Roundabout

Roundabout
Creator(s)	Beefchoplets
Difficulty Rating	Hard
Length Rating	South: Medium East: Medium West: Short North: Short
Lane Type	Quadruple
Level Requirement	Level 10

Information

Roundabout is a unique map in which there are four entrances which are also exits. It seemingly takes place in an undisclosed location during the night. It takes ~41 seconds for an Invader to walk from the entrance to the exit for the South lane, It takes ~45 seconds for the East lane, It takes ~38 seconds for the West lane, It takes ~35 seconds for the North lane.

Appearance

The Roundabout is a quadruple lane map. Unlike the other maps, it contains 4 entrances which are the exits of the entrance's opposite pole. Its style looks similar to the ISC maps, more likely from ISC Storage Facility. The path begins and ends on 4 different portals, which hence the name.

Tactics

• As it is a quadruple map, you are required to place a large number of towers, more preferably those which can handle crowd-control such as the Demolitionist and the X-4 Gunslinger.
  • X-3 to X-4 Electricizer can be useful due to its chain stun effect, so can the Tesla from X-3 and X-4 Mechanic.
• This map may not be useful for towers that spawn units such as the Recon Base and the 4-X Gunslinger due to the unit's confusion to what path it would take. However, the Bliss of Finality unit of Recon Base can do very good AoE damage via its laser cannon and its missile cannon.
• Roundabout is a good map for grinding tokens and experience because it is a hard map. Play on Expert Mode . Firstly, put down a 1-0 Sharpshooter, upgrade it to 1-4 (upgrade it when the flying enemies arrive) and then proceed to spam 4-0 Sharpshooters. When the Berserker arrives, put down a Bugler and upgrade it to 2-2. When you arrive at Wave 24, turn on autoskip and spam Sharpshooters (and upgrade them to 3-0 if you have enough money), as the Sprinter M5/Elite Drone will reach your base and make you lose just before the wave is skipped. If you lose at Wave 24, you will get approximately 300 tokens, so it is crucial to get to Wave 25 as it awards approximately 200 more tokens. Those 500-540 tokens are a large amount of tokens in which you can get in a relatively short time, so try to survive till Wave 24.

Trivia

• Roundabout is similar to Molten Cliffs in terms of pathing.
• Roundabout has a similar style compared to the ISC Maps.
• This is the only non-featured / exclusive map where you can place towers on the enemy path.
• There's a bug where you cannot spawn units on the path. Mostly because every unit's spawn is a entrance or a exit for enemies to invade.
  • This was patched in the 26/12/2021 update, and units can randomly spawn on different lanes now.
• Enemies in this map appears to be slower than usual.
  • This is also the third map that the enemy move-speed is buffed/nerfed outside of attribute boosts. The others being Interstellar Defense and Mushroom Island.
• Roundabout has the second most lanes compared to any other map along with Ruins, both beaten by Final Fortification, which has 6 more lanes.