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Tactic: Not calling waves early to regenerate more ability energy (reported by: Cinex)
Description: ability energy generation has a constant rate, not affected by early wave calls. Some stages of a game heavily rely on abilities and disabling the early wave call may be beneficial, as it allows to generate more energy and call abilities earlier (in comparison to the amount of enemy waves spawned)
Why bad:
- game lasts longer and player may end up waiting for ability energy while all enemies are killed, staring on an empty screen and a dropping bonus coins counter for an early wave call
- early wave calls already affect mining speed and some other bonuses as a partial fix but ability energy mechanic does not benefit from it, looking more like a bug
Possible fix: (suggested by EuphoRowan) make ability energy benefit from 2x bonus multiplier which already affects passive coin generation and some other bonuses
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Tactic: Constantly changing the targeting for a strong tower to prevent it from attacking and let weaker towers farm some XP (reported by: Cinex)
Description: towers receive most of their XP for the enemies they kill. Naturaly, the strongest tower will kill most enemies and "steal" precious XP from a weaker towers, not allowing them to level up effectively. In order to prevent this, players may need to switch the aiming strategy of the strongest tower in order to prevent it from attacking and "stealing" XP from the weaker towers
Why bad: player needs to click on the aiming strategy button constantly and it does not work perfectly unless the game is completely paused and aim mode switch is being performed on every frame. Not only it requires a lot of manual labor and slows down the gameplay, it also produces a lot of garbage in the replay
Possible fix: (suggested by EuphoRowan) add an aiming mode / button to disable any tower manually. Should also help save Gauss resources. |
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Tactic: Using 10x Overload for a high score almost on every map
Description: Top leaderboard scores are only possible with Overload - players are basically forced to use it if they want to compete
Why bad:
- This is the only go-to strategy for the highest score and there should be different (at least one) ways to achieve a high score
- Player is forced to use Overload, meaning it will always take an ability slot
- Overload must be used with a perfect timing on a specific wave, otherwise the player won't survive until it ends - no diversity at all
Possible fix: (far from ideal, needs discussuin) limit Overload stack size or bonuses
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Partially resolved 2 out of 3 issues, needs testing |
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