Re: why are there streak breakers in arena

@PowerToss oh i didnt know about those penalties, that makes so much sense now, cuz i had some dusklobbers and murkadamian nuts eaten by sunday edition zombies but what about shadow peashooter, is he also affected by these penalties? cuz you know i couldnt kill all of the sunday edition zombies at all so i had to insta kill them by dragging them down and the shadow peashooter can only do that 3 times before disappearing if they are powered by either gloom vine or moon flower, thanks for letting me know about the zdl mechanic i had no idea that something like that was in the game, i apologize for my rudeness yesterday cuz i was pretty annoyed by the lvling system and therefore i was attacking anyone that replied to this post, which is why i recognize now that what i was doing was wrong, alright im eager to see those files

@boomballoonflowr All good, no worries. I think at some point everyone who plays this game felt like Arena is just full of bots which cause you to lose.

Shadow Peashooter dragging down Zombies won't cause a penalty. Murkadamia Nut counts as defensive plant so you won't get a penalty if it gets eaten either. In your load-out the only plants that would cause a penalty are Moonflower and Dusklobber. The ZDL can be quite dynamic. In case a plant gets eaten it will drop by two levels. If that happens again it will drop by two levels again. So for instance if one of the Sunday Edition Zombies managed to kill a Moonflower and a Dusklobber the ZDL already dropped by four levels. 

The ZDL will go up again if you "are doing better" (by this I mean killing Zombies) and it will drop again when a plant that causes a penalty gets destroyed. 

Speaking as a programmer, it's easy to say something is "bruised". That is no guarantee that the code for any particular tournament has been thoroughly tested to ensure this has been taken care of. What with just trying to get the new code to work for a completely new scenario, it is possible that testing whether or not a particular plant is actually bruised may be on the bottom of the things to check before publishing te game.

@PowerToss  I think Tigerol said that Peanut counts as a defensive plant so doesn't incur a penalty when munched. 

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@boomballoonflowr 

Any complaints you have about pvz2 have probably been raised before. I have been playing for over 3 years and have complained about the level matching system on many occasions, i even started up a thread so that players could put any changes they wanted under WHAT DO WE WANT? So the devs only have read one thread to see what we would like changed and also for a showcase for new ideas. Feel free to add to it.

@PowerToss  I think you should copy your post on penalties into the hints and tips thread, just don't forget about peanut,  he's been in a sulk since you didn't list him with the plants that don't incur a penalty when EAten.

@MAGICDAVESHROOM yeah i think i didnt search enough because i searched for similar posts like mine and i didnt find anything related to this topic. i have also been playing since the game launched in my country, pirate seas wasnt even finished and there was no leveling system. but the thing is, are they actually listening? because ive seen nothing but disappointment from the community because they feel that they are being ignored and most of them hate the current state of pvz 2 and pvz related games

@boomballoonflowr 

They do occasionally leave xp or censor content that they feel breaks forum rules, so they do read some of our posts at least. 

Unfortunately there isn't a full time pvz2 community manager (that we know about).

On reddit a dev called Haemophilus can be asked questions and does regularly publish info but i try not to bug her with trivialities because she's about the only person you can get answers from.

EA HELP CENTER are fairly useless unless you have a missing content case (i think they're an indian call center working from scripts).

@MAGICDAVESHROOM i thought reddit hated ea, as they have the most downvoted comment in the internet there and they constantly downvote ea team members comments https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/

@boomballoonflowr 

Reddit hates EA, I'm only in the pvz2 subreddit but I'm not surprised. 

EA won the golden poo award award for being the worst company in America three times but we treat Haemophilus with respect because she treats us with respect. 

She doesn't have to answer our questions or announce new plants or updates but she does and doesn't get abused by the subreddit. 

As much as i think what EA did to Dungeon Keeper deserves flogging the devs responsible (a brilliant old pc game with a fantastic sense of humour developed by Bullfrog) when they turned it into a mobile freemium game i simple deleted it and it's micro-transactions.

If everyone stopped playing these games and deleted them EA would take the hint.

Poor opponent is probably cursing away.... xD

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@Perfume-shroom92 wrote:

Poor opponent is probably cursing away.... xD

For a moment I thought my replay was used... I erronously chose that setup after playing Penny's lol

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@MAGICDAVESHROOM wrote:

@PowerToss  I think you should copy your post on penalties into the hints and tips thread, just don't forget about peanut,  he's been in a sulk since you didn't list him with the plants that don't incur a penalty when EAten.

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Actually, you already copied the updated penalty list into the hints and tips thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Plants-vs-Zombies-2/HINTS-AND-TIPS/td-p/6833976/page/18 😛

@MAGICDAVESHROOM props to haemophilus then, its good to see that theres actually someone in ea that listens to the community. thing is, pvz 2 isnt bad at all, the campaign is fun, some days are easy and others are hard, balancing things a little, but some are extremely hard thanks to really annoying zombies like fisherman and octo zombies specially in day 28 of bwb, jurassic marsh is also really hard thanks to the countless dinosaurs that appear to screw up your setup, i remember struggling to beat day 12 and many other days because in some days zombies appear really fast in almost every lane and the dinosaurs specially ankylosauruses keep throwing them into your setup at the start of the level and modern day, god, have you ever played the expansion lvls of that world? those lvls are really a pain and some are almost impossible to win without premium plants and even some from the regular modern day are really a pain thanks to the zombies that appear from the portals and also all star zombies but aside from that the game is good if we remove the lvling system among other features which is why there are people who still play it including me (im not saying that i dont like the fast paced gameplay or the difficulty, i actually love that the campaign wasnt as slow as the first game), if ea actually listened to community we would maybe have a completely different game than the one we got

@PowerToss 

Silly me.

forgot to close the topic, my bad