Transformers Update: Patch Notes!

UPDATED DETAILS (Last edit: 17/09) About Portal Energy:

• There's no cap on Portal Energy earned from Battles anymore, except for Squad League.

• Squad League has a daily portal energy limit of 2000 from Battle rewards (equivalent to 10 wins)

  • Additionally you can get the daily bonus of 1000 and any portal energy from the Achievement Book

  • NOTE! There's a known bug when entering Squad League: The limit system doesn't refresh so players can still continue playing without any limit until the day ends. This will be fixed in the next update.

About the Robot Skins

• Robot Chicken, Medic, Barbarian, and Archer Queen will arrive in the shop on September 30

  • Robot Medic, Barbarian, and Archer Queen will become available for Style Tickets later on.

  • Robot Chicken is a Super Rare skin and will return to the shop periodically as an IAP.

Portals have made contact with the world of Cybertron! Squad Busters’ first cross-promo event is here, along with the first Ultimate Evolutions, and a brand new way to unlock them: Star Chests!

SQUAD BUSTERS X TRANSFORMERS EVENT

Don’t miss your chance to permanently unlock Optimus Prime and Elita-1 during the 2-week long Squad Busters x Transformers Event. If you’ve reached Desert World, collect Energon in Battles to open Transformers Chests and unlock these awesome Autobots.

After the event, Optimus Prime and Elita-1 will appear in the Shop from time to time, , and will continue to appear in Character lineups.

• Rarity: Epic

• Evolutions:

  • Baby: Giant defender as big as a Fusion

  • Classic: Attacks with his Energon Axe after taking damage

  • Super: Heals the Squad when taking damage

Play during Week 1 of the Event to unlock Optimus Prime in Baby, Classic and Super Evolutions.

• Rarity: Epic

• Evolutions:

  • Baby: Giant ranged fighter as big as a Fusion

  • Classic: Attacks at time-bending speed when using Turbo

  • Super: Turbo lasts much longer while attacking

Play during Week 2 of the Event to unlock Elita-1 in Baby, Classic and Super Evolutions.

Optimus Prime and Elita-1 haven’t arrived alone. During the event, Battles are frequently taken over by the galactic mega-nemesis Unicron and his relentless Megatron Tank reconstructions.

In the event-exclusive Unicron Attacks Battle Mod, Unicron arrives as an unstoppable planet that smashes the Gem Mine to pieces, then assaults Squads and Monsters alike with reconstructed Megatron Tanks. Fight back after he converts into a gargantuan robot form and collect huge amounts of Energon by helping to bust him back to Cybertron!

SKINS & EMOTES 👕

4 new Skins are arriving in the Shop, ready to join the Autobots in Battle:

• Super Rare Skin: Robot Chicken

  • Includes the exclusive Robot Chicken Emote

• Rare Skins:

  • Robot Barbarian

  • Robot Archer Queen

  • Robot Medic

Also keep an eye out for the following Skins coming in October, which will be released along with the Graveyard Shift Gem Pass:

• Werewolf Colt

• Undead Barbarian King

• Opera Wizard

• Pam-Buster

• Werewolf Heavy

Star Chests give only Super, Ultra, or Ultimate Characters, or unlock new Characters, and guarantee an Ultra every 10 Chests. Open one by collecting enough Star Tokens, which can be earned by Evolving Characters, claimed as Rewards, or purchased with Coins.

Celebrate this new feature with us and claim 10 FREE Star Chests, including one guaranteed Ultra Character, available only for a limited time! The first few Star Chests will also cost less Star Tokens for all players. Look out for more Star Chest offers in the Shop as well!

Star Chests have the following drop chances:

• Unlock new Character: 40.00%

• Super Character: 58.00%

• Ultra Character: 1.90%

• Ultimate Character: 0.10%

If no new Characters are available, Star Chests will only drop Super, Ultra or Ultimate Characters:

• Super Character: 96.67%

• Ultra Character: 3.17%

• Ultimate Character: 0.17%

If the next Star Chest is a guaranteed Ultra or better, the drop chances are:

• Ultra Character: 95.00%

• Ultimate Character: 5.00%

Additional details:

• Evolving Characters no longer gives Portal Energy, but the amount of Portal Energy earned per Battle has been greatly increased, especially when placing at the top!

• Players can earn a daily First Win Bonus of Portal Energy by placing in the Top 5

• Star Chests can only unlock new Characters that are available from World Journey progress

• Star Chests do not drop maxed out Characters

• For now, Star Chests cannot be opened and Star Tokens are saved if all Characters are maxed out

• Maxed out Characters from normal Reward Chests give Star Tokens instead of Portal Energy

ULTIMATE EVOLUTIONS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

12 Characters can now Evolve to their Ultimate form, unlocking their most powerful abilities and most fantastic default Skins!

• Barbarian: Joins the Squad with a Baby Elite Barbarian

• Goblin: Increases Fusion Goblin's stash to 30 Coins

• Greg: Trees drop tons of loot

• Colt: Bullet Storm charges when attacking Squads

• Chicken: Spawns many more Hatchlings

• Bo: Drops Mines more often and Mines last longer

• Medic: Passive heal gets much stronger and faster

• Hog Rider: Turbo increases attack speed even more

• Dynamike: Gives a Barrel Bomb spell

• Witch: Skeletons move and attack faster when nearby

• Barbarian King: Attacks with his Iron Fist more often

• Archer Queen: Attacks with exploding arrows more often

BALANCE CHANGES 📝

The biggest balancing changes this update come from Green World characters and their new Ultimate Evolutions. However, we’ve also included several other focused feature improvements based on player feedback, including several reworks to Lava World content.

World Roster Changes

To increase gameplay variety in the early Worlds, we’ve adjusted what unlocks in the following Worlds: 

• Green World

  • Bo (was Desert World)

  • Battle Mod: 1-Coin Chests (was Ice World)

• Desert World

  • El Primo (was Green World)

  • Penny (was Beach World)

  • Mortis (was Royal World)

• Royal World

  • Battle Healer (was Desert World)

• Beach World

  • Nita (was Desert World)

Characters and Monsters 👾

• El Primo has increased Health and does Flying Elbow Drop more often, to elevate his status as a Desert World character

• Medic has improved healing and stronger Heal Packs, to keep up with recent Health buffs

• Dynamike attacks faster, and dynamite travels through the air faster, to improve effectiveness in prolonged attacks

• Super Bandit drops more Gems

• Leon’s Invisibility Spell has been reworked to be easier to use and more readable

• Squads do not lose Invisibility if getting too close to an opponent, so it is easier to maintain Invisibility around other Squads

• Squads only go partially (not fully) Invisible, to be easier to examine by opponents

• Squads only become visible when attacking or taking damage, making it easier to reactivate and clearer to counterplay

Battle Mods ⚔️

• Crystal Forest

  • Hero Greg chops Trees faster, for snappier action

  • More Crystal Trees spawn, and spawn more often, to keep action up

• Timeout

  • Timer no longer speeds up during Final Stretch, to be easier to follow

  • Timer has less max time and Clock pickups are worth less time as the Battle progresses, to keep the tension up

  • To give more recharge options, Clocks will also now drop from Glimmers, Trees, Carrots and other sources, and bigger Monsters have better Clock drops

  • Less Clocks spawn directly on the Map before the Final Stretch

• Hatchling Herder

  • 3 Giant Hatchlings can now Fuse, gaining 3x Health and Gem value, to make capturing them earlier more worthwhile and harder to lose

  • Giant Hatchling Gem value is reduced before it is Fused, to emphasize their Fusion

  • Many more Giant Hatchlings spawn throughout the Battle, to keep tails long and satisfying

Gameplay Updates 🕹️

• Lucky Finds can now be Refreshed, to give more strategic options

• When picked from a Lucky Find, some Characters drop more items:

  • Goblin drops more Coins

  • Chicken drops more Turbo Boots

  • Bandit drops Gems

  • Penny drops Treasure Maps

  • Characters that drop a Spell drop an extra Spell

• Turbo recharges instantly instead of after a short delay, so you can tap it all you like without penalty

• Ice Skeletons always drop 1 Coin when their Ice armor is shattered, to make Ice World starts faster

• All Trees, Carrots, Hives, Tanks and Chests respawn at 2 minutes, and the Final Stretch

Other Improvements and Fixes 🔎

• Action Emotes shown in Battle results play with their animations looping

• Targeting precision has been improved, making it less likely to swap repeatedly between nearby targets

• Leaderboard entries now show Win Streaks when they update

• Several improvements to network and device performance