Supercell announced that its developers had launched a major update for Squad Busters who would change the main gameplay of the game.
The new heroes, escouaddies and power movements are at the heart of the evolution of the game, designed to offer more strategic choices and direct control during battles.
In less than a year since the global launch of Squad Busters on iOS and Android devices, the team behind the multiplayer action game has sent what Supercell calls the most ambitious game update in the history of Supercell in 15 years. It is an extraordinary decision to try to reverse a game that did not meet the expectations of the players who initially plunged into it.
In response to the feedback of players on a greater strategic depth and direct control over the characters, the basic gameplay of Squad Busters has been transformed by the introduction of heroes and Escouaddies.
Supercell released Squad Busters, his first new game in more than five years, on May 29, 2024, on iOS and Android. Supercell had the reputation of canceling more games than he has released, but those he published was phenomenal successes, often generating billions of current income. This game seemed promising, with more than 40 million pre-recording.
Critics said Squad Busters had a disappointing launch. But more than 60 million people have played the game. And yet Supercell admitted that the launch was disappointing despite the fact that it exceeded $ 100 million in revenue in the past year. It was only at Supercell that $ 100 million in income would be disappointing.
However, the Finnish company has not abandoned the title. His team started ideal last fall and reorganized the heart of the game.
While the update guarantees that chaos and chaos remain in the foreground, the players now lead their team to victory by carefully choosing a hero and super -loaded versions of previous squad busters, notably Barbarian King, Archer Queen, Mortis and Royale King.
Johnathan Rowlands, a former Space APE head who was recently appointed manager of Squad Busters, said during a press call: “This was a trip to how we continue to improve the squad busters for players. The trip really heard that the players wanted more agency throughout the game – then by ensuring that they had more ability to have an impact on the basic gameplay and also how they progress in their own trips. ”
These heroes are equipped with tremendous power movements, which are actively controlled by the player. But if the hero of a player is broken, the whole team is destroyed. Patite the importance of selecting the right support distribution known as Squaddies, whose capacities are automatically unleashed when players collect and merge them during the heat of the battle.
“We have experienced, certainly since the beginning of this year, with where we can take this in different ways. For example, we have tried to have only one or two squads, as well as the character of the hero. And we tried a lot of different things, and the heroes having just their own powers. And that’s where we landed,” said Rowlands.
Mastering the game is to create the optimal combo of heroes, power movements and squadadies and hunt the booty through wild cards. So, it doesn’t matter if you dive into chaos of precious stone hunting, you climb the team’s league or you equip yourself with a duet friend, defend your hero or be break.
Rowlands said: “It has been almost 12 months since Squad Busters was launched worldwide and the team learned a ton thanks to passionate comments from our players. For example, many players asked for more strategic decision -making before and during battles.”
Rowlands added: “We are also starting to give players a deeper idea of the tradition of the game and the way it relates to the new heroes and squads. Going to this point has mean many months of experimentation, while performing the game live. So, a big cry to the team, which has shown a huge commitment to evolve Squad’s busters in an experience that remains accessible but which now offers deeper strategic timing. ”.
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“We especially play the new version because it feels so much better,” said Rowlands. “In Squad Busters, there were two aspects of the controls that were difficult for some players.”
Stoping an attack was difficult to understand for people because it was counter-intuitive. You must have controlled a nebula drop of squad characters without central focal point. The idea emerged to put the hero in the mixture as a focal point appeared and gave players a direct control.
“So now you are really starting to think of a strategy by choosing the hero,” said Rowlands. “And we are launching with four heroes, but we really intend to bring more to the future.
As you unlock the Squaddies, they unlock the powers. And powers are what you can choose to add to your hero.
“It’s a bit like a big strategic party in terms of many different ways to play the experience,” said Rowlands. “We have had a lot of comments from the players. So the team is now in the battle. They work a bit, but you can now choose the two you are going. And everyone you are unlocking gives you these new unique powers. So it is really fresh and different in terms of what you play.”
He added: “But then, the hearts of the squaddies, and this meli-melo of IPS and these really interesting characters and make these dynamic decisions on the fly with the squadadies are always there. So we think that we really improve what we already have.”
Much of the update work started in November, where the team threw a lot of ideas. Prototyping started in January, then in February, the team went to production with “massive changes,” said Rowlands.
“We do not want to delete things. But, in the end, the quality of the game and the quality of the experience is what we are focusing on, and we had to hit our quality bar. And we have a very high bar in Supercell. And we could have maintained them, but that would simply not have reached the level we wanted,” said Rowlands.
Since its foundation in 2010, Supercell, based in Helsinki, has brought seven games to the world market: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Squad Busters and Mo.co. Supercell’s dream is to create games that as many people as possible play for years and who remember forever.
Given the story of Supercell, the team is huge. The team has around 50 people at the Helsinki, London and Shanghai base. (Clash of Clans worked with a team of 15 to its beginnings; then Supercell began to extend its teams after launch to prevent teams from burning with live operations). This revival will be accompanied by new marketing efforts.
“We are still trying to bring new players to the game, and we are trying to bring a lot of lost players,” said Marketing Director Rob Lowe to Supercell, in a press event. “There are a lot of players, of course, who came to busters while waiting for something. What they found was that they were interested in the idea of the game, but what they really found was not quite for them. So we want to go back and say:” Listen, we have changed the game. We think we may have what you are looking for now. “” “”
As for targeting, Supercell goes after a midcore audience that likes mobile action strategy games. If the game starts to get traction, Supercell will expand marketing from there, Lowe said.
