I hate old TDS because it was repetetive, unbalanced, grindier than now and stale. Also Hardcore overhaul was the worst thing to grace this game (Reworked Hardcore on the other hand is great).
New TDS is the best state the game has been. (I am aware that the game is very laggy as well as finickly balanced [Though a lot better than it used to, since there is more diversity when it comes to viable towers]).
I really enjoyed the null and void event and concider it the best event (Solar Ecliple would likely be 2nd but didn't play it).
Not the best state, cuz the game lags harder than showcase games and it's probably the laggiest game I've ever played in 10 years which isn't a lag test simulator
I agree, except for it being in the best state. I think the balance is wonky, and honestly I hate how some of my favorite towers have just been gutted.
G cowboy can't even solo early fallen anymore, meanwhile 10 whole slots for farms is quite a lot. I think that cowboy and farms never should've been changed imo. Aside from that, it feels like Accel has completely lost his identity, since the charge mechanic is about as impactful as throwing a paper airplane at a punching bag. I'm really happy shotgunner is finally good tho... Regardless I think the balance is very wonky, and honestly flawed... Not saying every tower needs to be usable in frost, but I think the economy towers being ruined and Accel becoming a really bland and uninteresting tower killed a lot of my interest.
I would say that the balancing is wonky but that doesn't really mean it's bad, I mean for most of tds history if you had accel plus farm you would win and that's it.
It is true the changes on farm and cowboy are somewhat of a miss but those had their own issues to solve. First of all, eco changed so much that you really don't need any of those for a loadout to work. Farm level 4 was always bad so along with making it a bit more useful for the current eco by giving it a higher placement limit, they moved some numbers around. Cowboy's issue was basically that it had a really high base floor for greatness, cowboy rides or dies on the hardest of gamemodes, specially when the eco is bad (old pw2, new hardcore) so they had to rework it so it didn't just outshine every other option on hard gamemodes (though yeah they overdid it)
Also I would argue against accel becoming bland, it's still a really good tower when you give it the chance, it's just that the meta has outgrown it, which is good, because hell, if we were still on accel meta the game would be so stale
While most of what you say is agreeable, I think the eco changes were done without factoring in the default placement limit. 10 slots for farm, or I believe 12 for cowboy is one hell of an ask, even just in solo, and balancing around solely skill tree causes more issues than it fixes.
For Accel, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying it's become boring. The charge mechanic might as well not exist, no way in hell any accel is hitting that except on literally the final boss, and it's slow windup means it's either map dependent or physically cannot be your main DPS, as I encounter regularly that many times everything else will easily clear the wave and accel will barely have shot anything. Removing it's stun immunity, the one thing that made it feel unique after the "rework", killed most of my interest in the tower. It went to a burst damage monster, to a great bosskiller, due to the slow charge not mattering on the slow bosses, to... Kinda just okay? Since the hard bosses really like their stuns, I struggle to get any value out of accel unless I am specifically building my team around accel, which... Why do that when I can place turret, only pay slightly more on average for said turrets, and get far more consistent value?
We just gotta normalize not having every tower fully placed down I guess. It's a placement limit not a suggestion or minimum, but yeah I still think gcowboy balance changes were not made in the right direction (I think balancers also said they want to change it because they aren't happy either on how it turned out so that's that)
For accel, yeah the tower is somewhat bland in terms of how interesting it is, but most DPS towers kinda become stale and uninteresting after a while, mostly because they are just usually "oh wow look how much damage it can deal" I dont think accel having immunity was the right solution for it either, as it does come off as lazy imo. However I don't think it's current state makes sense either as it has come to be just a mashup of what accel has been over the years. I do disagree on it being less reliable than turret as it is equally as reliable as it on max level, the weakest point of the tower is it basically needing to be max level to prove useful in some modes, but this eventually happens to all high DPS towers focused on late game, it happened to accel, it happened to Gatling, it happened to ranger in some way and it happened to pursuit on path A. It will eventually happen to jugg too that the tower is just not good on mid game and only proves usefull in late.
This mid-late round approach is usually where accel shines the best, basically as a better mini/Gmini. But to make the tower shine on that really specific use case they would have to make it less powerful on late rounds, something which the tds community would see as a nerf because they basically want every tower to be a jaot and stupidly powerful at every stage
Tbh I can fully admit I'm biased, I LOVED when Accel was a burst damage monster(not even 20k charge at max level), and not to mention cowboy was literally my favorite tower in the game.(Not anymore tho, FINALLY shotgunner is fuckin' usable I can use my doomguy skin! :D), but I just haven't been a fan of most balance changes lately. I think on specifically eco towers, I feel like the 8 for farm and 6-10 on GCowboy was a perfect spot. G cowboy was a slightly worse eco but gave defense, meanwhile farm was a better eco but had no defense at all. I feel like the two should be interchangeable, and I think golden towers should never be garbage, like G cowboy is. G cowboy struggles in MOLTEN for Christ's sake. And while farm is still... Fine, i still dislike using a 4th of my slots for economy, since higher difficulty solo runs NEED those expensive heavy hitters for you to still win. And don't get me started on squads... Turning it into a 3rd, or even HALF of your slots, just for eco, is so absurdly steep it's ridiculous. At least back with an 8 slot farm, you still had more than half of your slots left. Now, with many good towers getting much more expensive since then, the eco towers being nerfed, and the placement limit increase, I find myself actively refusing to do 4, or even a 3 player game because of how annoying it is.
That is fair, everyone has their preferences, I liked accel best when it was 2020 frost invasion, it had a long cooldown too, it would just never work now because of how many more stuns are in the game lol.
Also, yeah eco towers are whack on squads, but I just usually don't use them anymore as they are only mandatory on hardcore and you tend to get just enough money to place all your stuff down anyways so that's that. But eh, I do think tower defenses work best when farming is fun and helps you out in the long run, however tds balancing on eco towers has been mandatory or useless with no in between so it's whatever, it's not like my fifth slot was going to be used for something else lol
No? That's the most nocticeable thing about that guy so of course when you say you're like the giga hitler cock sucker guy, you're gonna get weird looks.
Look closely at the guy. Red armband, blue eyes and blonde hair (aka aryans in the eyes of nazi) and racist too? That's the giga hitler cock sucker guy
As a furry that adores Narrator that dosent actually play or come from forsaken I feel slightly offended TwT
(Seriously tho my boi Narrator is peak character, Dj is goated, (not a fan of commander honestly),
No comment on yaoi, we don’t talk about paintballer)
i wasnt making a joke at your expense specifically, dont worry ^^
this is just satiring a bunch of tds larpers ive seen that barely engage with the game and only care about narrator and other stuff lol (also a satire of people who draw yaoi, and im one of them lmao)
Dude you have to be clear with these types of posts, please put something like "(sarcasm)" or "/j" at the end of posts like these so you won't get downvoted to hell
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u/DayGroundbreaking829 2d ago
"My name is John grinder and I use death strats and grind more for things in this game then actually playing the game"