Transformers: Earth Wars Dragstrip and Hound First Look Videos

Nice strong characters but I almost feel bad for people dropping money on this game transformers games have that curse they stay around long enough it may be same with this one over time I like to see this game defeat transformers game curse

dragons wrote:Nice strong characters but I almost feel bad for people dropping money on this game transformers games have that curse they stay around long enough it may be same with this one over time I like to see this game defeat transformers game curse

I wouldn't feel bad for those that spend money on the game.

I have it in my entertainment budget. It's no different than going to dinner or the movies, going to bars or whatever. A movie ends and your left with nothing but entertainment for an hour and half, a night out drinking leaves you with memories (hopefully) of having fun, spending money on a game is the same thing. When it ends you had fun. That money would cause the same effect set there as it would elsewhere.

Even the big spenders (i'm talking hundreds a week)... if they can afford it and it's fun for them.. so be it.

King Kuuga wrote:The game glitched out and treated a new character like a dupe? Or you already have a 4 star Rampage and you're being mean against him because you saved for a 4 star crystal and just got a dupe of him?

Lol it was a dupe

Anyone seen the VIP newsletter yet?

Burn wrote:Anyone seen the VIP newsletter yet?

Was just wondering where it was myself, it usually comes a few hours earlier than now, right?

Kurona wrote:

Burn wrote:Anyone seen the VIP newsletter yet?

Was just wondering where it was myself, it usually comes a few hours earlier than now, right?

Yeah, I normally wake up to it.

Good job Stephanie. This never happened when Jack was in charge.

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 UTCEnd 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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This event excites me a good bit. I am ready for Dragstrip and some crystals. Maxy needs himself another 4 star and more 3 stars!

Considering my 3* is coming out at Level 41 tomorrow morning, that Soundwave buff gets me real excited

Maxy's getting serious!


Stun EVERYTHING!

(I'm still in stun mode)

I've gotten to that point where I need more characters (I'm tired of dupes and getting different star levels of characters I already have) and I need more spark. I want and need to be more competitive, especially since I'm at hq 11 and Seibs II is gaining speed and strength

My two goals for this weekend with the double XP.

4* Mixmaster to level 30
4* Rampage to level 40

I'm keeping it simple.

Like CF.

*throws Autobotsat Burn

























Target practice

2* Scourge is in the oven right now. 2* Scrapper, Deathsaurus, Slipstream, and I think 1 more should hit 30 this weekend for the upgrade. That and my missile launcher will be ready to go. I really want a 3 or 4* Dragstrip from the weekend

What we want and what we get ... well ... this is SpaceApe.

Speaking of which: something that has been driving me crazy recently: Scourge and Thundercracker activating their abilities... and only transforming and landing. Scourge will make half a circle and stop. TC will transform but not attack. And they both show using the ability. It's irritating me to no end, and it is starting to become consistent

I've had that happen with Scourge and I don't know why, but with Thundercracker (and any other bot that targets a specific building), if the building is destroyed before their attack starts, it's basically cancelled but you've still spent the battle points.

Yeah it's not great.

I've seen Thundercracker sometimes get hit with a stun. Even stunned they can still transform but their attack won't trigger until the stun wears off so Thundercracker flies around the target.

Scourge ... I just put that down to him not seeing any viable targets. I swear Swoop has much better eyes.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I've gotten to that point where I need more characters (I'm tired of dupes and getting different star levels of characters I already have) and I need more spark. I want and need to be more competitive, especially since I'm at hq 11 and Seibs II is gaining speed and strength

We're finally getting our act together in Seibs II.

ThunderThruster, you're in Seibs II?

Yup, just under a different name.
I completely associate the name ThunderThruster with being an autobot, so when I decided to play earth wars as a decepticon I had to choose another name: Razortrack

King Kuuga wrote:I've had that happen with Scourge and I don't know why, but with Thundercracker (and any other bot that targets a specific building), if the building is destroyed before their attack starts, it's basically cancelled but you've still spent the battle points.

Yeah it's not great.

But the building isn't even destroyed. Brawl or Long Haul will hit a mortar or beam and it will be almost destroyed, so I'll send in TC to finish it off, but he transforms and lands, and he's not stunned when he does it.

Burn wrote:I've seen Thundercracker sometimes get hit with a stun. Even stunned they can still transform but their attack won't trigger until the stun wears off so Thundercracker flies around the target.

Scourge ... I just put that down to him not seeing any viable targets. I swear Swoop has much better eyes.

Which is strange, because normally when he malfunctions there is a mortar/beam laser in his line of sights.

ThunderThruster wrote:Yup, just under a different name.
I completely associate the name ThunderThruster with being an autobot, so when I decided to play earth wars as a decepticon I had to choose another name: Razortrack

That's pretty much why I went with "ShatteredMax" for the game, to differentiate from the Autobot associated name

ThunderThruster wrote:Yup, just under a different name.
I completely associate the name ThunderThruster with being an autobot, so when I decided to play earth wars as a decepticon I had to choose another name: Razortrack

We need to get you on Line, when we come across loot codes, that's where we share them (don't want the Autobot scum getting them :p )

Max, there is a bug that pops up for Bludgeon occasionally where you target something, he transforms, but gets frozen in place until he his shot to death. Maybe that is affecting Thundercracker and Scourge as well.

ctrlFrequency wrote:Max, there is a bug that pops up for Bludgeon occasionally where you target something, he transforms, but gets frozen in place until he his shot to death. Maybe that is affecting Thundercracker and Scourge as well.

Maybe. That has happened to my Bludg before too

I got a new toy from the free crystals ...

Huh. My free crystals keep giving me those stupid "medical kit" and other stupid useless stuff of no use despite my different methods.

But, event wise, I've gotten 200 4* shards and a 2* Dragstrip

Burn, what (who) do you still need to complete Devs?

Pulled a 2* Dragstrip so far myself.

Last 4 crystals have given me energon, which is really frustrating. Wouldn't be so bad if it went to inventory; since it doesn't it's practically worthless.

Still, first crystal gave me a 2* Drag Strip so I can't complain too much.

ThunderThruster wrote:Burn, what (who) do you still need to complete Devs?

I only needed Scavenger.

Burn wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:Burn, what (who) do you still need to complete Devs?

I only needed Scavenger.

I'm tempted to say "I'll donate my 4* to you!" but he's my only 4 star and I love his ability Just had a base where everything was tucked together, and he was on the team attacking it

Burn finally got Scavenger?!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I'm tempted to say "I'll donate my 4* to you!" but he's my only 4 star and I love his ability Just had a base where everything was tucked together, and he was on the team attacking it

I've had him as a 2* forever so I know what his ability is like (though I preferred it to before they nerfed him) and while it will be better at 3* and even 4*, I still think, for the pyromaniacs amongst us, that Swindle is better at setting things on fire.

ctrlFrequency wrote:Burn finally got Scavenger?!

From a free crystal too! So I wasted about $30 on Scavenger crystals only to end up getting him through a free crystal.

Burn wrote:

ctrlFrequency wrote:Burn finally got Scavenger?!

From a free crystal too! So I wasted about $30 on Scavenger crystals only to end up getting him through a free crystal.

Oh that sucks! (That you spent the money ) but congrats on finally getting him!


And yeah, Swindle rocks at setting crap on fire.... it's beautiful

So this happened.

Speaking of hauls, I pulled all my free crystals (nothing notable), my 3 star crystal (dupe Nightbird), and my Megatron crystals.....

Crystal 18 got me this...

Damn Kurona, 3 & 4 Dragstrip! Thats just being greedy

ThunderThruster wrote:Damn Kurona, 3 & 4 Dragstrip! Thats just being greedy

Ahem...

apologises ctrl, my attention's been spread across 3 devices all afternoon. Proof I can't effectively multitask

It's okay, I just don't want Kurona running off with my Dragstrip :p

ctrlFrequency wrote:It's okay, I just don't want Kurona running off with my Dragstrip :p

No worries. I'd love a 4* Drag Strip, but Offroad's the best stunticon

Got a 3* Crystal and it actually gave me someone new!

Swindle's a good one. He can one shot stuff

ctrlFrequency wrote:Swindle's a good one. He can one shot stuff

I'm very happy I got him; I needed good 3* gunners - especially to replace 2* mix on the B-team - and this goes towards a potential Bruticus...~

So I set myself two goals this weekend ...

4* Mixmaster to level 30 *DONE*
4* Rampage to level 40 *DONE*

BONUS ACHIEVEMENTS
Get Deathsaurus to level 30 *now levelled to 31*
Get Scavenger to level 20 *now levelled to 21*
Get Octopunch to level 40
Unlock 2* Drag Strip *now levelled to 11*
Unlock 3* Drag Strip
Give Devastator his first upgrade - now in for second upgrade

Is the Autobot Alliance still active for this one? I just started playing this again and I know I've seen it on there when I search it up, but I didn't want to bug anyone with a request to join if it wasn't.

ashe5k wrote:Is the Autobot Alliance still active for this one? I just started playing this again and I know I've seen it on there when I search it up, but I didn't want to bug anyone with a request to join if it wasn't.

Well, the first issue is you're an Autobot.



Check with Seibertron himself. Last I knew he was in charge.

No 4* Drag Queen for Burn.

Ban someone (but not me) it'll make you feel better.

ctrlFrequency wrote::(

Ban someone (but not me) it'll make you feel better.

No, it won't. Because then I have to listen to some boohoo sob story about how they're allergic to glue and they accidentally caught a whiff of glue 3 weeks ago and it's made them angry blah blah waffle waffle.