The 10 Stages of Every TDS Player

Credit to Hamaji Neo for the video idea!

[hobbes]

After around 4 years, lvl 250 with every tower (other than frost blaster and commando) i think i can safely call myself a stage 10. I went through a boredom phase for a while, but then i started doing squad games and helped lower level players. For me it brought fun back into tds, and that allowed me to finish my golden tower collection. It truly is worth it to grind for everything, as you can do whatever you want. Truly a tower defense simulator of all time.

[RTWT]

As a TDS OG release player I can assure everyone that there were zero beggars we were just like work together and its when sniper was good. Im a stage 9 bored and quitter TDS hasn't been fun for me since 2 years

[krystal_moth]

I'm between a constant loop of category 9-2 and 9-3
-Play
-Grind
-Event
-Grind event
-Get everything new
-Come back after a couple of months
Rinse and repeat

[altonunt]

There’s a secret stage 7.5 where they quickly get into your hardcore elevator and tell you to carry them.

[unyilgaming]

I actually skip phase 4 because I like soloing better(and I'm an introvert in tds)

[Sanctum]

I'd personally say I'm deep into stage 10. Probably like, 80% of my gameplay is just soloing and doing my own fun challenges which I rarely post on my youtube here (haven't touched it in a while), but occasionally I'll play a special gamemode or an event if one is happening, and sometimes even play with randoms. Some of them are intolerable and self-absorbed (till I place down a Slaughter Skin Warden) but most of my experiences with randoms are either fellow god-tier players who do similar things I do, or a <50 level player who are always a wonderful can of worms to unravel. 20% of them are silent, another 5% or assholes, but the rest are always pleasant to talk with while I carry fallen mode. I don't look down upon lower levels, rather I look at them like a potted plant. I watch them grow and grow, and I like to be a person walking by them with a watering can, rather than a boot in the stem or something (a metaphor for toxic players). I feel like and elder spreading wisdom.

[ryderdobie]

im a mix of stage 9 from getting bored but also a mix of stage 10 because i love helping other people out and i really got nothing else to grind for or try and get, the only things i dont have are quickdraw, lost souls, commando, frost blaster, and swarmer, but i still love the game and love helping people out

[AuthorVoid]

Honestly after I don't honestly know how much I become mix of category 1 and 3 when reaching stage 9 never was strat maker cuz my monkey brain is too dump to come up with anything remacably normal and I'm would say I'm half of stage 10 I play TDS even if I got basically everything what can be (beside old events) and now just try to have fun but duo to even now people mostly play that and beggers or generaly low lv people I want to help tend to be super toxic so . . . I just leave them.

But enough that this video was really good. I like the concept similar to SoundSmith TF2 stereotypes it made me chuckle first time just from the music and overal this video was really good. Wish you best luck with whatever you upload next man.

[that_dude]

Still in the boredom phase… sometimes I feel like a gremlin waiting for tds events to grind skins and new towers

[Flarus_]

You forgot about the category 5: The one who only returns to tds when events start.

[BenTheMelon]

that piano music is engrained in my brain. great video funny man

[mc_chayakorn]

Stage 4 is the definition of “No pain no gain”

[arabwaltuh]

stage 10 category 5 over here strugglong on act 2 of 2023's halloween event and i wanna tell ya'll something




i am level 259 and i don't have accel nor engi and the only thing that brings me joy is reprimanding people for the most minimal of mistakes specially tower misplacement

[TermaShadow]

6:03 Can we talk about the bacon literally ascending to heaven?

[FancyPants_]

I'd lie to consider myself at stage 10 already. I've been playing for almost 3 years but havent lost interest at all. I have had periods where i didnt play for a few weeks but i keep returning. I'm basically addicted to unlocking everything new when an update comes out.

[AclezGood]

I'm at the quitting category of Stage 9. I started TDS at 2020, and my experience of TDS was quite bliss. I was ignorant at the time, blissful. TDS was the first "tower defense" game I had ever discovered and I just was in this state of complete addiction until the Overhaul. I quit TDS temporarily because of the fact that Outlaw became Ranger (I loved outlaw) and that the game was so, so different. I came back around in the middle of the Halloween Event of 2020. I kept on grinding and grinding. Occasionally I would try getting Toxic Gunner but it was just.. hard to beat the event, so I gave up within a few tries. Eventually it was the Frost Invasion Event, and so I got hyped up. I worked day and night for Sledger, but I never really got an actual squad, just joined randoms, there was one time I got the Frost Spirit to only 100k HP, but we still died. The moments were glorious with desperation, rage, hope, I felt a hundred feelings in that round. Eventually the Frost Invasion Event ended to become the Solar Eclipse event. I got to Penumbras, but I died to it at just 10k HP, a very close round, and then it ended, and I mostly quit. I did get to see the Duck Hunt event, but only very minorly. I completely skipped Violent Night, I was focused on other games and I had forgot TDS, until now, where I haven't even defeated Act 1 because of my stupidity. I'm focusing on TDX, a brand new start. I will never forget TDS though. Those memories. I miss them.

[Td_Flyy]

Started playing when Solar Eclipse came out, and rushed getting progressed and got to like lvl 60 in order to beat the event in time (And complete the pass).
And I also got accel only a little while after the event ended.

So then I went through the usual with getting to lvl 100, trying to beat hardcore, grinding in hardcore, grinding for G Crates, then... getting bored.
And only coming back every time there's a new tower or season pass or event. *I'm around lvl 120 and definitely in Stage 9.*








And then there's stage 11, and you can only reach that stage after getting to stage 10. And when you're at stage 11, you have a good chance at becoming a secret boss and rambling about random TDS crap

[louiselee]

As a lv 394 and a before stage 9 but now stage 10 type 1 it is actually fun to help out ppl tbh like rn I’m helping my cousins lv up in tds and get better and honestly if u have friends to play tds with u will never get bored of TD games

[Sunny_chips]

hello I made some more custom stages after stage 10

stage 11: veteran: this player has all the towers including exclusive towers and is one of the few people to start playing the game since the beta release of the game


stage 12: GODLIKE: only the most experienced players can be in this stage. they can do the hardest challenges like soloing fallen on winter stronghold, soloing pizza party and soloing hardcore (yes its possible since 5ouls soloed hardcore)

stage 13: contributor/staff member: this stage is pretty self explanatory. Do I even need to tell what these people can do?

[goldenscout]

my stages of playing tds since 2019 were:
randomly find the game
be bad at the game
play every once in a while, getting towers and finding a brain
beat spring 2020 on easy and hard and then go adios
come back at hardcore update and grind for golden crate in the most painful way possible
get golden soldier (this skin was tied for the worst golden skin back then)
mental crisis
get level 100
beat badlands 1
do some other things until frost invasion
i absolutely love toxic gunner
become devastated when its nerfed
solar eclipse comes around and i triumph every night except night 4
i stop being a wuss and grind for accel (by lose grinding why did i bring this upon myself) (also it was too late for eclipse accel)
gradually get all of the golden crates
grind for engi (it was siki strat but still better than lose grinding)
finally get all golden towers
a bunch of boring grinding until i hit level 300