Impossible Creatures

Impossible Creatures

Tellurian Campaign
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Nomn Nomn 15 Mar, 2018 @ 1:26pm
Tips and Tricks
A place to ask for any tips and tricks to beat any of the missions Umbra has so beautifully created for us.

I want to strongly encourage you before reading further though to try to solve any problems you run into before you come here for freebee hints and certainly before you cheat your way through!

It always helps to label you post with which mission you are talking about :)

Like so: Mission X

Question, comments, answers

DONT FORGET TO MARK SPOILERS
Last edited by Nomn Nomn; 16 Mar, 2018 @ 6:03pm
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Nibbling Monster  [developer] 16 Mar, 2018 @ 12:15am 
Honestly, i don't really want people to give 'Tips and Tricks.'
IMO, That takes away from the whole experience as you did not really figure it out yourself. ;p

It's the same with opening them up in mission editor, that's something i count as cheating. (:V)

BUT a lott of people seem to have trouble with some of the missions, so i suppose some weak hinting tips would be fine. ^^

Edit 2023
Go ahead people, don't mind my past self. :lunar2019crylaughingpig:
Last edited by Nibbling Monster; 11 Aug, 2023 @ 11:21am
Nibbling Monster  [developer] 16 Mar, 2018 @ 2:24am 
Mission1
- Maybe waiting for a bit more coal wont hurt here.
- Level 1 creatures? Who still uses those?

Mission2
- Hmm, those raven musk Ox seem to not hit so much, but they are hard to kill.
- Hmm, the other animals seem to hit way more, but are kinda squichy. 🤔

Mission3
- Leaving things unprotected might be your undoing.
- Playing the waiting game is not always the right thing to do, but so is rushing.

Mission4
- At least having 2 mining spots at a time might be a good idea.
- Are you sure you need research level IV that early?

Mission5
- Enemy chamber here, enemy chamber there, better destroy +-4 of them before the enemy reaches lvl 5.
- Anti-air towers? Might be handy.

Mission6
- 2 pathways, 1 with low level creatures and main objective, the other with stronger creatures and no objective, should i even bother fighting the stronger creatures for now?
- Again, don't leave things unprotected.

Mission7
- Oh mighty geyser, might i use thee so early?
- What? they attack from that side?? where do those animals even come from.

Mission8
- Defeating one brother before velika reaches lvl 5 is almost a must.
- Having both brothers defeated means you have 2 geysers and maybe more coal to work with.
- Velika gets pretty angry when both brothers are defeated.

Mission9-15
- I'll update this list once they get added. (if needed)
Last edited by Nibbling Monster; 4 Dec, 2018 @ 1:58am
Nomn Nomn 16 Mar, 2018 @ 6:01pm 
I hear ya Umbra! I'm really enjoying all of the challenges that the missions present. And I really do appreciate all of the work that you're putting into them. They each present unique challenges that easily adds a hundred hours of content (so far) into the game. My goal is to help anyone who is struggling with any of the missions to be given a nudge in the right direction. Or to start up a conversation with someone who is at the same point as you to bounce ideas off each other. Whatever utility someone might find from this! Personally, I enjoy the challenge and will only encourage people to come here as a last resort (and certainly before cheating!).
Nibbling Monster  [developer] 17 Mar, 2018 @ 1:39am 
I'll pin this thread.
That's nicely said Nomn Nomn! ^^
Last edited by Nibbling Monster; 3 Oct, 2018 @ 11:30pm
Minidude 17 Mar, 2018 @ 3:34pm 
Mission 7 - the one to help the villagers i've heard that you need a lot of water creatures in order to prevail... It would be sad if we could sneak and prevent the enemy from having water-based creatures, no ?
Nibbling Monster  [developer] 11 Apr, 2018 @ 11:29am 
Originally posted by alex.hsvfan 10 Apr @ 2:14am

Pretty nice but its still quite easy but at least more challenging (8hours for 8 missions is ok). The reason for this is you can easily trick with enemies or missions. (Stalling time by not meeting the key points in the missions)

For Example Mission 5: U dont clear all of the fire so their creatures lose a lot of life and die easily. Dont clearing all of the fire doesnt trigger the cut scene and they wont attack you that much. There are also trigger points when u go with your creatures to certain points to fight behind the normal cut scene (yeah u can sneak behind with water creatures). If u learn about these certain things and dont trigger those points before you build a big team then all of the mission are easy. (6/7/8 were the most easiest ones) 1-5 is a bit challenging but yes pls finish it :D its much fun
Last edited by Nibbling Monster; 11 Apr, 2018 @ 11:37am
Aragon_Neotrix 1 Jul, 2018 @ 3:37am 
0 Electricity creatures are painfully vanilla in their abilities but also allow you to save your Electricity for Research and costly creatures.This also means however that 0 Electricity creatures generally get worse the higher Lv they are.
Karmadillo 9 Jan, 2019 @ 5:59pm 
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting past Level 2?
Nibbling Monster  [developer] 10 Jan, 2019 @ 2:50am 
@karmataurus
I'd suggest trying to find a bulky melee unit.
(more oriented towards Defence & Health than damage output)
And back it up with some ranged porcupine combinations.

You'll need the melee units to soak up most of the damage dealt to you while the ranged units stay behind them and deal the most damage.

Try to take out the skunk combinations first as you won't be able to use your ranged units for a while if they use the 'defensive cloud' ability. 🙂
Last edited by Nibbling Monster; 10 Jan, 2019 @ 2:53am
Biggest ella fan 6 Feb, 2019 @ 10:00am 
Originally posted by Karmataurus:
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting past Level 2?
I also would recommend trying to maybe use Rex to lead out units. He has very high health and is quite fast, so as long as you're careful, he won't die.
Biggest ella fan 6 Feb, 2019 @ 1:14pm 
Does anyone have any tips for Mission 3 on Normal difficulty? I've tried almost everything I can think of.

I tried slowly amassing an army and going forwards slowly. It was taking ages and it was an uphill battle. I don't fully remember what went wrong here because this was my first attempt and I've tried dozens of times since.

I tried having Rex run towards Chanikov's Lab right at the beginning all on his lonesome. He didn't make it.

I tried rushing the Creature Chamber to the left with Termite-Lemmings. It took around ten attempts, but I finally did it successfully. The Creature Chamber almost was destroyed by it, but it wasn't completely. Then I didn't have enough resources to defend myself from the AI's attacks.

I have yet to successfully destroy any of the creature chambers, destroy the base, nor get Rex to Chanikov's Lab. I have taken the Electric Generator a few times.

I have a couple more ideas for what I might try to attempt, but I'm pretty burned out at this point.

If anyone has any tips, I'd love to hear them. Nothing too spoiler-y though. Just point me in the general direction so I don't need to restart thirty more times please.
Last edited by Biggest ella fan; 6 Feb, 2019 @ 1:16pm
Nic Uncaged 6 Feb, 2019 @ 10:27pm 
I'd recommend using a combination of ranged creatures and a melee creature that's tanky but has low melee damage (making it cheaper to produce). My preferred order for the objectives is electrical generator --> left creature chamber --> right creature chamber --> Chanikov's lab --> destroy enemy base.

You're probably already doing this, but also remember to have 2 henchmen per coal pile and to convert electricity into coal at the workshop.
Biggest ella fan 7 Feb, 2019 @ 4:04pm 
Originally posted by rebel flagship:
I'd recommend using a combination of ranged creatures and a melee creature that's tanky but has low melee damage (making it cheaper to produce). My preferred order for the objectives is electrical generator --> left creature chamber --> right creature chamber --> Chanikov's lab --> destroy enemy base.

You're probably already doing this, but also remember to have 2 henchmen per coal pile and to convert electricity into coal at the workshop.
I've been doing all of these, except my melee creature doesn't have very low melee damage. It's a Coyote-Grizzly Bear; all coyote with grizzly bear tail. It isn't too expensive and it has high HP + 9 melee damage. I haven't really gotten to level 3 in most of my games because I normally don't get good enough units for it by the time I'm dead.
Gothenvoker 7 Jul, 2021 @ 12:00am 
hey im currently on mission 4, but most of animals to be gathered is seems weird or bugged on objectives list.. it shown like $680... that kind of things... and it seems there's lot to gather on mission 4.. would be possible for me to know which animal to be gathered and upcoming mission as well.. thanks
Nibbling Monster  [developer] 7 Jul, 2021 @ 12:33am 
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If you have a problem with the text displaying as $[Number]:
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(This might take multiple tries.) :winter2019happybulb:
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