give the enemy a lot of snipers but no ARG, creep gets no spores, and limited creep generation. airsacs just build up until they output more than they snipers can kill

Yeah

Hell yea

There is one. It's called LPAC Surrounded, and the links between islands are so narrow that air sacs are the only way to get creep into enemy territory.

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That's essentially how Space Invaders worked. The game couldn't run correctly with all of the enemies on screen, so it slowed down. As you killed them off, the game would get faster and faster until it finally ran at the correct speed.

Not quite the same but that reminds me of Evoland - it starts as a proper retro rpg and you unlock progressively more modern mechanics/graphics over the course of the game

@@mannalosj2563 do you think this is a good game to introduce someone to video games to give them a rundown of a lot of concepts quickly? Or is it more of a meta commentary for someone with a lot of experience with these mechanics

@@HockeyGod256 haven't played it myself, but I feel it's more of a nice callback for old gamers. Might work though!

What a feature

In a way, the player and the creeper, we aren't so different

Me too!

Same here

IIRC, that functionality isn't available on this map, sadly :-(

A few of them have even started providing a "pop all eggs" button, which is just wonderful.

A better question is, why are air sacs so terribly underpowered? They wallow with the speed of a drugged sloth, and target randomly, so most of the time they're trying to overfly the whole humie base... at the speed of a drugged sloth. Imagine if they moved at, say, 5x the speed, and would just come up to the edge of missile range, fire bombs at your front line, then run away.

@@erikkeever3504 Air sacs are actually incredibly overpowered, it's just their base spawn rates are rather low. They always manage to throw their orbs before dying. ALWAYS. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Also, it takes ridiculous amounts of energy to actually snipe all of those orbs before they land. In a normal game, a wave of air sacs will ALWAYS cause a deficit, assuming enough are spawned at once.

@@erikkeever3504 They aren't suited to spawning near the front lines. If there's enough distance, they'll build up some orbs to throw by the time they start getting shot at.

A Palp is always drawn to his Sharky. (Or in this case Superking).

It's a tough arms race with yourself. If you don't put skimmers or blobs on the map, then people are sad and won't play it. But once you do, you HAVE to put strong sniper defense or else they just upgrade the blob/skimmer factory a couple times and steamroll.

Late but yeah, I believe it would act as a corner reflector and solve Tom's issue with the stash sending creeper waves away from the enemy