The Nightmare Realm

MAP

STORY

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Event Content

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The Nightmare Realm has been removed from the game as of the 20th of November 2024 as it was part of the Hexscape Event.
This page has been preserved for historical purposes.

The Nightmare Realm
Developer(s)	Your_Adversary
Difficulty	Event
Length	Long
Wave Structure	Event
Triumph Rewards	200 & 50 EXP (Easy) 400 & 100 EXP (Hard)
Modifiers	HP Locked Blood Farm Banned
Mode Information
Gamemode Type	Halloween2024
Base Health	100
Waves	20
Level Requirement	None
Starting Cash	Solo $1,200 $1,300 (Group Bonus) Duo: $900 $1,000 (Group Bonus) Trio: $750 $850 (Group Bonus)
Shared Cash	12.5% (Duo) 16.7% (Trio)
Music
Waves 1-19 (Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Hellfire
OfficialIn-Game Final Wave (Conserver) (Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Skream (Conserver Theme) Final Wave (Conserver) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Skream In-Game Version
Ambience
Tower Defense Simulator Ambience - The Nightmare Realm (Hexscape)

Description

The Nightmare Realm was the event map for the second night of the Hexscape Event. Like other event maps, this map had a specialized wave structure with special enemies. Players started with a varying amount of cash, based on how many players there were in the match. The rewards you receive were based on how many waves you survived and if you won a match. This map had two difficulties, Easy and Hard.

Cash was only gained if an enemy was killed, or in some cases, damaged by a specific amount of health. Additionally, the amount gained was a set amount of cash, which was not always equal to the enemy's health. In solo, you received 100% of the cash when an enemy was killed, or it was damaged enough. With each additional player, this decreased by 25%, which meant that in a trio, you only got 50% of the cash. This amount was distributed between players based on how much damage they dealt. However, if a player did not deal any damage, they would receive a percentage of the enemy's full cash upon its death or when it was damaged enough, which was 12.5% in duo and 16.7% in trio. If it was a decimal, it got rounded up or down depending on the decimal value. If it was at least 0.5, it got rounded up. If it was less than 0.5, it got rounded down. For example, the Conserver gave $40,000 after losing 5% of its health in solo, $30,000 in duo and $20,000 in trio between the players that damaged it. Players that did not damage it received $5,000 in duo and $6,680 in trio.

Health of enemies in this mode scaled with player count. The increase was 5% for each player, starting from two players, with an added set amount of health added on top of that increase. The first increase was not always the same amount, while the second increase had a varied amount it increases health by. Both increases were affected by enemy health.

This map had the HP Locked modifier, which set the base health to 100, the Blood modifier, which made enemies drop blood when killed and the Farm Banned modifier, which made Farms not generate cash, though this effect was on the map before, it was just not displayed visually along with other modifiers.

The final boss of this map was the Conserver, though the Rotting Terror, Conjurer and Hex's Maw spawned with the Boss attribute for their first appearance.

Design & Path

The Nightmare Realm was located in a different world, which resembled some form of underworld. It had a red atmosphere with violent black winds. This world had a bleak red landscape, with a large black castle near the path and additional structures in the distance. Multiple spikes were also around the structures. There were also multiple rocks placed around the map. On one side of the map, a large black portal with orange outlines could be seen. On the other, a broken Super Computer could be seen, with multiple Super Computer Parts placed around it. These parts could be fixed, which moves them to the Super Computer.

The path started from a portal, which emitted electrical particles and had swirling winds around it, the path turned and looped around itself once before reaching the Super Computer.

Interactive Map

Loading scripts

Objective

When starting the match, players would be notified of an objective that told them to "Rebuild Super Computer". This was done by buying Super Computer Parts, interactables with varying costs that completed a structure at the map exit. If this was not done by Wave 20, the Conserver would spawn with massively increased health. However, this did not mean that a match was lost. If the Conserver was beaten, it still resulted in a triumph. This only made it significantly harder to triumph.

Preset Loadouts

In the Easy difficulty, there were three preset loadouts: Field Commander, Enforcer and Big Spender. If not chosen after 30 seconds, the loadout chosen would be randomized.

Field Commander

A mixture of support, utility, units, and high firepower.

Enforcer

Close quarters towers mixed with AOE and air-support.

Big Spender

Expensive towers but with high damage potential.

Rewards

The game calculated how many Coins and EXP you receive based on how many waves you survived and if you won a match. During periods of 100% more EXP (Friday – Sunday), any EXP earned was multiplied by 2x through the XP Boost modifier. The VIP gamepass also multiplied any EXP earned by 1.25x through the VIP Boost modifier. These two boosts were additive.

Rewards are calculated as:

Coins Reward	EXP Reward
Easy
150 ÷ (1 + [(20 ÷ Current Wave) - 1]^1.3) + 50 (Triumph Bonus)	50 EXP ÷ (1 + [(20 ÷ Current Wave) - 1])
Hard
300 ÷ (1 + [(20 ÷ Current Wave) - 1]^1.3) + 100 (Triumph Bonus)	100 EXP ÷ (1 + [(20 ÷ Current Wave) - 1])

Triumphing The Nightmare Realm could give out an additional reward, which could be any of the Hexscape Event consumables. These items were:

• Common (60%)
  • Turkey Leg
    • Easy: 1-3
    • Hard: 1-4
  • Pumpkin Bomb
    • Easy: 1-2
    • Hard: 1-3
• Uncommon (40%)
  • Sugar Rush
    • Easy: 1-2
    • Hard: 1-3

Badges

There were also a few badges which could be obtained when playing this map. These were:

Night II Easy

✖ UNOBTAINABLE

No description available

702,789 players earned this

Night II

✖ UNOBTAINABLE

No description available

365,672 players earned this

Wave Structure

The Nightmare Realm had two wave bonuses, based on the difficulty. In Easy, the wave bonus was calculated as:

From Waves 1–15:

$500 + ([Waves Completed - 1] × $125)^1.15

From Waves 16–19:

$500 + ([Waves Completed - 1] × $125)^1.175

In Hard, the wave bonus is calculated as:

From Waves 1–15:

$500 + ([Waves Completed - 1] × $125)^1.2

From Waves 16–19:

$500 + ([Waves Completed - 1] × $125)^1.225

Regardless of difficulty, Wave 20 gave $20,000.

Depending on player count, the wave bonus was reduced using multipliers. These multipliers were:

Players	Reduction per Player	Total Reduction
Solo	0%	0%
Duo	5% (Easy) 2% (Hard)	10% (Easy) 4% (Hard)
Trio	1%	3%

For example, on Wave 2 when difficulty was set to Hard, the wave bonus was $828.31597555, rounded down to $828. The full number was used in the equation. In duo, it was $795 ($828.31597555 × 0.96), while in trio, it was $803 ($828.31597555 × 0.97). The wave clear bonus appeared when every enemy from that wave was killed and no damage was dealt to the base health. It was 25% of the wave bonus in solo, while for duo, trio and quad it was 20%.

Waves could not be skipped in The Nightmare Realm. The waves in The Nightmare Realm mode followed these timings:

Waves	Wave Timer
1-3	0:20
4	0:55
5-7	1:00
8	∞
9-10	1:00
11	1:10
12	∞
13-15	1:10
16	∞
17-19	1:20
19 (Hard)	1:35
20	∞

Bolded names indicate an enemy type's debut.

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Wave Structure

Wave	Dialogue		Enemy Type & Amount (Easy)	Enemy Type & Amount (Hard)
1	Dispatcher	Do you read me? Connection ... isn't reliable .... Let me ... improve the signal ...	8x Hex Spawn, 4x Hex Minion
	Dispatcher	Look out ... this dimension is unstable ....
	Dispatcher	Maybe it .... something to do with ... computer in the back ....
2	-		1x Hex Wraith, 6x Hex Minion, 1x Hex Wraith, 10x Hex Spawn	1x Hex Wraith (Aggro), 6x Hex Minion, 1x Hex Wraith (Aggro), 10x Hex Spawn
3	Dispatcher	These creatures are unlike anything ... ever seen before.	10x Hex Minion, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated), 4x Hex Wraith, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated), 4x Hex Wraith, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated)	10x Hex Minion, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated, Aggro), 4x Hex Wraith, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated, Aggro), 4x Hex Wraith, 3x Hex Spawn (Bloated, Aggro)
	Dispatcher	I get the feeling we were never meant to be here ....
	???	Leave this place tresspasser[sic] ... your kind does not belong here.
4	-		5x Hex Wraith (Bloated), 10x Hex Spawn (Bloated), 10x Hex Minion (Bloated), 5x Hex Wraith (Bloated)
5	Dispatcher	What is that thing ...?	1x Hex Revenant, 3x Hex Wraith (Bloated), 8x Hex Spawn (Bloated), 10x Hex Minion (Bloated)	1x Hex Revenant (Aggro), 3x Hex Wraith (Bloated) 1x Hex Revenant, 8x Hex Spawn (Bloated), 10x Hex Minion (Bloated)
	Dispatcher	I can feel its hatred and anger ... from here ....
	Dispatcher	The Children of Exo have really disturbed this place ....
6	-		2x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant, 8x Hex Wraith	3x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 10x Hex Wraith
7	Dispatcher	Hold your ground ... we gotta figure out what the Children of Exo are up too[sic] ...	2x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant, 1x Hex Mimic, 1x Hex Revenant, 2x Forsaken Skull	3x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant, 1x Hex Mimic, 1x Hex Revenant, 3x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Corpse
	???	Return from whence you came...
8	Dispatcher	We got reading of a massive beast heading your way ....	2x Hex Revenant, 4x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Corpse, 1x Rotting Terror (Boss), 2x Hex Revenant	2x Hex Revenant, 6x Forsaken Skull, 3x Hex Corpse, 1x Rotting Terror (Boss), 2x Hex Revenant
	Dispatcher	I can't even tell if that thing is dead or alive ....
9	-		1x Rotting Terror, 3x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Revenant, 3x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Revenant, 1x Rotting Terror	1x Rotting Terror, 3x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Revenant, 3x Forsaken Skull, 2x Hex Revenant, 2x Rotting Terror
10	Dispatcher	Any luck with that computer ...?	1x Blight Walker, 3x Forsaken Skull, 1x Rotting Terror, 1x Hex Revenant, 4x Hex Corpse, 6x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant, 3x Hex Mimic	8x Hex Mimic, 1x Blight Walker, 3x Forsaken Skull, 1x Rotting Terror, 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 4x Hex Corpse, 6x Forsaken Skull, 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated)
	Dispatcher	Looks like its parts have been scattered ....
	Dispatcher	There's must be a reason the Children of Exo left it broken ....
11	-		1x Rotting Terror, 3x Hex Mimic, 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Hex Corpse, 3x Hex Mimic, 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Hex Corpse, 1x Blight Walker	1x Rotting Terror, 4x Hex Mimic, 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Hex Corpse, 4x Hex Mimic, 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Hex Corpse, 1x Blight Walker
12	Dispatcher	Got .... another large hostile heading your way ....	1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Conjurer (Boss), 1x Rotting Terror, 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Rotting Terror, 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated)	1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Conjurer (Boss), 1x Rotting Terror, 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Rotting Terror, 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated)
	???	You are not welcome in this realm.
	???	Your kind leaves only ruin.
13	-		1x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Blight Walker, 1x Conjurer, 3x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated)	1x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Blight Walker, 1x Conjurer, 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 2x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated)
14	-		1x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 1x Conjurer, 4x Forsaken Skull (Bloated), 4x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 4x Forsaken Skull (Bloated), 4x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Nightmarish Hulk	1x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 1x Conjurer, 5x Forsaken Skull (Bloated, Nimble), 5x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 5x Forsaken Skull (Bloated, Nimble), 5x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Nightmarish Hulk
15	Dispatcher	.... we're losing connection ....	1x Nightmarish Hulk, 2x Rotting Terror, 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 10x Hex Wraith (Bloated), 5x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Nightmarish Hulk	1x Blight Walker, 1x Nightmarish Hulk, 2x Rotting Terror (Nimble), 4x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 3x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Nightmarish Hulk, 7x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 2x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 1x Nightmarish Hulk
	Dispatcher	Something's breaking up the signal ....
	???	I will ask only one more time.
	???	LEAVE!
16	-		2x Hex Corpse (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Hex's Maw (Boss), 1x Conjurer, 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror, 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated)	1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Hex's Maw (Boss), 1x Blight Walker, 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror, 2x Conjurer, 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated)
17	???	What more must I do to remove you from this realm?	3x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Conjurer (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 2x Blight Walker, 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated)	3x Nightmarish Hulk, 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated, Nimble), 2x Conjurer (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 1x Blight Walker, 5x Forsaken Skull, 2x Blight Walker, 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated)
	???	This place is a sancutary for its people.
	???	You and the hooded figure before have no place there.
18	-		10x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 3x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Hex's Maw, 1x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 10x Forsaken Skull (Bloated)	10x Hex Revenant (Bloated), Aggro), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 3x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 1x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated), 10x Forsaken Skull (Bloated) 1x Hex's Maw (Bloated), 1x Conjurer
19	-		1x Hex's Maw, 10x Hex Wraith (Bloated), 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Conjurer (Bloated), 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 2x Blight Walker (Bloated), 2x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated)	1x Hex's Maw (Freeze Immune), 10x Hex Wraith (Bloated, Tank), 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Conjurer (Bloated), 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 7x Forsaken Skull (Bloated), 2x Blight Walker (Bloated), 2x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated)
20	Conserver	You enter my realm uninvited ...	1x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated), 1x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 3x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 1x Conjurer 1x Blight Walker, 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker, 8x Forsaken Skull (Bloated), 1x Hex's Maw, 1x Conserver	1x Nightmarish Hulk (Bloated), 3x Rotting Terror (Bloated, Aggro), 5x Hex Revenant (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Bloated, Nimble), 1x Conjurer, 1x Blight Walker (Bloated, Nimble) 5x Hex Mimic (Bloated), 1x Blight Walker (Nimble), 8x Forsaken Skull (Bloated, Nimble), 1x Hex's Maw, 1x Conserver, 2x Rotting Terror (Bloated), 8x Hex Mimic (Bloated)
	Conserver	Attack its inhabitants and disturb its peace ...
	Conserver	Now you will face the consequences of your actions!
Special Dialogue
Dispatcher		Great job! We've just established a secure connection. Let's get you all home. We just need is a strong enough power source to jump start this device.
		Find the artificial God Cube, and use it to boot up the computer! Hopefully it didn't end up in the wrong hands...
Lose Dialogue
		One icon and dialogue is randomly chosen upon defeat: •We're toast! •OOF! •Mission Failed, we'll get em' next time. •Not enough numbers! •Mistakes are just part of the journey.. •We're overrun chief! •We'll get them next time! •Don't give up! •We need back up sergeant! •We just had our grave dug.. •We have to fall back soldier! •Oops! Try again! •The enemies got to the base! •Strategy is key!

Strategy

• The area around the loop that this map has is a great spot for towers, as it allows them to cover a large amount of the path and is close to multiple cliff spots.
• The Farm should not be used here, as it does not generate any cash.
• Multiple Tank can appear on this map on the Hard difficulty.
  • Collision damage from unit collisions and the Trapper's traps can eliminate them quite easily.
  • Towers with a fast firerate, such as the Golden Soldier, Engineer or Minigunner can also be pretty effective.
• The Gatling Gun is quite useful as it can damage multiple enemies while also dealing large amount of damage, make sure to line it up on a straight path so that it can fully utilize its pierce ability.

Gallery

Icons

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  The Nightmare Realm on the game icon.

Thumbnails

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  The Nightmare Realm on the game thumbnail.

Renders

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  The Nightmare Realm on a render.

Badges

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  The Nightmare Realm on the Night II Easy Badge.
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  The Nightmare Realm on the Night II Badge.

Miscellaneous

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  The Nightmare Realm in a v2.11.0 update log image.

Update History

• 25 October 2024 - v1.38.0
  • The Nightmare Realm added.
  • Bug: Restarting does not bring back computer parts.
  • Bug: Restarting in the Easy difficulty allows the player to get the loadout they had equipped instead of the preset one.
• 25 October 2024 - v1.38.2
  • Bugfix: Restarting now brings back computer parts.
• 25 October 2024 - v1.38.3
  • Farm Banned modifier added.
• 28 October 2024 - v1.38.4
  • Super Computer Parts are now highlighted, starting from the cheapest to the most expensive.
  • Bug: Lighting is darker, with the red tint also being removed.
• 29 October 2024 - v1.38.4a
  • Bugfix: Lighting is now correct.
• 30 October 2024 - v1.38.5
  • Bugfix: Restarting on Easy no longer allows players to use their loadout instead of one of the presets.
• 20 November 2024 - v1.42.0
  • The Nightmare Realm removed.

Notes

Hexscape Event
Previous Map	Current Map	Next Map
Failed Gateway Night I	The Nightmare Realm Night II	Containment Night III