Ballista Only Runs Are Shockingly Easy! - Rogue Tower

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  • čas přidán 10. 02. 2022
  • Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
    Get Rogue Tower on Steam (Out February 2nd): store.steampowered.com/app/18...
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    Outro Music: Braincooler - Mega Man X Chill Penguin Stage Remix By Rozovian - ocremix.org/remix/OCR01916
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Komentáře • 83

  • @gregtiwald
    @gregtiwald Před 2 lety +64

    Level 1: "Can we win this game using ballistas only? Maybe I need another tower, lol let's find out"
    Level 45: "Capitalism is an evil system that leaves people destitute, and crypto is merely the latest scam"
    Came for the gameplay, stayed for the class consciousness

    • @thecourier8634
      @thecourier8634 Před rokem +1

      Dude is in a relationship with a troon and is a youtuber... Hardly someone who you should listen to seriously.

    • @RezaQin
      @RezaQin Před 6 měsíci

      Capitalism is the only system that works.

  • @rasyidmystery6891
    @rasyidmystery6891 Před 2 lety +37

    My first win is by using shredder, and it's really funny seeing how much crit they have when you focus on levelling a few of them

  • @shadowsonic4452
    @shadowsonic4452 Před 2 lety +5

    Big brain ooogie wrecked me on my ballista and frost keep run. I think I needed to spread them out a bit more, but the run is surprisingly doable.

  • @rakrak660
    @rakrak660 Před 2 lety +15

    I usually set my ballistas to most health most armour most shield. Has carried me through almost all tower combo achievements.

    • @Bog_Dog
      @Bog_Dog Před 2 lety +3

      Will give that a try. Just had mt first win today with poison and ballistas and some radar

  • @suddha1
    @suddha1 Před 2 lety +19

    Hey man props to you for walking on your own path of truth. I'm glad you speak of your experience with people who were negative to your partner with not a sense of shame but something to help you work on yourself with. Much props man thank you for your vulnerability bro.

  • @CalaGames
    @CalaGames Před 2 lety +5

    an upgrade that starts at every 10th round, you get 1 landscape edit card. you can use it on a blank tile thats touching other tiles with no path. this would create a path or you can use it on a existing tile to modify the heights and such randomly

  • @copperspike
    @copperspike Před 2 lety +7

    i love what you talked about here and the similar stuff in other videos. it has made my stay on this channel feel very safe ❤

  • @ProzacStylings
    @ProzacStylings Před 2 lety +28

    The haunted house Seance skills do not give extra money, sadly. When it says "Tax Efficiency 2x", it just means Mana efficiency. As in, you'll use half as much mana to get the same amount of gold. The reason they were paying out more later on, is because they run while the wave is active, and you had a long, slow path. Basically, haunted houses reward pushing one path out the longest.

    • @davidzsiga8257
      @davidzsiga8257 Před 2 lety +13

      Not how it works. Haunted houses give gold equal to the square root of the mana used. The Seance upgrade makes the formula be completely different: sqrt(x*(Seancelvl+1)) where x is mana used. So if you took 1 level of Seance, having 50 seconds pass, would land you with 10 gold because sqrt(50*(1+1))=sqrt(100)=10, but without Seance you get 7 gold because sqrt(50*(0+1))=sqrt(50) and the game always rounds down, so it will become sqrt(49)=7.

    • @davidzsiga8257
      @davidzsiga8257 Před 2 lety +19

      P.S. Forgot to end with a conclusion: All of this information just means, Seance will end you with more money, but it isn't 2x or anything big.

    • @ProzacStylings
      @ProzacStylings Před 2 lety +8

      @@davidzsiga8257 Interesting; TIL. I saw Tax Efficiency 2x, knew that the gold was nowhere near 2x as high, and assumed that meant 50% mana usage. My b.

  • @Aznaocnk
    @Aznaocnk Před 2 lety +2

    56:05 The game you describe here NEEDS to be made, that sounds so amazing!

  • @Fearabbit
    @Fearabbit Před 2 lety +6

    These universities yield way too little rewards for the chance percentages given in their info screens. If you have 4 universities with a 15% chance each for a shield damage upgrade, then you should get on average get an upgrade every 1.67-th round, i.e. better than every second round. This does not seem to happen here and at some point it cannot be explained with RNG anymore.

    • @chandrakas
      @chandrakas Před 2 lety +1

      Imho, its even worse because to get that 15% you gave to spent multiple thousands of gold and/or pick multiple upgrade cards that you could’ve been using to upgrade your towers.
      The opportunity cost is harsh.

    • @lazypredator6139
      @lazypredator6139 Před 2 lety

      You’re crazy he got +30 shield damage through university across all of his towers which if he mainly upgraded shield 30 times across all his ballistas would have cost him way more than the university

  • @hakonkhajavei
    @hakonkhajavei Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you for sharing your story while playing. Meant a lot

  • @maiseygray4897
    @maiseygray4897 Před 2 lety +3

    I agree with a lot of your discussion at the end of the video, makes me like your videos more, so I subscribed

  • @ryoidfurong905
    @ryoidfurong905 Před 2 lety

    Watching your video after a day of work brings a smile to my face

  • @MegaVovo123
    @MegaVovo123 Před 2 lety +2

    holy crap
    i legit just watched this while doing the same thing and won at the same time with 1035 score only ballistas.
    Im just mind blown right now because this came up playing on my second monitor when i started playing because i have autoplay on

  • @jomarkde
    @jomarkde Před 2 lety +4

    Try particle cannon heavy strategy please, I'd love to see them utilized somehow

  • @AndragonLea
    @AndragonLea Před 2 lety

    Ballista only run rules of success:
    1. Build ballistas
    2. ????
    3- Profit!!!

  • @joseguillen5623
    @joseguillen5623 Před rokem

    You want to place haunted houses wherever you can get multiple graves around one house for max gains at the least cost

  • @codemaster2861
    @codemaster2861 Před rokem

    Oh my gosh this popped up again I remember watching this last year my life was oh so different lol

  • @anthonydavis4957
    @anthonydavis4957 Před 2 lety

    Is there a plug-in that must be downloaded separately to get the elemental color streaks from the ballista and mortar attacks? Have never seen them in my own matches.

  • @harjutapa
    @harjutapa Před 2 lety

    lolol PotatoMcWhiskey is ANGR about this

  • @slowcreep6978
    @slowcreep6978 Před 2 lety

    See him ignore the chests after RoboOOgie drove me a little nuts... lol...

  • @aaronhedgesmusic
    @aaronhedgesmusic Před 2 lety

    Me at level 36: don’t you want to open the treasure chest? Hahaha

  • @renegadereaper3205
    @renegadereaper3205 Před 2 lety

    watching something as simple as the ballista wreak house is rather ironic since they're the starter from what i've seen.

  • @LecherousCthulhu
    @LecherousCthulhu Před 2 lety +7

    Grabbing university early and never using it is great if you want to potentially collect +5% crit upgrades to all towers every so often

    • @tinyteddie631
      @tinyteddie631 Před 2 lety +1

      That's not how universities work but ok

  • @pxpin89
    @pxpin89 Před 2 lety

    how did he spawn with houses all around his tower?

  • @lightningcasino9761
    @lightningcasino9761 Před 2 lety

    Love your content mate.

  • @paweborko9589
    @paweborko9589 Před 2 lety

    you dude know a thing or two about live and taking wisdom from life experience. and things you said at the last part of this vid. man i agree soooo much

  • @thegrandestbazaar4800
    @thegrandestbazaar4800 Před 2 lety

    Very good

  • @zivshani6214
    @zivshani6214 Před 2 lety

    Heya mate great video.
    i just noticed you are using the old version of the game. the last update changed stuff up a bit!

  • @christopherguilfoyle8163

    How about a mechazord styled enemy that splits into missle bots as a beholder but with armor

  • @50shadesofskittles9
    @50shadesofskittles9 Před rokem

    Nice job Mr Decisive. 😂

  • @goobalini
    @goobalini Před 2 lety +1

    Hey whats up man. For their cost, mana siphons are more efficient that a mana bank, so I like to exhaust all the mana crystals on the map before putting mana banks down.

  • @manthespoon
    @manthespoon Před 2 lety

    "I'd say level 25 is when the game gets actually difficult"
    My guy, why did you have to say that, I'm at level 24 and already struggling

  • @G-Host1
    @G-Host1 Před 2 lety +5

    How does he always have houses around his whole base?

    • @HaterDegYouXTube
      @HaterDegYouXTube Před 2 lety +2

      not sure but i suspect you get more houses around your Tower, when you get the passive tower upgrades from the skill tree, as an hidden bonus or something.

    • @matthewpannell3939
      @matthewpannell3939 Před 2 lety

      it is because this video - and all of his, from what I can tell, are pre most of the patches. The most recent patch nerfed the starting house rate

  • @marc46zengerink79
    @marc46zengerink79 Před 2 lety

    Nice run! does it count as a ballista only run for the achievement if you use mana banks and universities?

    • @AltLines
      @AltLines Před 2 lety +2

      Yup, support buildings don't count towards the limit - only damaging ones :)

    • @marc46zengerink79
      @marc46zengerink79 Před 2 lety

      @@AltLines Allrightnthank you! That changes a lot!

  • @jacksfacts20
    @jacksfacts20 Před 2 lety

    Your talk about ethics and why nft’s are a plague to society made me sub to you.

  • @Sullrosh
    @Sullrosh Před 2 lety +3

    You should throw a few towers in set to lowest health to kill off almost dead portals etc. Earlier

  • @sinistervonbooty422
    @sinistervonbooty422 Před 2 lety +2

    solidly based takes. im a musician and 2 seperate cites have used NFT's to steal my bands IP and i feel like nobody is really paying attention to it

  • @DoctrDoc
    @DoctrDoc Před 2 lety +1

    Wait, who's snark? snerk? never heard of this person/game before and an hour with google didn't reveal much

    • @Jikkuryuu
      @Jikkuryuu Před 2 lety

      The game's title is "SNKRX"
      As you can probably guess, everybody pronounces it a different way and none of those ways are correct. Such a tongue twister.

  • @tobiasee42
    @tobiasee42 Před 2 lety

    why does he get 4 Mana/sec with 1 mana bank? I only get one Mana/sec per Building

  • @ProfessorOfCookies
    @ProfessorOfCookies Před 2 lety

    You can win a single lane run with a single Tesla at a choke point, just level the tesla constantly.

    • @123890antonioj
      @123890antonioj Před 2 lety

      Well, you used to. The tesla's been nerfed in a recent update, so it might not be possible anymore

  • @drmlabs
    @drmlabs Před 2 lety +1

    Came for the gameplay: didn't expect a moral philosophy lesson.

  • @psuw
    @psuw Před rokem

    I thought you can ONLY use ballista so no mana bank syphons etc. The pain was unreal.

  • @musizlover2008
    @musizlover2008 Před rokem

    Unfortunately, they nerfed the mana bank.

  • @forddnd
    @forddnd Před 2 lety +3

    I've watched a bunch of your videos in this series, but was somewhat reluctant to drop the sub (you never know what you're supporting in the "gamer" space) but your discussion of ethics and refusing to be silent around NFTs and transphobia has won me over.
    Thanks for being so vocal and putting your money behind it. 💜

  • @chandrakas
    @chandrakas Před 2 lety

    It’s no so much that Ballista-Only is super easy, it’s that any DoT-focused build is.
    I, for instsnce, beat the game on… probably my fourth try, I think it was… by just going only sprayer/flamer/shredder and stacking on every single +Max DoT card. I could.
    First couple runs were in the different splits to get the bonus XP for reaching at least ~lvl 15, spent it on as many 5xp and 10xp cards as I could to get the card draw and mana buildings, then bought the +Max DoT and +%DoT cards.
    Pretty much trivialized the game. Which isn’t a surprise; DoT*AoE builds are almost always the way to go in tower defense games.

  • @reconab12
    @reconab12 Před 2 lety

    what came is wander talking about where the creator went full crypto?

  • @danthiel8623
    @danthiel8623 Před 2 lety

    Crypto is just kinda weird.

  • @Gwise90
    @Gwise90 Před 2 lety

    As I remember the Gamestop stock fuckery is as such...
    Investors basically rented out gamespot stock. meaning they temporarily purchased the stock [with the intent to return the same number of stocks in said company at the end of the rental] in order to get a profit [Literally, they thought the price would plummet, so they rented stock to sell high, them buy low to return said stock].
    But then some reddit trolls said "We're fucking you investors," who then bought a bunch at lowish prices with the intent drive up the stock's value, forcing said investors to re-purchase the rented shares at a higher price than their sell price, thus fucking over the investor [insert oceanic bottom-feeder description here] and making themselves some money like the investors do regularly.
    The problem with the reddit trolls was that it gained some mainstream adjacent traction, and thus the Diamond Hands shitheads emerged, and the investors who were somewhat behind the trend in realizing that if they waited to repurchase their rented shares, that they would lose tons more. Diamond hands meant there were people dead set on increasing the value of the investment they had thrown themselves into inspite of all logic, and thus the most loyal refused to sell, where the people who realized that the value was actually crashing sold immediately.
    Thus savvy investors saved themselves from a level of financial ruin... or at least that's what I remember barely prompted from the 2020 time period. It was people betting against the market, vs people expressly betting on the market.

  • @fluewZ
    @fluewZ Před 2 lety

    Next challenge for your run build as little ballista as possible ^^

  • @FinetalPies
    @FinetalPies Před 2 lety

    Something that really concerns me aboot like, cypto and investing in general is that it seems to be trying to reward & target financial impulsivity.
    Like there's no time to "wait and see" and make a measured decision because by then it'll be even more expensive! Gotta buy in early! Buy now! Don't think! DON'T THINK!
    And like, there are certainly people who can afford, literally, to take those kinds of risks. But with the current wave of NFT shit it's like, pretty clear that people are simply being preyed upon.

    • @FinetalPies
      @FinetalPies Před 2 lety

      Also pew pew look at those towers go

  • @xj0s1ahx
    @xj0s1ahx Před 2 lety

    I have to ask. Why do you place towers on +2's when there's +3 next to them? The higher elevation gives increased base damage, and the higher elevation makes up for the distance you may have gained from the one block placement difference if that was the reason for the placement. It literally makes no sense at all especially when you are placing a ballista. You could defend the placement if it was a spray tower either poison or flame but not a ballista. And since this is a ballista only run, you aren't saving those spots for other towers. Not trying to harp on you but I'm curious of your thought process for that. Also putting ballista that are near your keep on highest health isn't always the best choice either. You don't want them all shooting at a very high health target they have no chance of defeating when there's targets that are almost dead reaching the tower. Having them shoot the lowest health targets insures you get a kill but attacking the highest health target doesn't. Its best to have a mix around your keep. This way, not as many shots are wasted.

    • @7Tijntje
      @7Tijntje Před 2 lety +3

      He wasn't sure if he wanted to do a ballista only run in the first 20-30 minutes

  • @poopymcfartison8965
    @poopymcfartison8965 Před 2 lety +1

    Yeetus

  • @michaelepps8105
    @michaelepps8105 Před 2 lety +1

    Second lol

  • @ghostshado5734
    @ghostshado5734 Před 2 lety +1

    First lol

  • @fakedoorsfordinner1677
    @fakedoorsfordinner1677 Před 2 lety +1

    third lol

  • @poopymcfartison8965
    @poopymcfartison8965 Před 2 lety +1

    Fifth lol

  • @zman543
    @zman543 Před 2 lety

    This is a comment with no purpose

  • @checkers3886
    @checkers3886 Před 2 lety

    First time watching your channel. Cool until the commentary at ~1hr. *shrug*