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Just a wild guess here but as Rovio was ever so kind (yes thank you oh great and powerful ABT overlords for this wonderful blessing) as to give us this lame “challenge” that awards gems for higher level rewards, I’m thinking we may have to buy Hot Rod with gems. Rovio doesn’t like to give us anything without a plan to take it away in place.

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@droversdog

Considering the US is Rovio’s second largest market (Currently China is #1) it kind of makes sense. The Chinese embrace much of western culture as “hip”,”cool” or “trendy”, while we Americans are very arrogant and elitest… in other word the largest market will embrace the 2nd largest markets culture but not the other way around. Outside of Chinese New Year most Americans know little and care even less about Chinese culture… sad but true. So to engage their second largest revenue base they theme things around U.S. interests. Also as the largest vehicles for app distribution (Google and Apple) are U.S. companies (yes they bother operate internatuinally I know) you find app developers catering to that market. I’m sorry to say my culture is willfully ignorant of others and we are a very selfish culture, Americans will proudly embrace Veteran’s day here in the U.S. but 99% will have no idea what Anzac day is. Rovio’s decision is purely financial to placate an ignorant market share that they value. And yes I am American and proud to be one but I am also not blind or ignorant or self deluded. With all this said… Happy Thanksgiving all!!! :)

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Ok so I was able to find Hot Rod as a helper. Yes it is Hot Rod is you find him and see him in game or at the thank you screen, you will see Hot Rod’s yellow fin on his back and on the back of his vehicle mode, to me that is a sure sign this is Hot Rod. Not sure how to get him yet, gonna burn through some missions to see if he comes up.

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In the new “hot rod” squad you have this red BB varient (the red BB from transformers was originally Cliffjumper but I have no idea this guys name). In all likelyhood the other member of Nemisis prime’s squad will be Epic Optimus Prime. No idea what squat shockwave will be in even though we’ve seen him in game.

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Yes Acid Storm, Ratchet, shock wave and yet another version of OP were leaked several months ago but this is the first in game sighting I have heard of. More than likely its a jail beoke IPhone.

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The beach is a good spot for them, the top desert node and any of the nodes on the left (fields). Pig city and the river are the worst areas for pumpkins!!! Keep in mind the scarecrows with pumpkin heads count as pumpkins.

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@optimuspig

I have. And yes even with those bots you can shoot without “auto targeting” an object. Its not as easy as with a rapid fire bot but ALL bots can manually target.

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You can do this with ANY bot. Works best with Starscream and thundercracker but works well enough with lockdowns, ultra magnus and a couple others. A little harder with BB and Jazz but still doable.

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STILL can’t auto connect to Facebook and still can’t watch videos to boost buddy and still can’t select any other buddy then the left most bot. Wow this game is starting to suck on a whole different level!!! Looks like Rovio fired all their decent programers and kept all the unpaid interns. Way to go…

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And done….. paying for bots?? Hahaha last straw Suckio!! You blew it, had a decent app and now totally ruined it… on to the next game.

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Please red feel free to explain how when I had 25 Super Rarium in my silo (enough to do 1 level 15 upgrade and still have 10 left over) and Rovio without any notice reduces it to 5 (enough to do 1 level 15 upgrade with ZERO left over) that they did not steel from me?? I USED to be able to use a combo of 1 AC + 1 BP + 1 SR and refill my SR (that combo had 2 spots of 3 SR so had better odds of getting SR), now after an upgrade I have none left to use that combo!! Tell me how is that better for me? I know there are other combos that yield SR but the odds are worse at landing on SR so they potentially require more respins (using more gems). Tell me how Rovio didn’t take from the players and give NOTHING back. Please don’t try and defend the indefenseable!! I’m out this place.

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@gradientturtle7

Hey when you get a chance can you tell the overlords that the Android version 1.7.9.2 crashes more than Helen Keller giving Stevie Wonder driving lessons while being supervised by Ray Charles!!! It would be really nice of they could figure out how to stabilize the platform from time to time. Just putting that out there.

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Someone needs to take Rovio’s toys away from them since they keep breaking them!!! They can have them back when they learn to play nice!!! LOL!! How about an update with new levels and new bots….. that would REALLY break the game!!!

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The codes are for Jenga and they come with the toys you have to buy. The codes are 1 time use and can’t be shared. Sorry there aren’t any other “codes” out there for this game.

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Hey I lost 3 achievements!!! Went from all 86 back to 83. What’s up with that!!!! Well completed one of them and did get the 10 gems for it so can’t be too upset. Use 3 SR, enter astrotrain as a washing machine (deceptipig bot), and have partner/energon icon/self all target same target are the 3 I get to redo.

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Ok so Rovio KNOWS this update is hosed, I just watched my game go from version 1.7.9.0 to 1.7.9.1, yup already released the 1st patch the SAME day as the update…. oh and the game still crashes like Ray Charles giving Stevie Wonder driving lessons!!! I think I’m giving up on ABT for a while its just not worth it anymore.

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Ok don’t be fooled, this “update” was nothing more than another money grab!!! I will bet you in the next week or less Rovio will stop their server side support of versions below 1.7 meaning anyone on an older version that still has the larger silo or still has the higher gem rewards in the lab will be forced to update the game, because the FB cloud will no longer support the old versions and I’m sure the games will crash (worse than they do now) when trying to sync to FB. The game crashes on start up, when loading a video, and just at random now, this update fixed NOTHING!!! Wow they added spot lights in pig city levels and timers over the spawning nodes so you know how much time is left (thank heavens for this I mean tapping on the node to see the time was HORRIBLE) and missiles that do more stupid stuff to your bot (I thought the idea was NOT to get hit by those) and the changed the bridge into pig city…. I mean wow its like a whole new game!!! (Please note the imense amount of sarcasim) Look up “Rovio Updates” in the dictionary now and all it says is EPIC FAIL!!!!

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So reading between the lines we should expect a full update in the next couple of weeks? They better add some new area’s and maybe even some new bots. The game is getting stale.

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It rolled to droid about an hour ago. Just used the bot and appears back to normal.

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@partshade the game is weighted to the level your bots are at!!! Level 4 bots don’t get the same levels a level 15 bot gets!! So having maxed out bots just means the games difficulty is maxed out as well. There is no difference in the nodes now for me then there was when my bots were level 10, I still get medium and hard nodes they are just medium and hard for level 15’s. Yes a low level bot would be dead in 4 seconds on these levels but there is no difference in a level 10 hard node and a level 15 hard node, they are “hard” for the level the bots are at.

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Wow so there it is in black and white…. Rovio does NOT care about the users but only about people that spend money on their games. And the intention of the lab being about Energon Icons is total GARBAGE!!! There are only a limited number of EI so once a player has those what the lab is then useless? So the entire purpose of that massive game update was to use the lab some 40ish times and be done with it??? Do you really expect people to believe that? I had ALL the EI within 2 days of the lab opening so this whole time Rovio’s intention was for me to not use the lab anymore?? Why doesn’t Rovio just come out and say it… the players found a way to avoid having to spend additional money for a “free” game and Rovio is more concerned with making money than player enjoyment of their product. How much time have developers and programmers spent on finding and making these changes instead of improving and expanding the actual game???? Well you now have 1 less customer!!

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Hey Joonas (and we ALL know that’s not your real name) how about you ask your overlords to actually program something FOR the users? I mean you guys over at Suckio (all they do is suck the fun out of their games) have done a bang up job lately of TAKING everything you can how about for a wild change you give back to your players. I’m sure Suckio is making more than enough off of ad revenue that they really don’t have to worry about in app purchases for the die-hard players who never putchased gems in the first place. Ok so I’ve never bought gems and didn’t buy Jenga mode, but I do own EVERY telepod for this game and between those and the ad revenue I generate I’m fairly sure I’ve compensated Suckio enough. This game has almost run its 15 minutes. Heck I’d be happy with new levels or new bots or ANYTHING to bring this stale dinobot back to life!!! Such a waste no wonder they had to fire like 30% of their company poor poor management all around.

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And no NONE of the old fixes work!!!!

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Ok this was all done to stop GEM FARMING, it was possible to use certain combinations in the lab to basically get unlimmited gems. Rovio saw their premium currency (the only thing you can buy in game) become worthless. That is the entire reason this was done. It will be pushed to IOS before long I would put money on that.

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There are 5 minute nodes now!!! Woohoo!!!