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Transformers Forged to Fight Changelog
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Hey there! If you want to keep up with everything that's new in the ever changing world of Forged to Fight, you've come to the right place!
This is where we will be posting the Patch Notes for every update that comes to the game. This includes new features, bug fixes, and generally just any change that occurs.
This is where we will be posting the Patch Notes for every update that comes to the game. This includes new features, bug fixes, and generally just any change that occurs.
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Introducing Away Team Missions:
- Send your Bots on missions to collect resources
- These missions can be done while you are away and don't require you to play them
Introducing Synergies
- Pair specific Bots to activate bonus attributes and abilities.
- Strategically build your teams to maximize and customize these abilities to your play style and the challenge ahead!
New story missions have been added to help you unravel the mystery of this strange planet where realities collide.
Autobot Ratchet has been hard at work performing standard maintenance and fixing some major gameplay bugs.
Today, we will be releasing the next update to our Beta! As we get closer to the official release of Transformers Forged to Fight, we want to continue to add exciting new content and compelling new modes for both you and your Alliance to take part in.
New Modes for Your Alliance!
●Alliance Missions Coming Soon! Use strategy and cooperation as your Alliance breaks into Battlegroups to tackle difficulty Missions for fantastic rewards! More information will be available on those as we get closer to their launch.
●Alliance Events: Take on Alliances from around the world, scoring points in a variety of timed events. Earn Rank and Milestone rewards for your efforts! More information here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/85/introducing-alliance-events/p1?new=1
New Features for You:
●Auto Fight: Let your Bots battle for you in Story and Daily Missions!
New Content:
●Story Missions: A new Chapter of Act 2 is available to explore!
Various other Changes and Improvements:
●Fight Introductions: New animations play when Bots enter the battle.
●Raid Rewards: Earn bonus rewards when winning Raids based on your Medal count
●Bug fixes, screen improvements, new tutorials, and optimizations
Questions? Comments? Post and discuss them in our Discussion Thread here:
New Modes for Your Alliance!
●Alliance Missions Coming Soon! Use strategy and cooperation as your Alliance breaks into Battlegroups to tackle difficulty Missions for fantastic rewards! More information will be available on those as we get closer to their launch.
●Alliance Events: Take on Alliances from around the world, scoring points in a variety of timed events. Earn Rank and Milestone rewards for your efforts! More information here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/85/introducing-alliance-events/p1?new=1
New Features for You:
●Auto Fight: Let your Bots battle for you in Story and Daily Missions!
New Content:
●Story Missions: A new Chapter of Act 2 is available to explore!
Various other Changes and Improvements:
●Fight Introductions: New animations play when Bots enter the battle.
●Raid Rewards: Earn bonus rewards when winning Raids based on your Medal count
●Bug fixes, screen improvements, new tutorials, and optimizations
Comments? Questions? Ask them in our 0.3 Discussion Thread: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/86/v-0-3-release-notes-discussion-thread#latest
New Languages
- Support for Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Russian, Dutch, Turkish, and Arabic.
New Bots
- Mixmaster has been added to the Premium Bot Crystal
New Story Missions
- Act 2 Chapter 4 unlocked for you to explore.
New Event Missions
- Celebrate the launch of the game with a set of 6 Boss challenges available for a limited time only! A new challenge will be released every 3 days, but hurry! They disappear on April 24th!
- Rulers of Kaon is a new challenge for the strongest Commanders to test their strength. This Mission is the first story in the new Legends of Cybertron series.
New Daily Missions
- Introducing new Spark Trials daily Event Missions!
Earn T1 Basic Sparks and Essence from Easy difficulty, and T2 Basic Sparks and Essence from Medium difficulty. Progress and rewards reset Daily.
New Alliance Missions
- Play through cooperative Missions with your Alliance!
- The new Forgotten Ruins map features 10 difficulty levels and is an introductory map acting as a precursor to Shattered Lands.
General
- Mission crystals have been replaced with direct ORE-13 payouts.
- The third team slot is now unlocked at level 1 (down from 3).
- Daily Missions now unlock at level 8 (up from 4).
- Raids now unlock at level 7 (up from 6).
- Raid store is locked until 7 to prevent buying items you can't use.
- Improved early game tutorialization.
- Reduced the T2 Class Spark Essence awarded for selling T1 Class Sparks
- Reduced the T2 Class Spark Essence obtained from completing the Medium Difficulty of Class Specific Daily Missions
BUG FIXES AND OPTIMIZATIONS
- Fixed an issue that would cause Shields to expire prematurely
- Alliance Mission link nodes visibility and sync quality improved
- Fixed an issue where characters recovered from a Light Ranged combo too quickly
- Fixed numerous Crash and Connection issues
- Fixed an issue causing a hang on loading screens
- Fixed an issue causing fights in Alliance Missions to not load
- Fixed an issue where node numbers were not displaying in Alliance Missions
- Fixed an issue where a black bar will appear on top of the screen and remain there on all screens
- Miscellaneous other bug fixes and optimizations.
GAME BALANCE
Bot Ability Rating
- We’ve updated all Bot Ratings to more accurately reflect the overall strength of that Bot. As a result, the total Rating for all Bots has decreased. Specifically, the Rating assigned to each Bot Ability has been reduced while the Rating from base attributes remains the same. This is a display-only change that affects every Bot and will result in more accurate and reliable Bot Ratings going forward without having any effect on the actual performance of each Bot.
Light Ranged Attacks
- Decreased damage and Power generated to be on par with Light Melee attacks
Arcee
- Added a passive chance to automatically Sidestep incoming Ranged Attacks
- Added Bleed on Critical Hits on her Special Attack 2
- Increased damage on Headshots and limited the Bleed stack to 1
- Increased strength of her Ranged Buff on Special Attack 1
- Precision ability added as her Signature Ability as a scalable chance to activate on Special Attacks for a long duration
Barricade
- Increased Backfire damage on Ranks 1 to 4
- Increased chance to deal Backfire.
- Evade after Knocking him down will also activate against Ranged Attacks.
Bludgeon
- Stun chance on Special 2 and 3 will now scale by Rank
- Decreased the chance to activate Armor Buffs when struck by a Critical Hit
- Removed current Signature Ability and replaced it with his Critical Damage basic ability
Mirage
- Mirage’s Ranged Attacks now decrease the opponent’s Power Flow just when in his Special 1 “Disruption” mode
- Special 2 “Incapacitation” mode: Increased amount of Attack Debuffs required to trigger a Stun from 5 to 7
- Improved in-game ability icon clarity when his Signature Ability is active
Rhinox
- Added a Synergy with Mixmaster and Waspinator
Windblade
- Decreased the chance to Stun on her Special Attack 3
Optimus Prime (MV1)
- Slightly decreased strength of Armor and Melee Buffs
- Signature ability will activate 3 Armor Buffs instead of 1
- Signature ability will activate when at 20% Health instead of 15%
Optimus Prime
- Slightly decreased strength of Armor Buffs
Superconductor Modules
- Moved the Power Gain ability to the Signature Ability
- Power Gain is now distributed constantly over-time instead of all at once
E.M.I. Module
- Reduced the projectile flight speed penalty at all Ranks
- Increased the chance to be Unstoppable against a projectile at lower Ranks
- Updating iconography, pause descriptions, and text callouts to more clearly communicate the active effects
Harm Accelerator Module
- The basic “Enhanced Degen” ability has been removed
- The Bleed generated by the Module now lasts 60 seconds instead of permanently
- Known Issue: One of the ability descriptions still references “permanent bleed” which is incorrect.
- Bleed damage now scales with the Attack of the defending Bot
Questions? Discuss this release here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/167/version-1-0-discussion-thread#latest
Version 1.0.1 is a quick update following the global launch that should clear up some crashing issues and log in issues that some players are seeing.
- In Missions, it should be clearer to see and easier to select the next step.
- Upgrade and rank-up benefits are now easier to understand
- Updated behavior for the top menu on the Base
- In Away Missions, Bots are now sorted by descending rating
- The Crystal menus have been cleaned up
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations
Version 1.0.2 is another quick update made to follow up on a few crash issues and bug fixes, as well as a major fix for an issue causing problems with installation for users in Asia.
- Translation Fixes
- Bug Fixes
- Performance Fixes
The latest version of Transfomers: Forged to Fight is coming today! It features a slew of optimizations, bug fixes and Bot/Mod Updates.
New Story Mission!
- The first Chapter of Act 3 is here! Find out how Starscream fares in his strange alliance with The Quintessons, as Optimus and Marissa continue to find out more about what Megatron is up to on this mysterious new planet.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where items in the Raid Store that should not increase in price after a purchase were increasing in price.
- Fixed an issue where the Class Advantage power gained via Forging was applying to all Match Ups, instead of just ones where the Bot had a Class Advantage/Disadvantage.
- Various Optimizations, Crash Fixes and Flow Improvements
- Fixed an issue where Alliance Mission page will show the incorrect difficulty
Character Changes:
Barricade
- Backfire damage increased by 20%.
- Backfire” text now plays when the recipient activates a Special Attack to trigger the Backfire damage.
Bumblebee
-His Signature “Alacrity” ability now has a minimum time of 0.2s to switch between Evade Ranged and Evade Melee at Signature Level 100.
EMI Module
-The red “Ranged Debuff” icon now correctly appears on the attacker.
-The “Unstoppable” ability is now a “Miss”. Projectiles no longer collide and deal damage; they miss completely. Additionally, this ability no longer affects projectiles from Special Attacks.
-The chance to miss has been reduced by 10% when compared to the previous Unstoppable chance.
Strange Refractor Module
- AI is now more likely to attack while the player is Stunned.
Version 1.1.1 is a small patch that is iOS only. It contains a bug fix for an issue where players will repeatedly be notified of Data being downloaded, while this is not actually true.
Version 1.1.2 is an Android only update that targets a few Bugs behind the scenes for Android Devices.
Here’s the detail of what’s coming to The Fight:
Complete your Transformers: The Last Knight experience with new limited-time missions.
- Rumors that the Autobot Hot Rod has arrived on New Quintessa enrages Drift who vows to hunt him down. - Perplexed by Drift's vow Optimus Prime and Bumblebee fear that the Decepticon turned Autobot has gone rogue and is resorting back to his old Decepticon ways. Play the all new Spotlight - "A Question of Loyalty" - and find out what happens when brothers in arms do battle.
Megatron has returned to take his place as the new boss of Alliance Missions!
New Level Cap! Commanders can now reach Level 50!
New Daily Login Calendar!
- Great prizes await the faithful Commanders who login everyday!
- Collect Rewards from the 7 Day, 28 Day, and Alliance Calendars.
Fight in a brand new environment inspired by Transformers: The Last Knight.
A whole new look for your Base!
- Base updates bring a new level of visual polish and navigational ease.
- Show off up to four Relics with two new sockets added.
- Several new Relics with new effects have been added. New Relics can be found by fully Exploring any difficulty level of "A Question of Loyalty" as well as from the special Event Calendar. These Relics also have new in-game benefits.
Tip the odds in your favor by using Boosts to augment your Bots' performance.
- Boosts can increase your damage output or survivability.
- Activate an XP Boost to accelerate your level ups and claim rewards faster.
- Some Boosts are only applied to a specific game mode.
Forging a Module now awards bonus Module Crystal Shards based on the Rank, Level, and Signature Ability Level of the Modules that are consumed.
- 1-Star Modules do not award Shards.
- 2-Star Modules award 3-Shard Module Crystal Shards.
- 3-Star Modules award 4-Star Module Crystal Shards.
A new Synergy Bonus interface now shows you who is providing a bonus and who is receiving a bonus.
The benefits and targets for existing Synergy Bonuses have not changed.
Several new Synergy Bonuses have been added.
The Alliance-based currency Loyalty has been removed.
Existing Loyalty balances have been converted to Gold.
You now earn Gold for answering Alliance Help Requests.
Alliance Help requests will now immediately award 3 Energy in addition to the Energy received from Alliance mates.
Bot Changes
- 1-Star and 2-Star Bots now start with two Special Attacks at Rank 1 and unlock a third Special Attack after Ranking Up.
- 3-Star Bots now start with three Special Attacks at Rank 1.
- New Synergies have been added and tuned for several bots.
Mixmaster
- Received a re-design, both on his Basic Abilities and his Signature.
- Updated design will be more in line with other Demolition Bots (Very high damage bursts in a short period of time)
- Acid does not have a cost anymore and Neutralizes Resistances Buffs when active, making him really great against Bots like Ultra Magnus.
- Will deal Burn on his Special 3.
- Whenever opponents have an active Debuff, Mixmaster will get a huge Critical Rate Buff.
Arcee
- Generates power from Non-Critical Hits.
- Power generation from Critical Hits has been reduced to 12%.
- Guardian's Ferocity now has a 20% increased chance to trigger at all Signature levels.
Mod Changes
Laser Guidance and EMI Module
- Module buffs and debuffs can no longer be overridden by projectile buffs from bots.
- A new formula adds a global minimum and maximum speed limit for projectiles to account for bots that might stack Projectile Speed buffs.
Fight Tuning Adjustments:
- Made Adjustments to the AI of enemies to make them less likely to hold their power until they can use their Special 3
- Tuned down aggression of Enemy AI in harder content
- Made a slight adjustment to the speed of Projectile Attacks to make them easier for players to avoid
- Slightly increased the window to chain from a combo into a special attack
Bug Fixes and Optimizations
- Fixed an issue with the effectiveness of Module Signature Abilities during Raids
- Stash items now default to sort by expiry
- Filter basic ORE-13 and Catalysts in the Stash and Inventory screens
- Some timers that previously just showed hours now show minutes as well.
- Fixed an issue causing Wins in Arenas showing as a Loss
Version 2.0.1 is a small patch that is iOS only containing fixes for a handful of crash bugs noticed during launch of 2.0 and optimizations
2.0.2 features additional bug fixes for a handful of crash bugs noticed during launch of 2.0 and optimizations
- A brutal and relentless force is drawing closer. A king in his own mind, and a ruler with nothing but darkness in his spark. Megatron is near.
- Added the ability to cancel Away Missions already in progress.
- New Arenas and Arena schedule! More information coming very soon!
- Removed the health penalty when failing to load into an Alliance Mission fight.
- If you ask for help in Missions, you get a short attack boost for Missions only every time an Alliance member provides help.
- If you ask for help in Arenas, you get a short attack boost for Arenas only every time an Alliance member provides help.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a visual bug with the Alliance Help status bar..
- Fixed an issue causing a short hang between selecting Bots before a fight.
- Fixed a case where an Arena win would count incorrectly as a loss.
- Bug fixes, localization updates, and optimizations.
- Fixed a bug that caused Waspinator to become invincible in Alliance Missions
- Rewrote Mirage's ability descriptions to more accurately reflect his abilities
- Fixed an issue where Windblade's signature ability was not scaling with an increase in her Signature Levels
Character Updates:
Ratchet:
- Self Diagnostics will now only trigger while Ratchet is below 50% health.
- Ratchet no longer has an Attack penalty while under Self-Diagnostics
Motormaster:
- Reduced the duration of Motormaster's Unstoppable Buffs on both his Dash Attack and Special 2 to make countering easier.
Got questions? Ask them in our Discussion thread here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/1094/version-2-1-patch-notes-discussion
Here’s more on what’s coming to The Fight:
Masteries have arrived!
Earn Mastery Points by increasing your Commander level. Your first point will be earned at level 18.
Everytime you level up after, you’ll receive another point. Strategically configure your Masteries to suit any challenge and strengthen your team. With this feature, you will invest Mastery Points into Offensive or Defensive abilities and stats. Read more about Commander Masteries here: https://transformersforgedtofight.com/commander-masteries/
Act 3, Chapter 2 is now unlocked now for you to explore!
Megatron’s rise to power as ruler of The New Quintessa Wastelands becomes paramount. His threat is believed to be so great that The Quintessons need you, Commanders, and Optimus Prime to join forces to defeat Megatron! Beware of the Sharkticons while you battle through this quest, they’ve been enhanced and can’t wait to sink their teeth into you, Commanders! Will Drift get corrupted by Megatron’s influence? Are the Quintessons to be trusted? Find out in Chapter 2!
Battle for Bots in new Raid Events, visible in the Battle Center!
Limited time raid events are showcased in the Battle Center.
Win Raids while events are running to earn Bot Chips to buy new Bots.
Improvements:
- Check out your Alliance’s final rank and rewards after each Alliance Mission in a new summary screen.
- Medal counts are displayed in the Alliance member list
- Improvements to shield communication on the Base
- Added a warning when attempting to use a shield while already under attack
- Added a setting to hide previously seen dialogue in a Mission during replays
- Timing out in Alliance Missions will not KO the Bot, but will deal a health penalty
- A shortcut to the stash has been re-added to the Upgrade screen ORE-13 selection
- Rewards, Sparks, and Items in the stash are now sorted by expiry date by default
- Alliance tags now display in the Friends list
- Item images should load faster throughout the entire game
- Performance on the Crystals, Bots, and Edit Team screens has been improved
- Stability when doing many raids in a row has been improved
- The Alliance Mission exclusivity warning will never show again if asked
- Alliance Missions will default to the last map and difficulty selected
- Alignment issues on the daily login calendar popup have been resolved
- Away Missions scroll properly again
- Fixed many crashes and hangs
- Spelling, grammar, and localization updates
NOTE: Previous versions of these notes include the Following, which will not be part of the 3.0 Update:
A shortcut to Bot abilities has been added to the pre-fight screen.
This will be added in a later release.
Questions? We've got answers! Head to our Discussion Thread: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/1655/version-3-0-discussion-thread/
Version 3.0.5 will be launching soon! This is an iOS only version that contains improvements on the method that Data and Content is delivered to your device.
here are no additional changes or content additions in this release
This version will not be available to all iOS users at once, and will be slowly rolled out over the next week.
MOD BALANCE UPDATES
Transwarp Cell
- Bots are most likely to use their Heavy Attack when paired with this Mod
Paralyzer
- Raise the chance to stun on Special attacks from 22~40% to 60~80%
- Bots will be more aggressive when opponent is stunned
Security Module
- Increased chance to trigger Armor Up from 8~9.6% to 8.4~10%
- Decreased Armor Up strength from 18~34% to 12~20%
- Armor buffs can stack to a maximum of 3
- The mod no longer purifies Armor Breaks
Harm Accelerator
- Additional Bleed debuffs will only trigger when a special attack successfully lands on opponent
Laser Guidance Module
- Damage no longer scales damage by a percentage, it instead deals an extra 17.5%~30% flat damage on all Ranged Attacks.
- Projectile speed has been decreased from 60~85% to 40~70%.
- Additional damage equal to [X] of the bot’s Attack Rating.
BOT DESCRIPTION UPDATES
- Soundwave's description will indicate that he does not generate power from hitting opponents, and only from using his Heavy and Sp2.
- Updated Rhinox's Shield description to "Starts the fight with [X] Shield Buffs which are removed each time Rhinox is hit by a Basic or Heavy Melee Attack. While Rhinox’s Shield is active, powerful enemy attacks cannot deal more than [X] of the opponent’s Attack Rating in a single hit.
Updated Arcee, Barricade and Sideswipe's Evade descriptions to indicate that they can evade both Basic and Special Attacks.
IMPROVEMENTS
Increased gold when duplicating or forging 2-Star and 3-Star Bots
2-Star shards are now awarded when forging a 1-Star Bot
Tapping on a T1 or T2 class Spark will show which day it can be found on
Daily Missions now show which class of Spark appears on which day
Alliance Missions now display the average enemy rating instead of suggested Bot rating
Checkboxes more clearly displayed if they are enabled
Added commas to numbers to help readability
Improved additional game data download rate
Improved overall performance and load times of many screens
Improved overall stability, resulting in less crashes
Spelling and grammar updates
BUG FIXES
Fixed an issue with Alliance Mission battlegroup information displaying incorrectly
Fixed an issue that red notification badges can not disappear properly when viewed
Fixed a variety of crashes
Discuss the new patch here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/2013/version-3-1-discussion-thread
Discuss the Mod Balance Update here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/1953/upcoming-balance-adjustments-mod-edition-update-sept-12-11-06-pdt
Version 3.1.4 is launching soon and it brings with it bug fixes for Visual Problems in Raids for all devices, as well as some performance/load time improvements for some devices.
We hope to start rolling this out to a small group of players this weekend, and are aiming to have it available for all on Monday, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
If you discover any issues after updating to this new release, please let us know in this thread here: http://forums.transformersforgedtofight.com/discussion/2117/version-3-1-4-issues-thread
Act 3, Chapter 3 is now unlocked!
Megatron's rise to power culminates in this chapter as the Scientist struggles to prove his value to his crazed leader. The Scientist offers his latest creations, further enhancing Megatron's Sharkticons and legion of Transformers to carry out his maniacal ambitions. Can the Commander and his allies remove this terrible foe? Maybe with the help of some new allies...
10 new powerful Masteries are now available!
Offensive Masteries:
- Glass Cannon: Increases the Attack Rating of all your Bots, but lowers their maximum Health
- Double Edge: Increases the Attack Rating of all your Bots, but they suffer a Bleed Debuff every fight
- Despair: Enemies Repair less Health for each Debuff they're suffering from
- Suppression: Enemies suffering Stun trigger fewer abilities and Repair less Health
- Stupefy: When your Bots inflict Stun, it lasts longer
- Deep Wounds: When your Bots inflict Bleed Debuffs, they last longer and deal extra damage
Defensive Masteries:
- Bleed Resistance: Any Bleed Damage your Bots would take is reduced
- Shock Resistance: Any Shock Damage your Bots would take, such as Shock Debuffs, is reduced
- Silica Plating: Any Heat Damage your Bots would take, such as Burn Debuffs, is reduced
- Inhibitor: Enemies suffering from Shock or Stun generate less Power
New Features!
- Awakening Programs have been added, providing a way to activate a Bot signature ability without duplicating it.
- Signature Upgrades have been added, allowing the upgrading of a signature ability of an already awakened Bot. A Signature Upgrade will add to the Bot's Signature Ability level.
Improvements & Fixes
- Bot statistics that increase from Upgrading and Forging are showcased more clearly
- Alliance Missions will initially provide a recommended Map and Difficulty based on your Alliance
- Editing the Alliance objective or description now supports changing the existing text
- Tapping on a Relic during a raid will display additional about it
- Added a setting to refresh ‘don’t show again’ popups
- The Fight menu has been updated to better showcase relevant Missions
- The Spark inventory now default sorts by class, and has new filter options for Mod and Alpha sparks
- The Daily mission banner will update to showcase the relevant class each day
- Tapping a player’s name on the Raid leaderboard will display their Commander profile
- Clarification for what fight round of an Arena series you are in
- Crashing during loading into Raids or Mission fights will no longer apply a health penalty
- Fixed an issue that caused extra Bots to appear in combat
- Fixed a delay when Ramjet fires his Special 1 attack, along with other related delays
- Crash fixes and optimizations
- Fixed a display issue in Upgrade that misrepresented the selected Bot’s rating.
- Basic ORE-13 properly sorts to the top of the Upgrade screen again.
- Basic and Alpha Sparks sort to the top of the Spark inventory now.
- Fixed a cost display issue when purchasing multiple items from the store.
- Opening a tab in Crystals or the Store will clear all notifications for that tab.
- Removed a notification on the Alliance button that displays during Alliance Missions.
- Fixed a display issue with Rank and Milestone rewards in Alliance Events.
- Fixed filter functionality for Brawler and Alpha.
- Fixed a crash when attempting to start a new Mission while one was active.
- Fixed a Base display issue when backing out of the Crystals screen.
- Fixed a rendering issue that caused Bots to appear blacked out.
- Fixed a display issue with the Thai language.
- Crash fixes and localization updates.
New Map for Alliance Missions!
A new map has been added for Alliance Missions! It brings greater challenge and requires more teamwork, but also brings greater rewards. This will be available on November 30th to give time for players to update to the new version.
New Features:
- Alliance Mission fights are now 5 minutes, increased from 3 minutes.
- Mission exploration progress is more visibly displayed throughout the game.
- Removed a load screen between finishing the final boss of a Mission and showing Mission completion results.
- Experienced Alliances now have all Alliance Mission battlegroups unlocked by default.
- Bots on Base Defense can now be used in Story, Daily, and Special Missions.
- 1-Star and 2-Star Bots now have their Special 3 unlocked at Rank 1.
- T1 Alpha Sparks can be sold for T2 Alpha Spark Essence.
- The Fallen Titan Hand from completing Rulers of Kaon now grants 5% Attack and Health to all Bots.
- Updated Mod rankup recipes for 3-Star Rank 4 and 4-Stars, allowing for rank up with T1 Mod Sparks.
Improvements And Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that would cause scrolling to stop working throughout the game.
- Fixed an issue with per-fight scoring for difficulty 66+ in Alliance Missions.
- Fixed an issue preventing Forge stats from applying to Base defenders.
- Fixed a display issue for Alliance Mission rewards on the difficulty select screen.
- Galvatron’s Special 2 can’t be evaded halfway through anymore
Rewarded Advertisements are coming to Forged to Fight
5.0 will add new optional Advertisement functionality in game. These advertisements are totally opt in, and provide rewards like Energon and Energy!
This means that you will never see an advertisement if you don’t want to, and will get something just for watching an advertisement!
Every day, you will be able to watch 3 Ads (accessible from your Base screen) in exchange for 5 Energon each. This timer will reset every day at Midnight UTC. You’ll also be able to watch an Advertisement upon running out of Energy in a mission to gain 9 more energy. You will be able to do this once every 6 hours.
There may be times out of our control when advertisements are not available for viewing. When there are no available advertisements, the button will appear as grey, and not able to be interacted with. Check back later, they may be available later!
We want to reiterate that these are completely optional, and it is up to you whether you would like to interact with them or not!
Use Stash Ore-13 Directly from the Upgrade Screen!
- If there is room in your Inventory, you can now use your stashed Ore-13 directly from your Upgrade Screen
Bot Updates
- Increased Ultra Magnus's chance to Nullify to 100% to match his Ability Description
Features
- The Treasury has been removed as all Alliance Missions are now free to enter.
- Bots that are available, but unowned, are now shown in the Bots menu.
- Bot portraits have been touched up and their backgrounds are colored to reflect their class.
- Class advantage and disadvantage is now shown in combat.
- Rarity is now shown when opening awakening and signature items from crystals.
- Ranged attacks from a KO’d Bot no longer deal damage.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare issue that would cause the loading screen to display over a fight.
- Fixed an issue on the prefight screen where Bot Stats were missing and the selected Bot couldn’t be changed.
- Fixed unnecessary gaps in information on certain panels and popups.
- Fixed a visual issue with reflected projectiles.
- Fixed an issue with Optimus Primal’s heavy attack range being too short.
- Fixed two causes of gameplay framerate hitches.
- Performance optimizations, localization updates, and bug fixes.
- Fixed an Issue where Bumblebee was not counting as an Autobot in Synergies
- Fixed an issue with the Beast Purification Synergy causing it not to activate with all Beast Wars Characters
Act 3 Chapter 4 Is Now Waiting for You to Explore!
The final chapter of Act 3 arrives! With The Quintessons in self-exile and a Megatron mysteriously vanished, Shockwave prepares for the return of the true Megatron...his Megatron. New Quintessa's secrets begin to be uncovered revealing signs of ancient inhabitants long dead. Or are they?
Bots Updates
Updates to the abilities of Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Ramjet, Dinobot, Shockwave, Sidewipe and Galvatron to further improve their performance in-game! Check out this thread for all of the details!
Optimization And Bug Fixes:
- Optimized combat to remove some spikes in performance and framerate.
- Greatly reduced the amount of downloaded data when updating from an older version.
- Fixed some memory leaks, increasing overall stability.
- Class advantage is now properly displayed in arena fights.
- Fixed a sorting issue in the Spark inventory screen.
- Fixed an issue where the Act cutscenes images wouldn’t display properly.
- Fixed a display issue with Mission completion rewards where it would just show gold, although you were actually earning Energon and ORE-13 as well.
- Fixed a number of PI display inconsistencies.
- Fixed a combat issue where a dash would miss after landing a ranged attack when the opponent was against a wall.
Shortly, we will be releasing a new Update for Android only. Version 5.1.1 is an optional update, and is not required for anybody that has already successfully downloaded and launched 5.1.
It addresses a crash bug for brand new installs only. Updating as an existing player offers no benefit.
Features:
• Drop rates will be displayed when purchasing Crystals with any currency.
• When purchasing a Crystal, tap the info icon to view the drop rates.
• For more information, check out this Post.
• The damage from the last hit in combat is now displayed.
• The base has been relit to brighten it and help visibility.
• Improved presentation of popups and their background blur effects.
• Tapping an Alliance on the Alliance Mission results will now load their profile.
• Ancient Sanctum has been set to night to help with path visibility.
Bug fixes:
• Fixed two character memory leaks, substantially improving stability on 1GB memory devices.
• Fixed an issue where notifications could cause the game to crash while minimized.
• Fixed a hang in combat when receiving Alliance help.
• Fixed an issue that could cause pause functionality to not work properly.
• Fixed issues with certain special bright attack effects appearing corrupted.
• Fixed an overlap issue when viewing Bot info during Alliance Missions.
• Optimus Primal and Ramjet’s special 2 should now successfully land after a combo.
• Localization and text updates.
Bot Update
Ultra Magnus will no longer receive the Attack Bonus from his Signature Ability while alone. He will still gain the bonus to Physical Resistance. This should mostly only affect the AI, and should make him an easier encounter in the wild.
NEW FEATURES:
Objectives are here! Complete tasks for great rewards.
- Daily objectives reset every day.
- Lifetime objectives provide great rewards for achievements.
- Other limited-time objective sets may appear during events.
- 5-Stars Bots are now available! Start collecting 5-Star shards throughout the game to earn one.
- Starting with April’s spotlight Mission, a new Master difficulty has been added above Expert.
- Difficulty 81 to 100 has been added to Ancient Sanctum.
- A new Legends of Cybertron mission has been added. Grimlock has taken his rightful place on his throne in “Revenge of the King”.
- The maximum Commander level has been increased to 55, up from 50.
5 new Masteries are ready for use:
- Stand Together grants bonus Attack against the final boss in Missions for each squad member that isn’t KO’d.
- Assassin grants bonus attack and reduced ability triggers to enemies below 18% Health
- Capacitor generates Power while affected by Shock Debuffs and damage.
- Perfect Block adds a chance to prevent all damage while blocking.
- Last Stand allows Bots at low health to maintain their Block during a heavy attack.
IMPROVEMENTS:
Improvements to the monthly Spotlight Missions, starting on April 12th:
- Master difficulty has been added, providing great challenge and rewards.
- Expert difficulty has been made easier to smooth out progression to Master difficulty and provide earlier access to high tier Sparks.
- Commander XP awarded per fight has been greatly increased in all difficulties (roughly tripled).
- Away Missions have been completely overhauled, adding new rewards and challenge.
- The Raid Store has been updated with new items, including Tier 3 Basic Essence and Tier 2 Alpha Essence.
- AutoFight functionality has been enabled for Raids.
- Raid matchmaking has been updated to give fewer Quintesson encounters.
- Crystal shards are now awarded when collecting Bots from any source.
Earn 3-Star shards when collecting a 2-Star
Earn 4-Star shards when collecting a 3-Star
Earn 5-Star shards when collecting a 4-Star
- All Arenas now contain Milestone rewards.
- Arena Chips have been removed. Any remaining Arena Chips will be converted into Arena Crystals.
- Asking your Alliance for stamina help in Arenas is now nearly instant.
- Recently released Bots have been added as encounters for Daily Missions and Quintesson bases to add more variety.
- Tier 2 Class Sparks can now be sold for Tier 3 Class Spark Essence.
- All medium difficulty dailies now run on Sunday as well.
- Rarity stars and awakened status for Bots and Mods are now shown in the Commander profile.
- Forge level for Bots and Mods are now shown in the player profile.
- Forge level is visible when viewing another player’s Bot info.
- In combat, remaining health is now also shown as a percentage.
- In combat, the health bar frame now indicates Bot rarity.
- In combat, the health bars have been widened.
- The maximum friends has increased to 50, up from 25.
- The maximum helps to fulfill at once has increased to 18, up from 12.
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed an alignment issue between the Boost and Class Wheel on the questboard.
- Fixed an issue with ‘Find New Opponent’ in Raids sometimes giving the previous opponent.
- Fixes for typos and grammatical errors.
- Optimizations and memory leak fixes.
IMPROVEMENTS:
- You can now scroll Objectives when pressing on the reward images.
- The daily, 4-hour, and Alliance crystals have been updated.
- Alliance Mission rank and milestone rewards have been updated.
- Hard class daily spark missions have been added, providing a much faster way to earn Tier 2 Class Sparks!
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a memory leak, resulting in greater stability for low-end devices.
- Fixed a display issue with 5-Star leadership synergies when editing a team.
- Fixed a display issue in the featured Bot screen for certain devices.
- Fixed crash issues throughout the game.
- Fixed a rating display issue in Alliance Mission combat.
- Fixed some redundant display issues with level up rewards.
- Spelling and grammar updates.
Alliance Mission maps have been updated!
- It's time for Maximal Terms! New Maximal bosses on each of the 3 Maps
- A brand new layout for Ancient Sanctum focused on entire Alliance Cooperation
Starting with the next Bot release, a monthly objective set will be available.
- Complete month long objectives for valuable rewards!
Bug fixes, localization updates, and optimizations.
Selling Sparks!
T3 Basic Sparks can now be sold for T4 Basic Spark Essence and Gold.
T2 Alpha Sparks can now be sold for Gold.
T1 Mod Sparks can be sold for T2 Mod Spark Essence.
Arena Changes!
T3 Class Bounty Arena is coming next week. More details to be announced soon.
Alliance Mission Energy Refill expiry timer has been extended to 14 days.
Bug fixes, optimizations, and localization updates.
12x new 5-Star Bots added to the base pool - THESE WILL BE LIVE ON AUGUST 30TH AROUND 10AM, AND NOT UPON UPDATING. If you are chasing a new 5-Star Bot, ensure that the featured Bot list on the 5-Star Crystal shows the new Bots before opening a Crystal!
- Grimlock
- Optimus Prime MV1
- Galvatron
- Mixmaster
- Cheetor
- Kickback
- Dinobot
- Megatron Gen
- Mirage
- Soundwave
- Hot Rod
- Bonecrusher
5-Star Awakening Programs
- Coming soon in Offers and other areas of New Quintessa!
5-Star Signature Upgrades
- First available in the Road to 7.0 Login Calendar, more coming soon!
Featured Bot Chips reward increase in Raid Events and Arenas
- Bot Chip Raid Events have been changed to a curve rather than static increase: this means competing in Raids at a higher Medal count will grant TONS more Chips!
- Bot Chip Arena Rank + Milestone Chip rewards increased by over 300%
Rotational Raid Store Update
- Adding 4 new items - 4-Star Signature Upgrades, T4 Basic Spark Essence, specific T3 Class Essence, and the Greater Rank Up Crystal
Alliance Event Reward Update
- 3-Day and 7-Day Events are getting a buff to Rank and Milestone rewards!
Note: there is no change to the "How to get points", strictly an increase to rewards!
Introducing the T4 Basic Spark Essence Arena
- Replacing the T3 Basic Bounty Arena, but without removing rewards
- The T4 Basic Spark Essence Arena features all of the old rewards from the Tier 3 Basic Bounty Arena, but with more rewards added!
- Players can get up to 25% of a T4 Basic Spark in this 1-day Arena, which runs twice a month
Bug fixes and improvements
- Optimizations for low to mid range Android devices
- Fixed an issue with Hound and Optimus Primal's Sidestep (Affectionately called their "Sticky Feet")
- Improved an issue where Bots could Whiff (miss) an attack mid-combo
This update contains a fix for an issue that some players have been facing where they are receiving an Error message that will not allow them to access the game.