Some people are real idiots. I beat the hole game without buying any IAP. It was a sweet ass game. So in your not buying the game because people in this forum are saying shit like that.. Dont listen to that BS!!! Go get it.
I'm actually shocked at how much fun I'm having playing it. It's fast paced, super smooth animation and the sound bytes make it fun. I love using the boomstick in a crowd and Ash says, "Hey what's that on your face!?" Classic!
Well, I don't have the numbers for you, but I'll tell you a little something: I beat the entire campaign yesterday with fully upgraded peasants, sword boy, an upgraded (but not completely) wiseman, and Ash (fully upgraded w/ full catapult volly and wrong book) - that's it for units once the sword boy was available. I set out to get the "It goes to 11" achievement and just kept running with the strategy, it never failed. If I hit a bit of a wall, once I'd beefed a castle defense (archers or catapults) another level I'd be able to move on (both were fully upgraded by the end). Once I got the Level 2 smithy at start it was just stupid powerful because I could almost immediately get the attack going.
Yeah, fully upgraded peasants makes it pretty easy to win -- too easy until the final levels. The magnitude of the gains with each level up means that you *need* 1 or 2 fully upgraded units, and trying to win the game with 3-4 leveled units is probably going to be much harder. I used fully upgraded peasants and guards for meat shields (more life per dollar than peasants, although the basic swordsman may be even better), sword boy and healer with 1 or 2 levels on him. The first few upgrades to healer dont really have much pay-off, you could probably beat the game without him, but summoned early he does help. I used fully upgraded arrow volley and the death machine with maybe a level or two in it (dont recall if I had any levels in it, its good at level 1). Thats all you need. This combo got me to 5.5 million my second game in endurance, at which point the bosses were too strong and chewed through the peasants and guards. I tried upgrading archers on the theory that maybe the bosses do aoe damage to the melee units, but it takes so long to upgrade a third unit I gave up on it. I was generally doing worse in these attempts. I dont think 5.5 million is anything special on endurance, but the game isnt really set up to let you play around with the best strategies ... each game takes too long and pays too little, and one bit of carelessness with the hero can ruin your attempt. (Stinks that the hero turns into a little girl in endurance...should be possible to level him higher.)
Just because there is an option to buy coins does not mean the game was meant to be played with the IAP. My complaint is in the balancing of the endless mode (to easy). I am mostly upgraded on everything and can get well over 100,000,000 points on endurance (then I pretty much have suicided). Games of this sort yield tons of gold that I do not need to spend anymore... I hope the devs make the endurance more more of a back and forth struggle. The way it stands I just pin the enemy at the castle wall.
Loving the game, but I'm glad that Level 49 is getting a second look. I made it all the way there without too much trouble and with no IAP but then it was like hitting a brick wall. I haven't even gotten close to passing it, and most games end up either with me dying very early to arrows or basically running away so me and a few swordsmen/archers can get slaughtered when the main army arrives. I think I spread my upgrades out too much trying out different units and such (none of my units are fully upgraded), but on levels 1-48 it didn't cause any problems so I didn't think it was an issue. It would be less of a problem if we had some income, but I'm dying so fast we only get maybe a few hundred gold each attempt so it'll be a long time before I can afford any major upgrades and I'd better guess right the first time about which ones to get because I can't afford to waste any.
You don't get many sidescroller strategy game on the iphone that lets you control a hero character with a joystick. Just for that, this game deserves to be purchased. Also, play this with sound on, or else you are virtually missing out 50 percents of the game.
100% agree! The monsters do too much dmg. I only get about 2k gold per try. Ash is to weak, my healers heals are to low and my strongest unit dies way to fast. My only chance is the 10k dmg wagon. But i the cooldown is to long. No chance of beating my save file without spending 8 Disappointing.
Be careful what you ask for. I've beaten this game three different times, and if I wanted to, I could do it a fourth, fifth, and sixth time and never re-use the same unit and power combinations - there is probably no combination of units that won't win this game if they're upgraded enough, and there is simply no way to not have those units upgraded enough with relatively little repetition unless you have spread your funds around willy nilly. The game is pretty simplistic, and that's not being patronizing, it simply is. Choose 3 or 4 units on a play through and spend nothing on any others, choose 2 powers, spend nothing on others, win in about 5 to 6 hours. If they actually make the game easier it won't be an improvement. Also, FYI, you can be making around 7K-10K a wave toward the end of the game without much effort, you want 2K a playthrough, wait til you finish the game and hit endless, now that's a waste of your time for money
Yeah, on my second playthrough too....the way i see it, get Ash fully upgraded (so you can run out and get coins), get the chainsaw (AFTER you get the fist achievement), then just pick a unit to upgrade, and two powers. I played Endless a bit, and found it to be quite a waste of time, due to boss monster it was way way way way slower money than replaying 47 over and over again till i got it, on that i can make 8-15K every 3 minutes or so....just get up there, and start grinding. Unless anyone got a great tip for money grinding on endless that is
I make hundreds of thousands per endless run. My only issue with endless mode is that it takes too long, and there is no way to save your game and return later. My high score is around 40,000,000 and I only stopped there because I was falling asleep. I use peasants, sword boy, armored guards, arthur, and henry along with the boomstick and death coaster. Henry isn't really importand, but I find him more useful than the healer. Basically, I run forward and hold of the enemies alone until I can upgrade my blacksmith to max level. I then call arthur, followed by armored guards and peasants. The death coaster will knock the opposition all the way back to the gate, where they will remain for the rest of the game (yes it gets quite boring). Once I have them pinned at the gate, my strategy is simply, stand behind the front line, hitting my skills whenever they come up, spam peasants and armored guards as soon as they are available. Recall arthur and henry whenever they die. Every few seconds run forward into the fighting to grab gold and iron. The sword boy should never die, and neither will arthur's archers so you build up quite a group of archers. Henry will rarely die either since he stays behind arthur and the guards.
If you do it that way, then yes, you're going to be fine. My point is that spreading your funds around willy nilly works great on levels 1-48. Up until that point I had no indication that I was in trouble. Then suddenly I arrive on level 49 and I can't do a dang thing and I'm lucky to collect 200-300 gold so it's going to take a long time to farm my way out of this. It's not the difficulty that's the problem, it's the shape of the curve. Then here's the other thing. Most games will let you go back and replay levels. Does this one? I haven't found a way to do this yet. If there was I could go back and collect gold on a level I could actually finish and dig my way out. When there are lots of upgrades it's interesting to try more than just two of them so I did that. Foolish? Maybe. But the game never told me that. If I'd started struggling to complete the levels I'd have paused and said "Gee, I really need to concentrate my upgrades more" but there was no warning until too late. Instead you breeze through (maybe a couple retries here and there when you mess up) and then slam into the wall.
I guess ill get to Endless again, i just found it incredibly slow, compared to doing 3 min runs on level 47 over and over again, which have the advantage that you can doing for 30 min before bedtime
Okay I'm upset now. I just played an endless game and got past the high score on Gamecenter. It took hours, and there was still no end in sight, so I just ended the game. I guess Gamecenter wasn't able to connect at the time so my score did no register. The half a million gold I made was saved, but I don't really care, I just wanted the score. Shouldn't scores be saved locally and uploaded to Gamecenter later if they can't be at the time the game is finished? What a waste of time... I wouldn't be as annoyed if endless mode was not so irritating. With no way to save your game and return later, it basically holds your device hostage until the game is over, which can take many many hours, or you lose your progress. Until that is fixed, I'm done with this game. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun game, and I'd still recommend it, particularly to fans of the movie, but endless mode is just so frustratingly flawed.
My first game, I spent willy nilly and, sure enough, ground a bunch from waves 45 through 50. Still took under 8 hours to beat. Further, I don't care how badly you spent your money, you can easily net over 2K a wave at that point unless you just have no clue what to do with the units, which is not the game's fault, so your 200-300 is either hyperbole from sour grapes or you need to rethink your strategy beyond my future advice (you can actually net close to 10K a wave at that point, but you need to be able to last to near the end of it). So, with no strategy at all, the game lasted 8 hours. Using planned strategies, it lasts about 3-4 hours. Yeah, it's only a $1 game, but how much easier does it need to be before you'd be happy? It's already teetering on the edge of "enough depth to qualify as a strategy game", lower the bar much further and you might as well have an "I win" button on the splash screen that rolls the credits.
