a few suggestions

[underpatch]

firstly i must say i realy love this game .... i have never played anything like it before .... and i am realy looking forward to a squeal or expansion ....

i am a pc player and i would like to know how i can sign up to be a beta tester .... i need me my DG fix !!

here are a few suggestions ...

the fast forward button ... could you please add in a option there we could tap it once to put it in fast forward mode ... and then tap again to goto normal speed ... holding in 1 button for about 2 hours at a time is a little hard core ...

i would like to see some kind of recount mode ... for those who would like to optimise thier tower location and see how that is effected by the cost/power output per tower .... a hardcore player feature .... where it will record all kinds of details about each towers performance .... things like damage output ... active time shooting .... and then you could take that information and compare it to other towers ... this way a player will be able to figure out the most optimal placements and best time to upgrade .... which brings me to my next suggestion ...

a hardcore puzzle mode .... a realy tough mode that is doable .... but require exact resource management and strategy ....

the grind mode in the game is fun .... but i would like to see more variety in baddies .... instead of just simply adding in a extra one baddie and a few more hit points per baddy .... why not create a system where each wave is worth a increasing amount of points to the aliens ... say for example wave 1 is worth 100 points .... then the pc will pick among all the baddies it has available to it up to the worth of 100 points ... a cluster of easy to kill things is worth 50 points .... and one of those realy slow heavy tank baddies are worth 300 points .... with each increasing wave it will increase the amount of points the pc can play with by say 20 .... this way the player will never know what is comming next ... but it will ensure that every wave will be tougher .... ( i hope that made scene :-P ) with this mode in place it will be very easy to ramp up the difficulty for those players who would like it ... easy 20 points per wave ... medium 25 points ... had 30 points .... basicaly 3 extra game modes for very little coding once the system is in place ...

i have my doubts about the effectiveness of the tesla tower .... i am sure a recount mode will help clarify it ... but it just feels realy underpowered .... here is my suggestion for it .... a fully charged tesla should be able to arc among a fair number of easy to kill targets .... i see it does this already but it barely scratches them ... so either increase the number of arcs per charge level ... or revisit the over all damage output .... for every arc there should be a decaying damage output .... target 1 gets 100% target 2 gets 75% and so on but never goes below 20% .... but if the tower finds itself in a situation where it cant arc ( a big tough baddie) ... it should thrn unload the full damage of all its arcs into 1 target .... ( again i am not sure how it is currently working .... the text description leaves a lot to the imagination .... but this is how i feel is should work ) .... but considering the cost and range of the tower i see it as a jack of all traits tower .... it should be more effective than what it is ...

multi player suggestions ....

a player VS player mode could be good ... for example there could be a few maps where a player has to steal the other players cores .... a mirrored map with 2 entries and 2 exits .... and 2 intertwining paths ... a player has to chose between spending money on guns .... or spending money up upgrading the amount of points the computer can use when picking baddies to send at the other player ... ( see gind mode ) ..... some towers like temporal towers are indiscriminate to who they are effecting ... with a intertwined path a bad placment could hurt you just as much as your aponent .... with this mode there could be a few custom towers .... like shield towers that can absorb a amount of damage protecting all of your aliens and then will need to recharge ....

i have alot more i could add to this but i fear it is already getting very long and it i make it to long then no one will read it :-P

cheers

[mokn]

Recount mode would be noob not hardcore.


Yeh the tesla is useless just like the level 3 cannon, 1 level 3 cannon vs 7 lvl 1 on a wave with 25 creeps, the 7 always win while the lvl 3 is near worthless Yes lvl 1 cannons are bugged right now, but they are still better when they arn't.

Tesla and lvl 3 cannon would need splash dmg to be worth using, e.g if tesla does 15x3 and the creeps had 5hp each it'd splash the remaining dmg for a total of 9 kills instead of just 3.

[underpatch]

wanting to understand the mechanics and math behind a game is never noob .... if anything i would call is geeky ... infact i would go and far as to say noobs would care the least about what is going on under the hood .... they would be more incline to say things like .... ooooo pretty colors and shiny explosions ....

[Nacelle]

Is there anyway you can make the game harder? I would like more of a challange. Maybe increase the health of the aliens. Also, I like the idea of the 99 level mode. But, it's all the same guys coming at you. Shouldn't by the time you get to level 99, it be insanely hard?

[mokn]

Er, all the stats are there, it's upto you to work it out without being hand feed them.

All the information you need it already there except for dps per tower which can be found on this website.

Considering every tower tracks damage they already have it in the game, they chose not to add a display to each tower in realtime for a reason.

[underpatch]

are you trying to be a silly billy or does it just come naturally ?


i am not saying there needs to be a level type where you can see hundreds of charts on the screen at once with all the information .... what i am saying is there should be a recount mode ... much like my suggestion for a fast forward mode .... example


you press "R" ... and the game pauses .... then you can left click on a tower ... then on the left corner of the screen a pie chart will pop up .... there you can see over all time compared to time shooting ... obstructed view time .... other stats like total damage out put .... differences since last upgrade ....

then you can right click on another tower .... and then on the right side of the screen the same stats will pop up based off the second tower ..... with 2 different tower selected you will then get a comparitive stat in the center of the screen .... so basically giving you a very fast way to see any number of comparative stats between any 2 towers that are selected ....


so if they ever release a leader board for the game ( wich is another sugestion i would have writen in at a later date) ,,,, you can then fine tune your game play to get on top .... leader boards could fave things like ... most money left over at the end of the level .... highest DPS in total ..... least amount of towers used ....


then when you are done figuring out what you wanted to with recound you simply hit "R" again and you are back in game .....


and for the record .... a pre rendered image of 3 bars to give the idea of a towers performance with no indication of the scale that those bars represent is a woe fully poor substitute for stats ..... infact there are no stats there at all ... those bars are mearly a general indication ... with future patches that change the output of the towers i bet you those bars will not change at all ....


silly billy

[mokn]

You can do all that yourself that's the fun of the game, to work it out. You want everything hand fed, BORING.



Do you play the game? There are leaderboards for every map and mode. I had 16/23 firsts at one stage on story mode on xbox.

noob stats would make it too simple a game for people who play a lot and make the game seem way more complicated than it is for casual players, it's a bad idea all round.

[underpatch]

lol ... you are a cute silly billy .... i wish they could sell copies of you in pet stores so everyone can have one