ScrapTD

The eigth (nineth counting the old Eugens Adventure) game published by Schrott Games is called have the name "ScrapTD" or more rarely "Scrap TD". It was first announced early june and is currently still in public beta.

Sneak peeks
There were three sneak peeks / announcements so far.

Announcement 1
The picture (Original: click here) has got published on Reddit by the developer himself, then on the Discord Channel too. It will be a 1vs1 PvP Tower Defense Game (TD) which appears to have some similarity to the pvp balloon tower TD game. On the pictures the first two barrels and Scrap (currency) are visible. It will come into a Public Beta-Phase according to the developer himself.

Announcement 2
The second screenshot was released at the beginning of June 2018 (link to the original in the Reddit post: click here) and shortly thereafter in the discord on the then locked channel #scrap-td also announced along with the information that it is neither August nor end of June, but comes out in early July. On this screenshot we can see how Endte fights against himself. It is also a different path to recognize and four different constructs on the green area. There are also the following barrels: Coal (barrel 67 ), Danger Zone (barrel 74 ) and It's Alive (barrel 77 ).

Announcement 3
On the 11th june Schrott Games answered that ScrapTD will have Teams, Leaderboards, Emotes and Upgrades. This was the biggest Leak/Sneek Peak/Announcement so far. On the same day this got known in the Discord Server everyone was able to write in the ScrapTD channel again. On the 23th june he posted a screenshot of the emotes.

Alpha
There was an alpha from begin of may to late June. Only some players of Scrap Clicker 2 got these alpha versions, which were seven versions in total. There were the teams in the alpha versions, but only two: Endtenclub, which was full at the end and the main team, exists in the public beta too and DontJoin, a weird team created during a test. There were only four Emotes: struck out tongue winking eye, duck, melon slice and earth. It was also possible to play against himself in the first versions by spamming the Play button.

Public beta
On the 6/28/2018 the public beta started, which is currently still running. Everyone can download it from the play store. The propably most well known players from the public beta are: Luclud, QuaaDrsa, Pag, ggg, StinkBoy, Spotky1004, Ahandmadegrin, hopykSVK, Lainess, Zeppah, www, Bill Nye, Schrottii and Chili. There are more than 50 teams.

General Gameplay
The game is easy to understand: There are three tabs (Upgrades, Main and Teams). It's a Tower Defense game in the scrap games style. Two players attack each other and defend.

Matchfinding
When pressing play the game will search for other players, showing a green screen. It will take the first one with the smallest trophy difference (Max.: 1500).

Sending barrels
When pressing on the icon with a barrel shape the barrel selection will plop up. The player can choose between fifteen barrels here. Each barrel costs scrap (200 to 1.5B) and has got four stats: health (75 to 1M), damage it deals to the player when reaching him (25 to 200), type (ground or air, nine ground, six air) and speed (0.4 to 2 tiles / second). Up to one barrel can be sent per second. After five won games the automatic sending gets unlocked. The first barrel is Circle Blue, the last Not Too Fresh, the fastest Mobile Delivery, the slowest Swiss and the first flying Lurid Layered.

Placing defenses
When pressing on the icon with a square shape the defense selection will plop up. The player can choose between six defenses here. Each costs scrap (1000 to 12.5M) and has got four stats: damage (50 to 30000), DPS (50 to 30000), type (Ground and Air, four ground, two air, note that air defenses can attack ground too) and range (2 tiles to 2.5 tiles). Currently all defenses attack by shooting projectiles, other ways like shooting lasers may come soon. The first is Square Blue, the last Blue Laser and the first air-attacking Defense 3.

Health points


Each player has got health points which change with the level. After choosing a name and reaching level 2 it's 1000. They get less (Only during a match, in the next they're full again) when barrels come to the player. The barrels which kill the players very often are Banana Hole, Danger Zone, Mobile Delivery, Christmas, Hot Stuff and Not Too Fresh.

Emotes
There are currently 12 emotes in ScrapTD. Four are avaiable from the beginning on and eight more can be pursached using 250 or 500 magnets each. They can be used in a match by clicking on the chat bubble icon. There's currently no anti-emote-spam, so players can use them as much as they want. They can be useful for giving signals during brick farming or while being in a match with a friend.

Energy
The player must pay one energy for each match after having played five. Usually the maximum energy is 4, but with upgrades it can be up to 7. One energy is given after three hours and three minutes. It's still possible to play without - But no bricks or magnets will be given (but still trophies!).

Trophies
Trophies are a good way to say how good a player is. Players win or loose them after a match, depending on the trophy difference to the enemy. There's no trophy max, but getting more than 4000 is very hard since in the high-trophy area it's easy to loose them. Trophies decide the arena too.

Levels
The player level is depending on the experience points which are mostly given by leveling up barrels and defense. It unlocks the upgrades and teams. Also it sets the player's health points.

Advanced Gameplay
There's a lot for the rather advanced gameplay.

Leaderboards
There are two leaderboards, one for the players, another one for the teams. They are sorted by trophies. But not being in the top 100 players doesn't mean not being one of the best 100 - It's just sorted by trophies, not by skill or knowledge.

Arenas
There are seven arenas in total, the player's arena is decided by the amount of trophies. In each new arena 10% more bricks (exponential) and one magnet more are awarded.

Messages
There is something like a message log, which currently shows the fights (Player 1, Player 2, trophies won/lost and when). Maybe special texts and updates will be shown there soon.

Abilities
Abilities, often called skills are something important, there are nine in total. Three of them can be used in a match.

The perfect strategy
Important to win is the a good strategy. There's not one which can be used one every battle with a win chance of 100%, but there are many with a high chance. Tips:
 * There are many barrels which can be skipped like It's Alive! or Inception.
 * Two Square Blues on a moderate level should be able to handle Circle Blue without any problems. Same for one Gatling Gun and Square Pink.
 * Don't only place two or three Double Pain defenses, same as Blue Laser should work fine. That's because the last three barrels are air barrels, but surviving without Blue Laser is almost impossible because of Mobile Delivery too.

Upgrade breaks
Upgrade breaks are something invented by some fans. Upgrade break describes the point when there's not longer a sense to upgrade a barrel or defense, allthough upgrading defenses is useful at any time. That's because of the cost increase and rather low stat increase. They're still new and couldn't be the best, but are still way better than just randomly upgrading. (Current Upgrade Breaks list)

Name changing
Name changing got added in Version 0.3 but is still very buggy, many players can't use it. In Scrap Clicker 2 there's no renaming limit, but it's once in a month in ScrapTD.

Brick farming
Brick farming is actually the best way to get bricks (As the name says). Usually two players in a team press on play in the same moment and try to don't kill each other until they get to the tie screen.

Upgrades
There are several things to upgrade and purchase.

Barrel upgrades
Each of the 15 barrels can be upgraded. After purchasing a barrel for 100 bricks, it's level 1 and can be leveled up to 20. Health points and damage get increased by 3%.

Defense upgrades
Each of the six defenses can be upgraded. After purchasing a defense for 200 bricks, it's level 1 and can be leveled up to 20. Damage and DPS get increased by 3%.

Buying emotes
Of the 12 existing emotes eight must be bought. They cost 250 or 500 magnets each.

Buying abilities
Abilities are automatically unlocked, they cannot be brought.

Buying upgrades
Only one upgrade can be bought right now, which increases the max. energy by 1 (Max. +3).

Ad Tokens
Ad Tokens got added with the version 0.5. They can be got by watching an ad or inviting friends using a code.

Teams
There are teams, like in Scrap Clicker 2, but different. There are many teams, the first created being Endtenclub and the first to reach 100k trophies Barrel Battlers. It has got the ranks Member, Elder, Co-Leader and Leader, 50 spaces for each team and the inactive tag.

Joining a team
After reaching level 4 the teams get unlocked and so the function to join a team. It's a good idea to look for a rather low team at the beginning, the suggested ones are usually good ideas. After gathering many trophies it could be a good idea to go into a higher team, but mustn't.

Creating a team
Creating a team costs 500 magnets.

Team settings
There are following settings:
 * Description
 * Min. trophies (0-3000)
 * Icon/symbol

Trivia

 * It's the first and only game by Schrott Games which needs an internet connection to be playable.

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