“AI” Balancing and Own Rules
I seem to end up playing a lot of “AI” games and disappointed to see that the higher my level is, the more the “AI” appears to play by different rules. For example, seeing Bonecrusher played, followed by some other troop, followed by Bonecrusher again.
It seems like they also have an 8 card deck but apparently re-roll availability vs sequentially appearing like a human user.
Not at all expected or intuitive. Notice I don’t say “fair” because it is a game after all 😃. However, there sis a natural expectation that either the “AI” plays by the same rules.
It seems like they also have an 8 card deck but apparently re-roll availability vs sequentially appearing like a human user.
Not at all expected or intuitive. Notice I don’t say “fair” because it is a game after all 😃. However, there sis a natural expectation that either the “AI” plays by the same rules.
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An actual review from a person who probably plays this game too much to be this bad at it
I really like this game! It has a strange balance to it, but everything seems to have an counter strategy. My biggest critiques are about the turrets and card levels. It wouldn't be so tedious to get to the game if we had an easier time collecting cards.
My plebeian recommendations:
1: Make the shop rotate multiple times a day and cost way less O-13.
2: Get SOMETHING for playing a match even if it’s just a good chunk of ore. I just played 2 matches in a row that went in to “Tiebreaker” and got nothing for either of those really long, but also really fun matches.
3: Better loot boxes from daily missions. I’d like to see megas, but idk how balance works so yeah.
4: Ore-13 costs to upgrade become insane for the last few levels of a card. That would be fine but we cant really “farm” any currency so it feel like unless you win, you wont get to get stronger.
My plebeian recommendations:
1: Make the shop rotate multiple times a day and cost way less O-13.
2: Get SOMETHING for playing a match even if it’s just a good chunk of ore. I just played 2 matches in a row that went in to “Tiebreaker” and got nothing for either of those really long, but also really fun matches.
3: Better loot boxes from daily missions. I’d like to see megas, but idk how balance works so yeah.
4: Ore-13 costs to upgrade become insane for the last few levels of a card. That would be fine but we cant really “farm” any currency so it feel like unless you win, you wont get to get stronger.
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Game feedback
Hello, I recently subscribed to apple arcade and downloaded this game(transformers). I found the game to have very nice animations, great balance, and good playability. I really like this game. However, I have recently encountered a problem in I have a problem with the game. When I click the button “battle ” to match, it always searches for a few seconds and then returns to the main screen. This causes me to be unable to play against real players. I would like to know if this is a bug.
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Best game ever since clash Royale !!!
I play this game basically every single day and absolutely love the fact that they have Optimus primal in the game and cheator !!! Leveling up is awesome and you don’t have to pay out of pocket for this game like crazy to level up they give you the adequate amount of power to level up your cards and have the nostalgia of getting all the old auto bots and deceptive cons and their voices make it so amazing when they drop in to the battle it’s just completely incredible and one of the best experiences ever as a gamer!
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Horrendous
There are barely any strategies here. The game is extremely unbalanced!! If you like frustration in life then this is your game!!!!
Once you reach 2500 points it is a hard struggle, because the opponent can land 4 squads for every only one of mine. It is obvious you will be defeated.
Once you get to 3000 it is literally impossible to win, because now your opponent gets to land 8 units for every three of mine. This is where it gets completely impossible and super frustrating. Once I reached 3000 I have won twice out of 22 tries.
Judging by the replies, the developers need to take responsibility and admit that they have work to do to improve the game instead of ridiculously worry about the stats.
Once you reach 2500 points it is a hard struggle, because the opponent can land 4 squads for every only one of mine. It is obvious you will be defeated.
Once you get to 3000 it is literally impossible to win, because now your opponent gets to land 8 units for every three of mine. This is where it gets completely impossible and super frustrating. Once I reached 3000 I have won twice out of 22 tries.
Judging by the replies, the developers need to take responsibility and admit that they have work to do to improve the game instead of ridiculously worry about the stats.
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More Than Meets The Eye!
This is a very good game, as it's the primary reason why I have an active Apple Arcade subscription.
The game needs work, but the developers are cool. They seem to genuinely care about improving the game and respecting the history of Transformers.
The game is quite faithful to the 1980s cartoon. Actually, it's even better. Optimus Prime and friends look great! Possibly better than ever.
(I prefer the classic G1 style instead of the recent movies.)
The major downside to this game is that it's Player-vs-Player combat (which is incredibly intense) but slowed down by frustrating level grinding. It's as if a pay-to-win game was force-fit into Apple Arcade's no in-app purchases environment. The end result is a lot of unnecessary and mindless tedium.
I think the game could benefit from a cooperative mode and a PvE mode. I don't want to fight AGAINST my friends. I want to fight TOGETHER with my friends.
The AI is the real enemy here. HA HA! 😄
At the top of the leaderboard, the computer battles are insane. Since there are not so many players at the top, the AI is a stopgap. Instead of mixing PvE and PvE, it really should be two separate modes.
I look forward to watching this game grow. The updates are fairly regular and they usually add to the fun. Hopefully matchmaking is truly improved and more friendly play modes are added.
The game needs work, but the developers are cool. They seem to genuinely care about improving the game and respecting the history of Transformers.
The game is quite faithful to the 1980s cartoon. Actually, it's even better. Optimus Prime and friends look great! Possibly better than ever.
(I prefer the classic G1 style instead of the recent movies.)
The major downside to this game is that it's Player-vs-Player combat (which is incredibly intense) but slowed down by frustrating level grinding. It's as if a pay-to-win game was force-fit into Apple Arcade's no in-app purchases environment. The end result is a lot of unnecessary and mindless tedium.
I think the game could benefit from a cooperative mode and a PvE mode. I don't want to fight AGAINST my friends. I want to fight TOGETHER with my friends.
The AI is the real enemy here. HA HA! 😄
At the top of the leaderboard, the computer battles are insane. Since there are not so many players at the top, the AI is a stopgap. Instead of mixing PvE and PvE, it really should be two separate modes.
I look forward to watching this game grow. The updates are fairly regular and they usually add to the fun. Hopefully matchmaking is truly improved and more friendly play modes are added.
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Game becomes frustrating once you hit Champions League
I am constantly matched against players that have higher level cards than me which makes it near impossible to win battles. If you can’t win battles, you don’t collect crates and that means you can’t level up your cards which then means that you can’t win battles. It’s a vicious cycle. My recommendation to the developer is to max out card levels to 9 for all players who reach Champions League, that way battles are SKILL BASED and not who has the better hand based on character level. Until then, this game is a frustrating mess and there is nothing more to see here once you reach Champions League. No incentive to keep on playing whatsoever.
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Fix OP characters and gems
The last changes have caused 9 out of 10 players I face a day to just drop turrets and add chimera stone for an easy lazy tower hit . When I come to those players that start a game that way they are sure to do it 4-5 more times making a dull game. So eventually I stated to give them the lane and wait for better players. Same with having to face GRIMLOK 8 times a game. He’s so over powered so shouldn’t be available that easily and for that many times. You fixed the issue of unbalanced game play with walking characters with RATCHET down the lane unharmed. So you can figure this out as well.— —update: all that has happened is they added a robot Jedi and and even bigger OP CHARACTER that takes up half the board. No new levels. No balancing for OP characters. no fixing the laser turret nonsense. No where to go at upper levels. No changes in the game to make it worth continuing.—update: now there are overpowered suicide drones that show up in every game. It’s getting further away from Transformer vs Transformer strategic game play. A gorilla on a surfboard??? Ugh
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Balanced and fun
Love this compared to Clash Royale and the pay to win approach. Started playing 30 days ago and have come back every single day since then. Love the explainer videos for each unit showing their strengths and weaknesses--makes it accessible for beginners.
Feature Requests: a battle log of your win/loss history; and the ability to share the replay of your game or save a copy to analyze. More stats on your different decks.
Feature Requests: a battle log of your win/loss history; and the ability to share the replay of your game or save a copy to analyze. More stats on your different decks.
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Engaging game until…
Don’t make the mistake of leveling up past 3000 points too quickly. 3000 seems to be where most of the actual players play.
Do whatever you can do to stay below that until you’ve improved your decks or you’ll find yourself in a position where you’re not strong enough to win any games, but you can’t get stronger without getting crates. You can’t get crates without winning games. And you can’t win games without getting crates.
See the problem?
Do whatever you can do to stay below that until you’ve improved your decks or you’ll find yourself in a position where you’re not strong enough to win any games, but you can’t get stronger without getting crates. You can’t get crates without winning games. And you can’t win games without getting crates.
See the problem?
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Love everything except this
So I’ve been playing this game since day 1 and I love everything about it except for the fact that if I can’t find someone online the AI they make you play against is so broken I feel like they can put down whatever card they want without worrying about cost and I have an all level 8 team its far too weak to defeat a team of all 9 cards. I shouldn’t be forced into a match I know I’m gonna lose because I’m not matching up with anyone the AI was much more balanced before level 9 cards were introduced
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Great game for only a small mount of time
The developers could have a fantastic game but for whatever idiotic reason they have, they decided to have each match already determined (or at least very heavily favored to win) before you even start. I’ve tested this out numerous times and whether it’s me or the other player (AI or real), someone always gets double the energon throughout the battle. Never ever fails. It seriously could be a ridiculously awesome game. But it’s not and it gets so frustrating and makes me despise the game and never wanna play it again. Many other great games on the arcade.
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BROKEN & UNFAIR
I've never written a review before but I have to write one after reading the other comments. This game's computer AI is obviously cheating. I have discovered that the number of "energon" being used by the computer is inflated. I have shown this by recording my gameplay and calculting the bots being played. This is because the developers are trying to create a "ranked" battle environment so they can controll the payout of cards based on gameplay as to not get the gamer to tap out. what they dont get is that they have an A game and dont need to trick us into playing it more. We are hooked, just make it fair! The gambling psychology being used is clever for a capitalist copmpeting in a saturated market, but transformers is one of the best games that I have play in a while. Change the ranked system into a "campaign" where charactor cards are unlocked by climbing the ladder. After a player completes the campaign, then they will have (all?) of their cards to go then fight and level up in the multi player based on a true ranking system. Otherwise the psychology is immoral and people are going to catch on to unfair games like this one.
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The units are balanced, the tower levels are not
Depending on the arena, depends on who you fight. I would normally say this should depend on the tower level, but because it takes so long to get from tower level 7 to 8 and now 8 to 9, there’s a HUGE discrepancy as far as card levels go. Example: I’m tower level 7 and most of my cards I use are level 6-7, but I can fight someone who has level 7-9 cards and they’re still considered a level 7 tower. This is even more frustrating when the game’s AI is a level 9 against your level 6-7 units. There’s no strategy at that point as you get rolled by anything that isn’t low health. This can be solved by introducing more tower levels by splitting up some of the current ridiculously long progressions of tower levels such as 7 to 8 or what I assume is the case for 8 to 9. Considering how long it took to roll out max level 9 though, I doubt this will be fixed anytime soon.
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Draws you in with quick paced action
Action packed, but if leveling up quick, to get stuck on level 7 (once you reach an arena one can’t get relegated), only to play 3 games, to win one, to get a chest, that doesn’t drop what one need…then this is the game for you. Was fun until the plateau, now it’s a “why am I doing this” grind. One is consistently matched with opponents 1-2 levels above, and if they are the same level, their cards (characters) are maxed. Are they just hanging around level 7 to farm chests, or are they stuck with me?🤔 Sorry, don’t have the patience to play for years to level up. Highly addictive at first, which I’m sure is by design. Great replay value! Good luck.
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Terrible Match Making
The match making in this game isn’t very good. It doesn’t seem to take your decks total power into consideration when matching you to an opponent. While we might have the same total level score I am always going up against higher level cards. Example: my cards are level 6s and 7s my opponent has a deck of all maxed out level 8s. There is very little you can do because the higher power cards grind my lower leveled ones down and i have to play 2 cards to counter their one. Also there are a lot of matches where you are fighting where the tower power levels are missed matched as well. Example: I have a level 7 tower and my opponent has level 8. They are now starting with the advantage of a tower with more health and defense power than mine. The match making should go by the total power of the deck the player is currently using and their tower power should always be equal. If this issue is fixed this will be a really good game.
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Its sad to see a great game killed by its progression
The game is fun balanced has depth and potential with a few needs for UI/quality of life tweaks.
However That comes with a huge asterisk. For a game without micro transactions (thank whatever god(s) you want) it’s terrifies to give you rewards. Particularly cards and ore (the games currency)
Why does a win = 5 cards and like 10 ore when you win a match for reference it can take 100 cards and 1,000 ore to upgrade one card. Yes it’s as insanely bad as it sounds and destroys progression particularly at 3k trophies as there’s fewer players and no more trophies rewards of value.
Side note never play the AI they will always have over leveled cards and cheat energy like crazy it’s just a timer for when they play the next card which means they can cheat the biggest cards in the game and create hoards of the largest cards in the game
However That comes with a huge asterisk. For a game without micro transactions (thank whatever god(s) you want) it’s terrifies to give you rewards. Particularly cards and ore (the games currency)
Why does a win = 5 cards and like 10 ore when you win a match for reference it can take 100 cards and 1,000 ore to upgrade one card. Yes it’s as insanely bad as it sounds and destroys progression particularly at 3k trophies as there’s fewer players and no more trophies rewards of value.
Side note never play the AI they will always have over leveled cards and cheat energy like crazy it’s just a timer for when they play the next card which means they can cheat the biggest cards in the game and create hoards of the largest cards in the game
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Decepticons and factions.
Absolutely love this game and I’m a hard core transformers fan, but it just feels like there’s not many Decepticons compared to Autobots. I would love to see more because quite frankly I think there better looking, there’s very few, there’s not a good Decepticon for crowd control like moonracer and there more unique, like Astrotrain and Blitzwing for example a triple changer or Thundercracker. Also I would like to see a faction system pick Decepticon or Autobot and work to reach a goal or maybe just clans either work but please separate them if you can. Regardless what you do it’s still a really good game and you guy’s do such a good job of balancing.
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Great game with a lot of potential
The gameplay is amazing and it’s nice to see a good transformers game after so long but there are a few things i would like added.
More characters need alt modes because that’s kind of the whole point of transformers and i would love to see this game get more attention and have more troops and characters from the transformers series added like the combiners and stuff like that.
More characters need alt modes because that’s kind of the whole point of transformers and i would love to see this game get more attention and have more troops and characters from the transformers series added like the combiners and stuff like that.
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It’s like clash but way more fun
When I started playing this game I quit clash royal. I love that it is free on Apple Arcade and doesn’t encourage micro transactions. Plus the graphics sound and game play are better.
I do get frustrated that I can’t use the new cards when they come out because it takes so long to level them up. I wonder if there is a way you could have separate challenges where you have to use the new cards in the deck and when you win you get a bunch of that card, and playing those challenges don’t effect your rank. Or do something where new cards are leveled up to your tower level for the season.
Wait that gives me another idea. What if you could choose to play the game I ranked. It could still pit you against people at your level but you wouldn’t go up or down if you won or lost. A way to play around with decks without risking going down a level.
I do get frustrated that I can’t use the new cards when they come out because it takes so long to level them up. I wonder if there is a way you could have separate challenges where you have to use the new cards in the deck and when you win you get a bunch of that card, and playing those challenges don’t effect your rank. Or do something where new cards are leveled up to your tower level for the season.
Wait that gives me another idea. What if you could choose to play the game I ranked. It could still pit you against people at your level but you wouldn’t go up or down if you won or lost. A way to play around with decks without risking going down a level.
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