Hard Update 1.25.x.x

[Asen_77]

I am with 195% and today on run at level 12 I reached end with third bird. Other two was killed. Grimlock died in the middle of the run. Actually with this bonus I was almost 70 k points and total need was 55k. Soon this wont be enough probably.

@joel687 I am with 20 defensive cap on Grimlock and I believe this helps a lot of time to survive.

Very strange is that Grimlock could survive two folling mortars, but at some point of the levels shows some flying pigs and they kill him just with 1-2 shots, that I don’t even see during the run. And for me this pigs are not the special one for the run. When this special arrive, they are just harder to be kill, but they didn’t provide that hard damage to bird. Almost all flying pigs are killed immediately from the bird, but I still don’t have explanation how this things is happened and wich pig is responsible for that. At this moment I am on level 13 tomorrow for 220 sparks promotion.

I am hoping Dead End to get to this team and to help me to reach the end easy, or at least to get to there more times then without him. Of course this will go after his level 15 and hoping to get accessories too for him.

[Optimus_Pig]

@asen

There are two special pigs that are in the Spark Run.

Sometimes they are flying, sometimes they are just sitting on the ground or on top of a brick stack.

The one with a purple cross symbol is extra powerful on attack. The one with a blue cross symbol heals itself so difficult to kill.

And I’ve also noticed that the flying pigs are generally more powerful in the Spark Runs.

The only time I haven’t made it all the way to Astrotrain was when there was an unusually high number of flying pigs.

[The Dark Knight]

Hey people i can’t remember if the Bomb as Drift wanted mixed Pig & Birds materials i am a bit confused i wanted to update him lvl 15 and look what he wanted as materials…

It was always that combination? I can’t come to remember his combination in materials in the past versions.

Also i have spend over 800 gems in cutting updating time to lvl 15… i will spend another 395 gems to speed up the upgrading at list for two more TTFs and then i will continue updating and waiting 3 days to finish…

[The Dark Knight]

@20qmindreader so it seems that it might be an error… be cause it’s so damn lame combination…? anyway i remember when i got him it used t have Pig Iron and Pig Processor i don’t know they change in the later versions but in 1.25 the need Auto Cog and Pig’s Processor.

It’s odd..

[Asen_77]

Level 13 today – reached the end of the run, but with 195% bonus I couldn’t collect enough points for full Sparks promotion. Total I need 69 000 points, but after bonus I have 68 768 points. Problem is that tru all run I blow up almost 90% of everything on the way … This run will become harder and harder every day. I lost Grimlock and finish with second bird, but points were not enough … Tomorrow at level 14 will see how are the tings, but don’t expect better points :( …

[marioandsonic]

Is anyone else not able to load the game? I’m on version 1.25.6.6, and every time I load the game, I hear the music for a few seconds, and then it crashes.

[Geli]

RE: Drift upgrade materials- currently at Level 7, require Birdium and Anger Chip to ungraded. Weird, indeed, how the required material changes(d).

[Asen_77]

Level 14 – Grimlock was killed on the first part of the run before first cave, them Ratchet survived to the last part, and finished run with third bid. Points – 77400 requiered for full sparks, succeeded to get about 66k with bonus, so no full sparks promotion for me at level 14.

[Phillips]

@optimuspig I’ve encountered 2 other special pigs. One had a yellow lightning bolt (he has appeared in two runs level 3 and level 9) and the other had a green heart (he appeared level 7). Not sure exactly what they do the lightning bolt seemed to be harder to kill but it didn’t recharge, just took more damage. Green heart no idea it was sitting in a tower and Soundwave wiped out the tower and everything in it.

Don’t know if the levels have anything to do with their appearance although the blue and purple pigs always appear when Nemisis Prime has had the green aura. The green heart and lighting bolt appeared with other characters.

[Optimus_Pig]

@phillips

I don’t recall ever encountering the special yellow and green pigs.

Also, on the information screen that appears before you commence your sparkrun, on the bottom right it will tell you which special pigs will show up in that sparkrun, and if you press down on the picture it will tell you what its special ability is.

[Optimus_Pig]

Managed to finish Level 12 with some minor difficulty. Although my TF was in flames by the time I made it to Astrotrain, it was still my first TF.

Not sure why I had such a hard time of it several days ago at Level 9 when I got utterly shredded.

Since then it’s been challenging, but nothing like it was that one run. Although one significant change in my approach since then is that I no longer go after balloon pigs at all. Since they don’t give you sparks there’s really no point in trying to kill them, and by ignoring them that allows you to focus your firepower on all the other threats.

At Level 12 / 210 sparks per run, it’s getting close to the point where I may consider it worth spending the 100 gems to get the one extra sparkrun each day.

[Phillips]

@optimuspig thanks will do that next time they show up.

[datguygamer]

Cannot pass level 13 no matter what. I have been trying for 2 days straight but these kamikaze pigs shred me. Really sucks that there are no Energonicons to help when all these structures are littered around.

Also sucks that we cannot switch at will when a character gets damaged or a WMT comes up. I cannot switch to Dead End immediately to deal with those. This while Sparkrun is just a scam to get players to buy more gems. >:(

[The Dark Knight]

Each time i going out of the barracks the game is crashing and closing and this is started getting on my nerves. This it’s happening every 2 nodes and many times after nodes when i am going to astrotrain the game crashes and i need to restart the game and re-do the same event.

Till now in all those shitty upgrades that i have installed i didn’t have this problem! Now with 1.25.4.6 i had lost the count of how many restarts i have made so far…

[Anonymous]

Just got the weirdest glitch in Spark Run:

I was running Soundwave, and as usual, he got blown up by the pigs. So, EGrimlock continues on and runs past him.

After a few seconds, dead Soundwave suddenly appears again lying on the track EGrimlock is running down. As EGrimlock walked up to Soundwave, he literally just kicks Soundwave off the screen and keeps going. This wasn’t even a soft push. Soundwave seriously flew out of sight when he came in collision with EGrimlock.

It was the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen this game do. Happened too quick for a screenshot, though.

[Izberg]

I am seeing more and more game crashes. Today during my spark run lvl 12 I started off with Nemesis Prime until just past the first underground. After coming out ran into flying pigs and a hailstorm of fireballs from wmts. Right as the Transformer changeover took place something happened where E-Grimmy went into the ground and only the top of his head could be seen. Needless to say I had to abort the run because no matter what I did he was stuck with only his head showing but couldn’t progress forward.Took a screen shot but have not figured out how to attach it yet

[Asen_77]

Level 15 sparks run today – reached the end with Dead Grimlock and Second bird Ratchet. Finished with third bird and the points I earned are not enough for full sparks promotion unfortunately. Third bird was almost without blood, so pass final on luck. For level 15, spark run bonus was 240, but I collect points only for 192 sparks points. My bonus is 200%.

[Phillips]

@izberg did you try transforming. Had the issue a few days ago where the changeover took place on a bridge on the desert level. Thundercracker appeared under the bridge when he got to the end of the bridge (where the canyon ends) he was stuck against the wall pressed the transform button a few times and he eventually flew out.

[Optimus_Pig]

The app crashed right at the start of the sparkrun, so I lost the entire thing.

I decided to drop 100 gems to start a new run.

At Level 13 I just managed to make it to Astrotrain on my third TF. But I was only able to complete 4/5 increments so I got 176 instead of 220 sparks. At least I was able to unlock Level 14 for tomorrow.

One thing I noticed was that when my second TF showed up to replace the first TF that died, it was already taken down by 2 hearts. This is not something I’ve ever seen when the buddy replaces a dead TF during a competition run. So either it got hit by a flying pig or whatever as soon as it arrived, or else excess damage transfers from one TF to the next??

[Joel]

@asen – That is why I am staying at level 11 for now. I am still getting 200 sparks, barely. Since I am only running 170% bonus, I was getting less sparks when I tried the higher levels. Until I can invest some sparks in E grimlock, I am stuck there.

[Gabee1611]

Do anyone know what is the highest level of the spark run?

[Asen_77]

@joel687 Actually you get 200 without getting to the end of the run. Good strategy. Tomorrow t level 16 hopping to get more then your 200 ;), but I will see. Hope things to get better with the point on the higher level and to be possible to reach Sparks of the day with the run. At this moment at last 3 levels I couldn’t reach highest sparks, even when I finished the run and blow more of the things on the way. I think has more then 90% hit on targets, 200% bonus and still don’t reach total needed point for all sparks. For now I will continue as I can on the levels. Lets see how will proceed. Every day will post information about the run.

[Izberg]

@Phillips yes I tried several times to transform and he would jump partially out of the ground and the bar would decrease as normal but it was still stuck in the ground. It was on the desert level for me also at the end of a wooden bridge.

[The Dark Knight]

@lewie4 The soft update at 1.25.4.7 is not fixing the issue of crashing the game after finishing a nod or exit the barracks… here is the today’s new submit request ticket #1476077

I really wish you people do a Quality Check before giving us on air new soft updates. 2 soft updates without solving the problem is so damn annoying, And remember it’s disrespection toward to the people that s buying bundles or gems or whatever monthly.

[Optimus_Pig]

If any of you are encountering a black screen (run refuses to start) after the mandatory video ad finishes playing, try to “soft” close the app (in iOS press the “home” button once to take you to the home screen) and then go back into the game right away. It should then take you through the Autobird / Deceptihog logos and leave you paused at the very start of the run, and you can then play normally after unpausing.

Whatever you do, don’t “hard” close or else you’ll lose everything.