Custom Map #9418: Retake The Ore Mining Facility (Impossible). By: Jason Stevens

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Author: Jason Stevens
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This is the IMPOSSIBLE difficulty level version of this map. Good luck - you're gonna need it! This is NOT a sleeper map. #Sleeper-Spore #Sleeper-Strafer #Sleeper-AA #Heavy-Creep #Spore #Runner #Aether-Factory #Mass-Drive-Plant #Expensive-Collectors #Expensive-Reactors #AC-Turret

[Riskbreaker]

first run, dead at 13 minutes...i really underestimated that line of spore towers hahaha

[jasons2645]

first run, dead at 13 minutes...i really underestimated that line of spore towers hahaha

I did call the difficulty IMPOSSIBLE for a reason ;)  Very tricky map...  I could barely beat it myself!

[Riskbreaker]

i really loved how things got harder and harder as more enemies got online...this was quite the challenge





edit: also

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i'd consider defending mass driver factories better because they make raiding the inhibitor a lot easier, i wasted time trying to take controle of the drivers but i could have guppied way earlier...

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[marvinitfox]

i really loved how things got harder and harder as more enemies got online...

Yes, that was quite an exercise in Math. Something to do with Orders of Infinity.
So the start of this map is Infinitely difficult, and then somehow it gets even harder without invoking a divide by zero error...

I will return triumphantly, bearing my shield of victory,
or dead, carried on my shield of defeat!

What can I say...
Except Veni, Vidi,  oppressi . (I came, I saw, I got squished)

[Johnny Haywire]

I actually thought this one was much easier than the "Too Many Attacks from the East" map. I think I struggle with the pumps more than the flying stuff.

It seemed to me that the key to starting is to

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take all 7 power zones right away and build one reactor as soon as the first one clears (should be within 1 minute)

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It took me 2 or 3 tries to time this just right, but once that happened it was actually pretty easy to turtle up. Well "easy" for a Jason Stevens map, that is. There was a lot of running at 1x speed while shifting beams back and forth on the PZ's.

Bonus hint:

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Use a strafer on a PZ to cut that wide digi. Once you get some AC on it, it will cut easily and then you can access the extra aether factory.

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Instead of trying to go East, I just went south and took the Long island first. Once you have all those PZ's with beams and a few PZ berthas pounding the Sleeper Strafers to oblivion, you can go afk while doing other stuff and finish up pretty quickly.

Fantastic work, Jason! A 10/10 and 3 enthusiastic smiles up!

Thanks for the map!  ;D ;D ;D

[marvinitfox]

Bugreport/ Interesting observation / Today I Learned:


Do NOT aim your valuable PZ Bethas at the exact center of those sleeper strafer-building towers.
THEY WILL NEVER FIRE!

Apparently, while the sleeper tower is building the strafer bases, it sucks the creeper dry at its location each tick. Right before Berthas choose to fire or not.
Never mind that the cursor display shows levels of 286 or so...  Berthas will not shoot there unless you offset the aim by at least 1 pixel.


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And yes, this does mean i'm making real progress on this monster of a map.
At 50 min in, the long island is conquered, the top ground is rapidly being assimilated, and I'm gearing up to storm south.


All 8 of my Pz Berthas had been aimed AT the towers, and refused to fire. I then retargeted them a bit, and KaBoom.

And a mere 6 minutes later, victory.
56:36.6

Yet somehow that took me the WHOLE day.  I even had to plant more potato(borrowed a stick of ram from work machine), just to get this map to actually complete without visiting the desktop every 3 minutes.

[Johnny Haywire]

LOL. Nice, Marvin - grats  ;)

[jasons2645]

Fantastic work, Jason! A 10/10 and 3 enthusiastic smiles up!

Thanks for the map!  ;D ;D ;D

You bet!  This one turned out to be pretty fun, even if almost impossible  8)

[Lucky Clover]

Have no difficulty in win 1st score (ignore the cheat man)
Here is how to defeat the game in details (maybe the easiest way). Sorry for my poor english

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1. DONOT use 700 aether factory, but open 3 100 aether factory at the begining
2. land on the below area and clear the 7 PZ(2 nullifier), the above area will emit creeper before you clear it, so you should move 1 connon and land on PZ to clear the creeper
3. as soon as you clear a PZ, build a reactor on it, you should build it at max efficiency, that is, always try to have some spare energy(0-15).
4. 2 beam is completely enough, build ore mine and sprayer to use all of the ore, you may use 1 PZ strafer to cut the big net(although I feel 2 connon is better). build forge
5. AC is completely enough until you build a reactor, then more reactor->more mortor-> push...
6. Not suggested to use guppy, just push below island and you will receive lots of PZ at low cost. It may looks like very hard, but just think of how many AC you have

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