Easy way to do Farbor in Creeper World 3 

Jessie Jackson Yeah the Super Berthas are amazing. Fire 3 rounds and only require half the energy to fire so they shoot twice as fast. All in all they have 6 times the firepower of a standard one, it obliterates creeper. :)

+TheDrexxus But, how do you even GET a Super Bertha?

+SlidingSilver The same way you get any of the powered up versions of stuff, build them in a power zone after you nullify an emitter. Like every single building can be beefed up in some way. The weapons shoot faster and have more range, the guppies hold more power, the relay's connection range is drastically increased, shields have bigger shield domes and exert more force, etc etc.

+Jessie Jackson everything is upgraded, even Command Nodes...

what does a powered up command node offer? it's not just bonus energy is it?

you're probably gonna look at this reply and be wtf since your comment is 4 years old but playing this game has taught you to be cautious and make small steps at a time to guarantee success and minimalize failure. while this guy is freaking just going ham at it. breaking all the rules. didn't even go cautiously just said "fuck it" while doing it

IKR?! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO COMPLETE THIS LEVEL FOR LIKE 8 HOURS

Good thing I´m not the only one getting stressed out by that stuff xD

I thought I was alone in this, I usually take my time on the levels because THAT'S HOW I LEARNED TO PLAY THE GAME, so this level came pff as a HUGE dificulty curve. It's so unfair.

The previous Creeper World games always a had a few late game timed missions. Granted if 3 is your first Creeper World game, it's always a rough one.

they also only need 75 ammo to shoot so youre getteng X3 for X0.5

Lol

Snipers destroy the ships??

Makes me happy that even 6 years later, I still get comments now and then with someone saying this video helped them finally beat this level. I have another video for the secret ending to the final mission to if you get to that point and want an easy way to do it as well. :)

+Maprdr57 I was never a big fan of the time-sensitive missions in creeper world. I always treated the game as a casual kind of "play at your own pace" kind of thing. But that is why I made this guide, because you can not only win this level, but get the bonus ending for winning fast by using my method here. It's not bad at all. :)

+Maprdr57 Same exact thing happened to me and it keeps happening. Every few months I come back and I still cant complete it. Hopefully this video helps me lol

Same here. -.-

theuncalledfor Yeah, we know. The mission is still time-capped, right?

I almost quit, just needed about 2 more min to finish the mission, tried at least 5 times charging saves, then i give up just to realise that the game gives you 20 more fucking minutes if you fail to destroy the ship... I just needed the fucking inhibitors to charge up and was at 98%.

Haha no problem, that's why I made the video in the first place. I've always been a huge fan of the Creeper World series and used to participate on forums and such talking to folks about it. I noticed that a TON of people struggled with doing this level and one of the other levels within the time limit for the special endings. I also noticed that there were tons of folks trying to "help" these players by giving them really bad advice... They were saying that you need to build 2 bases at the same time and constantly pause and micromanage both bases or to build an overwhelming number of snipers to shoot down ore ships to buy more time and so on. I shook my head at all that and ultimately decided I needed to show people that you don't have to do any of that stuff to win. Just brute force it with an empowered Bertha and lots of cannons + power is all you need. I actually did it very sloppily in this video which I still kind of cringe to watch because I made SO many mistakes, and i've thought about correcting those mistakes over the years, but I ultimately decide it's better to leave them in because it shows that even if you screw up (like I did in the video) or do things very inefficiently, you can still win without much bother.

@@TheDrexxus Wow quick reply :) and ya I noticed some small things that could have been slightly better, but you did beat it super quick and I couldnt even do it :) so who am I to judge, regardless ty, very much, also the music just cutting off was pretty funny, hope you have a good day :)

Even placing the sniper on a power node circle is not enough to kill the ship before it touches ground. Also they respawn and the other ships still gather ore.

Years ago when I played this, I felt the same way. I always liked playing in a more slow, relaxed manner that just gradually clears everything at a casual pace. I often enjoyed maxing out research and all that before moving on and I hated feeling rushed by timers. But that's part of the reason why I made this video. It was just to show that it isn't too hard to do this within the time limit with the strategy I use, even when I made tons of mistakes and careless decisions.

As I said, I didn't enjoy this mission one bit, but with your guidance, I managed to do it. I tried to keep up with your video, was a bit slower and it took me three tries (On my first try, I took to long to kill the emitter and was missing about 5 seconds at the end (nullifier was built, but not charged), and the second try ended abruptly when a spore hit my relays and I realized it too late), but it's finally done, after not playing for 5 months. Thank you for this great video!

I placed the third command station on the bottom part of the island where the other two are, helped me a lot with energy.

It's called Jazz in Paris. It's royalty free music RU-vid offers. When I originally made this video it had a couple of other songs that played for the entire video but it was eventually flagged for using real music. I just kinda shrugged it off and replaced it with some freebie, non-issue music youtube provides. But with the nature of the edit, it only plays for the first little bit and has no audio after that point. But I chose Jazz in Paris after hearing it in a carbot animations video found here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uk1jktjDhxU.html I liked the way it sounded. :)

+StarACE112 For sure. Could've been done quicker and cleaner than what I did, but back when I made this video TONS of people struggled really hard to get this mission done, especially before the timer for the bonus win, so I made this video to show people an easy way. I linked it on steam and it seemed to help a lot of people out. :) I considered making more for other missions but the ones without time limits people seem to do just fine on their own after a while, so I just made vids for this one and the final mission since you can beat it super fast for an alternate game ending.

They're 2 seconds highscore ;)

+RimshotKiller you mean a forge

+killer Yep

All units get boosts.

anything placed on a node gets a massive boost. even stuff like collectors, relays and reactors

What happens if I put a Forge on one?

Nothing Sadly, However command nodes get extra range

Do you mean you tried 3 times before watching this video then you succeeded? Or that you failed 3 times after watching? haha I hope the video helped. Upgraded birtha, making use of the anti-creeper, and just swarming with blasters can get the job done. :> You can pause a lot too to slow it down and make it easier to make the most of your energy supply and issue orders so you don't waste any time.

Depends how you look at it. 2 empowered berthas are definitely better than one, however the point of this video was just to show an easy way to do the mission without having to constantly pause and manage both bases at once and all that other stuff. It's just showing an easy peasy way to do it. Folks struggle enough with this level without having to handle two bases on opposite ends of the map at the same time. It would make it faster to do with in-game time, but would take a lot longer with real world time I think and I think it's more complicated than just worrying about the one base really. But if you're the type of player who likes to pause and adjust two different bases and stuff like that, then yeah go for it. When I play, I usually don't pause at all unless I need to better adjust landing positions for blasters. I like things a bit faster. :)

+Z3roCool007 The bertha should fire a couple of times before the cannons get there to thin out the creeper to make it easier for the cannons to deal with, then it should fire within a second or two of the cannons landing on the platform because it clears up all the creeper. As long as you have enough cannons and get that relay built asap to rearm them, you should be able to establish your beachhead just fine.

T~T I KNOW!!!!!!

You don't have to time it perfectly, the empowered bertha shoots pretty quick and if they land just before the hit or just after the hit, it'll still be alright, there's really only a small window between shots where landing would suck. But, you can also mass select your cannons and tell them to move somewhere else and once they move a few feet tell them to go back the other direction, over and over till timing is good.

+Ruthann K You can thank ru-vid.com for the music. He didn't create it or anything, but he used this song in one of his videos and I liked it a lot. Good channel with good vids too if you're into any of the Blizzard Entertainment games. He has some vids for starcraft, warcraft, diablo, heroes of the storm, and hearthstone.

Nope. Not needed in the slightest. I find dividing your attention like that just makes the game take longer, having to pause and play, pause and play, pause and play to do it effectively. Not worth the time or effort when you can just win easily with one island. :P

I made this video not long after the game came out. At the time, huge portions of the playerbase was having issues doing this level. The ideas of constant pausing and unpausing and managing additional bases and all of that was floated and suggested by some, by most players didn't want to play the game in a stop-motion sort of way or have to constantly divide their attention between two bases. The level was very intimidating for people to do. I made this as a rather sloppy method of just getting the job done to show that you can beat it, even the first time limit before the second one even starts, even if you play sloppy just by brute forcing your way through it. The "disadvantage" of using multiple bases is that it was distracting and annoying for most players. It was the most commonly suggested thing at the time, years ago, but they all hated having to do it haha. That was the whole point of this vid, to show it was not needed at all and could be done simple and easy.

@@TheDrexxus It is a great video and method. :) I meant it not as criticism, but as a comment on how good your method really is - because your time of completion is already stellar. And "its not even" with full options used. :) The idea is like: "And hes doing this with just one hand, imagine him doing it with both" :-D

@@psychepeteschannel5500 I didn't take it as a criticism, I just wanted to explain the context if you were unaware because the community around this game was pretty busy when it first came out and this level was kind of a big deal to a lot of folks. Forums FILLED with complaints. Im kind of surprised new people still buy and play this game, but it does make me happy that occasionally it hooks new folks because its such a great series. Creeper World 4 will be out eventually and it's looking really good. Creeper World 2 had a totally different vibe to it, but I enjoyed it as well, especially the rifts. Good times.

@@TheDrexxus Oh! :-) Do I have a pleasant surprise for you Drexxus :D store.steampowered.com/app/848480/Creeper_World_4/

@@psychepeteschannel5500 Oh sweet, I haven't looked at such things in so long I didn't realize it had come out. I'll have to get it after i'm out of the hospital. I can't wait. :)

+Prof Hex same! i still couldn't do it!

+Mrjake92100 If you build a little mining majigger on an ore deposit, the ships will just land on top of them and destroy them. That is why I only built one on the left deposit because ships don't land there, the right deposit they do land on. You can, however, build sniper buildings and they will shoot down the ore ships but it takes a lot of shots. Personally, I don't do this because I feel like it isn't worth the time and energy investment for the extra time you gain from it. You can only stop a couple of these ships, they're still operating at about 80% capacity from the ones you can't do anything about because of their range from you. And it takes a lot of energy to build enough to kill the things, because they take a lot of hits, and rearm them constantly. Ultimately, I never do it. Just no point. Now if you wanted to be all hardcore about it, you could run two bases at the same time in the top left and bottom right corners of the maps, and then if you shot them down you might make a slightly bigger impact on time allowed, but that strategy involves a lot of pausing (for me at least) and is just generally annoying and not really needed. What I did in the video here is the easiest way. Just take over your little island, secure it, and mass cannons and use an empowered bertha to clear the path, then take advantage of the power zones on the mainland to throw up a giant shield and boom, you're done.

I failed twice this morning using your tactic, I just wasn't fast enough. And, I tried to placing the Ore mines down and I did notice the explosion, which kinda sucks. :/ But I'll go back to the game later and try again, and hopefully win and get to some better. non-timed missions. Thanks for replying, man, and so quickly.

+Mrjake92100 Haha it was actually kind of funny, I was just checking my e-mail before I went to work and saw a comment so I went to respond. Said you posted 2 minutes earlier, just lucky I guess. This tactic is to beat the level for the "secret ending" or whatever, even if you aren't fast enough for that, you could still just keep going and easily win the level the other way. The timer is slightly tight but it isn't "too" bad, just don't waste any time, never let your energy hit 100% full until you're ready to actually go. Just secure your island, then spend 100% of your energy on making more energy until you cover a good chunk of the island, then just mass cannons and go. Start building that bertha as soon as the island is secured so it'll be ready to fire by the time you can attack. I mean if you have to, can always pause the game and think. Make sure you're spending all your energy and so on. The most efficient way to get energy is to keep your energy pool kind of half full or just slightly negative. If you go too far negative it takes longer to build energy so you get less over time, but if you don't spend enough you're wasting all that energy when you're capped. So keeping it in the middle or just slightly negative is the best way to go about it. But once you start building the cannons you can just throw them all down at once, doesn't matter that they'll build a little slower because getting them up sooner individually doesn't change anything. Just secure your island as fast as possible. If you waste too much time killing that emitter you aren't going to make it. After it's dead, just keep energy very slightly negative. Those two things will buy you a lot of time to actually win. You can compare the completion % of the core thing with the video to get your timing down. In the video, the core was at about 22-23% when I started dedicating 100% of my energy to building reactors. Looks like all my cannons were built and on their way by 50% as well as the bertha being up and running at that point. Using those two time markers might help you get it sorted with your pacing. I actually made tons of sloppy mistakes when I recorded this, it could be done much, much faster but I was aiming for a kind of imperfect display that is a little sloppy and has some mistakes and inefficiencies just to show anyone can do it, you don't have to be perfect. I haven't played the game in over a year at this point, but it was fun. I'm looking forward to the dude's new game that hopefully will come out before too long. But just keep trying, you'll get it pretty quick I think. The method works, just practice it a bit, refine it, you'll get faster and faster with it.

you can stop the 2 ore ships near the island easily, it slows it down by maybe 20% but you need a large number of snipers to destroy the ship

One thing I tried was getting rid of the creeper generator in the top left as fast as possible and placing a sniper in there allows you to target 3 of the ships, However at most I could normally destroy 2 as the one at west would only be in range for a few moments.

same

James Pokies Hm there still seems to be room for error. Got dick stuck in toaster at step 4

+amazingkool lol good analogy!

john erion Wasn't an analogy. Dick stuck in toaster to this day. Wearing pants 10 sizes larger to accommodate for this condition.