The most frustrating to me are the ones who just can’t even hit certain targets.   Like windblade and some others because they shoot into the ground, or some (can’t remember offhand) that cannot hit unicron because of the arc of their weapons.  That should be a bug to be fixed,  but in R/E’s mind I’m sure it just plays into “strategery.”  Also…[Read more]

I guess I burned through a lot of pigs speeding up missions (especially those 48 hour missions).  I can do maybe 2 months of spark runs with what I have, but would have to stop accelerating missions.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>So today all my bots died on a spark run for the first time in forever (last one died to a swarm of flying pigs whe astrotrain was on the way), but then I learned that I could try again after watching an ad.  So I did, and finished without losing the first one.  The video let’s you start over with recharged bots, but y…[Read more]

I used to feel like I had enough coins to last forever,  but now I’m down to my last 10 million or so.  By playing less these days, I am definitely burning through them much faster than they come in.  Upgrading characters and accessories takes a pretty good number of coins, and now this.  I already stopped buying steel crates due to the poor val…[Read more]

I agree it seems like this is a net positive change, and yes my third slot was already there without needing to upgrade.   And I suppose that at least theoretically you only need 1 or 2 bots to get full sparks,  as long as you can keep them alive long enough.

I did one run, and eventually got the target score, but it took a lot longer than the old 5 stages.  I didn’t count how many but I only had 3 x 210% bonus.  Presumably faster if you have one or more promoted bonus squad members.

So I just updated, and here is what I can tell:

1. Can now only use 3 bots, regardless of having spent thousands of gems to unlock the additional slots
2. Levels continue past 300!
3. More sparks (over 3000 at lvl 301)
4. Costs a lot of coins to do a run, but apparently you can do more than one per day
5. Bonus squad members get the 4x bonus for spark…

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@grimlockdown, that does sound ominous.   I did my spark run this morning before updating the app, so no idea yet.

@asen, I think you are right.   It would take a lot of recharges to get the gold crates here with only 420% bonus.  I played enough to try out the new bots and get the 1 gold crate, then quit, no point.   None of these bots seems worth the cost.

@abt explained it better than I did.   Sure, it often doesn’t make sense, but if you don’t,  you can’t get the later bots unless you buy them for gems or buy tons of recharges.

Now I suppose that you just have to hope that you *don’t* get an overpower from a gold crate 🤣

@abt, thanks for the detailed review.  As is so often the case, you end up wasting large amounts of sparks promoting the first bot from the squad so that you can unlock the better one who is more worthy of promotion and spend the sparks all over again.    I went ahead and got Cyclonus since my offer was only 750 gems, seems good but it’s hard to…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@jaykew, That is awesome,  and exactly what I have come to expect from this game!</p>

There seems to be an unusual amount of enthusiasm for cyclonus here, so here is mine from the 80s.  

This squad is one of the very worst.   None of them are any good.  But, somehow slipstream is female?  I always thought it looks like (s)he has a beard, but I guess not.

Yawn.

You just joined the forum and immediately are upset at lack of activity?  Are you a rovio/exient employee?

I might have been tempted by the prime pass as a one off, but really assuming that this will repeat about every 2 months, you are looking at about $120/year to play this game, which stopped being very interesting a while ago.   Maybe if there were a way to buy the prime pass with gems, it would make sense.  But I don’t get $120/year of en…[Read more]

Spark run.

Same.  I have barely played these past 2 weeks.   Can’t even justify doing the daily quests any more since it costs more to do them than you get back.