Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Battle Tactics
Wow, the Transformers toys that taunted you on eBay are looking like a good deal!
Developer	DeNA
Publisher	DeNA Corp
Writer	Andy Schmidt
Platform	Android, iOS
Release date	January 30, 2015
End of service	May 12, 2016

Transformers: Battle Tactics is a multiplayer battle game published by DeNA for mobile devices. It features over 75 characters designed after toys from different toylines, including Classics, Generations, Combiner Wars, and Collectors' Club exclusives. The game shut down on May 12, 2016, most likely to make way for the Backflip Studios game, Transformers: Earth Wars.

Gameplay

Transformers: Battle Tactics is much like another of DeNA's (discontinued) games, Super Battle Tactics. Players select four Transformers from their roster to form a team. Players can create up to three different teams. Gamers can choose to battle a random computer-controlled team or a random live player; the other choice is to pick from three different computer teams. The "random" mode also changes slightly under two different circumstances:

If an event is being held, it will become the way to earn League Points, but otherwise remains the same.

If a player fills their Experience bar, he will move Advancement Mode. Players must win three of their next five games to level up. This mode is the only way to level up, because otherwise players would simply choose the throwaway team in the other mode to win easily.

Once a battle begins, the Transformers will randomly get one of their five damage numbers. These numbers change and become special abilities, depending on whether the character is in alternate mode or robot mode. Players also get three Ability Points every round, which allow them to activate powerups, including a re-spin of a character's number and several different air strikes, among others. When the battle begins, one of the two parties is randomly chosen to attack first, unless a Transformer rolls the highest blue first strike number. Each character attacks once per round.

Characters

There are five character ranks: Common bots (Rank 1) can all be recruited with cybermetal. Uncommon bots (Rank 2) can be recruited with cybermetal and transmetal. (There are only two uncommon bots that can only be obtained as an event reward.) Rare bots (Rank 3) can be recruited with cybermetal, transmetal, and one of four types of class cores.

Many Super Rare bots (Rank 4) were only available as event rewards, but the others require 10 unique cores of that character to build (25 cores for the most recent bots), often obtainable only during the event they were introduced.In the early days of the game, they the most powerful bots.

That was before the Epic bots (Rank 5) were introduced. As the most powerful characters in the game, most of them are unrealistically hard to obtain, as they require 50 cores of that character to recruit them or getting them as rewards in top leagues. The Epic bots available only as event rewards became even more elusive in recent events. The primary way to get new Epic bots during the game's main course of play was spending large amounts of gold on the Space Bridge and Energon.

Featured characters

Autobots	Decepticons	Maximals	Predacons	Mini-Cons
Cliffjumper Generations Gears Junkheap Scoop Bumblebee Goldfire Generations Generation 2 (Event) Hoist Wheeljack Joyride Optimus Prime Generations Combiner Wars Orion Pax Laser Optimus Prime (G2) Battle Core Optimus Prime Tailgate Swerve Generations Ratchet Powerglide Sergeant Kup Huffer Warpath Cosmos Windcharger Blurr Red Alert Firefly Alpha Bravo Crosscut Trailcutter Nightbeat Drift Sideburn Sandstorm Jazz Generation 2 Skids Jetfire Springer Generations Chromedome Brainstorm Circuit Ultra Magnus Rodimus Prime* Exclusives Roadbuster Whirl Rewind Jetfire II Armada Scavenger Armada Smokescreen Energon Rodimus Wheelie (Gen) Energon Skyblast Energon Treadshot Energon Prowl Energon Downshift Energon Signal Flare Energon Strongarm Inferno (G1) Ricochet (G1) Smokescreen (G1) Tracks (G1) Side Swipe Armada Daily Campaign Carzap Dion Fisitron Nova Prime Event Air Raid Skydive Silverbolt Jackpot Punch Groove Rook Streetwise Blades Hot Spot First Aid Grimlock Generation 2 Swoop Slug Generation 2 Snarl Generation 2 Slog WFC Optimus Prime Fall of Cybertron WFC Bumblebee WFC Sideswipe Arcee Chromia Windblade FoC Grimlock FoC Snarl FoC Slog FoC Strafe FoC Slug Scattershot Afterburner Nosecone Lightspeed Strafe Blaster Hubcap Seaspray FoC Ultra Magnus FoC Jazz FoC Fireflight FoC Blaster Ironhide (CW) Sunstreaker (CW) Prowl (CW) Mirage (CW) Rodimus (CW) Perceptor Generations Highbrow Armada Optimus Prime Cybertron Armada Blurr Beachcomber (G2) Jetfire Armada Energon Armada Red Alert FoC Topspin FoC Roadbuster FoC Impactor FoC Twintwist FoC Whirl Combiners Superion Defensor Computron Optimus Maximus FoC Ruination	Acid Storm Generations Classics Masterpiece (Exclusive) Thundercracker Legends Classics Combiner Wars (Exclusive) Generations Starscream Generation 2 Generations Lord Starscream BM Tankor Blackjack Megatron Generations Generation 2 Combiner Wars Viper Dreadwing Nemesis Prime Breakdown Dirge Thrust Ramjet Generation 2** Generation 2 Jhiaxus Skullgrin Dragstrip Skywarp Classics Masterpiece (Exclusive) Generations Thunderwing Scourge Octane Darkmount Doubledealer Cyclonus Blitzwing Barricade Armada Megatron Armada Starscream Energon Starscream Cybertron Starscream Krok Nacelle Armada Wheeljack Armada Thrust Energon Scorponok Cannonball (Cybertron)* Exclusives Runamuck Astrotrain Sky Shadow Sunstorm WFC Slipstream RID Scourge Spinister Event Over-Run Offroad Dead End Motormaster Counterpunch Treadshot Brawl Onslaught Vortex Swindle Blast Off Bombshell Skrapnel Kickback Seawing Tentakill Overbite Snaptrap Nautilator Skalor WFC Megatron Scavenger Generation 2 Scrapper Generation 2 Bonecrusher Generation 2 Mixmaster Generation 2 Hook Long Haul Generation 2 Galvatron v1 Galvatron v2 Armada Galvatron Energon Cybertron Thundercracker Armada Cybertron Skywarp Armada Cybertron Ramjet Soundwave Hun-Gurr Blot Cutthroat Sinnertwin Rippersnapper FoC Soundwave Soundblaster Armada Demolishor Armada Cyclonus G2 Roadblock Dirtbag FoC Blast Off FoC Brawl FoC Onslaught FoC Swindle FoC Vortex WFC Shockwave* Combiners Menasor Bruticus Piranacon Devastator Abominus FoC Bruticus	Event Optimus Primal Bat Transmetal Cheetor Transmetal Transmetal II Rattrap Transmetal Dinobot Rhinox Transmetal Silverbolt Depth Charge Transmetal Airazor Transmetal Tigatron Blackarachnia (TM2) Exclusives Lio Convoy Tigerhawk Transmutate	Event Megatron Alligator Transmetal Transmetal II Waspinator Blackarachnia Tarantulas Timelines Transmetal Inferno Scorponok Rampage Dinobot II Ravage Quickstrike	Windshear Generations Runway Generations Heavytread Decepticon-aligned Armada Bonecrusher Armada Wreckage Armada Knock-Out Autobot-aligned Backtrack Armada Spiral Armada Oval Armada Combiners Centuritron

* Characters that have not appeared in the game, but appear in promotional material.

Episodes

The final event of the game, "Transformers: Till All are One!", made all the 'bots that had appeared throughout the game available through special offers in the Space Bridge.

Notes

• The Exclusive version of Skywarp and the Event characters Armada Galvatron, Tigatron, Generations Perceptor, and Beast Wars Ravage are the only characters thus far represented by TakaraTomy figures rather than their Hasbro counterparts (if one exists).

• Unlike the event cores, which were removed 48 hours after the event ended, the Alpha/Beta/Omega and character cores stayed when the new monthly character was added.

• As of the Dinobot update, many Rare to Epic characters were buffed. Some gained over 20 HP!

• During battles, characters would sometimes say random quotes from The Transformers: The Movie. It was as monotonous as the game itself.

• Most characters fire a weapon to attack when in vehicle mode. Some characters, such as the Constructicons, drive over and pounce on enemies. Hardcore.

• Blaster and Soundwave are unique in the sense that they do not fire a weapon in their alternate modes. Instead, they deploy Raindance and Laserbeak respectively, who do the firing.

• The later events had reduced rewards as well as dropping the Stronghold mode altogether. At one point, Top leagues for Epic bot rewards went from top 200 to top 10! It was easier to get the physical toys, seriously.

External links

• Official Website
• Transformers: Battle Tactics Wikia