The assault battle thing royally pisses me off. I get excited every time I see one pop up in the events tab because I know I'll finally be getting some much needed materials. Now they're going to push out the old ones to make room for the new ones. All the new assault battles require new characters (that a lot of people don't have geared up) and they want you to take the new characters to R9. Why should I upgrade new characters to R9 if they're just going to rotate the assault battle out in a couple of years? CG is doing a great job of making me not want to give them money.
Holy shit, Swany? Didn’t realise you played SWGoH. Used to watch you in the Battlefront 2015 days. Also, agreed. This is arguably the shittiest thing they’ve ever done. It’s a net loss of resources for 99.9% of the playerbase. The new AB’s were a nice way to incentivise people to invest in the new teams, but replacing the old ones is a massive “fuck you” from the Devs.
They think we just do not understand and appreciate their genius in all of this. Hopefully they approach assault battles through a different route rather than this new course.
they literally said the assault battle is being rotated back in next month and ittl continue that way. if they keep realeasing assault battles without rotating one out then there will be an assault battle everyday, now sure i would love that but CG wouldnt as it would possibly eventually ruin the economy. but it really isnt that big of a deal since theyve confirmed endor is coming back next month and it will probably stay there for the next 8 months while they cycle out the others. your gonna need to R7 the new remnants for ahsoka someday anyway and the rewards for the R7 tier is very simmilar to challenge tier 3 of an assault battle.
@@jobin45-27 the economy concern is valid, and is likely why they did what they did. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s objectively less rewards for most people. We invested in these teams partly because we knew it was an investment, and we’d get rewarded for doing so. Now they’ve pulled the rug on people (without prior warning might I add), making new characters even more inaccessible than before, because they’ve shut off a stream of resource income that could have been used to build up those new teams. TLDR, I understand the financial implications it could have on the game, but it’s an objectively shitty move on their part in the eyes of the players.
Given the drop rates of some things in other content are low to non-existent sometimes the AB is the ONLY way to actually get somethings on a semi-regular basis for some players.
Don’t see anyone else mentioning this but with the change to daily challenges it looks like we will receive fewer crystals too as they were rewards from doing dailies. I know it wasn’t a huge amount, but for F2P that sucks.
A friend of mine used to work at CG / EA on this game, he said they had crazy turnover after the first handful of years because it really limited their passion and creativity. A shame, this game could be evergreen and very profitable if not focused on near term earnings and instead looking over the life of the game
Its a cash cow and gambling. Leave the game. The only reason to stay is the community if you can stomach the devs. Rest assured, this game is a rip off.
I believe it, they've been making the game less fun over the years to prioritise profits. It makes sense that they're limiting the passion and creativity too. A lot of games suffer a similar problem.
@@BlueSB017 Haven't spent a penny in 4 years and stick around for gac only. Over 150k crystals stored as I have zero interest in the constant influx of not SW characters from horrendous disney series.
They say they are working to improve the free-to-play player experience, but the choices made in this update show the contrary. This is most apparent in the removal of galactic challenge reward crates and moving those rewards to the new Episode Track. You need to have the new marquee unit at seven stars to fully clear the Galactic Challenge feats. This will cause many F2P players to miss out on higher tier/bonus rewards in Episode Track, which again goes against CG's initial claim that they are focused on improving the F2P experience.
Can’t believe it was said multiple times in the big post that they are aiming at helping f2p players and then go right back to talking ab how you’ll need the 7* marquee character to complete a whole task in the GC, absolutely ridiculous, oh yeah 20k crystals or however many it takes to get a new marquee character to 7* is def f2p 🤦♂️
That would be the case if it wasn't for the fact the 'points' for the pass isn't tied exclusively to GCs. GCs have become less important with this update
If we are taking their word in the post, they claim you do not need to spend money to get the same rewards as before. They also said you do not need to spend money to max out the free track. As I said, we will need to wait and see to confirm ourselves.
How about roll the rewards from the Omega Battles into Assault Battles and get rid of the Omega Battles? Wouldn't that free up space on the schedule? Maybe remove the Ewok and Nightsister battles? There's a lot of ways that make more sense than rotating out ABs
If I am honest, I do not think it is because of scheduling issues. I think it is because they do not want too much good stuff in their economy for free. I could be wrong though.
I just wish they made some things more F2P accessible, I’m mostly free to play (aside from lightspeed bundles cause they’re awesome) and some of the changes they’re making like with GC where I would mostly get my Omicrons from are getting taking out, but honestly aside from that this update is looking great with all the new sims and episode stuff going on!
Omicrons will be available in the shipments for episode currency. We'll have to see if you can get as many as you were able to, or maybe more? But it does seem like your GC effort can still be rewarded with omicrons.
The Omicrons will be in the new shipments which you can use with the new currency you win in the new GC system. Although they are taking away some old assault battle rewards, it does not look like they are taking away GC rewards. Just moving the rewards to the shipments for you to pick what you want. Again, need to confirm once it hits the game but I do not see any GC rewards going away.
@@AhnaldT101I’m not really a fan of the new “shop system” instead of just giving us everything they make us choose what to buy. Just keep giving us everything lol did the same thing with the raids. I guess it can be better but I’d rather just be given everything than have to choose to buy certain rewards instead
@@zimmy3302 I can see both sides of this. while yes its nice to keep getting lots of stuff its also annoying when you are missing some items but have a massive overstock of the other thing needed or thats farmed from the same spot. the shop system allows you to be a little more in control of this but we all know that CG SUCKS to VALHALLA at being able to make pricing reasonable.
They'll never give you options on which assault battle to do as they're using them to push players to invest in new characters, particularly as they come out. Increases the chance of spending for fear of missing out.
The assault battle thing is so infuriating, they would really rather limit them to 8 because they don't want us to just get more rewards for being able to clear the older ones, they truly hate their players
Yea it makes no sense to be honest. Older ones should be easy to clear at this point in the game and we shouldn't be punished because they want to release absurd new assault battles that a majority of us can't even do still 😂
I mean call me crazy, but I think assault battles should have their own tab like legendary events… they’ve become so integral for the game they need some permanent home where you can do a certain amount monthly or something.
Imagine a seperate Tab with Dates of "next Return in 27d and 14h" or something. That way you could Plan your Farming much better around when the Events return
I could care less about the assault battle rewards, the events were FUN! The new ones require specific characters and are only 1 wave, but I love the old ones because it's 8 waves and it often forces you to theorycraft and be creative with the required units you have.
Lots of negatives about this update… just another stupid battlepas, locking gc’s behind 7* marquees… not even mentioning the AB situation again and simmable events should not be a big deal, everything that is 3 started should have been simmable right from the start
I am cautious but not concerned at the moment about the new GC system. They claim you do not need the new marquees to get the same rewards as before. We will need to wait and confirm ourselves. Also, it is really funny how they need to hype them adding a sim to events that have been in this game for so long haha
@@AhnaldT101based on the math from the numbers shown in the screen shots if they dont change, without the marquee star gate feats but you complete everything else for gc, you should be able to get all the tiers done f2p plus an extra 19 assuming you complete all the quests
@@AhnaldT101 My concern is that by giving higher rewards to players who paid, like the BP, the extra stuff from GCs ect will be the new benchmark for future requirements, meanwhile the F2P people will be earning the same as before, but comparatively to new standards less than whats the baseline/standard is
@loaffdd9836 only 19 extra? In a 3 Month time period I'm only allowed to not get 19 Tickets? For anyone with a early or mid Game roster that is nearly impossible. Already with this first one I am in trouble. I don't have a Rebell Fighter Team and 400% TM is always a struggle for my roster...
Not gonna lie, got a feeling this is the end of F2P players ever being able to catch up, or feel involved. This is the end of the experience, unless the implementation is way different than it’s made to sound. Implementing a pass into core gameplay is pretty isolating for people.
@@nicholasjager4995 As far as I know, they never said it was every 3 months? Lately, legendaries like Cal, Grand Inquisitor, and Jar Jar have always returned at random and inconsistent times. It is annoying.
@@AhnaldT101 They never specifically said it was every 3 months but back in the day with old legendary events like Thrawn, they would return every 3 months
The simmability of Galactic Legend Ultimate Journeys does in fact not refer to the Ultimate stage of the GL unlock events, but to the event that rolls around after each conquest and gives the purple GL tokens.
“Galactic Legends Ultimate Journey” I believe means the actual event that runs alongside proving grounds, not the actual ultimate ability farm. Could be wrong, though.
Actually speaking of being able to just use your characters, they REALLY need to add being able to duel your friends on no time limit. Be able to throw your teams against each other and actually both be using them with no ai involved. It seriously can’t be impossibly hard to code in, and me and my best friend have always wanted to throw our teams at each other. Lord it would be so fun
18:00 maybe... just maybe... crosshair will be one of the new marquee's and will be placed in the old bad batch squad, and the new bad batch squad will use the old omega instead of create a new one.
In general, I’m fine with these changes. The royalty pass and episode pass in msf are fine, no problems with me. I just hope they don’t introduce the insane paywall for new toons like MSF has. Just leave that where it is
It's a small thing, but Fleet Energy going towards Raid Tickets is actually a brilliant change. For someone who occasionally buys the £20 Crystal pack and is farming towards Relic characters (just got my 5th GL and working on Jar Jar), being able to get Raid Tickets from the G12+ salvage pieces (Which are all on Fleet) actually saves me several refreshes a day, making my farming more efficient
I mean, have both new and old assault battles run in a rotation. It can't be that hard to have "8" different assult battles run a month. Rotate aroud which ones show up and let them all remain so new players get to experience the variety of different challenges
Also, if they want a real way to make Squad Arena stand out and not be completely useless as it is now. Just have it be the area of the game where ALL Omicrons are turned on. Let it be the wild west up in there and let people go crazy AND PLAY WITH THEIR NEW TOYS, what is the harm if there's not any worthwhile rewards. Oh and my favorite turtle is.... a Squirtle!
If they’re making a new Bad Batch Team, surely they’ll be adding them to the existing faction? If that’s the case, your wish for the current Bad Batch to improve hopefully will come true thanks to the new units!
Notice the Ahsoka artwork on the episode thing? It shows all the characters for her squad but also has two versions of Ahsoka. One in dark from the first half of the season and the one in light from the second half. I bet her ultimate will be going to the world between worlds in order to swap to Ahsoka the white.
They should do a conquest style thing where you “commit” to one assault battle over the other if they are gonna be replacing them all eventually, like say you can either commit to Dual of the Fates or Jedi assault battle; or maybe even choose between Peridia or empire assault battle.
I had to look it up because I love these little factoids: "straight from the horse's mouth" comes from horse racing and wanting to know which would win. Instead of "straight from the horse's mouth" they had to settle with info from the closest thing, the jockeys and trainers and so the saying was adapted as way to say "from a reliable source."
I always thought it was from horse trading. Like used car dealers, a horse trader will tell you everything is good. It's only when you open it's mouth and look at the teeth that you see if it's true or not.
@ likely no echo since he was gone most of S3 and no tech because… well… so they could do Hunta, Ricka, Omeeega, Phee, and someone else (Asajj?) and then crosshair as the legendary. They explicitly said 5 bad batch character so I doubt it’s just the bad batch
I could see Bad Batch being Hunter, Wrecker, Omega, and Crosshair. Echo joined Rex at this point, and Tech died in the prior season. We could see Batcher, Rampart, Nala, or Phee as a 5th member.
Admittedly, this update is scaring me. It’s just a lot of change from what I’m used to, a lot of new things added, and quite frankly, it’s overwhelming. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually, and I’m almost certain I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, but it’s just a lot to take in. Hopefully, it’s a lot more sensical in gameplay than on paper.
Like you said, we need to math it. However, it sounds like for $20 you get the extra shards for the marquee like right now dolphins buy 2-3 packs to get to the next tier of marquee for kyro and shards. With this though, $20 covers both marquees, so it sounds like a big discount for dolphin spending on episodes getting resources and toons
the problem with something like marvel snap vs swogh for a free play auto match system version, it would literally have to be a preset deck game, because if i use Rock team, well Paper team just destorys me, honestly it'd be cooler if they had like rush GAC, you could do once a day or something, 15 min time limit, adjusted for rank (higher will add like 5 mins), so people have to play without spending any excess time on looking up counters etc etc, you get into the match and you play, maybe reduce it to 3 zones, flight top, ground bottom and middle zones.
I hope they’re not going to make new versions of the old bad batch and just add more characters like hunter, batcher, emerie, probably a new omega maybe, azi, phee. There’s so many that could fit this tag
The neon trails on the 'N' and 'E' in "NEWS" are the only neon trails that overlap in your Breaking News graphic. As always, thanks for the explanation and content you put out.
After a GA round ends we may replay the matches without any limit (even the toons were on def and current mods, datacrons etc...) but with 0 rewards so we can test stuff and keep playing game. they can add this replay feature into anything but without giving us any reward. so if you want to play the game you play without hurting the game economy.
❤Thanks for taking the time to go through this long list of news. But did I miss the point when they tell us we get more space in layouts. Not just 200 but 300 possible layouts or more. Or did they really not consider this most obvious and long due changes.
I’m not a game developer BUT. Make a assault battle event…. Put all the assault battles and give us X amount of attempts so we can choose which ones we want.
Those rewards on the reward track are NOT new rewards, they have just moved the rewards you got from red crate in GC to the reward track and now you after complete a billion quests over a month to get them. AFAIK, the only new rewards for F2P are from the new shipment store that you can spend the new currency on. Also, some rewards are 100% gated to having bought the pass and whaling on marquee characters.
I just want to see them add more EU and old republic characters. Mara and Katarn were great but the EU has sooo much depth of beloved characters from Jaina and Jacen to more Sith line Exar, EU and old republic need so much love… oh and help with the high end gear bottle neck lol
To help with using more teams in PvP, wouldn’t a very easy fix be to add more teams in Kyber, like add 4/5 more teams in each section. That way, you have to use your bad batch somewhere, on defence or offence. All those wasted, and much weaker teams you never use will have to be used.
Note about a Tuesday release schedule: this likely means that all changes and updates will be submitted by the end of the week (Friday) and Monday will be a day to work on the deployment of the update with Tuesday being the actual set day of deployment. From a workflow standpoint, this is a good change for the SWGOH dev team
I've thought for a long time each guild member should be allowed to set one "Training Squad" per week (or month), that would allow all other guild members to attempt to battle it for that week. No rewards, except maybe bragging right type awards like Avatars or Titles for the guild member with the defensive holds or the guild member who defeated all 49 other members squads at least once. It would allow so much theorycrafting but it would require guilds to coordinate and also have the characters to test against. You wanna test what of your squads can beat GL Ahsoka? You guild needs one then. Could also alternate periods of whether GAC or TW Omis are active. I would spend hours on this just for fun.
the problem i see with the episode pass plus is that they take away our two zetas every month and substitute it with the paid tier, effectively removing 2 zetas from us
Marquee AB will take over and legacy AB will eventually be deleted until we have 8 AB of the new style of AB like peridea, and DOF. Looks like I can skip inquisitors now lol
So what does the AB change mean to the "making my mats back" timeline? It was already going to take a year or so to get the R9 mats back if it was every month.
Man Ahnold bro, are they ever gonna bring 4-Lom and Zuccus to the game? I know they make a do-nothing appearance in the movies but, we could really use some bounty hunters and droids in the house. The galaxy would be a much better place yo.
We really need to read between the lines of what they are saying, because not everything is as it seems. “the Free Track rewards the equivalent value of 4 Tier-10 boxes (a.k.a. Red Boxes) and 4 Tier-9 boxes” The means for players who regularly achieve red boxes in GC, there will be a reduction rewards. “For the majority of players, they should see the same or more rewards as they received before.” Who are the majority of players? Early to mid gamers? Since it doesn’t say all players, some players will receive less rewards. I imagine it will be the F2P end game players. “At release, Episode Shipments will refresh once per week, on Tuesdays” This is very important. If you can only purchase 2 omis per week, then the important rewards will be significantly reduced (since GC hands out 4 omis per week). CG now have the ability to further squeeze bottlenecks. Also note that the screenshot doesn’t include the quantity of the G12 pieces. Players who benefit? I think this will benefit the early to mid gamers, since they can purchase any equipment they like for their early toons. They need as many resources as they can get and this will help them a lot. Players who suffer? End game F2P players. Most of the gear will be useless for them and they will likely be swimming in episode currency whilst struggling with the kyro bottleneck. As often, what isn’t said, says a lot more than what is actually said. They forgot to mention the most important things that most players care about. Will I receive more kyro, zetas and omi’s than before? It’s likely going to be no, you’ll receive less. I feel these changes will (and probably intended) to help early players progress quickly, while slowing down the end game players, so they can’t keep up with gearing the newer units unless they spend money. Overall I prefer moving everything to shipments and allowing us to purchase what we need. We’ll also benefit from longer periods to complete quests, so we can better manage our time playing the game. I just don’t like the underhanded tactics of advertising how much better off we’ll be, when the important limited resources will be even further limited.
If they are telling the truth in the post, you will NOT need to spend money to get the same rewards as before. I think we have to ignore how the old system of GC is. It does seem a bit confusing right now. We will have to wait and see before we polish off the pitch forks.
@@AhnaldT101yeah you won't, aslong as you can do 95% of the GC. That way they didn't lie, but f2p for smaller rosters will still loose Out. Already with this first one. Rebell Fighters and 400% TM are both something the average early or even midgame roster cant do unless you happen to have gone for JML/ got lucky with what Teams you have that remove TM. This makes GC even more dependant on roster size and having the new factions. Imagine something like Gungan feats. No f2p player would ever get day 1 Gungans, yet they were required in GC and If they do that, yes technically it would've been possible to do f2p but noone would ever Invest into Gungans at that point f2p. Before this getting your Omicron was possible without even needing the factions at all. Now HALF of the f2p possible Score will be "do you have Javas for No fucking reason? No? Well No max reward for you...
They need a mode where you can pit your own teams against each other so you can test builds. Something simple with no energy cost and no rewards, just a testing mode that you can use as much as you want.
Also, you know the new 5 marquee re-skinned bad batch team we get from 14th Jan to March? Well guess who is going to feature in the 3rd brand new assault battle people? Yes 5 new bad batch marquees, at 2,000 kyros and you need to relic 9 all 5 to earn full assault battle rewards. This is the future folks with F2P at the centre of what we do, as long as those F2P are willing to whale $1,200 to $1,500!
Were it gets unfair is when you plan out your path for months - paid or f2p equally - and then all of a sudden things get changed. Since there is no communication we solely rely on previous cadence. I love the new Era system; even though 12 was is not really a long time horizon to plan with.
Awesome we’re getting more people. Also I’m gonna say this I feel like we need more inquisitors now we have identifications for the first brother, the fourth sister, etc..
The assault battle thing royally pisses me off. I get excited every time I see one pop up in the events tab because I know I'll finally be getting some much needed materials. Now they're going to push out the old ones to make room for the new ones. All the new assault battles require new characters (that a lot of people don't have geared up) and they want you to take the new characters to R9. Why should I upgrade new characters to R9 if they're just going to rotate the assault battle out in a couple of years? CG is doing a great job of making me not want to give them money.
Holy shit, Swany? Didn’t realise you played SWGoH. Used to watch you in the Battlefront 2015 days.
Also, agreed. This is arguably the shittiest thing they’ve ever done. It’s a net loss of resources for 99.9% of the playerbase. The new AB’s were a nice way to incentivise people to invest in the new teams, but replacing the old ones is a massive “fuck you” from the Devs.
They think we just do not understand and appreciate their genius in all of this. Hopefully they approach assault battles through a different route rather than this new course.
they literally said the assault battle is being rotated back in next month and ittl continue that way. if they keep realeasing assault battles without rotating one out then there will be an assault battle everyday, now sure i would love that but CG wouldnt as it would possibly eventually ruin the economy. but it really isnt that big of a deal since theyve confirmed endor is coming back next month and it will probably stay there for the next 8 months while they cycle out the others. your gonna need to R7 the new remnants for ahsoka someday anyway and the rewards for the R7 tier is very simmilar to challenge tier 3 of an assault battle.
@@jobin45-27 the economy concern is valid, and is likely why they did what they did. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s objectively less rewards for most people. We invested in these teams partly because we knew it was an investment, and we’d get rewarded for doing so.
Now they’ve pulled the rug on people (without prior warning might I add), making new characters even more inaccessible than before, because they’ve shut off a stream of resource income that could have been used to build up those new teams.
TLDR, I understand the financial implications it could have on the game, but it’s an objectively shitty move on their part in the eyes of the players.
Given the drop rates of some things in other content are low to non-existent sometimes the AB is the ONLY way to actually get somethings on a semi-regular basis for some players.
We know we screwed up fleets and took away your assault battle but here is some more stuff you can buy
I do love how they quickly try and push some update/news right when they do something bad lol
You’re not wrong!
nothing screams f2p friendly like removing free ways to get resources.
Don’t see anyone else mentioning this but with the change to daily challenges it looks like we will receive fewer crystals too as they were rewards from doing dailies. I know it wasn’t a huge amount, but for F2P that sucks.
Hard to know until this all ends up in game. I hope this does not somehow end up to be less crystals.
Every good move is always balanced by 1.5 bad moves. It is a constant 2 steps forward, 3 steps back with CG.
@@AhnaldT101 I think we get around 130 now from dailys and it showed just 75 in the screenshot.
Well actually do u remember before reaching 85 we used to get so many crystals,now it’s like 5 after completing every daily challenge
@@meglobob9217thats not even a small amount. That’s 55 crystals. For ftp thats a lot
Almost an hour more of Ahnald, a true blessing
A blessing to some... a curse to others. AHN.
A friend of mine used to work at CG / EA on this game, he said they had crazy turnover after the first handful of years because it really limited their passion and creativity. A shame, this game could be evergreen and very profitable if not focused on near term earnings and instead looking over the life of the game
I would not be surprised if that is the case. As far as I know, pretty much the entire original team is gone that made this game.
Its a cash cow and gambling. Leave the game. The only reason to stay is the community if you can stomach the devs. Rest assured, this game is a rip off.
I believe it, they've been making the game less fun over the years to prioritise profits. It makes sense that they're limiting the passion and creativity too. A lot of games suffer a similar problem.
@@BlueSB017 Haven't spent a penny in 4 years and stick around for gac only. Over 150k crystals stored as I have zero interest in the constant influx of not SW characters from horrendous disney series.
They say they are working to improve the free-to-play player experience, but the choices made in this update show the contrary. This is most apparent in the removal of galactic challenge reward crates and moving those rewards to the new Episode Track. You need to have the new marquee unit at seven stars to fully clear the Galactic Challenge feats. This will cause many F2P players to miss out on higher tier/bonus rewards in Episode Track, which again goes against CG's initial claim that they are focused on improving the F2P experience.
Can’t believe it was said multiple times in the big post that they are aiming at helping f2p players and then go right back to talking ab how you’ll need the 7* marquee character to complete a whole task in the GC, absolutely ridiculous, oh yeah 20k crystals or however many it takes to get a new marquee character to 7* is def f2p 🤦♂️
That would be the case if it wasn't for the fact the 'points' for the pass isn't tied exclusively to GCs.
GCs have become less important with this update
If we are taking their word in the post, they claim you do not need to spend money to get the same rewards as before. They also said you do not need to spend money to max out the free track. As I said, we will need to wait and see to confirm ourselves.
Such liar behavior lol
"focus on [...] our Free to Play players" by integrating more features to invest your money
So this is how F2P dies, with zero applause.
😂 people like you my friend are what gives me hope for humanity
Truly
How about roll the rewards from the Omega Battles into Assault Battles and get rid of the Omega Battles? Wouldn't that free up space on the schedule? Maybe remove the Ewok and Nightsister battles? There's a lot of ways that make more sense than rotating out ABs
Yeah, omega battles can kiss goodbye
If I am honest, I do not think it is because of scheduling issues. I think it is because they do not want too much good stuff in their economy for free. I could be wrong though.
@@AhnaldT101 we're all thinking it, the material income loss of the AB is hardly offset by the introduction of PP rewards for the majority of players.
Please keep up the pressure with assault battles. I hope they actually acknowledge the community on this.
I just wish they made some things more F2P accessible, I’m mostly free to play (aside from lightspeed bundles cause they’re awesome) and some of the changes they’re making like with GC where I would mostly get my Omicrons from are getting taking out, but honestly aside from that this update is looking great with all the new sims and episode stuff going on!
Same
Omicrons will be available in the shipments for episode currency. We'll have to see if you can get as many as you were able to, or maybe more? But it does seem like your GC effort can still be rewarded with omicrons.
The Omicrons will be in the new shipments which you can use with the new currency you win in the new GC system. Although they are taking away some old assault battle rewards, it does not look like they are taking away GC rewards. Just moving the rewards to the shipments for you to pick what you want. Again, need to confirm once it hits the game but I do not see any GC rewards going away.
@@AhnaldT101I’m not really a fan of the new “shop system” instead of just giving us everything they make us choose what to buy. Just keep giving us everything lol did the same thing with the raids. I guess it can be better but I’d rather just be given everything than have to choose to buy certain rewards instead
@@zimmy3302 I can see both sides of this. while yes its nice to keep getting lots of stuff its also annoying when you are missing some items but have a massive overstock of the other thing needed or thats farmed from the same spot. the shop system allows you to be a little more in control of this but we all know that CG SUCKS to VALHALLA at being able to make pricing reasonable.
At last…an Ahnald Movie
What a world we live in. A forum post as long as some movies!
@@AhnaldT101so is this episode 1, the phantom Ahnald?
"Reflect the passion we have for this game." Looks like they took some classes on how to lie from Diddy.
oh my gosh diddy is such an old gag seriously I can see why they don’t want to make the game better for people like you.
@@pugintention2530 huh??
Come on, they sprinkled the word free to play several times in the post! That means it is all good right!?
@pugintention2530 He pay you to stay quiet? 😂
@@AhnaldT101 that means by this time next year they would have slowly made it into an unbearable pay wall like Conquest 🤣🤣
They could do the funniest things and release Crosshair as the next conquest unit
Don't tempt them lol
I actually wouldn't mind seeing him as a GL
They'll never give you options on which assault battle to do as they're using them to push players to invest in new characters, particularly as they come out. Increases the chance of spending for fear of missing out.
The assault battle thing is so infuriating, they would really rather limit them to 8 because they don't want us to just get more rewards for being able to clear the older ones, they truly hate their players
I hope you either don't or quit funding these speds! Only thing I will ever purchase again in the foreseeable future is light speed bundles
Yea it makes no sense to be honest. Older ones should be easy to clear at this point in the game and we shouldn't be punished because they want to release absurd new assault battles that a majority of us can't even do still 😂
I mean call me crazy, but I think assault battles should have their own tab like legendary events… they’ve become so integral for the game they need some permanent home where you can do a certain amount monthly or something.
Imagine a seperate Tab with Dates of "next Return in 27d and 14h" or something.
That way you could Plan your Farming much better around when the Events return
I could care less about the assault battle rewards, the events were FUN! The new ones require specific characters and are only 1 wave, but I love the old ones because it's 8 waves and it often forces you to theorycraft and be creative with the required units you have.
Were fun, the first time lol
@@Deadpool-ts3tq as opposed to the new ones, that are no fun ever 🙂
My favorite turtle is the red eared slider those lil guys are adorable
Just looked that up, definitely cute!
If you don’t get it from the horses mouth you’ve gotta get it from the other end
Lots of negatives about this update… just another stupid battlepas, locking gc’s behind 7* marquees… not even mentioning the AB situation again and simmable events should not be a big deal, everything that is 3 started should have been simmable right from the start
Those GCs go towards the BP and you don't have to max all of the GCs to complete the BP. I'm still not a fan of it though
I am cautious but not concerned at the moment about the new GC system. They claim you do not need the new marquees to get the same rewards as before. We will need to wait and confirm ourselves. Also, it is really funny how they need to hype them adding a sim to events that have been in this game for so long haha
@@AhnaldT101based on the math from the numbers shown in the screen shots if they dont change, without the marquee star gate feats but you complete everything else for gc, you should be able to get all the tiers done f2p plus an extra 19 assuming you complete all the quests
@@AhnaldT101 My concern is that by giving higher rewards to players who paid, like the BP, the extra stuff from GCs ect will be the new benchmark for future requirements, meanwhile the F2P people will be earning the same as before, but comparatively to new standards less than whats the baseline/standard is
@loaffdd9836 only 19 extra? In a 3 Month time period I'm only allowed to not get 19 Tickets? For anyone with a early or mid Game roster that is nearly impossible. Already with this first one I am in trouble. I don't have a Rebell Fighter Team and 400% TM is always a struggle for my roster...
Not gonna lie, got a feeling this is the end of F2P players ever being able to catch up, or feel involved. This is the end of the experience, unless the implementation is way different than it’s made to sound. Implementing a pass into core gameplay is pretty isolating for people.
F2p will suffer even more, the pass will be 'either you play daily for hours or you get shit' kind of deal...
They never could catch up.
My hope is that crosshair will be a lifter for the current bad batch and the other 4 will be a new home for Omega
A new Ahnald video and still no Jar Jar event. Well at least my day is going better now
Fr, what happened to every three months? Still no announcement is crazy work
@@nicholasjager4995 I'm wondering the exact same thing. Don't know why they won't open the event again
@@nicholasjager4995 As far as I know, they never said it was every 3 months? Lately, legendaries like Cal, Grand Inquisitor, and Jar Jar have always returned at random and inconsistent times. It is annoying.
My money is on it being announced in the same post that introduces the next raid
@@AhnaldT101 They never specifically said it was every 3 months but back in the day with old legendary events like Thrawn, they would return every 3 months
YEAH BABY! Can't wait to have these characters up and running in 2-3 business days! (Never!)
By the Galactic Legend Ultimate Journey it meant the event for the purple currency, not the final tiers of GL events. I wish it was that 😭
Would've been nice if it was both
Oh maaaan you are right! Still good though. Was annoying to play the ultimate journey many times.
They want to make the new content available to a wide variety of players. Namely, Dolphins, Whales, and Krakens
The simmability of Galactic Legend Ultimate Journeys does in fact not refer to the Ultimate stage of the GL unlock events, but to the event that rolls around after each conquest and gives the purple GL tokens.
“Galactic Legends Ultimate Journey” I believe means the actual event that runs alongside proving grounds, not the actual ultimate ability farm. Could be wrong, though.
Yes you are right! Still good though. Not sure why there was no sim in the first place.
Actually speaking of being able to just use your characters, they REALLY need to add being able to duel your friends on no time limit. Be able to throw your teams against each other and actually both be using them with no ai involved. It seriously can’t be impossibly hard to code in, and me and my best friend have always wanted to throw our teams at each other. Lord it would be so fun
"Loyalty program" sounds like slavery with extra steps
Hahahah broooooo
@@AhnaldT101you shall receive one half portion for that show of loyalty.
18:00 maybe... just maybe... crosshair will be one of the new marquee's and will be placed in the old bad batch squad, and the new bad batch squad will use the old omega instead of create a new one.
And have CG miss out on the chance to monetize a new character? You are funny! No, they will absolutely introduce a new, older aged, Omega.
In general, I’m fine with these changes. The royalty pass and episode pass in msf are fine, no problems with me. I just hope they don’t introduce the insane paywall for new toons like MSF has. Just leave that where it is
It's a small thing, but Fleet Energy going towards Raid Tickets is actually a brilliant change. For someone who occasionally buys the £20 Crystal pack and is farming towards Relic characters (just got my 5th GL and working on Jar Jar), being able to get Raid Tickets from the G12+ salvage pieces (Which are all on Fleet) actually saves me several refreshes a day, making my farming more efficient
46 minutes of Ahnald? Deploy the snacks!
I mean, have both new and old assault battles run in a rotation. It can't be that hard to have "8" different assult battles run a month. Rotate aroud which ones show up and let them all remain so new players get to experience the variety of different challenges
Maybe Ahnald should do a new player account to test the how the new and recent changes affect the experience.
Asajj mercenary will totally be one of these marques next year! Exciting!
That sounds totally possible!
Wait I think that the “Ultimate Journey” is the event that comes after conquest that gives the purple currency. I don’t think it’s the ultimate tier
I think you are right
Never having to deal with Rey again on the SLKR UJ does put a smile on my face. I hate how much of this game is better when you can skip it though.
Ahhhh yeah you are right, still good though!
@ oh 100% lol. We’ll take what we can get from cg
Yep he misunderstood
Also, if they want a real way to make Squad Arena stand out and not be completely useless as it is now. Just have it be the area of the game where ALL Omicrons are turned on. Let it be the wild west up in there and let people go crazy AND PLAY WITH THEIR NEW TOYS, what is the harm if there's not any worthwhile rewards. Oh and my favorite turtle is.... a Squirtle!
Update Galactic war to have relevant, synergized, and SCALED teams for where a player is at! (AT THE VERY LEAST).
Great video Ahnald, many cool changes. My favorite turtle is bowser lol
If they’re making a new Bad Batch Team, surely they’ll be adding them to the existing faction? If that’s the case, your wish for the current Bad Batch to improve hopefully will come true thanks to the new units!
Thanks for keeping us updated. It’s great to be in the empire today
Notice the Ahsoka artwork on the episode thing? It shows all the characters for her squad but also has two versions of Ahsoka.
One in dark from the first half of the season and the one in light from the second half. I bet her ultimate will be going to the world between worlds in order to swap to Ahsoka the white.
Galaxy of marquees? Anhaldt, good luck:) As they going to flood us with marquees I am starting to afraid that we’ll see Acolyte characters 🧐
They should do a conquest style thing where you “commit” to one assault battle over the other if they are gonna be replacing them all eventually, like say you can either commit to Dual of the Fates or Jedi assault battle; or maybe even choose between Peridia or empire assault battle.
I had to look it up because I love these little factoids: "straight from the horse's mouth" comes from horse racing and wanting to know which would win. Instead of "straight from the horse's mouth" they had to settle with info from the closest thing, the jockeys and trainers and so the saying was adapted as way to say "from a reliable source."
I learn something new everyday!
I always thought it was from horse trading. Like used car dealers, a horse trader will tell you everything is good. It's only when you open it's mouth and look at the teeth that you see if it's true or not.
Blastoise gotta be my favorite. It has 2 cannons, can spin fast, you can ride it on the water. 10/10, can't be topped.
By the way, Rabid Beaver has unlocked a new Jabba counter today, with JKR, JKL and Ezra.
Don’t assume GL Ahsoka will be great just because her costs are the highest *coughs in Lord Vader*
5 new BB characters (not crosshairs) and then a crosshair legendary who goes with the old BB would be perfect
The thing is what are the 5 new bad batch characters there is only like 6 bad batch members
@ likely no echo since he was gone most of S3 and no tech because… well… so they could do Hunta, Ricka, Omeeega, Phee, and someone else (Asajj?) and then crosshair as the legendary.
They explicitly said 5 bad batch character so I doubt it’s just the bad batch
Forum post was almost as long as GL Ahsoka's kit reveal is gonna be
Easily. GL Ahsoka will probably be 2x longer than this.
I could see Bad Batch being Hunter, Wrecker, Omega, and Crosshair. Echo joined Rex at this point, and Tech died in the prior season. We could see Batcher, Rampart, Nala, or Phee as a 5th member.
Or Gonky
Admittedly, this update is scaring me. It’s just a lot of change from what I’m used to, a lot of new things added, and quite frankly, it’s overwhelming. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually, and I’m almost certain I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, but it’s just a lot to take in. Hopefully, it’s a lot more sensical in gameplay than on paper.
Ahnald I'm a Galpagos Giant Tortoise kind of guy
That means we're finally getting the bounty hunter asajj that was leaked so long ago
Oooo that would be fun. We saw her skin make an appearance in game a year or so ago in Conquest.
Like you said, we need to math it. However, it sounds like for $20 you get the extra shards for the marquee like right now dolphins buy 2-3 packs to get to the next tier of marquee for kyro and shards. With this though, $20 covers both marquees, so it sounds like a big discount for dolphin spending on episodes getting resources and toons
Wow!! 46 minute Ahnald video, we are spoiled today Kyber Empire
the problem with something like marvel snap vs swogh for a free play auto match system version, it would literally have to be a preset deck game, because if i use Rock team, well Paper team just destorys me, honestly it'd be cooler if they had like rush GAC, you could do once a day or something, 15 min time limit, adjusted for rank (higher will add like 5 mins), so people have to play without spending any excess time on looking up counters etc etc, you get into the match and you play, maybe reduce it to 3 zones, flight top, ground bottom and middle zones.
My favorite turtle is CG’s QoL department
This is the right answer!
I hope they’re not going to make new versions of the old bad batch and just add more characters like hunter, batcher, emerie, probably a new omega maybe, azi, phee. There’s so many that could fit this tag
This is probably why they haven't tested there game too much. They have been working on this. Hopefully this is true.
The neon trails on the 'N' and 'E' in "NEWS" are the only neon trails that overlap in your Breaking News graphic. As always, thanks for the explanation and content you put out.
After a GA round ends we may replay the matches without any limit (even the toons were on def and current mods, datacrons etc...) but with 0 rewards so we can test stuff and keep playing game. they can add this replay feature into anything but without giving us any reward. so if you want to play the game you play without hurting the game economy.
This. Let me replay my GAC, to see, if I could've done better or let me Test counters I wasn't sure about
❤Thanks for taking the time to go through this long list of news. But did I miss the point when they tell us we get more space in layouts. Not just 200 but 300 possible layouts or more. Or did they really not consider this most obvious and long due changes.
I dont mind the assault battles changes that much. But they should make the old ones available for
Looking forward to the new asaj in the cavalry era. Unaligned force user lifter for cere maybe?
That update will all depends on how good the shop is... We are also losing crystal from daily activities... Reward must be very good in that store
I’m not a game developer BUT.
Make a assault battle event…. Put all the assault battles and give us X amount of attempts so we can choose which ones we want.
My tactical scanners must be decieving me. 46 minutes of the king of triple B? It's a great day to be in the EmpYAAAAAA!
Those rewards on the reward track are NOT new rewards, they have just moved the rewards you got from red crate in GC to the reward track and now you after complete a billion quests over a month to get them. AFAIK, the only new rewards for F2P are from the new shipment store that you can spend the new currency on. Also, some rewards are 100% gated to having bought the pass and whaling on marquee characters.
I love the idea of a live tournament you can join and play other players. Why is this not a thing!
I just want to see them add more EU and old republic characters. Mara and Katarn were great but the EU has sooo much depth of beloved characters from Jaina and Jacen to more Sith line Exar, EU and old republic need so much love… oh and help with the high end gear bottle neck lol
It could be an era
I’m so happy I’ve never invested in the old Bad Batch yet 😂😂😂 I know I’ll still have to do 3 of them for the ship but that’s just funny lol
To help with using more teams in PvP, wouldn’t a very easy fix be to add more teams in Kyber, like add 4/5 more teams in each section. That way, you have to use your bad batch somewhere, on defence or offence. All those wasted, and much weaker teams you never use will have to be used.
Note about a Tuesday release schedule: this likely means that all changes and updates will be submitted by the end of the week (Friday) and Monday will be a day to work on the deployment of the update with Tuesday being the actual set day of deployment. From a workflow standpoint, this is a good change for the SWGOH dev team
That graphic is looking pretty professional. A real PDF Xchange special.
I've thought for a long time each guild member should be allowed to set one "Training Squad" per week (or month), that would allow all other guild members to attempt to battle it for that week. No rewards, except maybe bragging right type awards like Avatars or Titles for the guild member with the defensive holds or the guild member who defeated all 49 other members squads at least once. It would allow so much theorycrafting but it would require guilds to coordinate and also have the characters to test against. You wanna test what of your squads can beat GL Ahsoka? You guild needs one then. Could also alternate periods of whether GAC or TW Omis are active. I would spend hours on this just for fun.
THE REAL QUESTION IS WHERE IS JAR JAR
IS HE SAFE? IS HE ALRIGHT!?
When is Jar Jar event coming back? My Gungans are ready!
Wish they would make conquest sim able. Not for max rewards but for us casuals who are happy with mediocre
the problem i see with the episode pass plus is that they take away our two zetas every month and substitute it with the paid tier, effectively removing 2 zetas from us
The best thing about this is i don’t have to click on ship arena and retreat as fast as possible.
Episode 2 of the era should start on December 17th so GLAT should release anywhere between then and January 14th
Marquee AB will take over and legacy AB will eventually be deleted until we have 8 AB of the new style of AB like peridea, and DOF. Looks like I can skip inquisitors now lol
So what does the AB change mean to the "making my mats back" timeline? It was already going to take a year or so to get the R9 mats back if it was every month.
lol at 5:55 when Ahnald says "I don't want to get carried away"!
13:33 CG adapted their schedule just for you, GE !!! 👏🏻🎉🎊😱
Man Ahnold bro, are they ever gonna bring 4-Lom and Zuccus to the game? I know they make a do-nothing appearance in the movies but, we could really use some bounty hunters and droids in the house. The galaxy would be a much better place yo.
We really need to read between the lines of what they are saying, because not everything is as it seems.
“the Free Track rewards the equivalent value of 4 Tier-10 boxes (a.k.a. Red Boxes) and 4 Tier-9 boxes”
The means for players who regularly achieve red boxes in GC, there will be a reduction rewards.
“For the majority of players, they should see the same or more rewards as they received before.”
Who are the majority of players? Early to mid gamers? Since it doesn’t say all players, some players will receive less rewards. I imagine it will be the F2P end game players.
“At release, Episode Shipments will refresh once per week, on Tuesdays”
This is very important. If you can only purchase 2 omis per week, then the important rewards will be significantly reduced (since GC hands out 4 omis per week). CG now have the ability to further squeeze bottlenecks. Also note that the screenshot doesn’t include the quantity of the G12 pieces.
Players who benefit?
I think this will benefit the early to mid gamers, since they can purchase any equipment they like for their early toons. They need as many resources as they can get and this will help them a lot.
Players who suffer?
End game F2P players. Most of the gear will be useless for them and they will likely be swimming in episode currency whilst struggling with the kyro bottleneck.
As often, what isn’t said, says a lot more than what is actually said. They forgot to mention the most important things that most players care about. Will I receive more kyro, zetas and omi’s than before? It’s likely going to be no, you’ll receive less. I feel these changes will (and probably intended) to help early players progress quickly, while slowing down the end game players, so they can’t keep up with gearing the newer units unless they spend money.
Overall I prefer moving everything to shipments and allowing us to purchase what we need. We’ll also benefit from longer periods to complete quests, so we can better manage our time playing the game. I just don’t like the underhanded tactics of advertising how much better off we’ll be, when the important limited resources will be even further limited.
How was this not a Road Ahead?
Yeah, I never understood what the difference was between community update and Road Ahead.
i dont like that there locking 2 gc feats behind spending money
If they are telling the truth in the post, you will NOT need to spend money to get the same rewards as before. I think we have to ignore how the old system of GC is. It does seem a bit confusing right now. We will have to wait and see before we polish off the pitch forks.
@@AhnaldT101 yeah i agree i dont want to judge just yet
@@AhnaldT101yeah you won't, aslong as you can do 95% of the GC. That way they didn't lie, but f2p for smaller rosters will still loose Out.
Already with this first one. Rebell Fighters and 400% TM are both something the average early or even midgame roster cant do unless you happen to have gone for JML/ got lucky with what Teams you have that remove TM.
This makes GC even more dependant on roster size and having the new factions.
Imagine something like Gungan feats. No f2p player would ever get day 1 Gungans, yet they were required in GC and If they do that, yes technically it would've been possible to do f2p but noone would ever Invest into Gungans at that point f2p.
Before this getting your Omicron was possible without even needing the factions at all. Now HALF of the f2p possible Score will be "do you have Javas for No fucking reason? No? Well No max reward for you...
They need a mode where you can pit your own teams against each other so you can test builds. Something simple with no energy cost and no rewards, just a testing mode that you can use as much as you want.
It would be funny if crosshair still doesn't get released. Maybe thw 5th member is gonky.
Also, you know the new 5 marquee re-skinned bad batch team we get from 14th Jan to March? Well guess who is going to feature in the 3rd brand new assault battle people? Yes 5 new bad batch marquees, at 2,000 kyros and you need to relic 9 all 5 to earn full assault battle rewards. This is the future folks with F2P at the centre of what we do, as long as those F2P are willing to whale $1,200 to $1,500!
That’s why most of the player base still play the game as a hero collector and not a pay to win job 😂🤪
Galapagos tortoise. Thanks for going over the whole thing, curious to see if the changes will be good or not.
Were it gets unfair is when you plan out your path for months - paid or f2p equally - and then all of a sudden things get changed. Since there is no communication we solely rely on previous cadence.
I love the new Era system; even though 12 was is not really a long time horizon to plan with.
Great A’tuin has to be my favourite turtle, carries a whole series on his back
Awesome we’re getting more people. Also I’m gonna say this I feel like we need more inquisitors now we have identifications for the first brother, the fourth sister, etc..