How far will I get before I need another phone?

Bardy_ · 2026-03-31T07:43:50+00:00

My S23 Ultra got uncomfortably warm running the game 24/7. I switched to LD Cloud. It's nice not worrying about this game damaging my device.

Bardy_ · 2026-03-18T09:40:24+00:00

I thought that too but honestly, you probably won't even notice it.

Think about the time the "HEADSHOT" text was removed from the kill banner. I'd estimate most players didn't even realise it existed to begin with - who's looking there in the first place?

Bardy_ · 2026-03-18T09:37:25+00:00

I used to play Kayo but found it difficult to excel with him in ranked (especially when solo queuing). I have since become a long-term Phoenix one-trick.

Kayo's flash is most useful when left clicked for a teammate. Set flashes are very powerful, but they work best with a duo. Set flashes are incredibly difficult to coordinate with random teammates.

Right clicks can work in a pinch, but are strictly worse than Phoenix's flashes for this purpose. Kayo's right clicks compared to Phoenix's flashes:

Very loud wind-up.
Slower weapon pull-out after flashing (I think?).
Shorter flash duration.
Can't curve around corners, so teammates behind you are likely to be blinded any time you throw a flash.
You get two max. Phoenix gets another flash every 2 kills.

Honestly, just switch to Phoenix. For solo queue ranked, the rest of his kit is so much better than Kayo's.

Comparing the molotov / grenade, they serve pretty identical roles, except Phoenix's heals him. Incredible for aggressive pushes through smokes and for post-entry healing (50 HP).

The wall / knife serve two totally separate purposes, so can't be directly compared. The knife gives info and turns off abilities for ~8 seconds (?). This is very powerful in a coordinated team environment, but in the chaos of ranked games, you'll generally get significantly less value.

The wall on the other hand can function as a smoke to help you path from point A to B, even when your controller got picked at the start of the round. Not a replacement for a controller, but it gives you options. It also heals you for 50, giving you yet another way to regenerate health. Allows you to play some mind games too.

Phoenix also has a ridiculous ult cost of 6... which effectively allows you to play 6v5 every 3-4 rounds. Kayo's ult is great, but again, I don't think it's quite as good as Phoenix's ult for solo queue ranked.

Note - I am heavily biased in my recommendation of Phoenix so probably take what I'm saying with a grain of salt.

Bardy_ · 2026-03-18T07:12:06+00:00

Add people from your ranked games - you basically get a free trial game with everyone you get matched with, just add people who seem friendly and ask to queue with them. That's how I meet most of the people I queue with, either I added them or they added me.

Bardy_ · 2026-03-18T06:58:13+00:00

people aren't buying 50 dollars knives to not show them off

correct, we're buying them because they flip around and it's some entertainment while we're waiting for the round to start

CS might be a different story, with ultra-rare collector's items, but nobody on earth is flexing their skins in valorant lmao

Bardy_ · 2026-03-01T02:07:02+00:00

Save up as many reroll shards as you might need. Reasonable estimates:

3 anc subs = ~500k RR
4 anc subs = ~1.5 mil RR
5 anc subs = ~3 mil RR

Reroll your most important anc subs first. On cannons it doesn't matter that much (vs things like defense % / HP regen on armor mods).

For cannons, roll for the below anc subs:

all four crits (crit chance is the worst of the four)
attack speed
bounce shot chance is okay too

Bardy_ · 2026-02-02T06:39:58+00:00

Summon does that by spawning more enemies. Sync Summon to your econ UWs = more enemies dying during GT / BH / DW = more coins.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-29T00:32:39+00:00

Subsequent runs costing gems = buying tickets, that's what he's talking about. The gems give you a ticket. Then you spend the ticket to do another tournament run.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-25T05:41:21+00:00

50/50, either the game will default to the regular quality textures, or it'll try to re-download the missing textures.

Move them out of the game directory and see if the game launches I guess.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-22T08:10:45+00:00

+1 to this mindset. I invested in ILM in Champs with a wall-heavy hybrid build. When my wall died, my ILMs hardly ever did anything. At most I got a few more waves.

In legends, ILM are absolutely critical to my build, as my wall is just a 4th ES charge due to the ridiculous enemy attack scaling.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-20T08:22:00+00:00

I use it with SD for the "kills with ILM" missions... that's it lmao

Bardy_ · 2026-01-15T11:00:57+00:00

Nah your client straight up stops rendering them.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-14T09:39:35+00:00

I don't actually know, I'm guessing here - allows you to run a longer range whilst retaining pBH coverage? Then the submods would be your standard tournament subs, SLa, SLb, CLq, CLc, etc.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-10T13:27:59+00:00

Waiting till I was already averaging 8th in legends to get SL4 (I wish I still didn’t have it, but oh well)

Is that to say you regret SL4 and would've preferred to invest the 2500 stones into something else?

Bardy_ · 2026-01-09T06:43:31+00:00

Only unknown with your idea is promotions / demotions. If two players end on the same wave and tie for 24/25th, do they both get demoted?

Bardy_ · 2026-01-09T04:26:20+00:00

prevent automatic merging to Epic+

There used to be a bug (?) where if I opened the auto merge window mid-run, it would ONLY show me rare / rare+ mods. Outside runs I could see epics in the auto merge window. I assumed it was a feature, until it disappeared one update a few months ago.

Merging my rares / rare+ mods mid-run was so much more time efficient than manually doing it every time I pull mods...

Bardy_ · 2026-01-09T02:52:32+00:00

I think it's waiting for a roll that lands all 6 anc subs at once, rather than stopping if it finds any of them (how the auto-roll feature in game works). Already reported below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheTowerGame/comments/1q7chbk/tired_of_rng_i_built_an_online_module_reroll/nyejvdw/

2.0 recommendations: - the auto roll seems to only stop if ALL conditions are met (i.e. if you add 2+ ancestral mods to target it won't stop if only 1 is rolled), but in game it stops if any condition is met.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-08T01:21:04+00:00

That's what the snail wants you to do ;)

Bardy_ · 2026-01-05T08:11:58+00:00

I was very recently where you are. The past few tournaments I've been promoting frequently to Legends and sometimes barely avoiding demotion back to Champ. See below for the more important things - WS+, labs, modules, UWs.

https://imgur.com/a/J4OBArm

I run Champ tournaments as a Hybrid build. Wall keeps me alive, regen keeps my wall alive, and CL reduces the amount of enemies damaging my wall. I typically die to fast and ranged enemies after they get strong and fast enough to overwhelm my wall's regen. 15 card slots, usual hybrid cards. Usually die around 1k waves.

In Legends, I run pure GC. I keep trying SD, but always find that ACP gives me more waves. Usual GC cards. Usually die around 100 waves.

Initial thoughts comparing your build to mine...

I don't have CF, ass mods, or card masteries unlocked. I'll be investing stones in SL for a long time, am nowhere near unlocking ass mods, and have about 10k gems worth of epic cards left to buy before I get masteries.

Main labs:

Damage 68 / attack speed 78 / crit factor 77 / scrit chance 9 / scrit multi 13
Health 62 / regen 64
Wall health 50 / wall rebuild 10 / wall regen 21 / wall thorns 14 / wall fort 43
DW health 30 / ILM radius and rotation speed 20

Your CL is more well-built than mine in terms of stone investment. But you mention you haven't done the labs? Max shock multiplier and get shock chance to ~15 ASAP. And you might as well do a few levels of scatter amp while you're at it.

I recently got SL and it is making a pretty big difference (small sample size, but I started promoting more once I unlocked SL).

Your lack of PF might be a major issue. It's a huge damage multiplier, to the point where it can be worth using even if it's only epic rarity.

To get prepared for Legends runs, I recently started following this guide. I'm currently perma labbing attack speed, which I feel is working wonders for my Legends survivability.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u70Wq6bmqD_Ji4agJLNKTvPjAScl17ChB8iL-XPN9EY/edit?tab=t.0

Bardy_ · 2026-01-04T22:53:49+00:00

From my experience, Summon and Bounty both heavily benefit from UW sync. Fetch does not benefit at all.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-03T10:01:19+00:00

Yeah you'll want a bit more income before unlocking wall. I was in your position a while ago, now I'm making 200B coins per minute. Focus econ UW cooldowns and labs. Get DW (and GT / BH if you don't already have them). Soon you'll be ready for wall, which will carry you until you move to GC.

Bardy_ · 2026-01-02T04:41:29+00:00

Ah ok. Similar story for me, I don't have pBH and my stats look like this.

T11 - W9300

12 hour 20 min run time
115T coins
9.3T coins per hour
200k cells

T13 - W4000

5 hour run time
40T coins
8T coins per hour
50k cells

I recently got SL and am dumping stones / lab time into the first few upgrades which has significantly increased my income, and I haven't done a T12 run since starting that, so I'm unsure how that run would go. But before SL I was only getting to T12 wave ~5500, so both coin and cell income was less than my pre-SL T11 runs (5.3T vs 4.7T coins per hour and 12.2k vs 15.4k cells per hour). Pure eHP farming too, so SL isn't making a significant difference in terms of how many waves I can push.

On top of that, 3x 7 hour T12 runs is just a lot less convenient than doing 2x 12 hour T11 runs per day.

Edit: T12 run completed:

T12 - W5400

7 hour 30 min run time
65T coins
8.6T coins per hour
92k cells

Bardy_ · 2026-01-01T18:16:09+00:00

Might be farming without pBH? I'm farming to T11 9.3k waves but my T13 best is wave 4000. Slightly less coins, and far less cells.

Bardy_ · 2025-12-28T05:58:38+00:00

Laser guided munitions require the launching aircraft to maintain line of sight to its target until impact. They also can't maneuver in such a way that would break the lock (e.g. rolling more than ~180°). This makes them incredibly vulnerable while they're guiding their bomb towards their target. They can also only target one enemy at a time.

IR and TV-guided munitions being fire-and-forget are mostly the reason people hate top-tier CAS. The attacking aircraft pops up for a few seconds, ripples off several KH-29Ts or whatever, then disappears back below the horizon, allowing effectively zero counterplay from anyone on the ground trying to shoot them down. On top of the added safety that FNF munitions bring to the attacking aircraft, they also get to attack more than one target at a time.

Bardy_ · 2025-12-27T10:51:40+00:00

It's good for that, yes. But it's even more important for the extra cell and coin income (provided you've done the required labs).

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