Battle Bay Reviews

by Mad For IPad

Update: I have played this game a lot & there really is no benefit except you earn more loot. Unfortunately there is a randomness to everything you receive (weapons, perks, loot, etc), & this is true even if you spend a lot of money. This game is very $ driven & there are players who have literally spent thousands of dollars. I don't mind being patient & earning things, but in 10 months I am still many months from earning my first of the highest level of weapons. Again, the game can be fun, but the rewards are minimal. You can put in a lot of effort but the rewards are very disappointing.

Original comment: This game can be fun, but the pairing algorithm is faulty & often teams are mismatched. The advantage seems to be for those who spend $ and invest in better weapons, etc. It gets very frustrating when you seem to reach a certain level, but then can't get beyond that. You lose more than you win & it's difficult to get back to where you were. When you finally get there, you start losing again. I'm not the most accomplished player, but when one team has higher level players with better weapons, it's not fun for either side.

by JoeyTaylor96

I had this game for quite a while and dedicated a lot of time to it, I was sitting around 1600 infamy but my brother and I started to notice that the matchmaking just felt rigged, I’m not a sore loser but when you get in with a team that has two people floating in the back(disconnected or whatever)and your other team mates can’t hit the broad side of a barn, but the enemy team are all hitting dead on with every shot, it gets frustrating. Or when you get in a match where the entire enemy team has nothing but mortars and your whole team just has cannons. I started to feel that the game was rigged to keep you from advancing too much too quickly and began looking at other people’s win to game ratio and noticed that even the #1 player in the world is sitting just barely above 50%, nearly every player you look at their profile and they’re right close to 50% wins to games played, this tells me it’s rigged. Coincidence? I don’t think so. If it’s not rigged then why do they not allow you to team up with more than one other person?(they may have changed this since I deleted BattleBay ). I believe they don’t want you getting in with your friends who are all good players and winning too much, the game wants to keep you at 50% wins to keep you invested in the game enough to keep playing and paying into it to try and get getting stuff. I’m done with it, one start from me.

by Micmann

I currently have 600+ battles. I can tell you this game can be fun, but in the end is more frustrating. Boats are matched based on “infamy” rank. Basically a scale that follows battles won. Win and infamy goes up, loose and it drops. This matching is all wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And others have been reviewing this same problem for some time so the developers are not going to change it. Boats need to be matched based on how strongly they are outfitted. Low infamy players can have epic outfitted boats, because they paid real money, matched against other low infamy players with basic weapons. It doesn’t work. It’s fish in a barrel. And unless the fish pay real cash they will get creamed over and over. Frustration. But a money maker for developers as players shell out real cash in frustration just to try to build their boats to a level that they don’t get creamed over and over. Watch out for the 200 infamy mark. Crossing it pits you against jacked up boats as high as 400 infamy. Only to be crushed back down the ladder to under 200. Then you will climb again and cross over only to be kicked back down. It becomes a yo yo and you will realize it’s more frustrating than it’s worth. Another reason infamy matching doesn’t work. Developers can solve this black mark on the game. Create algorithms that match boats based on similar weapons level and maybe it might be a fair game and actually be more fun than frustrating.

by ApexUltimo

Hello, Rovio. You have created a very entertaining naval combat game with a fun battle system and a very fair free-to-play aspect. This has great potential.
However, there are two underlying issues. First, not all weapons are equal. Cannons remain perpetually effective, with mortars, mines and incendiaries being situational and weapons such as carronades being next to useless.
The second problem, which is the main reason for this and the cause of the 3-star rating, is the matchmaking. The issue is by basing the system solely off of infamy, there are massive discrepancies in weapon quality and ship models. As a Mark II player floating around 240 infamy (due to this matchmaking), I almost always face teams with Mark IIIs and often see Mark Is present as well.
I am no game designer, but the matchmaking needs to be based off of something not as non-indicative of a player's skill and equipment as infamy, of which there isn't even a reason for powerful players not to drop in as there is no reward for high infamy except harder matches.
In conclusion, the game has great potential, but needs to see some serious balancing.

by WiCk3D J0K3R

I’ve played this game for about 2 years, and it used to be 5star. Through updates the game has gone downhill. Balancing out different perks to make all the boats maneuver better is one. Turning into a game that is really driving you to spend money to get to the upper levels and to buy the 2 new boats. I’m a level 47 and all 5 of my boats are level 47 too. That took quite a lot of upgrading. I’ve unlocked 2 legendary weapons in the first year and can’t even sniff legendary/epic loot now to unlock more. That’s where they get you to try and spend money. The game has turned into one of those that is all about trying to make you spend money instead of a good game. Same with guild play. We win quite a bit as a team so you earn coins for prizes. They “randomly” pick from 12 boxes and it used to be you could get good stuff from this hence working hard as a team to earn the coins. Now it is very very rare to get anything that would be wanted from this. This was one of the best ways to earn pearls and pieces to upgrade weapons. Now it’s all basic basic weapon perks and very small parts you win. You can see the good things to win but they just aren’t ever “randomly” selected. This game used to be the best game I’ve ever played on mobile and I’ve played a lot of good games and been very successful at. But they’ve ruined it. WiCK3D J0K3R is my handle look me up I’ve played for quite awhile and you can see I’m not a bot or some angry noob.

by Lmhicks101

Good game but battles are lopsided due to the infamy system they use to put people together. First you can literally start the game and have a couple good fights and get thrown in a battle with someone who has a ship 3xs better then you and guns that can one shot you because they lost enough infamy to get pushed back. They need to set it that there's a cap on how far you can be pushed back based on your ship so new people aren't discouraged by being slaughtered. Second they need to give you more ways to get captain experience other then trough training. This would also fix the first issue with low levels getting stuck with high players. Third half their weapons are bombardments such as mortars and grenade launchers yet half the maps have roofs that block them. How about letting us pick the map we want or giving us a chance to chance our for straight line or torpedoes before the match starts. If they fixed these then this game would be 5 stars easy.

by Fortia Forever

Now battle bay used to be a great game, and I used to play it around this time. It was one of the best mobile games I have ever played, perhaps the best game I had ever played. The action was fast paced and hardcore. It had so much personality. It was kept simple to not overwhelm players. The captain/upgrade system was great and gave a lot of personality to the game. Waves were a great mechanic. The game wasn’t pay to win, and things were looking pretty bright, until they made the first major update.
It looked good at first glance. A new ship and balance changes were put into place to even out the ship levels, but then I started to realize what horror came with this. The game became pay to win, with high level players obliterating entire teams almost by themselves, most ships having you grind or pay to get them, simplicity was ruined with constant updates with new parts, and the captains had left the game.
The game then died and was never to be seen again.
Currently it still is a good game and if you like a more fast paced shooter then you should get this but at its current state there are still fans who are waiting for this game to be revived and the community is very kind.

by Deaf Beast Mode

I played this game when first come out. Matchmaking is pretty frustrating for me because of repeating teams and team up useless team every single match by watching my team died very fast before one minute which it’s 91% of my team are like this.
Anyway, I will rate this star to 5 if you fixed two issues of matchmaking. For example, before match starts, u can pick 3 different set up of weapons to choose to fight against those specific ships. If u see too many speeders, I have to switch to speeders weapons to fight against them like Call of Duty that u picked weapons with 10 seconds to pick weapons before match start.
Last issues, fix the settings to choose what ships u rather fight. I love to fight against shooters/defenders/fixers. Like turn off speeders, enforcers, interceptors, and other ships that u don’t want to fight against every single matches. For my opinion, it’s not fun at all when u keep fighting against 2 or more speeders every single matches when u using all mortars to help guild mortars damages.

This game make u having too much stressful when your team can’t handle speeders or can’t able to survive up to 5 minutes.

by FunkySoundZ

UPDATE: The devs appear to have made some updates, because matchmaking is much better lately. There are still occasional blowouts, but not like before. Before, the matchmaking system would sometimes make one side with all players above a 50% win rate and the other side all below 50% — which was basically a guaranteed blowout — but that doesn’t seem to happen much anymore. So thank you, Rovio, for fixing at least one matchmaking problem!

Previous review: Horrible, horrible, horrible matchmaking. Any PvP game makes it or breaks it on its matchmaking algorithm, and Battle Bay’s matchmaking algorithm is ATROCIOUS. Play a few matches and then look back over the scores: 90% of them will be 5-0, 5-1, 1-5, or 0-5. It’s almost like the developers have no idea how to construct fair, competitive matches with ships of comparable level. So prepare to either blow out your competition or get blown out instead. There appears to be no middle ground!

by Zeiphod

This game is good. It is one of the genuinely good games that you can play and you don’t have to feel pressured to pay to play. My only complaint is that there was a map called Wayward Pains. It was a map which you had to plan to not use too many mortars because there were only a few areas to use it well. Now, they have made it to where you can mortar from anywhere in the map and destroy your opponents without them even doing damage to you. There are a lot of maps where mortars have free range to do damage. Why not have one map where you are at a strategic advantage to not have a ship full of mortars to win. It was sad to see the update to make this game just available to all types of guns instead of making every map a strategy. Sad the developers decide that a map needs to be changed to “please the few who mortar” every map. Otherwise, the game is fantastic

by Hkvkkhg

I’m writing this review because the guilds in the game are too basic... I’ll explain in other MMOs games like clash of clans, The Godfather, clash of Kings to name a few they have what every game needs when having a guild of a lot of people... is to be able to research science (which will either depending on what science tree path you choose to research first) will help in attacking bonuses hits points and rewards bonuses... but most importantly it’ll help the guild if it was possible to trade and/or gift items parts and power cells to fellow guild members. As well as having a one big map with a guild HQ with added benefits also being able to do guild wars and having more than 25 player per guild... and etc but mostly importantly it would be better in my opinion if it was more MMOs like keeping the ships and no one having a individual army....

This is the first time I’ve reviewed this game btw y’all recent updates... meh but other than that a pretty good game overall just wish y’all could fix the targeting system and the crazy suicide driving of the auto pilot

Sincerely, TheMadKing21

by Satrlett Marie

When I first got this game I was having fun on it. I still am, but like every game a bunch of people have to make it super annoying. I'm getting close to unlocking all the battle grounds. Don't get me wrong I love that it gets harder, but there are problems with the teams. Sometimes I get an enemy squad that is very balanced and my squad is balanced and its a very good game. BUT there are times when the enemy squad has nothing but mortar players that sit at the back of the map and SPAM that stupid thing all day. It gets every annoying and I end up raging and not playing. Here are some suggestions:
1. Make all the teams even. Have it where there is one of each boat on the squads. It will be much more competitive if the teams were evenly matched. The whole Mk1 and Mk2 stuff doesn't bother me. I just want one of each boat on the squads.
2. Nerf the living hell out the mortar! Make it exclusive to a few classes of ships and not all of them. Defender and Enforcer are the ones it should be on.
3. If someone purposely stays at the back of the map force them forward or kick them from the match. I hate when my teammates do it and I really hate when the enemy does it and their team work so hard to try to win.
That is all. I will still play the game, but please do something about what I asked.

by Shaferator

This is my favorite game on my phone currently. And rovio always makes great games to play. The reason I give 4 stars is because I. The past recent weeks of me playing there has been some shady crap going on in the game. I don’t know if this is a mistake or on purpose but it has cost me a crap ton of pearls. When I train people and then I go do a battle, when I come back from said battle it says In the top right (ex) “Brock is done training to level 9”. Then I go In the training area and it says that there is like 6 hours left. So basically the game is telling me the people are done training when there not. In my last review I addressed the matchmaking which was crap. It got a lot better and more fair but now this is happening so I can’t force myself to give the game 5 stars. I have lost over 500 pearls because I thought the guy was done so I clicked the button that says “speed up?” Thinking that is was the “pick ability” button. I am asking for a refund on gems but if I don’t get one I completely understand. Other than that one tiny issue it’s a great game

by Sniper Joe!

I’ve been a fan a rovio games for a long time. I love the angry birds series but do like it rovio tries something new. So as you can imagine I was really excited when battle bay was announced and I could not wait to play it. Fast forward 2 years and the game is basically dead. Think that rovio could totally make battle bay the next big thing just like angry birds was nearly 10 years ago. Rovio could do this in many ways but her just my ideas. 1. Reworking the UI, it’s just really messing and looks very confusing. Polish it to make it look nice pleasant while still keeping the apocalyptic feel of battle bay. 2. Campaign mode. I think the game could use some kind of single player content so if I’m tiered of online I could just play some single player. 3. A pipeline of new content. This pretty simple so I’ll keep it brief, a pipeline of new content just help keep the game fresh, just new items and ship really to be released but have them come out over time. I could talk about other things I’d like to see but I doubt rovio will do anything with battle bay unfortunately. I could be wrong but from what I’ve seen for the company I’d be surprised if the game doesn’t killed by the end of the year.

by Bløødlymøøñ

First off I want to say that this game is awesome and I will play it till the game is deleted off BattleBay Store but I have to say it has a few problems. First is that sometimes in a ranked match there is a legendary league player in the match on your team and all they do is sail straight and doesn’t shoot anything and every time there is a legendary league player on my team I lose and soon I saw that it’s a bot. Second there were lots of updates then suddenly there is not one update to be seen in like a year, and if you do a report and a player for speed hacking or spamming the game doesn’t answer and does nothing to the player you sent it about. Before I started to play this game people were saying the game is dead and I’m like “how would it be dead?” and after I played a few matches I finally knew it was dead but I will never stop playing this game.

by RubberNecking4Gas

...it becomes easier with practice. The graphics are good and the gameplay is challenging. Especially with the waves. The constant wave action adds to the skill level required to consistently put rounds on target. But, I'm getting used to it. I am used to the War Robots interface, and this one is similar except for everything is moving on top of the water!

My only recommendation for developers is that there should be a beginner game or two with little or few waves. Maybe, even a tutorial level with static targets to shoot out just so the beginner can get the feel of using the targeting sight to acquire targets. My first couple battles, I was a little frustrated with bouncing up-and-down while trying to target enemy boats. Still, even a novice game player can have fun if he's willing to overcome the initial Interface control learning curve.

by The Spiny One

It has the special sauce. It looks great andthats a cheap shot that does not reflect the general quality of the game. there is no gore so I don’t worry about my kids playing.I love the special events and when they speed up the cool down in the event play it’s very hectic. The updates often knock (O_o) out of playing for a few hours. I have an older IPad and I have to wait till they correct screen problems every time. If they could keep the shot to shot cool down to 1second in all the gameplay - it would be a little better.

My only other complaint is the paid upgrades are positioned in places where they are easily hit by accident. This is a cheap shot that does not reflect the spirit of the rest of the game. This is The first Game I have played in online multiplayer format. It replicates the psychology of teams like nothing I have seen.
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by 1-800frenchfries

It’s a great game and I am looking forward to spending more time on it. I first played the game on my moms device, which is linked to her Game Center account and her iCloud/iTunes. I now have my own device with my own accounts synced to it. ((I want to get my Battle Bay account that’s on my mom’s device, onto my new device.)) I’m needing some help doing this and I was wondering if there was some customer support services out there or just someone that could give me a hand. I got pretty far on my moms account and I don’t want to have to start all over again on mine. If that’s the case, I may not feel motivated/determined enough to do so, and may just stop playing overall, which is what I really don’t want to happen. So if there’s anyone out there that could help, it’d be much appreciated. I’ll leave another review about the actual game another time.

by Update That App.com

I've been playing battle Bay with my friends for about 2 months now and it's a very good game. With that said there are 3 things we've talked about together on what needs added; (1) fleets need to hold more than 2 people, you may think that would cause the game to be unfair, if that's the reason why it isn't added then we also thought of this. (2) Guild wars. 5v5 battle between other guilds, you choose 5 players that are online in your guild and search for a match against another guild with like stats, the game won't start though until all players ready up, so while you wait you can still play regular games. Last but not least (3) FreeForAll, this game is based not on surviving the longest, because you wouldn't want people to hide until most of the other players are dead, but it should be based on damage dealt, along with a negative side of damaged taken. Any other things other people have thought of I'd love to hear. Thanks so much, keep working hard to make the game better.

by Roblox Lover 64

This game if so fun! I play it at least 2 hours a day, and just love it. For anyone who likes multiplayer teamwork, then you will love this. Choose from 5 different ships. Choose from a variety of weapons, healing items, shields and much more. A very action packed game that is in your hand. I enjoy the custom battle feature, where you can battle with anyone you want to and it doesn't count for infamy. Oh yes, infamy. Infamy is your score in the game! Every time you win a battle, you gain 25. Every time you lose, you lose 24. I am currently at 3512 infamy! The whole point of the game is to reach 4000 infamy (nightmare league) and be the best player in the world. I have been playing for a year, since May fourth, and I can’t put it down. Also, if you would like to join my guild, (group of people) have 2000+ infamy. It is called Savage NEMOS. I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH, I AM ADDICTED. MUST PLAY. I THINK IT IS A 1,000,000 STAR!

by Wireman134

Do not download and play this game, the match making is beyond ridiculous. Let me start by saying that you have infamy in this game and they put a lot of stock into it. You gain infamy when you win and lose it when you lose a battle, but the problem is that you could have 1000 infamy and for some god awful reason you get people that are below 100 on your team and you have no chance. Can you dominate? Sure if you spend a lot of money on and when I say a lot I mean at the very least one thousand dollars. Another thing is the weapons, they have weapon tiers: common, uncommon, rare, epic and legendary. They also have ship levels which take an extremely long time and a lot of in game currency to level up. I’ve been playing for quite awhile and I have a level 39 ship with some epic weapons that are nowhere near maxed out and I get into a game lobby playing against a level 20 with 3 legendary weapons, it is totally and completely in balanced and unfair. To be honest this game is a joke, Rovio should stick with their kiddie Angry Birds because they have no idea what they’re doing with this one. They’ve been working in match making since the game released and haven’t come anywhere close to making it balanced