After soft-launching in a few countries south of the equator, Rovio’s newest kart racer, Angry Birds Go! is now available worldwide. The app is completely free to download and will be available for iOS, Android, Windows 8 Phone, and Blackberry 10. As of yet, we have no heard any official statement from Rovio whether it will be released for PC or Mac.
Note, Angry Birds Go is over 90 MBs and requires a healthy amount of RAM. On iOS, it’s a universal app requiring iOS 6.0 or later, and compatible with iPhone 4+, iPod Touch 5g+, and all iPads. Also, the app comes equipped with Rovio Accounts, allowing you to sync your data to the Cloud and continue playing on another device!
Oh, and there’s more Angry Birds news from today alone. Stay tuned…
Table of Contents:
Gameplay Basics
You start the game with Red as the only available racer and Seedway as the only track. You must purchase (or TELEPOD-in) a Seedway-permissible cart to start racing.
Carts have four categories: Top Speed, Acceleration, Handling, and Strength. Use Bird Coins to improve these aspects of your cart, which will likewise increase the “CC” of your engine. (CC stands for Cubic Centimeters, which is commonly used to measure the size of an engine.)
Important Note: Once you increase all four cart attributes to their max, your cart automatically upgrades to allow for even more power! The third time you fully upgrade, the cart will be maxed to the limit.
To control your cart, you can either use “touch” controls (pressing the left or right side of the screen will turn) or “tilt” controls (physically tilting the device laterally). There is no gas or break control, though drifting too hard or taking damage will slow you down.
Your drivers can only race five times before needing a rest. To recharge fully takes a few hours, which can be a bit annoying when you only have one or two drivers. As your team fills up, playing time increases.
Coins, Gems, and Cash
Coins are the most common in-game currency. Coins are earned by completing (preferably winning) most races and collecting them in-game. You’ll spend coins to buy new carts, upgrade your cart’s attributes, etc.
Gems are a bit more rare, but by no means impossible to find. Gems are earned by completing challenges (mentioned below), beating Champions, or occasionally collected in-game. You’ll spend gems to buy some carts or skip challenges, or you can buy coins using gems if you’re feeling desperate for an upgrade.
Cash is king. You can’t earn cash besides in your real (non-Angry Birds) life. But you can spend cash to buy gems or carts. Yes, the app has IAPs. (Nervous parent worried about Junior running up your bill? Restrict IAPs!)
Get Ready to Race!
There are five types of play in each Champion’s bracket.
Versus: A simple one-on-one sprint. These are good ways to earn coins when needing to upgrade your cart to attempt other races. There is no “minimum CC” to compete, but rather three separate levels of difficulty.
Race Mode: A Grand Prix event in which you compete against 7 other drivers. You must place in the Top 3 to pass. There is a “minimum CC” requirement for each race, and a total of 5 races per bracket. (Once you pass all 5, “Race Challenges” become available, which can help earn both coins and gems fast.)
Time Boom: You alone race the clock, but the track is littered with ice, wood, and stone. Ice will provide the least resistance, wood will hurt your cart a little, and stone is very harmful. Avoid them all if you can to beat the fuse! Again, there is a “minimum CC” requirement, a total of 5 time booms per bracket, and then “Time Challenges” become available.
Fruit Splat: You compete against one or two piggies. The goal is to break enough fruit to clear away the bar at the top of the screen. It’s easiest to do this when you’re in first place, but clearing the bar is all that’s necessary to pass. Once the bar is filled, the remaining fruit will turn to coins! Again, there is a “minimum CC” requirement, a total of 5 fruit splats per bracket, and then “Splat Challenges” become available.
Champion Chase: As you progress, you must beat each additional character three times to unlock access to them. They won’t go down without a fight, so be prepared to retry a few times! There are high “minimum CC” requirements for these races.
Characters and Abilities
There are 12 total characters to play as or compete against, each with its own special ability. We list the ability that you can use when playing as that characters, but note that each has an additional defensive attack during Champion Chase mode.
- Red: Unlocked by default, Red features a 1-time moderate speed boost.
- Stella: A defensive gal, Stella can encase herself in a bubble. This will protect from most attacks and on-track debris, and also allows a wider range to collect coins, gems, and fruit.
- Bomb: True to his being, Bomb can explode to spin-out and severely damage nearby carts. Bomb’s cart will be unaffected by the blast, but make sure you don’t crash into your competitors.
- The Blues: The energetic trio features three mini speed boosts. These can be activated as completely separate points during the race, or in quick succession. The three boosts combined are approximately equal to Red’s single.
- King Pig: Lazy to the end, King Pig’s cart features an interesting speed boost. While not super fast, it will raise King Pig off the track for a short while. It’s useful if you’re falling too low in the Air circuit or coming up on a lot of blocks in Race Mode.
- Terence: Big, bold, and bothered, grumpy Terence can strike nearby competitors with lightning. The effect is similar, but perhaps slightly less damaging than Bomb’s blast.
- Bubbles: Super excited to be included, Bubbles inflates to a massive size and rolls forward. This is useful for pushing race leaders off the track, or for collecting items in a wider range.
- Matilda: Whether you love her or hate her, she’s pretty talented here. Matilda can throw her egg bomb ahead to damage carts in front of you! Very useful when playing from behind.
- Foreman Pig: Angry and mustached, the Foreman Pig carries three bundles of TMT (I’m not sure what it stands for… maybe Tri-mustache-toluene?). He can throw these forward at separate times, or in quick succession. Definitely an upgrade from Matilda.
- Hal: Tired of getting mocked for his beak, Hal fights back with a whirlwind of power! He can summon a tornado, which goes forward and spins out any racer caught in its path.
- Corporal Pig: Summons a helmet to revolve around the cart. The helmet protects Corporal Pig and damages anything that would otherwise damage his cart. Can be used up to three times, either simultaneously or sporadically. Lasts for two hits or approximately 15 seconds.
- Chuck: Perhaps the most difficult character to beat, Chuck features a 1-time extremely big speed boost. To beat him head-to-head, you must attack early or be left in the dust.
Tricks and Tips
- Don’t be afraid to play dirty. When competing against a small field, push sideways on their rear tires to spin them out.
- Damaged carts have lower top speeds. If you need to “repair” your vehicle, totaling it completely will respawn a brand new cart.
- Don’t get landed on! If a cart lands on your character’s noggin, you might be knocked out of the cart!
- Defense is good offense. Bomb and Terence are among the best characters to use in Champion Chase. Get a good launch off the slingshot, avoid the first attack, then blast the Champ! Hopefully their cart will be damaged enough that you can escape to the finish line.
- Drift and draft when you can. Drifting occurs when taking corners and your tires slide a bit sideways. Over short distances, you can maintain high speeds while turning! Drafting occurs when you drive immediately behind another cart. The low pressure behind the opponent’s vehicle means less air resistance on your cart, allowing you an attempt to pass.
- Don’t restart mid-race! You usually earn coins even when you lose, and coins help make your cart faster.
- Beware the Air! The Air circuit is extremely difficult. Your cart may be faster on the ground, but you’ll often find the computer is faster in the air. Try to avoid getting too much height off of jumps, but make sure you reach the other side first!
- Versus and Race Mode are great coin earners. Pick a difficulty level that you can win pretty consistently. Not only will you get the indicated payout, but you’ll also earn any coins you collect in-race!
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Angry Birds Go will have Multi-player!
I have an Ipod touch 4th gen. Can you tell Rovio to make this game compatible with Ipod 4th gen?
No we can’t, sorry. From iTunes:
@amslimfordy I am playing a guest ATM ,but if I sign in to my Rovio account will it take away my progress?
I’m not sure @ArthRomod. I haven’t tried.
@arthromod @AMslimfordy Yes! As guest it will take away your scores :( so if you are offline, you need to start again
Can anybody help me and tell me what Bomb’s power is for? When I activate it, it hits my own car, I lose time and that’s it.
It’s for blowing up racers close to you.
Nobody is close to me. And why am I blown up myself?
It won’t negatively effect Bomb. It’s only in his immediate vicinity.
It causes epic confusion for the racers around you. Bomb’s power is really useful when you are in competitive play with other racers and need to break up the pack of karts. Bomb them, damage the opponent karts to slow them down at the start of the race, and victory is easy. My favorite power for Champion Chase.
I am signed in Rovio’s account on my iPad and Samsung Galaxy, accounts are not cross-platform synced.
As I see on sign in screen, it show continue on other android device.
Hey @AMslimfordy here’s some additional info for pigineering playtesting!
CC stands for Cake Capacity according to the resident pigineer … ahem, I mean Mechanic Pig in game :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=609461365775988&set=a.414396961949097.100485.414393958616064&type=1&theater
Also, to increase your score in Fruit Splat, drift like crazy! Each time you have wheel slip from even the slightest turn, you gain points. You can execute the most epic drifts with a kart with maxed out top speed and low handling. You can hoon your way through Fruit Splat and swerve all over the place collecting all the fruits you can and avoiding the boost pads – lap time does not matter in this gameplay mode.
Likewise drifting in other events does add to your score, but runs a risk of slowing you down so much that you lose the race. However, doing a bit of showboating does add a modest bit of points if your kart is setup for ‘oversteer’ (high top speed, high acceleration, little to no handling!).
The “finish the race without your kart” challenge is killing me. How am I supposed to do that?
You need to self-destruct the kart somehow. The driver will then roll across the finish line :)
Rovio’s ‘tired driver’ approach has made the old levels unplayable for me. I’m already on the Sky levels and losing a VS. race gets me more coins than winning one of the first levels. I would love to play those levels but at this point wasting a race from one of my characters for low coin total isn’t worth it.
They should really look into making the coin rewards dependent on player progress instead of race level.
I have been thinking of this for a while and understand the game designers’ intentions of the energy meter to encourage some sort of roleplaying & strategy, however the way it scales mercilessly as the game progresses can be quite annoying for most gamers used to ‘maximum effort’ playthroughs.
Some sort of player activity to reduce the rest duration of each character would be welcome. It could be as simple as a minigame to feed the birds/pigs with fruit… that’s why karts are used to smash watermelons right? To feed the pigs lol!
‘Tired player’ can make us not too addicted as well. Sometimes I feel it’s annoying, but this is a good idea for me. Toreadors’ idea is good too actually, we can save our money if it was included in the game : )
In future updates, Rovio should remove the ‘tired’ feature .
@lostgraybird I could agree with your point on this. I scanned my Chuck’s telepod into game and done dozens vs. races. Winning could give 700-800 coins and losing 250-320 coins, definitely more then winning Seedway races and colse to winning Rocky Road races and challenges.
Hmmm…I meant @lostgreybird, I always misspell your nick.
Iam trying to drift but never works…… Is there any secret to it?
I think to drift you need to turn slightly sideways on a corner to drift. I’m not sure though. It may be easier with Tilt controls. (but I haven’t used the touch controls, so I don’t know.)
For touch controls, just press and hold right or left depending the direction you want to turn. That is easy right ; )
This game works like most arcade racing games. You do not need to do any sort of power management, handbraking or clutch kicking to drift properly.
Even the slightest steering motion will cause the game to register you are ‘drifting’ because of the primitive wheels slipping so just steer all over the place and rack up bonus drift points :)
A ‘drifter’ kart is one with very high top speed and acceleration and low handling. Pretty much the best way to win Champion Chases is to drift at top speed right at the corner apex and drive a more aggressive line than the AI. And of course more drifting = more points for bragging rights and 3-starring.
Anyone else finding the tilt controls to be extremely touchy? Other than the negative stuff already mentioned I think this is a very fun and solid game that gives them a lot of avenues to build off (tracks, cars, characters). Has anyone else played on an Apple TV. I just did and it runs really well bringing me back to the old Mario Kart days
I’m finding the tilt controls to be pretty good, unless I’m going around sharp corners. But when I tried touch once, it didn’t feel right, so I kept using tilt.
I found that tilt controls is sensitive on my device. Is there anyway to reduce the sensitivity?
I haven’t seen any way to reduce sensitivity. I think the reason I’m good with the tilt controls is because I used them from the first game. My only real tip for the tilt controls is practice.
@amslimfordy have you seen this in game yet
http://d.pr/i/qegq
It happened to me in the first set of levels but I didn’t think anything of it. An upgrade price was over 4,000 coins so I just played more to pay it. In this picture the price was huge so I double clicked and swiped away the game to restart it and the prices went back to normal. Just make sure everyone keeps an eye out for it. I’d hate to see someone lose 1,000s of coins because of a glitch.
@lostgreybird Rovio seems to be tweaking some prices. I’d suggest sending them this screenshot.
Same thing happened to me, after it updated. 19,000 for an update lol….
I waited for a while, closed the app, removed it from the background, restarted ipad, and reopened it, it updated again and the prices came back to reality…. Try to see if yours are updated now…
you platform is Android?I’m playing at iOS and I don’t see it.I’m now also at Air tracks.
Just got this “glitch” again, and it’s holding since 3 days now… :( …
Can some one confirm the price of the kart named SODA SUPREME L1, in the stunt arena to be 26,213? Or it should be much less?
Soda Supreme= 7,921 coins.
How do you “beat a friend?” I suppose this comes down to how do I make friends in the app?
Game Center friends
Or maybe also facebook?
Facebook too actually. Every time you finish an event/race, you will see your scores and stars you get. Under the energy meter, there’s your high score and tap the “see your friends scores'”. And then, just login to facebook ;)
I don’t see that. I have the option to “share” and when I follow the link I get the Facebook app page. Twenty-something of my Facebook friends also “like” the page. But I don’t have any friends.
I feel lonely.
You have to activate Facebook integration to ABGO app manually via the option on the main menu. It should also prompt you to authorize Facebook access by itself.
Still not getting it. I have one thought as to the cause: maybe none of my friends are playing AB Go?
Maybe, but try to log out and login again, might can help. And are you sure you don’t see these? (the circled one)
http://angrybir.de/1kOGfDd
No, I don’t have the circled box. I have the “share” box
I have the same problem. I can’t see that box
@amslimfordy: won’t you add the AB Go achievements to the achievements list?
We may. Haven’t discussed it yet with staff. Working in a few other projects.
I don’t know if i should dowload it!? Who can recommend it?
If you love to play mario kart series, you will love to play this game too. That’s what happens to me :D
Any Bird (or Pig) fans are welcome to try the new game. It’s structured like a for-fun companion product to all other Angry Birds games. The new 3D format is a love-hate affair for some players but generally ABGO is well made and might just surprise you.
Just don’t mistake the In App Purchases as something mandatory like many reviewers are doing. ABGO is not a ‘cash grab’ like some MMO games.
You don’t need to spend a single cent to get great at this game!
Hi folks! Can someone tell me how to use a power up? I’m trying to finish the first race challenge but I don’t see power ups except for that lightening bolt thing and that apparently doesn’t count. Thanks
What you do you mean, exactly? Do you mean the PU’s like the King Sling, etc.?
You just tap on their icons at the top of the screen and they apply automatically. I think you unlock them at some point, but I don’t remember when.
There aren’t power ups on top of the screen in Go. Or there aren’t yet.
Just spinning my wheels here. Is it because I’m a guest and don’t have a Rovio account? Or something like that? I played many times since I posted this, even doing the time thing a fruits but no power-ups. Help!
Yes the Power Ups are those at the top of the screen before you fire the slingshot to start the race. Please do open a Rovio account and play with active wifi connection. It should appear that way. They are pretty obvious when they do appear.
@lloydm If I remember correcty they showed when I beat Stella for the first time. You have three kind of power-ups from sponsors they cost 200 coins for King Sling and 100 coins for Farm State power-up (repair kart during race) and booster (didn’t use this properly, I guess it gives your kart mini energy boosts during race).
King Sling is pretty much King Sling from the other games – it also costs about 400 coins for me, guess they get more expensive the more you use them
StateFarm is like you said.
And the Boost one is it attaches a fan which shoots fishes out the back of it which make you go faster (pretty weird).
Sorry, I guess I’m a moron. I created a Rovio account. I still don’t see any power ups at the top of the screen or anywhere to buy them or sponsors ads to get them. I’ve hit every icon in the game I’ve seen. If Stella is the pink bird I beat her because I can race with her now.
Now I Found it! Race against the bomb bird first. Select the center icon in the race selection menu.
Yep @Metoo that was it. I claimed I clicked all the icons, just not that one. Lol! Thanks!
If I get this right, there are eighteen stars to each track
– Five from Grand Prix
– Five from Fruit Splat
– Five from Beat-the-Clock
– Three from the three Boss races needed to recruit
SO versus races and challenges don’t count toward your star count, but enable you to earn coins and gems. And are fun.
Correct?
Yes that is correct! Once at the Challenge Mode (after level 5 for each event) the stars or performance of race goals does not count, unless the Challenge specially states finish in X position of better.
The Challenges are meant for local Facebook competitions with friends, and of course bird coin grinding to fund future kart upgrades.
I came across a save conflict in AB Go, and it showed that none of my data was saved in the cloud, and it was only saving on my device. I chose device and I still had my progress, but if i hadn’t had the option to chose, I would’ve lost all of my progress. Is there some secret way to save to the cloud that I’m not aware of, or is this rovio’s fault?
Picture: http://angrybir.de/18KPfDM
If it come for PC & Mac the arrow keys.And the power can be shift!But it’s better to put a control setting for it.
COmment today on Facebook:
‘ Angry Birds Go! is not coming to PC as it is optimized for mobile devices. Will let you know if this situation changes, though. Chirp!’
@AMslimfordy :(
Hi! Can anybody say what is boost pad in challange races? I have to use three of them, but I can’t because I don’t know what it is. :( Please help me!!!
Hi Levai. A “boost pad” is the red pad with forward-facing arrows on them. There is usually 1 or 2 per race.
Any idea how to splat 15 melons while boosting as requested on the 1st stage of Stunt level 15 of the fruit challenge mode when there’s only one boost pad and only 2 fruit on the boost pad? Seems impossible.
I think it’s impossible, as the previous challenge #6 on Stunt, track 1, Fruit Splat: splat 10 fruits while boosting in a race.
It’s time to spend your gems, I guess.
Some challenges are indeed impossible. Rovio should have marked this game as “beta version”.
One challenge sais to destroy 15 wooden blocks but there are not even 15 wooden blocks in the race.
And Rovio’s CEO should post a video on youtube how he “finishes a race without kart”. And not even one race, there’s a dozon of challenges like this. Otherwise he should pay back the money to clients who payed to pass this challenges.
Hi everyone, I’m stuck on the challenge ‘finish the line without your kart’. I read the above comment but dont know how to break the kart and roll over the line. I tried many times crashing on the sidelines before entering the line but still cant.
Also another one is how to drift on the ‘Air’ challenges. It’s very hard I cant get the ‘splat 7 fruits while drifting’. And the last question is some challenges require to splat about 30% or 35% which mostly I cant complete them cause the fruits always turn out to coins.
Thanks
@ani22
1) That’s a hard one. You need to be pretty heavily damaged to begin with and then crash hard shortly before the finish line.
2) To drift in “Air”, you have to turn right then jerk it very hard to the left (or vice versa). The spoiler on the cart counteracts drifting.
3) Fruit turn into coins after you’ve met the required amount to splatted fruit. It’s a bonus.
Thanks AMslimfordy for the advices. I’ll try on the crash before the line again.
For #3, I stuck on Fruit splat challenge #24 of Stunt Track 2, I got only 30% fruit splat then all turns to coin but the challenge requires 35%. I can’t fixed that.
Have you tried using bubbles?
Disney removed energy system from Where’s my Water 2 upon negative feedbacks they got after game was released. Could we, AB GO!, fans expect this happen with this game? Oh, I wish it more thatn anything and I’d like it happen before update that would add new content to game (somewhere I read it should be water races????).
Has anyone bought or played the Jenga game?
I did. Nothing special and not rewaring in bird coins. No matter of score or even stars, all you get for completing is 70 points.
What new on latest update? GP has an update 1.0.4
I’m a fan of all Rovio games. I really want this game for PC.
@Kislu Rovio has stated that they are not currently planning to releasing Angry Birds Go for computers.
I know about it :(. Sad truth.
Has Rovio said anything about the tablet compatibility issues on Android?
Do chapters 3 & 4 add anything new or is it more of the same?
I downloaded AB Go yesterday and I’m currently working towards unlocking Terence.
I really enjoy the game when it lets me play, but it’s starting to annoy me that Rovio expects me to either spend silly money on IAPs or wait for birds to recover so that I can grind for upgrade coins in order to progress. (I’d get the coin doubler, but my max for that is about 2 euro… which is what I paid for the coin doubler in Jetpack Joyride.)
I can answer my own question…
Seedway: short races
Rocky Road: slightly longer races
Air: even longer races, adds long jumps during which you can steer.
Stunt: very long races, track includes a looping, corkscrew
Air is a nice addition but Stunt doesn’t feel worth the effort – the gold mining aspect becomes ridiculous without IAPs.
Final update – it took me until today, 12 days total, to complete the game without IAPs or telepods. All characters unlocked, all Race/ Time Boom/ Fruit Splat events completed, and 49 challenge rounds completed along the way.
If grinding for coins and waiting for recharges were not so ridiculously limiting, this game would probably provide two or three days of much more fun.
As it is, I’m not inclined to look at this game again until Rovio adds a new track.
Ok so another question. How do you completely trash an opponent? I’ve been banging into carts as best I can but no luck. I’ve also been trying to pick on the other bird cart so I can keep up with where it is but still can’t get the check. Help! Lol! Thanks in advance.
Completely destroying an opponent’s kart involves repeated ramming or causing opponent’s kart to crash into walls. If you hit hard enough or enough times, the vehicle will be destroyed.
Ok thanks @Les Toreadors just have to keep trying. Obviously I’m on the right path
@lloydm In order to completely trash an opoonent you can land on them in the beggining with the slingshot. I got it just like that.
In Tips an Tricks, the first trick is really useful. It is most useful in ‘Versus’ and ‘Champion Chase’ mode.
Just finished the first two episodes on Angry Birds Go, but went i open the Air episode and picked my bird and mode, and clicked the Go button, it shows the loading screen, but after the music fades out, the app closes on it’s own! @amslimfordy, any advice?
I have the same problem. If you have come up with the solution, can u plz let me know. Thank you. I have tried just about everything i think.