Defense Grid: The Awakening

87 Achievements

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Alien Tears

Earn a gold medal on all missions in the Story mode.

100 XP

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How to unlock the Alien Tears achievement in Defense Grid: The Awakening - Definitive Guide

T0per Harley

TrueAchievements

16 Jul 2013 11:20

Everything has already been said in other guides.

You will find here-below a youtube video for each level. All credits go to youtube video owners.

Edit: to whoever who votes negatively, thank you to say why in comments. I spent time to do this. I would really appreciate you spend 20 seconds to explain how I could improve this guide.

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

Level 6

Level 7

Level 8

Level 9

Level 10

Level 11

Level 12

Level 13

Level 14

Level 15

Level 16

Level 17

Level 18

Level 19

Level 20

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16 Jul 2013 11:20

31 Comments

Great guide; levels 1 through 18 worked like a charm with no problems. I wasn't able to get level 19 to work. I was never able to get the timing right on when to fire the laser. I found a better video for that level if anyone else is having problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNN-Lvz4m8

This video isn't perfect either though. It appears to have some bad edits. You'll see the video skip few times, most importantly at wave 29, and you will miss seeing them upgrade two towers at the bottom of the map. If you play through the video you'll see which ones you'll need to do. At the end of this level I also had to use the laser cannon on the next to last mob, but the video owner didn't have to. I think my timing was slightly off due to the jump in the vid.

I can't comment on the quality of your level 20 video because I haven't made it that far yet, but I'm sure it'll be fine.

By GodLike499 on 11 Feb 2020 04:12

Here's my take (I haven't voted either way).
I don't like youtube videos either. I want to read a few paragraphs describing the overall strategy of how I can get a Gold on each level, which takes a few moments. Watching youtube videos takes a few minutes and unless it's narrated by someone, it's pretty hard to figure out what's going on no matter how big your screen is.
I don't like solutions that just post a bunch of youtube links because, while this is convenient for people that want to go watch videos of how to play the game, I'd rather not. Everyone is different.

On a side note, if you ask at the top of the solution for people to tell you why they vote negatively, then argue about it with them when they do, don't bother asking. If you can't take criticism without getting offended and taking it personally, then you shouldn't ask for it.

And not everyone can afford to just go out and buy a bigger laptop/smartphone/tablet JUST to watch youtube videos on. Be a little bit more considerate.

By russolini77 on 28 Oct 2015 02:11

Can't believe there aren't more up votes for this, while they are not the guide creators videos, I prefer individually embedded videos, also, the videos selected will help towards the 40 gold achievement, as so far they comply with the tower limit, story challenge and resource limit missions

By minus15T on 22 Jul 2013 16:02

Good guide, well presented, thumbs up

By MightyAxe on 24 Jul 2013 18:48

Thank you, glad that this guide helped you

By T0per Harley on 24 Jul 2013 19:19

Good guide

. Don't mind the down votes from trolls that like to make themselves feel better by insulting or downgrading the work of others that are more motivated and are willing to sacrifice their time to put up guides.

By KilledThriced on 02 Aug 2013 18:27

I played the first few level searching youtube and blogs for guides. Half didn't work, I've now used this for 5 missions without an issue. Thank you for finding all of these and presenting them easily. +1

By dc0dr on 23 Sep 2013 16:46

you are welcome :)

By T0per Harley on 23 Sep 2013 17:51

Thumbs up!

By rafa1000house on 15 Oct 2013 12:46

Level 13 wont work for me and I tried it 4 different times following the video

By Bleach XBA on 16 Oct 2013 07:29

here is another video for level 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLwkI--Ec4A

By T0per Harley on 16 Oct 2013 07:34

I think they downvoted you because you cant tell what gun youre using and youre placing them down way too fast to keep up. i guess you could pause but meh.

By TheBlackxRanger on 11 Jan 2014 08:58

Great guide :-)
I can confirm that on the 27th of April 2014, all the videos work fine to get a gold medal in all Awakening story levels. (You need to pause and rewind sometimes).

By Regis 33160 on 27 Apr 2014 12:06

Thanks dude

By T0per Harley on 27 Apr 2014 12:41

I had an issue with level 3 (Ancient Research) but nightbirds has posted an updated version that resolved it. Might want to switch it out to this one: https://youtu.be/Dsn6dkahTxQ

By Hirsute Dave on 27 Jun 2015 04:21

I can tell you that I down voted as I can't use my laptop when gaming on the 360 so video guides are useless to me. I tried to use these anyway and because I have to use my phone I absolutely cannot see what towers are being placed. It worked out a bit better just going to Youtube myself and finding videos since it's not as if these are yours or anything. So there ya go, three reasons.

By misfit119 on 13 Jul 2015 23:01

Up-voting because it's the best guide for this particular game here on TA.

If we could give a "middle" vote, I would vote it that way. The defense grid 2 walkthrough is the perfect guide for a Tower defense title, blending screenshots and instructions per level, as opposed to just linking in other people's youtube videos.

By Shh I am Batman on 16 Aug 2015 07:36

I downvoted because a wasp stung me while I was reading the guide, and that was obviously your fault!! Only kidding, great guide, v.helpful thanks :)

By BadBoyBungle on 10 Jun 2016 12:46

Thanks for the guide, it was helpful to me to have it all in one place. But I also agree with russolini77. While for me this guide was great and I up voted, if someone doesn't like it then you really shouldn't be putting them down. No matter how silly their negative vote may seem, they do have the right to vote, and a couple down votes will not harm you, as most of us are very thankful. Anyways, just my two cents.

By Davis 888 on 03 Dec 2016 22:09

Thanks for awesome work! This is hugely appreciated by me!

By MattiasAnderson on 05 Feb 2017 12:49

Thank you for the videos. Ignore the haters.

By Solario32 on 14 Jul 2017 14:31

I agree about number 3. Had to use another video.

By Ryn0 L on 02 Aug 2018 04:59

Can you put the levels in spoiler tags so the page loads faster

By Homunculus Fury on 09 Sep 2018 06:54

dude you are a legend. Some of the strategies didn't work perfect for me, but slight adjustments did. I don't want you to get the wrong impression, at most I lost one core from an airship but this was rare even. Thank you, i just stacked the 4 medal achievements to pop all at once since your strategy works for a lot of the other game modes as well. You freakin rule

By TheOnlyMatto on 31 Jul 2019 19:49

People are talking about you placing buildings too fast etc... That's why there is a playback speed option. I am still using this guide in 2019. Thank you

By Mr DopeGaming on 09 Aug 2019 23:59

Great guide! Finally got all original achievements on this game after 6 years!

By The S bot 9000 on 14 Dec 2019 23:10

Okay, I didn't even try the level 20 video that you had linked since it was a two parter. I found this one that was really good. The big bonus here is that the kid provides commentary of what he's doing, so it takes the guess work out of what tower to build and when to upgrade said towers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_-_zlOKvY

By GodLike499 on 11 Feb 2020 05:04

Yep, that is right. And this avoids you (not like I did

) to loose time searching the right video for the right level on youtube

.
Anyway for some obscure reasons, this guide do not satisfy some people

By T0per Harley on 22 Jul 2013 16:36

You downvoted my guide because you can't use your laptop when gaming & your phone is not big enough to let you see youtube videos ? Dude please !

What did you expect ? You would prefer a 200 pages text guide explaining where to put towers and which tower to upgrade for each level ? Come on !

Here is an extra tip just for you:

- go buy a laptop, a bigger smartphone, a tablet or a desktop.

As i wrote ont the guide, all credits go to the guys who made the videos. This solution will save your time searching a solution for each level on youtube, like I did to get the achievement.

By T0per Harley on 14 Jul 2015 08:24

Has anyone else have the problem with the resale on the turrets 0 turrets x1 = 0 I'm not getting credit for my equipment in the video it shows him getting credit for them. Did they patch it video 3

By DeceptiveTen on 11 Apr 2018 14:43

For video 3, I had the same setup, but upgraded everything. Once the last mob boss was out of range of the lasers and turrets, I sold them, did that for the 2 turrets and flame in the corner. The last boss died right in front of the 3 on the side (2 turrets, 1 flame), quickly sold all of those and the remaining once it died. I ended up having a money score of 8,041, which after the core score, put me at 56,041, FORTY ONE points above the gold requirement.

You could try to not upgrade as much as I did, but when I followed the video, a mob boss got through somehow.

By Leo Ascendent on 13 Jul 2019 21:27

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Sh0ck nld

TrueAchievements

10 Apr 2010 15:08

So, after years of being able to use Silvermagicx's movies for the achievement, he has now taken his account down! I have been searching for alternative movies for the achievement, so far I have found Zaybytes to be good, his channel only consists of defense grid movies and i think it covers all story missions, even though quality isn't great, when you do what he does when he does it, you should still be able to get all gold medals! Goodluck!

http://www.youtube.com/user/zaybytes/videos?view=0

10 Apr 2010 15:08

5 Comments

Trial and error is right...good grief. I wanted to get all golds on my own but have way too many situations where dying enemies pass the cores back to the exit, or towers shoot the wrong enemies... I'm getting most naturally, but have needed to use videos on a few since 4-5 hours of trial and error were going nowhere.

By The Globalizer on 09 Jan 2013 17:24

I think he took down his account -- these videos aren't there anymore.

By Licked Scars on 04 Apr 2013 00:09

ahh thanks for the heads up, ill see if i can find a good replacement

By Sh0ck nld on 04 Apr 2013 10:11

Yeah cannot get them n my windows phone normally goes straight to video when press the link but not on these I two think there down.

By Norseman Vor on 08 Aug 2013 02:41

silvermagicx is down yeah though zaybites is still running fine

By Sh0ck nld on 08 Aug 2013 11:42

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Xruptor

TrueAchievements

16 May 2011 17:42

Note: SilverMagics videos DON'T always work. This is due to changes on the Steam version and the Xbox version. If you don't get a gold metal with his video I suggest you try GamerName videos. Those worked for me flawlessly. If that doesn't work then the ones from Nightbirdds are great as well. I had an issue with Center of Power but the Nightbirdd one worked perfectly with over 11000 more credits over to spare.

GamerName:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GamersName#p/c/01088948150C4E28/...

Nightbirdd:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nightbirdds#p/u/11/G2Kh4G5HhtM

16 May 2011 17:42

2 Comments

I also thought zay's gold level walkthroughs were pretty decent. On YouTube just put Zay's + the name of the level your on in the search and it will pull up all of her defense grid walkthroughs. They have commentary and are fairly simple to follow.

By AV8OR ACE on 15 Oct 2012 16:05

Nightbirdd's video's give me gold first try, for Gamername's on some maps i couldn't get gold, even after multiple tries.

By Dr Tinus NL on 27 Feb 2020 15:24

MMMDI

TrueAchievements

07 Sep 2009 10:03

To get a gold medal, you have to finish the stage without letting a single core escape (enemies can grab them, but you have to kill them before they leave the map). You also have to get above a certain score designated in the stage select screen.

To get a higher score, conserve your resources. If you try to go for overkill, you won't save enough resources to get the score needed for a gold medal. Try to find the sweet spot where enemies can't get away with the cores, but it's still a bit of a challenge - get there and don't buy / upgrade anything.

Some people tell you to sell your towers right as you're killing the last enemy. Don't bother - the score will be the same. Your final score is a combination of 1x(tower value) and 1x(resources), so selling a tower for 100 resources means you lose 1x100 in tower values and gain 1x100 in resources... it's the same thing. Now, if you can sell the towers a few minutes before the stage ends, the extra resources will help your interest.

There are Youtube videos showing the best tower placements to get gold medals on each stage, but if you're familiar with tower defense games, you shouldn't need them for any of the stages with the possible exception of the finale.

07 Sep 2009 10:03