– Authors Map Description –

A bridge, with several defensive platforms, (or ‘petals’,) crossing between two islands, one with a small town on it and the other with a large fuel processing plant. This plant appears to be the aliens main target. We cannot let the aliens capture or destroy that facility.

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This map is based on a idea I originally submitted to the DG1 community levels DLC several years ago. Obviously its changed a fair bit over the last year or more.

The original version of this map was amongst the first selected for the Steam Workshop. I always felt guilty about it because it was a bit plain and was done in a hurry with a limited selection of missions. I always intended to do a second, improved version, when I had the time and felt able to improve on what I had done. I had some time over the spring/summer so I carried on working on it. When it was ready I asked HPE if we could upload this as an update to the existing map, whilst the initial response was positive, there were technical issues.

As such, it now seems to me that the only way I can get the improved version of this map into the hands of the players who bought and played the original is to release this update here. ( The original has since been removed from the in game store at my request.)

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The original map contained the following missions:
Story, Grinder, Super Grinder, No Red Towers, Limited Towers, Out Of Bullets.

The new version adds:
Story Leaderboard, Story Revisited, Baseless, Bridged, Fixed Resources, Flood, Turbo 5 & Turbo 10

Scoreboost should not be available in any mission.
Most of the newer missions (apart from Story-Leaderboard and Bridged,) have a couple of options on the Command Shuttle.

All missions have been beaten on Competitive Hard, with no cores lost. As such they may be a touch on the easy side for some players. My apologies and I wish you luck on Elite. You are a better/braver person than I.

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The mission types you may not be familiar with are as follows:

Baseless: No boost towers.
Flood: Starts with a trickle, grows to a flood of aliens.
Bridged: Alternative route based on the command shuttle options. Otherwise, it is similar to flood.
Turbo 5 & Turbo 10. Quick fire waves, the final wave starts after the specified number of minutes.
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Thanks must go to Miendiem, FCP1969 and Arthurs Foot who have helped with testing this map over the last 6 months. All errors, bugs and balance issues are of course my responsibility not theirs.

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I would also like to take the opp

– Authors Map Description –

Another Christmas themed map.

At the moment this map offers:
Story, Artillery, Baseless, DeepFreeze, Fixed Resources, Focal Point, Frozen Core, Green Towers Only, Grinder, Minimalist, No Red Towers, Out Of Time, Out Of Bullets, Short Sighted, Super Grinder, Tower Limit

Its balanced to be played on Competitive (No Sell) Normal with some missions on Hard. It may work on other mission types/difficulties, but they havent been tested.

The release of this map has been a little more hurried than normal due to other (seasonal) demands on our time. So if you do find any problems please accept our apologies and let me know what is wrong so it can be fixed.

Thank you as always to Miendiem, FCP1969 and Arthurs Foot for testing and also Shark@tak, MM:Donuts and Operation40 for setting up this website and Operation40 again for the command station tool. Any and all errors are of course my responsibility, not theirs.

Again, if you find any errors or any unobtainable medals please let me know.

I hope you all have a good festive season and a better new year.

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This is a rerelease of a map first made available in Dec 2014. It is released as is to maintain compatibility with the leaderboards. Its balance may be off. The intention is to release a V2 if I have time this year.

Please report any errors or any mission/ difficulty combos that seem overly easy or challenging.

I will try to fix any bugs, but balance issues will have to wait for V2 to be released.

– Authors Map Description –

Commander! Our pudding is under attack!

Hmm, maybe not.

Its Christmas, have a slightly different and hopefully fun map to relax with.

At the moment this map offers story mode, no red towers, out of bullets, grinder and super grinder.

Its balanced to be played on Competitive (No Sell) Normal and some missions on Hard. It may work on other missions / difficulties, but they havent been tested.

Thank you as always to Miendiem, FCP1969 and Arthurs Foot for testing and also Shark@tak, MM:Donuts and Operation40 for setting up this website and Operation40 again for the command station tool. Any and all errors are of course my responsibility, not theirs.

If you find any errors or any unobtainable medals please let me know.

I hope you all have a good festive season and a better new year.
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This is a rerelease of a map first made available in Dec 2014. It is released as is to maintain compatibility with the leaderboards. Its balance may be off. The intention is to release a V2 if I have time this year.

Please report any errors or any mission/ difficulty combos that seem overly challenging.

I will try to fix any bugs, but balance issues will have to wait for V2 to be released.

– Authors Map Description –

Its Christmas! Maybe our DG2Freemaps subscribers will find a little something extra under their tree this year?

There are 16 mission modes in this map
Story, Artillery, Baseless, DeepFreeze, Fixed Resources, Focal Point, Fully Loaded, Green Towers Only, Grinder, No Red Towers, Out Of Time, Out Of Bullets, Short Sighted, Super Grinder, Tower Limit

So hopefully you will find something that appeals to you.

Its balanced to be played on Competitive (No Sell) Normal witha few playable on Hard. It may work on other game types/difficulties, but they havent been tested.

Thank you as always to Miendiem, FCP1969 and Arthurs Foot for testing and also Shark@tak, MM:Donuts and Operation40 for setting up this website and Operation40 again for the command station tool. Any and all errors are of course my responsibility, not theirs.

If you find any errors or any unobtainable medals please let me know.

I hope you all have a good festive season and a better new year.
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This is a rerelease of a map that was available during Dec 2014. It is released as is, to maintain compatibility with leaderboards from last year. The balance may be off. With a bit of luck I will be able to get a V2 sorted out this time around.

Feel free to report any errors, or mission/difficulty combo’s that you feel are a little overly challenging. I will do my best to fix any bugs that are reported, although any balance issues will have to wait for the next version.

– Authors Map Description –

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… but this is Thanksgiving so lets forget about all that…

Alien transmission incoming:

"Commander, we will not be foiled by your poultry attempt to be-fowl our cunning plan, do you think we will chicken out, turn tail or run? We will not be eggsterminated! So get stuffed!"

Wow, that was truly awful… better get out there and defend the cores before the aliens inflict any more puns on us…
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My apologies for the delay getting this out to you… Kind of bit off more than I could chew in terms of getting it all ready.

Be that as it may I do intend to add more mission types to this over the next few days/weeks. (There’s always leftovers with turkey right?)

Contains the following missions:
Story, Artillery, Fixed Resources, Grinder+, Super Grinder, Turbo 5 and Turbo 10.

Scoreboost is not available in any mission.

Let me know in the comments below if you run into any problems, I will do what I can to get it fixed quickly.
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Also, my thanks must go to those who have helped on the testing/suggestion side of things. This time my thanks go to FCP1969, Arthurs Foot & Moth. Any mistakes / errors are of course mine not theirs.

My thanks also go to Shark@tak and TheWatcher Donuts for insisting on the need for a Turkey Themed map.
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All missions have been beaten on Competitive Hard, with no cores lost. As such they may be a touch on the easy side for some players. My apologies and I wish you luck on Comp Elite. You are a better/braver person than I.

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Festive Turkey V1.2 – Leftovers

There was a problem with the leadeboards for Artillery and Baseless containing high scores left over from testing old versions of the scripts, and those scores no longer being attainable.

As such there are now two versions of Artillery, the old version with a clean leaderboard, and a new, harder, Tower Items version with the old leaderboard, plus a clean leaderboard for Baseless.

My apologies to the players who had posted scores to the old Artillery Leaderboard. I can only suggest that you post a new score on one of the new missions.
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Festive Turkey V1.1 – Second Helpings

In case you were left wanting more Turkey.

New Missions added

Story – Leaderboard, Baseless, Deep Freeze, Flood, HVY5, HVY5 TI, Incendiary, Limited Towers, Mini Grinder, Out Of Bullets, Short Sighted

All tested on Comp Hard (no cores lost) except for HVY5 TI which was tested on Open Elite (no cores lost) by FCP1969

Any issues, please post below.

– Authors Map Description –

Quad
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A seawater desalination and mineral recovery plant has been targeted by the aliens. They’ve broken through the orbital defenses and are readying a series of ground assaults.
Get the defense systems running again and defend the base.

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Contains the following missions:
Story, Baseless, Deep Freeze, Fixed Resources, Flood, Grinder+, Incendiary, Mini Grinder, Shortsighted, Risen – Story, Risen – Baseless, Risen – Flood.

Scoreboost is not available in any mission.

All missions have been beaten on Competitive Hard, with no cores lost. As such they may be a touch on the easy side for some players. My apologies and I wish you luck on Elite. You are a better/braver person than I.

All missions use custom scripts based on the chapter 5 mission script Out Of Control. Whilst the scripts are mostly similar to each other there are little tweaks to better suit many of the missions specific requirements. Hopefully this will keep things interesting for you.

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The mission types you may not be familiar with are as follows:

Baseless: No boost towers.
Deep Freeze: No heat based towers.
Flood: Starts with a trickle, grows to a flood of aliens.
Grinder+: Includes landing pods.
Mini Grinder: Shorter Grinder+, also, gap between waves will increase then decrease through the mission.
Shortsighted: No long range towers.
Risen: All parts of the map available at wave 1. Allows for more variety of pathing.

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This map is based on a idea I originally submitted to the DG1 community levels DLC several years ago. It was also the first map I built with the DG Architect when I started trying stuff out. Obviously its changed a fair bit over the last year or more.

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Thanks must go to Miendiem and Arthurs Foot who helped with testing this back in Spring. All errors, bugs and balance issues are of course my responsibility not theirs.

I hope you enjoy it.
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V1.2
Fixes a bug in Mini grinder, adds story-leaderboard, HVY5 & HVY5TI
Thanks to FCP1969 for testing HVY5 TI.
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V1.1
Removed the boost towers from Risen-Baseless as reported by FCP1969

– Authors Map Description –

How can I end this nightmare dream?
A change of pace, a change of scene.

They come again, no end in sight,
What does it mean? Its time to fight.
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Available modes include: Story, Grinder, Power Outage, Focal Point, No Red Towers, Fully Loaded, Out Of Bullets, Frozen Core, Tower Limit, Super Grinder
Open Elite versions of the missions have now been added. These missions have higher difficulty and are for players looking to play Open Elite missions using Tower Upgrade Items.

Note. The Story/Campaign mission does not upload the score to the leaderboard, this is not something I can fix, it is a HPE issue. For this reason the Story/Campaign mission is considered to be a practice mission aimed at people who have few if any Tower Upgrade Items. As such, please use the Story – Leaderboard mission if you want to play on Comp Hard or play Story Open Elite if you want to play on Open Elite.

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This map is a follow on from Part 1, originally built around the same time but only released much later. Slightly more tower build locations, but more spread out, it provides a different challange to Part 1. The spawn scripts for the different challenge modes are the same as for Part 1, although the difficulties and gold medal scores may have been adjusted slightly to suit the map.

The map, most of the missions and spawn scripts are the same as originally released. However a few tweaks have been added in terms of mode descriptions, medal scores and so on. And of course the recent addition of the TI missions.

It is perhaps worth noting that we couldnt edit/screate our own scripts at the point this map was first made, so these are almost all pure HPE scripts. If there are any overly long delays or difficulty spikes, it is because the scripts were not designed for this map. Having said that, some of the additional challenge modes not only use different scripts, but different rules as well.

I am still hoping to release a few more in this series although the number of tower tiles available will generally be higher than in the first two maps.
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All normal (non Open Elite) modes have been beaten on Competitive(Hard) without losing any cores.
If you want to play on Open Elite I would advise trying one of the Open Elite modes as the difficulty has been adjusted to suit players using Tower Upgrade Items.
All Open Elite modes have been beaten on Open Elite without losing any cores.
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Rev 1.1 Updated the gold medal scores and added Open Elite versions of the missions.
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A reminder for anyone who plays any Focal Point/Power Outage mission type, not just this map, enemies killed by the cursor do not add to your score. Damaging them seems to be fin

– Authors Map Description –

This map has not been made with entertainment in mind. I imagine it will be very boring for most players.

Instead this map has been put together for players to test how the scoring system works, to try and see how different approaches might affect your score, or just to try out different towers on some of the less common aliens. (I have been meaning to do one of these since autumn 2014, but life and other maps always kept getting in the way. So my apologies for the delay. 🙂 )

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There are several tests. Different scenarios to try out, I guess you could say. Each test has several parts where one of the components of the scoring system has been changed.

Hopefully comparing results for similar tests will will make it easier for people to interpret the resulting changes to their scores.

I’ve not done any analysis on the results myself, as I dont want to prejudice what people find. If you want to, you can find how I believe the scoring system works in the comments below. That opinion may prove to be inaccurate. In the end though, provided we all understand the scoring system better at the end then the map will have achieved what was intended.

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What is included:

Story – Standard mission script. Mainly here for completeness.

Test1 – Five Walkers. All the same health.
Test2 – Five Walkers. Rising health.
Test3 – One of each type of enemy.
Test4 – One Walker & one Crasher.
Test5 – One Crasher & one Walker.
Test6 – Turtle, Seeker, Landing Pod
Test7 – Bulwark, Spire, 2x Spire, Carrier
Test8 – Healer, Regenerator, 2xHealer

Each test has four versions.
i) No Trickle. No End of Wave Bonus.
ii) With Trickle. No End of Wave Bonus.
iii) With Trickle. With End of Wave Bonus set to 100.
iv) With Trickle. With End of Wave Bonus set to 500.

Unless otherwise noted all aliens have their health multiplier set to 1, ie 100% of base health.

I would suggest that to get the best use out of this map, you run one test, note your score and then run a slightly different test, building in exactly the same way and compare the scores. This should allow you to see the effect of changing conditions/scoring rules.

Or you could run exactly the same test, but vary the tower arrangement slightly to see how that changes the result and continue in that manner making only small changes and comparing the scores each time.

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I’ve given it a bit of testing. It should do what its supposed to, but its still a work in progress really, so please do report any bugs / inconsistencies / problems you find below.

Likewise, if you think there needs to be any alterations to the timing/wave composition or have an idea for a new test, again, please post it below.

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ScoretestV1a
Corrected the boost towers to allow overcharge and disruptor upgrades, not just overcharge.

ScoretestV1b
A few minor changes to the map itself.
The delay at the start of each test has been increased to 20 seconds to give you more time to set u

– Authors Map Description –

One of our more remote mining platforms, Helical DN8-3 is under attack. We cant afford to lose those resources, so you’d better get a move on Commander.

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Firstly many thanks to Miendiem & Arthurs Foot who have been kind enough to assist with some playtesting. Any and all errors are of course my responsibility, not theirs.

Secondly, belated thanks to Baby Fark McGee-zax for his tips on how to take better screenshots in the Architect and Quandora for the lighting idea.

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This map uses a variety of scripts and provides the following modes:
Story, Grinder, Super Grinder, Power Outage, Focal Point, No Red Towers, Fully Loaded, Out Of Bullets, Frozen Core and Limited Towers.

Most of the modes have been beaten on competitive (hard) mode with no cores lost.

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This is a re-release of the map first made available in Autumn 2014
It is released as it was then, ie standard scripts & no adjustment to medal scores.

This also means that No Red Towers and Fully loaded have not as yet been tested properly, ie beaten on Competitive (Hard) with no cores lost. If you manage it, please post a comment with a score and a link to a screenshot.

I do intend to give this another polish pass to tweak the difficulties/scripts scores etc once my current projects have been cleared.