In this guide, I will share with you how to get a max score for Day 1 Theatre Mechanicus for the event Hues of the Violet Garden, for both show of Force and Enter the Horde difficulty mode.
Show of Force
You can unlock the theatre Mechanicus gameplay after completing the Act of the event.
We will be selecting sticks before the round starts. Pick Pyro orange and grey, Electro orange, blue and grey sticks.
Before starting the wave, place 2 electro towers at the top.
Go to the lower platform and place 1 pyro tower in front of the banishment tower.
Place 1 electro and 1 pyro tower in the middle of the map.
Place 1 more electro tower beside the prebuilt anemo tower.
Place 1 more anemo tower.
Start the wave and AFK until the end of the challenge. You can add one more anemo tower behind the banishment tower at the lower platform if you want to be safer.
Enter the Horde
Pick the Pyro orange stick, Anemo orange, blue and grey stick, Electro orange stick, and Mystic Stick No.2,3, and 4.
Before starting the wave, we will be dismantling all 3 towers at the higher platform (1 banishment tower, 2 Pyro towers)
Go to the lower platform and place 1 anime tower beside the prebuilt anemo tower.
Place 1 electro and 1 pyro tower in the middle of the map.
Place 1 anemo tower and rotate once to face towards the electro and pyro tower.
Place 1 electro tower in front of the banishment tower.
We will not be attacking any enemies but we cannot AFK for this challenge. When the slime reaches the bridge, we will close the Adeptus bridge to let the slimes fall into the void.
The cooldown for the first mechanism might not be up when the second slime reaches the bridge so we will use the second mechanism instead.
For the third wave of slimes, there will be 3 slimes. Activate the first mechanism when the slimes reach the bridge.
Immediately glide down to the lower platform and place 1 pyro tower in front of the banishment tower.
Go back up and wait for the slimes to reach the bridge and activate the first mechanism.
Immediately glide down to the lower platform and replace the banishment tower with pyro tower.
Go back up to the higher platform and activate the second mechanism when the slimes reach the bridge.
Go down to the lower platform and palace 1 more pyro tower to ensure no leak of enemies.
Go to the higher platform and use the mechanism to remove the ruined guard.
Place 2 anemo towers at the higher platform for geovishaps later.
Activate the second mechanism when the ruined guard reaches the second bridge.
Go down to the lower platform and place 1 more electro tower to ensure no leak of enemies.
You can just stay at the higher platform and activate the mechanism to remove the enemies until the end of the challenge.