darkSpyro

Really don't know whether to risk another app lobotomy or not. Oh well, I suppose if it goes pear-shaped, I can always stop playing anymore.

Version 1.7.0

- 15 new Skylanders including the new Swap Force
- Evilized Sugar Bats (only cleared with Swap Force characters)
- Swap new and old characters for aligned element bonuses
- New houses
- Skylander Level cap raised to 15 (no mention of any new companion that may be required to allow this).


No mention of any bug fixes at all.

Hopefully it fixes mine

just updated, 15 new characters to introduce swap force
skylander level cap raised to 15 (no companion required)
timed quest for barkley with blossom tree reward

just got countdown and smolderdash on spins, no problems so far

Quote: doylerulez

just got countdown and smolderdash on spins, no problems so far

Downloading now... have you tried visiting yet?

My game is still FUBAR'D. Still can't open my cloud save and still can save locally.

Enjoy storming the islands!

and visiting error on my 3rd attempt, ah well

I have good news and bad news regarding the update.

Good News: The iOS Portal works with EVERY blue base Swap Force figure, including the Swap Force themselves.

Bad News: There seems to be a problem with the game registering the Lightore figures. Neither the Portal or web code works for my LC Smolderdash, LC Grim Creeper or LC Star Strike.

Yup, same problem here. My son just read off the web codes for five dark skylanders, nitro magns charge, enchanted hoot loop and legendaries but did not register.

Quote: Trexroarr

I have good news and bad news regarding the update.

Good News: The iOS Portal works with EVERY blue base Swap Force figure, including the Swap Force themselves.

Bad News: There seems to be a problem with the game registering the Lightore figures. Neither the Portal or web code works for my LC Smolderdash, LC Grim Creeper or LC Star Strike.

Same problem here. Funny thing is repose lightcore work (like flashwing).

NOOOOOOOOOOO Sidekicks no longer work with giants houses.

Edit: just barkley.

The in-game variants are not in Lost Islands AT ALL, yet. Those codes and figures definitely will not work.

Quote: Trexroarr

The in-game variants are not in Lost Islands AT ALL, yet. Those codes and figures definitely will not work.

Wrong: I used the ios portal and have all the ingame variants.
Edit: well not lightcore legendary grim creeper (as no lightcore's work)

Quote: darkrai848

NOOOOOOOOOOO Sidekicks no longer work with giants houses.

Edit: just barkley.

??? They made a deliberate change to disable ONE sidekick but not all of them? Perhaps they'll decide to change it back MID-update so that it works for some players and not for others. Or disable ALL sidekicks MID-update so that none of them work for some players and some of them work for others. I've given up being surprised in favour of hoping each update's damage isn't too serious.

Nice, got a bunch of my new Swap Force Skylanders, but a few issues I had:
* Mega Ram Spyro is just Spyro, I figured this would be a new Skylander like Legendary or Dark
* Blizzard Chill is just Chill
* Ninja Stealth Elf is just Stealth Elf
* Light Core Star Strike doesn't work
* Legendary LC Grim Creeper doesn't work

Quote: LaCrysta

Nice, got a bunch of my new Swap Force Skylanders, but a few issues I had:
* Mega Ram Spyro is just Spyro, I figured this would be a new Skylander like Legendary or Dark
* Blizzard Chill is just Chill
* Ninja Stealth Elf is just Stealth Elf
* Light Core Star Strike doesn't work
* Legendary LC Grim Creeper doesn't work

The Series 2 and 3 figures will show up simply as "Spyro", for example. It was the same thing with the Series 2 figures for Giants. there is currently a problem with the Lightcores.

I'm gonna test out my in-game variants now. Thanks, darkrai848.

My game still crashes when it tries to save.

The crowns are gone so they're no longer tracking your roster by series.

I should have known better.

I have been running trouble free till now.

The second time I opened it after the update it gave me a new game.

All good my cloud save was still there.

So I unlocked all the new characters.......I knew not spending gold on anything for the past month would pay off. The whole new swap players killing the new evil bats is weak. A chance to win some gold or a single gem seems pretty weak compared to the giants getting 25% gold bonus (plus 25% more w gigantis) and the ability to open gold chests for lots of gold and gems. Swap characters just don't really give you anything......they are just glorified sidekicks.

Quote: Mariojedi

So I unlocked all the new characters.......I knew not spending gold on anything for the past month would pay off. The whole new swap players killing the new evil bats is weak. A chance to win some gold or a single gem seems pretty weak compared to the giants getting 25% gold bonus (plus 25% more w gigantis) and the ability to open gold chests for lots of gold and gems. Swap characters just don't really give you anything......they are just glorified sidekicks.

They can award 2 Gems if you match both Elements and it doesn't look like the Sugar Bats despawn so you can clear them in between adventures.

It Just updated. Give it a week or two. I'm sure there will be additional content for the new swappers.

No mention of a bug fix because there isn't one. I updated with hopes that it would restore the corrupted save, but it did not work for me. Wishful thinking. A corrupted save is a corrupted save, it doesn't matter the platform.

This update finally pushed Barkley and the scouts HQ to my son's game. I still don't know why it never auto updated. I don't mind the bats, I haven't done much in SF to understand the bats though. I loaded all our characters through the Bluetooth portal to our 3 games, then read on here about it wiping upgrades, etc. We only upgraded Wash Buckler once since we have played past the first level, so not a big deal here but I'm sure that will be very devastating for some. LC Hex loaded as regular Hex. Legendary GC and Star Strike did load as others have said. Dark Spyro was regular Spyro, but Dark Ninja Stealth Elf and the others from the Daark Starter loaded as they look. Nitro MC & EHL also loaded as the specials.
I haven't tried visiting or anything much else yet. I'll check it out more tomorrow.

The bats do despawn they just take longer than the chompies.

Just installed the new update in my IPod and the ICloud is retrieving an old save, not the most recent one.
I could save it in my IPad again, but still old save appears in the IPod.
Guess I'll have to wait until the afternoon when I have my IPad back with me

this update restored Ramses in my Companions list.. thanks..

In a way, I'm glad that I can wait to add the Swap Force characters to my game by not updating. On the other hand, I can't update to get the other content I still need 15 Skylanders to complete my original collection. That's 75 million gold in spins. I only have 15 million. I may only get to spin 2 more times until I'm forced to update (I want to keep some gold on reserve, especially since I need to purchase buildings for quests that I've been holding off on). I'm almost debating on just saying the heck with it and spin to hopefully get a swapper since I don't have any and not sure if/when I'll get Swap Force. And even then, I'd hate to spin to get a character that I may eventually get the physical of down the road (so it would be a waste of a spin).

Can anyone confirm whether we still get refunds for buying skylanders with gems and then getting the actual figure on the portal afterwards?

I'm in the UK and we won't get our first batch of swap force figures until Friday, but I have quite a few gems saved up

For those who are hoping to spin for a swap character, remember of the 15 new characters there are 9 that are normal so you will need to spin for those first before you are allowed to get a swap character.

Could anybody please explain what this means:
"Swap new and old characters for aligned element bonuses"
To be honest, I don't have enough knowledge of English to understand this.

Quote: sungren150

Could anybody please explain what this means:
"Swap new and old characters for aligned element bonuses"
To be honest, I don't have enough knowledge of English to understand this.

Yeah, got me on that one. I was trying to make sense of the update notes myself, and made an absolute hash of that one. For some reason I read Swap Force AND Skylanders, instead of Swap Force Skylanders. The aligned element bonuses apply to Swap Force characters only.

Quote: Mariojedi

For those who are hoping to spin for a swap character, remember of the 15 new characters there are 9 that are normal so you will need to spin for those first before you are allowed to get a swap character.

Actually, no. You can spin a Swap Force character without getting all the normals first. I spun a normal, and paid 80 gems to re-spin eight times before getting Hoot Loot. Later on, I spun another normal, paid another 30 gems for re-spins before getting Legendary Chill.

Quote: Woz

Quote: Mariojedi

For those who are hoping to spin for a swap character, remember of the 15 new characters there are 9 that are normal so you will need to spin for those first before you are allowed to get a swap character.

Actually, no. You can spin a Swap Force character without getting all the normals first. I spun a normal, and paid 80 gems to re-spin eight times before getting Hoot Loot. Later on, I spun another normal, paid another 30 gems for re-spins before getting Legendary Chill.

Then I must be the unluckiest player ever. I had to go through all the normal skylanders before I got giants, variants or sidekicks. I even used gems to respin, up to 60 gems before I gave up because they were giving me the characters over and over (keep in mind I only had 4normal characters left but it kept cycling those over and over even though I had over 20 variants, giants, sidekicks to choose from). You would think I would get one, nope. The exact same thing just happened when I rolled yesterday with the swap characters. So if it's possible then it's a very very small chance (and this coming from someone who has won 8-10 shrines from the well).

Oh and the new evil bats do despawn. I had all my guys in the balloons and an hour later when I logged on they despawned just like the pods do now. Not sure if that is intentional but that's how it's working. Guess I'll eventually have to keep one of every element out of adventures in the future

Like Mariojedi, I had to spin for every "normal" skylander before I could spin for giants, legendaries, specials, etc. I had finally accomplished that and was busy spinning for these special characters which I cannot buy (or will not pay exorbitant prices to buy). But now I've got a bunch of "normal" swap force characters blocking the way again. And I probably *will* buy many of these new characters. So do I waste spins on characters I will ultimately own or no?

While I'm complaining about things that are positive additions to the game...raising the level cap to 15 is a real mixed blessing for me.
--First, it takes a long time to go the 12,000 exp from Level 11 to 12. I'm sure the required exp will get larger and larger up to level 15, so it will probably take weeks to level up each character. That's a long time to keep characters out of action.
--Second, on a related point what do I do about characters in houses? Take them out to level them up (and get nothing from the house) or let them sit and level up excruciatingly slowly? Same for characters in sanctuaries. Now I have to take good characters out of the sanctuaries to level them up and replace them with characters without bonuses. A high class problem but a pain nonetheless...

Boo Hoo. Woe is me!

Weeks to level up.......try months of nonstop adventuring. Level 13 takes 20k experience alone. Seeing as how each level doubles the required exp it will probably be 40k for level 14 and 80k for level 15. Seeing as how the 22 hr adventure gives like 1500 exp........yeah this is going to take a while. Hopefully it doesn't double but even if it only takes 20k per level that is going to take me months to level all the characters.

Have you already leveled a character up to 13 or are you guessing? If I had to guess, it would go like this:
Level 13--55,000 (15,000 incremental)
Level 14--75,000 (20,000 incremental)
Level 15--100,000 (25,000 incremental)

That would mean going from 40,000 at Level 12 to 100,000 at Level 15, about 1.5x the exp/time it takes to get to level 12. But I'm just speculating. We'll figure it out as we go...

Technically I haven't but I know it's not 55,000. I'm at 50k for Hot Dog and it's only half way.......which makes me believe it's 60k to get to level 13. Something tells me we are not that lucky to only have increments of 5k more per level lol.

Quote: midas73

Have you already leveled a character up to 13 or are you guessing? If I had to guess, it would go like this:
Level 13--55,000 (15,000 incremental)
Level 14--75,000 (20,000 incremental)
Level 15--100,000 (25,000 incremental)

That would mean going from 40,000 at Level 12 to 100,000 at Level 15, about 1.5x the exp/time it takes to get to level 12. But I'm just speculating. We'll figure it out as we go...

I think for me the worst thing is the next level of kingdom. I took forever to level 38 !!!!
you has worked so hard to change at this level???

Levelling up has never been a big deal to me. The way I see it, now it gives me a reason to use a lot of skylanders who usually just sat there doing nothing. Clearing mobs, camps & totems, I would always use the ones that hadn't reached level 12 yet. Adventure balloons only get used for quests while each character levels up, because the sanctuaries use up heaps of energy. The sanctuaries get filled with giants,alts,specials & sidekicks to try get the max gold out of them. Legendaries go to the halls and I only have 2 giant houses & 3 alt houses ATM, so the rest go in sanctuaries. Any levelling up they do along the way so be it. I'll just keep using the lower level ones to clear the mobs,etc. I won't specifically set out to level them all up in a big hurry. I know it's going to take ages, but at least it doesn't render all the normal skylanders fairly useless anymore.

I updated this evening and everything went well.... although they haven't fixed the problems.
But I'm a little worried: I have not seen any bat for my game ......

Is that because in Spain will also arrive later, as with the swap force???? I want to see something new in the game : \ : \

I haven't seen any so called 'bats' either. I'm wondering if they come into the game as soon as you bring in a new swaplander.

Quote: Amapole

I updated this evening and everything went well.... although they haven't fixed the problems.
But I'm a little worried: I have not seen any bat for my game ......

Is that because in Spain will also arrive later, as with the swap force???? I want to see something new in the game : \ : \

The bats aren't that exciting. You'll see them--they're hard to miss. But you will need swap force characters to clear them. You need 8 (one of each element) constantly available if you want to ensure gems.

I'm slowly leveling from 38 to 39 myself. I'm sure 39-40 will take even more time.

Quote: Doobrywhatsits

Levelling up has never been a big deal to me. The way I see it, now it gives me a reason to use a lot of skylanders who usually just sat there doing nothing. Clearing mobs, camps & totems, I would always use the ones that hadn't reached level 12 yet. Adventure balloons only get used for quests while each character levels up, because the sanctuaries use up heaps of energy. The sanctuaries get filled with giants,alts,specials & sidekicks to try get the max gold out of them. Legendaries go to the halls and I only have 2 giant houses & 3 alt houses ATM, so the rest go in sanctuaries. Any levelling up they do along the way so be it. I'll just keep using the lower level ones to clear the mobs,etc. I won't specifically set out to level them all up in a big hurry. I know it's going to take ages, but at least it doesn't render all the normal skylanders fairly useless anymore.

Yeah, I see your point on the "normal" skylanders that I really don't use. But I don't love having to take my giants, alts, sidekicks and specials out of their houses and sanctuaries in order to level them up to 15, which is going to take weeks per skylander. But I'm not opposed to raising the level cap. It just messes up my normal play. And I will minimize the impact too. For example, I'll level Admiral Thumpback to 15 so Thumpback can stay in his house, and then switch up once the Admiral has fully leveled up.

Also appears with the clearing bats that both Swap characters get the credit for the task if their respective halves are used....

39 to 40 is crazy slow. I am about 1/3 to 40 after a week and I have every building possible, tons of fisheries, taverns, B&Bs, etc Its going to take most people over 3 weeks.

Quote: Doobrywhatsits

I haven't seen any so called 'bats' either. I'm wondering if they come into the game as soon as you bring in a new swaplander.

I don't understand what you say about something called "bats". In app-store, when it describes the new features of the upgrade, said the emergence of new monsters: (in Spanish: "murciélagos de azúcar malos; in english: "bad sugar bats"). I have not seen any in my kingdom, so I wondered if it was because I have not skylanders swap force (here comes october 18th).

Sorry if I didn't say to you, that my English is not very good, but for me is very difficult to comment on the forum, because I have to translate everything what I mean .....
I think in Spanish "murciélago" is equals "bat" in english ...

Quote: midas73

Quote: Amapole

I updated this evening and everything went well.... although they haven't fixed the problems.
But I'm a little worried: I have not seen any bat for my game ......

Is that because in Spain will also arrive later, as with the swap force???? I want to see something new in the game : \ : \

The bats aren't that exciting. You'll see them--they're hard to miss. But you will need swap force characters to clear them. You need 8 (one of each element) constantly available if you want to ensure gems.

I'm slowly leveling from 38 to 39 myself. I'm sure 39-40 will take even more time.

Thank you for your clarification, I see you if I have understood me.