Game Update - 5/1/2017 - Comments and Questions *** MEGATHREAD***
May 2, 2017 12:08AM
edited May 2017
Game Update 5/1 release notes
***NOTE*** - everything in the updates below may not be fully visible in game until May 4th.
***SECOND NOTE*** - players are able to manually download this update from the App Store or Google Play prior to it being a required download on May 3rd. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours before you see this in the App Store or Google Play.
SHIPS UPDATE
This recent update is focused on making Ships combat even better and providing a variety of tools to enable new types of Events. Here is a breakdown of the details.
- See Your Crew: Now you can see the crew behind your ships as they fight to defeat their enemies.
- Ship Health Bars: To better differentiate between the health of ships, we have reduced the number of health bar segments. Ship Health has NOT been changed.
- Target Lock: To make it easier to remember which Ship Abilities inflict Target Lock and have bonuses due to Target lock, we have added visual messaging on the Ability buttons.
OTHER UPDATES
Look for a variety of new types of Events over the next few months:
- Bonus Reward Events: Support for limited time events that add bonus rewards for particular Battles or Tables. The first of these new Bonus Reward Events will launch later this month.
- When these events are active, a player will see:
- A button on the Cantina Home screen highlighting the event and providing additional details when tapping.
- Badging on the tables affected.
- Indication on the Battles affected.
- Player Level Appropriate Events: Support to create events that have an appropriate difficulty and rewards based on the player’s level.
- Packs advertised on the Cantina Home screen have been improved to display an image of the pack and associated details.
- Events that have an Event Unit in the Ally Slot will now have a prepopulated squad and the ability to select an existing squad.
- Shards for Pao can now be found in the Cantina Store.
- Characters from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story have been added to the holograms on the Light/Dark Side Campaign Tables in the Cantina.
- The loading screen splash art has been updated.
IMPERIAL TROOPER UPDATES
Death TrooperUnique: Krennic's Guard
- Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.
- Gains: "While Death Trooper is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +10% Health Steal."
Magmatrooper
- Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.
Basic: Line of Fire
- Secondary damage no longer excludes selected target.
- Damage Penalty reduced by 5% at all levels.
- Upgrade 6 now grants +10% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Upgrade 7 now grants +15% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Omega: Now adds +50% (up from +15%) Secondary Attack Chance and -10% Damage Penalty.
Special 1: Thermal Imploder
- Upgrade 5 now grants +10% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Omega: Now adds +30% Turn Meter Reduction Chance in addition to previous bonus of +15% Damage.
Unique: Hazard Training
- Gains: "While Magmatrooper is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +30% Tenacity."
- Omega: Now adds +10% Turn Meter Gain in addition to previous bonus of +5% Tenacity.
Shoretrooper
- Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.
Special: Regroup
- Now grants Health and Critical Immunity to Shoretrooper.
Unique: Stand Guard
- Gains: "While Shoretrooper is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +10% Max Health."
Snowtrooper
- Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.
Basic: Assault Shock Troops
- Upgrade 7 now grants +10% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Omega: Now adds +15% Damage in addition to previous bonus of +15% Ability Block Chance.
Special 1: Overwhelming Assault
- Base description now reads: "Deal Physical damage to all enemies and gain Critical Damage Up for 2 turns."
- Upgrades 3 and 6 now grant +10% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Upgrades 7 now grant +15% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
- Omega: Now adds "For each Critical Hit scored, reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1" instead of +15% Damage.
- Final description now reads: "Deal Physical damage to all enemies and gain Critical Damage Up for 2 turns. For each Critical Hit scored, reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1."
Unique: Assault Training
- Gains: "While Snowtrooper is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +20% Critical Damage."
Stormtrooper
- Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.
Basic: Imperial Marksmanship
- Omega: Gains "If this attack does not score a Critical Hit, or is Evaded, the target becomes Exposed, which can't be Resisted"
Special 1: Stormtrooper Bravado
- Omega: Now adds +50% Turn Meter Reduction Chance in addition to previous bonus of Taunt Duration + 1.
Unique: Wall of Stormtroopers
- Reworked to grant 25-40% Defense for each living Empire ally.
- Gains: "While Stormtrooper is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +30% Defense."
- NEW ZETA: Stormtrooper gains 40% Offense for each defeated Empire ally
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I think Imperial Super Commando and TIE Fighter pilot should be tagged as "Imperial Trooper"... so why they are out of this category??
@EA_Jesse -- is there going to be some sort of advanced notice of these bonus rewards, or does this mean that everyone should save as much of their play as possible until after 5 pm PDT in order to make sure they can get whatever these bonus rewards are?
He comes in the second wave when they add Old Daka and Jawa Scavenger to the trooper tag.
Tie fighter pilot is a pilot, not a trooper.
Super Commando is a better question, but I would guess that he's supposed to be some kind of elite, where the Imperial Trooper category may be meant to be more for the grunts. Though how that would square with Death Trooper, I couldn't explain.
thanks, man. The other guys try to think a little bit more, there are many people that doesn't speak english very well so there are things that you can't understand at first
Gar Saxon's clan is affiliated with the empire and will carry out some of their plans, but they aren't officially part of the imperial army/forces/whatever.
all right so TFP is out xD, imperial super commando is still an option, and i really hope that EA add more troopers in the future, i like those guys
Thanks!
Still they belong to the empire factions...
Anyway, I get why ISC isn't a trooper
I 7* FOTP without using any energy refreshes, get on my level
this please !!
@Jyn_Erso_12 The first note is that not everything will be visible until the 4th. I'm guessing that's one of them.
@CG_Kozispoon can we please get some info about when we can expect something?
That's because you can...
You can still look at the rewards and requirements for each tier while it is up even if you don't have any more attempts.
Inside the challenge they are not clickable and the image reflects that.
@EA_Jesse
What about him? He'll be in the cantina shop when the update kicks in. idk why you're so stoked to start farming him.
Death Trooper is in fact an elite Trooper, I searched it and it explained it in a very specific way, now the Super Commando it's a leader in fact, but not a soldier that follows anybody's orders. Death Trooper can be an Elite Trooper, but he also follows orders from the Super Commando. That's my POV