I have been playing these io games for a while now. Played Diep for ages until I found Defly. I consider myself pretty decent at the game, I get top spot almost every time I play, and I've won a time or two as well.
One thing I attribute some amount of my success to is my early game exploit. I discovered this on accident while trying a new strategy that actually led, eventually, to my first win.
My General Strategy for Winning the Game
Stats
Before deliving into the exploit, I suggest you utilize this strategy along side it. First off, your stats. You need tower health, or you will die. I don't care if you are maxed out with 8 reload and double cannons, if you have no tower health whatsoever, I can and will kill you, most likely by surround. Even a few points in health is enough to keep you safe. I highly recommend you spend your first 6 points into tower health, then you can build whatever you want. However, I prioritise as the following:
Player Speed:4 Dodge that bullet hell
Bullet Speed:3 This makes you lethal
Bullet Range:0 Speed is better. Want more range? Get more bullet speed instead.
Reload Speed:5 Necessary for destroying towers of strong opponents.
Build Distance:6 Keeps you alive
Tower Shields:6 Keeps you alive (and your base safe)
Tower Health:8 The essential stat. Don't play this game without a bare minimum of 4.
@level 20 take Speed Boost (double shot is good too, that's a different build)
Always get your health/shields first so that all the tower you build will be at that level of health. After health and shields, get some build distance.
SIDE NOTE:Build distance might be the best stat in the game. It basically allows you to be inside your base while outside of it. If you've never used it before, I recommend playing a game with max tower health, max shields, max distance, max player speed (put the remaining 4 in reload) with speed steroid. Try to kill players by surround. This will teach you the da wae.
Side, Side note: Bullet range is pointless unless you have max bullet speed, which is just better than bullet range in every way. The same cannot be said for tower shields.
After build distance, get the remaining in the order of your choosing. Feel free to vary any of the given stats above by 2 points in either direction, but always try to point at least some points into all these.
Strategy
When trying to take over the whole map, it is tempting to try and surround the entire map along the outside wall. The outside wall is important to all strategies, as it prevents surround, but surrounding the entire map is something I don't do until the very end of the game, when I've taken over almost everything anyway. Instead, constantly build along the outside of your base, always building within sight of safety, which ensures that you cannot be cut off and killed inside someones base, or away from your own.
Focus on two things: Expansion, and staying safe. Build along the outside of your own base (an extension of the exploit described below) so you allways have somewhere to retreat to. Even if someone is higly aggressive and attacks in to your base, you are at a high advantage. If they can't destroy large amounts of your base quickly, then you can simply go to where you are being attacked and trench up, building additional defenses. If they go too deep, just cut them off and surround them. If you can kill their tower in one shot, their dead. Period. Surrounding them does this for you. Once they are inside your base like this, keep cutting the room they have to move around in half. Eventually, they'll either escape and run away, or you'll kill them. The only situation you die here, is if you play daft.
So, if you don't surround the whole map, you're only option is complete domination. Start on side and completely gain control of that side. Entrench your corners. Now just keep going along the outside of your base, constantly building your way across the map. It wont take as long as you think to consume everything. When coming against strong opponents, just stay safe, don't make too ballsy moves, and surround as much as possible.
Without further ado, on to:
The Exploit
Summary
By completely surrounding your entire territory, you recieve full experience value for the entire territory taken over, while only recieving score value for the new white space taken over. This allows you to get level 32 extremely quickly (from level 1), with only maybe 1% of map control.
I will put down below what I think makes the exploit possible, in case the developers want to remove it from the game. Though, I do not believe it should be removed as it enables a turtle strategy that would be unbearably slow to get started without this. Also, if you die with a high enough score, you
Description: Defly .io cool math games Defly.io is a mix of diep.io and splix-style games! Fly your helicopter and shoot at enemies Build walls to protect yourself and conquer as much territory as possible Fill areas to level up, upgrade your aircraft and buildings. Use awesome superpowers to defeat your enemies! Objective: Conquer the whole map! Build up your territory to level up, and unlock a superpower at level 20. Some tips to get started: * Build Walls: Upgrade your copter's abilities by gaining XP and levelling up. You gain XP by building walls and controlling territory. * Create & Destroy: Earn points by controlling the map, busting walls, and blasting other copters. * Level Up: Reach level 20 to earn a special ability. Try a few and figure out which one you like best! * Keep Going: When your copter is destroyed, you lose some XP and levels, but you keep most of your ability points. Different game modes There are three different modes in deflyio: PVP, Defuse and Games. In PVP mode every player must try to cover as much of the map as possible. In the Defuse mode, there are two spots that belong to different teams. Each of the teams has to protect its own bomb spot. In the third mode, called teams, there are 8 teams (Blue, Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Dark Green, and Sky Blue) of 6 players. Similar to PVP mode the teams have to cover as much space as possible. Developer Florent developed Defly.io. Platform Web browser
How to play: Move: WASD (or arrow keys) Build: Right Click or Space Aim: Mouse Shoot: Left click Upgrade: click the skill or press keys 1-7
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