Welcome to the Born of Fire TD game guide.
Born of Fire is a rather different kind of tower-defense, bringing in a couple of new game-play elements.
First, there are the role-playing elements: your heroes are not just “upgrading”, but they are gaining experience points, unlocking new skills (over 10 for each class) and improving their stats. Their experience is carried over from one mission to another.
You don’t build anything, all the heroes are available at the mission start.
Unlike the common TD, where you build towers and forget them, in BoFTD you may move some heroes around the map, using some of their skills.
The maps are not just one-screen, but scrollable and sometimes very large. A minimap is also available to help you navigate.
Each character also has hit-points (HP) and mana, just like in the mainstream RPGs. Monsters that reach the exit will damage and ultimately kill the heroes, but there are skills that will help the heroes recover their lost health.
Then, each hero may have up to 2 skills active at any time: you can use 2 attack skills, or just 2 support skills, or any other combination necessary given the incoming monster waves. In the normal campaign, there’s little need to micromanage the skills, but in the hard campaign and “Eternal Damnation” mode, you’ll micro-manage quite often.
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