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BlazinsZ's avatar
6 years ago

Umbrella and Buster debate

Hi everyone, I want to open this debate. 

If someone in game launch an umbrella booster in their cities, you or enemy can launch the new buster shield disaster, and umbrellas stop working. 

My question is, why? the umbrellas are completely useless now, they already were simply with the existence of this new attack, but now it's worse, just if someone uses their umbrella, you use a buster and then you can use any other attack, It is also stupid as the umbrella timer is still there, but as an ornament, it is no longer useful. 

Why 6 items can end 1500 war cash from a 30-minute umbrella? This is too OP in my opinion.
What do you think? Will you spend 1500 on a 30-minute umbrella knowing this?

5 Replies

  • Umbrella can’t stop shield buster?

    lol Can always trust EA to mess things up. Luckily my enemy didn’t realize that umbrella doesn’t work and stopped attacking my team member when I put an umbrella on her.

    They kept attacking her with shield buster when she was busy. So basically, all of us get no war stuff from repairs. I gave up and stopped attacking at 4k (I usually get min 16k if circumstances allow). If EA thinks I’m going to work harder to get war stuff due to the lack of repairs, think again. I just play it the lazy way. I just stop at 4k.

    For one, by logic, umbrella should be able to counter shield buster. Yet EA failed on seeing that this is the case.

    Second thing, there should be a timer in which shield is impenetrable for 1 hour, to let us regenerate our energy.

    I’m shocked that EA didn’t cover all angles given the resources they have. Might as well hire me to be part of development team to do a better job at this.

  • @J6niceL  the war parts is another issue i want to discuss, I think we should be able to receive the parts, not just disappear.

    I think that if someone used a buster in your city, then when you enter the game, you should be able to see something like green + sign on top of a destroyed building, so that you can claim the item and have the building fixed as the buster did. I think it's a big mistake that hundreds of items get lost in nothing, because obviously we all want to enjoy a lot one single jackpot, In our club for example we launch a jackpot and it gives us time for another player to launch another buster and thus use a single jackpot for several attacks, we are saving jackpots so I do not see this criticizable, but the enemy loses too many items in negative points for his team. 

    I think this must be solved, and also the umbrella.

    I think we can fix it, after all, EA heard the players asking for something to fight against the bubble strategy, so we simply have to let EA know the errors that need to be fixed. 

    I see that they have made  'gas cans' extremely rare, and now the buster need 5 cans (originally it was 3 propellers and 3 gas cans) they trying to slow down the use of the shield buster, unfortunately, this highly affects honest players, definitely EA must do something with hackers, which of course, have endless gas cans and we don't.

  • Club wars is becoming not worth playing, The shield buster made it worse.  Our last war was not worth the time it took to play.  Normal war, then in the last hour it changed.  A city that had not played in 35 hours, comes scores 32000 points in less than a hour using Magnetism , movie monster and shield buster on 3 cities.  Pay to win games are not worth the time it takes.  I don’t mind spending some money to play, but this is now the only way to win.  Not a fun game anymore 

  • DeltaSpaceport's avatar
    DeltaSpaceport
    6 years ago

    Not a newbie to the game, played before club wars and I have 3  active cities 

  • createlligent's avatar
    createlligent
    Rising Newcomer
    2 days ago

    I don’t like club wars that much either.  They use up a lot of time, energy and makes me irritated, frustrated and annoyed.  I know my unconscious thoughts and actions are part of the blame and so part of responsibility lies on me.  

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