Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep nini bong!
Hound's out exploring and stumbles upon a race track, though it seems that something’s afoot as one of the cars bears a Decepticon badge…
Drag Strip!
Race Day Mayhem Challenged by
Hound,
Drag Strip forces him and his fellow
Autobots into a deadly race, threatening to endanger nearby humans if they don’t partake. Race for glory and exploit your opponents distraction to earn
Alloy, Energon, Spark, 3-Star Shards and Mayhem Crystals! Start Date: 13/01/2017 11:00 UTC
End Date: 16/01/2017 11:00 UTC
How do I participate?- Reach HQ Level 4!
- Join an Alliance!
- Tap the Event button!
- Select an Event Battle Zone to fight in!
- Win your battle and gather Battle Points!
- Collect prizes!
- Continue to earn Battle Points
Prizes- Prestiges Allowed: 60
- Bonus Experience: Earn Double XP in Event Battle Zones
Event Battle Zones Totaliser Prizes Mayhem Crystal Contents:- 4-Star Hound or Drag Strip
- 3-Star Hound or Drag Strip
- 2-Star Hound or Drag Strip
- 2,000 Spark
- 100,000 Energon
- 100 3-Star Shards
- 100 4-Star Shards
* This crystal won't contain smaller amounts of rewards. If you land on that reward type, you will get only that quantity.
New Characters Prepare to meet the first new bots of the new year!
Hound and
Drag Strip are making their way to the Space Bridge this weekend.
Hound (Gunner)
Intrepid, fearless, unwavering, Hound is all these things and more - perfect qualities for an advance scout. But the truth is Hound just loves to explore. If it's new, uncharted or off-the-beaten-track, Hound's your 'bot.Using his topographical skills and 3D simulation circuitry, he'll have plotted every twist and turn of the terrain in nano-seconds, and his jeep mode is the perfect all-terrain, off-road form.
Release the Hounds! - Release 5 holo bombs that deal damage to each target. Deals double damage to resource buildings!
Drag Strip (Gunner)For Drag Strip, winning is everything, and a more competitive soul you will never meet. Every tiny online moment is driven by his desire to come out on top, whether it's racing, fighting or just trading insults, and the only thing he craves more than victory is to know he humbled or humiliated his rival in the process.His fellow Stunticons can't abide him, especially as he's not above playing his underhand tricks on them.
Holo Assault! - Release 5 holo bombs that deal damage to each target. Deals double damage to resource buildings!
New Bot Abilities Our game designer Adam has been hard at work creating
new abilities for upcoming bots in the game. Vote in our poll on BAND (
Click Here to Join), selecting your
top 3 favourite abilities that you’d like to see added to the game. We'll show off an
exclusive preview of the #1 ability from the poll during a future Twitch Stream!
Click here to Vote! Got your own idea for an ability? Submit your ideas in the comments section for the chance to have it considered for a future bot in the game!
The poll will close on Monday 16th January @ 10am UTC.
New Updates We’re constantly working to improve the game, and during our next update we’ll be making some changes to ensure fair and balanced gameplay for all players. This includes raising some of your bot abilities which are too weak and rebalancing some which are overpowered. Let’s take a quick look at some of the changes that are coming to the game:
10-January-2017 - Release 1.35- Fixed the Free Crystal timer display issue.
- Fixed a series of bugs related to resuming campaign battles.
- Battle History: the share button was not shown in some cases.
- Combiners: The battle clock no longer counts down when the combiner is forming.
- Scouting: You can no longer tap and find the location of hidden stasis mines during a war.
- Headquarters upgrade 11, 12 & 13 achievements are now shown correctly in Google Play.
12-January-2017 - Release 1.35.1- Fixed the bug with Nano-frost misfiring and not having any effect.
- Blaster & Soundwave - Health and damage increased by 5%
- Defense Hack (Bombshell) - Hacked defenses deal 50% more damage. Target still attacks at 2x attack speed but now with 75% damage (up from 50%).
- Whirlwind (Seaspray/Octopunch) ability cost decreased by 1 from 6 to 5.
- Increased ability cast range by 2 for - EMP Bomb (Bumblebee/Skrapnel), Glass Gas Rockets (Kickback/Cliffjumper), Artillery Support (Rust Dust/Scavenger)
- To make things fair & competitive, we want to give both pairs of Rocket Barrage gunners equal stats. This encompasses the following changes:
Long Haul is given the stats of Alpha Bravo (means more damage, less health).- Prowl & Brawl - stats equalized at a point close to Prowl. This means a bump in damage at cost of health for Brawl and a bump in health at a tiny fraction of damage for Prowl (4-Star level 60 bot power changed from 1147 to 1141).
Walls Level 15 - Health decreased from 17k to 16k.
Design Commentary: We think that the max level walls are a bit stronger than they should be considering the data and player sentiment around them. This is a small step-change and isn’t likely to affect the game by visible margin, but we are thinking about further balancing changes as well as new abilities/boosts that may help players fight with “time trap” base designs. Ideally there should be no ‘optimal’ base layout (which means more choice for players to decide on their flavour of defensive strategy).
Twitch Stream Hope everyone had a fantastic New Year! We're back with
New Bots! Catch us
LIVE Thursday, January 12th @ 5pm UTC to see
Hound and
Dragstrip in action!
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