Custom Map #1618: CCursor 3: the big flipper. By: TrickyCorp

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Author: TrickyCorp
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[rowlet]

How on earth are you meant to beat this?
The sheer amount of anti being produced basically prevents you from holding anywhere on the map without near 100% mouse attention. Even creeper breeder cant hold it self for more than a minute.
Honestly feels damn near impossible.

[TrickyPlayer]

How on earth are you meant to beat this?
The sheer amount of anti being produced basically prevents you from holding anywhere on the map without near 100% mouse attention. Even creeper breeder cant hold it self for more than a minute.
Honestly feels damn near impossible.

That's how the creeper feels like when there's no emitters around to activate the creeper++...

To answer your question, the only thing that works is taking the central flip-breeder right away.

[heritor]

To answer your question, the only thing that works is taking the central flip-breeder right away.

This threw me off, since the map description tells you that you might have to take some of the surrounding breeders before facing the massive one.

[CS Z]

How on earth are you meant to beat this?
The sheer amount of anti being produced basically prevents you from holding anywhere on the map without near 100% mouse attention. Even creeper breeder cant hold it self for more than a minute.
Honestly feels damn near impossible.

Took me several attempts to figure out the correct strategy:

Spoiler

Take the middle right away.  You have to move fast.  The rest of the flip/AC breeder don't produce as much as that middle line does.  Once you've got control of the middle, it's pretty much game over.

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[rowlet]

Taking the middle immediately just seems counter intuitive to the level description. Yet it does seem like the only workable strat.
When I was giving it a try, I thought "hey lets take some of the breeder terrain to make more creep and cut off anti creep" but as said it just doesnt work with the shear amount of anti creep produced.

[TrickyPlayer]

Hey, I agree that this map didn't quite go as it should, I was just a bit lazy to go into balancing everything perfectly.

If you think you can do better, feel free to try. I put a guide map called "Cursors for dummies" that explains most (if not all) things you need to know to make your own Cursor map.

[Ranger Von Danger]

I might have been slow to catch on, but now I know that if Trickycorp makes a map that seems impossible, it is infact a puzzle XD

[SteveCarlo]

darn you, TrickyCorp!  darn you to heck!   ;-)

[phischphood]

The comment in the map description threw me off. Took a few attempts where I was following its advice and I couldn't do it. Completely did the opposite of the advice and it was easy.