to put them at a spot where they are attacking down a straight path, both towers are slow turning so if you can get them focusing on enemies that have passed by is best for them, so placing them early in your defense is a good strategy. A lot of good tips in the comments but these were some that weren't posted as much as others. Cheers on 1M subs again! you deserve it! edit, just fixed some grammar errors

[@MrMattkid]

Some more helpful advice is to position towers in a particular pattern for damage types. So for towers that are good against shields and do poison damage you want as your vanguard of your killing zone. Towers good against armor and do burn damage should be in the main section of your killing zone. Finally towers good against health and with bleed damage should be at the rear. You can also include shredders in with you vanguard to eliminate the weaker enemies early on so your main forces have an easier time focusing down the larger enemies. A little bit of extra advice is to use plenty of AOE in your vanguard. The more AOE in the front the less enemies that will reach your main forces. Good luck, hope this helps you in the future.

[@jillkang6526]

The purple tentacle floaty thing is spawning those small monsters with shields on death. It is not shield damage that you need, it is more health damage since you will be able to kill the spawners earlier (they don't have shield or armor) and thus more towers will be able to shoot the spawned mobs and clear them out.

[@verillix6430]

Heres a tip : frost keep towers slow effect actually stacks, so having 2 slows more than 1. However I do believe there is a hard cap, not sure how many towers you need to reach it though.

[@thekwoka4707]

But that cap can also be increased with cards, a d eve tuakly frost keep gets freezing, which stops the unit entirely.

[@granatmof]

Look into a combo of poison, flame, ice, and airplanes. The gas towers don't require as much mana to operate. Upgrade balliatas so they at least do bleed damage, adding in flame, poison, and slow to the balliatas is also good, which allows you to upgrade their range. Setup your airplanes to focus on different highest elements. The default is furthest point, so they were concentrating fire at the front instead of on groups. Also upgrade damage types for your airplanes. Layout still matters and it's hard to be an unforgiving layout. Late game paths that run next to the early path are wonderful to keep many of the towers levels up Don't forget to keep improving level of your earliest placed ballistas. Personally I try to replace my starting ballistas around the houses around the castle with radar stations since balliatas don't seem to shoot through the tower. I haven't found the mines or blades to be very useful and focusing upgrades on the towers I do use helps make them better. I do wish there was an endless mode for this game. Although if you're unfortunate enough to have all the paths terminate early, it will run up the levels automatically so you have to quickly choose the next card while enemies are coming through. It's pretty fun. That's when banks really matter.

[@johnrice5112]

There are enemies that constantly heal themselves, so you have to have out damage their healing. The dot effects are effective at this, but you need 2-3 of them to beat their healing (depending on upgrades). You can upgrade a dot type to deal extra damage on crits then you can reduce it to a single type but make sure you actually have a way to deal crits. I assume you can have enough damage on towers to kill them without dot as well on towers like the obelisk.

[@macfeilmeier3230]

Btw, a good rule of thumb: Tesla tower consumes 3 mana/s Particle cannon consumes 2.6 mana/s obelisks consume 12 mana/s So make sure you budget your mana for the towers firing at the same time. Also, for the towers that are good against armor, if they're set to attack most armored, they will also attack shielded units with the most armor. If you set them to least shield/most armor, they will deal more dps.

[@thr3308]

the 8 million damage figure is your total for damage over time, i.e. bleed, burn, and poison. cranking the speed up on those is actually a fantastic strategy, imo.

[@cooperbass1426]

@7:35 you are correct that poison sprayers are good at getting rid of shields, but shields are the gray bar, armor is the orange bar

[@BigFry9591]

The mortars don't seem to always hit their target, which is bad because those seem to be the only armor killers you had before the enemies reached your death lane. By that time they started launching their missiles and whatnot. I think that putting an obelisk or 2 somewhere near your shield destroying obelisk would have minimized the amount of those armored enemies getting close enough to cause any problems. Then your back line would just have to deal with some straggling rockets.

[@trufan1989]

I just beat the single lane level a couple of days ago, you need fire for the armor damage. The game starts buffing starts buffing armor the closer you get to level 40 so you cant really put it out of your mind. Also all the enemies are equally divided up to the entrances so you can us that and the frost keeps to separate the waves into smaller easier to manage waves.

[@newbiebox3406]

Fun fact, I used Tesla tower to destroy the high armor and shield enemies by upgrading it since it was in a circle path which means I get to kill them before they can reach to my other towers. Also it was only one tesla with fire and poison and slowness when hit to the enemies.

[@kylecampeau2549]

I bought this game after seeing you do the first episode, i completed the 1 path map mode with just Ballistas taking nothing but their upgrades so fun watching the basic tower demo all the bosses.

[@shadannakhooda9277]

I love how you consistently upload videos EVERY SINGLE DAY and still have quality in them!

[@ChrisSmithSmooth]

I found it useful to have a couple radars or particle cannons targeting least health once the rocket guys started turning up. Otherwise all the towers keep shooting the rockets and leaving the rocket guys on a tiny amount of health where they could keep shooting! Oh and don't leave radars targeting progress! That's why they were just hanging out in one place - 'Most health' seems good for them to make sure they actually do some hits on attack runs.

[@FSSKP]

Well done! It's interesting watching the evolution of strategies across these videos (and from comments!) and seeing it all pay off!

[@looniebinn]

If you want to place multiple items like a "mana siphon" for example, just hold shift while placing each one. Super helpful quality of life thing. Also, don't be afraid to place multiple Frost Keeps. They melt everyone once they're upgraded a bit and work great in groups of 2's or 3's.

[@TheRoyalB33]

I’m becoming too addicted to watching you play this ahhh lol. Love what you do, keep doin it! ❤️

[@bamarshmallow1]

Radars and particle cannons are completely op. If your able to get them down before round 4-5 by the time the zombie oogie shows up just have thm focus on armor and they will rip him to peices. btw, Radars do the most damage against health and theyre still highly effective against armor.

[@bobbys332]

Be careful taking shields/armor out early. Some enemies especially late game can regenerate armor and shields so if you don't do sufficient damage then they can regenerate before getting to the true damage zones. The only tower that I find is good at hitting enemies far away is the Biplane since it does so much damage and has such great range. A couple of biplanes targeting most health can wipe out the bosses before they even get to the main damage zones.

[@ABloodyVikingGaming]

I kindly recommend leveraging those frost towers a little more :) Adding them to the locations with constant effects like poison could be very powerful! Not to mention more time for your saw blades to shred!

[@ehsan6194]

my winning combo is poison flame tower death area combo, froze ballista and frost keep for support, particle and obelisk for armor and shield melting. but that game have a long single lane after the lane merge

[@JadenVixe]

I'd found the best way to deal with the missiles is a pure string of landmines going from the tower out as far as you can - if you can upgrade the encampments to focus on shields they can absorb a lot. Also - Radar is the OP go to, if you set the priorities to always focus on the biggest bads using all 3 ranked priorities.

[@KryptCeeper969]

You can manipulate which tiles you get a bit. Two tiles can never run into each other. So if you build one alongside the other you can guarantee the first path goes where you want or even terminates where you want. It is almost necessary to do on the harder difficulties.

[@TadGhostal141]

Your Radar towers were focusing at the bottom of the map because you had their targeting on Progress. You should set them to Most Health usually. Also you had tons of ruins on that map but never took Universities. That would have been game changing

[@zachary_smith84]

Wave 40 is a beast. Would recommend thinning things down instead of going for variety if you want to break past it. More cards invested in upgrades > more defenses with hardly any upgrades.

[@bedrock-wm5gn]

You should focus more on upgrading your towers and getting the cards for them. The tesla tower is really good if you mainly try and get cards for it and upgrade it manually

[@venomousgoose5023]

Probably picking a strategy early on and sticking to it would help. Like focusing on a small amount of tower types so you don't get overwhelmed with all the different things going on. But I still haven't played this, so who knows

[@extreemguy19]

This is my favorite series, keep up with rogue tower!! Love your stuff RCE!

[@hawthorn571]

i think it is important to clump up towers to one area so they would level up together, and a backup daeth area where you upgrade it yourself because they dont attack as much

[@antirevomag834]

i find it funny he gets an upgrade to make poison slow enemies, and proceeds to drop teslas for shield damage instead. The power of editing, making it seem like he didn't spend an hour between unlocking it and needing it.

[@the_falcon0power150]

It’s been a while since I last spotted a RCE vid this quick. Also anyone else notice that from the right angle the tower looks mega sturdy. The shape usage is quite strong, possibly the strongest.

[@sparkselm173]

Just FYI, holding shift allows you to quickly place multiple of the same tower in a row.

[@jliaan]

what i have been doing to get to level 45 is put fire sprayers and poison sprayers at the end of long pathways(The sprayers more at the start to crsck the most shield and armor) then on those big crossings a tesla on the middle +3 spot underneath a frost keep and a fire and poison sprayer on the sides

[@Luffydkenshin]

Glad you finally used planes! They're great for end-game mob cleanup.

[@fredyy]

Engineers hold the shift key, when they want to place multiple towers. Only architects re-select the tower each time.

[@undonebyr2205]

Can't believe i watched all 3 of your videos on this yesterday and today I get video 4???? You sir are a legend

[@JesusCheeseburger]

I think the issue with the planes hanging out towards the bottom is they were all set to progress, so they were all trying to attack the front enemy

[@jdb060368]

A tip that i use against bosses. set the target for the radars on most health for oogie and then it also eventually targets zombie oogie. it also helps with other creatures that have a lot of health

[@Sid29]

You hugely underestimated the usefulness of Frost Towers. Putting them on the whole lane towards the Base is very effective and especially near the base. If the whole lane has Frost Towers, they should keep being slowed down, letting others attacks to defeat the enemies. Also your Obelisk, in the first death area is being overloaded /overworked because of its huge range, if you put some defences there with lower range then they'll be focusing on the immediate enemies while the high range ones will focus on the enemies farther away. 👍🏻

[@winterthewolf2926]

If you select a tower, hold shift while placing and you can keep placing without selecting the same tower again, just as a heads up.

[@wooloo_vt1980]

Love your vids Matt. Keep up the wonderful work! Have you thought about trying a dumb challenge like only using certain towers or limiting yourself to only like 3 towers?

[@jacobellinger8027]

placing mines close to the your base is the best way to deal with the stragglers at the end if a wave because by the time they get there the lane will be covered in so many mines they actually kill the frick out of enemies.

[@ktaragorn]

Lvl 39 is hard, thats where I am stuck too.. Ironic that the Ooggies are so hard but are easier than stuff coming just a level or 2 later..

[@raiden12321]

You gotta plan ahead of the enemies coming your way. After 35 there is no reason to invest into more armor damage anymore you should be able to handle that one then, switch to shields. You need to kill all spawner units before they make it through your choke points. So set some tower priorities to target those enemies, (highest health + slowest, near death + slowest on some towers to finish off is handy here) especially the portals that later come and spawn other spawners. The mass of enemies is the hard part about the game, bosses are not an issue at all when you are able to handle the spawners you are able to handle the bosses, so they are more like bonus upgrade rounds. To get a better hang of it try going for the only ballista runs, it teaches well how to deal with different enemies.

[@FirstNameofAllNames]

The main reason they can penetrate your defence is because almost all of your towers are set to progress means they will overkill a single mobs ang not spreading damage equally to all the mobs therefore setting each individual towers to specific targets will soften the enemies equally

[@jodysin7]

Banditry will always bite you, especially with how much Matt uses it. Also, constantly moving established towers that naturally level up is a huge mistake.

[@leslie-em1th]

Having 1 super strong tower is better than 2 mediocre towers especially if u get "quality over quantity" cuz u can get X4 crit with 50% chance. Also, its better to have 10 universities with 5% chance each instead of 1 university at 50%. Also its better to have 1 type of tower to focus on one type hp. Ex. poison tower for shield (cuz of poison dmg), flame for armour (cuz burn) and blade for health (cuz bleed). Important to know that poison is best to kill shield, flame for armour and bleed for health. Fyi i beat 3 way with tesla only. Just juiced them to the moon and they do 10k dmg per hit :)

[@RandarTheBarbarian]

Since everyone else is I may as well drop my preferred method in the comments. I take a strong focus on AOE and DOT, flamethrowers and poison sprayers are not only doing the initial damage but adding damage over time while hitting nearby enemies, same thing for the saws, but the concept of nearby enemies changes to a backwards line. Best part is the poison and flame towers are relatively cheap, but I'm more than willing to still buy more of them when they're 1000g+ because they're worth it. Radars and particle cannons are boss killers plain and simple, their huge range makes placement easy and the high damage output essentially means you set them to their strength and let em go, on the other hand the obelisk IMHO is a cash and mana trap for the most part, late game I might set them down in the path of a boss but I'll sell them back when he passes, preferring to let the big damage big range radar and particle cannon do their work and leaving the rest to DOT stacks that are coming from AOE effects wiping out smaller enemies as they pass. I'd take mortars over obelisks most of the time. The frost keep if I take it will be used to keep enemies in AOE areas for longer, so 1 might be before a flame poison saw combo, but I find it's usually unnecessary. But take this only for what it's worth, I've cleared the full 45 on single lane but my record for dual lane is 31, so I'm not the best RT player out there lol.

[@craig.a.glesner]

Holy crap, I didn’t know you could put towers on the castles. Thanks!

[@andrelinke8490]

a little tip: hold SHIFT do place tower more effeciently(like it is said in top right corner)

[@jacksfacts20]

You’re getting better! Definitely would try and spend more on leveling up towers (like to level 30) than on spamming new ones

[@yagee]

And again, best priorities for Obelisk tower: Least shield Most armor Most health Obelisk is good against armor, but it will struggle against enemies with armor and shield. So this settings allow Obelisks to skip shielded enemies and focus on armored ones.

[@MrMattkid]

A little bit of info for ya so you know when the bosses are coming your way. The first one comes on wave 15 then you'll get the next bosses every 10 levels so at 25 35 and 45. Good luck and I hope that helps you prepare for them in the future.

[@SushiGuacamole]

I am almost certain that you would've made it past level 41 with better tower targeting priorities, I hope to see you make it all the way next vid! keep up the quality content

[@tarrantwolf]

"The saw blade just cuts through wood like it's wood" yup, that's an engineer for you. lol

[@nicholaspeacock857]

For every 100 max mana you gain a mana per turn, if you stack that upgrade multiple times it’ll probably stack so you’re gaining 2 or three per 100 mana. Not to mention you can store up more mana

[@henleyb6527]

Ayyy these tower vids never get old!!

[@oldmangaming3858]

put shredders near your tower because they go all the way down the path when they fire and that is kinda op

[@iamsushi1056]

Frost keep can eat up mana almost as badly as obelisks, but it’s great to put one or two at the very end for extra insurance, even if nowhere else, for reasons that should be obvious

[@iamsushi1056]

Also ice slowing effect stacks

[@PetrasBaukys]

M: Deletes all the towers in the front line Also M: Why are so many enemies reaching back :D

[@ryangower2180]

Hello, bit if a strange one but I work at B&Q and on shift today I was met by a very excited mother who seemed very proud of you reaching 1million subscribers? I hope this is you because this channel is the name she mentioned 😅 but she couldn’t have been more proud to mention it, this is the first I’ve heard of you so it’s good promoting too! Haha (don’t worry I’ll sub too)

[@jimmy1501]

You can hold shift to place multiple towers without having to click on their icon down the bottom of the screen every time. Has been really helpful for me since I found it out so I though it might benefit others!

[@grantmorris6222]

Congrats on 1 Mil man! I have been watching since 200k, great stuff!

[@MrGeorocks]

Holding shift lets you place down multiple of the same tower but you have to right click afterwards to get rid of it to be able to select other options afterwards

[@victoriapschen]

I love tower defense games. I think the first ones I’ve played were the Warcraft III custom maps like element td.

[@CraftingWithKlif]

Your my second favourite engeneer RCE!! ❤❤ NO.1 is Paddy OFC!

[@mccarty5000]

There is a TD game I like called Radiant Defense. It's really colorful and the dialog from the npcs is pretty funny. Also it's in spaaaaace. :)

[@nobeldnoble7048]

I heared that the oogies spawn at the longest route, except if its the route you just expended!...hope it helps!...keep it up!

[@Mandred85]

Killer Combo! Frostkeep + Tesla + Radar! I beat the game with 20 Planes! The ripp through everything!

[@Legault397]

"Are there any more mines!?" He cries, his cursor directly over a mine

[@Louis.slmn93]

You really should Master one tower at a time , i would start with balistas ( always start with heavy shaft x 2 for range , increase range at max , ad fire , and poison, the go for slow but sûre x2 , for creeping cough) after you get poison sprayer with mana bank , with creeping cough it's really good