Next Major Update - PVP Tournaments...and more! ***MEGATHREAD***

this will be another good idea with terrible implmentation. i hope not, but given the history of this guys...

"IDobaFett;682207" wrote:

"Slewfoot;682111" wrote:
How does the tourney in HODA work? Is it live pvp?

No, in HoDA it is AI vs AI. I'm sure SWGOH will be different in that aspect. Either player vs AI like arena or live (true PvP). In HoDA, you had an energy source, so you got 6 attacks and then had to wait for the refresh to attack again. You would set a defensive team and the player could cycle through teams (refresh) to find a beatable matchup. Every win would provide banners that would dictate your ranking and the quality of players you were matched against. The more banners you win, the harder the matchups but also the better rewards. Rewards were provided throughout the event as you meet certain banner milestones, and then at the end of the tournament you would win new cards and gems.

I'm sure SWGOH will not share many of those aspects, but I am excited for a leaderboard (not Arena stile sniping) for more than 5 playable PvP battles per day.

Thanks for the info, i doubt they can do live pvp, but ill like having a ladder that doesnt involve sniping.

Ships are cool.

I assume they're going to cost credits to level/upgrade etc.

So could you like add a couple of zeros onto the end of how many credits things give us that would be lovely

"BentWookiee;68602" wrote:

"EA_Jesse;68598" wrote:
Greetings Hologamers,

Today we are announcing our next major update, PVP Tournaments! This update will be launching in stages over the next two weeks.

PVP Tournaments will have players battling each other to climb the ranks for prizes that are only available during a tournament. Each tournament will only run for a limited number of days, so be sure to get your best PVP squad ready to battle it out!

What can you do to prepare? Broaden your collection, buff up your characters, and hone your strategies!

The tournaments feature will only be available for players level 30 and higher. Stay tuned for additional information on this update next week.

And one more thing: in addition to this update, the development team has already been hard at work on our biggest update yet which will feature (wait for it)…

Ships! *drops mic*

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/68598/next-major-update-pvp-tournaments-and-more/p1?new=1

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OK, let's see what they are telling us here. First, the next update is pvp tournaments... ships will be a future update. Second, the prizes will be tournament only, so nothing we can earn as a prize... meaning not raid gear... it does not specify that prizes are only obtainable in a tournament, only that a tournament is the only way to "win" them. Even though you can win crystals and credits, I would not be surprised if those show up in the prize pool. I suspect we are talking about chromium only characters and shards, probably Vader too. Maybe some new characters... R2 and Wicket come to mind.

As for the format, they are telling us 2 different things... first get your best team ready to go. Second, broaden your collection. The first comment suggests you get to choose owe team to fight, like arena pvp... I that is somewhat suspect. Broadening your roster suggests either that there will be character restrictions or that you will run multiple squads, like a hearthstone tournament... or both. There's a lot of hate for whales, so I doubt that character restrictions will be severe... more like light side or dark side. If I had to guess, I'd say it will be a 3v3 team format... which tracks with the left-side shadow on the guild page.

The big question is will the tournament be global, per shard, per region or based on guild rank?

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I honestly hope ships have more strategy involved in playing them. They are probably crewed by one of your other toons for boosts. Hopefully whatever we use to grind for them is a separate currency.

Now for ships... pure speculation at this point, but I'm willing to bet that you have to buy ships, and then get parts for them... if that's true, then most likely you will need credits to buy them... there may be an option to buy with crystals, but it's doubtful that a ship will be a mandatory crystal investment... that would be too blatant of a cash grab and could cripple the game... so, assuming it's primarily credits (1m for the cheapest and 25-50m for the Falcon or a star destroyer) your priority should be hoarding credits... the best way to do that is with a good scoundrel team... if you have one you are gtg... just stop spending beyond essentials... if you do not... well, you're a bad because you should have done that the day the first credit heist was announced... that's just basic strategic planning... but anyway, get your scoundrels, hoard your credits and wait to buy Slave 1.

As for the game play, they said it is their biggest update every so it's not just an added layer to already existing game play, it's another branch entirely... so likely ship to ship combat... which may be 1 on 1 or may be 3 on 3 or 5 on 5... if it's the latter 2, they will likely give some free weak ships (like they gave us a Jawa, JC and Chewie) but you will need multiple ships... all the more reason to have scoundrels and hoard credits.

Cant wait to have the Enterprise

"DoomeyEyes;682382" wrote:
Now for ships... pure speculation at this point, but I'm willing to bet that you have to buy ships, and then get parts for them... if that's true, then most likely you will need credits to buy them... there may be an option to buy with crystals, but it's doubtful that a ship will be a mandatory crystal investment... that would be too blatant of a cash grab and could cripple the game... so, assuming it's primarily credits (1m for the cheapest and 25-50m for the Falcon or a star destroyer) your priority should be hoarding credits... the best way to do that is with a good scoundrel team... if you have one you are gtg... just stop spending beyond essentials... if you do not... well, you're a bad because you should have done that the day the first credit heist was announced... that's just basic strategic planning... but anyway, get your scoundrels, hoard your credits and wait to buy Slave 1.

As for the game play, they said it is their biggest update every so it's not just an added layer to already existing game play, it's another branch entirely... so likely ship to ship combat... which may be 1 on 1 or may be 3 on 3 or 5 on 5... if it's the latter 2, they will likely give some free weak ships (like they gave us a Jawa, JC and Chewie) but you will need multiple ships... all the more reason to have scoundrels and hoard credits.

It could go even further with raids (for example the Death star trench run)

"Zombie8mylunch;682379" wrote:
I honestly hope ships have more strategy involved in playing them. They are probably crewed by one of your other toons for boosts. Hopefully whatever we use to grind for them is a separate currency.

It's a mobile game, so I'm not expecting dogfights (actually hoping it's not like that). I'm happy with anything starships outside of that. I'm sure we'll be pleasantly surprised.