Penny's Pursuit

Don't know if it was because it was early in the morning. Don't know if it's because I'm out of chocolate for my coffee. Don't know if it's because I'm craving a more laid back lifestyle. Whatever. Zomboss Extra Spicy is more than my poor old head can handle. Jayzeus. I lasted 2 minutes only because of tossing. Have no clue if I depleted even one life bar. That crap is just faster than I can process. NO MAS!

@linuxPigPenMaybe the zomboss had your coffee and chocolate too..... i played easy and i keep forgetting to plant @PowerToss ..... the zomboss went mad...i went mad....

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@linuxPigPen wrote:

Don't know if it was because it was early in the morning. Don't know if it's because I'm out of chocolate for my coffee. Don't know if it's because I'm craving a more laid back lifestyle. Whatever. Zomboss Extra Spicy is more than my poor old head can handle. Jayzeus. I lasted 2 minutes only because of tossing. Have no clue if I depleted even one life bar. That crap is just faster than I can process. NO MAS!

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What really makes it pure insane is the zombie toughness. If I guess it right, the normal zombie in extra spicy difficulty health is multiplied by 10x times the health the normal zombie has! Pretty sure this goes for the eating damage, too. So a normal zombie can drill into your defenses easily! So, if you don't have at LEAST ONE insta-kill in extra spicy levels then R.I.P. I managed to deplete 10 bars in extra spicy zomboss battle and only used power toss once. 😉

@linuxPigPenThe recent change in PP makes it much harder for low level plants to play the spicy (3 chilies) levels. 

I have tried a few times with my level 1 plants but so far without joy,

Now the good news is that if you are after Pokra seeds, there will be a Pokra tournament next week so I guess this would be a much easier option.

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@eieio_31310 wrote:

@linuxPigPenThe recent change in PP makes it much harder for low level plants to play the spicy (3 chilies) levels. 

I have tried a few times with my level 1 plants but so far without joy,

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Try Appease-mint, Blover, R-mint, Bowling Bulb, Shine Vine, Enlighten-mint. I start with 3 BB and use the rest of the sun for SV. Also, wait ~20sec before you hit Let's Rock to get the burst of sun immediately. Plant Food is used to refresh R-mint and excessive PF is used on yellow tiles when they appear. Plant Appease-mint when ever it is recharged and don't forget to spam Blover 😉 Perk: Plant Food Perk - Level 2.

I usually have ~20-30sec to spare with level 1 plants. 

@PowerToss 

You should post that on reddit.

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@PowerToss wrote:
..........  I start with 3 BB and use the rest of the sun for SV....

Ah that might be what I have done wrong since I use similar plants, I start with 5x BBs on the yellow tiles, this works 100% for easy with 4 gems and occasionally 5

https://imgur.com/a/KeChjpK 

With medium difficulty, I get to win but often only with 1 or two gems, a little more coins than easy setting but I prefer gems.

With hard difficulty, I either get 0 gems or overwhelmed with bug bot imps.

No! NO! I was so close to win! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

You have enough gems to hire the sherrif

Have they nerfed the plants in PP? I was playing I think #8 last night with the Citrons and the LB and I couldn't kill anything! Even a Citron with plant food wouldn't take out one of those nibbler machines. Big Pig has good Modern Day plamts. This should have been a cakewalk.  

@linuxPigPen 

I've been using peanut, 2x power lily, reinforcemint and blover.

This works well on max difficulty, I think the zombies are tougher.

Probably a boring strat, but I kept using Bass Blast perk + Blover or Reinforcemint + Blover in almost every level without locked plants/belt.

I also used Imp Pear's PFE and took advantage of the power tiles (also brought Power Lily just in case) to significantly reduce the zombies' health so that my Pokra can easily defeat them.

Imp Pear is also useful in the don't spend suns level, and can kill a zombie by putting two IPs in front of them, especially in the beginning while preparing your defense.

In the case of locked plants or conveyor belts, duh, I just played Endless first to collect power ups, lol. Thankfully my plants levels are high enough to be able to beat locked plants/belt level without having to use power ups. That, except level 17 aka the legendary Magnifying Grass level, where I just spammed power toss.

@HenryThePear 

Dang, that's one buff Imp. I regretted that I actually care about preparing the (boosted) twin suns and the sunflos to hoard some suns. I ended up being too busy spam-tapping MG to kill one cone zombie, while the suns are spreading uncollected. Felt too hard even for 3 chillies. I lost count how many times I had to tap the MG to kill one bucket zombie (if I managed to kill him at all, before resorting to power toss).

The devs seem to have gone too far this time. It looks like the devs are still experimenting (if not confused about) Penny's difficulty.

After the discussion about level 17, I decided to give it a try with level 1 plants 😛 https://streamable.com/hyr840 

@PowerToss 

Haha, that's so cool.

I might've been allergic to MG first that I'd rather not stay too long in that level 🤣

Stand corrected, I guess I'm giving kudos to the devs this time, heh.

I will bear this level in mind and then curse my way through it..... :/

Thank you Penny.

9 gems dropped! 

I thought I counted it wrong until I double checked the amount of gem increased.

Don't ask me how I did it because I do not have the faintest idea how this happened, all I remember is this was played on the spicy (medium difficulty) zomboss level.

@eieio_31310 

I'm still going to ask you how just because 😅

Or at least, what plants did you use (are they high level/mid/low level plants)?

How many gems do you usually get with the same plants and in the same level difficulty?

Maybe we can analyse from there somehow, haha.

I'm getting 4-5 gems on Spicy 3 with PowerToss strategy (SV, BB, Reinforce-mint, Blover and CG and I use the PF perk)

First time that I maxxed out Penny Perks

Apparantly the Extra Objectives dissappear from the levels

What has @eieio_31310 in it's pocketses, we want our Precious (gems) ...