Using overpowered Obelisk Lasers to defend my tower! 

Many tips please read: The poison sprayers are doing something. They are OP against shields and do damage in their whole "spray". !!! you want to make sure to place them somewhere they can fire in a straight line to maximize their effectiveness. (flame tower too) !!! The reason you don't see the poison icon is because the 80 poison/sec is too fast. Oogie spawns on the longest path, as long as that isn't the path you most recently expanded. You usually want to destroy shields first, then armor, then health A good tactic is to make a kill zone where all paths gather to make the towers most useful. Universities are OP. Try to start using them around lvl 25 Lookout tower is also insane: it adds the multipliers to all towers attacking the target. Since total damage is calculated using multiplication... yeah you get it. Be sure to upgrade the towers near your tower manually since they can't really level by themselves.

An issue with getting this many towers is you're splitting your upgrades across too many options resulting in each of them being weaker. The best choice is to stick with just 2 or 3 towers and heavily invest into those so they stack up upgrades.

Man just got this game. It is so addictive. Also I'm sending paddy pets, they are virtual and to be redeemed by Matt.

RCE: says that he has been told to take advantage of the houses more Also RCE: places two towers near houses and doesnt even place a tower in the spot where it wud protect two houses, and proceeds to forget about the houses entirely.

Watching RCE play is equally as infuriating as it is entertaining. Shredder blades follow the route of the enemy they hit. Dark grey is shield. White/cream is armour. Each block of health/shield/armour is 100 until lvl16 when they become 1000. Lvl16 is the level after Oogie #1, and the shields start after that. If you want to make lvl 45, you need to make tower groupings. Three or four shredders together is far better than spread out and etc for other towers. Explosives and burn are for armour. Ballistic damage and bleed is health. Lasers and poison are for shield, minus the obelisk. Despite this, ANY tower can be made to attack any of the three and I find this necessary for victory. Example: I always have mortar groups and some radars set for most shield, and manually upgrade them to do so. Last note: on lvl 0, I surround the houses by my tower, even if they'll be nearly useless, as the money over time is well worth it, and is given at each round start. I sometimes swap them with radars and other long range towers later on. And only directly adjacent, same altitude towers count for houses, same as crystals. Diagonals and double stacks don't work. Good'ay

Still waiting the day he realized that the purple-blue bar is shield, not armor 🤣

It also makes sense to expand strategically in a way that you have short paths and long paths. This will spread the enemy numbers over a longer period of time and will not overwhelm your defences. I also like to place mortars and canons all over the map so they already reduced the shield and armor to zero when the enemies reach the death zone. I remember the difference between shield and armor by saying "knight with the shining armor" meaning armor is the shiny yellow/golden colour.

Enjoyed your last video and got the game. Finished the single and the double lane defense. Tips learned from playing the game: -Get radar because they can rip through the bosses like paper. One is enough to kill Oogie. -Make a kill zone and put frost keeps near them. It slow them down and gives more time to kill them. -Get the mana bank and mana generation upgrades early because you're going to use many weapons that use mana. -Poison, flame and shredder together because you get an upgrade where you can deal extra damage if the enemy is bleeding, burning or poisoned. Loving the series and can't wait wait for your next video.😍

really enjoy the series. Decided to buy the game myself and already done 18 hours. One thing I learn is dont be too many upgrade cards as it clog up and may not get upgrades you want. Also at the start, place ballistas immediately next to the houses as you get gold from them and if you do it early, by the time you get to like lvl25+ your total income percentage will be quite high. My highest is lvl37 and max ivs lvl45. on that run, 10% of my total income was just from ballistas next to the houses.

Alright, about damage over time There's bleed, burn and poison, and bleed only deals full damage to health, burn - to armor and poison - to shields, if it deals damage to a wrong thing, it will still decay like usual but will only deal half the damage So it is more rational to put something that deals poison damage at the start to take down shields quicker

Always great to hear that beautiful British voice.

Got this game and I’ve been loving it. Smashed through the single lane but double and triple get incredibly hard. Tips: late game the mana banks are unbelievable. With the cards that give you x% of your max mana a second, the mana banks increase your max mana and it stacks so if you get a handful of mana banks, your max mana can break 1000-2000 and you’re getting 200-300 mana a second. Unbelievable Edit: the only issue with putting the encampments towards the tower is that they won’t consistently do damage and thus they get really under leveled. To keep them as a good last line of defense you have to dump money into upgrading them consistently

I'd also recommend the Respec mod. It lets you refund all your card choices and only pick the ones you plan to use plus enough to get upgrades every level, which drastically reduces deck bloat. Since you only get enough upgrade chances to max out ~1.5 towers if you're lucky, this can drastically increase your win rate. Also, take some time to study the upgrade tree. The upgrades you have access to follow the same pattern as the tree. So, if you upgrade Ballista health damage, you get access to a slowing effect on all your Ballista attacks, armor leads to range increases, and shield leads mana infused bolts, while they all lead to +15% crit for each line. Its worth looking at each of the trees and memorizing where the upgrades you truly care about are. Mana banks should always be taken if you can. You'll basically always need them. They increase both your mana regen and your max mana, which synergizes fantastically with Sorcery and Life Steal (which is unlocked by Sorcery). In my last run, I had over 150 mana/sec thanks to this and Savings Account (unlocked by Mana Bank), which allowed me to magically empower all my ballistas twice and have as many particle cannons as my I wanted, plus several more because I had to much money and nothing to do with it ;) That poison card that gave 5% slow that you passed up to take the Mine (I think) is one of the best cards in the game since it can be gotten relatively early and any weapon can be made to do poison damage. When you get universities, remember to get at least the first two scholarship cards, and to specialize each university. Each one gets the chance listed for each stat at the start of every turn, and the odds of success are slightly higher if each university is specialized than if they're all generalized. I'd also recommend ditching mines and haunted houses. They're not useless, but they're close enough to it that its not worth the massive deck bloat as each one adds several more cards to your deck if you select them.

So, he's learned a lot, but... Still doesn't know to hold shift to put more than one tower down at a time, even though it's literally written on the in-game screen. 🤪 Love you ya daft sod 😂❤️

If I could clean myself like that , I'd never leave the house.

paths splitting is actually a good thing, it lets you plan out your defenses better by placing more towers to defend from paths with more branches because those paths will have more enemies. The enemies per level get split out evenly to all paths leading into the map, if you want an area to have fewer enemies, try to expand other paths first. Also, yellow is armor, blue is shields.

I love the Encampments. Highest RPM fire rate will spread the most bombs around. It's annoying having to keep setting them down to see which gives the most in that area.

If you hold shift after selecting a tower or building, you can place multiples without having to reselect the building. Diversify your damages by tower, rather than upgrading one tower to do a little more of a type if you can. Shredder does bleed/health, which prevents health regen, Poison tower does poison/shields and prevents shield regen, and Flame thrower does fire/armor and prevents armor regen. Mortars are also great AoE and do massive armor damage. Use your priorities to target the damage type, or play to strengths. Shredder and poison tower I usually set to default, as they benefit from hitting the front guy, and hits everyone around it, so will get bleed and poison on everything. Mortar I target highest armor first. Ballistae I do a mixture of all three to help whittle down the numbers for the other towers to take care of, etc. Yellow is armor, Grey is shields, and Green is health.

I've found flame and poison towers to be quite effective. Enemies have health, armor, and shields,- green, cream, blue. Damage bars go from right to left, and you have to do the outermost damage first, so often you need to take out shields, armor, then health. Poison effects shields, flame armor, and bleed health. Focusing to upgrade just a few tower types gives you effects for all element types, and synergizes your attacks. I've found focusing on ballista, radar towers, poison and gas tower upgrades for damage to be effective. Scout towers help multiply damage. I may purchase the other towers, but often don't upgrade their cards. Get sorcery and mana banks to rely less on the RNG of mana wells. You need to surround your houses with towers to maximize gold. Decent strategy is to get all of the starting money upgrades and place towers around all the starting houses. Later in the Game you can replace the unused towers with radar stations, which effectively reduces the price of radar station. Nothing overcomes bad RNG for tiles though. My best games have maps with few branches and mostly switchbacks.

This game is dangerously addictive, thanks for introducing me to it! A few tips to throw at you: green = health, white = armor, blue = shield. Part of the problem you ran into towards the end of this run was that you confused the shields with armor and started stacking the wrong damage type. I'd also really recommend watch towers if you use obelisks, since watchtowers boost the damage (per hit!) against the targets they mark, and obelisks have a high rate of fire. Just set the obelisk's priority to 'marked' to ensure they attack the watchtower targets. :)

Øm its kinda funny that you say you need armor dmg, when what you actuly need is shild dmg. The blue bar is shild, White is armor. Love your videos

9:23 You have the internet’s sassiest editor. I love it!

So the blue stuff he keeps calling armor is shield right? And he keeps putting down the wrong towers to deal with it as a result? It looks to me like Green is health, cream is armor, and blue is shield, and if you see an enemy with all three you can see it follows that order, which is the order he talked about earlier on: "got to get through the shield first, then the armor, then the health."

Do more with your “Target Priority” options! It’s not “target this, then this, then this.” It’s “target this WITH this AND this.” It’s a logic based system; so if you set it to Most Shield/Most Armor/Progress, it would prioritize the target with those parameters and switch between targets accordingly. If there are no targets with Shield, it will then target the enemy with the most Armor making the most progress. If there’s no enemy with Armor OR Shield, it will then target the enemy making the most progress. Most Armor/Least Shield/Slowest, it will base its target on that hierarchy instead. Adjust the target priority based on the strengths of each tower and micromanaging how you do damage around the paths and you’ll get so much further faster even without the fast forward mod. My record is 48 and I only had down maybe 24 towers. Hope this helps!

07:00 - The upgrade on the very right ... _Building - Mine: Repair and increase tower max health by mining from iron veins._ Iron veins appear to be those small rocky dirt piles scattered across the map. Might be worth a shot? edit: I'm not playing the game myself, mind you. ediotic: uh, nvm :)

Something else of note. When you go to upgrade the towers, it costs more if the progress bar on them is lower. Essentially the towers auto upgrade based on what they are doing damage to. If they are hitting just health, the progress on the health upgrade will increase until 100%, then it will upgrade and start a new progress bar. The same goes for armor and shields. You doing it manually just upgrades it faster at a higher cost. This means towers that are older are better than towers that are newer, just because they have auto upgraded over many rounds.

You're getting better Matt! (And even better in your latest Twitch vid, of which I still need to watch the 2nd half) A couple things I haven't seen you do yet. Universities give a chance of a permanent dmg boost for everything each level. And Mana Banks cost more than Siphons, but they increase your max mana, which scales up Sorcery. It just depends on how much mana you plan to use Edit: Also, there's some upgrades that'll take your max tower health to 20. Not the cards, permanent upgrades from the unlock menu

You should just put ballista's around houses(asap) and put the better towers in good positions.

An important note is that for enemies that regenerate their health, armour, or shields, the appropriate damage over time nullifies that. But if you have a high damage/sec cap on your effects, it will run through the meager amounts you were able to put on the enemies at the start and just allow the enemies to regenerate any damage you dealt by the time they reach the next killing zone

“Let’s play tactically and not worry about stat effects for now” *immediately invests in all stat damage level-ups and ignores mana upgrades*

7:54 "the pile of logs" **insert dialogue here**

You should check out the crit on bleed/burn/poison cards, stacking sources of bleed/burn/poison can be really good with them. Mana siphons are not worth it when you spam obelisks, you want the mana bank + sorcery, easy 300+ mana/s regen and like 2k mana pool. You also only have 45 levels to pick cards(+ oogie chests), so splitting into many tower types means you cant min/max into the good upgrades on most towers

Hi Mat, strongest tower in the game: Tesla coil. Put it on a big turn on a +3 , upgrade the crap out of it and it will kill anything. keep another tesla down the line towards the tower to catch the insanely fast ones that dont die after 1 hit from the first tesla and upgrade it slowly

That ballista placements near the castle is very effective tho lol

"I seem to be having some mana issues... maybe I'll put down another Obelisk." :P

Whenever I finish the single defence mode, I usually end up with just around +200 mana/sec - Obelisks tend to form a large part of my defence, along with shredder, flamer and poison towers. I don't upgrade any of my towers as they upgrade themselves over time. I also try to keep one path very long for the bosses to spawn on. I try to concentrate my card upgrades for each type of tower, for example I only upgrade shield stats for poison, armor stats for flamer, I always go for bandit as soon as possible and I go for the cards which give extra damage from all towers on bleeding / burning / poisoned. I do go for cards which upgrade all stats on my obelisks though, but concentrating on shield where possible as that is more important in the late game. The house protection stat usually ends up resulting in about 18% of my income and at the start it nearly doubles my income - It's well worth while.

Paddy gotta do what paddy gotta do

I’m sure Paddy was just re-engineering the strongest shape. Also, thank you for your videos. They’ve helped me find a lot of great new games and really help to brighten the day!

Poison and burning aside, it's better to focus your defenses between the tower and the first crossroad. Any defence in that section will be able to damage ALL the enemies. Spreading defenses around the map or focusing on enemy entrances, means you're investing the same money to hit less enemies.

Health/Armour/Shield stat bar explained: Green bars are health, white bars are armour, purple bars are shields. You addin more armour dmg when theres shield users doesnt do anything to hurt them; it just needlessly wastes resources.

More Rogue Tower please!

Your thoughts on how things work is correct but you need a bit more refining. The poison sprayers are working but can't place stacks on the mobs since you have such high per sec dmg counters. Poison dmgs shields, fire dmgs armor, and bleed dmgs health. So the best type of run would have poison near the beginning of each run. Fire in the middle and bleeding near the tower.

I’m so glad I woke up to see this video! I love this series - great way to start my day off

Every time I watch RCE/Matt makes me want to become an engineer even more. Much love 👍

haha my favorite part is him saying im going obelisk and skipping over mana banks and anything mana regen and going oh no im out of mana the very next wave. my best runs have been wave 45 single direction(may not be great but that eye oodgie is a beast ending my run 3-4 times now) and have 110+ mana gen a sec and still running low with all my sprayers and rail guns (haven't used obelisks since i always end up with mana issues)

i have found an op strategy. only use shredder flamer, and poison, so we will use the dot effect to absolutely obliterate the enemy. with the card that deals 10 percent of the enemy dot effect and 4 50% additional effect card so basically deal 4 times more damage. it destroys boss and have AOE too

There are several game devs that have money from me now because of you and the games you play. Keep it up!

If you do decide to do another challenge like this, I cannot recommend the radar any higher. They have the largest range of any tower and just a couple can vaporize oogie in seconds. Just make sure they're targeting him. I've had a few games where I didn't even realize he was here until I noticed the chest lying on the path.

Worth noting that unless the path bends back on itself, it's a little useless to fill in the space behind your tower (on it's own block) as the range limitations means that they'll only have a split second to shoot, and the hit box of the tower is a little jank at times, meaning that they're basically useless.

The frost tower by far are the most important tower for me. In any tower defense game a slowing type tower are really important. also the shredder are really weak against boss and enemy with a lot of shield or armor which comes a lot in late game.

Invest on shield and armor damage will do the work.. Tesla, poison and particle cannon is a shield damage Flame, obelisk and mortar is a armor damage Radar, shredder and balista is technically health damage

I HAD to buy this after I started watching your series. A rouge-like tower defense game, such an amazing idea!

Watching Rce place ballista at the start but not adjacent to any houses or only adjacent to one house is so hard to watch 😂

Hey matt, i just realized: Since houses gives you gold per adjacent tower INSTANTLY once you go up a level, and since it costs nothing to relocate them; Why not surround em with towers whether it makes sense or not, get the gold, and then immediately replace em?

you can select tower then hold shift to place the same tower multiple time without clicking the tower again and again

Play mindustry pls (tower defense game where you need to build fabrics to power your turrets and get resources to get upgrades and travel to other areas on the planet) I think you'll like it!

18:18 That's how you summon _O b e l i s k t h e T o r m e n t o r_

If you get confused on which is armor and which is shield, just click on a tower. The bar where you upgrade the damage for each is the same color it appears on health bars! (So it’s armor as the tan/white, and shields are the grey/blue)

Upgrading all your towers an trying to get each damage type to the same level makes a huge difference

Matt: I need Mana so bad! Also Matt: Proceeds to purchase everything except Mana upgrades

Love seeing these!!

love your vids please keep making good entertainment videos your a great creator man

Ballistas all the way could be fun. 😀👍

i started playing this when i saw ur last video and i learned a lot lately ill like to see you using sprays and mortars only and also if you want more mana youll wanna go with mana banks

I watched a video. The absolute most powerful tower is Tesla Coil. If you have a +3 in the middle of a corner, like your early obelisk, and just get everything for it, it'll 1 shot even end game.

You should prioritize lowest health on your ballistas closest to the end. Two healthy enemies making it to your tower still does less damage than three or four nearly dead ones.

You should do a round with only being able to build on 2 squares at a time but you get to keep that unlimited mod on. It would be interesting to see what the strongest combos are and how many rounds you can last. You would hope for a straight line map but as you can see who knows what you will get.

Nice to see that you learn from your mistakes, that mine at the start really looked wrong for me, even though I never played the game^^

Howdy! Love ya RCE

Radar Tower is an awesome one that he should do. They can do a lot of damage.

Try Tesla oriented build it's so op , you just need two or three main Tesla's and focus on upgrading their dmg

It bugged me that he didn't expand in that direction of his castle. I mean that is a good bet that you can have over lapping tower range and also limits the amount of splits no?

Thanks for this, and Paddy just decided since you were playing a game for us he'd have a bath :) Thanks once again!

I just... I know that the Mana siphons are supposed to be like sci-fi siphoning tech, but it just looks like a bunch of wizard statues going "OOOOOOHHHH!" around a crystal to me.

I haven't even played rogue tower, and watching him play makes me feel pain.

Come one come all! This Channel has a RU-vidr that reads the comments and learns from them!

I love the engineering stuff please build more bridges

You could try a game called sfs - SpaceFlight Simulator. Basically a 2d less complicated version of kerbal. It is also free. It's a mobile game btw. Really fun and not addictive.

use mana banks more to help with the obelisk mana problem

Matt out of context: loves the strongest shape and 3 ways. Haha Anyways, this game is fun. I’m really glad to see you actually read comments and update your strategy based on them

yeah my dog does a lot of 'cleaning' as well

Also selecting targets on towers is key

Bruh I was literally thinking you'd upload rogue tower, and it actually is rogue tower

you can shift click when placing towers to place multiple

Your commentary makes this even more fun.

Spectacular content as always, your videos are actually making me want to change my major to engineering!

Sorcery (for % of max Mana per second) and Mana Banks seem pretty important to feed an Obelisk lol

Rce needs more shield damage. Particle cannons and poisons are the best ones

Something about this game is really nice.

The rouge tower videos are amazing

If you want to do more with mana definitely go for the banks. They increase maximum and then generate based on that maximum so the increase is exponential

This is very simple, play with the radar tower, it's really fun to play with

Be kind with your tips everyone, he's clearly still learning and it's unnecessary to be so demeaning to him.

i love how he just places shredders everywhere 🤣

Love this game and love these videos. How do you get the fast forward mod? I NEED this in my life

Yes, I was waiting for another rouge tower video

Thanks, I was really waiting for this video

Those Obelisks are quite tormenting the enemies

If I remember right, if you hold shift you can place towers one after another

My type of Defense is alot of Mortar maybe like 10 or 13, I only like it because of the blast damage and health damage it does.