Weirdness with new update?

Happened to me . Mine were at 11-14 yesterday . Did update now they are at 15-18.

Yes, I noticed that too. It looks like the new levels are a combined amount adding your card level, hat level, and slingshot level all in one now. When I played the Arena, the match-ups also displayed each other’s “Flock Power” now based on the new combined levels.

Other additional changes appear to be:
– a few new hat sets (three new sets?)
– higher amounts of feathers in the Arena winning streaks
– a Halloween level available for 24 hours
– new AB2 logo icon on my phone screen

@jon3800 yes I’ve suddenly noticed that most of these ‘new’ structures are impossible to take down with a single bird.

I’ve had the ‘pay to continue’ pop up way more times than I’ve ever seen during the DC and KPC today >:(

I also just got a room with THREE laser beam pigs in it…. one on each of 3 towers, making it near impossible to knock any one of them down without getting zapped.

Don’t kid yourself, the new buildings are very, very deliberately tougher to knock down.

Rovio has gone beyond the point of being desperate for cash now. I think it’s time to put this puppy down once and for all.

Agreed, my birds and spells definitely doing less damage since the update.

The game has gotten to be a chore…I don’t mind a good challenge but structures I used to take out with one well placed angry bird fling…now some taking 4-5 birds to move to clear pigstructions. You would have to have multiple spells and piles of gems to do arena streaks…the ones with the bucks can buy their luck.

Yeah I blew a little steam off because this change is going to take a little time to adjust. It is just when you’re used to kicking @$$ and running pigstructuons into atoms and pigs burnt bacon on blackened toast..then Wham!! You can’t knock down a fly. I’m gonna keep flinging cause pigs must die.

I noticed that if I’m listening to music or a podcast, the volume of it drops significantly when Angry Birds 2 is open (even if its muted). The ads are also louder.

Hello Flingers!

We noticed a bug that slipped through our testing that a lot of you guys have been seeing. Spells are not supposed to be level 1; but they are for “high level” players such as many of you are due to a bug in the new way of calculating card levels. “Luckily” this affects many of your opponents as well, so the playing field is not too skewed when using/facing spells. We’re sorry about it and we’ll fix it as soon as we can.

When it comes to difficulties in levels I see a lot of the same comments each update. I can promise you that we have zero intentions of making the gameplay experience more frustrating for you, we’re actually adding several hidden fixes to remove as much pain as we can because we want for everyone to have an enjoyable gaming experience. The Arena have also had some pain relief done to it, with better rewards and less maximum difference to opponents.

I’m sorry again about the spell inconvenience but I hope you’ll find the other new content positive!

Take care,
Hank

Hey new member here I’ve only been playing this game for 6 weeks. This new update is game breaking. I don’t know how many times in the last few days since the update I knock down a bunch of pigstructures and some how there’s one straggler pig that I have to waste another bird to kill. Then I get to the last level and of course I’m 1 bird short of beating the level. Not to mention the arena is totally effed up. I literally have to play a perfect game to keep the game close so that I can win with my free bird with ad. If I make one mistake in the arena, game over I’ll lose by 2,000,000 points. I’m level 41, all my birds are level 10 plus my azure slingshot. I think it’s obvious Rovio wants us to buy the gem packages.

@mark-melton At least you’re still getting feathers. Since my flock is maxed out, I get only spells. Every 15 minutes I get either a blizzard, a chili or a duck. That’s it. I have about 2500 spells so I’m not even bothering to open the chest anymore. I,like you and many others, paid for a MIX of feathers,gems and spells. Now I’m getting exactly nothing for my $9.99. You can get gems by completing the daily quest or if you have a FB friend or place in the arena. By eliminating gems from the chest it’s daily costing at least enough gems to get an arena win. Since I no longer get feathers, I play the DC to give gifts to my FB friend. I don’t bother with the KPP, since it gives me only spells and the chance to get 50 pearls IF I use gems to maybe get to the King pig. Very near end game here. Waiting to see what the next update brings. It’s not looking good.

My device is android and my screen name is “Crash Buttstomp” when I first downloaded ABs2 I worked or played whichever you prefer to call it, Feeling myself around much like the old Angry Birds game and started playing the Arena and once I started to climb up to the leader positions 1-2-3 I pretty much stayed in the top place even the diamond league taking those 300 stars,gems and pearls. I purchased a few resources here and there mainly for DC or when a tough Boss level needed one little push. Like many of you from the post I’m reading are experiencing the same struggles I am since this Bad update..basically a screwing without the candy and flowers. I’m getting beat by opponents that never came close before because my birds have not the power, even with upgraded slingshot. I’m 58 too dadgum old to fool around with a once great little game to having my wings clipped to the point Im wasting my time here when I should be in the arena making someone throw their phone at the wall.

I can believe the ‘high players’ part – I heard others grumbling about the spell=1 issue when I was at flock strength of around 175-180 but I did not feel it. Then my last bird leveled up and boom! So it’s somewhere around 180 that this happens…

But…

Add to that the fact that we aren’t getting feathers from the small chests, and we aren’t getting gems either. With 1’d spells having as much impact as a wet noodle on a titanium plate, this basically means every reward given to players is nearly useless.

I can see where the spell=1 could be a programming bug, but the latter decisions are not bugs, so it’s a pretty concerned effort to basically neutralize rewards. And with no fix coming in the foreseeable future, one can only wonder whether this is just a lucky coincidence.

Jet Glider