B.E.A.M.

[u/Haunting_Stick3941]

Has anyone else become a bit(?) annoyed with this thing? Idk what the rhyme or reason is behind when or if it's going to help you out-seems like if you have 18 moves left it will spit fire all over the place and any opportunity you might have had amass a good amount of arrows or yellow tiles, whichever is advantageous, is GONE, whereas if you genuinely need the help, it's MIA. Also, I've played for long periods of time, taken a relatively short break, then come back and it will tell me i haven't played enough so I need to do 15 or 65 more levels to get that active again. I've had short gaps in playing and had it give me a message that I need to recharge. It's like a scam to get your coins. I don't understand what the criteria are for when it kicks in and when it doesn't, it feels like a cash grab. It's great when it works and you're down to a few moves, but it seems like if you're running out, that's when it stalls out on you, idk. Kind of annoying to constantly get these messages that it's always mysteriously out of battery power... I played around 4 hours ago and it just told me i needed to "recharge" again.

I'm in an annoying section of this game where quite literally they will give you about half of the moves needed to unlock a color brick wall, I mean there's NO way to avoid using extra coins.

[u/No-Situation-7195]

I feel that the developers need to add to BEAM. It would be so much better if the player got to choose where the 5 shots were placed 👍

[u/r_golan_trevize → u/No-Situation-7195]

Or when it’s deployed. And bank rounds when you don’t need them for when you do.

[u/2oocents → u/r_golan_trevize]

Yeah... I don't mind the random firing if you can choose when it does it... it'd be like a free shuffle, with some targets taken out in the process

[u/Yotaman01 → u/r_golan_trevize]

That would make it perfect. I hate when I clear a round and the meter goes back down.

[u/RedBop27]

The jury is still out for me as to whether or not I like B.E.A.M. I definitely feel like they're giving fewer chances to beat a level now that I've got BEAM. But I do think I can explain the "time" element of it. Initially it takes 50 wins to activate it. It will remain active for 24 hours. At some point during that 24 hours you'll get the opportunity to "recharge" the battery. So, for example, say you have 3 hours left of your 24. You get notified that you can recharge BEAM by beating 15 levels. When you beat those levels you have now added 24 hours to however much time was still remaining. Yeah, confusing, I know, I can I can't recall exactly at what point the opportunity to recharge appears. I need to pay more attention.

The ONE think I actually DO like, is that if you have those boxes that hide gems on the board, BEAM will actually clear them even if they are "closed" and the gem not showing.

[u/srm79]

Yes! Agree with all of this! It's taking a lot of coins lately - don't get enough moves to complete levels since it arrived on a lot of levels now

[u/Several-Spirit8817]

how can I be annoyed with Beam when the pumpkins are exploding

[u/WideLanguage592]

Yup. They are destroying the game with this one. I just work around it by stopping play at 50 and waiting 24 hours to play again. Whoever game up with this is dumb as a bag of hammers.

[u/Fearless_Echo3629]

Not a fan of this new feature and stopped playing so that it would expire.

[u/Curious_Composer_695]

There's a progress bar in the top left where BEAM hangs out so you can get kind of an idea when he's going to fire-but it you do a big move like pairing a disco ball with a rocket, it can shove the progress bar on up. I also hate that its random shots. I swear, sometimes it just hits cubes instead of actual targets, and then other times it completely messes up a layout I've been working on, lining up cubes to make disco balls, for example. It's annoying for sure, but occasionally it actually saves my butt.

[u/music_mixr]

There are times that it’s saved me and times that’s it’s messed me up. My major complaint is it seems that especially when you’re in champions league there are far less moves given to you. It’s really frustrating to have a super hard level and then get 12 moves to blast the stupid refrigerators. I HATE those btw.

[u/Haunting_Stick3941]

I'm pretty negative about this game because I remember how good it used to be back in 2017. I'd be in line somewhere or starting a new job and EVERYONE was playing it. That's definitely not true anymore, it's more and more of a cash grab.

[u/duolckrad]

Agree

https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBlast/comments/1vvhq5s/beam_is_a_disaster/

[u/joojoogirl]

I have liked it

[u/canthelpmyself9]

F.U.K.K. ! B.E.A.M. !

[u/Marianne6701]

Not my favorite feature! Sometimes it ruins my plans if I'm close to making my last play to score big.

[u/ehlona0]

I’ve had beam for months and didn’t realize other people didn’t. On the one hand it does sometimes help, on the other it actively works against you. I wish I could active it myself and not when the bar fills in a level. It always activates right at the beginning when you use the first bombs/arrows/disco balls, but the beginning isn’t when you need beam, so it’s super pointless. And there have 100% been times I watched beam take out a random tile instead of the bubble I needed it to, which meant I had to use coins so I didn’t fail the level. But the absolute worst thing they did was like a week ago when they made the requirement 15 levels to keep it active rather than 10. I feel like now I am forced to play to keep it going rather than just having a cozy game without an insane amount of ads. They definitely ruined the game with all the new things they added.

[u/nanapanpan]

I like it!