Wii Olympics, Pointers, Done
Behold Jeremy at our mini Wii Olympics the night before Ali’s race. He sent me the other shots he had from that night as well. You can see them here. It includes some very exciting shots of Randall sleeping.
So I downloaded the new 1.2 version of Fieldrunners for the Iphone. This version added an additional map as well as 2 new towers, a flame thrower and bomb tower. Unfortunately it also introduced a ton of bugs as well. The app would constantly dump and I couldn’t get the new towers or map unlocked. Thankfully they just released 1.21 which fixes most of the problems.
I recently beat the new map on the “classic” setting which means I survived 100 rounds of assaults. I thought I would offer my tips for the thousands of Fieldrunners players.. The new map is challenging because it has 3 points where enemies enter the playing field. It also has many more attacks by air which presents more problems since airplanes,dirigibles and helicopters fly right over any maze configuration you have created. There are a few new types of enemies in this new map as well. There are entrances at the left top and left bottom the of map as well as an entrance at 12 o’clock. The 12 o’clock entrance is rarely used and if it is, only air vehicles will come out of it. You need to start out building in the top and bottom center of the map.
As money accumulates you are going to want to build two long gun turret walls to divert ground troops from the top to the bottom and troops from the bottom to the top. The reason for this is there are many rounds when ground and air come at you simultaneously. If you don’t split off the ground forces you will never have enough concentrated firepower to knock both types out at once in the later rounds. Once these walls are built concentrate on making big blocks of destructive firepower. I prefer lots of fully upgraded rocket towers with a few lightning towers mixed in for awesome single target destruction. Don’t forget slowing towers spread evenly along the maze to keep the targets slowed down as much as possible.
When you unlock the 2 additional tower types strategy can change pretty dramatically. With the tremendous destructive power of both the flamethrower and bomb towers you can worry less about running ground troops up and down and instead concentrate on making huge squares of chaos creating flame and bomb weapons. Try to route the bad guys around the squares. This can tricky however at harder skill levels. Wisely spending your money can be problematic. The new towers, while very powerful are also very expensive. At higher levels enemies take a major beating before they go down. Plan accordingly.
Ran 2.5 miles on the treadmill. At this point I think I am a good to go to run the Festival of Lights next weekend.
I have a three day weekend. Saturday, Ali’s Valentine’s day treat is to have me be at the office for a good chunk of the day doing upgrades. Sunday morning we have to time a race in Marco Island that could be a fiasco.
I gave my final blessing to Ali picking up Sadie this afternoon. The rest of the weekend will be one big dog socialization experiment. I have to read up on how to teach a dog it’s name.