iPad neoDefense (By duetBlock)

Thanks for the updates

They are really great! And the new auto upgrade feature is AWESOME.

One request: I wish we could lock the leaders in one position, and/or have the ability to target the towers on First, Last, Strongest.

 

See the new auto upgrade feature in action (in my video below).

When you're on iOS 11 you can make screen video & sound recordings at any time easily. Like I did it right now with the video. Then watch again later relaxed.

Yes. It's a VERY pretty firework! For me personally one of the best games in 2017. An adequate successor of geoDefense. Got addicted easily.

Spoiler Alert! I could save 2 lives (of 20) in new (since the update today) Alpha 16 Bonus 1 level. Here you have the last 11 minutes until win. Sorry there are two minutes just upgrading because I was too lazy to edit the video. But then the last 20 waves mayhem come (at video runtime minute 10:00) within one minute or so… What a spectacle!

Spoiler

This level is not hard, it's all about upgrading at the right time. There's enough money, and the towers are cheap. As said before, I was lazy and could easily play it once more with all lives saved. Once I did too many upgrades at the same time. Started with the (four, I believe) slow cannons, then placed the expensive ones on each available place. Don't let more than three or four auto upgrade at the same time.

Love it when some of the seemingly "misguided" missiles are leaving the screen—and coming back later! See the creeps dying:

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Recorded with iOS 11 screen video and sound recording. Enable in control center settings.

 

Auto-upgrading definitely needs some subtlety to do right, and I love it. You need enough towers out there that everything that needs to be upgraded is always being upgraded, and nothing is sitting there waiting. You have two resources available to you, money and TIME. You have to balance those. If you have $5000 on Beta it's useless to send out ten missile towers, because you're wasting all that precious upgrade time. But it's likewise useless to just have one missile upgrading at a time, because then you've got money just sitting there and you're not devoting time to more upgrades.

 

I'm utterly stumped by the Gamma boss level. I've tried everything I can think of and have followed a couple of placement guides mentioned earlier in the thread but I'm just not getting there. I'm getting very close but just get mullered by the stars from the boss when he gets down the bottom right for the second time.
The closest I've come was with using nothing but missiles everywhere- and that was annoyingly really really close......

 

If your bottom section has a perimeter entirely made of cannons, Except for four Valcans at the corners, and the top section has the bottom row entirely cannons, you will defeat the stars from the boss.

 

Repasting specifics...

The build trick was to build the 10 missiles at the bottom first, then the bottom row of cannons at the top like you said. Then I laid out the rest of the outline of cannons and Vulcans at the bottom. Once I was done with that, I filled in a row of eight missiles in the second-to-bottom row in the top section. I think that was the key, to make sure I had a row of missiles in the top in range of all the damn blue stars. Once those were done I filled in missiles in the remaining spaces in the bottom section.

However, I think even more important was that as soon as the Boss wave appeared, I called every wave early, as soon as I could. The last few waves give you lots of money, and that extra time was really important to upgrade missiles earlier than I would have been able to had the waves appeared when they would have normally. My boss was still on the left side of the bottom area when I destroyed him.

 

I give up with level Beta Boss... tried your suggestion many times with no luck... I can not pass wave 15 (purple squared)...
HELP PLEASE!

 

Nice one thanks - I'd already followed your advice and it really helped but it just wasn't working - then I realised my mistake, I'd missed out the cornder valcans on the bottom. That's all it took and I cracked it next level!

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137286880@N06/36754462504/

Try that screenshot. Place the lasers first, then the cannons. Then start building missiles, replacing cannons as necessary. Build nothing in the top half. Call all waves early after boss appears. You can do this!

 

By the way I just tried it again, this time with additional cannons in the bonus zone, and I finished with six shields left instead of two.

 

Thanks a lot... I DID IT!

 

Woohoo!!!

 

Has anyone managed to crack the Beta bonus level 3 yet? I'm struggling, it's the first level with the squares that kills me (although I did get past it once with one life left only to get killed later).
I just don't seem to have the time and resources to build enough missiles to make any impact on them.

Thanks

 

I tried exactly this and I still die on the purple squares

https://s1.postimg.org/21zqsq2ran/2_E897331-_B03_C-4_FBA-_AE89-8_F2_CCBE8_CF0_E.png

 

See my attachments
Start like pic 1, first the 5 towers above, then the missiles in the base
Then lasers like in pic 2 and start to build a wall of missiles in the middle, like you see in pic 3 (and add the 2 missing lasers)

As you see in pic 4, boss has no chance, I didnt even miss one life

the valcans were an insurrance, I don‘t know if I really needed them...

 

So, I‘m through with all levels from alpha to gamma (Bonus included) and I‘m so flashed from this game

I love it like geoDefense a ffw years ago and I never thought I would find another game like that. Thank you very much!

When are the next levels released?

 

Awesome thanks! That worked! My mistake was that I wasn’t making missiles soon enough.

 

One more video

LET THE LASERS GRILL 'EM!!!​

Spoiler Alert! Here is my video of Level #Beta 16. Bonus 1. The last nine minutes or so. Solved. Comment please. Don't watch but comment anyway please. Thx in advance.

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With ONE measy shield left. I lost the 19 shields early. Video starts at wave 16/31 and the pink squares just ate them. The only thing I could do was just throwing in MK-1 because there was NO time for upgrading anything. Maybe that saved the one life. There happens a LOT in that wave #16, the first forty seconds in the video. A real THRILLER! ;-)

I absolutely ADORE that laser barbecue festival at the top. You can staple (pile up) four of them in one row or line! As you can see they take care reliably over the fast creeps and it's a feast for the eyes believe me! Totally satisfying if you understand what I mean. In wave #18 I'm completing the straight and pretty effective laser formation. But that laser grill will work in the next levels as well and I can't stop watching that. This level is MADE for those six lasers.

MK-1 will do the rest. You've never seen the yellow sunflowers vanish that fast. Long and exciting upgrade pause between 6:16 and 8:08 before the yellow divines appear. The last upgrade was ready just in the second! Some auto upgrade tactics. As in my previous video: Even (or better: especially) if you have enough money, don't auto upgrade more than three or five towers at the same time. I'm sure that I'll play it once more with ALL shields saved.

Great level! For me it's the most geoDefenseish level in neoDefense until now.

Can't await the next abstract wars. Bought the gamma levels IAP without any hesitation and don't even remember the price. I didn't dive that deep in any other game this year. neoDefense is highly, highly recommended!

Folks, upload some videos please. I'd like to watch how people solved the levels I've already done. It's SOOO easy to record with iOS 11—you don't need any other device! Not even ONE cable. Just enable live screen recording in your iOS settings (put the record switch into the control center). You'll find the record in your Camera Roll and can upload in within a few minutes. Done. Delete it later to save space.

You can record anything at any time. All that AR stuff p.e.

 

Well I finally cleared beta bonus 3 after about a week of trying. That's it for now all levels finished, I can see myself giving it a week or so then I'll start again at the beginning for better scores.

I think this goes up there in the top TD games I've ever played. I'm really hoping that the extra content comes quickly (and I'd be more than happy to pay for it), it's undoubtedly going to be in my top 20 of the year and probably very high in the list.

Just please make it universal!