This topic is for discussion of map #1529: Fort
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Author: Spike
Size: 200x200
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Welcom to the survival map. Live as along as you can with limited structures as you battle against an terrifying amount of creeper!
help please, i keep getting overwhelmed here
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look at the toys in the orbital tab
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The big emitters to the right and left of the base at the edge can be beaten early and easily, use a freeze to take the right hand one or destroy the easy emitters to get through.
The defences you are provided with are fine for quite a long time and will protect your wall leaving time to take one corner at a time.
There are a few berthas to be collected around the map, place them on power zones and your laughing.
To take a corner use a convert and then a freeze, if you upgrade build speed and packet speed you can easily take them, you just need to get close enough.
Just had a thought - could you use a convert, freeze and then send in a guppy???
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freeze + convert + guppy is good
freeze (wait 2 seconds) + Mass + guppy is good when there is digitalis. If you land the Mass before the freeze effect has finished working, creeper leaks in. Don't land the guppy first!
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Yes that worked very well, once the corners and big 700 emitters are taken care of its a cake walk. I love this map, it appears a huge slog at first and after a bit of thought you discover a technique you have never used before, nice map
Great map, really good challenge at first and then a nice clean up.
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I started by building a web of collectors around the base to collect the upgrades. By using all the starting aether on build speed upgrades I was able to collect a dozen or so extras which made life a lot easier and meant I only need to use orbital weapons on one (top right) corner (convert + convert + freeze).
This map felt like I was playing a #PlayAsCreeper game except in reverse where I was the human player getting destroyed. ;D
Hopeless without the stuff on the Orbital tab. I'm not used to being handed those at the start, I didn't think to look there until I read the comments on here. With those, tough but fair.
Quote from: Loren Pechtel on January 01, 2015, 03:29:46 PM
Hopeless without the stuff on the Orbital tab. I'm not used to being handed those at the start, I didn't think to look there until I read the comments on here. With those, tough but fair.
I actually beat it once without the orbitals. Took about 40+ minutes of game time.