Man, i remember these old days, i loved the peak and enjoyed the maximum of cowboy and the John tower that i got with his first code, before going to shop for coins..❤
Exactly. A money making tower that you need to beat badlandsII which is easily top three hardest modes AND painfully grind that 50k for the golden skin should definitely be leagues better than the money making tower you can get after playing a few rounds
@@Cooler-wh4rg nah polluted wastelandsII is a little harder because of the absurd amount of health and basically everyone needs either accel or engineer to deal with it.
from what i recall, you could get the cowboy from another map before it was soley locked to badlands, i actually remember getting it from the other map that was western themed, that being end of the line
I got cowboy a few days before polluted and all of those new special game modes came out, and I’m so happy I did so, even though the new version was probably easier, but at least I didn’t have to worry about eye balling the new gamemode.
the more recent g cowboy update made it so he shoots faster than a norma cowboy and also has to shoot more times for a money shot to compensate the very high fire rate
I remember beating the original badlands map and getting the kasodus cowoy from the code it was very nostalgic! My main tower was john. I just spammed it with it's ability since I didn't have any good tower back then. My friends carried me and now I carry my friends :)
Cowboy receiving a ton of changes meanwhile turret and pursuit crying on the corner because they only received stat reworks and pursuit havent gotten a single skin
funfact: an old map was called "end of the line" a easy difficulty map beating this map gives you cowboy afterward the map got removed, badlands stayed until wanted dead update
Badlands 2 is gonna get a custom wave layout due to the challenge maps being added in the classic event, so after that it will definitely be the last hurrah to bl2 amd cowboy
Man, I miss the cowboy having a gatling gun. Im pretty sure why they changed it was because the game was already chock full of low-damage high-firerate towers like Soldier, John, Minigunner, Turret, etc. And perhaps with the gatling gun, he looked too similar to Minigunner on the field. Still, would be nice to get a skin someday that changes it back, I dont care if the animation of the gatling gun doesn't actually match his firerate lol.
Video felt rushed in the Bl2 part. You forgot golden perks golden cowboy, how broken bl2 gc and nc was, their roles in solo hardcore, which is one of the most important things, the small nerfs gc keeps receiving, the huge nerf nc and gc got, the small buff gc got, and the current buffs gc and nc has. You also forgot Hardcore Testing Cowboy, which has the worst stats for cowboy history. And how golden cowboy before the cash drops was considered mid.
You also forgot the skin history too. You just forgot it exists until like bl2 then you only mentioned badlands cowboy and simply just said "3 new skins" Without showcasing what these new skins are
I remember when gold cb got released and by the easter event it was everywhere and i was SO fed up of seeing it, til i got it. Then i used it to death!
3:12 I remember seeing this map when playing TDS... And beating it... But not this EXACT map, the remake with just basically improved the graphics of it. 10:56 and the time im talking about is THIS
Pretty sure my old acc was either before cowboy prime or during cowboys worst nerf (I remember the outlaw and old cowboy design, but I don't remember the old-old badlands, and only the reworks one)
I played TDS ever since it started but I never knew there were events so I never got any event tower in the og days but it was fun to play as the parrot party dancing in lobbies was better than the games itself
When I started playing the game I won medium badlands and got cowboy but I was still kinda young and I didn’t know what it was and thought it was trash
Yeah I remember playing badlands and having two bosses the left side was always so DAMN harder because everyone always defended the right. I still have the cowboy tower to this day
lol I remember when I beat badlands in 2019, it was very hard, especially with those ice enemies then after like 3 years when I got sledger I remember carrying people with him in badlands also remember when I tried to pick up his bags of money that weren’t mine… lol
Here [my] reasons why he's the best: He's a cowboy. Hard to get. Shooting version of farm. Lastly, good for fallen and molten in early defense, mostly molten.
Kinda sad that you didn't mention it's impact on solo hardcore, as it was included in the first ever loadout it was beatable with (might have been doable in hardcore beta, idk)
kinda sad that i cant get money from mystery enemies anymore with cowboy since the second i get a mystery lead boss then its basically raining money, but now i gotta manually change the targeting on some of the cowboys so now the other cowboys are going to have to miss out on getting cash while the other ones get nothing and i end up not getting enough cash for certain upgrades to deal with later waves, man i hate reasonably justified balances for a certain tower to be good at what its supposed to do to then become worse at what its intended purpose of use is :(
i was og enough to see original badlands map, and beat it
No g
Same except I never beat it
back then i was lv
I just never beat it
i got cowboy from molten mode
Man, i remember these old days, i loved the peak and enjoyed the maximum of cowboy and the John tower that i got with his first code, before going to shop for coins..❤
Same here! 🔥
I never really progressed in old tds, I just got the John tower, asked the randos where'd the swat vans come from, and then I left.
And when ranger was the best along with john. His buff was so op
I didnt really understand anything about the game back then. Im pretty sure i played back when cowboy just got released though
Same
I’m glad golden cowboy is in a position where it is more viable than farm, for the cost it definitely was needed.
Exactly. A money making tower that you need to beat badlandsII which is easily top three hardest modes AND painfully grind that 50k for the golden skin should definitely be leagues better than the money making tower you can get after playing a few rounds
@@Mrstireast its second hardest mode behind hardcore
@@Cooler-wh4rg nah polluted wastelandsII is a little harder because of the absurd amount of health and basically everyone needs either accel or engineer to deal with it.
When cowboys were giving 200 at lv0
@@Cooler-wh4rgbadlands is easy bruh
Pw2
Hardcore
Badlands
Pizza
Imo
I remember getting cowboy at the Easter update and asking everyone to help me beat badlands lol
It's nice seeing you grow as a channel from 14 subs to 4.3k
Thanks for staying along the way! 👍
@@SunkenRealmOfficiali remember when u we’re at 312
First time I played this game was in 2020 for egg hunt and the second time I played it was in 2024 for The Hunt….
Cowboy back then was super easy to get back then because all you needed was Crook boss was insanely overpowered
I still remember beating it with randoms in end of the line with crook spam, good times
Man i miss my old attack farms. But the new attack farms aint bad ngl. I just wish gold cowboy had the old lever action it used to have.
The cowboy has been one of my favourite towers, especially when it was the first golden tower i got in 2020, the same year i joined.
" Commando pov be like: why im still here, just to suffer "
It will get a rework tho
fr, they did commando dirty. it deserves better.
@@kaiotrem358 if commando got rework they made gamepass for it they said
@@kaiotrem358 is like 10% commando will get rework devs idk to do with it
from what i recall, you could get the cowboy from another map before it was soley locked to badlands, i actually remember getting it from the other map that was western themed, that being end of the line
yeah that map was way easier too, and you didn't have to beat it on insane mode (fallen)
Thats in the video
I believe it was dead ahead?
@@noname-ji1db i believe thats another one too
@@noname-ji1dbno it’s they end of the line map
dude u should have 200k subs u have such high quality and informative videos. ur video is the only 20 minute video i have not paused in a long time
I appreciate you! Road to 200k subs! 💪
Great video Sunken, loved the nostalgia!
However, I must point out that Polluted Wastelands 2 was the first map to add modifiers like mutation.
Yeah you’re right thanks for letting me know 👍
I remember beating end of the line back in 2018-19 and I had no clue I got the cowboy until I got freezer.
I am OG enough to have never have beaten Badlands 2 whilst still having Golden Cowboy
I got cowboy a few days before polluted and all of those new special game modes came out, and I’m so happy I did so, even though the new version was probably easier, but at least I didn’t have to worry about eye balling the new gamemode.
the more recent g cowboy update made it so he shoots faster than a norma cowboy and also has to shoot more times for a money shot to compensate the very high fire rate
Bro just time traveled to showcase the stats and the cowboy 😭
he played legacy TDS
@@SomeOne-ph1gw or retro tower defense simulator
@@SomeOne-ph1gw based on the lobby, it’s retro TDS
@@SomeOne-ph1gwNo I time traveled and came back with the footage 😂
@@SunkenRealmOfficial time travel is prohibited by law, you're going to prision.
17:21 well RIP for the people who had to do it on fallen mode, I got it on molten
I just skipped getting cowboy in my era lol (and so I suffered to get him in 2023)
Real
@@OMGREALDUMMYFROMDVNsame (but it wasn't hard for me)
Time flies, I still remember beating wave 68 I even have the video on my channel because I was really happy
Sadly I thought I had to beat molten mode for cowboy but once I beat it I REALIZED I HAS TO DO FALLEN
Bro golden cowboy was my farmer back then and im glad to see it rising up because i loved the tower so much
I remember when the Kasodus skin actually resembled Kasodus
fr it was kinda shooting weird tho
YOUR EDITING, AND THUMBNAIL IS AHEAD OF YOUR TIME MY GUY! definitely needs my sub for sure
Much appreciated! 👍
i remember beating end of the line for cowboy...i miss that map
Freezer ability spam made everything so trivial
0:47 It’s been FIVE YEARS!? Dang man.
seeing these old clips is so nostalgic tds really went all out on the quality
the cowboy used to be the op strat
it was just spam cowboy and boom you soloed molten (back when molten was harder than easy)
I remember beating the original badlands map and getting the kasodus cowoy from the code it was very nostalgic! My main tower was john. I just spammed it with it's ability since I didn't have any good tower back then. My friends carried me and now I carry my friends :)
YES bro they did kasodus and john dirty 🙅♂️
@@SunkenRealmOfficial So trueeee
Sunken your bounty is lower than me 0:34
What’s your bounty then? 🤔
@@SunkenRealmOfficial 3,910,100,000
I miss the old cowboy, the gatling gun spam was so funny back then.
1:02 Yo that’s my channels video! Love to see it
I gotchu bro 🔥
I remember when cowboy was actually a viable replacement for farm.
woah this video is so good editing is perfect i still am shocked how u have only 5k subs
Man I'm old but old enough to continue seeing more TDs updates 👀
Really enjoyed this video! The quality is good!
Cowboy receiving a ton of changes meanwhile turret and pursuit crying on the corner because they only received stat reworks and pursuit havent gotten a single skin
1:54 Erm, actually, there is the "Redemption" cowboy skin 🤓☝
why cow boy is the most important.
number 1
money money green green moneys all i need need
funfact: an old map was called "end of the line" a easy difficulty map
beating this map gives you cowboy
afterward the map got removed, badlands stayed until wanted dead update
Badlands 2 is gonna get a custom wave layout due to the challenge maps being added in the classic event, so after that it will definitely be the last hurrah to bl2 amd cowboy
honestly that's what is missing from the special gamemodes, they should be gamemodes on their own
That’s pretty interesting I can’t wait for them to add that! 💪
I got cowboy like a few years ago, the old map, oh the good times..
the stories the og badlands map could tell oh my god the trauma of beating it for the first time then crying trying to get it for my friends
I remember me flipping out my chair when I got it 😂
I remember getting cowboy on the other map where you could get cowboy but sadly I forgot the name
Was it the end of the line?
I was old enough to see the first badlands map,I just couldn’t beat it, now badlands 2, I finally beat it
Yeah, it was so much harder back then lol
Wasnt PW2 the first gamemode using the modifiers? using both the nuclear and mutations modifier (its the reason its called that).
Yeah you’re right thanks for letting me know 👌
Man, I miss the cowboy having a gatling gun. Im pretty sure why they changed it was because the game was already chock full of low-damage high-firerate towers like Soldier, John, Minigunner, Turret, etc. And perhaps with the gatling gun, he looked too similar to Minigunner on the field.
Still, would be nice to get a skin someday that changes it back, I dont care if the animation of the gatling gun doesn't actually match his firerate lol.
Video felt rushed in the Bl2 part. You forgot golden perks golden cowboy, how broken bl2 gc and nc was, their roles in solo hardcore, which is one of the most important things, the small nerfs gc keeps receiving, the huge nerf nc and gc got, the small buff gc got, and the current buffs gc and nc has. You also forgot Hardcore Testing Cowboy, which has the worst stats for cowboy history. And how golden cowboy before the cash drops was considered mid.
You also forgot the skin history too. You just forgot it exists until like bl2 then you only mentioned badlands cowboy and simply just said "3 new skins" Without showcasing what these new skins are
dang thats a lot
Remember when the coin it had the same ability as gladiator does now, I remember it and I would spam that all the time
Making new badlands even more of a nightmare, gunslinger's path is literally short af with his hp cracking steroids
The retired cowboy after hearing someone likes a dead body more then him:
Hmm, Before Bdl2 I remember when Golden Cowboy got a buff that allowed him to produce the cash at level 0 and maybe dps buff.
I had to get him through end of the line, and oh boy were those ice dudes tough
there actually is a skin called "Redemption Cowboy" and im not sure if its meant to be a reference to rdr2 but it sure seems like it
The redemption skin is John Marstons outfit probably an RDR1 reference cause it’s johns og outfit
I remember getting cowboy one day before the update I was starstruck seeing the leaks
Good to know im mot the only one who uses cowboy more than farm.
i got cowboy on an old man called “End of the Line” and boy have i never regretted it
great video man.
Thanks a bunch! 👌
When i got the old cowboy back when,before the rework,its quite useless but after the rework,its my goto early game
I remember when gold cb got released and by the easter event it was everywhere and i was SO fed up of seeing it, til i got it. Then i used it to death!
I remember those day I beat badlands with a bunch of snipers and other people carrying me
The feeling of beating the old badlands map was so nice tbh
Yeah, it was much more difficult than the new badlands.
Bro, I remember when I started watching because of the justharrison raid and u had like 400 subs
A lot has changed huh 🥹
@@SunkenRealmOfficial yeah, keep going dude and I know that one day you’ll be even more successful 😃
You forgot about the pvp update which makes cowboy more needed for it
bro i randomly joined people in the wanted dead update map and non of them had the high dps towers you mentioned and we won like chads 💀
3:12 I remember seeing this map when playing TDS... And beating it...
But not this EXACT map, the remake with just basically improved the graphics of it.
10:56 and the time im talking about is THIS
Kasodus and og gold cosboy skin was my favorite back then.
I remember helping my friends getting cowboy by praying with randoms, good old days
Pretty sure my old acc was either before cowboy prime or during cowboys worst nerf (I remember the outlaw and old cowboy design, but I don't remember the old-old badlands, and only the reworks one)
I played TDS ever since it started but I never knew there were events so I never got any event tower in the og days but it was fun to play as the parrot party dancing in lobbies was better than the games itself
How did you not know? They used announce them everywhere.
When I got golden cowboy, 2 days later, it got heavily nerfed💀 (it was my first golden skin)
When I started playing the game I won medium badlands and got cowboy but I was still kinda young and I didn’t know what it was and thought it was trash
I remember me and my 3 friends litteraly trying for a week to get cowboy on og badlands
Please make more vids like this, like the history of a specific tower
Oh I am keeping them coming don’t worry 🥳
You can still get the quick draw badge and get the badlands cowboy skin
Yeah I remember playing badlands and having two bosses the left side was always so DAMN harder because everyone always defended the right. I still have the cowboy tower to this day
Exactly brooo that left side be giving problems 😬
I love contents like this so much, keep making video essays like this bro its awesome
i just miss the old days when im using paintballer to beat old badlands
i remember getting carried through end of the line when i first started
oh and btw, the current cowboy doesn't have cash shot anymore, it gives cash per burst of 6 {12 at level 4+}
hey sunken I remember meeting you when you had 750 subs it's nice to see you make awesome content man
Thanks for staying along man I appreciate it! 🙏
@@SunkenRealmOfficial your welcome sunken I'm happy to be apart of your journey
this gave me the motavation to attempt the tds classic event again
I remember getting cowboy when it was released. I miss the shotgun golden skin
You mean the golden skin that looked like the redemption skin but golden?
@@overzpace yeah
@@FrostialSamTT it was cool
I remember being carried back in 2021 I had like demo scout and sniper (and a few others) and I got it!
I miss the old cowboy with to gold mini gun and I spent hours using gladiator .
G cowboy actually got a change, he is now 600 cash so you CAN place him round one!
Was waiting for you to mention the insane buff to g Cowboys cash shot😢
lol I remember when I beat badlands in 2019, it was very hard, especially with those ice enemies
then after like 3 years when I got sledger I remember carrying people with him in badlands
also remember when I tried to pick up his bags of money that weren’t mine… lol
24:15 “killer fish from san diego”
💀🙏
Here [my] reasons why he's the best:
He's a cowboy.
Hard to get.
Shooting version of farm.
Lastly, good for fallen and molten in early defense, mostly molten.
I will never forget spamming prime golden cowboy with the 5 dmg on fallen 💔
Kinda sad that you didn't mention it's impact on solo hardcore, as it was included in the first ever loadout it was beatable with (might have been doable in hardcore beta, idk)
i didn't play OG tds, i was still grinding tower battles
edit: at 3:06 i somehow remember that map
Played TDS in 2019, and got the cowboy from old badlands. All u had to do wast beat molten with double enemies
i beat og badlands on molten, i love seeing people complain how hard badlands 2 is. (I also have quickdraw lol)
I was OG enough to see original badlands, but never beated it
kinda sad that i cant get money from mystery enemies anymore with cowboy since the second i get a mystery lead boss then its basically raining money, but now i gotta manually change the targeting on some of the cowboys so now the other cowboys are going to have to miss out on getting cash while the other ones get nothing and i end up not getting enough cash for certain upgrades to deal with later waves, man i hate reasonably justified balances for a certain tower to be good at what its supposed to do to then become worse at what its intended purpose of use is :(
we need that colab wold be sick