Dwarfs on Shallow Grave and Crucible are giving me a headache. And I don't even know how to approach Twisted Fate....

An important thing to have on Shallow Grave is some extra money for (I believe its wave 5 when they first come) to replace the baricades quickly. It will probably take like 3, maybe 4 depending on how they explod on it. In most cases its best to wait just a second for the enemies to start pouring in, then crush them with the replacement baricade.

If ur defenses are holding up in general (aside from the dwarfs making a shortcut) then see what you can save money on and prepare for baricade replacement. I forget the layout of Crucible and Twisted Fate, so I will update when I check them out again.

Here is a video I made of Crucible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfAUJJJlRgw

Il try and get one up for Twisted Fate next. I enjoy that one, its interesting.

Wow very good video and you have a lovely voice. :D

I'm gonna try Crucible again although I can hardly keep up with level 40+ traps and starting gold bonus (currently, I'm happy to get all ten traps to level 15 at least). Twisted Fate however is my real bane and my set up on both Twisted Fate and Shallow Grave isn't good enough to spare a single coin for extra barricades. I can barely manage to keep my core's health above 1.

Thank you for the complements, I appriciate it.

I made a video for Twisted Fate. I used the Purity rune to cut my traps/starting gold values in half so you didnt have to see it done with level 40 traps, I should have done that with Crucible too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utaIP4QyVKE


I think the Baricade patern will be the most helpful, some of my set up can be swaped out very easily with other traps. Use what you know, adapt what I do to what your comfortable with.

I dont like Shallow Grave, but I will probably make a video of it also... its a real pain though, in my opinion Shallow Grave and The Mountain are harder than the final map in many ways.

Both maps are completed!

I don't know how and why I failed Crucible before because this setup is so obvious... Really stupid of me but that is solved now thanks to you.

The best part about your Twisted Fate tutorial is really how you found a way to merge both lanes. The fact I had to defend 2 was exactly the reason why I never had enough gold left. The map actually becomes easy (without runes at least) this way!
Plus this was the first time I used black hole traps to great affect and it made me more confident about using them in future as well. And that springtrap surrounded by spine blades thing is something to keep in mind too, although I personally went with sime traps and more Flamethrowers to soften them up on their long path. Your's is probably the better setup with health regen and bonus HP.

I've got a question btw, is it actually true that flamethrowers stack when firing at the same time? Their tooltip implies that but it never seemed to be true.

Inferno traps do stack, but the duration isnt very long so its hard to get very many stacks on a single target from a single one. Several hitting at the same time or in short succession do however do all their damage. The only problem with them is they dont do much single target damage, but if you count the AoE damage they do huge tons of damage.

You are using them right if theyre just there to weaken an enemy before they get to the main area. Or to enhance the damage of a major choke point where they clog up.

Blackhole traps are very good for grouping the enemies in one spot for the Inferno trap, and for slowing down the enemies to clog up lanes near pits, and at max level it will thow enemies into nearby hazards like spike walls and pits, as well as other traps. This "ejection" can be very powerful if the enemies are on fire from an Inferno trap and it has the "spread" upgrade.

Blackhole that doesnt eject is good for grouping enemies for Spring traps, and Pushwalls. It will also hold them in the line of fire for dart traps longer, bolt thowers, and the range of lightning traps too.

Blackhole is on of my favorites.

Il work on a video for Shallow Grave later.

Here is the Shallow Grave video.

There are easier trap setups, and alternate methods of success, but this is one way to do it. I hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yHU25ldYUs

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Wow I should have replied way earlier. I watched your video right away but I decided to grind for exp and gems by completing previous maps with all runes actives and perhaps some endless wave modes first. Stil haven't gotten around to shallow grave yet. At least, I've got to see the map beaten and an exact step by step guide that I can rely on thanks to you!

Originally posted by AdilB WILDCARD:

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What do you mean?

No problem, I hope those videos helped. I didnt mean to let any guys slip through on the Shallow Grave vid, but I dislike the level enough that Ididnt want to take the time to do it again.

Also different trap types will have smoother effects, its just a pain to respec for one level, then put your traps back like you like.

Doing old levels with higher runes for XP to get more starting gold and gems is a good idea. Feel free to stop by if you get hard stuck on another level.

I'd like to see a video of how far you've gotten in endless mode, any level. I like this game but also find it extremely frustrating.

Originally posted by Grover_R:

I'd like to see a video of how far you've gotten in endless mode, any level. I like this game but also find it extremely frustrating.

I can do that, Im sure there are others who have done some amazing things on endless mode, but I will be happy to make some videos for that. Just give me some time.

Still editing/uploading videos for a series im making on another game also.

Originally posted by Grover_R:

I'd like to see a video of how far you've gotten in endless mode, any level. I like this game but also find it extremely frustrating.

Well, I did that thing you asked about... Im sure some people have done better, but I got four million (4,000,000+) and change on Ore Storage. Got to level up 5 times from that, was nice.

I dont play as much as I used to, but Im happy to make videos for the game from time to time.

Some day I hope to get to wave 100 on one of the levels just for fun.

I zoom in on the Golem that makes it through, after 49 minutes of recording my focus started going down, and just didnt notice it get through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu24psOdYgc