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Was this before or after todays Update?

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No responses to a positive post? It’s been 2 days since my initial mention of this, and I have not had to “multi-open” the app ONCE. I have not had a crash after a video doubler ONCE. This is a very drastic change. Nothing about my phone has changed. Is there really no one else out theer who has seen the game return to playable standards? All day today and yesterday I have been able to play nodes, as many as I could, continuously. And whereas this time last week it would take between 5-10 tried to even open the game, it’s opened every time without fail. It’s like I suddenly have a BIC lighter. Anyone?

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I have an S6 and about 2 weeks ago this started happening to me as well. I just posted that I was able to play a lot tonight. Interested if anyone can put input if they have suddenly noticed that the game stop crashing? I played five nodes and did more than a half a dozen video doublers without a crash, been a long time since the board has been cleared. Posting this for any replies or input? Thank you.

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@marioandsonic Is that why even when i send 3 level 12 TF’s on an easy mission I only get two stars each (And all 5 keys, no video needed)? I have seen other ppl post pics showing three stars but come to think of it I don’t believe I’ve ever seen three stars. I never worried about it because with few exceptions I always get the 5 keys but hmmm….

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I think this is a great idea. Watching the video doubler is what seems to cause the game to crash. Just after I click the green arrow confirming my reward, before it asks about thanking the buddy. “UNFORTUNATELY ANGRY BIRDS HAS STOPPED.” So I lose my gold and the mission, but strangely any damage done to the bot needs to be fixed. (Then i need to open the game 5-10 times in a row to get it to actually stay open). I figure at the rate I am going, Staying with a score of say, $1,500 coins, is better than doubling up and losing $3,000 any day. Just my two cents.

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I’ve been noticing only 5 nodes with no eggbots lurking quite a bit recently.

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@jman,

@optimuspig,

I am on Android and I haven’t noticed the bug yet either (knock on wood). And I have noticed that occasionally (with luck and Energon TF’s) the Very hard levels can be eeked out, but I spend so much time running from structure to structure (to gain health), don’t stop to shoot at that gold block or you’ll be a dead-bot… that I end up on the negative because I don’t make enough coins to cover the repair cost. But at least every once in a while I can clear a node off w/out using Skywarp in hopes that a fair one will show up in its

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So That’s why! Thanks @korath88 for confirming, @optimuspig for noticing, and @rumblebee for looking into it. This was driving me crazy!

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Thank you @partshade I’m in that situation now, Gold dome level available with lvl 10 bumblebee. Every bumblebee level they have given me is impossible so I’m afraid the dome will be too. I had just kicked off a soundblaster upgrade a few hours before. I think i’ll stop him, get my coins back, do bumblebee and insta-gem him, then go back to soundwave.

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You are all very welcome. @optimuspig I just went to Rovio’s site and submitted a request.

https://support.rovio.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

I would advise you to create an account first and sign in, then do it.

I think I just got lucky and my issue was picked up by a particularly friendly and helpful Representative. I would encourage Everyone here to use that link to report bugs and feature requests. The only way Rovio can know about them is if we all do this. And the way the development process works, is that (In most places) the more times a specific bug is submitted (By unique users) the higher up on the priority list it goes. Remember we are competing with like 10,000 other Rovio apps lol. And I’m guessing the player base for ABT is smaller than the others. So Get out there everyone and help Rovio make this game better!

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Ok folks here it is. I’m just going to copy/paste the exchange between myself and the Rovio agent. Your questions have been answered!

This is what I sent:

“1) Is buddy syncing supposed to work cross-platform? A lot of people say they can’t see their buddy if they are on android and the other is on iPhone. I have noticed this myself as I have a “Real life” friend who is on Phone and i can never see her although we have double checked our FB syncing. (I am on Android)

2) What do I need to do to receive five keys on a Hard mission?

I’ve got three TFs all receiving three stars, plus using the video bonus, and I consistently only receive four keys, not five.

In this case, all three TFs were at L11. Do my TFs need to be higher level?

3) Do the levels scale linearly? I’ve run missions using L7s that seem to be only slightly less effective than running missions with L10s and L11s.

If it’s linear, then running a mission with 2 x L15 would come to the same result as running the same mission with 3 x L10. Is this correct?

4) I’d like to know what Rovio has planned with the last two “Coming Soon” areas (one at the very top of Pig City, and the other one to the south of the Hard mission portal).

In particular, once these are active will there be another fundamental change to the way the game is played, like how post-1.5.15 we now have to collect special materials?

I’d like to know if I should start modifying my overall gameplay strategy now

5) think it would also help if we knew:

1. when / how often the game is supposed to back itself up

2. when / how often the game is supposed to restore itself

This is of course related to the discussion of the known bug here:

"Updating Progress" Problem (Looks like a New Bug, Rovio!)

6) Can you shed any light on Airachnid and why she shows up sometimes with the deceptihog icon, and sometimes autobird, as discussed Here (https://www.angrybirdsnest.com/forums/topic/airachnid-using-deceptihog-items-for-upgrade/).

Thanks a ton!

And this is his Reply:

“Hello again,

I’ll go straight to the point:

1) The new update allowed cross-syncing your progress (iOS <> Android and vice versa), so nowadays you should also be able to use your friends’ buddies, even if your friend is using different OS than you.

2) In order to receive five keys, your Transformers need to have higher upgrade levels. This was done in order to make sure that there’s an incentive to upgrade your characters, there would have been a risk that people get too comfy getting five keys if it was too easy to do.

3) Yes, levels scale linearly based on your Transformers’ ranks.

4) Unfortunately I’m not in liberty to say what the future updates might include, we want to keep it as a surprise. But I can tell you that personally I like what they’ve done! Patience my friend, patience..

5) The game handles cloud-saving by going through a predetermined checklist that includes everything from in-app purchases, your rank, silo level, pigs, material levels to coins and if some of the values for these items are different than the last time, the game will back itself up. The game also saves itself after every completed mission and after you’ve closed the game (closed in a way that it won’t run in the background, aka hard-reset). The game saves itself to a local save file at first and then it transfers that data to your cloud-save file.

6) The thing with Airachnid is an unfortunate glitch and we are aware of it, but at the moment it’s not our most important priority, so we haven’t gotten into it that much yet. Our main priorities are getting the rest of the iOS users back into playing the game and fix the freezing issue with the Android Lollipop users. The difficulty level glitch was also fixed and it will be introduced in the future update. Once we’ve handled all these tasks you can remind me about the Airachnid glitch and we’ll look into it, since I might forget it due to my hazy memory.

Phew, that was a lot of information, hopefully you’re happy! I can’t go into too much detail about the technical side of things, but these points should atleast shed some light on the matters that are confusing you and the other users.

Thanks again!”

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@optimuspig I have not been submitting suggestions.

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also @otter i think you are going to have trouble playing on multiple devices. The apple folks on here are finding that. And in general, games are not developed with multiple device usage as a priority.

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@otter may I humbly suggest you re-post this in an appropriate thread.

1) This is for questions about GAMEPLAY. (i.e how much gold is given for items earned when silo is full, are the level updates linear, what is the deal with Airachnid etc.)

2) We are fortunate enough to have contact with a Rovio person who has graciously offered his/her time to answer questions as outlined above. I am not going to barrage him/her with individual update issues. Especially since there exists a plethora of posts about updating after this new version.

3) Some info that might help you… When i first started playing in November, i was using a Samsung S4 and Android KitKat 4.2.2, I am now using an S6 with lollipop and I have not lost one iota of data. If you read through he forums you will learn that many people have had problems after the most recent update, and that the solution is somewhat simple. You basically need to make sure you are synced through FB, then uninstall and reinstall the App. Once you have completed a few of the tutorials to unlock Bumblebee (and thus unlock the “buddy” ability, making the ABT FB aware), ABT will load your profile from your FB settings and you will be right back where you were. It takes a while to load but it has worked for me any times on my devices and on my daughters.

I would encourage you to read through the forum for more details, or re-post in the bug threads for more help. Thanks.

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I am going to send him the questions asked in the thread, I’ll report back if/when i get a response.

@partshade @optimuspig @otter & @sumitarora15 I am not going to send him things about bugs or feature requests, he offered to answer questions about gameplay. I hope that we are all submitting bug reports to Rovio about these? It’s the only way to get them up on the priority list?

@optimuspig you did have a couple great questions and I will send them.

@dawni-criswell I’ll send this but in more general terms (Is buddy syncing supposed to work cross-platform?)

I will ask if the upgrades are linear

I’m going to see if he can shed any like on Airachnid and why she shows up sometimes with the deceptihog icon, and sometimes autobird, as discussed Here

If anyone want to add anything more please do and I’ll send it along. Not sure how many times he’s going to be able to go back and forth but I’ll keep trying.

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Ok Folks, I got one answer already. I asked him what the value are for the items we get from missions when the Silo is full, Here is his response…

“When your silo is full and you earn various materials that you can’t store anymore due to the silo restrictions, the reward gets converted to coins. The number of converted coins vary from mission to mission and from Transformer to Transformer, that’s why different players have gotten different results. I don’t get to hear all the intricacies that the developers, but what I understood is that there’s pretty complex math behind the decision what amount of coins you receive, so there might not be two identical rewards in case your silo is full”

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Android, Autobird (deceptibird)

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@partshade I did not notice the Deceptihog Icon on her page because on mine it shows the Autobird Icon, Wierd… See Pic

@optimuspig Thanks for the clarification (and Link)

@sumitarora15 Thanks for the Wiki Link, I am still reading it, I had no idea the plots were so Thick!

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@rumblebee I send you a friend request because I want to PM you. If you could accept or in any other way make it so I can send you a message I would appreciate it. You can unfriend me after if you need to.

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Looks like it affects Appley devices that don’t use Facebook Snyc. I use android and (knock on wood) haven’t noticed any of this. I also sync through Facebook. Thoughts?

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@rumblebee (This is off-topic) I sent you a friend request because I want to send you a PM. If you would be so kind as to accept or provide some other means of getting a message to you i would appreciate it. You can unfriend me afterwards if you need to. Thanks.

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@rumblebee and everyone else, It’s been (more than) a day and a half so i am reporting back as I said I would. After the bludgeon fished upgrading to level 11, the level still said “Very hard.” The difference was that I blew through it and only lost one heart. FWIW

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@rumblebee Here’s some more details on where I’m at now. The three previously mentionied levels are still there, the next three are:

Bumblebee “Very hard” I dont even get to the point of being able to cal in a buddy before being shredded by 3 (visible) shotgun pigsw. I usually manage to kill one of them before I die.

Regular Soundwave “Hard.” I can get to the point where I call in a buddy but before he leaves I am annulled because there are a swarm of flying pigs right off an i have to transform to dodge 4 monoliths, the bye time i clear the fourth one and start to transform to fight back, I am dead.

Bludgeon “Very hard” I have tried many times to beat this level and Cannot. Different from my experience Here yesterday in that this is a strange pig city level and there are very few buildings with which to get Energon cubes and shield myself. I am barely able to crack 300 Gold so I’m not going to keep trying it. However what I am planning to do, Is wait 4 hours for Arcee to get to level 8, then Upgrade Bludgeon to level 11. I’ll report back in a day and a half and let you know if the level was playable.

So right now I’m completely STUCK, Waiting for Skywarp tomorrow so I can waste 31 gems to free up 3 nodes and actually play the game. My Silo is full of everything but I’ll keep the missions going because you can get a (paltry number) of gems, some good coin and good pigs, and of course harvesting very 4 hours. I am using so many gems in this way I am going to ask Rivio for some kind of credit. I shouldn’t have to use something that costs money in order to make play a free game, IMHO. Thanks again.

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@rumblebee Thanks for your response, Maybe I vcan provide you with some more information that might be useful. As the Very hard insta death is not the only porblem….

I currently have three “Medium” runs with LVl 10 bots that I cannot beat. I will detail them

1) Energon Soundwave: I have no idea why but I have just about enough time to shoot the 1st house (to get cube) and call in buddy as i approach the first formation of enemy. It is as relatively large group of blocks with many shotgun pigs, and a TNT box right in the middle. One of the runs i noticed a mortar tower start to stand up (I had gotten about an extra second further in this run). Normally Soundwave would hit that TNT and everything would have been blown to smithereens, and i could have called in an airstrike to put down whatever the mortar tower was going to do and kept moving. But before I can even get a shot off at the formation (Weapon still recharging from first shot at building,) I watch my stars go from 5 to zero in about 2 seconds. And i don’t even see that the shotgun pigs are really starting to shoot.

Energon Lockdown: This one in infuriating, another “Medium” and I get just about far enough to shoot a large gold block and call in buddy, then before I even reach anything of significance (I think i few flyings pigs) He starts to jump up like he stepped on a land mine or something, and then the hearts go to zero and he is dead before the 5 sec buddy even leaves, and I have not even broken a block.

Galvatron: This one i get a little bit further, enough to call in a buddy and do some damage (I usually end up with around 500 gold) but after the first “Red thing to create bridge” suddenly the “ground” starts shaking and he starts jumping like Lock down above, hearts going down. I tried switching into car mode to outrun the “shaking” as this seemed to work sometimes in the past with this bug, but no go, the stars go down quickly as I am racing through and nothing is shooting at me.

One thing of note that IS relevant to the “Rambo pigs” (I like that way of phrasing lol), is that on this run, there is one solitary shogun pig right in the beginning, and he doesn’t do much but i noticed that it suddenly takes TWO shots from Galvatron to kill him. I never noticed it before but it is illustrative of my feeling that the weapons of all bots seem to be weaker (takes more shots from an Optimus prime to destroy a gold box etc). And there has never been anything other than a mortar tower or eggbot that can survive a single shot from a level 10 Galvatron. So the Dev’s need to figure out why the Rambo pigs are stronger armored now as well, or conversely, why did all of our level 10 TF’s get a weapons downgrade?

Thanks.

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The plateau’s. One node up and two to the right (ish) of the middle portal.