New Event – King of the Road

[moi]

Another new event has started.

This event uses one bot and makes use of energonicons.

The bonus squad is Enslavers, consisting of Scorponok, Barricade, Motormaster and Nemesis Hot Rod.

These are also in the exchange with accessories.

Good luck and have fun.

Topic

[moi]

The EggBot makes his reappearance in this event, just as the implosive TNT-crates.

[Docker Rocker]

The egg bots don’t give points! Why?!

[moi]

Why? I don’t know, but the EggBot only produces coins as it always has done when it gets hit.

[Docker Rocker]

I need points for Barricade or Nemesis Hot Rod. I always skip after the bad bots only to miss the good bots.

[cuxdavide]

barricade rules!!!!!!!!!! don’t know if use it also in spark run… i like the EMP against flying pigs, but his firerate is quite low…

[Andrew]

Eggbot also drops gems

[VaBeachGuy]

I just ignore the Eggbot. The only time I’ll shoot it is if there’s nothing else to shoot. But the majority of the time, I ignore it.

[deindiaan]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I’m playing with barricade, and with him it’s hard enough to shoot all the blocks and other stuff. Can’t shoot at the eggbot all time else I’m ending with low scores. But he does add some extra coins… Most runs give around 7k coins.</p>

[Pako]

@andrewinireland, I haven’t got any gems out of it. Just coins, it’s a walking mint.

[VaBeachGuy]

@deindiaan

It’s not worth it for the coins. You can get more than 7,000 from the map.

[__^[]^__]

Argh, I did it again – if you don’t collect the tokens from the event there will not be any that show up in the spire of shockwave. Good grief

[VaBeachGuy]

@wrioter

I’ve gotten tokens from the Spire at times when I haven’t participated in the event.

[Lewie4]

@wrioter Tokens should always show up in spire. If this isn’t the case, then you’ve found a bug!

[__^[]^__]

@lewie4 this should be an easy bug to replicate by QA, this is not the first time I noticed the occurrence, hence my annoyance with myself. this is a case where there were pending tokens from event participation.

[tek]

sometimes if you shoot the eggbot long enough, it drops a crystal or diamond. anybody know what its for or does?

[moi]

@teknovice This diamond or crystal (commonly known as a gem) is the most valuable currency in this game in contrast to coins. You can use it to buy all kind of things (accessories, speed up upgrades of bots and , open new areas, buy extra slots in the spark run, etc.)
Gems can also be obtained from the map where they sometimes appear, and also from missions, and theoretically from the shockwave’s tower (although in practice this will only cost you gems). Probably I’ve also forgot a few other ways.
If you’re quite desperate you can also buy them with real money, but I think this will take all of the fun out of the game.

[cuxdavide]

@moifirst i think this is a different gem… don’t know how it work, hope somebody can explain

[FortressMaximus]

I’ve never seen an eggbot drop anything but coins.  Interesting if this is a new thing.

[GrimLockdown]

Eggbots have always had this property of dropping a gem. And yes, it is the same gem although it looks a bit different. And you get to keep the gem even if your TF dies in the run (I “tested” this yesterday).

[cuxdavide]

one gem? only?

[moi]

@davide
Well, one gem is more than I’ve ever seen being dropped from an Eggbot.
In other words, I’ve never seen one as far as I can remember.

[cuxdavide]

[moi]

@davide Thanks for showing me your screenshot with gem!

[Docker Rocker]

@moifirst  If got this once or twice but never affected my gems. Thoung I wish it wouls so I could get Devastator, The Jungle and The Challenge Run. :-D

[moi]

@darthvader2091 Curious! Apparently the world (or rather this game) is more complex than I thought.