Transformers: Battle Tactics

Transformers: Battle Tactics
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Developer	DeNA
Publisher	DeNA Corp
Platform	Android, iOS
Release date	January 30, 2015

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 is scheduled to shut down in May 2016, most likely to make way for the upcoming game Transformers: Earth Wars (a game best described as Transformers meets Clash of Clans).

Gameplay

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 avaiable 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 ga!e, 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 very hard to obtain, as they require 50 unique cores to recruit them. The Epic bots available only as event rewards became event more elusive in recent events.The primary way to guarantee obtaining an Epic bot was spending ludricrous amounts of gold.

Featured characters

Autobots	Decepticons	Maximals	Predacons	Mini-Cons
Cliffjumper Gears Junkheap Scoop Bumblebee Goldfire Generations Generation 2 (Event) Hoist Wheeljack Joyride Optimus Prime Combiner Wars Orion Pax Laser (Event) Battle Core Tailgate Swerve Ratchet Powerglide Sergeant Kup Huffer Warpath Cosmos Windcharger Blurr Red Alert Firefly Alpha Bravo Crosscut Nightbeat Drift Sideburn Sandstorm Jazz Generation 2 Skids Jetfire Springer Chromedome Brainstorm Circuit (movie) Ultra Magnus Trailcutter Carzap Side Swipe Armada Exclusives Roadbuster Whirl Rewind Jetfire II Dion Armada Scavenger Energon Rodimus Energon Skyblast Energon Treadshot Event Air Raid Skydive Silverbolt Animated Jackpot Punch Groove Rook Streetwise Blades Hot Spot First Aid Grimlock Generation 2 Swoop Slug 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 Blaster FoC Fireflight Ironhide Sunstreaker Prowl Mirage Rodimus Perceptor Generations Highbrow Armada Optimus Prime Cybertron Armada Blurr Beachcomber Generation 2 Energon Jetfire Armada Armada Red Alert FoC Topspin FoC Roadbuster FoC Impactor FoC Twintwist FoC Whirl Fisitron Combiners Superion Defensor Computron Optimus Maximus FoC Ruination	Acid Storm Generations Exclusive Thundercracker Exclusive Starscream Generation 2 Generations Lord Starscream BM Tankor Blackjack Megatron Generation 2 Viper Dreadwing Nemesis Prime Breakdown Dirge Thrust Ramjet Generation 2 Jhiaxus Skullgrin Dragstrip Skywarp Exclusive Thunderwing Scourge Octane Darkmount Doubledealer Cyclonus Blitzwing WFC Barricade Armada Megatron Armada Starscream Energon Starscream Cybertron Starscream Krok Nacelle Armada Wheeljack Energon Scorponok Armada Thrust Armada Knock-Out 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 Armada Wreckage Armada Bonecrusher 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 Blackarchnia (TM2) Transmutate Exclusives Lio Convoy Tigerhawk	Event Megatron Alligator Transmetal Transmetal II Waspinator Blackarachnia Tarantulas Timelines Transmetal Inferno Scorponok Rampage Dinobot II Ravage Quickstrike	Windshear Generations Runway Generations Heavytread Backtrack Armada Spiral Armada Oval Armada Combiners Centuritron

* Characters that aren't in the game yet, but appear in promotional material.

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 are removed 48 hours after the event ends, the Alpha/Beta/Omega and character cores stay when the new monthly character is added.

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

• 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 each deploy Raindance and Laserbeak respectively, who both do the firing.

• Recent events have reduced rewards as well as dropped the Stronghold mode altogether. Top leagues for Epic bot rewards once went from top 200 top 10!, but then settled at top 100. It's easier to get the physical toys, seriously.

External links

• Official Website