Fresh start!
Hey guys! I just created this account (Febuary 4th, 2014) so I'm just doing this for some medals. Btw, add me guys! Username is st_asab!
New acquisitions
I obtained these today from the secret vault. Notice the unit with the purple background. I still wish that I obtained a mammoth tank, but I will settle with this for now.
EDIT: I think that I made the picture too big. Oops
Return
As some of you have probably noticed; I haven't been on this wiki in a while. I don't even recognize many of the contributors now, so no way any of you would recognize me. November 1st of last year was my most recent edit (until now obviously). Mostly I've been caught up in school. Haven't had the time for much at all, forget working on the wiki. I lost interest in BN overall for a time as well, in addition to my deficit of free time.
Anyway, now my time is managed much better than a few months back. I plan on becoming a much more active editor, but first, I'll need to learn what changed during my absence. Shouldn't take too long. Though we do seem to lack some sort of monthly update blog, unfortunate, someone should get on that.
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Boss Strike VI self-congratulatory post
After 5 days of madness in the recently concluded Boss Stike VI, I am delighted that my humble guild has finally attained what we've set out since Boss Stike V - Tier 11! It is of great honour and joy to be part of this organically-grown guild (yes, we don't really poach members unlike some of the big names out there) which has demostrated its capability to grow and excel in face of the immense challenge Z2 has thrown to us.
It is now time to rest and heal and also marvel at the 2 quasi-useless drones sitting in the inventory. Here's a toast to everyone who had put in lots of effort and time in the past 5 days!
Unnecessary Pictures
Recently it has come to my attention that some people are uploading pictures that have nothing to do with Battle Nations. I have seen numerous articles spammed with pictures that have nothing even remotely in common with the topic. I would like this to stop.
Dealing with Constant Guild Spamming in Comments
In the comments section of numerous pages, there are tons of comments promoting guilds. The comments area is a free place for a user to post what they want to say, but when someone copies-and-pastes the same advertisement for the guild all over the place, it becomes spam. As such, I am going to delete any comment promoting a guild, warn the user, and if they continue, ban them.
We have a whole entire forum dedicated for the promotion of guilds. So please, do not soil the comments anymore.
There is one time when a user may advertise their guild in comments. If a random user asks for a guild to join, people may respond with suggestions. This is the only time they are allowed to advertise in the comments.
Thanks for your time!
Quality vs quantity
Quality and quantity, typographically so similar, mean a whole world of difference. For me, I subscribe to the notion that quality will always trumps quantity. Applying this to BN, everybody would definitely appreciate a well thought-out update, event and more importantly, unit, rather than slip shod work that have been churned out for the sake of churning them out.
I believe that you, the reader, can extrapolate this idea to all your endeavours. "The more, might not be the merrier."
Lone Survivor (2013)
Hey guys long time no see, anyway I saw the Lone Survivor movie that recently was released with early exclusive access. The movie that is based on the story on my wall here has finally come out. Not gonna lie but I cried through the entire thing. Leaving that theatre I knew I was to be entering that unit soon
Well this is a game changer!
Hello !
As of the recent missions, Ashe revealed that someone is manipulating the rebellion, and is out for Lt. Morgan. He stated that the person was spreading lies (such as the Outpost being mass murderers, I assume), and being very patient. My theory is that this person is Mr. Stephenson, who was not only in charge of the Silver Wolves, but has not been seen since their defeat.
Anyhow, I would love to hear your thoughts!
Oh, and RIP Ashe, you will be greatly missed. (at least by me :P)
Why the Hell Do Dudes Join Guilds?
So I'm going to start this quickly but got much to say and will have to submit more later. But as the question was put forward - 20% participation in Boss Strikes from a guild that has 100 members. Reading only a few pages I'm hearing people say they had to trim the fat, so to speak because of this reason. I beg to question is it that they just don't get the point of the guild. Maybe I'm being harsh. Of my 20 members we had 17 contribute. Not bad & we cleared teir 4. But back to the point. My fellow guild mates remind me that we are at a time of multiple types of gamers and their is so much out there few are that involved. Don't expect anyone to read this but if so, please share means you've taken to trim the fat of your guild. How are g…
Marksman Vs. Sniper
Sorry if this has been done before, but I just want to ask, which is better? A Sniper or a Marksman? I'm level 32 and I am planning to get a strong long range troop. Please share your thoughts.
Also, if anyone is willing to let me occupy their SpecOps Center, please write your name and I will add you. Thanks!
3.2 Patch
The 3.2 Patch will soon be released with new missions and units! It also will include the long-waited-for Guild leaderboard. Visit the 3.2 Patch page for more details.
Looking for a tier 10 guild (my frustrations)
I have been looking for a tier 10 guild since the past week. I was kicked from Pinecone Nations for no reason, and I have grown desperate. I hear that the wiki members here have a guild, but I have no idea if it has reached tier 10.
Enemy units I want to see trainable
As some of you know, I have always wanted new units in the mercenary vault. Why? I just want to see what a player can do with them.
Cruel bus: A unit that warns you before it shoots a solid cannonball at you. Decent level of defense.
Armored truck: Nothing but a retrofitted SUV with Gatling guns and anti air.
Wolf fury: one of the units that many want to see in there. Why? It lobs grenades, combustible barrels, and toxic barrels nonstop. Watch your head!
Wolf eagle: Two shots? No problem. This is a deadeye-like unit that hits hard. Can also stun enemies with its custom rifle.
I understand I sound completely insane, but these units just need to be added.
Got a lot of catching up to do...
Paternity leave also doubles as separation from the interwebz. Only gave myself some time to collect resources and work on an alt. Totally missed TWO x3 SP opportunities :( Clan pulled through and got T10, and all I was able to do was get worked by infected air units and donate.
Anyways, back to work, which also means I'll be online more often, which means I'll be checking on the wiki and making updates. Been saving the various game file updates over the past month, in case I ever get my "version parser" up and running.
I have some major changes/additions to the wiki planned, but I won't be as active in the meantime while I get reacquainted with everything.
I was watching Dev Diary II... What is this?
Just about everyone knows that Dev Diary II got released for about a year now. I was re-watching it when I find this.
Interesting, aye? What is it?
Happy Birthday BN!
Birthday presents? Oh! Ok! Sure!
EDIT:
Z2 Announced the launch of the 3rd event, coming Friday November 15th, at 12:00 PST!
2nd anniversary of Battle Nations
The next update is probably going to have so many suprises, it will make a good amount of the community excited. A lot of people are going to expect the commemorative statue to return too! I don't know what to expect since the update has not been officially announced on the forums.
Out of Commission...
Wow... Infected event, with new missions, units and exclusive-mission unit rewards! Unfortunately, I'm barely able to play and keep up with the wiki...
BECAUSE my son was born on Oct 23rd, 2013, at 5:14 a.m. (PST)! Weighing in at 7 lbs and 5 oz, and measuring 20 inches long! He's quite a handful, but totally worth setting down BN for.
Of course, I'm still playing and gonna grab the latest updates to parse through when I have a chance. Patience wiki readers! The info might become irrelevant, but maybe useful for next year :P
Should the Ancient Civilisation have its own faction template?
I don't know how to style templates. I think the Ancient Civilisation would be a faction on its own.
Units include Ancient Construct and Bazooka Squad, which uses Ancient Weapons. Same as Ancient Sentinel and its arms. Perhaps the unrealeased Ancient Mammoth.
How to finish a game with DO NOT DIE units
I have one or two tasks pending in my game with units marked as DO NOT DIE. How does one finish such battles?
Are these white rotating circles a bug
I have crossed stage 60 and since then there are rotating white circles for so e of the fighting units and if they fire the game hangs.
As a result many tasks are pending.
Can't find any help on blogs.
Can anyone help.
New Missions + Dialogue
I just found the Mission dialogue. I recently created the Zombie Hunter (Character) page in company.
- 1 They Are Among Us
- 2 Danger in Recoil Ridge
- 3 Zombies in the Corn
- 4 Raptor Roundup
- 5 You Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
- 6 Why Does the Zombie Hate Me?
- 7 Reverse Zombification
- 8 Frankenstein Ain't Got Nothing On Us
- 9 If you Can't Beat Them, Join Them
- 10 Enter the Zombie
- 11 Secrets on the Surface
- "Lieutenant, we know there are more infected wandering in the wilderness. I think we should take a preemptive strike against them. It's hazardous to our operation to have them wandering around."
- "And it's demoralizing for our troops. Perkins is experiencing incontinence and night terrors."
- "I told you that in confidence!"
- "Perkins, I'm a civil engineer, not a therapist. I'm…
Infection Boss Strike/ New Infection
What do you guys think about the new infection and new units thats are coming out? Im not sure yet but they look they might be coming out pretty soon.
If a Boss Strike was available what would the first unit you'll want?
Repeal the Infected Limit!
I would like to ask why Battle Nations only allows 3 Zombies are allowed per battle? Z2 allows more than 3 Critters, Silver Wolves, Raiders, Planes, etc... So why are Zombies any different? They are not nearly as powerful as wimps who also have the limit, and the Infected cost more.
I emailed them this question, but they said that they wanted to stick the original Battle Nations theme, which begs the question of how using a massive army of critters is different than using a massive army of Infected?
I would like to hear your thoughts on this issue. Have a great day!
Add this photo to your userpage if your agree!
Infected units
I'm posting infected unit files right now. ALSO: Zombie BOSS STRIKE CONFIRMED. Rewards will NOT dissappoint us all ;)
Head to the the new photos page to check them out!
The Third Boss Strike
Boss Enforcer Shrow's Raid is the next boss strike featuring Silver Wolves. It is going to start on October 3rd at noon PST (1 PM Mountain, 2 PM Central, 3 PM Eastern ) and players must update to the 3.0.4 Patch in order to participate. The patch will be live hopefully the same day.
The Blimp and the Wimp
Recently, I leveled up my wimps to rank 6, being level 29. One method to gain a lot of sp for the wimp is to attack online friends fully juiced wimp garrisons using only the derigible, from the last boss strike, followed by one wimp. Make sure you attack via occupation to get 6 wimps and 2 troopers. Attack any front row trooper first using the blimp. The juiced wimps will not attack the wimp because it is behind an air unit. Also, make sure you attack using the wimp at least once. At the end of the battle, the wimp will gain about 600 sp points. Ask your friend to sandbag your attack and you can attack again. This also works well attacking higher level raptors on friends land.
Possible hiatus
I have had some family issues come up IRL. Taking care of them is going to severely eat into my gaming and editing time for at least a few weeks, so I will probably be largely inactive here and in game during that time.
I'll still be logging in when I can, and I hope to be back to full participation as soon as possible. I'm just not sure exactly when that will be.
I lost it! I friggin lost it!!!
many people know that i got the achievement for 100 days of consecutive editing so after i got it, it gave me another one(200 days). today after logging on, i realized that i forgot a day (because it resets 8:00 EST for me and i was at a party during that time). I was 156 for 200. anyway looks like i'll be starting over if i ever attempt it again. god dammit. the only good thing is that i dont have to carry the burden of remembering everyday to log on and edit. im at the point where im way too busy for that anyway but it would have been cool to get it. would have been cool.
King of Poison
So I just recently responded to a comment in the Battlewasp Striker to prove that the wiki's numbers and a user's findings against a Mammoth were correct. In doing so, I also played out some battles with various poison DoT to confirm my findings.
I already knew that how Poison and Fire DoT worked, and how some critters' susceptibility to Poison damage was applied twice, but now I confirmed it through gameplay.
Some attacks cause the effect, and have a listed duration and chance. Chance is obviously the percent chance that the effect will be applied in the first place. Duration is how long it will last.
The game also displays a "DOT" damage, like 60->20. These values are actually just the averages. The actual DOT damage is based off the i…
The Second Boss Strike
The Battle of Shaman Kuros is the next Boss Strike event. The event should start on September 4th and if past events are any indicator it should run until the following Monday the 9th which gives us about the same amount of time as the previous event at around 120 +/- hours.
The amount of points required for each tier has been reduced but (at time of writing) the amount gained from each battle has not been increased. There also has been no word about an in guild leader board since its initial announcement.
Wimp killing
Use a plane the wimps can't attack them. Hopefully you at least have a sopwith from boss strike.
New BN Advertisement... is questionable
... They just keep on finding new ways to make me laugh. For a second I though this was a Farmville ad with tanks, but it turns out it is just Sgt. Ramsey on drugs leading a charge against the silver wolves while pillaging the frontier buildings. I found this on the Z2 forums, and I thought I would share it. The title was: "There are just so many things wrong with this ad". Now explain to me why we are now collecting taxes from farmers.
Sharpshooter glitch
So I completed the mission Boar-B-cue on my low level profile, but I still haven't unlocked the sharpshooter. I'm level 16 and my missions are to attack tronk (the battles are level 25 battles so I can't complete it), to build the concrete plant but it is impossible to build due too warehouse stuff. My other mission is to train rangers but I'm not level 20 yet. Please help
Greenlit For Steam
In case you haven't heard, Battle Nations has been greenlit for Steam! This basically means that Battle Nations will be available to be played on PCs as it is on Macs. We don't have an estimated time for this to happen unfortunately.
Steam Listing:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104636456 (Auto play is active for the most recent video)
Wow... major revamp needed
Been hitting the unit pages and templates (and CSS files) like a madman, but not to be confused with the Rogue Radio Tech.
I see Cbird2796 slowly adding my TargetBox to various places. Instead of working on the base groundwork/tools, I decided to go apply the new stuff to unit entries as well.
Boy... I haven't checked out many of the unit pages in a while, and many were a mess. I wound up updating many more base templates, especially the non-player unit infobox template so that they don't show the extra columns when they're empty. I even "wasted" more time rewriting entire Overview sections :P So instead of updating every critter like I originally sought out to do, I wound up editing only the raptors: updating attacks, rewriting all the …
Boss Strike, Guilds, and Feedback.
TL;DR: We want feedback on the Guilds, there's a second guild, we are sorry for how the recruitment was managed for both, thanks to those of you who did participate, put your name on the this page please if you're a member in either guild.
First off, thank you to everyone who participated in 2nd Lt. Dorian's Assault from both Battle Nations Wiki and Battle Nations Wiki 2 guilds. Neither of the guilds got the Maverick or Snake but we did get the Sopwith which is still something.
Oh yeah, there's a Battle Nations Wiki 2 guild for anyone who missed getting into the original.
Now speaking of the guilds there are some things that need to be addressed.
For one, on behalf of the Admin team I sincerely apologize for how the Guilds were handled during the …
Czech this out :P
Hey Guys!
I decided to make a quiz to see which Battle Nations Characters people are. If you want to check it out, and take it, its right here:
Enjoy! :)
http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/quiz/JosephHawk/which-battle-nations-character-am-i-main-characters/
Have an awesome day!
P.S.
I am going to create another quiz for you guys, but which one should I create?
Massive Fail, Z2
1. No such thing as flamethrower-holding silver wolf.
2. Terrible placement of rocket truck.
3. Very genius to use an arsonist for this..
4. Why is a rebel dragon on our side?
5. RPG support troop should be in cover, not in front of a shooting gun truck.
I dont think Z2 knows how to play their own game...
Prestige Change
As some of you have noticed, the XP to prestige and gain stars has increased. This isn't a glitch/bug/error of any kind. To fill the bar currently you must gain 200,000 XP but you will receive Stars instead of 5.
3.0 update glitch
When i updated my Battle Nations App and opened it, i believe it was glitched since i could not see the Boss Battle system and any new units. Is there a solotion to this gtlich?
The Magic of the Glitched Emperor Sandworms
Apparently Bogan's House now has critters spawning on his land. One of these which include nerfed versions of the Emperor Sandworm. But something is very peculiar about them. For example:
That is the magic of the amazing "bugged" Emperor Sandworm. Please keep this because it looks so funny when it attacks.
3.0 Patch Released
The 3.0 Patch has been released with new missions in an awesome new feature called Boss Strike. Visit the 3.0 Patch page for more details.
Sandworms name stuff
Everyone keeps saying they have r5 elder sandworms. Elder sandworms aren't even for purchase. Do you guys mean adult sandworms?
My ideas
Hi guys, I just had ideas to what I would add if I could add stuff.
1. Medics! They could be used to raise 100 hp or something for infantry guys. But it can only be used once or twice, because that would defeat the purpose of using nanos to heal your guys.
2. Ammo trucks! Some sort of m939 or deuce and a half that holds ammo for infantry or vehicles, which means you don't need to wait 8 turns for your TKs to reload! I always wnated some time of large cargo truck in the game.
3. Stationary units. Now this is very complicated. Basically you have another set of units that are stationary at the outpost, and you can mobilize them for stuff. For example, say an infantry guy has less than 50 hp. You really want him to not die, so you can "mobilize" …
glitch for a mission
For one of the quests, the one where you face the silver wolf force and meet doug for the first time, if you can't defeat them, just put in a trooper. Even though he dies, you still complete the mission and get the xp awards. Works as of 2.9.8.