Creeper World 4 - We Know Nothing (6) 

There's definitely a lot of unexplained mechanics, but I'm curious what you needed to google here? Everything you need to complete this mission is covered in earlier ones.

@@strategicsage7694 I thought the point is to be as efficient as possible with placing stuff around. For example i didn't know covering the whole area with pylons is a thing. I couldn't complete this mission in the way i completed the previous ones. English is also not my native language and after seeing the walls of texts it gives at the beginning of a mission, i quickly started ignoring them as i thought it's just pointless story. I just used the info button to learn about what items do, but as it turns out it insufficient what it tells you. Also doesn't help that the UI is rather bad, and having not played any CW games before it's really confusing with all the numbers in small font. Having some toolbox texts on hover over on the HUD texts that tells exactly what it is would be really helpful. I'd also say this game needs regular and advanced tutorial levels where handholding is enabled, make those levels optional doesn't matter, but as a new to the series i'd greatly appreciate them =)

I can definitely understand the language barrier - I don't play non-English games for that reason as I don't know enough of any foreign language to even try. I am assuming here you are talking about Towers, not actually Pylons - you don't need to cover the area with Pylons. On the Towers, Info does in fact tell you about that, directly saying that they produce the green soylent for energy and to space them out for efficiency, etc. This was also discussed in the first mission and was the primary objective of the fourth mission, in which there is large yellow text with a flashing hazard sign telling the player 'Tower Energy Offline' until you get the info cache which fixes it. It sounds to me like it's more of the game not presenting the information in a way that you wanted it to, rather than it not being there at all. FYI the entirety of the Farsite Expedition *is* the tutorial for CW games; it's not the end of the journey but just the beginning of it, preparing you for other areas such as Span Experiments, user maps in the Colonies, etc. In terms of the numbers being in small font, you can just make them larger. There is a prominent UI Scaling option.

@@strategicsage7694 yeah i'll manage. wouldn't play it if it weren't good. i just wish it were bit more polished around the edges and bit more accessible.

Good catch - that was definitely a brain cramp of some kind there. Set it to the opposite of what I wanted to do apparently.

I don't think the mission has been changed, it's definitely still possible. Going for a speed-run, this map could definitely be done *much* faster.

Good observation, I didn't realize how the flow was adjusted until well after I'd played this map. It definitely has tripped up a fair amount of people on their first time through it.

You're welcome! The reason why the wave doesn't go back is that there is a 'wind' that pushes the creeper to the left on the map.

Yep. I wasn't aware of the 'wind' effect at the time I did this.

It pumps out dribble creeper for a while and then you get another big wave. Plus there are no resources on the other side.

You're welcome, but I am going to respectfully disagree on the map itself. Some people go through the whole campaign, never get challenged by any part of it, and are upset that it isn't harder. So it really depends on the player, and opinions vary greatly on the difficulty. FWIW this map wasn't as 'close' as I may have looked. I planned it out to get as much built as I thought I could, but you don't have to do it that way. You can build a fair amount less, not connect to the shield or even the pyramid initially, and still very much win the mission. It just takes longer is all.

@@strategicsage7694 I don't see it that way. If you dont get the shield up in time, your entire base will be wiped, with a mountain of creep sitting on all the major resources. I'd need to see someone bound back from it to be convinced. At any rate, the shield method worked for me so won't be revisiting that poorly implemented level.

@@Peleski Build enough mortars/cannons at the wall just in front of your base, and your base will not be wiped at all. You can just hold at that energy wall and gradually beat it back. Most of your resources are west of it. I will probably be making a video to demonstrate if I can find time shortly after the new year, in case you're interested in actually seeing it.

@@strategicsage7694 I suppose that's the original intent of the map, so I wouldn't need to see it. Still a bit too steep of a difficulty jump for level 4, esp given the later levels are so easy.

Glad this helped! You make a good point - I still haven't totally wrapped my head around the fact that you can put towers in a lot more places that you might expect - that's definitely an improvement over what I did.

Haha .. once I realised that towers produce energy, I tried to rush forward as in this video, but my attempt was completely overwhelmed, and I has to retreat and ended up with a row or two of mortars behind the last wall, just in front of my base, with the wall turning red and it seemed my time was up.. luckily this was enough to stem the tide, and I managed to push back and advance in that one play-through.

Yep, thanks.

I don't think that's the case, but I can see why it would appear that way. I think the enemy stations act differently because the Nullifier destroys them instead of just shutting them down like it does with other hostile structures. Since they are eliminated, the game simply removes them from the number left to nullify instead of counting them as nullified.

Haha. Give yourself a little credit - you still won. Finishing a map in an imperfect fashion is still finishing it.

For better or worse it's a little late for that at this point - I haven't played this game for years. I found though in many situations it's better to have mostly one or the other.