Angry Birds Transformers Deceptihogs Revenge Update

Ravage XK wrote:The iOS update has just been released.

It takes a long time to load the game on its first start, maybe its downloading assets.
Map has changed, Skywarp level destroying feature has appeared.

Yay, new stuff to do.

So what's new? I'd like to know if there are any differences with the last Android update.

New things I have spotted.

• Higher frame rate, everything seems smoother.
• The Coin icons on the map have changed, as has the animation of the coins being added to your total. They used to move up in one clump, now they stream one after the other.
• Skywarp can eliminate levels you cant complete.
• Seem to be two new areas you can explore, City and sort of River area.
• New type of enemy, the Piranhacon.
• Some levels have Slow Mo and Speed Up zones, these are activated as you pass through coloured gates.
• The City levels have large, lit up targets that when hit release an energon cube.
• You may notice Soundwave in his Cybertronian streetlight mode in the City.
• A new collection of trophies to achieve.
• You can buy accessories for your bots.
• You can upload success images to Facebook when you complete a level.
• When you attack a gold box in a level with Grimlock, instead of waiting for the box to be destroyed to add the coins to your total they stream one by one as the damage is done. You don't need to destroy the box to get some coins. The box seems to change colour as you deplete the coins it contains.
• There is a Leaderboard icon on the map, don't think that was there before.
• While a bot is being upgraded you can now access the list of characters to see their level or buy accessories while the upgrade takes place. You couldn't see the others before, only the bot being upgraded.

The bots are now divided into Groups, they are:

• Rescue Bots - Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Heatwave.
• Instruments of Destruction - Soundwave and Soundblaster.
• Target: 2006 - Ultra Magnus, Galvatron and Jazz.
• Pure Warriors - Lockdown, Energon Lockdown and Brawl.
• The Seekeers - Energon Starscream and Thundercraker.
• Energon Fueled - Energon Grimlock, Energon Soundwave, Energon Galvatron and Energon Optimus Prime.
• Variant Versions - Ultimate Megatron, Ultimate Optimus Prime, Ultimate Grimlock and High Octane Bumblebee.
• Leaders - Bludgeon, Sentinal Prime, Grey Slam Grimlock and Dark Megatron.

• Unlocking all characters in a group will add a percentage bonus to your pig/coin score on a level, max bonus seems to be 40%.
• Characters in certain groups have different abilities. Ultimate characters, for example, get their pig and coin score doubled when they complete a level but if they don't complete it they get nothing at all. Energon characters are more powerful but have weaker shields.



That's about everything I have noticed so far.

That's fairly covers everything we got as well.

Yeah, would have thought they would keep them the same. Does the Android version suffer from crashes when you try to watch a rewards video?

Not really crashes, sometimes they just don't load so you keep trying until you hit your limit.

Plenty of glitches in the game though.

No crashes in the reward video's, aside from that 'Stella'-video from time to time.

The IOS-update seems to cover both Android updates in one go. Good.

Still amazed at how long it took them to roll the update out though. I know Android users had to wait two weeks for the game to be released, but you iOS guys had to wait what ... a month?

An eternity.

Wasn't so bad. The wait allowed me get to my bots up to level 8 and gather many pigs and crystals. Allowed me to unlock all the new bots straight away.

Got all mine (including what you've just unlocked) up to level 7 except for four who are level 8.

Going to be a slog to get them all to level 10.

Oh and the Miles Travelled trophy/achievement still isn't working. Still stuck at 0 miles.

You forgot the most important update, the "Energon Shield" has now become the "State Farm™ Energon Shield." A little ship with a State farm logo now projects the shield onto you.

Hadnt noticed. No idea what State Farm is, never heard of it.

State Farm is an insurance company in the US. Not sure if they are international.

Makes sense that an insurance company gives you a shield.

Also, noticed the Eggbot appears in some levels. You can shoot it in the butt for lots of coins.

These updates. Bah.

I'm not sure why they're advertising this now, because I've had the updated version of the game for about two weeks now, I wanna say.

I finally unlocked level 100 and I don't care for those new levels even a slight bit. That fast forward/slo mo warp gate gimmick is getting on my nerves and if there's a way to use them to my advantage, it's out of my reach, because I can't figure it out. Had to cheat and have Skywarp take care of it for me.

Not all updates are great, this is a great example of such a thing.

Autobot032 wrote:These updates. Bah.

I'm not sure why they're advertising this now, because I've had the updated version of the game for about two weeks now, I wanna say.

I finally unlocked level 100 and I don't care for those new levels even a slight bit. That fast forward/slo mo warp gate gimmick is getting on my nerves and if there's a way to use them to my advantage, it's out of my reach, because I can't figure it out. Had to cheat and have Skywarp take care of it for me.

Not all updates are great, this is a great example of such a thing.

At level 120 you get to pig city, which is way more fun.

The Deceptihogs' evil master plan for the EggSpark: Disco party!

Looks like Rovio pushed a stability patch last night. Did anyone else update?

Skyfire77 wrote:Looks like Rovio pushed a stability patch last night. Did anyone else update?

Yep

And of course I'm still finishing missions just for another one to disappear without me getting coins and piggies.

Skyfire77 wrote:And of course I'm still finishing missions just for another one to disappear without me getting coins and piggies.

Yes, this still happens. I have also noticed that the invisible death bug is still present on some levels. Its very rare though.

Hit level 201 last night.

Ravage XK wrote:
Yes, this still happens. I have also noticed that the invisible death bug is still present on some levels. Its very rare though.

Just had my Level 8 Galvatron die in the first 30 seconds of a level.

Skyfire77 wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:
Yes, this still happens. I have also noticed that the invisible death bug is still present on some levels. Its very rare though.

Just had my Level 8 Galvatron die in the first 30 seconds of a level.

At least you can get rid of the level using Skyearp.

Thanks to a tip from fellow Seibertron.com member kaliaticus, we report that Rovio has released a new update for the Angry Birds Transformers mobile device game,to include new structures on the map, as well as upcoming features and challenges and two new playable characters, whose identities are yet unknown. Are you still playing the nostalgia-ridden game? In either case, check out some screenshots of the updates below!

Interesting. Just got all my characters up to level 9 and in process of getting first one to level 10. Glad there are new things to do as was getting a little bored.

The 2 new characters are under the group "Valkyries". Make what you will of this!

I stopped playing weeks ago. Such a long time between updates and such a long time between levels, I just lost interest.

No iOS update in the UK yet.

I played a little of this game, out of curiosity. It was sad. Where the original Angry Birds was a fun physics-based puzzle game where you could take your time, this was an on-the-rails shooter and an unapologetic cash grab to boot. It's not challenging as a puzzle, it's not fun as a shooter, and you're forced to spend so much time upgrading just to be able to survive the next level. I haven't played any of the other Angry Birds sequels or licensed titles between the original and this, so I don't know if the change to Pay To Win is standard by now or not, but I really don't like it. The levels go by too quickly and the automatic aiming takes out a lot of the challenge that made the original what it was. I'm just glad I didn't play this game long enough to dump any money into it, unlike Transformers Legends, which got more of my cash than it deserved before I quit.

That Bot wrote:unlike Transformers Legends, which got more of my cash than it deserved before I quit.

We should start an organization for survivors, and also reach out to help those who are still sinking money into that thing and save them.

both heads kinda look like the arcee bird (as shown at the start up screeen of the game and in the comics)

Well I can safely say this was a pointless update.

There's no new areas. Oh sure, there's a couple of new things to tap on ... but they're "coming soon".

Fortress Maximus in city mode is for your Friends.

Trypticon is now Skywarp's base ... Skywarp now needs repairs, at 5K a pop.

Update ... yeah ... updated with "coming soon". Rovio has really dropped the ball with this franchise, and that's disappointing because they've done such a great job with Angry Birds as a whole, and with what they did with Star Wars.

The game was fun until it became a grindfest to get enough in-game currency to do anything.

I just started playing, but I can definitely see the potential for a grind.

Still fun for the moment though.

You dont really need to grind the game. You can just collect the coins on the map every 4 hours or so. Save your double coins video bonuses for when you have scored big on a level. Then only real wait is the wait for a character to level up. Takes 2 days + when you get to level 9 or 10.

had lots of high level characters and this update completely reset it all. thanks a bunch rovio.....

Stella spotted as a non-playable character, looking a whole lot like Bayformers Arcee!











I'm very fortunate to not have lost my level 221 (but I always backup with Titanium Backup just to be safe.) Also for grinding, Jenga Mode is the only thing you need to buy. Though it's not really needed to grind as after you collect full squads, you get multipliers. My own rule for deciding to watch a video to double points, is if the coins are more than 10x your level - so if you are level 100 then you don't double unless you get 1000 coins.

Those who lost progress, were they using iOS or Android?

Ravage XK wrote:Those who lost progress, were they using iOS or Android?

Android - those I've seen who lost progress wrote bad reviews on the Google Play Store.

albnok wrote:Stella spotted as a non-playable character, looking a whole lot like Bayformers Arcee!

No that's... that's... that's Blackarachnia!!!

I just got Arcee, similar to her Energon body. I'm not exactly sure how to post images from my tablet on here. Also, the weapons they use appear to be energon bubbles. That's the only way I can think to describe them.

I'm cautiously optimistic on this new update. Been playing it since Friday, and the game hasn't crashed yet, nor have I cleared a level only to not get coins and piggies. I still have characters dying for no reason on certain levels, but I guess Rovio is fixing one set of bugs at a time.

Sabrblade wrote:

albnok wrote:Stella spotted as a non-playable character, looking a whole lot like Bayformers Arcee!

No that's... that's... that's Blackarachnia!!!

Dang you might be right! I was playing as Bumblebee, and chose to thank her, and she had the cooperative thank you animation... meaning she identifies as an Autobird in this one. Sure, Blackarachnia occasionally joins the good side, but if her most frequent allegiance is any indicator, this isn't a Deceptihog. So is it still Blackarachnia?

Earlier optimism has faded. It is more stable than the previous version, but I'm still getting a random crash or two a week. Also, the flying pigs are ridiculously overpowered now, unless I've can charge an EMP or all three shields, my characters (All at level 8! or higher) die within ten seconds on "easy" levels.

Definitely glad I've given up on it. My nephew is still playing it and keeps trying to talk to me about it, he's still excited over it, he's just too young to understand I'm old, grumpy, and like my games balanced!

I had to wipe my M8 due to the upgrade to 5.0 (Lollipop) and I lost all of my progress and I just thought "screw it" and other than breaking out the Jenga level every now and then, I just ignore it.

It's a shame, I had unlocked a rather sizable amount of characters and paid for (with gems) a bunch of upgrades and had a ton of gems, thanks to the Christmas code they gave out, all of it's gone. Every bit.

Autobot032 wrote:I had to wipe my M8 due to the upgrade to 5.0 (Lollipop) and I lost all of my progress and I just thought "screw it" and other than breaking out the Jenga level every now and then, I just ignore it.

It's a shame, I had unlocked a rather sizable amount of characters and paid for (with gems) a bunch of upgrades and had a ton of gems, thanks to the Christmas code they gave out, all of it's gone. Every bit.

It surprises me that Rovio, perhaps the largest developer of mobile games in the world, doesn't backup your progress in all their games.

Burn wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:I had to wipe my M8 due to the upgrade to 5.0 (Lollipop) and I lost all of my progress and I just thought "screw it" and other than breaking out the Jenga level every now and then, I just ignore it.

It's a shame, I had unlocked a rather sizable amount of characters and paid for (with gems) a bunch of upgrades and had a ton of gems, thanks to the Christmas code they gave out, all of it's gone. Every bit.

It surprises me that Rovio, perhaps the largest developer of mobile games in the world, doesn't backup your progress in all their games.

It drives me insane. Google could do it, too. They keep pushing 100 GBs of free Drive space, which I keep swiping away and have even gone to the point of disabling the app (still receive the notifications...GRR!) so if we have to have it pushed on us like a drug that Nancy Reagan would just say no to, at least make it worth our time and put our backups and full app saves in the cloud.

Fortunately, games like The Room, seem to keep your saved files. I've had to reinstall the first game and it seems to leave off where my progress had been saved. Speaking of The Room...number 3 needs to come out like, yesterday...

CSR Racing was initially connected via your Facebook login, so if you wiped the data, as soon as you connected the game to FB it restored your saved data. They've since expanded that to Google Games.

WWE Immortals is also connected via Google Games. So why Rovio don't do it on all (they do it on some) is beyond me.

Just had an update for the ios version of the game. Said it was for small fixes to make the game even better.

However, it seems to be the update Android users have been enjoying for a while.

Bots have been rearranged in the barracks and two new ones are shadowed out.

My progress is intact, happily.