Community Update - 4/15/2016

EA_Jesse

Greetings Heroes,

Updates that happened this week:

• #AppsforEarth started yesterday on iOS and runs until April 24th. This special event pits the Ewoks against the might of the Empire. All Ewok bundles purchased during this event will go to WWF to help protect life on our planet. https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/27350/save-the-forest-moon-of-endor-event-apple-exclusive#latest
  
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• The Balance Update went out yesterday and changed up the game quite a bit. We are listening to your feedback on these recent changes and will be making some adjustments already (more information below). https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/26898/game-update-4-14-2016#latest
• We added a new event leading up to the Guilds and Raids update, the Ability Material Omega Event: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/27404/ability-material-omega-event#latest

What we’re working on now

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/28767/game-update-4-15-2016#latest

• We pushed out an update tonight that adjusted the difficulty of challenges, making them more in line with the difficulty they were prior to the update.
• Because there were so many players who were unable to complete the Strength and Agility Challenges yesterday and today, we sent out max rewards for all tiers to each player.
• We increase the speed of combat animations for both manual and auto throughout the game to be the same as Galactic War. The combat animation speeds in Galactic War are currently the fastest we have in the game. This should assist with Arena battles that were going past the 5 minute timer, and also make the game feel faster overall.
• While we will not be making any changes tonight to Galactic War, we have heard your feedback and will be discussing possible adjustments that we can make in order to make the experience more enjoyable for players. More information on this next week.
• Full update notes will be posted as soon as they go live this evening.
• TL;DR
  • Challenges adjusted to be easier
  • All Strength Challenge Rewards from yesterday sent to all players
  • Arena battle speed is increased to match the speed in Galactic War
  • Galactic War balancing being discussed by dev team

We are also putting the finishing touches on our Guilds and Raids update coming later this month. More details will be shared about Raids next week!