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Hey welcome back everyone
It is time for a new lets play series
We have finished A.R.E.S Extinction Agenda, and now the next game we are going to play is called Sanctum
Sanctum seems pretty darn cool to me.
It was on sale on Steam for 75% off so it was only $3.75
It's an indie game just like A.R.E.S so they do not charge you a lot of money.
I love supporting Indie game developers because sometimes they produce great stuff that can compete with even the largest AAA game developers.
What Sanctum is is a mix between Tower Defense and First Person Shooter
This is a first time the two genre has been mixed together.
The graphics look great
Uses the Unreal 3 engine and the game mechanics work out smoothly.
The game also has up to 4 player online co-op, I have a bunch of friends ready to play.
So I will try to get some feature videos of co-op up at some point.
Let's go to the first stage the Mine.
We will play on medium difficulty. There is Easy, Medium, Hard, and Insane.
Each level makes the game much harder and throws different challenges at you.
Start off in building mode...
And then jump off the edge O.o (mistake)
::laughing:: jump off the edge and die...
The yellow spots I am mousing over are called telivators.
You can teliport to them and they also act as elevators when you walk up to them.
You can press tab to get an overview of the grid.
Anywhere with a grid is where you can build your blocks and towers.
First you must build a block.
Then you can place one of the attack towers, gatling, lightning, and scatter laser.
In addition to that keeping true to the fact this is a first person shooter you can also spend your money on weapon upgrades.
You have 3 weapons, the Assault Gun, the Sniper Rifle, and the Freeze Gun
The Assault Gun is like a sub machine gun, rapid fire and a secondary attack that launches a grenade.
The sniper rifle is slow to attack but long range and high damage.
The freeze ray can slow down enemies or freeze them in place for a short period of time.
So you have a lot of choices, you must manage your maze of towers.
What towers to build in the maze.
What weapons to upgrade.
Also while defending you must decide where to stand and how to fight.
Lots of depth to this game so that is why I like it.
Now its time to get some gameplay going!
First we need to build some towers.
A block in the front, in a good position to hit all incoming enemies.
Lets keep them from going this way so we will block it off with a block.
How should I maze this out....
There is only a row of 3 blocks so there is not much room to for a "maze"
Lets put a galtling on the corner, a scatter laser next to that...
Another gatling on the corner and a scatter laser next to that.
The gatling shoots very quickly with low damage, ideal for small fast mobs with low health that come in large number.
The scatter laser is in the middle it has medium damage and medium fire rate.
Also it can hit air and ground.
The last tower we have right now is lightning it shoots slow but does the most damage ideal for tanks and other strong slow mobs.
You want to use all of these properly to kill the enemies you have coming.
In the bottom right hand corner you will see an icon that says next wave.
This tells you what enemy type is coming in the next defense phase.
If you press ESC you can see the encyclopedia that will tell you about the enemies.
The walker is a medium all around unit.
I need another scatter laser...
This next area....
I can force them through this area and then back again.
That sounds good...
I will put a row in the middle to dissect this area.
Here... there... there...
One block here I can put a strong lightning tower.
And now I am gonna go and let them walk down this way...
And block them off at the end so they have to do a u-turn.
So they are going to come in from the side...
...go thru the short maze.
Get up to the center and then turn around so they run past the center towers twice.
Build some blocks in here so they have to go all the way around.
I thought at first you had to be next to blocks, but you can do it from a distance.
Alright I am satisfied with that.
I am going to get up here in the front.
And we will start the defensive phase by hitting Enter
Here comes our first wave.
Generally I like to open with the sniper...
...and try to pick off what I can.
And then break out the assault when they get close.
or the freeze ray is also useful.
::gunshots:: ::monsters groaning::
Ok I am going to go right into the next wave.
So I can save up some money to upgrade my weapons.
I am pretty confident in our towers right now.
Some weapons like the sniper rifle get (emphasis) so much better after you upgrade them.
You get more than one shot at a time, and do more damage per shot.
The assault gun gets quite a bit better as well.
You will notice these glowing orange spots....
This is their weak spot. If you hit them in that spot they take triple damage.
This is especially important with the sniper rifle.
While you are in the defensive phase you can still teliport...
So if I need to get back here because enemies pass me I can easily warp back.
Lets upgrade the sniper.
Now at level 2 it does a lot more damage and I get two shots.
You have a pretty floaty jump so you can pretty much jump from one tower to the next easily within reason.
Ooooh lots of small guys...
This is where the secondary fire of the assault comes in handy.
A grenade that does explosive damage in an area.
Looks like one guy made it thru..
awww missed :(
Lets upgrade the assault gun now this time.
Tank is coming up next.
Lets upgrade this lightning tower, even though I probably wont need it.
The tanks move slow...
And take lots of damage, so the best thing to do is hit them with the sniper rifle in there weak spot.
I am pretty pro at sniping these things.
The sniper rifle is my main weapon.
But you have to use the other weapons as well.
Oops missed one.
I wish I had 3 shots with the sniper right now.
Let's go ahead and get a vantage over here...
Sometimes your towers will take care of business but sometimes its really up to you.
Like in this case my towers are not going to be able to kill these guys.
I would need lots of lightning towers with upgrades.
But this is where my long maze path and my sniper rifle are going to come in handy.
Alright lets go get this vantage over here.
They are getting close.. but we should be OK.
You see how important these telivators are.
Bye bye buddy :D
Alright I am upgrading my sniper again.
And I will spend the left over money on some more lightning towers.
... Let's see....
I like it in an area where I am going to make them walk by twice.
You get double the efficiency of your towers that way.
I kind of wish I had made that a lightning tower.
You can sell towers if you need too.
If I put it here they will walk by it once.
Is there any way for me to get them to walk by it twice over here....?
Yeah if I make it part of a maze.
Let's to build a small maze over here.
Lightning tower... lightning tower...
The next wave is going to have two different kinds of enemies.
The walkers again and...
Runners, small and fast.
So you want to focus down the big guys, so that your turrets will take care of the small guys.
Because if your turrets focus on the big guys the small guys will just run by.
and *** your core.
I am not liking the way this is looking....
::laughs:: we are in bad shape.
really bad shape!... Oh my God
Get away from my core!
Oh no I fell, that means all those guys are going to get by.
My Core!
And there you go guys, and example of what you do NOT want to do.