Zombies stop coming in Battlez
Is this some kind of bug? Every so often things will be going fine. Then all of a sudden for 10-15 seconds no zombies come out and my score drops behind my competitor.
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- Maybe you have been killing them too fast and the rest are too scared to come out..... :-)
I have experienced this issue before a few weeks ago and thought this has been changed. Maybe the new update has brought this back again. May I ask is this happening to you with the current tournament or something happened a while back? I had this happen quite a lot back in the Electric Peashooter week. It usuaĺly occured when there was around a minute left. As well as the Electric Peashooter and a Sun production plant I was using the Winter Melon and Primal Potato Mine in conjuction with the Tile Turnip and Power Lily. When using the plant food, the combined effects of 3 Winter Melons and up to 5 Primal Potato Mines unleashing mayhem among the Zombies it would often entirely clear the right side of the arena. I then had to wait for around 10 seconds each time before more Zombies appeared.
That cost me a total of around 30 seconds of Zombie killing time whenever it happened.
Fortunately it only cost me one loss because my opponent's scores were well behind mine when the Zombies suddenly seemed too scared to come out, but if the match scores had been closer I could easily have lost many more.
I'm now finding these delays occuring in this week's matches. (Electric Currant week). It happens at random points and it's most disconcerting to see my attacking plants just sitting around twiddling their thumbs. It can reduce my average 1.0 to 1,2 million score to around 700,000, and it's cost me 3 defeats already. GRRR!!!!
- It is happening in the current tournament at the Jade level. But it has happened before. I thought it was due to using a slowing plant but it happens regardless of the plant type I am using.
I don't know if its a bug or if it some sort of of way for EA to guarantee that everyone eventually gets their win streak broken.
No matter what premium plants you have or even if they're leveled up to Level 10,000 - you can't beat the game if you're not getting zombies and your opponent is.
- I'm wondering if it is a certain combination of plant categories. I have noticed that it seemsto happen to me more often if I don't use a shooting plant such as the caullipower or the potato mines one does, etc.
I used a Sun-Bean and Hypno-shroom combo once, I think I had Winter Melon and Lightning Reed in the back row along with Twin Sunflower. It proved to be a pretty good setup, nothing was getting past the line of Hypno-shrooms, but suddenly there were NO ZOMBIES.
I ended up with a very low score and I lost, so that is the last time I used that combo.
... It can reduce my average 1.0 to 1,2 million score to around 700,000, and it's cost me 3 defeats already. GRRR!!!!
That is bad to hear.
I am interested to find out whether you have maintained your winning streak, if so did this 'glitch' go away?
(I ask because when my winning streak was reset to 0, I normally get a lot more zombies coming out to greet me)
Yes, I did cough up the gems to retain my reward streak. I'm currently at just over 200 and the rewards have now ramped up to a level where it's worthwhile sticking with it. (Relative to using 100 gems a time to get 220 (Or is it 240? I'm in the Silver League anyway) seed packets from the various worlds.
I do, however, set a provisional limit of 100 gems and then assess where I am and whether it remains viable to continue or to drop back. Hopefully, I won't need to reach that decision point for a while yet. The last loss cost me 60 gems, so I have 4 more to go. (Keeping my fingers and everything else crossed.)
The matches I've played in today have so far been okay and I'm getting plenty of Zombies. I scored 1,45 million in one match. It's just as well I did, as my opponent, human or otherwise, scored 1.43 million and I only overtook them in the final 5 or 6 seconds. (Pheww!!)
- Thanks for the reply.
I have not really started playing this week yet. The last few free Battlez I tried, I seemed to be able to get 600K +. But with low & mid level free plants, I think 1 million will likely be my top limit. @ElAguila64
I do not think it is certain combination of plant categories as this happened to me while I was experimenting different plant combos. Generally, I noticed if I cleared the zombies too quickly or efficiently, I run out of zombies.
So I now try killing themsoftlyslowly... and not to scare them away.
