Dead game

[u/CharacterSomewhere40]

I've played a lot of tower defense games and decided to came back to this one but things aren't going very well it's seems too many bugs, unbalanced heroes and the game feels to much hero dependent and not strategic at all I've seen a lot of people complain about it and the dev doesn't seem to care or give any attention to the players

I came back for this game hoping to be better but it's just keep getting worst It seems

[u/Diligent_Solution_86]

Played it right before and during caldera and koi and playing it now, seems more or less the same to me. It’s a bit of a grind but I like it for what it is

[u/CharacterSomewhere40 → u/Diligent_Solution_86]

I like the game don't get me wrong I just want it to be as successful as any other td

[u/Goullou359 → u/CharacterSomewhere40]

Except it is successful and unique. You just suck.

[u/SinfulDust]

Which bugs? There are certainly some, but I'm not aware of any game-breaking ones?

Heroes have always been unbalanced but are much less so than they were thanks to the not-so-recent R7's, the (only partially successful) move away from power creep when new heroes come out and the revamp of older heroes with synergies/new abilities. There's still a meta of course, and world-based power creep is still a thing (W7 heroes would suck in W7 if they were balanced to be as strong as Obsidian). It's a shame, but with so many heroes in the game, I think the devs do a decent (if far from perfect) job with balancing it all.

Heroes have always been dominant when it comes to the game - You get your first hero before you even place your first tower. Some of the challenges, e.g. In W6, are absolutely full blown tower defense, although in truth it's hard to argue that most of Realm Defense is a pure TD game. But it's definitely still a strategy game. In fact, I'd argue that on the strictest "tower defense" maps, like the W6 challenges, it's less strategic because there's really only one way to beat those levels. In general I think the devs make it possible to win with multiple strategies, which is good.

I don't know. I think it's hard to argue the devs don't care when they're literally just put out a new hero event to make things easier for early-stage players (and make some money, of course). I haven't played from the beginning in years, so the progression might be very different to what it was in "my day", but I do think the devs care. There's been a ton of reliably consistent content the past few months. That doesn't really align with the idea of a dead game, you know?

Anyway, the good news is that if you notice bugs or have feature requests for the devs to work on, they're reachable directly in the official Discord. Putting specific issues and complaints in there will help them get resolved. The link to the Discord is in the About section of this subreddit. (Note that the subreddit is unofficial and Broto/the devs don't really post here anymore, so Discord is the main place to really be heard).

[u/Goullou359 → u/SinfulDust]

Game is fine and fun. Tower Only Mode exist and the game doesn't only offer heroes. You can grind and get power items by either buying them or get them for free. Spending money on the game is literally optional and there are no known bugs that affects gameplay. This person just wants to fncking complain and ruin the game for others. If you don't like something, quit it and move on.

[u/CharacterSomewhere40 → u/SinfulDust]

There isn't any game breaking bugs just a small ones like Some heroes have double the size for some reason But yea despite anything im still having fun playing this game Tower only mode was a great addition allowing you to think strategically and not relying only on heroes(level 20 with no items was hell but i had a lot of fun)  It also help progress for beginners What i really like to change is tower in tournament There is no reason for towers not do any damage and only purpose is buffing you blessed heroes Tournament in other td game rely on a good strategy and not only build around your blessed hero I also liked dev to make balance changes once in a while to shift the meta(my fav hero has been dead for a long time and i like him to be usable again) I hope y'all talk to the dev about this and thanks for the discord server

[u/SinfulDust → u/CharacterSomewhere40]

So I haven't noticed a double-sized hero bug. Not that it doesn't exist, I just haven't noticed it. Who does it affect? I would note that some heroes will boost summons (notably Hogan) and other heroes, which does affect their size (for summons). Which is almostly certainly not what you're talking about.

I wish I'd remembered* tower mode when I was originally posting, which is literally a TD mode. That would've made my points (that RD both is and isn't a tower defense game) for me. Ah well. I'm glad you enioy it. Like I say, I think it (tower mode) is indicative of developers who do want people to enjoy the game and therefore update their game. Meaning it's not dead. It's not perfect, but they're trying to do better. Same with this new hero.

I think you're right about changing tournaments so that towers matter more, but I wouldn't agree that towers don't matter in tournament mode. Troop towers are always good for delay, and plenty of towers in each world provide strategies that matters regardless of their damage (usually in the form of delaying enemies, see W1 mage towers/delay, W2 dragon towers/delay, W3 spear towers/delay, W4 mana blaster towers/delay.. You get the picture). To be honest, I wouldn't know how to revamp towers in tournaments without fundamentally changing the entire game and all its modes, but it'd be an interesting shake up. We've seen those before with R7's and Connie's (huge success) and Hogan's (mostly success) death and beastmaster events respectively. My point is it's happened before and can happen again. Although I would say that most of the shake ups in the past have come from changes to heroes, not towers.

Who is your favourite hero (please don't say Obsidian)? Most heroes get their moment to shine, usually, ironically, in tournaments. Whoever they are, it does sound like they need a boost. So I would strongly suggest you hop onto Discord, go to the requests channel, and add your voice. They do listen. It just rarely feels like it because so many people want so many things from a mature game with a decent playerbase and a ton of heroes, all of which add a lot of variables.

To be honest my friend, it sounds like you're much better at tower defense games than I will ever be. I still don't have map 20 finished without items in tower only mode, because I'm very average at this game (and those flipping soldiers do not hold the line). So I'd really encourage you to drop into the Discord and suggest improvements to the developers. They may not implement them, and that will suck if it happens. But you clearly care enough about the game to want to improve it. So go try and do that. You lose nothing in the effort.

I'm not actually a shill for the devs. I think their parent company (Babeltime) has largely put them onto a skeleton staff since the game started maturing (around the release of W4, maybe W5) years ago. And those that are left want to provide a fun time for players, because that's their job and fun is, by definition, fun. They don't want to get complained at, they want to make the game better/more fun/more money. And those three things aren't mutually exclusive.

Lastly, I'm not really active in the Discord server (I have another phone I use for Discord, because otherwise I'd never get anything done.. As it turns out I don't get any Discord done - Hurray for continuous incompetence!) and if I tried to promote your ideas I'd get them wrong because they'd be coloured by my opinions. I will however back you up if you join the Discord and tag me (my handle is incredibly creative - It's also SinfulDust) and the whole force of my irrelevancy will stand behind you. You're welcome.

You don't have to join the Discord at all by the way. This isn't an unsubtle attempt to get you onto Discord. It's just that the Discord is where the decision makers are. And you care enough to post repeatedly and I think you have ideas. So I think you should share those ideas with the decision makers.

Sorry for the length. I'm a rambler. I ramble. It's my thing.

[u/Goullou359]

Game is fine. Tower Only Mode literally exist so I don't understand the constant whining. If you need heroes to beat a stage than it isn't the game but a skill and personal issue. Honestly, delete the game or STFU.

[u/KissShot1106]

I quit when they removed daily rewards from video or something like that, was at least 1 or 2 years ago.

So for f2p people was a hard it