Dislike the most recent update!

This game is a lot of fun. I could literally spend hours on this, especially if the level os particularly difficult. The most recent update moved the events and status icons from the left side of the screen to the bottom, and at times I can’t continue to upgrade the towers or do whatever else on the home screen bc the icons at the bottom automatically pop up and show the updated stats after every battle. I don’t care for it, and when I wanted to see my current stats, I will click the relevant icons to see them. It’s annoying to have to wait for EVERYTHING to show so that I can continue in the game. I try to click on buttons faster than the updates popping up just to get it to stop, but there is no way to. It’s actually enough to keep me from playing as frequently. I’m sure the change had good intentions, but it’s an incredible nuisance. Please revert back to having the icons back on the left hand side, and please stop showing me my rank after every upgrade and star collection. I’m not playing for rank status, but if I was, I can check it when it’s relevant.

Ads

Spend more time watching ads than playing the game. Otherwise a simple mind-number. Update- didnt touch it for 2 years, then tried again. Gameplay is fun but ruined by ads. Example: touch battle tab, then you have to upgrade 1 of 4 weapons- it’s optional but hard to win if you don’t. Anywhere from 40 seconds to 3 minutes later after watching the same annoying King Shot, Royal Match, or Jackpot Go ( with foul language and adult content by the way- don’t play this game with little kids) for the 500th time. Then you win, and get to watch the same ad 2 minutes later. If you lose, you can watch another ad to keep your win streak. So for every short battle you waste many minutes of your life. One ad for Kalshi literally repeated the same 15 second drivel for 3 minutes. Then they have X’s to find, then another countdown, then the arrow, then the x again right next to the edge of your screen where a guy like me literally can’t push it. Have to borrow my 3rd grader’s little fingers. I also wonder how the heck they have 4.6 stars- most reviews I have read say the same thing and are 3 stars. There is no way- just look at the most recent reviews- should be about 3 stars, and all complaining about ads. Developers- self regulate the ad content and difficulty of moving past it. I am deleting the game never to return. Should enough of us do the same, they will be forced to act. Otherwise, enjoy the same IQ killing ads over and over if you choose to continue.

Great game bad customer support

Great game but customer service is HORRIBLE. Have been playing for about a year, Was even a subscriber up until i had a major glitch or bug with the game that has been preventing me from being able play the game. Took a video of what was going on the contacted customer support. Got a message a few days later saying they were busy with other tickets. Okay fine, annoying but fine. Several more days go by... finally get a "response" from customer service but its autogenerated telling me that they value my feedback and my feedback has been noted with attached ads for stuff i can buy in game. No resolution to the ongoing issue. No contact with an actual person. No help. Nothing. So i cancelled my subscription as i dont see the point in paying for a game i cant play. The glitch/bug? Every round i play I lose because the tower for my oppenent willsteadily drop and get down to 2k and then nothing. No matter what i do none of the towers will go below 2k. I played one match for over 10 minutes with my soldiers attacking and over running the heck out of the tower but damage to the towers will not go below 2k. The bonus matches just freeze up the garden matches are the only ones that work correctly. I cant play any events or do anything in the game. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled. Even tried on 2 other devices and same issue. My main device is an iPhone 16 Pro Max so its not too old of a device or anything goofy like that.

Avoid this game

The game is fun but everything else around user experience is either a disappointment, off putting or flawed. My first issue with the app is that it crashes on my iPhone 13 at least once a day. The Ads on there are the most off putting. Not in the amount of them but the actual content of their ads - it’s clear they don’t moderate them or they don’t care. Some of them will put a fake X in the corner of the screen for you to click on so instead of exiting the ad you are just brought to download their game. They advertise for games with women characters in suggestive positions. There’s also an ad that starts off with a woman climbing up the side of a cliff and the first frame of the ad is just her behind CLAPPING in tight shorts jiggling on the screen. Then she climbs the cliff to fight zombies. But the MOST offensive part is now they are running ads that will not allow you to mute the sound on your phone and it will not let you turn down the volume manually. To be more specific I just had an ad for a fish game and the app REFUSED to let me manually turn it down. As I was holding the volume down button on my phone I watched the volume meter go down and then forcibly be brought back up to a baseline volume on my screen. I’ve never had an Ad experience like this before and I hope to never again. Do yourself a favor and download a different app. There’s others out there just like this but with better mindfulness of their users and ads.

Coin update killed it.

This game is as advertised “oddly satisfying”. There is some strategy to picking the right components and beating the towers. There is satisfaction in upgrading the towers to increase performance and upgrading the mobs and cannons to make those better. There are enough events to make it interesting but not so many that I lost interest. Some how I didn’t even mind that I was typically watching 1-2 ads per round to double the fire rate or triple the earnings. Somehow I was still ok spending as much time playing as ad watching… I did notice that the coins were not particularly useful after a point but I just ignored them and I saw other reviews point this out. Presumably in an effort to fix this, an update made them more important. I don’t know what mob/cannon upgrades cost before but now I need $800,000 to $2,000,000 for each upgrade. And since a round only yields $20,000 to $400,000 (even with the extra ad at the end) I’m left with lots of cards to upgrade but not nearly enough coins. I tried watching ads for more coins but since each gives only $90,000 I could easily spend 2 hours of ad watching to support the upgrades earned during 20 minutes of gameplay. For me this makes the game frustrating and no longer enjoyable. I hope you can fix this for future players.

Cool game with daily issues

This game has kept my attention for about two years. It is my go to game when I have spare time. The creators seems to update the game often, but the same problems have always existed. Even when upgrading the phone to iPhone 15 with 5G, the game randomly lags and eventually freezes. The only way to continue playing on my iPhone 15 is to close out the application. When it lags, only your game play slow down. Your opponent still move forward at full speed. As a result, you lose which is frustrating at times. There are several other concerns: 1) your mob and champions gets stuck behind obstacles. 2) The multiplier portal doesn’t produce once entered. This rarely happens, but it occurs when it needs to work. 3) The weapon structure goes to the enemy after the mob entered first and was stronger. 4) When collecting the benefits to play the transformer option, the champion character with the strength level of 73 touches it and disappears as if it touched the red wall. 5) Sometimes after the level is completed, the champion disappears faster when attacking your opponent’s base, meaning instantly. Even though I listed the problems that I faced over time, I love the game and would like to continue playing without encountering these issues. Thank you for the application

Great game but highly disappointing

I’ve had this game for awhile now. I put 3 stars because it is honestly one of my favorite games but, with that comes a lot of difficulties. I’ve tried to just enjoy the game and deal with the issues but it really has gotten worse and worse. First, as you see in every other review the amount of ads are absolutely ridiculous. If they could put one in the middle of a game I think they would. Second, I can play the game for maybe a good 30 minutes and it will overheat my phone and begin to glitch me out. At that point I must wait for my phone to cool and even then I usually don’t play again until the next day because it’s frustrating especially when playing the piggy race. Lastly has just happened, I had to update the game - big mistake. I now open the app and it at first glitched the piggy race I couldn’t see my progress or anyone for that matter. I could still play but it would not show the piggy race progress. Now the app is completely glitched. I can’t play or press anything. It only shows my level/building. Truly loved this game but at this rate I’m getting ready to erase it. Too many issues that honestly I haven’t seen any other app do. And clearly no matter how many updates nothing is going to fix it.

Recent update takes player choice away

Recent update changed how the cannons are chosen. Before, once you unlocked a cannon you could choose to use it. Each player could choose which they preferred. I was able to put up a decent win rate with my favorite cannon. Now that the choice of cannons are randomized and it’s a pure money grab for ad revenue. Yeah there were ads before but this just increased it tenfold. You need booster packs to get cards to be able to use more advanced cannons, the packs are random and each card is one time use of that cannon. You can not change the order of the cannons, what ever card is on top is the choice. Now you can random win a pack at the end of a level, but you have to win to get that far. Otherwise you have to watch ads to get more packs. Depending on the level, the type of cannon, winning can be hard, to the point where you need to max the level of each cannon. Unless you grind cash(and watch ads to increase winnings) you will end up watching another add for each level on each cannon. 99 levels for each cannon. Once you start losing, you’ll quickly run out of cards and need to watch ads to not use the basic cannon. When winning, it’s ok to put up with the frequent ads, but now to increase the number of ads you have to watch while decreasing the win rate, and this casual game just found it’s way to the trash.

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