The Energon Pub

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:14 pm

If it's for science... then ya.

Besides, I've been building up Seibertron'so resistance to poisons for a bit, add another one!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:16 pm

Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep nini bong!

Compete for the light or darkness in this weekend’s leaderboard event for a chance to win a guaranteed 3 or 4 Star Rodimus vs. Nemesis Prime!

Light our Darkest Hour Event

Will Rodimus' "Blessing of the Matrix" light our way or will Nemesis Prime's "Power of the Darkness" consume everything?

Start Date: 16/09/16 10:00 UTC
End Date: 19/09/16 10:00 UTC

How do I participate?

• Reach Headquarters level 4 and join an Alliance!
(There are both Autobot and Decepticon Seibertron Alliances for you to join!)
• 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.
• Secure your rank on the Event Leaderboard
• Win amazing guaranteed prizes!

Prizes

• Prestiges Allowed: None
• Bonus Experience: Earn Double XP in Event Battle Zones!

Totaliser Prizes

Leaderboard Prizes

Character Spotlight
Whose side are you on? The carefree daredevil's or the dark, twisted bot bent on destruction? Catch Rodimus and Nemesis Prime in this week’s character spotlight video!

Balancing Update

COMING SOON
Autobot Jazz & Mixmaster - These bots will have equal stats. This means more damage for Autobot Jazz (but less health) and less damage for Mixmaster (but more health). Overall, this change is not large and will be most visible at the high-end spectrum of the game (where the imbalance was greatest), and helps us make the game more balanced AND more fair for all players across both factions.

The situation involving these bots was neither fair nor balanced. A high-level Mixmaster was able to ‘one-shot’ most of the defenses including Mortars, which was never the intention and more of an accidental overlook on my (Game Designer Adam’s) part. The gap between Mixmaster and Autobot Jazz was quite significant since one received damage boost at the cost of health (Mixmaster) while the other was more resilient at the cost of damage (Autobot Jazz). Given that these bots utilize one of the most powerful abilities in the game, the imbalance grew to uncomfortable scale and had to be addressed.

Abilities currently under investigation:
In order to give you a heads-up and be a bit more transparent, we’d like to share a list of changes that we’re currently looking into. These changes are based on player feedback as well as game data and are mostly buffs to abilities that are not there yet, or small tweaks to incredibly effective (and potentially abusive) strategies that cannibalize other bots’ utility.

There are no timings nor exact details for these yet, and as always we would like to hear your feedback!

• Pleasant surprise to Huffer owners (don’t want to spoil it!).
• Defense Hack range increase.
• Further Cluster Strike improvements.
• Mirage/Breakdown EMP buff - radius/duration increase being probable.
• Line Barrage buff.
• Strafe/Scourge on defense (when used in the Outpost) - possibly will deal reduced damage to enemy bots (currently they are more problematic to attackers than anticipated).
• Divebomb/Windblade ability damage may be slightly reduced and/or ability pricing on repeated use may be increased.
• Range of Ultra Magnus/Galvatron ability (possible small increase).
• Bombing Run buff.

Twitch Stream

Join SpaceApe LIVE on Thursday September 15th @ 4PM UTC for a Q&A with Transformers artist Andrew Wildman. We’ll also be taking a first look at this weekend’s event and Rodimus & Nemesis Prime in action!
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News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:22 pm

THEY'RE NERFING MIXMASTER

NO

NOT MY BABY

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:27 pm

Kurona wrote:THEY'RE NERFING MIXMASTER

NO

NOT MY BABY

I guess they're nerfing him because he had a leg up :-D

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:38 pm

Kurona wrote:THEY'RE NERFING MIXMASTER

NO

NOT MY BABY

He doesn't one shot kill at higher levels anyway.

They should be prioritising Swoop/Scourge on defense though. That **** is ridiculous.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:26 pm

Burn wrote:
They should be prioritising Swoop/Scourge on defense though. That **** is ridiculous.

Totally... it's about time. I HATE STRAFE!

Burn... can I do some shameless alliance promotion? :-D

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:42 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:
Burn wrote:
They should be prioritising Swoop/Scourge on defense though. That **** is ridiculous.

Totally... it's about time. I HATE STRAFE!

Burn... can I do some shameless alliance promotion?

I imagine you can do what you like as the commander.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:10 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:Burn... can I do some shameless alliance promotion?

You could, but it won't get you far. If only you had someone on the news crew that could help you promote your alliance...
(Though in all fairness, ALL Seibertron Alliances should be promoted)

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:15 pm

Burn wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:Burn... can I do some shameless alliance promotion?

You could, but it won't get you far. If only you had someone on the news crew that could help you promote your alliance...
(Though in all fairness, ALL Seibertron Alliances should be promoted)

I'd be happy to promote the sister alliance... (who's in control of that?), however, that news crew is unreliable

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:16 pm

I will help you promote stuff if you need it

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:32 pm

My summon news crew spell worked. :-D

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:39 pm

Give me something to advertise, and I will help your alliance grow Even if you are cons

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:59 pm

Advertise... advertise... well there'should one course I didn't take in college.

Darn it. I need a bit of time to figure out that part

News Credits: 12 · by **shauyaun** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:02 pm

In the commercial you make make sure to mention some of the alliance work space hazards such having me spam the chat talking to myself,or getting poisonous cookies, or the BPG or CF just blowing scrap up

News Credits: 1 · by **Gunmetal** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:09 pm

Um, are they giving more points per battle than before? The prize requirements here look extremely steep otherwise...to the point of not being worth the effort.

Look at what you could get last week for just 3000 points...

Edit: Never mind... team total. I'm a moron. #-o

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:09 pm

ctrlFrequency wrote:My summon news crew spell worked.

Yeah, except Kurona was already here.

Shauyaun wrote:having me spam the chat talking to myself

And have you learnt yet how annoying that was/is?

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 9:14 pm

Burn wrote:
ctrlFrequency wrote:My summon news crew spell worked.

Yeah, except Kurona was already here.

I don't know how 'here' Kurona is, after all, it's like middle of the night for her.

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 11:34 pm

Gunmetal wrote:Um, are they giving more points per battle than before? The prize requirements here look extremely steep otherwise...to the point of not being worth the effort.

Look at what you could get last week for just 3000 points...

Edit: Never mind... team total. I'm a moron.

Team event vs solo.

This is about on par with the Ultra Magnus/Galvatron event a few weeks ago.

SPEAKING OF WHICH. What's up with this? Light Our Darkest Hour should be Rodimus and Galvy. Nemesis Prime should be his own (non-movie inspired) event, and Magnus's opposite should ideally have been Scourge or Cyclonus. (Though I don't know who another 'con with the Fire Mission ability could be except ANOTHER seeker clone)
I assume it has to do with game balance since Galvy and Magnus are both bulky specialists, but I picture Rodimus as not being as bulky as an Optimus clone, so their pairing is still weird to me.

EDIT:
Hello Cyclonus!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:46 am

Galvatron and Ultra Magnus were often treated as rivals despite Magnus not being Autobot leader - their both being the City Commander toys of their respective faction, quite a few episodes of the Sunbow cartoon, and it was a pretty big thing in the Marvel comic (and let's not forget who's writing this game). So it's certainly not without precedent and some would even argue it's a more fitting rivalry for Galvatron than Rodimus.

News Credits: 62 · by **#Sideways#** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:01 am

Kurona wrote:Galvatron and Ultra Magnus were often treated as rivals despite Magnus not being Autobot leader - their both being the City Commander toys of their respective faction, quite a few episodes of the Sunbow cartoon, and it was a pretty big thing in the Marvel comic (and let's not forget who's writing this game). So it's certainly not without precedent and some would even argue it's a more fitting rivalry for Galvatron than Rodimus.

Agreed. I, too, questioned their choices regarding character pairings, but then I remembered that Simon Furman was writing this thing so I stopped myself from asking that any further. :lol:

Though, from the trailer, it appears that they're adding in Hot Spot with Cyclonus likely after this event -- and the two are not analogous in the slightest.

Like Questworld12 on Facebook · by **Questworld12** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:26 pm

Kurona wrote:THEY'RE NERFING MIXMASTER

NO

NOT MY BABY

That is insane to nerf Mixmaster. He's my backbone to all my teams.
Without his powerful attack, there goes my team.

News Credits: 5 · by **SnoopDawg** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:57 pm

Hey everyone! Just getting used to the forums.

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:26 pm

Kurona wrote:Galvatron and Ultra Magnus were often treated as rivals despite Magnus not being Autobot leader - their both being the City Commander toys of their respective faction, quite a few episodes of the Sunbow cartoon, and it was a pretty big thing in the Marvel comic (and let's not forget who's writing this game). So it's certainly not without precedent and some would even argue it's a more fitting rivalry for Galvatron than Rodimus.

"Writing" is a strong word for this game.

Also I'm not terribly familiar with Furman's stuff. I think the only things of his I've read is the War Within comic and the extremely biased Ultimate Guide.

#Sideways# wrote:Though, from the trailer, it appears that they're adding in Hot Spot with Cyclonus likely after this event -- and the two are not analogous in the slightest.

Man I'm really not paying attention. I thought we already had Hot Spot. Clearly I was thinking of Pyra Magna.

News Credits: 3 · by **ctrlFrequency** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 4:04 pm

For those who don't have the Alliance chat. .. this is my educational video for today. How NOT to build a base.

It was hardly a match as it were, I was in event zone 6 (1350) with a team with a 4 bots, power of 1472, Starscream is a 3 star level 38, but the main point is that once the range was out, the HQ was completely unprotected. No defenses were triggered once I approached the HQ. Starscream's ability was the only I had to use.

It goes to illustrate my point on having defenses too spread out. A team with range can easily neutrize a base if little or none of the short rage defenses ovelap and protect the HQ. Dude handed me a boatload of APs and the HQ.