TRANSFORMERS: Forged to Fight Reviews

This is a game that is not for the typical player, as you are going to need to invest a lot of time into the game before you’re able to achieve certain things. The game does have a “stamina” system that limits how long you can play in one sitting for constant play, and it takes ages to recharge even by IOS standards. That said, it’s graphically breathtaking, the gameplay itself is fun and intense, and the variety of characters is very impressive. It is careful which series’ it chooses from: G1, Beast Wars, and the movie-verse. And frankly, that’s all it needs, anything more is unneeded and honestly unwanted. A few hiccups to the game though. One, as I said it’s very deep commitment, as you are going to need to clock in a TON of time in order to have the chance to get certain bots or reach certain goals. I was fortunate enough to have two 4* bots in my first month of playing (2 months ago) and have recently gotten my first 5*. Upgrading bots is also very difficult, as doing so requires sparks that you can only obtain 2 day’s a week, 1 day for each class and Sunday allows you to get any of them. Performance wise I have had very little issue. I’ve never had the game crash or freeze, only a little lag in arena fights and that’s it. I will say, this game does drain battery at a surprisingly high rate. As far as Gatcha games go, this one is a very good choice, and as of late, it seems like the drop rates are far better than they used to be.

This game is fantastic,while I’ve gotten a majority of characters I still have not obtained a 3 Star shockwave. But my primary complaint is that there isn’t a very large amount of beast wars or movie characters. There is not a single movie tech class in the game and there is only one predacon. I think they should add in beast wars scorponok as a demolitionist, also movie verse sideswipe has not been added which is a character I’ve longed to be in the game. Lately they’ve only added in g1 characters which are most of the games characters. If they add in some more predacons and sideswipe that would be awesome. Also if Javan adds in beast wars megatron there needs to be other preds in the game, there’s already 3 different megatrons. Also skins, I think another cool thing to do would be to give characters different skins. Like give mv1 Optimus his last knight skin or give g1 Optimus a nemesis prime skin. One I would love to see would be a transmetal skin for dinobot and Optimus primal.

I’ve been playing since day 1. There’s bugs that have been known for a couple of years now and they haven’t been fixed. For instance, when you swipe a certain direction it doesn’t always go in that direction. I’ve been hit with a combo and even KO’d from this issue.
Spinning crystals is consistent. I had my wife open crystals for me one time and what it looked like it was about to land on slid at the last second, but it usually doesn’t slid at that point and it’s most times pretty good. My wife noticed it and asked why I play a game that cheats.
In the last year I’ve noticed my projectiles don’t always hit my opponent when they’re right in front of me. Other times I’ve gotten hit by opponents projectiles and I’m not even in line with where they’re firing. They’ve recently improved the AI skills and since that change I’ve noticed that there’s a hesitation between my combo and my special which wasn’t there before.
Kabam in their lack of effort to fix different issues has caused a lot of good players quit the game. I’m almost at that point. And as for the bots, what you see is all there’ll ever be. If there’s a new bot it’s only a reskin of another bot with a different name. Other Transformer games have let me down and I even boycotted playing them till this one and I’ll probably quit playing before it closes.

Speaking as a long time fan of the this app franchise: Hands down, best game. I’ve been playing this game since I think it first came out. It’s done the franchise justice after... Well, you probably know. It’s a culmination of some of the best aspects of fighting games like these. But while all is good, after the latest update (which, by the way, had an AMAZING/EPIC loading screen as always) my phone allowed me to play long enough to collect gold and the calendar login rewards and then glitch back to the home screen. I’ve asked around and it seem to only be affecting my phone; The only iPhone 7 of the group. I’m not sure if this is an app issue, compatibility issue or Apple issue, but I know it’s frustrating not being able to play the game. Aside from the hiccup: Wonderful job, Kabam! I love this game so much and hope you continue adding more characters (like Devastator or some DJD Members like Vos perhaps?)

This is everything I would dream for in a this app game! It has all the great “ AutoBot “ characters from the old tv shows to the ones on the big screen, along with awesome iconic locations. The gameplay is perfect for the type of game this is. My favorite part is how the AutoBots use their vehicle transformation to fight against their enemies and how their fighting style still resembles to those of a robot. Once again Kabam did another heck of a job on a fighting game. The game lags a little when it comes to me playing it in a place with not the best internet. And I wish we can change out names excessively. But those are just nitpicks because other than that I love the game and I just started playing today. I love the this app and I think the game developers did a awesome job on the way they set up this game.

- Jaylen K Williams
12:06 am July 29, 2020

I really like this game, been playing since day one. It’s the only game on my phone and I’m on it all the time. The reason for my 1 star review is that Kabam is losing their minds. In the beginning everything was going awesome and it was well balanced and everyone was having a good time. Then the updates came and along with the updates came problems. As they tried to fix the problems more problems came. It’s like they pushed untested updates. Then comes the major update that EVERYONE hates, it’s when they drastically reduce the output of gold, the most valuable resource in the game because you need it for everything. They say play arenas to get it but you get at most 15k gold from a days work compared to 50k-90k a day from before. So if you get around 10k of gold a day and a bot cost 50k to upgrade, that’s 5 days for one bot. New players good luck, us veterans are just sitting on ore, which is also used for upgrading bots. Yeah we could sell it but we just lose all that we worked for and have gold with no ore. You need gold and ore to upgrade. So we have a problematic game with little to no resources for advancement, this was a stupid move that was made and it pleases no one.

Ok I like the fighting mechanic, the graphics for a mobile game is great, great volume of bots.....overall it CAN be fun.......those elements alone is the only reason why I don’t put a one star rate.......but what really irritates me about this game is the lagging......I thought maybe it was cell connection or internet....but I have really high speed internet......the game will run smooth....then bam it turns into stop motion animation with .25 to sometimes .5 second delays from lag......it’s never going to get fixed because KABAM doesn’t seem to work or maintain this game enough to keep the game smooth......I am not the only one with this issue....there is a whole community that talks about it......the longest i have ever played without lag surprisingly was about 4-6 weeks.....I’ve had this game since day 1.....of course I do play “contest of champions” more....and naturally that is KABAM’s flag ship game.....Forged to Fight just takes the back seat......so try it out, try to enjoy it but just beware the game does not run that smooth and it becomes frustrating......it is almost geared for forced to pay or don’t complete 🤬🤬🤬

Thank you Kabam for creating the game every movie fan and gen1 80s follower has been waiting for. You went all out. this app: FTF offers fantastic graphics to visually impress, game modes for instant gratification or paced leisure. Beautifully illustrated this app portraying both the latest movie based characters and honoring the generation 1 bots while keeping everything realistically consistent. Graphics are fantastic, the illustrations are phenom, and playability can be either immediate or allow you to play at your leisure.
Pros:
Campaign story mode: 3 chapters increasing in difficulty offers challenges and incentive to level up your bots.
Base: you place bots on your ‘home base’ and they higher rank they are, the more free gold you get.
Raids: you can attack other players’ bases and steal their ‘raid chips’ which you then use to buy items to help you level up.
Arenas: fight other players’ bots in tiered difficulty levels for more rewards.
AI: Don’t want to spend time tapping at the screen. There’s an AI option to let it fight for you.
Cons:
(There were many fixes with the 3.1 update. Thanks Kabam!)
This game makes my phone really hot. Don't think that can be helped because of the intensity of the game.
TRANSFORMERS Store video is nice but the screenshots do not do this game justice. Please speak with your graphics team about that white/red text.

I’ve been playing this game for a while bow and have had a really good time. I love the fact that wheeljack has been added, and overall the combat is just simple and fun. However, there are a few things that are pretty annoying. The first is ranking up bots. The items required to rank up your bots are on a daily rotation, so if you have a demolition class bot you need to rank up, you have to wait until the day demolition missions are available and then grind them in order to get the demolition sparks. This is just a really annoying and tedious process. Another thing is that the story mode gets tiring because it’s not updated when new bots are added, meaning your stuck fighting the same handful of sideswipes, mirages, arcees and sharkticons throughout the entire canpaign, and it gets old really quickly. It would be way better if all the enemies before the bosses would be random bots that change every time you play the mission.

Overall it’s a pretty good game. I like with the new chip system how each time a new bot is released it’s actually realistic for you to get a 3 Star version of it although idk how it’s even mathematically possible to get 100,000 chips for a 4 Star. I have 3 main criticisms:

1st, 4 star bots are basically non-existent outside of 4 Star crystals. I got extremely lucky early on and got a 4 Star mixmaster our of a premium crystal but I haven’t seen one since and I know many people who are level 36 and above who don’t have a single 4 Star. If there’s any way you guys could increase 4 star drop rates to what they are in contest of champions that would be awesome!

2nd, it is much much harder to get 3 and 4 star shards than in contest of champions due to the lack of both an equivalent to the summoner advancement alliance mission and the fact that duped don’t drop any shards.

Finally, while the graphics and renderings are absolutely gorgeous on the iPhone X, this game drains battery at a jaw dropping rate. Not as bad as archetype used to back in the day, but close. About 18% of battery for 25 min screen on time. So, if there’s any way you guys could further optimize the power consumption that would be epic!

Over all, it’s a nice game, I love it, But any improvement in these 3 areas would be VERY much appreciated by the community. Oh and also, thank you so much for letting us be able to watch adds to get Energon!!!!!

This game is very good but there are errors with it. Not every bot from the movie franchise is in here, including the movie version of shockwave, Galvatron, movie version of Lockdown, and movie version of Starscream. Also I am level 19 and I don’t have any 3 stars or more because the crystals have way way too many of the low rewards like In the premium crystal for example when I spin I only see like 3 of the 4 Star bots and 7 of the 3 star bots. The rest are 2 stars which frustrates me because when I tap the crystal (after seeing all 2 stars after passing the big rewards at the beginning) suddenly out of nowhere at the split second I tapped finally 4 Star appears on screen but it’s still spinning and again I land a 2 Star and
there is no better rewards I see ahead. Only for crystals that have no bot rewards I get big rewards.

I’ve had this game for over three years now I think, might be wrong though. I remember when this game used to get updates everytime I turn around, with new bots and just all around new features, the game truly was hard to put down. However, in the past year, the game has been given only a handful of updates, and I believe there have only been three “new” bots added (I say “new” because they are only just reskins of previous ones). On top of that, the lag is unreal. I often find myself in the middle of a fight simply having to pause and let it load because I just cannot play it. The game crashes at random intervals, which can be very bad if you are in a situation where leaving a fight means that you lose. It’s so sad to see the game come from something so amazing to being in such a bad state. The devs have every capability to fix these issues but they don’t, so I can only pray they come to their senses soon.

I’ve been playing since it first came out. The constant issue with the game is connectivity yet kabam blames us for device or network. I’ve played from home, hotspots, stores WiFi and its all the same on 2-3 different devices. Every now spotlight, there is 100% lag in the first few days, when it matter because of the alliance events.

Next is i rarely had issues with rewards until recently. They helped out with a mod issue by giving me a 1 star mod even tho i had standard mods which could’ve resolved the issue. Now i explore story and did not receive 5 star bot crystal. Kabam says I received crystal but are counting my 5 star crystal shards which adds what i already had. So basically its ok to help with common items but when it comes to rare items, they don’t want to help. They give me the run around and each person after 5 different staff replied state something different about timing of exploring the story, and when i supposedly received the crystal.

They need to work on their customer service if they want to keep everyone around.

I am an app tester, so it kills me when a buggy build is released. The game frequently freezes when I type Fight or when going from the achievements screen to Fight. I have to close it and open it again and hope it doesn’t crash again. Of course, I have uninstalled and reinstalled, tried it on other iOS devices, and all the same result. That issue aside, I love it! Beast Wars was my favorite, so to see them in this is super exciting to me. Right now I’m F2P, and I’ll say the daily crystals are a ripoff. I’m not a fan of the spinning wheel prize approach. We know that the game has already chose what we’re gonna get, so don’t get me excited by hanging on a 3 star Dinobot to only slide over to the 1star mod. Along with the crashing, a lot of times the images in the game won’t render. That just makes me sad. Gameplay is fun. I dig the story. The breadth of characters is fun and engaging. This version gets 2 stars, but they fix the crashing

Thunkercracker event is unbalanced, I don’t understand the logic of having to fight 5 star bots that are above a level of 6,000 just to get a 3-star Thundercracker. That doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Also, why would they give these bots such broken abilities that don’t belong to their specific characters, like unblockable ranged attacks or Soundwave inflicting shock on you from every range attack he hits you with. I get it, the level of the bots you go up against increase as you progress further into the challenge, which makes sense, but up to 6,000 is just too high and takes the fun out of the challenge. If you could just reduce the levels of these bots you go up against and take away some of the broken abilities, it would really make the challenge more enjoyable and worth my time. Thank you for taking your time to read this comment and I hope you understand what my explanations are. I have been playing this game since it came out and I really enjoy it. I just think the Thundercraker event is too unbalanced right now.

The last update before the Prime suspect was okay but it didn't really solve the crashing, I mean it stopped crashing before battles and at the end it would crash in the arenas so my bot had aready defeated the opponent without getting an unfair penalty of being K.Oed when a crash happens in the middle of a battle but now it just got worse again. I don't know if this is a problem with running on Fios which it used to work fine until the next bot spotlight mission after Skyfire (Jetfire), or my iPhone 6 plus isn't compatible which it says it is. I know you don't read reviews or atleast respond to them anymore since you're all focused on MCOC to actually fix your Game. I sent Crash reports many but yet the update never says fixed older generation IPhone problems all I can basically do is open crystals, do away missions or chat on Global and the game still crashes randomly.

I love the game, the mechanics work great for mobile and the g1 this app are nice and so are the bay this app but I wish they would add more characters from different this app shows like maybe the rescue boys would be kinda cool to see or the this app from the new cyber verse show, but most importantly there needs to be this app prime characters. At least a few. They could add optimus, megatron, bumblebee, sound wave, arcee, starscream, bulkhead, knockout, ratchet, and shockwave. And later on they could add characters like ultra magnus , smokescreen, wheel jack , preda king, arachnid, breakdown and cliffjumper. Adding this app prime characters would make me play a lot more and maybe also make other people play it more that love the this app prime also. So developers if you read this at least consider adding these characters

The game is truly awesome and great. Though, I would love to characters from the mmorpg this app game and characters from this app war for cyber from, this app fall of cybertron and this app rise of the dark spark and a little competition between this app fans where the top three original this app characters created by fans get into this game. Also, the problem with starting a new game is that rather than starting this game with a clean slate, your immediately place back into your old gameplay which makes starting a entire new game from the beginning and changing how you play completely pointless. But besides my complaints, this game has an awesome battle system and good lineup of characters and awesome storyline

Problem number one. When the loading to end the instructions on how to do combos and how the games works, came to an end, I finally was ready to battle for real for the first time, my screen blacked out for a second and then kicked me out the game. And it won’t. Stop. It was getting annoying and it was doing the same thing even while practicing the fighting. I tried fixing it by reinstalling the game, but it didn’t work. I also tried deleting an app I hardly used, but still didn’t work. What do I do? Or is it a unfix able problem that only the developers can fix? Second problem. A whole lotta lag. As expected, there’s lag. But a ungodly amount of it. I can hardly play the game without waiting extra longer for the lag to clear. And I even tried to delete another game, and It still didn’t work. I can play the game with these two problems. Please fix them.

Basically a slot machine game that you pump actual real world dollars into without any real world possibility of winning. Energon Cubes are the name of the game. Every repetitive game mode steers you towards one goal: buy more energon. Cool new masteries system! Oh wait, if you want to use the skill points you just earned by ranking up you have to spend premium currency for an icon that unlocks the skill. If it was a buy once game that you actually progressed by EARNING or time invested it would absolutely be a 4 star game. I regret spending a dollar (let alone $70 I'm embarrassed to admit) on the "chance" to spin a wheel and get infinite duplicates.
Graphics and bot design are phenomenal. The game is absolutely repetitive but you forget because it's so cool to play. However it dawns on you that your nostalgia is being preyed upon. How bad do you want to break up the monotony by playing with Grimlock or Starscream? $5 doesn't even get you ONE PULL. I'm not kidding. Featured bot crystals are 150 energon cubes and $4.99 gets you only 135. That's deliberate.