Question
It didn't take me too long to clear the first three levels in easy mode. But I've been trying for days to play in hard mode and can not get past even the first level, "Pinball." The highest I can make is 17 waves. Is there something wrong with my strategy? My basic approach is to make alleys to try to maximize the Laser towers. I've tried both upgrading fewer towers, as well as just planting lots of weak towers. One thing I don't understand is the blue pulser.
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Answer
The main key to hexdefense (in easy or hard mode) is upgrading towers - I don't usually do hard mode but I saw your question and tried Pinball in hard mode to try it out... I got past wave 20 with only 4 towers by upgrading: The strategy I used was to put lazers in a way to maximize damage where creeps go and to use missles (red) to take remaining hits.
- I first put a lazer just above the eastern + to catch creeps on their way up (it is helpful to first note their pattern without any towers).
- Then I put a missle as soon as I could N, N, NW of the exit to take care of 1 or 2 stragglers on wave 2.
- Then I upgraded both of these fully.
- Then I put a missle SE, SE, NE of western + to maximize the lazer's damage.
- After upgrading that, I put a second lazer S, SE, SE of the western + to double the lazer damage on the diagonal between the two lazers and upgraded (both these upgraded lazers were able to take out the fire boss on wave 15).
- Then I put a few more missles in, not impeding creeps current path.
This got me to wave 24 (which is very horrible since I know people have done FARRRR better - leaderboard shows wave 117, prolly on easy mode), but this is just one strategy to work with, though I still don't know how people get to wave 260 on the Intestines level, or even to wave 50.
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