After bribing the Keeper of Keys, your small squad has penetrated the walls of the most guarded prison in the world to arrange the escape of the nine princess sisters.
Author: wasilix, 01-10-2023 20:08 Like Some more progress, but slow - Alcatraz Escape Eng Spent a couple more evenings with it. Current progress is 8/10 (still phase 1 lol) with fairly high certainty regarding artefact distribution. 2 remaining to deal with are underground heroes.
Decided to record a condensed video of my attempts throughout these evenings. Some fights are totally ridiculous. I love the concept though - winning all fights with a 1 of some otherwise useless unit, struggling to survive even a turn. Some very cool ideas I've never seen before.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2miHu7Um S78
Burndead writes:
26-12-2023 16:49
You tube video - Alcatraz Escape Eng
The video is not available anymore. Can you reupload or give detailed hints for the fights?
i've managed to figure out some of them but others are way out of my reach and knowledge. Thanks to you and the creator of the map.
wasilix writes:
26-12-2023 16:52
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It's still there, just make sure to remove any spaces in the link (this forum adds them on its own accord).
I contacted the map author and you should know that some solutions in this video are wrong (roughly half if I'm not mistaken).
wasilix writes:
26-12-2023 16:57
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If you want I can give you hints of what I know so far, or you can just contact the author yourself, he was pretty open to give hints or straightup solutions.
I didn't continue the map, because there are a couple of fights which I had pretty close to being solved, but that final part is eluding me, and each attempt takes 10+ minutes to just get to a point where I'd be trying something new. Given that I don't have many ideas it would many and more tries before I made any progress there. Also these fights seem extremely tight with very little room for error.
Burndead writes:
27-12-2023 14:39
YT vid - Alcatraz Escape Eng
I didn't notice the space between the letters. I'm watching it right now. Thanks anyway
Author: wasilix, 28-09-2023 23:57 Like - - Alcatraz Escape Eng So, I've spent 3 evenings trying to solve part 1. Some thoughts:
I think I solved 5 fights out of 10 (galadriel, kira, elenwe, arwen, astriel). Not sure about galadriel because in my calculation it seems like I need to give her 3 artefacts (counting hourglass) - feels a bit too much.
Verdish has just driven me crazy... He harpy wrecks me and I'm unable to manage my mana to win the fight, always some mana short in the end to finish it :( So many hits for 8 hp, the RNG is merciless :( Considering now to give her a shield, but think it's a wrong move - should probably calm down and try again :D
Not sure about 2 out of 3 bow candidates... They all seem impossible without it, no matter what I try. Perhaps elenwe should be done without it, because she's just too easy with it (with every other fight I had to jump through a number of hoops to win).
Underground is also puzzling. It almost felt that I figured both fights, but then I didn't :D
With Fairie I figured how to bring magogs down to the proper number for hypno, but surprise-surprise enemy has badge courage...
With Rustie it looks like there is not much choice in regards to strategy. Yet my best result was killing 240 crusaders (no items). 160 remaining is way too much to tank with an elixir or really do anything with.
Overall the fights are ridiculously difficult. Amazing job by sanyassh to come up with them. Each fight has several layers in terms of solution, and somehow with all their complexity they seem very different.
The idea of giving multiple artefacts to distribute between heroes is very nice. Although for me the map would probably be too difficult even without this tidbit :D
Thanks to the author he left hints (some more opaque than others) in front of enemy heroes for how they should be dealt with.
One thing I don't like is that at least 2 of 6 fights I seemingly figured out rely on apparently buggy AI behaviour. But I guess if I figured them out, then maybe it's not so difficult to do.
Author: wasilix, 26-09-2023 21:07 Like What a crazy map! - Alcatraz Escape Eng Man, this map is going to be something :) Likely one of the hardest I ever tried. Winning a single fight is a challenge. Winning all is... Well, I'll give it a shot. At least it's not Huge size :)
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