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Nightmare 5+ Skulls Solo Guide

By Wyatan

Getting a Perfect Victory (5 skulls), solo, on Nightmare mode and every map can be a little tough... but let's go beyond that.

You get bonus skulls for special "achievements" upon completion of a map:
- "Untouchable": get a Perfect Victory and never get hit.
- "Manaless": beat the map without using mana.
- "Trapless": beat the map without laying down down a single trap (Guardians count as traps).

In this video series, I'm going to show you that 5-skulling every map solo is perfectly doable, but in addition, I'll go for "Manaless" and "Untouchable" on every single one.

You'll note that in most cases, I've left empty slots in my item selection: that's to allow you to tweak the strats to suit your playstyle. In particular, if you're just using this as a 5-skulling guide and don't care for Manaless, you thus have room for adding mana-based weapons.

You may refer to this topic[forums.robotentertainment.com] on the official forums to check out the input and contributions from other players.

Award

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Category: Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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3 Mar, 2014 @ 6:30pm

4 Apr, 2015 @ 3:51am

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Guide Index

Overview

Act 1 - Mine Levels

Act 2 - Fortress Levels

DLC - Are We There Yeti

Comments

Act 1 - Mine Levels

The Edge[www.dailymotion.com]
For this one, I also went Trapless.
Tunnels[www.dailymotion.com]
Chasm[www.dailymotion.com]
The Crossing[www.dailymotion.com]
Big Valleys[www.dailymotion.com]
At the end of video, I'm also showing an alternate approach illustrating just how powerful the Stone Staff can be.
Hidden Gulch[www.dailymotion.com]
Precipice[www.dailymotion.com]

Act 2 - Fortress Levels

Servant Entrance[www.dailymotion.com]
Passages[www.dailymotion.com]
Corridors[www.dailymotion.com]
Upstairs Downstairs[www.dailymotion.com]
Crunch[www.dailymotion.com]
Mirror Image[www.dailymotion.com]
Wind Up[www.dailymotion.com]
Also showing an alternate strategy at the end.
Twisted Halls[www.dailymotion.com]
Something I forgot to mention in the video commentary: the Coinforge doesn't achieve much there, so that's a slot available for something else.

DLC - Are We There Yeti

Yeti Den[www.dailymotion.com]
The Hive[www.dailymotion.com]
Chilled Cavern[www.dailymotion.com]

22 Comments

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Double Dark 16 Jan, 2022 @ 9:20pm

Guide works pretty well so far, but I had issues with Precipice, Servant Entrance, and Corridors.

Servant Entrance I jumped on the safe platform to shot the gnolls. I also added in a couple Zappers at the very end to take care of the grenade gnolls. Way less error prone than trying to use bear traps.

Corridors I used the stone staff instead of blunderbuss which made wave 1 harder, so I had to change strats. Placed 2-3 barricades to push enemies into a wall. Then I added a tar trap and a flame vents. 2 archers on wave 1 and waited for wave 2 to place bear traps.

Novenix 18 Apr, 2015 @ 3:16pm

Big help, cheers mate.

Wyatan [author] 18 Apr, 2015 @ 4:24am

I don't have such a guide available for Endless mode, sorry.
You can check out this playlist, though: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3rg4n_Wyatan_omd2-endless-5-skulls

I gathered there the videos where I show a strategy for 5-skulling endless mode. Most are part of a challenge or "record breaking" attempt, so they're a bit extreme, but they can give you ideas.

I'm not a big fan of the Mushroom/Portal Trap setups (although you can see me taking that to the extreme in one vid). For merely 5-skulling, my standard setups would involve the Void Wall/Windbelt combo, and/or a high damage output through Barrel Dispensers and Dwarves.

Novenix 17 Apr, 2015 @ 9:26pm

Like stratergies to complete them

Novenix 17 Apr, 2015 @ 9:25pm

Great guide! But could you make another Guide for endless or attach all endless levels to this?

Wyatan [author] 15 Apr, 2015 @ 12:55am

You're welcome. :)
And yes, the Hive and Chilled Cavern are clearly amongst the toughest solo maps in the game.

Wyatan [author] 4 Apr, 2015 @ 3:52am

Added Chilled Cavern... a tad late, I know. ;)

Fletch 16 Dec, 2014 @ 9:32pm

Thanks

Wyatan [author] 16 Dec, 2014 @ 11:03am

I'm using my gaming mouse software for that.
Had to tweak around the values and do some testing because
a) I didn't want it to fire faster than could be achieved manually
b) It didn't agree with FRAPS running and started skipping a lot of shots when my framerate went down (still haven't totally solved the issue, as can be seen some videos).

I believe I ended up with a loop of 20 ms button click, 120ish ms delay.

You can find some discussion about it, and an AHK script at those links:
http://v2.robotentertainment.com/forum/topic/Stone-Staff-Macro
http://v2.robotentertainment.com/forum/topic/Stone-Staff-Auto-Fire

Fletch 16 Dec, 2014 @ 9:55am

Can you post a link to the mouse macro you are using please.

I love the stone staff but my finger is killing me.

Thanks

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