Golden Mode

Golden Mode

GAMEMODE

WAVE STRUCTURE

Description

Golden mode, internally referred to as Hard which is also its former name, was one of the four main survival modes. It is currently playable again through Sandbox mode, though it is quite different from its original version. Golden mode has 40 waves. It was named after its final boss, the Gold Titan.

The Legacy modifier is active on this map. It makes it so that any modern enemy spawned in is replaced by its legacy variant.

In this mode, shared cash was 35% (for example if someone else damaged an enemy by 10 health, you would receive $4). In the Sandbox recreation, it uses the new income system, though as the enemies have no set up cash values, they all give $5 on death. Cash is only gained if an enemy is killed, or in some cases, damaged by a specific amount of health. Additionally, the amount gained is a set amount of cash, which is not always equal to the enemy's health. In solo, you receive 100% of the cash when an enemy is killed, or it is damaged enough. With each additional player, this decreases by 25%, which means that in a quad, you only get 25% of the cash. This amount is distributed between players based on how much damage they dealt. However, if a player has not dealt any damage, they will receive a percentage of the enemy's full cash upon its death or when it was damaged enough, which is 12.5% in duo, 16.7% in trio and 18.75% in quad. If it is a decimal, it gets rounded up or down depending on the decimal value. If it is at least 0.5, it gets rounded up. If it is less than 0.5, it gets rounded down. For example, the Abnormal gives $5 when killed in solo, $3.75 in duo, rounded up to $4, $2.5 in trio, rounded up to $3 and $1.25 in quad, rounded down to $1 between the players that damaged it. Players that did not damage it receive $0.625 in duo, rounded up to $1, $0.835 in trio, rounded up to $1 and $0.9375 in quad, rounded up to $1.

Rewards

The game calculated how much Coins and EXP you received based on how many waves you survived and if you won a match. During periods of 50% more EXP (08:00 UTC Friday – 08:00 UTC Sunday), any EXP earned was multiplied by 1.5x.

Any rewards that end in a decimal point was rounded down, no matter the first figure of the leading decimal.

In Sandbox mode, there are no rewards.

Rewards were calculated as:

Coins Reward	EXP Reward
12 × Waves + 100 (Triumph Only)	2 EXP × Waves Completed × 1.25 EXP (Triumph Only)

Badges

There was a badge which you could obtain when playing this mode, which had additional rewards alongside the badge. That badge was:

Obtained Cowboy ✖ UNOBTAINABLE
	No description available Rewards: Cowboy

Enemies

• Sandbox Enemies
• Original Enemies

Abnormal Wave 1	Quick Wave 5	Heavy Wave 7	Abnormal Boss Wave 10
Shadow Wave 13	Mystery Wave 16	Golden Wave 20	Chained Boss Wave 22
Dark Necromancer Wave 23	Shadow Boss Wave 24	Charge Wave 26	Mystery Boss Wave 29
Tank Wave 30	Boomer Wave 34	Summoner Boss Wave 36	24 Karat Wave 39
Gold Guard Wave 40	Gold Titan Wave 40

Abnormal Wave 1	Quick Wave 5	Heavy Wave 7	Abnormal Boss Wave 10
Ninja Wave 13	Mystery Wave 16	Dark Necromancer Wave 19	Golden Wave 20
Chained Boss Wave 22	Shadow Boss Wave 24	Charge Wave 26	Mystery Boss Wave 29
Tank Wave 30	Boomer Wave 34	Summoner Boss Wave 36	24 Karat Wave 39
Gold Guard Wave 40	Gold Titan Wave 40

Wave Structure

In Sandbox mode, Golden mode has multiple formulas for calculating the wave bonus. Between Waves 1-10 and between Waves 30-40:

($200 + (Waves Completed - 1) × $150) ÷ (1 - 0.08 × Players)

Between Waves 11-20 and on Wave 30:

($200 + (Waves Completed - 1) × $200) ÷ (1 - 0.08 × Players)

Between Waves 21-28 and on Wave 30:

($200 + (Waves Completed - 1) × $350) ÷ (1 - 0.08 × Players)

On Wave 29:

$15,000 ÷ (1 - 0.08 × Players)

The wave clear bonus appears when every enemy from that wave was killed. It is 35% of the wave bonus in solo, while for duo, trio and quad it is 20%.

When it was originally in the game, the formula for calculating wave bonus on each wave was:

($45 - 3 × (Players - 1)) × Waves Completed

The waves in Golden mode followed these timings:

Bolded names indicates an enemy type's debut.

For former wave structures of Golden mode, visit the Waves page.

Soundtrack

Gallery

Icons

Version 2 Golden Mode Icon

Version 1 Hard Mode Icon

Medals

Current Golden Mode Icon

Version 2 Golden Mode Icon

Version 1 Hard Mode Icon

Update History

Notes