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Welcome to Shadow Wars https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/shadow-wars-summon-battle/id1092263081?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pikpok.mm.play&hl=en Shadow War is another free-to-play puzzle game with collectible and leveling elements. However, this one I like. The theme is urban supernatural. The player chooses membership in one of five street mage clans including police wizards; and summons everything from a street-hockey King Tut Kid-mummy to the Abercrombie wearing angel of war who looks like she moonlights as a drummer (actually a Valkyrie). Hoodies abound. Naturally you can also find artifacts to boost your monster units. I’m particularly amused by the baseball cap that makes you slightly more invisible. The gameplay seems familiar but I can’t recall the name of a puzzle game they are basing their work on. To begin the player chooses three units and one unit belonging to a friend (mercenary) to enter the combat node. There are three enemy units to destroy in up to three combat waves.  There is a crystal grid (roughly 7x7 or smaller) with the up to five colored crystals: red, blue, green, yellow (light) and purple (dark). An aside about the colors of the units in game: the rock-paper-scissors and light-hates-dark-which-hates-light mechanics that are found in Puzzles And Dragons are found here. Back to the crystal grid; every combat round, you pick your attacker from among your four units. You have three turns to charge up your attacker’s power by pressing on a colored crystal that has the most contiguous colors for maximum damage. The tactical element is the player placement of gems and the traps on the board. When you press and release on the gem board, if the chain you are selecting has enough contiguous members of the same color, you may have the opportunity to leave a Power Gem of the color of the attacking unit you have selected. So for example: I have the Red unit Wajdi. I press on a 16 purple (dark) gem chain. I can leave a RED Power Gem anywhere along that chain. Effectively you can use these Power Gems to build your own chain connectors over time. Also the Power Gems will absorb (delete) surrounding gems in a particular orientation and magnitude if activated individually or as part of a color chain (ie a “cross” power gem will shoot out horizontal and vertical beams to absorb gems; a “square” power gem will absorb gems surrounding it in the shape of a square). Traps on the board can include: gems that are chained and can only be removed by hitting the chains with Power Gem powers, ice that sequesters gems away from chains and spreads if you don’t do anything about it, thorns that will damage the hp of your attacking unit if they are present in your color chain, etc.. Now, that’s all the tactics of the board. The “Strategic” game is did you start the mission with units of the right colors that are strong against the upcoming opponent’s colors (remember rock-paper-scissors) and do you have a balance of unit class types like tank, mage, healer, specialist, attacker, assassin, etc.. In this respect, the game reminds me a great deal of picking the right team in Marvel Puzzle Quest. Will you stay interested? Well that depends on how compelling you find the base gem matching game. It’s only PvE at the moment (next on the docket is adding Guild Raids), but for a challenge I can attest that some of the Weekly Event gem matching boards and enemy unit waves require both planning in terms of unit choice, timing of unit special abilities, and smart gem board management. Leveling could turn into a grind for some. Ah the elephant-man in the room. IAP. Shadow War follows in the recent tradition of throw so much stuff at the player the premium currency is devalued. The in game currency is “obsidian”. I get 1 random roll every 30 minutes that may produce up to +10 obsidian. Every three hours if you put your phone down while a 30 second video plays, you get two pulls which usually (>66% estimated) at least 10 obsidian. Every 3 days you get a free unit (worth 300 obsidian). Obsidian can be farmed on the Weekend, and so on. To be frank, I wouldn’t even buy obsidian or the starter package unless you want to tip the devs. TL;DR Tiny Chalupa posted:Great game. Gacha pull that isn't a gimmick is quite nice so far Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Oct 16, 2016 |
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Guild Info Current status: Swarmed by dirty pubbies Goonamancers guild created. We are a Water guild (also the supernatural police according to the lore so  )Blue Lives Matter. Get out and shine your nightstick. Please -) Indicate you are SA when joining so I can kick bots/pubbies -) Contribute offensive police jokes -) Click on the purple up arrow on the main Syndicate page to reach the Perks section. DO contribute coins. DO NOT contribute Obsidian or Arc (Tablets). Keep those and grow strong young Goonamancer.  For those who don't know guilds do the following things: -) Choice of guild's color allows you to get perks for units of that color. For example, reduced cooldown on injured Blue units (faster healing) if you belong to and unlock the appropriate perk in the ESD syndicate. Another perk is a bonus to experience/faster leveling. -) Level 11 players and above can join guilds -) Guild levels go up to 5.  -) Guild turn Raw -) Guild raids coming soon EzEight posted:For perk donations, new players should donate until it hits 1k coins and get a free supply box. ------------Goonamancers is full. Undergoing Verification & Purge------------ boy are my arms tired posted:Overflow guild is Lowtaxed, part of the Archeron Pact (Fire Team). Same rules apply as Goonamancers: post here or include SA in your name, and donate silver and do not donate arc or obsidian. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Oct 16, 2016 14:18
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Sure why the hell not. Reserved.
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Oct 16, 2016 14:19
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Space open. Post IGNs.
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Oct 17, 2016 01:55
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Alright goons. Due to time constraints I'll step down from Goonmancers Leader position in 48 hours. Likely leave the guild for an active goon as well. I enjoyed making it and looking at the guild structure. So figure out who is going to be leader here. I'm still available to update the OP irregularly. Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Oct 20, 2016 |
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Oct 19, 2016 23:56
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by the way you guys know you can speed up the battle animations by repeatedly tapping anywhere on the screen? Useful for timed raids.
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Oct 22, 2016 00:12
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EzEight posted:I think speeding the game up is bugged as when I did that repeatedly the game got stuck at 10x speed and kept getting faster Lol. Did your phone approach light speed?
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Oct 22, 2016 01:41
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Blackwood Devil with Blessed Shoes is amazing.
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Oct 22, 2016 09:54
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Lol. After I collect the random monster shards from the "we are sorry for bugs" email the game freezes.
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Oct 24, 2016 03:56
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Re: trying to switch guild leadership.  it doesn't work well. Tried to upgrade Xianxia from Elder to Leader. No dice. Then I left the guild and rejoined. Guild leadership of Goonamancers is now in Candyleaders hands. Thats how that happened. No idea what the default line of succession is.
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Oct 25, 2016 03:52
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Need advice for Baron Semadi level 10. Cannot crack it.
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Nov 1, 2016 11:15
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Well, it's been fun but I have to focus on other things in the immediate future. I'll be leaving the guild while I'm dormant and not updating the OP. Thanks gents.
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