Game Update - 4/25/2017 Comments and Questions ***MEGATHREAD***

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EA_Jesse wrote: »
Game Update 4/25 release notes

***NOTE*** - everything in the updates below may not be fully visible in game until May 4th.

What’s New-
  • R2-D2
  • R2-D2 Legendary Event
  • Empire Faction Pass: General Veers
  • Elite Combat Event III
  • Ship: Gauntlet Starfighter

R2-D2 Arrives in Galaxy of Heroes!
Event Start: May 4th
  • The versatile Support Droid, R2-D2, has been seen on the Death Star! Gather your best EMPIRE forces and defeat the famous crew of the Millennium Falcon to capture R2 in THE DARING DROID, a very rare multi-tiered event!
    Can you foil the REBELS' plans and capture this legendary astromech?

NEW CHARACTER

R2-D2

Basic: Electroshock Prod
  • Base: Deal Physical damage to target enemy with a 35-80% chance to inflict Stun for 1 turn. This attack deals 30% more damage to Burning targets.

Special 1: Smoke Screen
  • Base: Target ally gains Foresight for 2 turns and all other allies have a 70-100% chance to gain Stealth for 2 turns. R2-D2 gains 10-40% Turn Meter. (Cooldown 5-4)

Special 2: Improvise
  • Base: Deal Special damage to all enemies and inflict Burning for 2-3 turns. This attack can't be Evaded. (Cooldown 5-4)
  • NOTE: Burning! Deals damage over time and minimizes chance to Evade.

Unique 1: Combat Analysis
  • Base: While R2-D2 is active, all allies gain 4-10% Critical Chance and 4-10% Accuracy.

Unique 2: Number Crunch
  • Base: At the start of battle, R2-D2 gains 5-10% Max Protection for each Droid ally, 5-10% Offense for each Galactic Republic ally, 5-10% Max Health for each Rebel ally, and 5-10% Potency for each Resistance ally.

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May Daily login character and Faction Pass
  • The Empire is always formulating new strategies to crush the Rebel threat. General Veers is the Daily Login for May and heads the charge with a new Empire Faction rework introducing the 'Imperial Trooper' faction!
  • With the addition of the new 'Imperial Trooper' category, debuting in May, Troopers will share a variety of unique abilities and advantages becoming a much more formidable force. General Veers can bring the full might of his Troopers to bear on the filthy Rebel scum with his incredible Trooper synergies. Additional details for the Imperial Trooper category will be shared next week.

CHARACTER UPDATES
General Veers
  • Now has the "Imperial Trooper" category.

Basic: Daring Attack
  • Now also has a chance to grant Speed Up to a random Imperial Trooper ally who doesn't have it.
  • Upgrade 7 now grants +10% Damage instead of +5% Damage.
  • Omega: Now adds +15% Damage and +30% (up from +15%) Speed Up Chance.

Special 1: Ruthless Assault
  • Now also calls all other Imperial Trooper allies to assist, dealing 40% less damage.
  • 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.

Leader: Imperial Assault Commander
  • Gains "Imperial Trooper allies gain 20 Speed."
  • Omega: Gains "Imperial Troopers gain 10% Turn Meter whenever they gain a buff" in addition to previous bonus of +4% Offense.

Unique: Aggressive Tactician
  • Now grants all bonuses to all Imperial Troopers.
  • Gains: "While Veers is active, Imperial Trooper allies have +15% Critical Chance."
  • NEW ZETA: Recover 10% Protection whenever an enemy is defeated, +20% Offense Up Chance, and +60% Turn Meter Gain Chance

Nute Gunray
  • Nute Gunray's Leader ability has been adjusted: Turn Meter gain on Critical Hit has been increased to 30/40/50% from 20/25/30% at ranks 3/5/8, but can now only trigger once per turn (i.e., multi-hit, multi-attack, and AoE abilities will only trigger the effect once on the first Critical Hit scored.)

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New Character faction- GALACTIC REPUBLIC
  • Characters relevant to the Galactic Republic era have now received a "Galactic Republic" faction tag. Additionally, many ships from the era have had their identifier updated from "Republic" to "Galactic Republic".


NEW PACKS & BUNDLES

Gauntlet Star Fighter Pack
  • Once you’ve tackled the Elite Combat III event (LINK), be sure to seven star your Gauntlet Starfighter ship with Blueprints PLUS Ship Building Materials, Enhancement Droids and Prestige! Each pack has a chance to crit for 30 BLUEPRINTS! Otherwise, 5 shards per pack.

Gauntlet Star Fighter bundle
  • Wreak havoc on enemy fleets with a Gauntlet Starfighter Ship! This ship is crewed by Gar Saxon and his elite Imperial Super Commando (featured in the Elite Combat event series). Level up your Gauntlet Starfighter with 25 blueprints (or unlock at 2-stars)!

SHARD SHOP & CHARACTER CADENCE UPDATE

With Director Krennic and Death Trooper rotated out, the following Characters have been added to the Shard Shop for a limited time.
  • Darth Nihilus
  • Sith Trooper
  • Sith Assassin

Additionally, these Characters can also be found in the following locations:
  • Darth Nihilus- Hard Dark Side Battles 9-A
  • Sith Trooper- Cantina Battles 8-B
  • Sith Assassin- Cantina Battles 8-C


EVENTS

ASSAULT BATTLE FOREST MOON UPDATE
Assault Battle: Forest Moon has been updated! To coincide with the new update to the Imperial Troopers we’ve retuned this event and updated the rewards. This event will run in May, so get your Empire and/or Droid characters ready for a fight!
  • Now has 3 tiers: Hard, Very Hard, and Bonus
  • Difficulty has been readjusted across all tiers to meet the goal of providing challenging content at the level of the tier. Note however that mechanics remain largely unchanged, so the strategies you have used in the past should continue to be valid.
  • Descriptions have been updated to clearly state recommended player/unit level, and recommended gear tier for participating units. Please note that since there are so many possible squad configurations, some units in certain combinations are naturally going to have an easier time completing the event then others.
  • Repeat completion rewards have been completely overhauled. Each win will now grant 4 shards of a single Ewok, Credits, Salvage, and a single mod of 4-dots or better. In general, rewards should feel more useful and should consist of more things which are needed.
  • First time rewards remain unchanged.
  • The “Deadly” buff some Ewoks have in this event has had its description updated, and now features the “lock” icon effect to denote that it is not subject to being dispelled.
  • Teebo in encounter 4 is now correctly tagged as a Boss and is using the correct Boss stats for this encounter.
  • The event power “Defend” has been updated as follows: Now grants 80% Defense, 100% Critical Avoidance, and restores 20% of a unit’s Maximum Health. (Was: 70% Defense and 10% health.) This ability lasts for one turn and has a two turn cooldown.
  • The description for Defend has been updated to reflect the changes above.
  • Updated refresh costs to match Assault Battle: Places of Power. Note that refreshing any tier refreshes only that tier.

ELITE COMBAT III
With the previous Tiers successfully completed, now is the time to utilize all of Gauntlet Starfighter's abilities to effectively defeat the Rebels in this final Event! Gather your best Fleet. For more information, please be sure to review April 11th’s Game Update notes found <<HERE>>


BUGS
  • Fixed a bug that caused Tusken Shaman's Rite of Savagery ability to heal for much more than intended at rank 8
SHIPS
  • Ships will no longer flicker when selected in fleet management screen

Replies

  • Any plans for a rework of stormtrooper?
  • Was so excited for update...now so dissapointed.
  • Veers - snowtrooper synergy coming at its finest ☺ at last
    SWGOH.gg profile: NicoleJudge
  • djvita
    1684 posts Member
    Mol_Kelly wrote: »
    Any plans for a rework of stormtrooper?

    uh
    With the addition of the new 'Imperial Trooper' category, debuting in May, Troopers will share a variety of unique abilities and advantages becoming a much more formidable force. General Veers can bring the full might of his Troopers to bear on the filthy Rebel scum with his incredible Trooper synergies. Additional details for the Imperial Trooper category will be shared next week.
    CHARACTER UPDATES
  • Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.
    "When the dust settles, the only thing living in this world will be metal."
  • Guess i read it too quickly... sorry bout that
  • Also, Veers' new stance resembles that of Thrawn. I like that.
    SWGOH.gg profile: NicoleJudge
  • DatBoi
    3615 posts Member
    putz1337 wrote: »
    Was so excited for update...now so dissapointed.
    JinSaotome wrote: »
    Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.

    Whats wrong with it? just curious
  • Ciao
  • Ouchie
    1233 posts Member
    I was right! R2 is now a fire type Pokemon
  • Thank you for the update notes,

    I looks like veers might be usefull for stormtrooper teams now, does this include commandos?

    Shame to see we dont have thrawn coming but i feel hed be more of a fleet man.
  • I'm really glad that they finally added r2 don't get me wrong but it's really hard to build empire on such short notice, I wish that could have added somewhere to farm the new great empire toons we just got without paying a bunch of cash. Does anybody know how I should build for free?
  • DatBoi
    3615 posts Member
    They didn't describe the Gauntlet's abilities in the notes above, but it has a cleanse+protection up for all allies. Otherwise its mediocre. Fair amount of empire synergy, probably good under Tarkin.
  • CUP finally got a tag , Galactic Republic.

    what's about Ugnaught? he still has no tag at all , if R2 gets resistance tag , you might can give Uggy the rebel tag(yeah , another REBEL , I know) , it's just a suggestion :) Chewie got GR tag ,too.
    absolutely like this new Imperial Trooper Faction and the Veers rework .... hope to see that Stormtrooper (and maybe Snowtrooper) rework and some new Trooper (Sand and Scout maybe?)
    and already waiting for the R2D2 event , my Empire team is ready for rumble! ...
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  • DatBoi wrote: »
    putz1337 wrote: »
    Was so excited for update...now so dissapointed.
    JinSaotome wrote: »
    Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.

    Whats wrong with it? just curious

    Veers is Phoenix Squadron all over again. 2 weeks of DT and DK in the shard shop, K2SO was there for a looooong time.
  • Wow expected more out of veers.
  • Zombie961 wrote: »
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    Im wondering if Gar Saxxon and his commando will fall into this group
  • I want this!
  • DatBoi
    3615 posts Member
    putz1337 wrote: »
    DatBoi wrote: »
    putz1337 wrote: »
    Was so excited for update...now so dissapointed.
    JinSaotome wrote: »
    Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.

    Whats wrong with it? just curious

    Veers is Phoenix Squadron all over again. 2 weeks of DT and DK in the shard shop, K2SO was there for a looooong time.

    I'm still not sure what you mean. He's the daily login and farmable in 3(?) hard nodes.
  • Hopefully!
  • Have a credit event before r2d2. Just please !!
  • I'm pretty sure we need at least 3 of them.
  • Angrybaldman
    369 posts Member
    edited April 2017
    Nute is still garbage. He needs a complete overhaul. Make his leadership ability a special or unique and fix thermal detonator. It's such a waste of a skill right now.
  • For a newer player in this game, r2 is basically inaccessible unless you open your wallet. I have opened mine for other things, but this rush is a bit too much for me. Empire characters are not easy to farm, and why would we considering the viability of the characters prior to this?

    Maybe for those who have been around awhile this is the gift, but i fail to see many newer players shelling out hundreds to get it.

    :( sad but oh well.
  • Makes sense!
  • Youll likely need 5 empire toons 5star and up to unlock him
  • JinSaotome wrote: »
    Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.

    I'm going to second that.
  • DatBoi wrote: »
    putz1337 wrote: »
    DatBoi wrote: »
    putz1337 wrote: »
    Was so excited for update...now so dissapointed.
    JinSaotome wrote: »
    Excited to severely disappointed. Well at least R2 has Droid synergy.

    Whats wrong with it? just curious

    Veers is Phoenix Squadron all over again. 2 weeks of DT and DK in the shard shop, K2SO was there for a looooong time.

    I'm still not sure what you mean. He's the daily login and farmable in 3(?) hard nodes.

    You need a whole squad of troopers for Veers to be usable. So they want you to gear up 5 toons, most who were obsolete for the longest time. Plus, you have to wait to even use him. You also have to wait for rework on the other toons to use him. If you spent gear and materials following the clues, you still don't get squat with him. Just my initial interpretation, but I feel the ball was dropped for the empires second pass. *slow claps at CG/EA*
  • Imperial troopers

    Storm
    Snow
    Magma
    Shore
    Death

    ISC?
    TFP?
    Krennic?
    Tarkin?
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