Galaxy Shooter - Falcon Squad Wiki

Ok, so I'm a fairly new player (about a month or 3 now😁), &I've totally enjoyed the gameplay of this space shooter! My reason for only 3⭐️'s, is I've come across a few glitches you might say. For instance when I've tried to play this Halloween mode, it cut me off when I still had 2 chances left in that go round! I went from trying to start w/still 2 chances left, to accidentally backing out 1 too far, coming right back in, &seeing 2 changed to 0! I couldn't get back in! Not even w/a change of Ships! So, I'm not sure what happened there! Stuff like that keeps happening too! Also I agree w/the thing the other reviewer said about not being able to keep up w/ships after you get into upper levels anymore w/out "purchasing" upgrades! After the 1st few levels it gets too hard to get past the ships, &you just keep losing! No way to bypass them! Not w/out $, that is! I agree w/their recommendation of allowing users to watch ads for upgrade rewards! That'd really help, &help your Ratings! But Please try to fix these little system glitches.✌🏾️😔

So, its boring at first. It takes awhile to get to opponents worth your time. Which is fine cause you need to save up your coins to upgrade to larger ships. One way to get more coins is after you complete a map, hit that button that is flashing to double or x4 your coons you earned. THIS WILL NEVER WORK, DON’T BOTHER. Now the videos you do want to watch are located in the upper LH corner of the screen. Should loom like a little play sign. You can earn extra stuff this way about 80% of the time. The other %, nothing will happen. Also, nothing will happen if you watch the video for an extra life if you die. Don’t watch that one either. Its clear from the start the only way to get better ships and drones is to spend real money, which they are thirsty for from the start. They havn’t earned your patronage yet, but they will want it just the same, which is the way of the gaming world now. For the next ship above the starter ship, its $10 of your hard earned money. But for some reason if you manage to get the coins for the next ship without spending it on upgrading your current ship to get through those higher levels, you will eventually spend your money on the gems, because “shocker” they are harder to earn, but if def a requirement in upgrading your ship. All in all, fun game, will get boring without real money, be prepared to bring a blank check.

UPDATE: There have been at least three updates to the game since my review. “Video rewards” is among the patch notes but there are still issues with it. I have been enjoying a fair bit, it’s a solid bullet-hell. You can advance comfortably without having to spend money too. I would give the game more stars but my issue with it is the reward system regarding ads. Like most mobile games these days, there are several opportunities to earn a bonus for watching an ad. However, I would estimate that the reward fails at least a third of the time. At first, I thought I must not be watching long enough but I will deliberately wait ~10 seconds past the ad timer and still receive nothing. I wanted to submit a support ticket regarding this rather than include it in a review but I could not find an option to do so among the games menus.

I don't know about you guys but....I REALLY loved the old version it was much more simpler, the bomb power ups where instantaneous and more effective, the upgrades in the level where a lot of help and made it easier to get passed really hard levels. But now that's all gone the upgrades you get in the levels are REALLY temporary they don't even last for the full level and their actually limited to how much you can get. Which really takes away more than HALF of the enjoyment we usually got when playing Falcon Squad. Not to mention that when we had those temporary upgrades for our ships in the levels everyone kinda gets a glimpse into how far our ships fire power and potential can get. As well as giving the players in a way a slight illusion that the power and upgrades can go on forever in the game.

I was a big Skyforce player until recently since the new version is super blah...downloaded this game instead and I can’t stop playing it. It’s fun gameplay with a variety of side games to play (tournament, pvp, endless, team goals, etc). THAT BEING SAID, once you reach a certain level you basically HAVE to spend money upgrading your ships or you just can’t beat the level. And when it comes to the cards needed to evolve your ship take forever to get and you need a crapload of them. 320 cards needed when the most you can get per day is like 10 or 20 tops? I mean, I guess when I type that out it doesn’t seem so severe, but it feels like forever when playing. Maybe I’m just impatient.

Not having any problems playing this game on an iPhone X but here are several issues I have with this game. The process of upgrading your ships and drones and such are offensively high compared to the amounts of in game [money] for making those upgrades. So the game offers you plenty of opportunities to buy new items for upwards of $20 which seems like a rip off to me. Especially with people staying home and looking for some outlets to pass time at home during the pandemic. I can think of much better things to spend 20 bucks on instead of a new spaceship for one simple game. Also the ads you have to watch in order to amass gems (for upgrading) last as long as 35 seconds and dole out a pittance of what you need makes the game agonizingly slow to progress without paying real money. Lastly the latest ad content has been the nail in the coffin for me. I’m done with this game.

Save your time and save your money. Plus the game is extra glitchy at least every couple weeks. I’m a grinder and I’ve played this game for a couple years. I don’t mind grinding out games instead of paying, but this game is different. I’ve slowly built parts of my ship up to max out power with the plan of moving on to another part and slowly maxing it out, but it never works. The game admins simply add another level to the end and force players to build up or buy back to max power again over and over. There is no way to be successful at this game without paying. Great space invaders concept, but there’s not much fun in simply paying money to win a game and that’s exactly what this game is. I’m slowly playing less and less and already know I’ll eventually delete it all together.

The game itself is very good but it has a couple of critical issues. The massive bug that I’ve never seen in any other game is that I only receive the rewards for watching ads about 10% of the time. The game seems designed to pretty much require you to watch ads to get decent rewards - I’m perfectly fine with that if it works (but it usually doesn’t). No other game I’ve ever played has this problem and it is inexcusable. The other issue is pvp. You can kill every target and sometimes still lose. Another thing that makes no sense is I can win bronze 1 almost every time but I’ve only won silver 5 twice - what, the worst players in silver are 10x better than the best players in bronze? I don’t think so - there’s something fishy.

I love scrolling shooter games, it invokes my inner child in some weird way. This game totally fills that void! Awesome pixelated graphics, ever challenging levels, and simple game play. It’s all great! BUT... I hit the cash wall. It’s that unfortunate point in just about ALL “free games” where you can barely advance without breaking out your wallet and forking over real money. I understand the fact that game developers need to make money but isn’t it bad enough to suffer through endless (and terrible quality) ads? Isn’t it bad enough to play level after level on all three difficulty modes to upgrade, only to find the upgrade is merely a fancy new paint job? In all, great game, but prepare to be on level 40 with the same basic ships you started with unless you pay to play.

First, you release this new version with so many bugs that I have to close the app and re-enter to unlock it only to lose any progress and gems I made. Numerous other issues and one that cost me over 1200 gems. Second, this is the reason I don’t play your other OneSoft games...you make it so complicated just trying to maneuver around in the game. What was once 2 steps is now 5-6 steps. You get lost in the game. Nothing is with it correlating tasks. You spend more than half your time going back and forth. We lost are ability to fuse lower strength engine parts into larger ones. Numerous other problems with the game. Also, the aesthetics are horrendous. Also, everything is so small. I would really hate even it even more if I had to play on a little cell phone. Christmas Event is also horrendous. It’s impossible to progress and since you give no game play instructions, it’s disheartening to even continue on. It’s too busy. I can feel on the first day that I am losing interest fast. Always a 3-4+ hour a day player, I find myself not wanting to pick up my iPad. As my father used to say, a wise self starter who was successful in everything he did....”Keep it simple stupid”. Sorry Falcon Squad..this update is a big fail. Abort mission and return it to its regular edition prior to update.

I’ve played this game many many times, and watched more ads than I can count. On many occasions I noticed that the advertisement videos would not work after playing the game several times on any particular day. It would just say n/a. At the same, I also noticed at the end of each level I completed I would never get offered an ad video to collect more rewards. I never clicked on the n/a icon until today, so I did just to see what would happen, and after clicking the n/a where the video icon is supposed to be, and then clicking on watch, it notifies me that there will be no more rewards until tomorrow. May I just say... how stupid that is!!! So let me just ask, what is the point in defeating a level (or playing at all), if I don’t get offered an extra reward for completing it, so I can upgrade my arsenal, and why in the h** is an app that is based solely on ads, because it sure isn’t solely based on my entertainment, only allow me to watch a certain number of ads before it cuts me off??? From a business standpoint this is sooo stupid!!! Hello!!! If I don’t play or I do play, and I don’t watch ads which is how you make a profit, then what’s the point?? Someone didn’t think that one through!!

This game started out as satisfying fun but as I rose through the levels, I found myself frustrated over trying to figure it out. There is no explanation or help. I am told I need certain things but can not locate the item, or I already have the required aircraft but still get the error message that I cannot play the level without said aircraft. Another example, the level states I cannot play without “wings of destruction” but there is no option to get it without completing level 35 (I think?), so I’m at level 35, the holy grail unlock level, and after about 15 little aircraft, no other enemies enter the screen and I fly forward endlessly unassaulted - I have to close the whole app and restart just to exit level 35. I am frustrated by all the rules and requirements with very little direction of how to progress in this game. The upgrades cost astronomical amounts of coins and gems - you’re not getting anywhere in this game without paying up... perhaps the instructions come with a fee as well?

Like most people, I absolutely hate the micro transaction movement that plagues the casual mobile game market now. In my opinion, it is ruining both the quality and entertainment of all apps. Having said that, I don’t mind watching a few minimal ads here and there to help these devs pay the bills. However, for this application, the ads and bugs ruined the experience, and ensured another quickly deleted and forgotten app. I won’t go into long details about the ads — read some of the recent reviews, and they are spot on regarding their frequency and the relative uselessness of associated rewards in overall progress. Additionally, I found that Facebook never stayed connected longer than about 5 seconds, and I never was able to experience tournament or pvp play due to the server error that everyone has reported. Furthermore, many of the ads would just ‘break’, leaving the app unresponsive after sitting through the entire thing instead of releasing back to the game. I was surprised to see how many of these problems had been reported more than 1 update prior. Meaning, greed vs quality, and as a consumer I will not accept that. All in all nice idea, but too greedy, too many unresolved bugs, and no reason to spend any money or additional time.

So dissatisfied with this game, it went from awesome to crap in the matter of weeks, the new update is a complete failure, pvp is no longer fun, trials have become extremely difficult, and the non responsiveness of the devs is ridiculous. It’s been almost 3 weeks and no response from them on a botched item purchase. I have reached out to them from the in game mail box as well as on Facebook but nothing yet, and it seems like I am not the only one. Please fix these issues and respond to your gamers!!! 😞 😡. I would have rated this game 5/5 until the last update. The non responsiveness from the Devs was irritating, but bearable. But this last update drove the nail in the coffin. You really need to fix these problems and RESPOND !! To your gamers, I see a bunch of posts on Facebook from gamers with similar concerns and problems and not one response yet.