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[Racona Nova]

Congrats, TR!! Nice feeling to finally reach that level...

[Krace]

Just reached level 85 today.

Congrats and welcome to the long game now.  Lots to do.   


That being said, YET MORE game changes!

Here they are:

CG_Carrie wrote: »
BLOG POST
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – The Road Ahead
As we embark on a New Year, it’s time for us to talk again about some of the changes planned for the near-term future of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and what the Road Ahead looks like for the game. Here’s a peek at what’s to come.

New Sith Raid



We are extremely excited to announce that we are working on bringing you a brand-new raid experience. This new raid takes place in Star Wars: The Old Republic timeframe and allows players to take on the Sith Triumvirate of Darth Nihilus, Darth Sion, and Darth Traya.

The raid will come out with our upcoming Quality of Life update. Expect to see some more updates on what the content will look like – and please keep an eye on forum announcements for more details!


Quality of Life Improvements

We spend a lot of the year focused on new features, and while we are keenly interested in bringing new content and experiences to the players, we acknowledge the need to address opportunities to improve the existing game experience: finesse new features after they’re live and find time savings in older features so that players can spend their time where they choose.

The upcoming Quality of Life update fulfills those objectives in a few ways:

Fix for the Raid Tickets display – In January we rolled out a partial fix that will be followed by a full fix to guilds that will serve as a time saver for officers and leaders in managing player activities.

Additional Simming – Time savings in routine activities were a big part of last year’s Quality of Life update, and this one is no different.

Galactic War is one of the largest player time sinks we’re looking to alleviate, but we don’t want to take away the experience entirely since it’s a place for people to experiment with their team makeup. After beating Galactic War a certain number of times, the entire Galactic War will be simmable for full rewards.

Multi-simming will also be brought to ship challenges (unrelated to progress on the capital ship events) to bring it in line with the daily challenges which already have multi-sim capabilities.

The Credit Heist and Training Droid events will now also be simmable.

Pre-Battle Text Search – On the squad select screen, players will now be able to bring up a filter that searches for any character name or tag. This will help ease the creation of squads without having to go in and out of the character inventory page.


Territory Wars Changes

Successful Defenses – For those of you wondering how well your defensive squads fared against your opponents, we will now be displaying the number of defenses that each squad has had, to help inform your future Territory Wars experiences.

Tie Breakers – While fewer than 2% of battles are currently ending in ties, we know that it disproportionately affects some of the higher GP guilds. Leveraging the successful defenses system, we are now introducing extra banners for beating a defensive squad the first time. This means that when two squads have a tie, the one that beat the other with the fewest losses, will win.

Increasing Defensive Squads for Top Guilds – As top Guilds have so many squads, the average of four defensive squads per players isn’t allowing them to fully demonstrate the strength of their rosters, is not challenging them, and can lead to ties. We’ve increased the number of defensive squads required per person at the top tier of play.

There are more fixes and improvements coming in the Quality of Life release, and those will be detailed more fully in the release notes.


Wicket, Nightsisters, and the Character Release Cadence

We recently made the following Character Shards available in Shipments. Going forward, you’ll also see them in more traditional farmable locations. These characters will also continue to appear as rewards in their respective recurring events.

Wicket
Mother Talzin
Nightsister Zombie
Nightsister Spirit

After listening to feedback and collecting player data, it’s clear that our efforts to make the distribution of these faction-defining characters special - by having them farmable exclusively behind recurring events - has caused confusion on how Marquee characters are released. In the future, we will be working harder to preserve the integrity of the Character Release Cadence, by ensuring that characters released via Marquee events cycle through the game in a more standardized fashion, within clearly defined periods of time.

Characters released via Territory Battles, Legendary events, Hero’s Journeys, and other special occasions will continue to have a more unique and challenging farming schedule.

Thanks for helping us kick off another exciting year, and as always, we’ll see you on the holotables!


Link to the original article:
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/157822/road-ahead-2-8-18-mega

[Soul]

Yeah I'm pleased with those quality of play changes, that'll be nice.
Curious to see how the new raid goes, especially as this'll be the first new raid for me seeing as HAAT was already in-game when I started playing.

[Taegin Roan]

Yes, those updates all sound great. Especially the simmable GW. That will be very nice.

[Krace]

Yes, those updates all sound great. Especially the simmable GW. That will be very nice.

I will be curious to see if they end up making it simmable stage by stage, or sim the entire thing at once, or maybe both but the latter takes multiple tickets.

Also there was speculation that they would return GW to its previous difficulty to give players a place to test the squads they're building.  This would probably be fine as long as people have the Sim option.  However the notes say "After beating Galactic War a certain number of times, the entire Galactic War will be simmable for full rewards."  So, the question would be, how many times does it have to be beat?  Maybe you have to get to the highest achievement of 150 completions I think it was?

[Racona Nova]

If it is like that, then I'm happy that I don't have to smash my phone I have the 150 GW achievement already. I don't really want the previous difficulty back...with all those changes and character additions it would be more than awful.

[Taegin Roan]

I can beat about 3 out of 5 right now, but I'm nowhere near the 150 wins yet.

[Darth Calon]

Congrats on 85 Taegin!

I for one would love to have GW return to it’s previous hard difficulty to test out teams, but also have the sim option.

[Dauntless Seven]

Hi all.  Just popping in here to have a look.  Those new long game features are going to be challenging and fun.  I will not be joining in as Bejeweled is about my talent pace.  Could not jump, kick and spit at the same time in Mario Bros.  Using a lightsaber for Whack a Mole is more my style. 

How many keyboard and mouse do you gamers wear out each year ?!  lol 


appreciation point for Game Master Krace 

[Taegin Roan]

Congrats on 85 Taegin!

Thanks Calon.


Also, I need someone else to farm from GW store, but I don't know who I should do. Would it be worth it to farm Biggs, or should I do someone else?

Hi all.  Just popping in here to have a look.  Those new long game features are going to be challenging and fun.  I will not be joining in as Bejeweled is about my talent pace.  Could not jump, kick and spit at the same time in Mario Bros.  Using a lightsaber for Whack a Mole is more my style. 

How many keyboard and mouse do you gamers wear out each year ?!  lol 
appreciation point for Game Master Krace 

Oh, it isn't that bad. I started in October or something like that, and am doing fairly well. It is mobile, so we don't use keyboards and mouses.

[Krace]

If it is like that, then I'm happy that I don't have to smash my phone I have the 150 GW achievement already. I don't really want the previous difficulty back...with all those changes and character additions it would be more than awful.

Yeah, GW was probably one of the biggest frustrations in the game for a while, and caused a lot of beating, punching, throwing, etc of my phone(which is why I'm glad my screen is shatterproof).  If they wanna make it hard again I'd be game, long as I have the Sim option.

Hi all.  Just popping in here to have a look.  Those new long game features are going to be challenging and fun.  I will not be joining in as Bejeweled is about my talent pace.  Could not jump, kick and spit at the same time in Mario Bros.  Using a lightsaber for Whack a Mole is more my style.  

How many keyboard and mouse do you gamers wear out each year ?!  lol  


appreciation point for Game Master Krace  

Thanks for the point.

This game is actually rather simple in most places because nothing actually requires quick reaction time.  Once you know what your characters can do, it's just a matter of putting a team together and going with them.  Plus if you add a bunch of us as Allies, you'll have some super OP character you can borrow during battles to just SLAY stuff.

My PC keyboard is fairly gently used because I have a gaming speedpad that I use for almost all my PC games and it's designed to take a LOT of wear and tear and last.  As for my mouse it seems like that lasts me about 2-4 years depending on the quality bought.  Some games are a lot more click intensive and they wear out faster.

But yeah, this is a mobile game so mostly the wear and tear comes if you wanna beat the crap out of your phone, or if you play a lot and wear down your battery all the time.

Thanks Calon.


Also, I need someone else to farm from GW store, but I don't know who I should do. Would it be worth it to farm Biggs, or should I do someone else?

Well, if you've finished Zeb then yeah, definitely go for Biggs next.  Him and Wedge together(Wiggs) are a potent combo in many squads.  Also he is pretty much the most widely used tank in Ships that there is.

[Taegin Roan]

Alright. Biggs it is.

[Dauntless Seven]

Thanks everyone for the explanations.  I am hesitant to admit that I don't use a cell phone as can't decide on the options and plans... okay I have limited friends.  

Carry on.  

[Racona Nova]

It also works on tablets

[Taegin Roan]

Figured you all might get a kick out of this.



Galaxy of Heroes with LEGOs. 
I have at least one other team, but not a good leader for it.