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10 years ago

[Tips&Tricks] How to Infinity Time

Greetings fellow garden dwellers,

while browsing these forums i have encountered much hate and ignorance towards the "new" infinity time mode.

Many people seem to be hating the idea of a somewhat endgame oriented mode and some just think it too hard, so i thought i would take a few minutes to write down what i have learned and observed in the hours i spent unlocking all 6 charakters.

I am playing alone on PS4 so i can't account for possible differences between versions or in group play.

So let's get started:

1: To unlock Legendary Charakter Stickers you need 25k (25000) Time shards, no less, no more, once you get 25k you can wipe and you will get your infinite chesty chest containing at least 1 legendary sticker - you might get more but only 1 sticker will be shown, so you might want to check in your compendium how many you actually unlocked.

2: Know your skills! LB - Charge: This is your Panicbutton, you should use it to escape stuff, do not hesitate to charge through smaller packs of enemies since you are invulnerable while charging.

 Triangle - SuperPower (i shall refer to it as SP from now on): This boosts your normal lazer with more damage and Splash, use it for anything bigger than the normal gnomes and cancel it once the immidate danger is over as you want the cooldown to refresh asap.

RB - AoE Stompy skill: just don't use this please just don't. It incapacitates you for so * long all ranged enemies will pound you... if you find yourself stuck in a mob just use charge to get away.

3: Know the map! Use some time to just fly around to get an idea of the terrain since you got like infinite time on your hands anyways.

4: Use the corners to your advantage! Many attacks can be dodged by breaking the line of sight: Shooty Gnomes stuff, most floaty attacls, the big balls of the gnome kings, the lazer from the big gnomes etc.

5: Prioritize enemies! Your priority will be somewhat depending on your personal playstyle but as a general guideline it should something like this: Floaties >= Anything that can stun/disable you (Chompers/Engineers/Citrons/Roses/Imps etc) > Anything that might damage you (explody gnomes/Big Gnomes/Nemesis stuff) > rest 

6: * Nemesis waves, they don't interest you. You do not have to destroy tombstones/gardens; just get to a position where you feel comfortable fighting plants/zombies, preferable with an escaperoute should you get overwhelmed. The only thing you get by destroying the stones/gardens is harder enemies and 1000 bonuscoins, once the time runs out they will just despawn und all you need to do is kill the remaining enemies.

7: Leave some time shards lying around for that time when you really need some health.

8: Floaties: whenever i see floaties pop up i rush towards them, look around if there are explody gnomes nearby and if they are i finish those quickly, then i pop my SP and focus the floaty down asap while moving closer and under it (since most floaty skills cant hit you if you are directly below). 

By the time i pass the floaty it should be done for and i can either kill the gnomes chasing me, or charge through them toward the next floaty (Note: if your SP is not over by the time you killed the floaty make sure to cancel it so the cooldown can start and you can use it for the next one)

9: Gnome Kings: Every 5 waves a Gnome King will spawn. Do not use your SP at first!

The first Gnome King is a * you can use SP for him if you want to. Once he is dead all other enemies will despawn and you will get the shards for them.

The more interesting Gnome Kings are the ones after. They have 2 main attacks, shiney glowy balls and a rainbow lazer.

The balls hurt like hell and are HOMING, you want to dodge those either by outranging them or by breaking line of sight via corners.

The lazer really is kinda lackluster, while you might feel the need to panic with all those sparks in your face, the damage isnt that scary.

So now that you know his skills and don't have to fear him you can bring him down to about 66% (hitting his head gives bonus damage). At those 66% he will summon gnome reinforcements, it is now up to you if you want to deal with them now or ignore them and just focus the king. Personally i prefer kiting the king while killing the Gnomes.

At about 33% life the Gnome King will vanish and spawn gnome and plant/zombie reinforcements aswell as a hugeass plant/zombie. Depending on the type of plant/zombie this might be your priority and you might wanna pop your SP wither to damage the big one or to get rid of some small stuff - TIP: Bring the big one to like almost dead and wait for your SP to become ready again, then kill it with your normal attack.

When you killed the big one the Gnome King will reemerge and you should focus him down now - pop your SP and * him up, once he is dead everything else will die and you get the shards.

Also you get healed to full life after killing a Gnome King.

Every Gnome King is the same and never really gets any harder (until wave 30 that is where 2 gnome kings spawn, but who needs to go there when you only want 25k shards).

10: You should have your 25k shards at wave 25-27 depending on i don't know... luck probably.

11: Singularities: After wave 10 and wave 20 a singularity will spawn (huge glowing electric ball thingie), avoid them at all costs! they hurt like hell and can't be killed. Just keep an eye on them so they don't surprise you in the heat of battle.

So that's pretty much what i could think of now at the top of my head, if you guys think of something i should add or have a question, feel free to post them here and i will try to answer them.

Happy Gnomeslaughtering,

Pentafunk

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