Re: Bot in Arena after patch “update” to Plants v Zombies 2

If it is a bot, why this forum is not allowing us to share it's name???

And will us get any compensation for the matches we lost against it?? Even after lowering the bot score to 18M makes it hard to beat with "unpaid" plants

I can’t seem to score that high so I’m just screwed this arena is busted 

Hello! The same issue for me:((( The bot has the nickname "asyne", it is my only opponent in Arena repeatedly and has the score of 780,000,000  every time! It's impossible to reach such a score, of 780,000,000. I've made screenshots, I attach here one of them.

Hello riugow! Good question, I've lost many gauntlets because of that "asyne" bot. Yesterday the bot score was that impossible 780,000,000 (!!), today is 18,000,000, still impossible to beat if you are a honest player like us!

The bot was given a limit of 18 mln. It can be defeated with such a set.

Why introduce a bot into the arena? It takes all the fun out of the game.

The moderators are going to move this thread under one thread

Great tip!  This works.  Thanks!

I tried many variations, but the best scoring line up I found for this Arena Match was to Choose: Pea Vine, Torchwood, Primal Sunflower & Power Lilly - consistently scores in the region of 18.5 M to 21 M, usually about 20.7 M.

Mega Gatling Pea or Threepeater instead of Pea Vine /  Sunshroom can get similar scores, but often less…

Thank you very much! That allowed me to get my first win in 5 days. Hopefully this breaks the pattern of always being assigned to the same "player". 

It's very frustrating that EA hasn't gotten a fix for this after this amount of time. Crowd sourced workaround for the win!

My highest score only 6-7 K. And I need 50 points more to have point for sea shooter. Thank you for this hacker/bot I cannot make make to 50 more points. 

Do you beat it 18 M? Can you share what kind of plant do you used?

I don’t find this to be any better.  I have level m54 plants, but just lost to a bot playing with level 1&3 plants. Still makes the game unplayable. At this point I believe the bot is through the game and not a random cheater. They know it exists, but cap the score instead of actually fixing the problem. So now it’s just slightly less obvious that there is cheating going on. 

Its score stops at 18M???? I’ve no chance of beating that… it needs to be fixed!!! 

I won’t continue playing if that is the case 😕

That is not a workaround, they didn’t fix the automatic scoring or cheat, just limited the maximum score. I can’t reach 18M with the plants I have, so still can’t win one **bleep** game. I can’t wait to see this tournament finished.

Good call Norfolk Buoy. Just managed to beat it in the last 5 seconds. Asyne's scores now go up in increments of 1M every 10-15 seconds and didn't get higher than 18M

I agree with you!   It is taking the fun out of the game.

Very true! I have lost many gauntlets myself as well as how this impacts rankings and rewards.

I noticed this as well.

Yes, I believe the bots are a part of the game - and from reading other posts it sounds like there is currently a problem with the matching or scoring algorithms that determine how difficult your opponent is.

i posted my plant choices / start picture / end picture earlier - so try using my plant layout & see what score you get?

For me, you need touchwood to stop the football zombies & boost damage with fire & steam peas / Power Lilly to activate the power tiles / Primal Sunflower is good for sun / then I used pea vine to boost damage - but you can choose Threepeater or MegaGatling Pea instead.

i start by planting pea vines in the back land squares / Lilly pad, torch wood & pea vine at the front & sometimes in column 3, the plant seashooter in every available water tile. As soon as plant food available, boost the yellow power tiles to generate sun & repeat.  In the last minute, plant pea vine & seashooter on the back 3 yellow power tiles so when you boost the seashooters they boost adjacent Appeasemint plants……

Not easy, but possible at least - so Good Luck! 

Now.. only 10M

👉The work around cap is now down to 10M for the op with name starting with A. 👍

That’s the only opponent I get now.

It’s down to 10 million a game now. And the avatar has changed. I can’t help feeling it’s controlled by EA. When it was 18000000 its score would increment 1000000 every 10 seconds. Now it’s every 18 seconds.

I've never thought tournament play was real time, just an algorithm selecting real player’s scores based on your scores, gap between matches, and EPs, slowly ratcheting them up as you progress a streak. Now I’m starting to think the opponents score part is fake too, that the algorithm broke and ‘player who shall not be named’ is the temporary fix. That’s my baseless speculation for the day.

Try again now. It’s now fixed at 10,000,000

Over the years of playing it I have noticed that it seems rather rigged. Despite taking out many zombies I have seen my score not climb during last few seconds to lose. Usually when I am about to get the gold.  Also seen rapid jump in opponent score too. Then see what they had for plants and it would not make sense.