Steampunk Tower
When a defense game gets almost everything right, kiss your productivity goodbye! In Dreamgate Company's gorgeous title, you're building a towering mechanical structure and staffing it with upgradeable weapons like miniguns, tesla cannons, and saws in order to stave off waves of enemies. With smart design and sneakily casual gameplay that will bring you back for more, it's a highly polished and engaging little strategy game that's perfect for passing time.
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This game is pretty neat, but I'm not fond of the fixed upgrade mechanic it uses. If I have trouble with a higher stage, I prefer being able to grind a lower stage for points/gold/etc. to upgrade enough to surpass the higher stage.
Tenzhi, I would normally agree with you, but I found that this was compensated by there being no cost/penalty to resetting your upgrades and trying a different configuration. That, combined with sort of "grinding" by going back and completing some of the challenges, allowed enough flexibility IMO.
Reconfiguring your upgrades helps immensely with the challenges, particularly early on. I.e. if the challenge allows only saws, throw all of your upgrades into saws. Though, can anyone do challenge #4, I can't even get close!
I can't do challenge 4 either. 4, 12, and 13 seem to be impossible.
I find it extremely annoying that guns will allow weaker enemies to sit there and destroy the tower while they focus on big enemies. Adding an option to choose what type of enemy for each individual gun to attack (e.g. closest, strongest, weakest, most/least health) would fix that.
I'd also like to see a wave progress bar.
After 10+ tries I have found that challenge 4 is not impossible, but very hard. Clean one side at the time and switch side when the enemies are getting close to the tower on the other side. This way you will kill larger groups of enemies which is more effective.
how to get past 4? Tesla is your friend.
I couldn't fail to recognise "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" but I wonder whether anyone can identify the other clips?
I can't do challenges 4, 9, 12 or 13 either.
Challenge 4 is a non-starter for me because I simply can't hit all of those soldiers.
Challenge 9 is a bit easier but there are just too many planes for me to catch them all.
Challenge 12 I did get near the end but I couldn't work out how to deal with the four walkers at the end and also the grand tank halfway though. (There doesn't seem to be enough steam for both, even on max upgrades).
Challenge 13 I keep dying on wave 8...
Scratch that, I just finished challenge 13.
Challenge 12:
This one basically needs to you be quick to swap the two cannons over all the time.
Swap the cannons before starting the first wave, and keep swapping them so that the lightning shoots the soldiers and the saws shoots the tanks.
When the first walker appears, let the saw hit it twice, then switch to lightning to take out the soldiers.
When the second group of soldiers passes the walker, move the lightning away and back, this causes it to retarget on the soldiers before hopefully finishing off the walker.
After your saws has destroyed the grand tank, use the lightning to take out the parachutists on both sides. Then leave the lightning on the left and the saws on the right and use the steam strike to help destroy the walkers.
neil.rashbrook, I figured out what one of the other songs was: "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You" sang by Walter van Brunt.
Any thoughts on strategy?
eg What advantage does a machine gun tower have over an electric tower? They both seem to be designed for large masses of weak units...
Any thoughts on challenges 11/14?
I found another one of the songs. The one with the "certain little lad" is called Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh.
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