User blog:CausalityOrigin/Origin's TDS achievement guide.

WARNING! THIS IS OUTDATED, READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Ah yes, so you began TDS, and want a guide to what achievements exist, tips, and what order you should do it in! Luckily, this guide is here to help you.

Getting all the important/necessary towers.

Obviously, this is important. You need all the necessary towers for any of the challenges / achievements that you may want to attempt in the future. I recommend you buy most towers, except for these.

• Paintballer. Bad tower.
• Demoman. Useless.
• Soldier. It's not bad. But don't get it so you can get a good tower in your first Golden Crate.
• Freezer. Just bad in general.
• Medic. Has basically no real use.
• PYROMANCER. DO NOT BUY THIS, YOU DO NOT WANT GOLDEN PYROMANCER.
• Rocketeer. Practically useless.

For level unlocked towers, do NOT claim Crook Boss.

• This is to ensure that you do not get Golden Crook Boss.

Fallen mode.

Relatively simple, just join a mega fallen grind in #party-queue in the TDS Discord server. Most people will be at least 100+, so beating fallen should be easy.

Golden Crate / Coins grind.

Now it's time to grind for your first Golden Crate. If you had followed the steps aforementioned, you should be guaranteed to get Golden Minigunner or Golden Scout. These are likely the 2 best golden skins, and will help you very much.

Hardcore & Accelerator.

Accelerator is a staple to many challenges. Use the POGGERS Hardcore strategy. It is likely the best out there. Getting Accelerator will take a long time, due to the small rewards, but it will be worth it. If you got Golden Minigunner, then it will be easier to get and join teams in #party-queue.

Badlands & Cowboy.

Difficult, but usually, there are plenty of mega fallen Badlands attempts in #party-queue. This is to get Cowboy, which is good in Fallen Solo.

Fallen solo.

Fallen solo is all about you. When first trying, you should use a good Fallen Solo strategy, if you have a Golden Scout, or Golden Minigunner, there are strategies. If you do not have those, then the 'Point of No Return' strategy is good for you. You may lose to bad RNG though.

Minigunner solo fallen strategy.

Point of No Return strategy. (Cowboy.)

Polluted Wasteland.

Polluted Wasteland is a monumental challenge, face down the Nuclear Fallen King with 500K HP! Spam high-DPS towers and kill him! Just find a 'MEGA POLLUTED WASTELANDS' group in the #party-queue.

Improvisation Fallen Solo.

There is a qualitive difference between a strategy fallen solo and a improv fallen solo. Improv is based off YOUR knowledge, your experience, etc. It is much more difficult to fallen solo without a strategy than to do it with a set, consistent strategy. Doing this is a sign of an expert.

Polluted Wasteland Duo.

Honestly, I had no idea where to put this, so I put it here. It's actually quite easier than you may think it is. I highly recommend using the strategy linked below, it's consistent, and I only lost with it when I got horrible Mystery Wasted Boss RNG.

Consistent Polluted Wasteland Duo Strategy. (Militant.)

Hidden Wave.

One of the ultimate challenges. Beat fallen under 16:49, and then fend off a massive wave of RIDIULOUSLY high health enemies. Face the final boss, the Creator. The requirements are high, you at least have to have Accelerator, some of them also require you to have Golden Minigunner. But people with Golden Scout and Accelerator are the most valued. I'll link my 2 most used ones below. The VOID strategy is basically guaranteed activation, but P3 and P4 must have Golden Minigunner + Accelerator, P1 and P2 must have Golden Scout and Accelerator. The NECO strategy is more RNG reliant, and doesn't activate that much. But it has much less strenuous requirements.

VOID Hidden Wave Strategy.

NECO Hidden Wave Strategy.

What next?

You've completed most of the challenges that exist currently, go finish getting all Golden Skins, maybe do a Dead Ahead fallen duo? I don't know. Just have fun.