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Anonymous
12 years ago
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Are plants at a disadvantage against zombies?

    I have been playing Garden Warfare since day one, I am slowly climbing the skills ladder. I love this game. It is very well conceived, beautifully designed, and beats the gigantic glut of MURDE...
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    ACactoos
    12 years ago

    Plants don't aren't the ones to blame for being at a disadvantage, blame the people that camp 24/7. 9/10 times, plants are extremely vulnerable to flank attacks, and high dps moves because most plants leave themselves wide open for a direct attack.

    The key to getting a more decent defence is to never sit where most people sit at to defend the garden. In other words, never go to the usual spots where most plants are at (Example: On top off the castle in Driftwood Shores or the burger in Main Street). It's fine to stay there for a good kill or two, but don't stay there too long. Furthermore, don't start camping near the garden at the beginning of the round either; instead, move up to further delay the chances of zombies capturing the garden. If one zombie gets into your garden, don't send everyone into the garden. If you know there are people close to the garden that can defend the garden decently then don't worry about it (which is about 4/10 times you find people that are good at defending a garden while near it as well...).

    Also, switch characters in between rounds. Some plants are MUCH more stronger on certain areas depending on your play style of course. Also, don't be scared to be someone different in the plant team. If the plant team is all peashooters, then switch out because the more diversity the better because a team of long range Foot Solider variants with a few other zombies can totally dominate a team of peashooters.

    Beware of the timer too. There will be times where the zombies capture the garden with little time left. Once it reaches 30 seconds, somehow the zombies are able to say "yolo" in their heads and they all run towards your garden. Think of this like the final wave like in every Plant vs Zombies game. To prevent this, make sure there are no flank routes where the zombies can run through and retreat to the garden if your a Peashooter and get ready to chili bean bomb whatever group of zombies that are entering/in your garden.

    All in all, the plants are equal against the zombies it's just how you use them.

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AWMaxSterling
12 years ago

I actually disagree with a lot of what you said.

First off, most of the good players and higher ranked players will choose to be zombies over plants. Let's face it, the longer the game lasts... the better the payout for zombies. Zombies aren't usually more organized, either. It's just that there's 2-3 self-centered players who will always pick off plants from a distance and worry about their kill/death and since the plants usually like to wait for the zombies come to them, they often hide and don't start shooting back until it's too late.

Potted plants may kill an occasional player, but there's way too few pots available and the placement is horrible. I often find it a waste to even place one... and I have 300+ of every peashooter variant. Summoned zombies will often beat potted plants, so why bother other than to provide a distraction for summoned zombies?

Crazy Dave is a waste of a body. Get out of the Winnebago and shoot somebody. In the time it takes for one cherry bomb assault, they can plant mines or shoot someone and be more useful to me.

Reviving is for the most part, useless in G&G. There are only 2 instances where I'll accept a revive as a plant. First, we just lost an objective and we're behind the zombies. Anything to slow down their advance is beneficial. Second, if my special abilities are nearly recharged. Any other time it's just better to respawn and regain your abilities. As a zombie, it's better to just respawn if you already have the teleporter up. Only time I want to be revivied is due to time constraints or if I'm in the objective. Also, there is no option to self-revive in G&G... and if you're playing a higher difficulty level in Garden Ops, you never want to waste self-revives early on. Wait until the timer is about to run out and try to save those self-revives until as late as possible.

As long as players earn coins for getting kills, they're gonna keep trying to get more kills. If they want players to play the objective, then they need to change the payout structure to reward the objective and not kills. 

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xcrimsonlegendx
12 years ago

I've got to agree about the boss mode thing, it is completely useless. Dropping a heal station or a revive here or there does basically nothing for the team. If you spend the entire game as a "boss" you're just shortchanging your team, having one more able bodied player to defend/attack is MUCH more helpful than a random airstrike that hardly ever gets a kill.

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