This usually is not a problem, but with numbers comes the possibility that some may slip through your defenses and get into your base! Also, they may sometimes ride motorcycles, and this makes them the fastest moving unit and increases their chance of surviving your defenses and attacking your base. If you fill your defense with heavy artillery, they may not be able to respond fast enough to this type of aggression.
Vehicle-type units can either contain personnel like the motorcycle and jeep that enhances their survival, or tanks, which has a lot of armor and can destroy your units even though they are slow moving. You will need to strategize and defend your base as well as your own units, as they can be costly to replace! Finally, we have the planes. These are troublesome and you will need dedicated anti-aircraft units to take them down, or else they will reach your base and bomb it!
While all these may sound daunting, the game developers did put in place various tools in your arsenal to deal with these units. As you place your units along the path to protect your base, you can upgrade or even heal them. Your units must gain experience through combat before they can be upgraded, and it will cost you some money to upgrade them too.
Another nifty feature added to this game is that you can re-deploy units that have gained experience and store them for future battles, and deploy new units to gain experience. This allows you to get lots of trained units and store them for a rainy day! What should I do? We strongly urge all our users to upgrade to modern browsers for a better experience and improved security.
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Keep exploring Kongregate with more badges and games! Spend your hard earned kreds on some of these games! I remember sitting on my school bus next to my best mate, who was describing Defender to me for the first time. I had never seen it. He mentioned the green button, the "Smart Bomb" that could kill every character on-screen in one go.
I thought such a thing sounded improbable. I called my mate a bullshitter. When I told this story to Jarvis, he laughed.
The Smart Bomb, he said, was originally going to be a super-targeted weapon to get rid of one unit at a time. It's just so fast and there's so much shit out there, we just needed to be able to get rid of it all. You would press the button and the missile would go and kill this one enemy, but by the time it got to the enemy you were three screens over so we were like, this is stupid, how do we make this relevant, what makes this useful and easy? Well, just blow everything up. It's so simple. Smart Bombs were an innovation.
Jarvis added that he now views them as "almost like the first virtual good, something valuable that people would hoard. But there is one aspect of Defender during which, even armed with Smart Bombs, survival is all but impossible.
When all of the little men are gone, the world of Defender collapses in upon itself triggering an orgiastic wave of violence towards the player.
It is the zombie apocalypse of early space shooters. The difficulty curve shoots north at a 90 degree angle. Jarvis introduced this eye-bulging cataclysm in order to "add some drama" to the end game. When the little men you are protecting are dead, the game is over, but he wanted it to go out with a big bang. Of course, there are players who actually like playing the game in this mode, but they are a hardy and rare breed of individuals.
The cataclysm is still one of the most remarkable moments in gaming, way ahead of its time. Jarvis was living in a commercial environment when games needed to instantly hook players, and offer them a chance of mastery with much practise. Although the number of games available was comparatively limited, it was fiercely competitive. Most arcade games failed to make money, failed to dislodge the standards and favorites already installed.
Defender was something new and dangerous.
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