After days of testing, and consulting with others that I know, I have come to find that first round turn order isn't based off a character's speed stat. For example: Old daka maxed out 7* has 126 speed, which is slower than my qgj, leia, and sidious yet the enemies daka will attack before my 3 faster characters. This is just one example, and yes I have taken into account the leader abilities that are being used to ensure their speeds have not been increased. I'm not really sure what first round turn order is based off of anymore because to me it clearly isn't the speed stat, or atleast the speed of a character isn't working in the way that it is supposed to.Feel free to comment if you have experienced similar situations or if you think I am completely wrong and have evidence to the contrary. I would love to hear the findings from other people aside from myself and several others.Edit: Old Post no longer relevant, feel free to keep discussing but my views have changed.

Its not random, there is a hidden bonus to each hero speed bar, and that is random, so sometimes lower speed ones reach the end of the bar first.

"Naecabon;39953" wrote:@Otar Can you back this up with actual proof? Can a dev actually explain how Speed works in this game?No, sorry, nothing in this game have proof, just observation. And having played so many matches, that's my observation, speed matters, its just not fixed on round 1.

@Scorpion1980 Last month I believe I saw a dev (Jesse or Aaron) reply to something like this. I believe it got sort of confirmed that first round is random (speedwise). Now I haven't used the search option but you can try to search on Speed or Jesse :P

I noticed when I switch Talia out for fives, in a team with sid and dooku, against an equal team with sid and dooku, it goes from there dooku getting first attack to me getting first attack, so I think all your team members, has somting to do with first strike.

If you combine the speeds on both teams you way under his combined speed, and sid is fastest of the two + qgj leder ability say "Jedi allies gains speed" not "all Jedi gains speed", witch can be interpetated that it does not include himself

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GilbertoJrBR
10 years ago
Its not random, there is a hidden bonus to each hero speed bar, and that is random, so sometimes lower speed ones reach the end of the bar first.
GilbertoJrBR
10 years ago
"Naecabon;39953" wrote:
@Otar Can you back this up with actual proof? Can a dev actually explain how Speed works in this game?

No, sorry, nothing in this game have proof, just observation. And having played so many matches, that's my observation, speed matters, its just not fixed on round 1.
CronozNL
10 years ago
@Scorpion1980
Last month I believe I saw a dev (Jesse or Aaron) reply to something like this. I believe it got sort of confirmed that first round is random (speedwise). Now I haven't used the search option but you can try to search on Speed or Jesse :P
Ztyledk
10 years ago
I noticed when I switch Talia out for fives, in a team with sid and dooku, against an equal team with sid and dooku, it goes from there dooku getting first attack to me getting first attack, so I think all your team members, has somting to do with first strike.
Ztyledk
10 years ago
If you combine the speeds on both teams you way under his combined speed, and sid is fastest of the two + qgj leder ability say "Jedi allies gains speed" not "all Jedi gains speed", witch can be interpetated that it does not include himself
jayw4lk
10 years ago
Not random at all. Dooku ALWAYS goes first an maul/asajj never go first always going last
Bowersda
10 years ago
My Poggle usually goes before my Sid despite being 8 points behind on speed. And I've had Kylo go before my Lumi even though there's considerable difference in speed.
Ztyledk
10 years ago
@Naecabon Aayla might, just get up to the speed of sid, and there the system might say sid gets the advantage, since his speed is base, old ben is so slow that even with boost he will first get his turn after poggle
GilbertoJrBR
10 years ago
"shimmy;40072" wrote:
I always notice Dooku going first whether it is mine or the opponent's Dooku. I do feel there is some randomness there as I can often tell I have a better geared/leveled Dooku and he goes second.

Wouldn't surprise me though if there is some random thing that makes the stats useless to start. It is an EA game after all where they ALWAYS have to throw in some lame code instead of just going simply by stats and logic. So frustrating.

You don't need to "know" a game to play it anymore, just go with it, and pay for it, and in the end if you are unhappy, well your problem! Really love the new gaming mentality!
BriggerGuy
10 years ago
There has to be some RNG going on. Several times now when battling a team with Sid, their Sid will attack twice before my Sid attacks his first time. And my Sid is completely MAXED. I also make sure to watch if there are any debuffs or turn meter reductions happening from other people on the opposing team but I don't see it happen and usually none of the other heroes have that ability anyway.

I just battled a squad where all 5 of their heroes got to attack before any of mine. Sid, Chewy, Consular, IG 86 and Ahsoka is my team. My squad power was higher and its not like my heroes are slow. Yet, by the time I got to attack once, IG 86 was dead, and everyone else was at half health with several healing immunity debuffs on them. The opposing team didn't have any speed buffs either. So WTF happened? Needless to say I retreated instead of wasting my time.

In GW, I've seen a lvl 50 Sid in lvl 6 gear attack first, before my maxed out Sid. How does this make sense?
Some part of it HAS to be random, and I ****ing hate it!