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The last recourse of the Threat Defense Strategy. Dual miniguns, rapid burst rockets, multiple passive support boosts and railgun tank convoys; nothing will stand in his way.
―Inventory Description
A one man army. Utilizes an exoskeleton to shoot 2 miniguns and launch missiles.
―Former Inventory Description
...and so he left, with everything but his humanity..
The War Machine is currently a tower exclusive to anyone who is a moderator or a higher special role in the Tower Defense Simulator Discord server. It is also rewarded to people who contribute to the game, with the primary way of achieving that being reaching 15 contributions in the game, followed by a review by a lead developer.[3]
The War Machine uses an exoskeleton with two miniguns. At Level 2, the exoskeleton also has a missile launcher, allowing it to fire Stark Missiles. At Level 2, it also gains the ability to apply various buffs to towers in its range through its Command Aura.
The War Machine has a placement limit of 5 per player.
The War Machine can be a powerful DPS tower mid to late game, dealing close to 1,000 DPS.
At Level 2, the War Machine gains a missile launcher, which gains more missiles and stronger stats with upgrades, which is quite decent against hordes of enemies, such as the Fallen Hazmat.
Because the missile launcher deals splash damage, the War Machine can also damage Lead enemies with it, making it very useful against the Lead and Elite Leads early on.
At Level 4, the War Machine gets hidden detection and at Level 5, it gets flying detection, making it a very versatile tower by the mid to late game combined with its high DPS and splash capabilities.
Although it cannot damage them with its main attack, its missiles and the Railgun Tank collision and explosion damage can also damage Lead enemies.
However, because of how expensive it is to upgrade to Level 4 and 5, it should not be solely relied upon to attack enemies with these attributes.
At Level 5, it gains the Freeze Immunity, making it useful against enemies that mainly freeze towers.
Trivia
The War Machine's appearance and some of its mechanics appear to have been based on an Exoskeleton tower suggestion from the Tower Defense Simulator Discord server.
However, the name of the War Machine and its Stark Missile are references to the War Machine from Marvel.
The War Machine's Level 5 Command Aura description is a reference to its first description, which in turn was a reference to Risk of Rain 2, specifically the Commando's old ending phrase.
The War Machine had the most expensive upgrade cost in the game, until Gatling Gun was added.
After the Overhaul Update, the War Machine gained 12 damage on Level 2, giving it 13 damage, thus giving it an absurd 104 DPS for just $2,900.
This was later fixed in May 2021.
Update History
For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.
Bug: Upgrading to a level that changes the Damage Buff amount does not give towers the buff, if they were placed before the War Machine was upgraded, but if the upgrade does not change the buff amount the Damage Buff is applied to towers placed before the upgrade.
War Machine missiles now deal full damage to defense enemies.
Splash damage reworked. Now the explosion is separated into two spheres. Inner sphere deals 100% of the stated damage while the damage in the outer sphere decreases linearly.
Upgrade name changed from TO THE VOID AND BACK to To the Void and Back.
Notes
↑Through splash damage, hidden enemies may be hit indirectly if another detectable enemy is nearby, but War Machine cannot detect such enemies until Level 4.
↑Through splash damage, flying enemies may be hit indirectly if another detectable enemy is nearby, but War Machine cannot detect such enemies until Level 5.
↑ 4.04.1Number is the damage dealt in the inner explosion sphere. Splash damage is decreased linearly from the edge of the inner explosion sphere to the edge of the outer explosion sphere, if the enemy is in the outer explosion sphere.
↑Total DPS is calculated as Normal DPS + Missile DPS. Missile DPS assumes only one enemy is hit with all missiles and it receives full splash damage.
