It's good stuff, especially if you already enjoy/enjoyed youtd from Wc3, then you will likely enjoy this.
Was easy to dive right in because I come from some serious youtd-nerd-alert.
So I knew the drill, the concept of a 'carry' tower, putting the 'oils'/potions on that, or 2 carries, one spell damage caster and 1 physical damage carry and how to balance it all with the debuffers and crowd controllers etc.
So I started on the serious difficulty (the hardest there is, as far as I can see) and with endless mutation from the beginning. Did not take me too many attempts before I actually beat the game. I was pretty good at youtd, so that may explain it. I mean this game is also difficult, just like youtd on insane.
You have to really calculate and time everything perfectly, and make the proper precise combinations of towers/lineup and respond quickly to waves with anything threatening and it becomes fun with the synergies and matches between unique tower abilities and the items you can choose
I think for me youtd was a bit more hardcore, here you can get away with a bit more sloppyness and less optimal builds/perfection, but it is still very fun and challenging.
I had barely leveled at all, or put many skill points into anything, before I was unstopple in endless and serious mode. Only because of some bug did I have to quit, though no waves could do anything, could have stayed forever. All robots just suddenly stood still, completely frozen out of range of my towers and no way to make them move again or anything.
Maybe because of all my sick cc etc?! But hey we need a button/option to force out the new wave like we had in youtd, such an option could have made me continue and get more exp instead of quitting prematurely due to bug.
I had 2 darkness towers with sick end game abilities that make the robots go backwards again and also a very good aoe ability that make enemies lose the special wave attribute, 2 earth towers with the ability to make a huge rolling boulder that also knock robots far back again on the lane and they can also slow, ice element with more slow, good old igloo etc... hourglass (or what it is called?) is a sick item on some of these towers with epic expensive late game abilities like mentioned lol
I ended up with so much cc, slow and stun effects that the waves would get stuck and couldn't move at all lol, but if they did, they would be sent far back in the lane where they came from.
I used calamity (darkness tower) I think it is called, as my carry, worked great after a lot of buffing, potions and items.
I have won with a cactus carry also from earth element and there is a tower from the steel element that would be fun to try with a particular item as a main carry. Also fireball is an interesting tower along with other tower synergies and items.
For some reason if I enable shake screen, it will mess up the angle of vision, making it unplayable, but I just disable shake screen and then it all works fine for me.
There is no option to replace a tower, where you take over the old tower's exp with the new one, like I used to do in youtd, that was a great trick to build a carry with starter towers and replace it later with oils and exp bonuses being transfered to the new one and all. A shame that is not possible now. Also I used some towers from the light element to farm exp and to transfer exp, would have been nice to replace them later when they became level 25... but oh well, I am sure it would bring new balance issues to be sorted out, it is ok as well to just sell the towers and build a new from scratch.
Overall fun and challenging, almost as challenging as youtd, but not totally. It seems like a slightly simplified version of youtd, but sometimes that can be a good thing, maybe there actually were too many items and towers in youtd after all? Instead of having 10 different items that grant bonus to trigger chances we just have 1 or 2, and that is fine I think.
