Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes | |
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Developer(s) | EA Capital Games EA Mobile |
Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
Platform(s) | Android, iOS, iPadOS, Microsoft Windows |
Release | November 24, 2015 Microsoft Windows TBA |
Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is a mobile collectible RPG game. The game received a soft launch in Australia during October 2015, and was formally released on November 24, 2015.[1][2][3]
A Microsoft Windows port of the game was announced to be in development in the spring of 2024.[4]
Premise
Galaxy of Heroes is set in a cantina in a distant corner of the
Gameplay
Galaxy of Heroes allows players to collect
Battles are divided up into rounds, with the character with the highest speed stat going first. Each team consists of up to five (six with an ally or summoned unit) different hologram avatars which battle until defeated or retreated. Battles are turn-based, again based on the speed attribute, where the combatants apply various buffs to their own team and inflict debuffs on the opponent all the while trying to deal the most overall damage and have the last character alive.
Modes
There are various modes for players to engage in, including squad arena (player vs. player), dark and light side battles, cantina, galactic wars, raids, and various special events. All modes are played versus the computer controlled AI, including the squad arena battles in which the AI controls a player-created team.
Center Table:
- Light Side Characters Campaign: Lead a squad of light side heroes to defeat dark side enemies in 3-wave battles.
- Dark Side Characters Campaign: Lead a squad of dark side villains to defeat light side enemies in 3-wave battles.
Upper Center Table:
- Shipments: Purchase randomly available character shards and gear with crystals and credits, which change every six hours.
- Store: Purchase data cards to get characters and consumable resource items, or redeem a Bronzium data card with earned Ally Points.
Upper Left Table:
- Neutral Cantina Campaign: Lead a squad of heroes and villains to defeat unlikely combinations of enemies in 3-wave battles.
- Neutral Mod Battles Campaign: Engage in 5-wave battles against enemies enhanced by particular mods to earn low-grade mods and slicing parts.
- Mod Challenges: Win mod battles to earn better mods of a particular stat.
Upper Right Tables:
- Squad Arena: Battle against other player squads in 5-on-5 battles, while competing for daily prizes based on ranking.
- Galactic Battles: Includes two campaigns: War (formerly Galactic War), which involves battling 12 player-made teams, and Conquest, a 5-stage mode with two difficulties and exclusive rewards.
Lower Left Tables:
- Daily Challenges: Complete daily challenges to obtain important resources and select gear.
- Grand Arena Championships: Players at maximum level are grouped into 8 and pitted against three opponents in a mini-Territory Battle with rare gear and slicing parts at stake.
Lower Right Tables:
- Special Event Battles: Participate in special battles reflecting Star Wars scenarios to earn rewards
- Shard Shop Shipments: Purchase gear or shards for General Grievous with currency redeemed from excess 7-star character shards
- Scavenger: Make top-gear characters even stronger by pooling together spare parts to upgrade their personal artifacts, called relics.
"Back Room" Areas: Far Left, Guilds
- Guild Raids: Work together to defeat a powerful boss and earn rare gear and shards for a special character.
- Territory Battles: Work together to drive enemy armies away from a large swath of territory.
- Guild Shipments: Purchase items with guild tokens earned from guild victories, including character shards.
- Guild Member Item Requests/Donations: Allows a guild member to donate or request gear items.
- Guild Management: Review the guild's current statistics along with a list of members.
- Guild Search: Search for other guilds.
Far Right, Ships
- Fleet Arena: Pit your created fleet against other player's fleets and compete for daily rewards based on ranking.
- Daily Ship Challenges: Complete daily challenges to earn ship resources.
- Fleet Arena Store: Use currency earned from arena ranking to buy blueprints, shards and high-grade ability materials.
- Neutral Fleet Battles: Use your fleet to defeat computer-controlled enemy fleets, composed of heroes, villains or both, in single-wave 3-on-3 battles.
Guilds
Guilds were introduced to the game in April 2016.[6] As with most games, guilds in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes consist of players teaming together to achieve common goals. In this game, guilds consist of a maximum of 50 players that can go on raids, and participate in both Territory Wars and Territory Battles. The guild search interfaces received a small update in April 2021.[7]
Raids
Raids were added to the game in April 2016 with the introduction of the
There are five types of raids, each set in a different era and known for its unique difficulties. One lets the player fight a Rancor, another lets the player battle a Separatist AAT, while in another the player faces off against ancient Sith warriors, along with
A fifth raid was also added in the spring of 2023, inspired by the season 2 premiere of the
Ships
Ship battles were added on November 22, 2016. This feature allows players to control various spaceships through their captains and pilots.[11] The vehicles are controlled and played similarly to the main game with the player's characters, with the addition of an unassailable capital ship, which offers leadership bonuses, special abilities, and additional attacks.
23 different ships were available at the launch of the new feature. As of January 2023, there are now 51 ships and 10 capital ships. Ships enhancement mirrors that of characters, each area available for improvement - rarity, level, skill level - requiring a different, special currency. These currencies are acquired through daily challenges and daily reward for fleet arena standing.
Mods
Mods (short for modifications) are an optional upgrade for characters within the game. Once the player's account reaches level 50, Mods become available to any of their characters that are level 50 or above. There are different categories of mods, each of which yields a different primary effect on the stats of the character that has equipped it. This effect allows players to increase statistical areas of their characters to yield better performance in battle.
In the late summer of 2018, EA released an update that significantly changed how mods worked, dubbed "Mods 2.0". The update grants players more freedom on what kinds of mods they would like to acquire by eliminating character faction requirements from the Mod Challenges, and provides suggestions for each character on which mod types should be used. In addition, mods graded as Mark V (the original, typical Mark limit) can be "sliced" to increase their color tier and level up extra secondary stats, and can be sliced once more to reach an extra-higher, exclusive Mark VI tier. In October 2021, players were given the ability to slice their Mark VI mods' color tier[12] to the maximum of tier 6-A (Mark VI, color A). Slicing requires parts acquired from an extra set of very difficult mod battles against characters of a certain faction, while all mod battles now use a separate pool of energy.[13] The slicing materials needed to slice mods from 6-E to 6-A were added as exclusive rewards in the Galactic Challenges, then also to Conquest when the latter was released.
Reception
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 70/100[14] |
The game has received a mixed response from critics, currently holding a 70/100 rating on Metacritic based on 8 reviews.[14] As of November 2021, the game has had 100 million players.[15]
In other media
- In 2019, one of the game's many characters, the Jedi Knight Guardian, made an appearance in the first issue of the Jedi Master Tosan.[16]
References
- ^ Hodapp, Eli (October 13, 2015). "'Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' Soft Launches in Australia". Touch Arcade. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
- ^ Osborn, Alex (November 24, 2015). "'Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Out Now". IGN. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
- ^ Slater, Harry (November 25, 2015). "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
- ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley. "EA Bringing Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes to PC - 8 Years After It Launched on Mobile". IGN. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
- ^ EA Capital Games (November 24, 2015). Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS, Android). Level/area: Intro cutscene.
Cantina Keeper: "Welcome! Allow me to introduce you to Galaxy of Heroes. This holotable game can be your path to fame and fortune."
- ^ https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/.../game-update-4-24-2016-part-1 [dead link]
- ^ "Content Update: 04/14/2021". Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums. April 15, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ Fahey, Mike. "Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes Gets Guilds, Raids And Huge PvPness". Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ "The Road Ahead - November". Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "Upcoming Changes To The Pit Challenge Tier". Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes - Ships Trailer". Cosmic Book News. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
- ^ "6-A Mods Are Coming To The Holotables!". Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Forums. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes - Mods 2.0 Update Video". YouTube. EA Star Wars. August 30, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
- ^ "Electronic Arts Reports Q2 FY22 Financial Results" (PDF). Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ @Jody_Houser (January 3, 2019). ""100% yes. I love that game."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.