The megamortars won't let me down (Rogue Tower)

[@jormananormanu]

As soon as he said "Ballista Spam", I knew it was a doubter's paradise.

[@Rookums]

One thing that made this game click for me is upgrading one tower over others. If you exhaust the upgrades in a single tree for a tower, it will start to give you "Monster Studies" and that upgrades all towers.

[@jaccubin]

He's had monster studies unlocked for a while he just never buys it.

[@pretentiousname01]

The thing that got me my first win was hard stacking dots in clumps. Like 4 poison sprayers at this choke point. Mulitple flame throwers or shredders at another. Stacking the dot up higher faster, rather than slowly stacking it across the whole run.

[@BaneOfXistence4]

Strictly from an observational standpoint, why not build more assets towards the final chokepoint? Especially combining things like poison spray slow and obelisk spam. I haven't bought this game yet but I'm certainly interested.

[@stfrontlens]

I thought about this. I rest the upgrades and just upgraded arrow tower, poison spray, poison card (upgrades), bandits, and mana. Left everything else locked. It wasn't too hard to win (just solo arrow) when every round gives you a stronger power up and the 1 dead card each draw would be the poison spray. Having everything unlocked and trying to upgrade across the board really hurts the quick scaling.

[@KingKobra98]

@@BaneOfXistence4 the problem is that the final checkpoint is too late. He should have expanded the first path more to make it longer. Some units towards the end are very fast and pretty tanky. I would recommend getting the game by the way. Very fun

[@da14a49]

Might as well make a special thumbnail for this series because it's gonna last.

[@timvantleven6055]

+25% burn damage

[@benejeneb]

Spoilers! Also - LOL 😅

[@88Diamonds]

I hope he sees this comment because that was straight fire.

[@justinwill7420]

Omg, hahahahahaha

[@sainttrish7544]

You say that but

[@187Streak]

Like I said on the last Rouge Tower video, level 45 winners in NL household will be, in order of accomplishment, 1. Wife 2. Baby 3. Cat 2 4. Cat 1 5. NL (maybe)

[@Wishuponapancake]

bro the correct way to spell the word is literally in the title

[@isaackukulies2775]

NL: “the megamorters won’t let me down” Narrator: “they would.”

[@TheGhastHunter2014]

NL: "OMG this LAYOUT!?" Also NL: *continues to expand his tiles in the same direction again and again instead of picking a different lane closer to the tower in order to get a more favorable layout.*

[@Chromodar]

I think the thought is "What if I expand the path closest to the tower and it branches instantly? That would be a disaster".

[@Gakulon]

"This layout sucks" My brother in christ you chose where to expand

[@Chromodar]

@@Gakulon Can you explain the methodology of getting a good layout through better choices? How do you control when it branches? I think it would help me out a ton in the game if you can teach me the tech behind expanding short path without risk of it splitting into 2 or 3.

[@lololololololololololololo4030]

@@Chromodar Beat the game on triple defense and got only ballistas achievement. Optimal expansion strategy basically comes down to: 1- make a really long path. Like one really, really long path. 2: on boss waves expand one of your short paths so that all your paths should hit the killbox at different times. That's it. If you have one short path you never expand, a middle path that you expand only a couple times, and a super long path, usually your branches will pop out on the super long path which doesn't really matter, since the only enemies that pose a threat are the ones on the short path.

[@Chromodar]

@@lololololololololololololo4030 Thank you. That seems to match my personal experience. I was confused because everyone else in this thread sounds like Ryan and me are stupid for not being able to just make the branchless pathing we want.

[@Ervalo]

The way NL plays this is like a whole other game to be honest. Much more exciting with those lvl 1 towers everywhere.

[@frankmc8355]

The most consistent way I've found to farm wins is to spam lvl 1 towers everywhere with a +3 lookout tower to increase all their damage. Spending money on upgrades is overrated.

[@crispy1691]

All mortars had the same targeting so they all shot at the same guy, the first 3 shells killed it and the next 5 hit nothing.

[@samus598]

At the very end (1:14:00) "it's really hard to not do that" *places x5 poison tower down where it can only target 1/10th of the enemies* Putting towers down at the end of long single paths is not the way to go. A +0 poison sprayer at a choke point might have done 5x less damage, but hit 10x as many enemies, effectively doubling its overall damage output. Need more focus on choke points for this reason. The "main" chokepoint (where all enemy paths cross) should be crowded with towers for the same reason as the poison tower above. A weak tower in those spots will do far more overall damage than a strong tower placed on a single lane. Behind that chokepoint you'll ideally have strong single target towers upgraded specifically for whatever is leaking past aoe chokepoints. That last obelisk could've used friends, upgraded with a bunch of health levels or with a bunch of emergency shield/armor ups as needed

[@jonathanbolind7532]

Liking and commenting so that NL further feels obligated to stay on the Rogue Tower struggle bus.

[@fancygiraffe3340]

Here for this.

[@Eric-1879]

Going deep on one or two tower types is very powerful, especially if they're constant AoE. Heavily upgraded fire or poison towers combined with DoT and crit upgrades are devastating.

[@MaxSpider2000]

you must be new here, we've been telling him that for months :)))

[@cunucky]

Yes, and at the end when I saw he hadn't maxed out poison yet which means he probably couldn't get the upgrade where poison towers slow broke my heart (adding this with the flame tower upgrade where burn does more for how much slow you have makes for easier wins single lane imo)

[@CopperAirplane]

Two things made this game click for me. First is looking at the enemy encyclopedia and learning what the enemies do. When I'm in game, it's hard to identify what enemies are the threat. I'm doing okay and then it spawns 100 of something I have almost no previous experience with and then I'm dead. I had to look in the encyclopedia to know which enemy actually killed me. Second, I moved away from the idea that towers are locked into only being good against certain health types. When you first place a tower, the upgrades are so cheap that you can make it do anything. Mortars are good against armor, but making it just as good against shield from level 1 costs like 500 gold. You can specialize each individual tower to be good against a certain enemy. This means you don't need to take a specific tower to counter enemies. Taking fewer tower types means the towers you do take can be upgraded more with the cards. Hope this helps someone

[@samus598]

Yup. If you're going to build 20 mortar towers and only 2 or 3 of other towers like NL is doing (which is a mistake anyways imo since they get so much more expensive) you need to at least pick a few mortars that will specialize vs health and a few for shields. As soon as you place them level them up for one or the other and have them target those units. The leveling decisions also need to consider which damage type you're struggling against. Like if a bunch of bats are getting by put an obelisk in the back and upgrade its health damage. I always have a few health upped shredders and a health upped obelisk at my main chokepoint. He undervalues leveling towers and then when he does he seemingly makes no strategical analysis and instead opts to randomly spam them on random towers.

[@freddywright4239]

Judging by the thumbnail face, the mega mortars did in fact let him down

[@samus598]

They were all targeting the exact same unit for some reason! Why would they do that? I blame the game developers for allowing NL to make bad decisions, otherwise he would've been fine.

[@Twist_Ligma]

Nah the mega morters were very good he didnt complained at all (in 1hour in)

[@natek6880]

He might win this one :copium: Edit: I have bad news for anyone else high on copium

[@imptwins]

Me, seeing video length: Oh wow, he might finally beat it this time! Me, hearing him going on a 10 minute rant about his interpretation of percentages: oh no

[@vl507]

Lol same experience over here 👈

[@edevans5991]

He had me at "I'm not taking Banditry"

[@firexgodx980]

Every time lion takes increased DoT upgrades(which literally do nothing after a certain point), instead of increasing the DoT cap, I die inside.

[@Phoenix0F8]

When NL actually does win one of these, he should end the first video at around an hour with a JoJo's style "To be continued..." so that people think he lost because of the video length but then he comes out with part 2 the next day and finally defeats his nemesis

[@covya]

It is entirely possible to make a full ballista run work. Ballistas only is challenging but doable. Ballista spam + lookouts, on the other hand, is legitimately easier than what you're currently trying, IMO

[@sleeper_000]

yeah i won ballista only on my first try, they have so many good upgrades

[@Mijal15]

On single lane ballista only is pretty easy honestly unless you get real unlucky with your cards

[@AllWIllFall2Me]

I actually just lost a ballista+lookout run because I vastly underestimated the mana infrastructure I needed to support Mana Bolts I, and utterly crashed my killing potential when I grabbed it off of Zombie Oogie.

[@Mijal15]

@@AllWIllFall2Me Im not sure I have ever taken mana bolts and not instantly run out of mana, panic built banks and siphons and died lol

[@Sten43211]

@@Mijal15 mana bolt is simply not worth their cost, universities on the other hand...

[@njamlv]

I found out about this game through NL, I fell in love with it through NL, I purchased and started playing it BECAUSE of NL Right now, after my first win, NL, I would just like to say, from the bottom of my heart... Git gud, scrub.

[@partytime1868]

THROUGH

[@TheRealHungryHobo]

@@partytime1868 Through. Through. That's Through.

[@s.p5159]

Soooo through dude

[@Volumunox]

I just got my first win after ~7 hours, basicly with NL's build. I think his only problem is that he has a passive end game.

[@soviut303]

Need to focus on upgrade paths since the 4th card (after level I, II, III) gives you things like 20% mana discounts on obelisks.

[@zachsenchuk9406]

Love your content, including this! My favorite build has been to increase DOTs per second, since the dots often get into the 1000's, if you have them ticking at 120/s instead of 30/s you notice them die much faster than a simple +1 hp damage on a mortar.

[@BassoonIII]

"Makes your skin two times brighter that's like a threat for me." Laughed out loud at that one

[@eLemonnader]

I think having a diverse set of targeting priorities on the mortars - especially when their damage is so wide from all the upgrades - would have worked wonders. Because they were all set on highest armor, you get tons of overkill/zero damage shots since they target the same area.

[@Jmilone07]

You need to heavily fortify your towers in areas before your path starts splitting, then more selectively after splits to add dot. Prioritize the beginning areas where towers can hit both close to the base and also where paths loop around so they can hit at minion spawns and then again close to the base

[@samus598]

Yeah it's a real analytical failure that he is putting towers, like the poison sprayer at 1:14:00, where they can only hit one lane just because the tile is a +5. There were 7 lanes, so even a +0 at the main chokepoint hits 7x as many units and is a much higher value. He should think of all towers at the main chokepoint as a xA, where A is the number of spawn points. If he just put a few obelisks or had put all of his "ballista spam" in a spot where they could hit all the units and upgraded them he could've pulled this one off

[@Icallshotgun123]

The ballista spam at the end was such a throw

[@samus598]

Would've been semi-reasonable if he put them at/behind the main chokepoint so they could hit all the enemies instead of spending thousands putting them where they could only hit 1/7th of the units at a point when all of them were shielded or armored anyways

[@cootsmgoots6112]

Put poison sprayers at the beginning of a long run set to fastest so they’re running away from them. Allows for maximum amount of targets to be hit at once and keeps them from wasting time on single enemies

[@ILMTitan]

Why fastest and not progress?

[@dahlhus3145]

The stream is actually from the 18th if anyone is looking for it, just a minor typo I'm guessing.

[@frankmc8355]

NL, you should give Lookouts a try. Have two lookout towers on a good tiles (one targeting progress, another highest health/shield/armor). Then spam the hell out of as many towers as you can afford, upgrading nothing except the lookouts. Set single-target towers to "Marked" and leave everything else alone. It's OPAF because the upgrades to lookouts apply to EVERYTHING that targets the lookouts target, which melts any single target in the game--and best of all, it requires a minimum of fiddling with menus if you just spam AoE towers. Even Frost Keeps slay bosses if you have a level 20 +3 lookout boosting them

[@Duucijs]

Hello Lisa Simpson, I bought the game last weekend and just beat it. I love it, and I love watching you play, thanks for making me buy this game.

[@cinammonstyx7622]

All these people telling NL what he's doing wrong or whatever meanwhile I love watching Big Brain Oogie annihilating him twice a week.

[@johideath]

I bought and played the game after watching you and did 5 runs, 3 of which hit 40+. I had the benefit of watching you, but I would think of it this way NL: Armor, shield, and health specialized units at the conjuction and start setting up points branching out from there, setting up an attack hub down each branch. Mortars are good support damage for occasional damage, but their accuracy is a problem. I usually go flame/shredder, frost, poison/tesla, then mortar. Mana generators early as possible, aim for 50 early midgame, 100 mid/late and if you take an obelisk later you need like 175-200m/s. Frost towers as often as possible. Keep the branches one branch longer by a little then creep the other branches as well otherwise you're wasting range and time to attack. Finally, sprinkle mortars to hit them as they go down the paths. Most importantly, have fun man love watching you play 😁

[@chillywilly541]

concentrate on upgrades, for posion sprayers (shield), flame throwers (armour) these 2 are essential

[@MC_FLIX]

Hey dude consider placing MULTIPLE TESLA and a FROST KEEP 'AT THE CHOKE POINT'

[@jackmannschreck726]

“I’d take the 103 99% chances over the 100 guaranteed chances any day” spoken like someone who’s never played an xcom game lmao

[@MeatNinja]

He's played xcom games lol

[@badcalculon]

NL got me into this game, I can't figure out how he's still so bad

[@Promatim]

93% of his energy is spent on thinking of banter.

[@minegudesange123]

As part of the Copenhagen fanbase i appreciate you wanting us around

[@SabertoothSeal]

I know he was already turned off from the game by the time he got to the upgrades screen, but if he comes back I think it would help him a lot more than he realizes to invest in the permanent upgrades at the end of the upgrade trees first instead of trying to 100% the purchaseables

[@remliqa]

40:30 That story is myth. Not only did NASA never spent a dime (it was a private project unrelated to NASA) developing a pens that works in zero G , but pencil are terrible and dangerous for space travel so the are banned by all space agencies. The problems with pencils is the graphite (the lead) of and float around as particulate in the air. Not only is this bad for the air quality but can cause short circuit and damage to damage if the dust got stuck to conductor and electronics.

[@Doomclown]

Monty Hall problem simplified: Do you want to pick one good door from three, or one good door from two?

[@MrJalafanakis]

I've got a few choice words for you, northernmost lion. I'm telling you, for the love of all that is holy, trust in the mortars and they will set you free (you piece). For Pete's sake, it's all about the tower upgrades.

[@linusgschonhowd2132]

In regards to university odds at 58:15, the chatter is a fool. As long as the total sum of percentages is the same, the expected average payout won't change in the long run. It's possible they meant that one large university has a higher chance of paying out at any given turn compared to several small ones, which is true. However, this effect is exactly negated by the chance for getting several triggers in one turn when you have more universities (the increased chance of getting zero triggers is balanced by the chance for several triggers simultaneously), and therefore we have no long term difference when the law of large numbers plays out. In other words, changing the percentage distribution only changes the variance, but not the mean. Go wide if you want to gamble (added risk but better payoff), and go tall for steady and stable results, long term it makes no difference. I also ran the numbers on most cost-efficient number of upgrades on the university before you should buy another one. The most optimal amount of buys is 7, then the increase in upgrade cost outweighs the cost of buying a new university. This is obviously assuming infinite access to university spots, which is unrealistic, and in addition, over-upgraded universities are MUCH better than under-upgraded ones (worst return on investment is by far for the first few upgrades)

[@B1aQQ]

Define long run. 20 waves is not high enough to equalise the gains.

[@linusgschonhowd2132]

@@B1aQQ Long run as in the statistical average. Going wide is equally likely to overpay you as to underpay you, so there's really nothing to equalise. As I said, only the variance changes, not the mean (which is the average payout per turn). There's just no bias in either direction for any spread of percentages

[@B1aQQ]

@@linusgschonhowd2132 For a big enough sample, yes. 20 waves is too few to reach the average consistently. Even a coinflip can produce highly uneven results with 20 tosses.

[@linusgschonhowd2132]

@@B1aQQ Sure, but my point is that no distribution is inherently better than another, which is illustrated by the mean. Whether or not we hit that exact mean or not is largely irrelevant. Whatever distribution we choose, we can never guarantee hitting the expected average, so that's hardly a relevant metric when comparing different percentage spreads? The question was whether or not one distribution is better than another, and as long as the mean remains the same, the answer is no. Everything else is statistical noise, and although you might argue for variance in each run, being limited by 20-ish turns, across multiple runs this will even out, and you will be rewarded as much as you will be punished, no matter how you divide your odds. I did mention the risk/reward of changing the variance, so if your issue is with consistency I don't believe we disagree, but I think you might be overestimating the difference in results, even in the short term, because it's pretty tiny anyways.

[@VertFirstQuestion]

Last Run: I will not take university later on because you need to take it earlier rounds This Run: Round 1 University naaah i will not take it

[@iamflowerless7839]

IF YOUR LOOKING FOR TENSION try using the mines, they raise your main towers health by A LOT not just 1 or two, that way you could take a couple of hits before dying :) GOOD LUCK, been enjoying this series and would like to see you beat this game!

[@subete485]

I love that the title of the video alludes perfectly to the ending on this one.

[@TheUntamedNetwork]

NL: Am I peanut brain or what about the 1 in a million chance? Reality: its a 1/100000000000000000000 that they would all pay out.

[@wellox8856]

On mobile if you press the like button it has a little animation with fireworks and it turns red and then white :) kinda cool

[@wellox8856]

I now noticed that it looks like im begging for likes but no. Its only when liking the video**

[@trevorlindsey2040]

I just don't understand how he just doesn't get it.. LOL. Great content

[@biohazard0119]

His commitment to the mortars is impressive

[@MsAdsga]

29:43 its like you don't even listen to what comes out your own mouth lmao. You said what you needed to do with shredders then place them downstream anyway Edit: unfortunate loss

[@MrDanAng1]

I love the Monty Hall problem. For those who don't know it, it's from a game show where the contestant blindly choose between 3 doors, 2 of them has a small consolation prize and one has a big price. When the contestant choose a door, the host open up one of the other to reveal a consolation prize, then offer the contestant to either keep the door they initially choose or swap to the other door. The problem is, does the contestant come better out from keeping the initial door or swap it? The solution, based on probability is to always swap! The initial door, choosed on random have a 1/3 chance of being the correct one. Revealing a loosing door give you new information, it's easy to intuitively think there is now a 50/50 chance that the door you choose from the beginning is the winning door, but it is still 1/3, so the other door has a 2/3 chance to be the winning door, effectively double your chance to win by swapping doors! Of course, being a game of chance, there is no guarantee that swapping is the ACTUAL best choice, only the PROBABLE best choice.

[@MichaelTheDane1]

Rogue Tower pops off on KZbin, can’t wait to see more!

[@SeeMyDolphin]

A level 1 tower with 14 university upgrades is NOT equivalent to a level 14 tower, because the level 1 tower's base damage has not been upgraded. A level 14 tower that starts with a base damage of 1 and has all of its points in HP damage will do (14*14=) 196 health damage (as well as 14 armor damage and 14 shield damage), whereas a level 1 tower with 14 university upgrades will do (1*14=) 14 health damage (as well as 1 armor damage and 1 shield damage).

[@ecbrown6151]

Ballista-frost tower-encampment is an extremely easy win, take the frost tower later and upgrade the ballista/encampment in the mean time. Also max range for ballistas should be a goal, this is a substantial force multiplier

[@owenhalldurocher9727]

rogue tower post study is the best relaxation

[@quellzai2293]

My guy is still throwing in Rogue Tower. We need doubter pool for the VODs please

[@Fanik120]

My favorite part of every video is watching NL take quality over quantity and then doing something like spamming ballistas with his 7k gold instead of upgrading a single tower

[@Fanik120]

“I’m feeling good”

[@samus598]

Ye that poor obelisk near his tower was expected to carry the entire team without any level ups or assistance. He could've at least put the ballista back there where they would've been far more useful

[@AngoDecay]

Best True Crime on Netflix is "Dont fuck with Cats".

[@dylanjackson7325]

The tension comes from constantly stressing about round 40+

[@jactitation]

Calling RIP at 10:40, 5 towers at Level 10 🥲

[@Chadgwhite]

Title: Megamortars won't let me down Me, an empath: The megamortars are going to let him down

[@theholygrass19]

BRUH "Mana is like money, I won't say you can never have enough, but if you ever hit zero, you got some serious issues." NL do be spitting sometimes

[@daniel_bonatto]

Basics, slowdown enemies in choke points so you have time to do more damage

[@edevans5991]

Level 39 only has one job. Lull you into complacency, preferably to the extend that you don't even realize that hitting expand will bring on lv 40.

[@georgeholland5052]

Take less towers, okay. TAKES 4 TOWERS in 8 rounds................. Seriously though it's fun content to watch so as long as your enjoying yourself I'm in it

[@Violaetor]

Target least health on the last stand towers, if you let 6 almost dead units through because you focused on a full health unit you lose. Wiping the 6 low health units instantly and letting the one full health through, you live. You would also be better off having less universities with a higher % values, than spreading out a lower chance across more universities.

[@tomungerer5674]

Thank you NL, your content helps me

[@basimaziz]

I'm in a similar spot to NL. I die on level 45 with the final boss being on green HP left. Every... Single... Time... I get through the shield, I get through the armor, but by the time that's happened, I can't get by the HP fast enough. I think I need a combo of all the towers. Oh btw NL, hot tip. 2 encampments on the final stretch to your Home Tower is very good at catching stragglers. Why don't I just put a tower at the final stretch? You ask. Because a tower can only attack when enemies are close. So, 2-8 attacks maybe, depending on placement. Whereas encampments constantly place mines. So, if enemies get close, they find 30-40 mines (attacks) waiting for them. That is the encampments power. All of its attacks are stored on the lane until they are needed. It's lowkey goated. ANYWAY! Great content as always.

[@ivegotthis56]

How many towers are you taking each run? I found i can win consistently when I take fewer tower types. Also the dots turn off regen for enemies that have it. I've found that every time I win, I have all the dots being applied

[@Arnavion]

There are many ways to win the game, but here's one build to get an easy win: 1. Take: Shredder, Flame Thrower, Poison Sprayer. Maybe take: Obelisk, Frost Keep. Don't take: Ballista (except for the first few waves), Mortar, Tesla Coil, Encampment, Radar, Particle Cannon, Lookout. (This is not to say that those turrets are bad or "never-take"s in general, just for this build, because it's easier to win without them. Eg ballistas are the most versatile turrets in the game and can win a game solo.) 2. Poison Sprayers need to be spammed more than other turrets. Shield bars in this game take a lot more to go down than armor and health. 3. Turrets level themselves as long as they have an enemy to shoot at. When you move your lines forward, your rear turrets level slower. Remember to level them manually. 4. Universities are not worth the time and gold investment, so ignore them. (The University matters more for challenge runs, where you're using a turret type to do damage that it's not inherently good at.) 5. Flame Throwers and Poison Sprayers shoot in a line that does damage along the line, so prefer to put them on a corner that a long road leads in to, or where a long road starts from. Set targeting accordingly, ie Progress for a turret that shoots down a long road. Mountains on intersections also work for this, since all the long roads coming out of an intersection usually line up with the central peak. 6. Shields always need to be stripped before armor, and armor always need to be stripped before health. So shield turrets need to be placed closest to the enemy, and health turrets the farthest. You'll have to repeat this setup multiple times because of enemies that spawn other enemies. 7. The Creeping Cough upgrade (poison = slow) is a must-take. It also works well with (6) above if you're using Poison Sprayers. It's worth putting Poison Sprayers everywhere along the road, even where you think you've already stripped all the shields, just to be able to keep applying slow.

[@Incoherencel]

DOTs are inredibly important because they prevent enemies from regenerating HP, ARM, and SH, which I'm not sure is mentioned in the game. So bleed would be very helpful for you. You could always try selling everything after Big Brain Oogie has passed it and dump 20+ levels into HP ballistas near your tower

[@ncsharkmanandk9queen904]

Lol gives out tip while saying hasn't won. The irony

[@Juggling_necromancer]

Literally just take the plane towers and use them to focus on bosses. Have 3, each one specialising on health armour or shield. Get them running by level 20 and you litterally never have to worry about bosses again

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

You're looking thinner and shinier than ever... You've never looked more egg

[@JeremyB83]

Poison, Flame, Particle, Saws. Bleed + Poison + Flame destroys all.

[@hugoboss3689]

He says there is no tension, but for the last 5 waves im yelling at my tv PLEASE PUT MORE STUFF ON THE END YOU WILL DIE AHHHHHH

[@KarboGorm]

I made this comment at the beginning of your video. Yes all the cream you talk about dont work if you jam all of it togheter. It will counter act eachother. So you need to use the creams (if you got them all) on different times or days so it will have an effect

[@andrewneal4922]

Particle cannon is great anti shield man. Every time I win I get away with; poison sprayer, mortar, shredders, obelisk, and particle cannon. The upgrade to make poison slow and it's a cake walk with a good choke point.

[@TrueNargin]

Believe me if he was ever offered that upgrade he would've taken it within 10miliseconds of seeing it.

[@felixslippy1188]

Taking one tower for one specific thing, like shields, is a bad idea because you can legit just upgrade the towers to do tons of damage against it, ie; upgrade obelisk

[@jakobhammerbertelsen]

As a member of the Danish fanbase, I would like to extend our gratitude for you wanting us around. Also we are very impressed that you know of the fine word of 🙀

[@cybergothstudios94]

I have the same glistening problem. During the summer if I wear shorts I blind my poor neighbors.

[@mrrocketman4840]

Commenting so he keeps playing. This is my favorite nl series rn

[@BlitheII]

i like watching nl play rogue tower anymore theres sless banter but more bants about the game

[@Stickman1496]

I feel compelled to leave a write up of the Monty Hall Problem here. The scenario is as follows: You are presented with three doors, and you know that behind one door is a prize, you just don't know which door it is. You choose 1 door, and then one unchosen door falls away while the door you chose and the one remaining (unchosen) door remains. You are now given a choice to change your choice. The crux of the problem, and NL's vernacular of "new information" comes at this point. By the rules of the game, the prize MUST be behind one of the two remaining doors. The probabilities are actually as follows: 33.3% for your chosen door, 66.6% for the one you did not choose, not 50/50. This is due to knowing the prize must be in the selection. Can you see why? If not, let's blow this up. Instead of 3 doors, imagine there are 100 doors. You look, bewildered at the myriad of choices facing you. You pick a door. There is a 1 in 100 chance you just picked the right door. Now all the other doors fall away, and now only two doors lie in front of you. Recall the probability that your choice of door was correct was, and still is, a measly 1%. Since there is a 100% chance that the prize is still in the selection, where does the other 99% lie? In the alternate, unchosen door. And so you have the Monty Hall problem. Some people go on about how "the probability is doubled in the unchosen door" for the original situation, but that is a just how the numbers happen to play out in a 3 door situation, it's not a tenet of a generalized Monty Hall.

[@KarboGorm]

Like the game and to see you struggle a bit. Its nice to see that it is a challenge even from the best game around!!

[@sassyfrass5237]

Megamorters got me my first win on like my 5th game. That and Radio towers to snipe bosses was sick

[@CritikalJari]

Rogue Tower the most watchable content

[@Mad_Pretty]

Please continue this series eggfather.

[@ttobbattam]

Ten 1/100 chances have the same expected value as one 1/10 chance. The only difference is that ten 1/100s have higher variance, like NL was saying. The one 1/10 chance can only ever have a payout of 1, while the ten 1/100s can pay out simultaneously. It perfectly evens out, with an expected value of one upgrade every ten rounds for both options. This is, of course, in a vacuum. You could argue that the 1/10 is more reliable because although you can't get upgrade spikes, you'll get a more reliable drip of upgrades. That's true, but that's just as subjective an assessment as NL's 'I want the chance to win the lottery'. Either way, it's uncertain when you will get your upgrades. I don't think there's any way to usefully quantify the 'reliability' of the 1/10 beyond looking at how much it will pay out over a particular stretch of time: that is, expected value. Therefore it's an error to claim that it's better than ten 1/100s.

[@absolutumdominiumx]

I love watching egg struggle in this game.

[@levithompson3573]

He’s getting better, he took poison sprayers.. maybe next time he’ll take the upgrades for them

[@nilsww4646]

its finally back! i feared he wouldnt play the game again but then i saw this. me happy :)

[@warpseer]

you know you can put good towers next to houses, right?

[@dominickugell]

Those late shredder spots were about as bad as you could get

[@JohnDoe-zi3yg]

liking, commenting, and dare I say, sharing so NL plays more of this game and becomes miserable

[@geebster.]

When theres 10% left in the video and NL goes "I think going all in on ballistas is the play"...

[@KaoticKitFire]

NL gets me because he does good but forgets to put more towers down closer to his base.

[@olo4704]

Really happy NL is thinking about me and the rest of the copenhagen base! No idea what word he is talking about though

[@corbafour5908]

If someone think they have mastered this game yet, I recomend trying Meme Strats Like "No mana run" or "All towers in one chokepoint" I'll try to come up with more Please leave suggestions! GL

[@MrDimox]

Love when he slams down expensive towers and just let them shoot at whatever.

[@PhiIosophyGeek]

Love seeing NL playing this game

[@hihi176100]

My student teacher was the wide receiver on the Golden Gaels that year they won, he brought in the cup to show us and then we all got his autograph XD

[@michaelburleson2687]

In like 4 years when he beats this game it will be Pogium overdose

[@Blackobluna]

Thr graphite shavings in zero g wouldn't wreak havoc on electronic systems at all

[@VoidicHerald]

Like so he sees the math thing Hey NL, the math on one 10% vs ten 1% is basically even. The chance of getting AT LEAST ONE upgrade is higher on the one high level uni, but the ability to roll more than one upgrade means that the average number of upgrades received is borderline identical and not worth thinking about too hard Much better to spend your brainpower on strategies and tower placements

[@derekrocco4344]

Regarding probabilities (10 1%s vs 1 10%), I'd say 10 1%s is better if your likelihood of winning is solely dependent on you getting a higher-than-average number of upgrades. The "mean" expected gains are the same (10 gains per 100 trials), but the 10-1% approach will have fewer rounds with any gains - yet some rounds with multiple gains. Let's talk about 2 50%s vs 1 100%. 1 100% gives you the "expected" 1 growth per turn. 2 50%'s gives 0 25% of the time, 1 50% of the time, and 2 25% of the time. If you *need* the 2 growth-per-turn to win, you should go balls to the walls and play the odds. If you expect you'll win, though, the 0 growth turns could hose you, and you ought to live your life dangerously by betting on 100%.

[@Lenthiuste]

NL please, for the sweet love of all things holy in this world, please Jesus, just pick one or two towers! Any tower, even just ballistas!