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Below is a post I saw from a helpful friend, rackman70. on sub reddit.
Hope I have re-posted this here in good time to alert Android players to turn OFF the auto update to avoid bad PVZ2 experiences.
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Avoid the 10.4.1 Update!!!!!So I had the 10.4.1 pre-release updated forced upon me by the game store last night and have a few hot takes.
It's buggy as *!!! I've got three devices that I play on.
a. A very old Samsung Galaxy S4. I know that I shouldn't really expect support for this phone to continue indefinitely but, until this release, apart from some performance issues I could still play the game on it. Now the game won't even start up and crashes on opening every time.
b. A somewhat old Samsung Galaxy S9. The game actually plays very well on this phone, and until this release it was the most stable for running the game on of all my devices. With this release it now crashes randomly. I've had it crash twice at the end of playing an Arena match (the only two times I've tried). Several time starting up. Once while trying to claim the daily quest rewards. A few other times seemingly at random.
c. My "new" Samsung A53. The game has crashed several times while starting up, as well as a few other random times.
2. The Penny's Pursuit ZPS meter is now capped at 100%. i.e. if you get it to 90% and play a level at 3-chili, it won't go up to 120% any more. This means that after you play Zomboss the ZPS meter will reset to 0% and you'll have to play a minimum of 4 matches to get back to 100% regardless of what chili level you play your matches on.
3. Previously, store piñatas and offers were device specific, meaning if you had multiple devices, you could get those offers more than once. They've removed that loophole. Now if you claim a store offer on one device, it will no longer appear on the other.
4. Not my experience (I don't play with the music on), but I hear that it's more broken again.
So, more nerfs and added bugginess. Hopefully they'll fix some of the bugginess before the general release (probably next week), but I'm not holding my breath.
I noticed the new release is available to install on iOS. I have several iPads, so I installed it on one. I can verify a lot of what rackma70 said. When I tried to collect the daily rewards, the game crashed. I tried playing Arena 4 times and it crashed on me every time at the very end of the game, before collecting any rewards for the win. So I did not get my rewards for the win, but it did give me the crowns and I did not lose my streak. It also crashed on me about 5 times when the game started.