Galaxy of Heroes

Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Content Update mid-August 2017

Here are the latest game updates for Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. Enjoy! LUKE SKYWALKER NAME UPDATE With the onset of Commander Luke Skywalker, Luke Skywalker’s name has officially been changed to Luke Skywalker (Farmboy). NEW HOPE REWORK In celebration of the of the highly anticipated Hero’s journey, the required characters have been reworked! For an in depth look at their kits and general strategy, please see the links we shared previous to this update below: Luke Skywalker (Farmboy) Old Ben Kenobi Princess Leia Stormtrooper Han Raid Han (Not part of Hero’s Journey, but still getting a rework) Commander Luke Skywalker HERO’S JOURNEY Retrace the steps of the legendary hero LUKE SKYWALKER from his humble beginnings on Tatooine through his daring escape from the Death Star. Fight alongside Farmboy Luke Skywalker, Stormtrooper Han, Princess Leia, Old Ben Kenobi, and R2-D2 to complete this six mission event and unlock Commander Luke Skywalker….

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Game update July 2017

Here are the patch notes for the latest game update for Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes BEYOND THE FOREST- EWOK FLASH EVENTS Blink and you’ll miss it- Flash events have returned! If you’re new to Flash events, here’s a quick primer: Flash events last for 1-2 hours and repeat several times over a few days. This time around, your Ewoks answer the call of battle in this multi-tiered event. Power up your Squad and earn gear as you contend with Imperial enemies, Bounty Hunters, and Droids. The true might of your small Squad is tested in the final (and difficult!) BONUS tier, so be sure to be ready! First Flash Event fires off July 22nd ENDOR ESCALATION I & II MARQUEE EVENTS Strange invaders have leveled a nearby village and encroached on Ewok territories! Join forces with the newest Ewoks to join Galaxy of Heroes: PAPLOO and LOGRAY. Earn their respective…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Game Update 7/5/2017

Here are the latest patch notes for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. ENORMOUS EWOK UPDATE & FACTION PASS The Ewoks are ready to make the fur fly with a devastating faction pass! Additionally, be sure to give your Ewok Squad a second look as our art team have taken a quality pass at their character models to be more in line with the Endor Moon warriors we know and love. For more details on the faction passes made to our ferocious friends, please read on. Chief Chirpa Changing Attribute from Intelligence to Strength Increased Protection Special 1: Ancestral Secrets Now reads “All allies recover 10-20% of their Max Health and gain Heal Over Time (10-20%) for 2-3 turns. Ewok allies also gain Retribution for 2 turns and Heal Over Time for 1 additional turn.” Omega: Now adds “+5% Heal” in addition to previous bonus of “Heal Over Time Duration +…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Game Update June 2017

Here are the latest patch notes for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. What’s New • Grand Admiral Thrawn • Grand Admiral Thrawn Legendary Event • New Guild Banners • Bug Fixes Grand Admiral Thrawn arrives in Galaxy of Heroes! It’s zero hour, and the galaxy sees its biggest threat yet! Will you be the architect of your own destruction? Gather your Phoenix Squadron characters to defeat and collect Grand Admiral Thrawn in this very rare multi-tiered event! Start: 06-15-2017 07:00 UTC | End: 06-22-2017 07:00 UTC Each Tier will indicate the required Star Count of the Phoenix Characters CHARACTERS Grand Admiral Thrawn • 5 Star Dark Side character with the Empire and Support roles o The first Empire character who can dispel debuffs on allies and can create a new debuff, Fracture! Basic: Manipulate • Base: Characters: Deal Special damage to target enemy and grant them Speed Up for 1…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Game Update 5/23/2017

Here is the latest patch notes for Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes: New units: Fulcrum Ahsoka Daily login for June: Grand Moff Tarkin. For more information on his Empire faction pass, please see more below! Happy 40th Anniversary! Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars: A New Hope with Double Drops! These events only last 24 hours, so be sure to make your way throughout the Cantina. For more information, please see the schedule when double drops are going to…well DROP below! 5-25 – Light Side (Normal and Hard) Nodes 5-26 – Dark Side (Normal and Hard) Nodes 5-27 – Galactic War, Mod Battles, and Mod Challenges Nodes 5-28 – Cantina Nodes 5-29 – Light Side (Normal and Hard), Dark Side (Normal and Hard), Galactic War, Mod Battles, Mod Challenges, and Cantina Nodes 40th Anniversary gift> You’ve all been waiting and it’s finally begun. It’s time to prepare for the…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Upcoming Quality of Life game improvements – part 1

Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes is getting some combat options improvements with the upcoming patch. Check it out: Greetings holotable heroes, This week we’re going to be highlighting features from our upcoming quality of life update. These features are meant to improve your play experiences and provide some other nifty improvements. Today we’re to talk about two new features, Saving Squad Configurations and Speeding Up Combat! Saving Squad Configurations: Preset Squad Configurations can now be saved and selected in the squad selection screen. This feature is very robust allowing squads to be grouped into tabs (ex. AAT Squads) and rearranged/deleted. Speed Up Combat: Combat speed can now be modified between three settings (1x, 2x, 4x). These speeds are independent of Auto or manual battle allowing increased speed while retaining manual strategy. To see these new improvements in action be sure to check out the video from MobileGamer over on his…

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Darth Nihilus now available in Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes

Yesterdays game update for Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes saw the arrival of  Darth Nihilus as a support character “that can instantly defeat enemies by draining cooldowns”. Together with Darth Nihilus comes two other support characters: Sith Trooper– Sith Tank who Taunts and ignores enemy Protection Sith Assassin– Elusive Sith Attacker with Stealth synergy You can read the rest of the patch notes below: WHATS NEW Peace is a lie. This February embrace your passion. Through passion you gain strength. Through strength you gain power, and with that power, the dark side will rise victorious. Characters: New Sith characters make their way to Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes for our Lord of Hunger event. For more information on the event, please see @EA_Jesse event Information post. For a sneak peek on these new Sith, read on! Darth Nihilus- Sith Support that can instantly defeat enemies by draining cooldowns Sith Trooper- Sith…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Sith Faction Pass

The mobile game Galaxy of Heroes will a lot of changes to the Sith faction with this upcomming game update. The update was planned for yesterday, but due to technical issues it has been delayed untill futher notice. February 14, 2017 7:39PM edited February 14 Hey Everyone, We’re working on getting the update out today, but are currently running into a few issues. The update may be delayed 1 day to address these issues. We’ll share any updates we have here in the forums. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you the changes we’re making to the Sith faction with this update. We hope you’re all as excited about these changes as we are! SITH FACTION PASS Count Dooku Basic: Hindering Press Can now debuff non-Jedi, and chance to debuff Jedi is increased. Omega: Can’t be Countered in addition to +15% Damage. Special: Force Lightning Chance to debuff increased….

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Cassian Andor has arrived

One of the main characters of Star Wars:  Rogue One – Cassian Andor will become part of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes from next week. Check out the game update below: Let’s get into all that good stuff of 12/15/2016 Game Update! What’s New: Events, Events and MORE Events! For a listing of all the events scheduled for the game through January, please refer to @EA_Jesse ‘s Tournament post linked below Event Information Emperor’s Demise You’ve suspected and we’ve confirmed- Emperor’s Demise returns Dec 23rd! For more information, please see out featured update post linked below. Emperor’s Demise Update Information New unit- Cassian Andor A Rebel support character, Cassian gives his Rebel allies buffs at the start of each encounter, giving an immense advantage from the very start of a battle. An accomplished tactician, Cassian is best utilized to cripple his enemies with debuffs, leaving them easy pickings for his allies to…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: ROGUE ONE Heroes & Emperor’s Demise

The Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes team, just informed the community that players will recieve a free three star Character – K-2SO – in celebration of ROGUE ONE, Check it out below: In partnership with Google, Android users have been receiving a free three star Character – K-2SO – in celebration of ROGUE ONE: A Star Wars Story! This is a limited time, Google promotion, so it only applies to Android players. Also included in this pack are Crystals, Credits, Training Droids, and Ability Materials to level up K-2SO. There has been buzz that there may be a bug as they can only see one to two packs instead of all three. Please note that while all Android players will get one pack, any additional packs are based on the players spend level. Further details below: Starter Pack – unlocks for all players Player’s Pack -unlocks when you spend more than…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: GAME UPDATE 12/1/2016

Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes received a large game update last week, with new ship modes and more, but it seems like there is more for us. Here is the latest patch notes for Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes: Building and advancement materials have been added to the following locations: Cantina Nodes: Starting from Stage 5, 1 Energy spend gives 100 Building Materials PVE Light: Starting from Stage 7, 1 Energy spend gives 50 Building Materials PVE Dark: Starting from Stage 7, 1 Energy spend gives 50 Building Materials Cantina Nodes: Starting from Stage 5, 1 Energy spend gives 1 One-Star XP Droid PVE Light: Starting from Stage 7, 2 Energy spend gives 1 One-Star XP Droid PVE Dark: Starting from Stage 7, 2 Energy spend gives 1 One-Star XP Droid BUGS Resistance Pilot crew shards now cost 400 Fleet Arena Tokens in the Fleet Shipments as do all the…

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – Ships Trailer

Galaxy of Heroes just got a new trailer for its new Ships mode. The trailer shows us the new mode coming with next update, as well as some space combat action and a battle sequence between no other then Rey and Kylo Ren. Check it out below: Download Now: http://smarturl.it/swgoh_s Collect your favorite heroes and ships from the entire Star Wars™ universe and form powerful teams to dominate the competition.

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Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes – Full ships and crew list

Ships will be arriving to Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes next week. Here is the full rundown of what to expect: Greetings Holotable Heroes, Ships will be arriving NEXT WEEK! We’re planning on rolling out the update across November 22nd and 23rd. Some players will be able to manually update their game client on November 22nd, but everyone will be required to update to the latest game version on the 23rd. Please note that it may take up to 24 hours before the update is available in your region. Now, we aren’t going to leave you with just the date of when you can expect Ships, we’re also going to share the entire list of Ships and their crew that will be available at launch! Ships and Crew: Slave I and Boba Fett Ahsoka Tano’s Jedi Star Fighter and Ahsoka Tano Imperial TIE Fighter and TIE Fighter Pilot Umbaran Starfighter…

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – Ships Preview

Here are some news on the “Ships mode” in Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes we mentioned the other day. The devs posted an update focusing on the Crew portion of the mode. Check it out below: Greetings Holotable Heroes, A few weeks back, I let you know that the team has been hard at work on our next major feature: Ships! In advance of its upcoming release, we wanted to start sharing information about this new part of the game so you can start preparing for its launch. This new feature offers an exciting new mode of gameplay, with new rewards, new activities, new things to collect, new goals to pursue, new strategies to craft and more! The Ships feature is a major update – our biggest one to date – and so over the coming days and weeks we will be sharing information about different parts of the release. The first idea…

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes talkes Shoretrooper Event Return & Leaderboards

Here is the latest from Star Wars: Galaxy of heroes: Return of Shoretrooper event The Shoretrooper Squad Tournament is returning for its second appearance! We recently made some changes to the ways that tournaments function, including the way Ally Points are now used to refresh your characters. Tournaments now use ALLY POINTS for squad refresh instead of Crystals! Battle your opponents, earn points and climb the leaderboard to earn prizes including “The Pit” Raid Prize Boxes, Credits, Omega Ability Materials, and shards for the Rogue One Shoretrooper. Don’t forget There will be a 5000 Ally Point gift to get you started! To mitigate an unintended behavior, the defensive squad can only be set once per Tournament and matchmaking has been improved. To further minimize a group of players attacking each others squads for an easy win, any opponent that the player has earned points from will not appear in matchmaking…

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Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Ships Preview Post

Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes Community manager Jesse Anderson. took on the forums to inform about a new features coming to the game: Ships!. Check it out: Greetings Holotable Heroes, A few weeks back, I let you know that the team has been hard at work on our next major feature: Ships! In advance of its upcoming release, we wanted to start sharing information about this new part of the game so you can start preparing for its launch. This new feature offers an exciting new mode of gameplay, with new rewards, new activities, new things to collect, new goals to pursue, new strategies to craft and more! The Ships feature is a major update – our biggest one to date – and so over the coming days and weeks we will be sharing information about different parts of the release. The first idea we wanted to get in front of…

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – Game Update 10/11/2016

Here is the latest patch notes for Galaxy of Heroes: I’m jazzed to share this weeks update notes for 10/11/2016 WHAT’S NEW- Level cap increase Are you once again ready to make your heroes more powerful than ever before? Let the training begin – the maximum level is being raised to LEVEL 85! In celebration of the level cap increasing to 85, double drops will be active in Galactic War until Friday, October 14th at 2:00pm PDT) While you’re partying on, please peruse the changes below: Cantina battles Stage 8 unlocks at player level 83 Character gear adjustments have been made for the new 81-85 level cap 81+ gear has been added to Shipments (Please note this will not be seen until players reach level 81 on their account) New 80+ gear ingredients have been added to various locations of the game New challenges are available Campaign battles have a…

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Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Game Update 9/28/2016

Here is the latest game update for  Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes: Hiya! I’m excited to share this weeks update notes for 9/28/2016 Please note it may take up to 24 hours before you see the update on Google Play or the App Store. DOUBLE NOTE: Not all of these changes will be visible in game until all players are on the same version on 9/29. Players who have not updated to the latest game version will have their game automatically updated with the client restart on 9/29. What’s New: The Geonosian spy is now available in Cantina Battles Stage 4 Mission D Achievements have been added for completing Cantina Battle stages TIE Fighter Pilot is the new daily login character for the month of October We have added MK 5 CEC Fusion Furnace and the MK 6 Nubian Design Tech to PVE shipments Features: New Event Type, Squad Tournaments, allow…

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I Played 13 Star Wars Mobile Games. Here are the Best.

Over the past couple years, we’ve seen a lot of new Star Wars games, just not where you might expect them: on your phone. There have been tons of new mobile games that have come out since Disney took over the franchise, from Rebels-themed kids’ games and puzzlers to tower defense and shooters. But are any of them any good? Do they stand up to the classics, like Rogue Squadron and Shadows of the Empire? I had to find out, so I sat down and played 13 of them. It took me a while, but here’s what I found out. The Best: Knights of the Old Republic It’s getting old now, but this game has translated remarkably well to mobile platforms. The controls are really easy to use, the gameplay is intuitive, and the story is a classic one that stands the test of time. The graphics are what you’d expect for a game that’s…

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