Angry Birds: Transformers Mobile Game was updated today, bringing new characters and new areas to unlock.
Strangely, no official notice was made regarding the update other than the fact that a Bug Fix was done to improve the stability and performance. However, 2005 Boards Member MrByatis is bringing us the information and images from the update.
First of all, two new characters are introduced to the game and both of them represented by Stella. One character is Blackarachnia from Transformers: Animated and the other one being Arcee (finally!!!) who was teased for so long on the old Loading Screen. Rovio released two games based on Stella recently and we can assume that this is the reason why Arcee was delayed.
Other features include:
- New areas to be unlocked on the map
- New Challenges
- Skywarp Airfield Repair Functionality (requires 5000 coins)
- New Loading Screen image
- New Jenga modes
- Character weapons and abilities changed
- New character animations when thanking buddies
Update: We have an update for the Angry Birds: Transformers game update (Ha!). 2005 Boards Member Cax6ton is informing us that the long awaited Cloud Saving feature is now active on the game (again, finally!). Hopefully this means no more lost progress due to various circumstances such as game updates, OS updates and random loss of game data.
The new update is rolling out on the Android platform at the moment and our members who are using the iOS platform confirmed that the update is not yet available for them. Patience, folks… it will come.
Check out the screenshots by MrByatis, after the jump.
T-Hybrid
I've had to restart this game twice already because of the lack of cloud saving. Re-downloaded, saw nothing of the sort and got rid of it.
Fool me twice and all.
Boy Blunder
So, I was playing last night, and the game actually gave me Blackarachnia as an assist character. I don't know how much this will reflect her actual gameplay, but her projectiles seem slower than average, but not in a 'firing speed' manner. They seem almost… I guess the best way to put it would be 'weightless,' like they half-fire, half-float towards the target.
I hope to get her again, so I can pay more attention to how she operates. Also, to answer questions, the game treats Blackarachnia as an Autobird – got a 'same faction' victory pose with her and Jazz.
GreednGluttony
she's a maximal later in beast wars, so its not that far fetched
Boy Blunder
Do we know what it takes to access Arcee/Blackarachnia? I've got the update installed, but it only gives me the blanked out heads in my character roster, and other than the new location icons, nothing's popped up on the world map.
Thankfully, my game has stopped doing the glitch where it randomly decides to clear off a different stage, rather than the one I just finished playing, and giving me rewards for neither. So it looks like their bug fixes are in effect.
Fallout
is blackarachnia an autobot??
Robowang
Yeah, I can't get the accounts to synch up. It's like they are two completely separate accounts. I log in with the same email for both. It's very strange. Both devices have downloaded and installed the update.
Autovolt 127
Bikearachnia!
Robowang
Ah, okay. So I'll open the phone first and then the tablet. Nice. Thanks for the heads-up!
Cax6ton
I was planning to test it later, I need to do a phone reinstall anyway. On mine, I had 2 separate games going, one on the phone and one on the tablet, roughly 10 levels apart. I updated the tablet first, and then as soon as I updated the phone and opened the app, it updated the progress on my phone to match the tablet (it pops up a dialog box telling you it will update your progress). So be careful which one you open first if you have separate device progress on the same account.
Robowang
Okey dokey.
What if I have the game on my son's tablet and it's also linked to my account? Can I delete it, reinstall it, and have the same data as what's on my phone? (It keeps deleting his game every few weeks. Frustrating!)
GreednGluttony
too bad i stopped playing already
SilverOptimus
Google Drive is not the Cloud for Rovio. They have their own. And as I heard, it is automatically saved.
Robowang
Oh sweet, I have a Google drive. Is it automatic if your google account is linked, or is there a save button somewhere?
SilverOptimus
Cloud Storage is a generic term. Google has Google Drive, Apple has iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.
Game companies have their own Cloud Storage for saving player progress so that they can pick up and play anytime, anywhere, any device.
Robowang
So the Cloud saving feature is available for Android? Or that for IOS even though they don't get the update yet? (Sorry, I haven't used a cloud, but I thought that was an Apple thing.)
Kaijumaster
I'm so glad the south park episode got me to uninstall this game.
SilverOptimus
Angry Birds: Transformers Update Brings New Characters And New Features
nicholsG1
I hope to god that hasbro makes these two fembots into figures I cam buy. I've been holding out on the telepods and crap until we go an arcee
Maximo Prime
I'd be down if it wouldn't keep losing all my data. I love playing that game. But I won't put up with that bullshit.
Sideswipe1954
I was surprised that my Kindle updated with this as we had been waiting and waiting for the initial Deceptihog update and I think we got both in one shot