Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Dev Tracker

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Today, we are showcasing the Geonosian Brood Alpha, who will be needed to unlock Wat Tambor from a special mission on the new Territory Battle map. Read on to hear from CG_ParkingInstructor about this unique Geonosian and then hop over the Arena and Character Strategy section to check out the kit!

OVERVIEW
Q: Why are we excited about this character?
CG_PI: This character really brings the Geonosian team together by enabling the squad to take many extra attacks while providing a ton of sustainability. We had to make... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes,

We wanted to let you know in advance that we will be changing Geonosian Spy’s kit at the same time we release Geonosian Brood Alpha. Similar to our changes to HK-47, this character’s kit was designed very early in Galaxy of Heroes’ life and now severely limits our design space of future characters in this faction. In general, any character with that much turn meter gain is usually a red flag for us when we are creating new units.

If you have seen Geonosian Brood Alpha kit you will find that the current version of Geonosian Spy’s kit will create an infinite loop fairly easily. To mitigate this in the short term, we will be nerfing Spy’s kit along with the release of the Brood Alpha and since this significantly impacts that ability, we will be returning all Ability Materials that you used to upgrade his Unique 1: Illicit Insect.

Also this isn’t Geonosian Spy’s final molt...errr, evolution. We will be making some updates to Spy in the ... Read more

After a lengthy discussion with the Game Changers, we wanted to send a note to let you know that Capital Games is discontinuing the SWGOH division of the Game Changer program.

We will continue to gather feedback from these Game Changers and the player base at large as part of our extensive suite of beta programs, and we will work with these Creators (and more) on an ad hoc basis, but just not as part of an official program.

We agreed collectively that this is the best way forward to ensure independent analysis. The SWGOH Game Changers will continue to have access to a special build and the ability to talk to developers, but we’ll not be releasing information through the Game Changers moving forward.

The SWGOH Game Changers will remain a part of the EA Game Changer Network, and you’ll see them producing videos for other games both inside and outside of EA. We value their contributions and dedication to the game, and look forward to this new phase of our ... Read more

Hello Holotable Heroes,

With the release of Gear XII Finishers, I wanted to talk about how we plan on increasing the rate at which players will be able to earn Gear XII and how we want to increase the agency around Gear XII.

Gear XII Sources

We added some Gear XII Salvage to Light and Dark Side Nodes and the Shard Store so that players can have better choice around which Gear XII Salvage they wanted to farm. One thing we understand is that there is currently no real agency around how players can acquire Gear XII+ though. Right now, players try to finish in the top 10 in the Sith Raid, and that’s really it. We want to allow players to have more agency on how they acquire Gear XII+ and here are some of the ways that we are going to be doing it with the release of Grand Arena Championships and the Geonosis Territory Battle.

• (Grand Arena) Championship Store - Gear XII+ will be purchasable in the new Championship Store using the...

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Beginning on June 18, 2019, in order to accommodate the new features and graphics associated with the game’s next update, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is no longer supported on some legacy Android devices.

The list of unsupported devices can be found below and is comprised of older x86 tablets and a handful of older x86 phones, running Android 6.0 or lower. This should only impact a very small number of players. After the update on 6/18, players on unsupported devices will be unable to download the newest version of the game, and the Google Play store will highlight that their device is unsupported.

At any time before or after the update, players can import their account from an unsupported device to a supported device using their in-game Player ID and/or Ally Code. Your account will still be available and ready to play on a supported device. For more information on how to link your account, please visit Galaxy of Heroes’ EA Help page.

We apologiz... Read more

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Hi Holotable Heroes!

Today’s Server Update has a minor fix for Grand Arena but nothing else player facing. This change will only impact new Grand Arena events going forward.

CHANGES

• [Grand Arena] - We originally posted this change on 5/30 but we fixed some additional edge cases that could lead to more players being impacted by this issue: Ships that were defeated in Grand Arena to be auto-deployed in an incorrect order during subsequent rounds. This is now resolved for all players.

We will be rolling out the server update over the next several hours. Once complete, we will notify you in this thread.

From our Feature Producer:

(This is a continuation of information about Grand Arena Championship. If you haven’t read them already, please read the previous posts here, ... Read more

From our Feature Producer:

(This is a continuation of information about Grand Arena Championship. If you haven’t read them already, please read the previous posts here and ... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes,

We wanted to let you know a little bit about how we plan on scheduling Territory Battles for the foreseeable future. Generally, we run two Territory Battles a month: Light Side - Hoth and Dark Side - Hoth. With the release of Dark Side - Geonosis, the new map will be available with each instance of a Hoth map on the current schedule. As such, guilds that are ready to tackle the challenges of Dark Side - Geonosis will have two instances a month for the time being. We’re expecting the first instance of Dark Side - Geonosis to arrive late this month, shortly after the update is available on the store.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Tonight, join Scotty McLaren and Paul Anthony as they interview CG_Carrie to discuss what’s coming in the next big Title Update and all things Galaxy Of Heroes on the Escape Pod… Cast!

Find the Escape Pod… Cast! on iTunes, listen to the latest episode on Youtube or Anchor.fm

Crushing jaws full of razor-sharp teeth to eat you. Check. Six long spear-like legs to impale you. Check. Neuro-electric sensing exoskeleton to find you in the dark. Check.

The Acklay, the terrifying combination of praying mantis, velociraptor and giant crab, is about to be unleashed on the holotables - and your nightmares - with the upcoming Geonosis Territory Battle. Not only are you contending with this beast, but you’ll be in the middle of a 3 way battle where waves of Jedi are fighting against you and the Acklay!

Those claws aren’t just for show and with the ability to slash and disorient a character or take a swipe at your entire team, the Acklay can deal some serious damage if you aren’t careful. As the battle rages on, the Acklay can use it’s terrifying roar to weaken the enemy team but may draw even more Jedi into the battle. Luckily, the Geonosian Brood Alpha will get some special bonuses while fighting the Acklay as he has trained for this battle and so... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes,

You may have heard Obi-Wan Kenobi called “The Negotiator” but it’s also the name given to his Venator-class Star Destroyer during the Clone Wars. While this ship shares some similarities to Mace Windu’s Endurance, The Negotiator will bring a different playstyle for the Galactic Republic to holotables.

While Mace focuses on a defensive style, The Negotiator is much more aggressive leader for your fleet, using Valor to enable Galactic Republic allies to deal more damage, especially if they're also Jedi. General Kenobi brings along a few friends as well, two Arquitens-class light cruiser flank The Negotiator and provide fire support plus the capital ship’s can call in a formation of Y-wings to assault the enemy team.

We will have more to reveal about The Negotiator in the coming weeks, but I’d bet this ship will synergize very well with Anakin's Starfighter.

See you on the Holotables!

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Two new characters are coming to the holotables with launch of the Territory Battle on Geonosis! Similar to the Hoth map, shards for one of the characters will be earnable from Geonosis Territory Battle and the other will be needed to enter the special mission.

We will have more information to share on their kit and gameplay soon.

Wat Tambor:
The leader of the Techno Union, Wat Tambor, is joining the battle! This Separatist Council member will work well with other Separatists and Dark Side Droids by providing special Tech bonuses to his allies. As a non-combat support character (think Hermit Yoda), Wat Tambor can substantially heal and recover his squad’s protection and provides offensive utility.

Shards of Wat Tambor will be exclusively earned from the Geonosian Territory Battle.

Geonosian Brood Alpha:
A veteran of many fierce battles, the Geonosian Brood Alpha is a powerful leader for ... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes!

Today’s Server update has a minor fix for Grand Arena but nothing else player facing. This change will only impact new Grand Arena events going forward.

CHANGES

• [Grand Arena] - Fix an issue where banners were rarely being applied twice for some users. This only impact Grand Arenas going forward.

We will be rolling out the server update over the next several hours. Once complete, we will notify you in this thread. Please note that you will need to reboot your client if you are not seeing the above changes after the update.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Your chance to earn Darth Revan is back on June 13th! You'll need the following characters to enter The Scourge of the Old Republic:

• Bastila Shan (Fallen)
• Canderous Ordo
• Carth Onasi
• HK‌-47
• Juhani

The June calendar has been updated to include this event.

We wanted to talk to you today about Dark Side Territory Battle - Geonosis and how a guild can qualify to play it. Before we dive into the specifics of qualifying, I want to lay out our thought process in order to provide context on why we have qualification requirements in the first place.

First, we decided early on in the development of Geonosis that we would be running Geonosis concurrently with Hoth. We weighed the pros and cons of running them back to back versus running them concurrently and ultimately decided that we didn’t want to ask guilds to engage in such a heavy coordination exercise in addition to the Territory War coordination. If we have Territory Battles every day you will end up overlapping with Territory Wars which could be exhausting (and we’ve talked a lot with our beta testers about how the game can already be demanding for veteran Guilds).

Second, Geonosis is intentionally much more difficult than Hoth. As the game ages and rosters become mo... Read more

It’s come to our attention that there is a team in Phase 3 of the Heroic Sith Triumvirate that can functionally solo/”loop” the Phase. This team is composed of Mother Talzin, Asajj Ventress, Nightsister Initiate, Old Daka, and Jedi Knight Anakin. This loop works due to an unintended interaction between Mother Talzin and Jedi Knight Anakin taking a bonus turn. As has been a long-standing policy of ours, when we discover infinite loops we take action on them. Due to our current slate of work in finishing the Grand Arena Championship and the Dark Side Geonosis Territory Battle, and the fact that with these releases, the Sith Raid is intended to be more trivial, we will not be taking action on this issue until after the release of the Territory Battle. After their release we will evaluate the issue and let you know if or how we plan on addressing it. Because Jedi Knight Anakin is currently sitting where we want him to sit in the meta, our efforts will be to address this interaction first a... Read more

As part of Grand Arena Championships, we’re excited to introduce the Feats feature, launching with our next title update!

Feats are, simply put, limited-time Quests to complete during a Grand Arena Championship for bonus Championship Score and new Shipment tokens. The most important Feat at launch is for League Promotion, where claiming a Feat for getting promoted will award you crystals as well as a steadily increasing pile of gear salvage. Most other Feats are associated with Grand Arena, Squad Arena, and Fleet Arena prowess, and we think there are a lot of other ways we can build out Feats to include more and more activities (including PvE content) in the future, after seeing how players interact with the feature.

Why feats? Well, Grand Arena Championships are five-week long events, and we know that you don’t always best your opponent. Feats were added as an... Read more

In our recent Dev Q&A we revealed that we would be releasing Gear 12 Finishers to the game. This has caused a fair bit of discussion and we wanted to take this opportunity to talk about what our intentions are around releasing these new pieces, along with some of the pertinent details surrounding them.

With the upcoming release of the Grand Arena Championship and Dark Side Geonosis, we wanted to expand the current offering of end game rewards so that we could create some new challenges – some made by us (Dark Side Geonosis) and some made by you (GA Lineups). Historically, it’s been our preference that when we release new features we include an expansion of our gear system, along with some new characters and ships. I can happily report that we are working on some new characters and ships to go along with Geonosis, but we aren’t ready to talk about that yet. We’ll be making some announcements soon.

Let’s dig in.

Gear 12 Finishers Intent
Our in... Read more