Cheating in Battlez

It has been bad enough over the weeks for most players in Battlez matches having to contend with opponents who have their plants at max level, whether they have been been earned, purchased or otherwise. In such confrontations the player without the maxed out plants almost invariably loses. . . . These glaring disparities have been pointed out before, yet EA seem either unable or unwilling to address the issue.

To make matters even worse, there now seems to be a new breed of virtually unbeatable players. Over the past couple of weeks I have started losing matches to opponents with vastly superior scores to mine, only to find their plants are all at Level One!!

How is that even possible? PLEASE don't even attempt to suggest that they are using superior tactics.

My plants are in the 6 to 8 level range, yet an opponent with all level one plants scores almost twice as many points as me!!!  REALLY!!??

During this week's Lightening Reed matches I have been averaging 1.2 to 1.5 million points, yet opponents with level one plants can score over 2 million!!

This cannot possibly be legit.

Have others had experiences of this happening?

I have powerful high level plants and I won almost all BATTLEZ. But I am very disappointed, because my feeling is that I got frequently fake opponents. Is it possible that I got opponents with the same plants, selected in the same order and the same level? Is it possible that the they always got the same score? I don't think so...

Is there anybody who can explain?

More screenshot (same plants, same order, same level, same score: 844,500)

Must be a fake!

Similar problems for me, see my topic:

BATTLEZ =====> FAKE OPPONENTS

@oo-Cindy-ooo - I agree, this HAS to be 100% fake. 

It's like another variation of something I've noticed over the past couple of weeks where players with all Level One plants are getting ridiculously high scores.

My first thought is that the opponents you've been unfortunate enough to be confronted by, and the ones I've seen, are, in fact, bots placed into the Battlez environment by EA with two purposes.

The first is possibly an attempt by EA to make it appear that the Battlez mode is far more popular than the reality by making it seem that there are far more human players wanting to participate in the matches than there actually are.

The second, and of far more concern to me, is they would appear to be there with the specific purpose of terminating the reward streaks of successful human players and thus either saving EA having to pay out ever increasing levels of rewards, or to boost their income through players needing to sacrifice Gems (AKA money) to retain their streak.

After hackers seem to have diminished, they've come back with another hack, I'll let the picture they shared on facebook, beware with this kind of players.

I hope EA could do something 

Well, its one thing when bots are used to facilitate game flow, and they're basically fodder, but its another thing when they're used to end winning streaks of players who are on a roll.

I have similar experiences but having seen your screen shots with such a high level plants losing to low levels, I guess it is best for you not to look at my number 8 post on


https://answers.ea.com/t5/Plants-vs-Zombies-2/Sharing-your-Battlez-experiences/m-p/6795839#M2954

:-)

Joking apart, it seems that the recent update does take consideration of your plant selection and zombie clearing ability to pair you up with 'someone' similar. This would encourage new comer with basic low level plant to join in the fun.

I think you have been paired with a recording of a player using the selected plants to achieve this 'high' score, it maybe that the actual user name has been changed to protect his/her identity.