Defense Grid: the Awakening – Guide

This is the first mission where you get to upgrade towers and it introduces the Laser Tower. Did you know that you can start off a mission with the [X] button on the Xbox Controller instead of constructing a tower? This can be used to milk some resources before you need to start placing your towers. I’m unsure what key does the same thing on keyboard or mouse.
Ancient Research Map
We are going to focus on the green and orange area illustrated on this map. Mostly the green area. Now let’s go through this step by step.

Wave 1

Enemies
Construct Tower 1 (Inferno), Tower 2 (Gun), Tower 3 (Gun), Tower 4 (Gun)
Notes With Tower 1 and 2 we have made the aliens path slightly longer since they have to circle the towers.

Wave 1

Wave 2

Enemies
Construct Nothing

Wave 3

Enemies
Construct Nothing

Wave 4

Enemies
Construct Tower 5 (Laser), Tower 6 (Laser)

Wave 4

Wave 5

Enemies
Construct Nothing
Upgrade Tower 5 (Laser)

Wave 5

Wave 6

Enemies
Construct Nothing
Upgrade Tower 1 (Inferno)

Wave 7

Enemies
Construct Nothing

The guide continues on the next page.

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