The soft-launch of Rovio’s first RPG, Angry Birds Epic, is now available for iOS in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. At this time we don’t know when it will roll out to any other countries, but you can be sure Nesters will be some of the first to know. The worldwide release will add support for Android and Windows 8 Phones.
So, with that out of the way, we here at the Nest have downloaded Angry Birds Epic and the above video gives you a first hand look at the actual gameplay. You literally can watch as we launch and play the game for the first time.
At first glance, the basic gameplay is easy enough to understand, but it will be difficult to master — especially for those not used to playing RPGs (you can include me in this list). Once again, the piggies have stolen the eggs from our favorite feathery friends. Starting with only the Red Bird, you must defeat the pigs in turn-based battles to retrieve stolen goods.
Each bird seems to have three abilities on any given turn: an attack, a defense, and a special “Rage Chili” attack. Hold down on any character (bird or pig) to see details about these abilities.
The objective is clear:
Knock out all piggies, but you must keep at least one bird standing! As an additional challenge, try to earn three stars on each level (Yes! Rovio is absolutely keeping a three-star format!). The more stars earned, the more prizes you win on the “Roll for Loot”. These items will be used to upgrade your birds.
So, what do you think? Eager to play? Let us know below.
Helpful Links
- Want to talk Epic? Head to the Angry Birds Epic forum.
- Found a bug or have feedback? Given this is a soft-launch, Rovio will be even more receptive to feedback than normal. Add your feedback to our Angry Birds Epic Wishlist and Bugs forum topic here.
- Need help? Check out our Angry Birds Epic walkthroughs (even more to come)
Helpful gameplay Tips Straight from Epic!
- Most resources and ingredients can be crafted from lessor ones
- Scrap your old unwanted equipment for bonus resources
- Each weapons and off-hand item has a passive bonus ability
- Use the Rage Chili wisely
- Collect both items of an equipment set to gain a unique and incredible powerful set bonus!
- Sign in with Rovio Account to share your game progress across multiple devices
- Gain all three stars to gain more loot
- At least one bird must survive to win a battle
- Try different bird combos. There is a trick to any fight!
- Fill up the Rainbow Bar of your Golden Pig Machine for a guaranteed set item!
- Visit Professor Pig’s lab regularly to get more powerful recipes
- Off-hand items increase a bird’s health
- Weapons increase a bird’s attack power, and thus the damage dealt by all of their skills
- Tap and hold on any character during battle to read their abilities
- Friendship Essence is uses to re-roll stuff
- Get more powerful equipment from the Golden Pig machine
- Ask your friends once a day for free Friendship Essence
- Change a bird’s class (headgear) to change its battle abilities
- Pig Gates can be opened with Pig Key of a similar color
- Wave battles contain multiple battles
- Drag the full Rage Chili
- Upgrade your Magic Anvil or Cauldron to roll more stars!
- Tap and hold anything for explanations
- Some pigs have peculiar passive abilities
- Tap a bird to use its supporting skill on itself
- Complete Friendship Gates to unlock bonus areas and items
- There is a unique dungeon for each day of the week
- Visit your friends camps for free rolls on their Golden Pigs machine
- Tap and hold a blueprint or recipe to see the required materials to build it
- Combat in this game is turn based. You can only give orders during your turn
- Completing a daily dungeon will reward you with a huge amount of Snoutlings
- Visit Mighty Eagle’s training dojo to upgrade your birds’ classes
- Open Friendship Gates to unlock bonus areas and items.
- … Are we missing any? Leave a comment below.
I may give ABEpic a try when they release it for Android and my location, but I’m not sure if I want to. I’ve only played a kind of RPG once and it ended up in a terrible addiction, which is something I certainly don’t wanna experience anymore.
You’re too funny @annifrid. I think you’re already addicted to AB, so I don’t think you can resist ABEpic! LOL
Ehe,. Do not inclide me in the list of persons not playing any role playing game!
This is different from what I expected. I didn’t think it would be so straight-forward. I should be better at this “epic” game than the other RPG’s I play.
You’re not boring at all @birdleader. Nice to have you starring in another video!
I’m having trouble with the second “prince porky” appearance in southern sea-3, he dodges all damage above 57 and all my birds have 57+ damage! should I downgrade all my birds for this level?
@Peatree One version of Red has 3×28 or so; Chuck has a 35-ish. I’m working on getting vids online slowly.
the boss himself is no problem but every two rounds it seems the boss generates two health/explosion bombs that either replenishes his health to full or takes out most of your life, each needs 100+ hits to destroy and I can’t get that with 3 birds with only basic upgrades. anyways, looking forward to the videos :)
Has anyone else had the issue of the game staying for huge amounts of time on the “loading game texts” screen. When starting up, it goes through several other “loading” items easily, but I can’t seem to get past the “texts” one. Is it downloading something? I’ve tried restarting several times and it stops at that point every time. Can’t get to the game. No indication of what is going on, blue bar never moves.
@upsidown It does seem to hang there, but I usually get through after 15s or so. What device are you on.
I-Pod Touch 5th gen, with IOS 7. Haven’t updated to 7.1 yet. Deleted and am presently re-downloading the game to see if that does anything.
I’m on a ipad 3(with retina display)
IOS Version: iOS 7.0.6
Problem: Stuck on loading game texts screen
Hi @upsidown and AbnisEPIC. I have an iPad 3 Version 6.0.1 and have exactly the same problem. I’ve tried 3 times to load it and have deleted it each time. Rovio’s game support (contacted via their website) suggested I reboot and asked for the error message. Rebooting doesn’t work and I told them about it stopping at loading audio container…download failed trying to continue…then it becomes stuck at loading game texts – as you both have found. It’s currently early in the am in Finland, so I’ll wait until later to contact them again since they haven’t replied to my reply to their email. I suspect there are many more of us unable to download it. Needless to say this is why they do soft launches.
Update ur iPad to 7.1
I just received the following email from Rovio:
We are aware of this issue and are currently working on a fix. Hopefully we will be able to release a hot fix update really soon.
I shall therefore wait for Rovio’s advice/fix before I resort to updating my iPad. I’m one of those people who believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – i.e. Version 6 so far has been adequate.
Reading the items on the reviews tab for the game on I-Tunes shows there are several others with this same problem, so hopefully there will be a patch soon.
Hello, it’s a nice game i love it.
but i have sign in with a rovio account and facebook account, and i can’t find any friend…
Did you know why ?
can we find some random friend or i need something other ?
Thank you !
I think your friends must also have the game.
Thank you for your reply, where i can find some friend to add ?
is there any rovio list or something other ?
thank you in advance
One of your Facebook friends will have to play the game and connect to their Facebook account.
I connected to Facebook, now I have a time 19:59:59 and counting down.
After 20 hours, the gate will open? Or do someone have to do something?
I haven’t opened a Friendship Gate yet. I’m not sure how they work.
@AMslimfordy, is it me or the game is a bit hard?
I find there’s lots of details and information to know and discover.. Other than killing the pigs and hitting them, I’m not yet aware of the other stuff happening in the game: potion, maps…
I download the game using a fake iTunes account, because I live in Portugal. When the game will be available worldwide I will have to download it again to have the new updates that will be released after that? Sorry for my english.
Yes David.
AbGo sub zero out tommorow!
From A Twitter
I mean AB Twitter, heres the link
https://mobile.twitter.com/angrybirds
Ooooooooooooh.
I just checked. I didn’t get the update.
Hi: everyone . On Facebook AB . Say ; they have technical problems ; they are trying to solve. Well .. !!! What we can do it’s just wait. .
Update to ABGo available on Android – received it earlier.
Oh man! I want to try it! The Nest should make an article!
A lot of the birds have similarities to Final Fantasy classes. Red-Fighter, Chuck-Black Mage, Matilda-White Mage, Blues-Ranger, Bomb-Berserker, need I go on?
Did anybody notice that when you buy the Sae Berry Juice Rank 1 (what does the rank mean, by the way?), all the Banana Juices Rank 1 disappear?
@chriss, I made lots of banana juices and after unlocking sea berry juice, banana juice disappeared, I just vasted so many resources for nothing. Juices rank shows their strength and I tjink that rank 2 is up to 50% stronger then rank 1 juice.
@cosmo2503: shall we put it on the bugs list?
@chriss I don’t think it’s bug, rather it is part of game design. Maybe we should need bananas for later recipes and as for disappered banana juces, it would be fair that players.could replace them for berry ones at same heaing rate (i.e. 100 health from banana juice replaced with 100 health from berry juice).
@amslimfordy: Some of your walkthroughs only show 2 stars walkthroughs, not 3 stars.
Does anybody know what I have to do to get 3 stars?
@chriss Rovio has stated that some levels are impossible to 3-star, and others impossible to even pass, when first encountered. The only way to do so is to revisit the levels at a later time with stronger birds.
I’m not ready for this. I’m still on my Go! buzz. i’ve never played a RPG, so i’m not sure this’ll be for me. but who knows.
I’m loving the game so far, but I seem to have a shortage of snoutlings. Anyone know the best way to earn some.
I know the mighty eagle says dungeons are a good way, but I can’t even beat the third wave of Porktuga.
I can’t pass Southern Sea 3. Any ideas?
Same here. Think the trick is to destroy the bombs so try can’t heal the pig and the attack the pig when you can.
@chriss @Dan There are two ways:
1) A combo of: Pirate(Bomb), Mage(Chuck) and Cleric(Matilda). The trick is (after reaching the boss with all three of them) to have the Mage apply a shock shield on all characters. This way, the only thing you need is to have the boss attack you and the self-inflicted damage will kill it eventually. Use the cleric to restore health to your characters. Some luck might be needed as well.
2) Safer approach, a combo of: Pirate(Red), Lightning(Chuck), Cleric(Matilda). Pirate is capable of 3 small attacks that are below the boss’s limit. Use that and the Lightning’s ability to choose another character to attack to maximize your attacks with Pirate. Again, Matilda will be your healer to maximize your life expectancy.
Hope this helps. :)
Thank you, @teogeo, this worked for me. But I had to upgrade Matilda first. I got only 1 star, but better 1 star than 0 stars.:-)
Videos thru Southern Sea are on YouTube.
off topic: go update out for iOS and android
weird I dont see any update. Even when I search for the game.
sorry, just see that iOS version is not ready yet, only android for now
Hey Android users . Tell something about this update. It’s okay . ROVIO fix it the gems system on P U’s or it’s even worse. Please say something ; ‘ cause I am IOS user.!!!
@nacho18
new snow theme with ice which make it difficult to control your kart.
Daily reward/event race: today 100 coins, day 2; 400 coins, day 3; 4 gems….. getting after finishing daily event race
8 new karts
graphics: very bad
day 1 200 coins*
Hi @josm. Thank you for your promt reply. There are knew Achievements to earn!! The karts are free or bias IAP’s ..!!! No knew character!!! Hope you still on line.!!!
no @nacho18 no new characters, 1 kart for coins (2000 coins) 7 karts for gems :/ you can also log in with facebook from now to double your coins with the daily event
@nacho18 @AMslimfordy its now for iOS to
just 1 track from the new episode sub zero, ice splash instead of fruit splash and 3x slalom instead of character beat. in the episode screen sub zero is with an preview badge, so maybe more coming soon
No new thread for this update?
Not sure what happen cause on my device cannot play with internet connection, game will force close after few second, if turn off internet i can play more that 10 minit.
Luckly i didn’t sign up rovio account.
@PJng Game requires Internet connection to play.
@pjng @AMslimfordy I can play Go! without internet connection anytime, only first time after updating internet connection is required
@Josm Sorry I didn’t check the thread (I should have). I thought the discussion was about Epic, not Go. I agree with Josm — Go only requires Internet for the first opening after an update.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsKCe6EcMqI
I may sound dumb for asking this, but… where do you find the dungeons?
@Spacemaster it’s not dumb, I’m still missing lots of details. I find it a bit hard to find stuff and not enough info is given
@spacemaster First Dungeon (you can visit it on Mondays) you will find after rescuing second Egg. You should move in the third part and complete a couple of levels, than you will find the Dungeon (it’s on the map). The Second one (for Tuesday) you will find right before third Egg. Both of them are hardcore and nearly impossible to complete at this stage of the game.
I played the first dungeon today, although today is not Monday. How is this possible?
@chriss I can continue playing as well. It looks like they may have changed the playing style. Instead of only being able to try once per week, your friends’ birds take 12h to recharge?
@chriss After re-reading the image, it says you can replay every Monday. Perhaps that means once defeated once, it can only be replayed on Mondays?
Maybe.
@amslimfordy: you were right. After having defeated the dungeon, the gate opens only once a week. But you can also open the gate with 15 gold coins.
I just opened the game and it forced me to start again with no data saved. I’m logged into my rovio account and still nothing. Any ideas anyone?
That happened to me the first time I played. Unfortunately, I’m not sure what causes that.
I was thinking it has something to do with logging in to the rovio account the first time.
I’m deleting, reinstalling and logging in again. Hopefully that works. I was up to southern seas 3 so that’ll keep me busy if it doesn’t work!!
Please read the posts above. The Rovio account does not work properly.
Thanks Chris, that still doesn’t explains why it wiped all my data from the app and made me start again from scratch though. Maybe it’s another bug.
It does. If you are logged in, nothing is saved on your device. So if Rovio loses your data, it is lost forever.
Ahh, I get it. Think I’ll stay logged out then!!
@Chris, my scores disappeared after the first 2 days, I connected and played again. I thought i was logged out and now I just saw that I’m still connected to my Rovio account. If I sign out now, will I lose everything?
I’m afraid the “bug” will happen again and I’m going to lose everything. I’ve been playing 3 days non stop..
I’m not an expert, @joeyba, you’d better ask Slim, but I guess that while you were logged in, your data was not saved on your device. So when you log out, your progress is lost. But not really lost. In case the Rovio account works properly now, you can keep your progress as long as you are logged in.
@amslimfordy, any idea? shall i log out or keep logging in?
How many levels are there for Epic @AMslimfordy? @birdleader told in the video about 20, and if you see the map in the video this is almost correct. but i see 38 walktrough video’s. is there disappearing more ‘cloud’ after you have done all levels or someting?
@Josm I’ve still only recovered 2 out of 5 Eggs! There’s gotta be a lot more. I think BL was just speculating maybe.
@AMslimfordy thanks, i cant play it here yet so i dont know what you meaned with eggs, is this one chapter?
@Josm Roughly-ish, yeah. The main objective is to retrieve the 5 stolen Eggs.
Is it normal that it takes very long to load (at the first time)?
Yes it is. But only the first time.
I’m not trying to advertise but this guy on youtube named ZackScottGames has a series up on it anyone still waiting for the game.
I LOVE zackscottgames?
Has anybody defeated Poseidon Pig yet?
What or where is the daily dungeon?
@trishohara The first dungeon is found in Pirate Coast.
thanks :-)
SOS call:
When do the Blues and Matilda appear?
I played 12 levels and now I’m at Egg I believe.
What happens now? I can’t defeat the last magician pig!!
Will the island be bigger and cloud disappear?
I think I’m missing some details to understand fully the game.
The Magican isn’t easy. I needed a lot of banana juice. But it does work with Red and Chuck. Matilda joins later, and the blues are waiting in a boat on the sea. Keep trying @joyeba
@joeyba We have walkthroughs live for the first 40+ levels.
Sorry guys, I’m asking too much questions. But how many levels are in total?
Hoe many stars in total? I prefer the Angry Birds apps where we can see the numbers of stars, levels,… It’s not clear in this game.. Does it not finish?
It’ll be nice to see the Classic Angry Birds system for stars and points
@joeyba We have 49 walkthroughs up on ABN, and there’s another ~30 that I’ve recorded. And I still only have 3-of-5 Eggs (though I’m close to the 4th), and 2-of-3 keys.
The red key is obtained in the very last end of the game, nearly impossible to get, u need your best gears there though.
@amslimfordy u mean other than the 49 already posted here, there is 30 more to be posted? totalling 79 levels and counting?
Far more.
Holly Molly. It’s frustrating we don’t see the “end”. I mean playing without knowing where we’re going to..
In Game Center, all achievements have the same icon. Do you think this is a mistake and will be changed?
I think that’s how they intended.
Did you also get the last achievement, Slim? It sais something about a submarine. I got this achievement, but I don’t see any submarine in the game.
i am one step in front of rescuing the third egg, very beginning of level 11, so i am good upgraded, but Limestone Lagoon 6 seems impossible for me. One pig, but 32250 live, no. Did you already complete it? Or has anyone else yet completed it?
Post above @amslimfordy
@Miezko We have mentioned this in our walkthrough.
2 questions:
1- Is there a number a level we can achieve or it keeps growing to infinite?
2- When the game will be officially launched, will we have to restart from zero or we keep our progress?
1) I’m pretty sure that the game stops (for now) at the retrieval of the fifth Egg — perhaps plus a couple of levels for obtaining the Red Key.
2) Shouldn’t have to, since the game will already be on your device.
@amslimfordy:
1) The word “level” has two meanings. I think @joeyba was talking about the other meaning of level, which could be infinite in my opinion.
2) For IAP, the game tells me that I have to install it first from the app store in my own country. So after the worldwide release, I will install it again. Do you think I can keep my progress?
Hrm, I’m not sure about that. When the worldwide comes out, I’ll see what happens — but I’ll certainly backup via DiskAid first.
@Chirs @amslimfordy , I was talking about the infinite number of levels, I’m in level 10 and keep leveling up… so I guess it’s an RPG thing it keeps to infinite.. not sure though.
What is DiskAid? The same backup we use to the AB apps? The ones ABN introduced?
there are many more levels after the retrieval of the fifth egg, not going to spoil anything but I thought I was done… nope!
@peatree2: hey, you alrrady have 5 eggs? Congrats! Have you also defeated Poseidon Pig?
yes, i already completed all levels up to the fifth egg, there are some great unique levels and plot twists at that point. I’m working up to the areas after the fifth egg right now!
@peatree2: All levels means including Poseidon Pig?
Poseidon Pig has a health of 32.250.
Don’t tell too much, but later in the game will there be a pig with even more health?
Where is that Poseidon Pig?
Limestone Lagoon 6
@peatree2, can you tell us please what comes next:
– South Beach – 5 levels
– Cobalt Plateaus – 15 levels
– Golden Fields – 4 levels
– Eastern Cobalt – 6 levels
– Limestone Lagoon – 7 levels
– Southern Sea – 3 levels
– Desert Island – 5 levels
– Pirate Coast – 4 levels
– Slingshot Woods – I’m in it right now.. So how many section r this there till Egg5?
Please help. Where is mighty eagle dojo ?
Its a nest of the Mighty Eagle, where u can upgrade ur headsets, u will face it at later stage of the game, I wont spoiler the details, just let u know that.
Thanks