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Jay Kew@jaykewI thought the same thing, so I had a look into it. Prior to the major update just over a year ago which completely changed the game and brought in the War Pass, I had opened 266 Gold Crates. 29 of those were Legendary (10.9%), of which 13 were Overpowers (4.88%).
Since then, I have opened 101 Gold Crates. 7 of those have been Legendary (6.93%), of which 4 were Overpowers (3.96%).
Jay Kew@jaykewYeah, I get the same – on iOS. The loading screen goes to load
v2.13.0.0v2.10.3.0 and then changes to v2.10.0.0, hangs for a while, and then crashes.
Jay Kew@jaykewLooks to me like any character that became available through a Competition / Event is not available for use in this one. Nautica is available for use since it was attained through the cave area for Plasma, and Bluestreak, Prowl, Arcee and Airachnid are available for use since they are attained through Mission portals, not from Competition.
Jay Kew@jaykewYep, got the same issue. Also on iOS
Just ticked over the end of day 1 of the competition and can’t get back into the game.
Jay Kew@jaykewIs this a new low? I just spent 8,000 tokens upgrading Alpha Trion, as my promoted bot from the VIP group, from Level 15 to Level 16 in order to obtain a measly 1% Overpower – hoping that future levels might be somewhat more substantial.
Only to find that should I slave for another entire week’s challenge next time he is offered, I can spend 9,000 tokens to upgrade to Level 17 in order to receive a 2% REDUCTION!!! (i.e. -2%) Maybe a Level 25 Alpha Trion (with potential ongoing negative improvements) could be the worst character in the game?

Jay Kew@jaykewI unfortunately use Sunstorm as my Cybertronian representative – this choice was made soon after Sparks were introduced to the game and, at that time, Sunstorm had explosive rounds which were quite effective, like with Thundercracker and Energon Starscream. But, like most decent things in this game, the explosive rounds were taken away, leaving me with a partially promoted transformer that is otherwise crap. My Level 20 (+175%) Sunstorm with +82% Damage from fully maxed out accessories still needs up to 3 shots to kill some pigs! And since the game has been bludgeoned (pun intended), giving me no chance of earning the 13,500 tokens required to overpower him further, I guess I’ll never find out if it gets any better!
Jay Kew@jaykewHas anyone experienced an issue in Shockwave Spire where the Prizes Earned screen after you exit doesn’t show all of the accessories that you have achieved? Here are some screenshots:
Jay Kew@jaykewLevel 1203 is !Missing String!
Jay Kew@jaykew@elpapam I’ll be the one to say it … the leader in your screenshots is using Ultimate Optimus Prime, who is a member of the bonus squad (Variant Versions), so they could also be getting a 1400% bonus too. Since you are using Ultimate Megatron, who moves much slower in comparison, they could be completing runs quicker than you, allowing them to accumulate points faster than you.
Also, to weigh in on the ongoing duplicate name discussion, I have a possible theory that perhaps when you have a user in your leaderboard who is from a non-English alphabet based country (e.g. Russia, China, Japan), whose user name might not normally be comprehendible to your device, the game instead inserts a ‘token’ user name taken from someone else … or of course they could just be a bot.
Jay Kew@jaykew@seaspray JGB’s change of character from E Grimlock to GB Grimlock, with 70% reduced promotion, could be caused by E Grimlock becoming unavailable for use in the event due to (i) being fully damaged and unable to view videos to recharge, (ii) being sent on a mission, or (iii) being upgraded to a higher level. Alternatively, given it’s a one bot event and E Grimlock can’t take much damage, perhaps JGB was sick of getting killed mid run and changed to a stronger bot.
Jay Kew@jaykewPreviously there have been glitches such as where people’s scores from before and after a run were attached together. E.g. 80,750 + 8,000 should equal 88,750 but their leader board score would then read something like 8,875,080,750. Even though their true score is lower than someone with a score of 120,000, this glitch treated the full number as correct which placed the person at the top of the leaderboard for that day. I’m pretty sure this glitch happened to a regular poster on this forum who provided screenshots of their own ‘huge’ score.
The current scores in question could also be the result of a scoring glitch, and not necessarily achieved naturally.
Jay Kew@jaykewJust had a good run in Shockwave’s Spire. The 3 new Achievements and rewards are 20 Gems for reaching Level 10; 200 Gems for reaching Level 30; and 1000 Gems for reaching Level 60.
Jay Kew@jaykew@tobyjug my Gems are currently 3755 and Coins are 19,046,304. I try to keep around 4,000 Gems in stock, but just had to spend 500 to get Red Alert, so am rebuilding. Haven’t opened up the 4th Spark-run character spot yet – once I unlock the final two game characters I’ll spend the 1,000 Gems to do that and then maintain a balance of 3,000.
I haven’t gone crazy with the Steel Crates, as I still need plenty of Coins in the future for upgrades. I need total 28.5m Coins to upgrade all my existing characters from where they are to L15. I should be fine to earn the difference over time, but not if I open too many Crates.
Also – I’m at Spark Run Level 127. I probably would have been at 160 by now, except I spent almost 2 months selecting reduced levels to maximise daily Sparks instead of progressing through the Levels.
Jay Kew@jaykewAll good @droversdog … I don’t think you are the only one to have interpreted it that way.
Jay Kew@jaykew@joel687 you should have years of coins to open 5 crates per day … every 24 hours you get one free steel crate, and each additional single steel crate costs only 15,000 coins. So 1 free + 4 paid crates = opening 5 crates = 60,000 coins per day. I’d be very surprised if you can’t earn at least that amount from collecting coins from map nodes, piglab spins, earning coins from map runs to thank 5 buddies, and earning coins in competition runs. Add to that, others have commented that you can use the Goldslam Energonicon to magnify your coin takings from map runs and you should actually be adding to your stash, not reducing it.
Jay Kew@jaykewAs per a previous post from @partshade …
“**INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM TELETRAAN 1***
/FASTER! STRONGER! Raise your character’s battle strength with new OVERPOWER levels!I’m pretty sure that means additional ability statistics and nothing to do with Event Bonus / Spark percentages.
This might actually ‘balance’ up some of the less useful bots to become more equivalent in effectiveness to the more popular ones.
Jay Kew@jaykewIf they are back to their old formula, Seekers would be the next bonus squad (Starscream was the latest character available in an Event), possibly with Blaster to be available in the Token Exchange.
Event following that would then be Instruments of Destruction as the bonus squad.
Jay Kew@jaykew100 Gems for one extra Spark run seems out of balance with the reward. Wondering if it’s like the Mission portals where you pay Gems once to unlock a reward that is ongoing … i.e. Pay 100 Gems for a second Spark run every day. Pay another 100 Gems for a third Spark run every day???
Jay Kew@jaykew@millforce2k I’m pretty sure that you can change the bot assigned to any node by selecting the run and tapping the green circle with the arrows at the bottom left of the pop-up. I think it costs you 1 Gem every time you change character. That way you should be able to leave your bots on their mission but still complete the run.
Jay Kew@jaykew@pandaczar12 I can confirm that various accessories for Dark Megatron, Ultimate Megatron, Starscream, and Energon Starscream are all 50% off, indicating that they will be on offer in the Token Exchange. (I don’t have Drift, Wheeljack, Skywarp or Nemesis Prime, so I can’t check those)
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Jay Kew@jaykew@armourbender @sntrooper My take on it is that only the Squads which contain characters available through Events have been used as Bonus Squads so far. Squads which only contain characters available through Pigspending such as Target: 2006, Instruments of Destruction, Leaders, Pure Warriors, and Variant Versions have not been directly used as bonus squads.
Of the Squads which do contain Event Characters, only Brothers in Armor (BIA), Seekers, and Valkyries have not yet been used*. If indeed BIA are next, followed by the Seekers, then it is likely that the Valkyries will follow, which ties in nicely with the pattern identified by SnTrooper. i.e. Chromia would become available in the Seekers Event, ready to form part of the Valkyries Bonus Squad for the following Event.
*Disregard the current short Implosion Event, BIA should again be the bonus squad for the next Event, just like the Wreckers were the bonus squad for the short New Years Event followed again straight away for the full Wrecking Ball Event. {Assuming that the game ever gets fixed … I’m now over 83 hours since my App auto-updated and I lost all access to ABT}
Jay Kew@jaykewPosting in this thread as I don’t seem to be able to post in the ‘Adrift Event’ thread …
Interesting to note that the Adrift Event is supposed to end at 2017-01-24 0.00 UTC, which by my calculations is in 18 hrs & 15 mins, however the Event page says that there is a ‘New Challenge in 18h 15m.’ Normally on the last day of competition this would read ‘Challenge ends in 18h 15m.’ Perhaps there is going to be at least one more day of competition beyond what was advertised??
Also, as a conspiracy theory, since Dead End showed up as a late entry in the token exchange when Drift was available, perhaps Nemesis Prime will show up late this time while Epic Optimus is available??
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