Massive Angry Birds Stella Update Out Now

The much anticipated Angry Birds Stella v1.1.0 update has finally landed on iOS and Android via Google Play. Note, a few lucky Nesters, including @josm, got early access to this update.

This update includes a TON of changes, which @filipersr breaks down in detail here. With that said, let’s recap the major changes:

  • Revamped Map – You now get a birds eye view of Golden Island with access to new special event levels.
  • Chose Your Lineup – In the event levels you get to pick your lineup. Each level has a maximum number of birds you can chose.
  • Random Levels – Per rovio, “A nearly infinite number of levels on the map!”
  • Treasures – Like in Angry Birds Epic when you complete a special event level you get to spin the wheel for a chance to win treasures and coins. If you assembled the right collection you can unlock perks.
  • Themed Levels – I haven’t seen any of these yet, but these levels could be themed around any holiday, event, etc.
  • Old Levels Still Playable – When I first opened up the app I thought they were gone, but they appear after you play the first level. All my progress was still intact, which is awesome. Though, I am disappointed that my highscore still doesn’t appear at the top right of each level. Hopefully Rovio will address this, as not showing it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Well, there you have it. Now it’s up to you to let us know what you think of the update below!

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Comments (69)

Rank: Gold Flinger with 8250 points
By GrimmJow (@grimmjow)

Very very very great update :)

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By Jaydee (@jaydee)

Oh well, what can I say? Enjoy? Baby steps…I look forward to getting the initial release first… LOL

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By Jaydee (@jaydee)

@admins – For your information, Windows Phone received Stella Version 1.0.3.0 today, 17 December 2014. Like I said, BABY STEPS!!! Let me go meet Stella, Willow, Dahlia and Luca…. Yay, I think!

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By dmsral (@dmsral)

The hard part is remembering what all the birds’ powers are!

I have often thought about being able to pick which bird to launch, now I’ll get to try it.

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

You can play tutorial levels as each character to leran to use them.

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By Rowdypup (@rowdypup)

@birdleader whenever I went to play Angry Birds Stella today I saw that ALL of my progress was deleted

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By Bird Maniac (@earthbound)

Good luck to the ABN crew in finding, listing & videoing all those INFINITE levels!! Great update though

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By Josm (@josm)

great video again @birdleader btw. you still need to pick up the new outfits you got for free on november one, they are hidden in the level selection screen from chapter 1 or 2 ;)

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By RizDub (@rizdub)

Looks interesting, it seems like they’ve added concepts from both Epic and Transformers.

@birdleader , about the birds’ names; the cream-colored drilling one is Poppy, the light blue screaming one is Luca, the blue spinning one with the hat is Willow, and the brownish teleporting one is Dahlia. :)
Also I noticed that there are still some photos missing from your bird scrapbook. Those ones became available a little while ago – there are various snapshots scattered throughout the Chapter 2 level selection screens (one is visible at about 5:04 in the video).

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

@BirdLeader — There must be a guide to the birds in Stella somewhere on the nest. A link would be most useful. Like you, I’m having to relearn their powers.
I did get a Christmas-themed level (with a Christmas tree and presents). The presents were a bunch of coins.

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

I’ve had a fair amount of trouble getting Stella to load. I think there may be a conflict if you or maybe any other AB game is linked to facebook when you try to open Stella. On iPad, I’ve solved this by hard closing all apps and then loading Stella. Right at the beginning of the load sequence I see a screen that looks like the facebook screen, and then Stella opens.

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

Got another of the Christmas Theme. It shows up as a present on the map rather than a pig, and is called Stella’s Tropical Christmas. It looks pretty much like the level I played earlier.

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By DaBoid (@daboid)

WOW! I love Stella!

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By AngryBirdsMaster2 (@abmaster2)

I for one am extremely thrilled with this update, except for one minor thing-they’ve taken away the Facebook button which allows you to synch your progress. I was able to connect into my account, but I can’t disconnect. It’s not that much of a problem, although my siblings have their own seperate accounts and will be upset when they find out they can no longer switch.

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

The levels are finite

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

just change the place of pigs

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By Kelani (@kelani)

Looks great! Looks like I have some serious flinging to do. :)

By Dan

It’s ok, but my issue is that there are no chapters / episodes anymore or am I wrong? It just seems like I’m playing random levels without any numbered levels or real structure to the game. I’ve only played a few levels but don’t really see the resemblance to Epic that everyone has mentioned. Epic has a structured map with definite levels whereas this doesn’t seem to.

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By Netto JM (@netto-jm)

I think that when they talk about resemblance to Epic, it’s about the wheel, and the map structure is from Transformers!

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By Rowdypup (@rowdypup)

judging by the size of the map, it looks like there could be at least 5 more worlds after the Cave (World 3)

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

Stella and her friends can go down the cave and climb across the circus

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

Where is the cave?

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

The cave appears after finish the Chapter 2.Probably the cave will be the third episode

By Dan

I’ve finished episode 2, no cave. Just a load of levels on a ‘map’

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By epicbird (@filipersr)

The cave is locked after Chapter 2. Will come soon

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By wrw01 (@wrw01)

With this new release I wonder if the last five telepods will be released soon?
Talked to Hasbro and they could not provide any information.

The map looks great but considering my progress the view is limited.

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By cosmo2503 (@cosmo2503)

@wrw01 beside 5 bird telepods that were planned for October 2014, but as it seems are still uncertain I expect they should release pig telepods. As some people said game is playable from pigs’ side too (haven’t seen this possibility yet).

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By TailsTheDigger! (@tailsthedigger)

Great! New levels on ABStella! :DD
When I updated, I noticed the app name was changed from “Angry Birds” to “Stella”, just like Epic does on the springboard. I’d NOT like to think there will be a time were the apps will be named just “Rio”, “Seasons”, “Space”, “Star Wars”, “Star Wars II”, and “Go”!

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By Chris (@chriss)

@tailsthedigger: Stella and Epic are the only games which don’t have the name on the app icon. So it would not make sense to change the other apps as well.

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By marce_r2001 (@gx-d)

i play the theme level is call stella tropical christmas and completing this level you recive gifts from under the christmas tree (coins) and invite us to follow stella and friends on twitter (https://twitter.com/stellafriends)

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By ubermom (@ubermom)

Love it! (Could use some walkthroughs though! Haha!) Like many of the others, I’m relearning the angles, powers, etc…

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

What am I missing?
I’ve played Stella off and on today, and I don’t really see what the objective is. I agree that the levels are finite, they seem to combine elements and change the number of pigs. It you didn’t get all the items available at the beginning ( i.e., the trekking stuff) there doesn’t seem to be a way to go back and get it. You never know when the opportunity for getting an item will disappear.

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By cosmo2503 (@cosmo2503)

@mvnla2 obviously Rovio forces players to use coins to re-spinn wheel of fortune and get items they really need.

By Dan

Exactly. What is the objective?!!!! How do you get to the cave?!!!!

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By Josm (@josm)

@mvnla2 if you dont get the objective in a level, it will come back in another level until you have it.

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

@josm — I don’t think I collected all the trekking gear, and I haven’t seen it for quite a while. I’m now level 9 and working on Stella’s couch. When I said I didn’t know what the objective is, I meant the objective of the entire game. I agree with @earthbound (Bird Maniac) below.

By Tsembalo

Have you not seen the first cutscene, or any of the cutscenes? Gale is after something, Gale stole Stellas map to reveal the location of golden flower, Gale got golden dust from giant flower at the end of chapter1 and then she went after giant pearl that she turned into golden at the end of Chapter2. Im quessing she plans to do something with the pearl. The story is not that complex to follow

By Dan

That still doesn’t answer what the point of the game is. Where is Gale? How do we get to her? How do we get to the cave? What is the objective? We’re just playing a load of levels with no concise level / chapter structure and not actually getting anywhere.

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By supere67 (@supere67)

There’s gonna be more levels – it says “coming soon” in the back of the island on the map. Certainly we will see Gale later.

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By Bird Maniac (@earthbound)

I’m with you @mvnla2 – I’ve also played Stella on & off, but there seems to be something missing. I’ve cleared many levels with one, two or three stars & spun & collected the rewards & am now on level 5 – but I’m not sure what I’m achieving, as there is no record of my scores, no level progression, no opportunity to redo a level to increase the star count & on at least three or four occasions I’ve had to wait 45 minutes or more for levels to open – not sure this adds anything to the game

I looked forward to the release when ABN mentioned it but not so impressed to be honest with the end result

By Bird

Got the update yesterday, but the game keep crashing at the first tutorial whenever I complete it, at the moment the score screen is invoked… ;<

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By Rohit Naik (@rohitnaik)

Very very very great update :) I also missed a stuff now I can’t replay those lvls bcoz they disappeared after finishing with 3 stars or crystals

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By Ahmad (@)

Awesome update!

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By MVNLA2 (@mvnla2)

Maybe everyone knows this, but if you go to the bird house (home), there is a little toy figure in a purple roundish thing in the lower right corner. If you click that it shows you which items you’ve gotten and which not. Very useful, since I wasn’t sure I’d completed the first few.

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By supere67 (@supere67)

Thanks! I had not noticed this. But now I’ve collected all the stuff, and am just playing for coins. I’m on level 12. Was hoping there would be more to accomplish after this.

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By Superjustinbros (@superjustinbros)

Nerfed/Removed/Improved paywalls would be a big feature for any update, or someway to remove paywalls and pre-level advertisements.

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By Rohit Naik (@rohitnaik)

everyone knows. a fan of ab games never misses a chance to explore the game with very depth critics view.

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By Superjustinbros (@superjustinbros)

Well I literally cannot play this update (along with Star Wars II) with the annoying video advertisements that you’re forced to sit through. I can deal with the paywalls but these video adds that give you no rewards for watching them all the way through with a hitbox the takes you to download the obvious freenium shovelware app covering 95% of the screen is where I reach my boiling point.

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By Rohit Naik (@rohitnaik)

the ‘infinite’ levels seems to be repeating. there are some few lvls made by rovio maybe 10-14 lvls that reappears.
I’m facing a problem – the app sometimes suddenly hangs and quits to home screen. I think my phone doesn’t supports graphics quality that high or maybe this can be a bug.

By Emyl

Hey guys, I can explain the “infinite” levels in more detail.

Each level has a bunch of prefab groups, between 4 and 6 (usually 5), and on top of that different slingshot positions. Each prefab group has 9 prefabs in it. There are also different spawn points for the special pigs, and different spawn points for the TNT and special boxes.

If you take into account just the prefabs in a level then each level has between 6,561 and 531,441 combinations. If you take into account the slingshot positions then you can multiply that number times 9 again. And if you also take into account the different special pigs and the boxes… well… my math fails me to come up with an exact number, but it should be around billions.

While the odds of playing the exact same configuration are close to 0, I know looking at the same prefabs with different variations doesn’t always feel like a different level. That’s where the new pigs and boxes come in. They can change the gameplay significantly, especially when you have all of them unlocked.

Either way, we plan to keep adding more of those levels and hopefully new chapters with new mechanics too. I can’t speak for Rovio, but I think at least most of the team would like to finish the game’s story.

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By leggy (@leggy)

Whilst I like the new map layout and the idea of collecting items, I’m not so keen on having to select my own bird lineup, not knowing which level I’m playing, and not having each of my in-level scores saved within the app.

In summary, the app has gone from being somewhat similar to the regular AB apps to being totally unrecognizable in just a few months of being released, and with it now requiring so much of my time to complete, I just don’t find it as appealing anymore.

Better luck next time Rovio!

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By Terence (@roviofan)

Will they add more permanent levels too?

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