Gear Fight!

So, got this a couple of months ago, got hooked, and eventually maxed out my mini-gears and have my troops at 375+ levels.. As I am adverse to in game purchases, I’ve slowly been building up my gems for another “team” just to see what they did differently from the Forest and Savage groups. Went on this morning, and I see new, cutesy art and now my troops are effective at a 50 to 100 level against the baddies. I know this is probably from much younger players, but there wasn’t much wrong with the characters as they were. This is almost like taking your sibling’s plush collection and facing off against a mech squad. It was fun to watch the skirmishes and find the best gear mix, but now it is just a little painful to watch. I’m all up for tuning the melee balances, but woah.. All those cute smily faces now getting pummeled by evil forces is almost too much. Good game, though…. Maybe another update will change things again?

First up, the good. No forced ads that I noticed (though lots of buttons to prompt an ad for rewards). No banner ads. But ... The balance is extremely bad. Your own troops are worthless, no matter how good they are, because the enemy troops outscale them dramatically, easily doing 15-50x the damage to your troops than your troops can do to them. (and their health scales the same, too). Can't even win by spamming troops because they will get AoE one-shotted, often from range. // It becomes a matter of hoping you get a good attack gear quickly. Get a good gear going with a relatively high speed, and then ... cakewalk. Still may have some leakers though w/o lots of attack gears at a high speed, but the final wave is often defeated by your attack gears before your first troop has even landed on the ground. It's fun for a bit, and then it's just ... frustrating at the start of a run and boring at the end of a run. *shrug*

I found this app through an ad on a different game, which I don’t play anymore because I’m now obsessed with this game! Super easy to follow and understand the gameplay and it’s so much fun! Great time waster! The ONLY thing I don’t like is that there’s no way to see what the different gears do or the stats. It would be great if there were like a gallery to see them and see what they do and maybe even upgrade the individual gears that aren’t fighters.

Little light on customization and strategy than I was expecting but it’s base has a ton of potential to be more. As is the game is worth playing and fun and after completing most of the game I’m still trying to complete everything even though that isn’t much of a time investment. I do think some upgrades are needed. Your elites are barely an upgrade from regular troops and with only 1 life and can run off screen makes them a trap unit even at reduced cost, some range elites are better but still lack. Maybe they can be resummoned only after they die or just a major everything boost to all elites. Food and star buffs feel underpowered. I’m still not 100% what food does because it’s effect are too minor. I think it heals units but everything is so fragile in the game there’s never a chance to tell. Star buff has a delay to target and disappears if unit dies before which happens often also your units can be pushed behind the area where stars drop so you could win if your units could move a half inch forward but it never happens and lose is a bit annoying. Both buffs should target units before they fall with the meat doubling a units health. Enemy units should have a different color health bar as when a big fight you only see red health bars it’s impossible to tell whose winning. Lastly I’d like to see gears with an outer color shape that gains a buff when touching with a similar color and each stage having a shape or line to gain another buff. Currently gear placement doesn’t have much to it as surround turning gear, place units to drop faster and get high gear numbers so it needs more depth or at least more to decide on than those three things.