Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Dev Tracker

From our Feature Producer:

We’ve been spending a lot of time internally looking qualitatively and quantitatively at player interactions with Grand Arena over the last several months in preparation for the release of Grand Arena Championships. While we’ve mostly focused on adding a layer of progression, variety and competition to the existing feature, one thing we’ve gotten plenty of feedback from players about is making changes to matchmaking.

Over the last few months, we’ve leaned much more heavily into Galactic Power as a matchmaking component because we saw that many players were concerned about the fairness of going up against a player with a meaningfully different collection size. This has resulted in a lot of fun, close matches, and very few “blowouts”, but it has also led to a bit of a disconnect in some players’ expectations, and resulted in some degenerative behavior patterns as a result.

Specifically, we’ve heard a lot from players who ... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Have a question you’ve been dying to ask the developers? We are gathering questions for an upcoming Dev Q&A!

Stay tuned to the forums for the announcement of the date and time of the Q&A.

As always, we won’t be answering questions about legal issues, monetization, when will X character be coming to the game, etc.

Click the link to submit your questions >>> SurveyMonkey

Hi Holotable Heroes,

I’ve seen some good questions around Nute Gunray’s kit so I’ve put together a short FAQ of the hottest topics.

"In time, the suffering of your people will persuade you to see our point of view” - Nute Gunray

• Q: How does Extortion work?
• A: Extortion is an ability that you grant to enemies. They can choose to “spend” Extortion during their turn to get rid of it. If they do - you gain "Profit". If they don't, Nute’s kit has many ways to punish enemies who deny him his payment.

• Q:When does the AI prioritize Extortion? What about Raid Bosses?
• A: In most cases, the AI will use their other specials first, then use Extortion, and finally their basic - so it’s fairly easy to predict when the computer player will use it. Raid Bosses handle this the same way that other units do, but Raid bosses are of course immune to healing. You can extort raid bosses, and if the AI would choos...

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Hi Holotable Heroes!
Here is all the new content you’ll find after today’s update, 5/15/2019.

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CHARACTERS AND SHIPS
For more info on these units, check out the kit reveals and strategy guides below:

• Rework: Nute Gunray
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Hi Holotable Heroes,

I had posted with this month’s calendar that we may need to move or cancel the last Grand Arena this month but good news! We will have space in the calendar to run a 4th Grand Arena with some minor adjustments to accommodate for an upcoming release.

• Review Periods for both Grand Arenas starting on 5/20 & 5/27 will be shortened to 1 hours (Review Period for 5/13 will be shorten to 1 hour too)
• Preview/Sign Up Periods for 5/20 & 5/27 Grand Arenas will both be shortened to 23 hours

Also a reminder about Monday's changes to the calendar, Territory Wars will not have any bonuses (including the original bonuses: First Order, Resistance, Scoundrels and Bounty Hunter) going forward. Due to the feedback we’ve received about the different formats of Territory Wars and that an original rules version was a... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes!

In preparation for Nute Gunray’s rework, today’s update will roll back any Ability Materials you used to upgrade Nute Gunray’s Leader Ability.

CHANGES

• Due to the upcoming rework of Nute Gunray's Leader Ability, we are refunding the ability materials you applied to it.

Please note that you will need to reboot your client if you are not seeing the above changes after the update.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

Galaxy of Heroes' Clone Wars campaign continues with updated kits for Count Dooku and Nute Gunray. These reworks will provide two very different Leaders for your Separatist teams.

Count Dooku’s tune up will see him continue to be the countering powerhouse that he always has been, but now is a better choice of leader for the Separatists - no longer relying on General Grievous and the Separatist Droids.

Nute Gunray's character identity is getting some big changes. Nute Gunray extorts his opposition to fulfill his agenda by forcing his opponents to choose between two bad options. Will you give into Nute's extortion for now or pay the price later?

Note: We will be returning all Ability Materials on Nute Gunray's Leader Ability as we are shifting that character’s identity. Both the ability changes and the returning of the Ability Materials will occur in updates later this week.

Find the full changes here:

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Hi Holotable Heroes,

Due to the minor server outage on May 11th that impacted Territory Wars, we will be sending all players eligible for Territory Wars 250 Crystals as an apology. Our servers experienced higher than normal load over the weekend and caused some players to have issues participating in Territory Wars. We are working to prevent this issue in the future and ensuring that this problem does not occur again.

Due to the feedback we’ve received about the different formats of Territory Wars and that an original rules version was affected, we’re planning to run original 5v5 versions for the foreseeable future. As always, this is subject to change.

Good luck and we’ll see you on the holotables.

-Crumb

An unexpected surge in writes to the guild-territory-zone-data table started at 10:00AM PST and continued steadily for the next twenty minutes, so the Galaxy of Heroes Tech Ops team has been increasing the write provisioning on that table. This potentially would have affected anyone trying to access Territory War, and should be resolving now.

We'll monitor the effects of this on guilds and determine the impact and makegood on Monday.

Hi Holotable Heroes!

Today’s update will address the few players who are still missing Padme shards and complete the roll back of gear for Sith Assassin.


CHANGES

• Credited players who did not receive all Padme shards for completing certain stages of Aggressive Negotiations
• Completed rollback of gear for players with Sith Assassin for those who were missed last week

Please note that you will need to reboot your client if you are not seeing the above changes after the update.

Hi folks,

We are aware of the issue with Grand Arena and mods not locking properly. This was brought to our attention recently and we already have a fix ready but it requires a title update (IE an update through the app store). This will most likely roll out with Grand Arena Championships or the new Territory Battle.

In the mean time, please do not do this! This goes against the spirit of the game and as with all exploits for any game mode, this is a bannable offense.

If you suspect someone is using this exploit, please send a direct message to ... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes,

In honor of Peter Mayhew’s many contributions to the Star Wars universe and the place of esteem he holds in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, all players are receiving the title “Loyal Friend” and this portrait.

May the Force Be With Him,
The Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Team

Portrait

• Portrait Title Text - Chewie
• Portrait Flavor Text - Warrior. Smuggler. Rebel. Hero.

Title

• Title Name - Loyal Friend
• Title Description - Peter Mayhew will be forever in our hearts.
• Title Short Description - A tribute to a friend lost

Other Changes:

• We will also be fixed the Audio settings not being respected when launching the game. You should no longer get surprise game music during your important meetings.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

The May Calendar has been updated and the 5/5 TW will now start later today (5/6)

Our apologies as this was adjusted in an update last week but we neglected to change the calendar on the forums. This event also has a slightly later start time than usual but will go live later today.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

We hope you are enjoying the Double Drops and you put those Zetas on your favorite character. A huge thank you from everyone at Capital Games for another wonderful year of Star Wars.
Happy Star Wars Day and May the Fourth be with you!


Click the image above to explore some of our favorite pictures from Star Wars Celebration and our hard working team at Capital Games. (plus a few office doggos!)

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Want to join the fun? Here’s an image of our G12 level 85 cutout we used at celebration. Make your own Galaxy of Heroes avatar with the template below. Many folks in the office got pretty creative! Post them to the forums or twitter, I want to see them!

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Hi folks,

A small number of folks who had G12 Sith Assassin were not rolled back correctly. This does not impact all players who had G12 Sith Assassin prior to the announcement. We will be addressing this in a hotfix next week. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

We missed a change in our Update Notes from this week's release (5/1):

• Units will no longer be automatically reordered in battle. Unit placement in battle is determined by order in the Squad Selection screen. This is entirely a visual change for where units are placed on the screen in battle.

The Update Notes have been revised to include the missing change. Find the full Update Notes here.

Hi Holotable Heroes,

The next Territory War (starting 5/5) will have the same bonuses as the special events in April.

Please note the following:

• The description for Unstable Batteries in game is incorrect and does not mention droids need to be destroyed by Unstable Batteries to trigger the 80% of max health explosion. Fixed this is week's update
• The in game description for the "The Swarm" special ability does not specify that it only affects Geonosian Ships

Character Abilities


All Hans On Deck:
Granted to: Captain Han Solo, Han Solo, Stormtrooper Han, Veteran Smuggler Han Solo and Young Han Solo

Each Han takes a bonus turn at the start of the encounter. During this turn, each Han ignores Taunts and can only use his Basic ability, but it will Stun the target for 1 turn. This Stun can't be evaded or resisted. Additionally, each active Han grants a bonus to all other Han ... Read more

Hi Holotable Heroes!

Today’s update will return gear that was applied to Sith Assassin after the announcement of Darth Revan (3/20). Visit our original announcement for more information. Please log out and log back in if you haven't received the update already.

Conditions for Sith Assassin Gear Return:

• You must have Darth Revan.
• You applied any gear pieces to Sith Assassin following the announcement of Darth Revan on 3/20 up until 4/30

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CHANGES

• Returned gear that was applied to Sith Assassin after the announceme...

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Hi folks,

We are aware that some players are having issues connecting to the game. The team is investigating the cause and will deploy a fix as soon as possible.