Dark Cybertron (Legends)

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"Dark Cybertron"
Release date	February 5, 2014– February 11, 2014
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A titan arises!

Synopsis

The Autobot Scoops discovers an ancient Cybertronian prophecy pointing to the fact that a chosen one, whom Scoops believes to be Starscream, will lead Cybertron to a new Golden Age, or possibly just ultimate doom. Starscream is not convinced.

Meanwhile, Orion Pax investigates a growing anomaly that will result in him and his comrades fighting an invasion from the parallel dimension known as the Dead Universe. On the planet they have found is a race of Minicons, including Heavytread, Windshear and Runway, who join the battles surrounding Scoops's prophecy.

And back on Cybertron, a Titan class Transformer appears, unleashing a powerful energy surge when Starscream, Bumblebee and Skywarp attempt to make contact with it. The surge destroys much of nearby Iacon, and the Transformers discover the so-called Necrotitan's energy signature matches readings from the Dead Universe.

The Autobots and Decepticons unleash their firepower on the Necrotitan, however when the smoke clears, the giant stands unscathed. As it gazes blankly on the surrounding devastation, the assembled Transformers realize they're no closer to any answers.

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Notes

• The new event required updating the Transformers: Legends app. The app looks a little different.
• The event tied in with the IDW event of the same name, and as a bonus includes a free digital copy of "Dark Dawn: Dark Cybertron Chapter 1" as well as coinciding with a special offer on the Hasbro Toy Store to get 15% off the toys of characters featured in the game.
• This event introduced "Rarity 6" cards, with even higher stats.
• This is the first "team battle" campaign. Players are assigned to teams and cooperative defeat bosses, in order to score more points than their rival team. There are several other new wrinkles to the system.
  • It works much like raid events, with the player being required to scan for bosses. They can also find Synthetic Energon when they scan, which adds to their team's bonus.
  • Discovered bosses can be attacked by anyone on the same team as the finder, and defeating them adds to the team's total. At the end of the day, the team with the highest score wins, while the losing team is disbanded and reformed into new teams at the start of the next day. Members of teams which win get a "day win" count, making them eligible for more rewards at the end of the event. Players can also get rewards by being the MVP player for Synthetic Energon found, bosses located, or damage dealt.
  • The game encourages team participation through use of a combo: when a player attacks a boss, the combo increases depending on the number of cubes they use, and an ever increasing multiplier is applied to the next attack. The combo only increases if different players attack the boss, so if the same player hits the boss twice, the combo is not increased on their second attack. Thus by several people tag-teaming a boss, fewer battle cubes are needed to defeat it. Additionally points are given out for attacks as well as the awards presented on defeating a boss.
• After the update, many users experienced a multitude of problems:
  • Many iOS users experienced the recurrent "SD card is full" error. It really isn't full, so don't believe it and go deleting apps and pictures left and right. Mobage never responded. All they did was address an iOS problem where full-screening a card would crash the game, as well as give everyone 250 CyberCash and up to 2,000 Ruby Medals to celebrate the new mode.
  • Several users had their accounts reset to square one. As in, all of their progress and cards were lost. They had to start at the beginning with only a Rarity 3 card and a bunch of Rarity 1 cards, all wimpy compared to the beasts most users have now.

External links

• Dark Cybertron on the Transformers Legends Wiki