Rovio Angry Birds Transformers Mobile Game Update: Maps, Challenges, Characters

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.

Fellow fan and Seibertronian, Ravage XK pointed us in the direction of an Angry Birds Transformers update for iOS. Here's what he had to share with us:

Ravage XK wrote:Today the iOS update for the Angry Birds Transformers hit the iOS version of the game.

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.

Seems to have delivered the same updated features including:

Updated Map.
New trophy.
Tweaks to the city based levels to highlight bridge switches.
Bots have been rearranged in the barracks and two new ones are shadowed out.

That's not all, the Rovio Entertainment YouTube channel has posted a new video to promote this update, and you can watch the video in the embed below:



This is awesome news for the iOS gamers among us and if you haven't joined the other gamers, well now's the time and you can do so by downloading it from iTunes by clicking right here. (Android users already have these updates, it appears and those gamers can download the Android version of the game by clicking here to go to the Google Play store.)

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When Heatwave Bird shot up and blasted those enemies with his blue energy cannon, all I could think of was "Power Up and Energize!"

Rovio just released a minor update v1.5.15 and now the game won't start up at all on iOS.

Courtesy of our fellow Seibertronian from Costa Rica Kaliaticus, we have all the details of the new Rovio Angry Birds Transformers mobile device game update! And if you don't believe the write up, you can check out the screenshots that they sent us, mirrored below.

Hey guys! It's your costarrican friend Carlos, aka Kaliaticus, with Angry Birds news. I just installed the latest update, and it's pretty badass. Now you can level your Autobirds and Deceptihogs to level 15. Also, what we've been waiting: you can unlock Arcee and Airachnid. It's got a new way to customize your bots and cons with "materials", but I'm not sure yet of how this works.

Shame the update broke the game on iOS. I have been in touch with Rovio and have been told to sit tight, not to reinstall the game as it might erase game progress. They assure me it's a server side issue and they are working on it.

Va'al wrote:Courtesy of our fellow Seibertronian from Costa Rica Kaliaticus, we have all the details of the new Rovio Angry Birds Transformers mobile device game update! And if you don't believe the write up, you can check out the screenshots that they sent us, mirrored below.

Hey guys! It's your costarrican friend Carlos, aka Kaliaticus, with Angry Birds news. I just installed the latest update, and it's pretty badass. Now you can level your Autobirds and Deceptihogs to level 15. Also, what we've been waiting: you can unlock Arcee and Blackarachnia. It's got a new way to customize your bots and cons with "materials", but I'm not sure yet of how this works.

I'm seeing Airachnid, not Blackarachnia

Yep, my mistype. Thanks!

Va'al wrote:Yep, my mistype. Thanks!

It's all good!

With Angry Birds 2 being announced just recently, the Transformers version of the Rovio mobile game has also received some updates: the latest adds a number of new features, such as the new floating sentinel robots, called in to assist by wielding fireballs, lightning storms, and 40 or so skills, which you can create in the Crafting lab. The second big update of potential interest for Transformers fans, is the addition of The Blues playing two different characters: Bluestreak and Prowl! Check out the animation below showing them in action!

But can you back your progress up and restore it to another device yet?

Burn wrote:But can you back your progress up and restore it to another device yet?

I dunno..

yet agin, the updated game won't run on my iPad. Just crashes on the loading screen.

I think I really am done with this game. It's still unstable (weapons fire will render as one color only, if not vanish entirely, the music will fail until I restart, the game will crash after the loading screen), and characters I JUST UPGRADED are now getting Very Hard missions, meaning I have to upgrade them again, which, oh look, they just made harder (to get Ultra Mags to Level 11 I need something like 50 cubes and gears, along with two rareium and 150,000 coins) unless you're willing to pay for crystals.

A new update is on its way for Angry Birds Transformers. TFW2005 member Esquilax79 has some screenshots (mirrored below) that show an updated called Target 2016 which states:
“Where… when are we? Seek out the targets and buildings whilst collecting energon cubes”

There are also blacked out silhouettes of upcoming characters such as the Hotrods.

Let us know if you got the app update yet or not and on which device.

Oh snap, toy-accurate G1 Galvatron homage and cab-only Ultra Magnus homage.

And with robot mode Galvy chasing vehicle mode Magnus coupled with the title makes for an adequate homage to this:

10 months between updates ... I'm amazed this game is still even out there in the wilderness.

Bet they still don't allow you to backup your data and move it to another device (one of the big reasons I stopped playing it)

Burn wrote:10 months between updates ... I'm amazed this game is still even out there in the wilderness.

Bet they still don't allow you to backup your data and move it to another device (one of the big reasons I stopped playing it)

It doesn't let you do it manually, but it lets you login to Facebook (which will then auto-save) and it auto-loads when you login with a new device. There is also an option now to choose which save point - I've only seen this as a screenshot from another player, though. There are "Enable cloud load" and "Cloud load confirm" checkboxes in the second page of the Settings screen.

Though, I only check in every 4 hours to mine gems since I've upgraded everybody to Level 15 and am missing only Nemesis Prime. It's only when they introduce new bots that I start playing it aggressively again.

Does anyone here still play this game?

Every now and then.

Believe it or not, the Angry Birds Transformers mobile game is now in its third year. To celebrate, we got a new update on November 2nd, which featured a new character addition: Matilda. Matilda sports Nautica's robot body, making this Nautica's first appearance in a video game. It is great to see this character branching out of the comics onto other Transformers platforms, like the toy she got earlier this year. Speaking of the toy, the character model in the game seems to be in a colour scheme and design closer to that toy than Nautica's comic book appearance. You can see some screenshots below along with a Spanish language youtube video where the character can be seen in action. You can get the game on the Google Play store for free.

Here are the contents of the latest update:

WHAT'S NEW

**INCOMING TRANSMISSION FROM TELETRAAN 1***
/NEW CHARACTERS! Matilda has finally joined the flock!
/NEW GAMEPLAY! Boss Batpig and his minions are waiting!
/NEW MAP AREA TO EXPLORE! Deep, deep down you'll find the…
/NEW ACCESSORIES! Even more items to collect and upgrade!
/OPTIMISED EXPERIENCE! Maintenance servicing complete.

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