17 — Alcatraz

The prison island — very hard unprepared, with cash-starved openings and One Horn spam. R.Ost and Dober P.D debut.

Harder than Low Tide Beach if you walk in casual. The contenders for nastiest stage: Underground Base, full of Le'boins with almost no starting money, and Cat Trial, which is wall-to-wall One Horn spam. Villains Jungle (the new R.Ost) and Prison Prairie (several Shadow Boxer Ks) round out the rough patches.

The debuts are both pushers: R.Ost is a traitless Bore with longer range, more knockbacks, and a chance to land Critical hits — the crit matters, because it ignores your tanks' bulk math; Dober P.D is slow and short-ranged but carries high health, high damage, and a chance of Wave Attacks. The closer is Jailer in the Morgue.