Weird!!!
Anyone else had experiences with weird scoring in Battlez this week?
Also, who shares my opinion that the Strawburst is grossly overpriced and its slow arming time makes it totally unsuited to Battlez? As for its Plant Food effect - TOTALLY USELESS - as it hits the center of the screen and our aim is to keep the Zombies restricted to columns 8 and 9 wherever possible. (Not used it at all, so another waste of a slot).
I KNOW that last week I started off thinking that the Holly Barrier was useless, but I changed my mind and found it quite effective once I had worked out a good way of using it. I can't see that ever happening with Strawburst.
I'll just say here that I'm finding this week's tournament something of a mind-numbing bore. It takes me almost as long to set up my defenses, which consists of six columns of Primal Peashooters, one column of Cold Snapdragons, and two columns of Explodo-nuts, as it does to play the match. PLUS it then boils down to constant Blover spamming and little else. (Other than trying to ensure I don't get carried away and run out of Sun before the match ends.) Because of this I've only been playing enough matches to qualify for my six 'Free' gems.
This will mean me dropping to the Bronze league, but what the heck!
It's well known on here that I favor combinations that include heavy usage of the Blover, but they usually require a steady build up of the rest of the arena as the matches progress and that makes the matches more interesting for me than this week's already fully laid out defenses. The lack of interest for me is what lies behind my minimal play, but I have also experienced something that has put me off playing at all for the remainder of this tournament.
I played a match yesterday against an 'Opponent' where 'their' score was ridiculously high. I scored just over 2.5 million, while 'they' scored almost 5 million. I was thinking two things. The first was "How in the hell are they scoring that heavily?" The second was "This is going to cost me 130 Gems to retain my streak".
When the match ended, it came up that I had won!! . . . . . . . What the!!!!!
The results screen also showed that my 'Opponent' had plants with a maximum level of 3!! (As I recall, they had Lvl 1 Strawburst, Lvl 3 Chard Guard, Lvl 3 Blover (Imitated), Lvl 3 EM Peach, and Lvl 2 Winter Melon.)
First of all, how did it come up that I had won? Secondly, how did my 'Opponent' get close to 5 Million with their load-out?
Something weird is going on, so I'm staying out of Battlez for the rest of this week's tournament. I was awarded a win for a Battle I had lost to a suspect opponent, but who's to say I won't end up being deemed as losing a match when my score is higher than the opposition's?
