Introduce Yourselves to the Neighborville!

The legendary @ZEROxFUSIONZ  I've seen quite a few of your videos including the one where you got the Unicorn Stuffy hat for Chomper, we started a thread, just click on Answers HQ and type in Unicorn Stuffy Hat, lots of us are trying to get those legends at EA to give Nintendo Switch players that hat, we're getting lots of feedback and EA community managers are doing what they can you make it happen, and possibly other things too, lets hope it happens 😁

The PvZ3 you're referring to, is it Garden Warfare 3 you're asking about? Or is is PvZ3 on mobile?

You have lots of followers, many of them would be Nintendo Switch players like myself, if you make another video, asking Switch players to come on and share their stories and experiences and why they love BfN, and GW1/2 and politely ask for the Unicorn Stuffy hat for Switch players, the more people that ask, the more likely it is to happen 😁 and who knows what else may happen? 😁

Welcome to the PvZ community, Shepard! It truly warms my heart in a place that's been left cold for the past few years to see a person as prominent as yourself in PvZ. It's kind of sad to see PvZ in the state it's in at the moment, but with someone that gives active communication (you) perhaps this could change the state of the community - let alone the series in more of a positive direction rather than... I don't know how you'd describe the current temperature.  But anyways..

I prefer to use PC for about everything. I play the shooters on PC, I emulate PvZ2 via an Android emulator on PC, and I play the original on PC.

When talking in terms of the shooters, I cannot choose a side. Plants have some of my favorite classes - Roses for cursing and assisting, Sunflowers for good damage while supporting, and Chompers for un close combat, versus zombies... which has the technical Engineer, with his good splash, portal creation, and mobility. The All-Star with his unique weapon type, useful abilities and tanky health, and ESPECIALLY the Scientist with his supportive set and up-close ambush playstyle. 

As an avid player of both GW1 and GW2, It's hard to say because I really love the maps in both.  So I'll do it like this:

Top 5 GW1 maps:

#1 - Main Street (Night and Day)

#2 - Driftwood Shores (Night and Day)

#3 - Chomp Town

#4 - Jewel Junction

#5 - Zomboss Estate

Top 5 GW2 maps:

#1 - Aqua Center

#2 - Frontline Flats

#3 - Zombopolis

#4 - Moon Base Z/Zomburbia (I love Zomburbia but it has some awful collision with a lot of objects)

#5 - Seeds of Time/ Frosty Creek/Z-Tech/Zen Peak (I cannot choose a favorite, and you can't make me!)

Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of merch, I have a few plush here and there, and I have this old Welder from GW2 toy that's like a plastic action figure. 

I have a few questions for you in return..

#1 - What do you think of the turf maps from GW2? Specifically, what do you love that's done right with them? What do you think could've been done to approve? And do you think all Turf maps should've made their way to GW2 instead of just WNH?

#2 - What is your current belief on the shooter series for PvZ? Do you think it could come back? How do you think a hypothetical BFN 2 or GW3 would be done? Would it be community oriented? Or would it be a sort of combination of all three past titles with more content? What do you think? Ignoring new titles, What do you think of GW2 right now? Do you believe there's a lot of nested potential in the game still? Do you think the anticheat could be improved if there's enough momentum behind GW2? And what was your reaction (If you were around) to the "level 46" exploit recent discovered?

#3 - Speaking specifically on Garden Warfare 2, what do you think the game does best? What do you think it is lacking or could've improved on? 

And finally, #4. Out of the entire PvZ series, what game is your favorite and why? We all know that all five major games are great, but if you had to spend 24 hours playing one game, which in the series would it be and why? 

Thanks for reading! And again, welcome to the PvZ community, Shepard!

-Phwee

Omg I love your videos! What are your thoughts about getting Unicorn Stuffy hat for Nintendo Switch players? @ZEROxFUSIONZ 

Hi @EA_Shepard  I think you're right, it would do well since there's a lot of people playing Plants Vs Zombies on Switch, I started with Garden Warfare 1 and 2 on Xbox, but I only play Battle For Neighbourville on Nintendo Switch, it's my favourite series, I love playing on the go, when I'm on the train heading to work, I start laughing and hyped up coz if the excitement of battle, some people even start to watch and they laugh with me, I tell them to get a Nintendo Switch and Plants Vs Zombies and you can do the same, it's so fun, I prefer Plants Vs Zombies over Call Of Duty and more than Fortnite, coz in Plants Vs Zombies you actually have different characters and abilities unlike Fortnite where it's all the same, it's just your character looks different, other than that, there's no difference, there's untapped potential for this amazing series because there's so many different types of trees and plants you could make, like a banana that shoots banana skins which stay on the ground and zombies can slip on them, and it shoots a rainbow banana that sticks to a zombie or any surface and blows up causing splash damage to nearby zombies, point is you could come with all sorts of things, just don't forget about the Unicorn Stuffy hat for Switch players 

Banana plant would be awesome lol, I was thinking of a watermelon, one with a bit lower body, when it jumps, and then lands, it splits open releasing a tidal wave of red watermelon juice that could wash zombies in the sea or off a cliff if you're playing the maps that have cliffs or beaches lol, it also shoots sticky watermelon juice that shows down zombies and it shoots watermelon pips like a machine gun as the main weapon @QQueenWWitch1313 

I just wanna thank you for continuing to push the ideas and things players want in Battle For Neighbourville on Nintendo Switch, and other platforms, I looked up the Pizza Chomper, looks like lots of fun, but it is Plants Vs Zombies where everything is fun 😁

Anything else that you can show us photos of that you're pushing for? @EA_Shepard @EA_Cath 

I also just bought some DLC for Garden Warfare 2 on Xbox Series X in support of EA and the series, I even took a photograph to show you 😁 we just won't forget about Unicorn Stuffy hat of course lol 

@EA_Blueberry @EA_Abril @EA_Leeuw 

@EA_Shepard Hello Mr. Shepard! I am a longtime fan of PVZ: Battle For Neighborville and I would like to address an issue that hopefully you could tell the higher-ups and see if they can get it fixed. I’ve been trying to fix this for a few years now, but nobody else has ever seemed to help. If you could please read my whole message that would be greatly appreciated!

I have been having an issue on Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville since December of 2021. Basically, for the past 2 years, what happens is while I’m playing on the Xbox Series X (the newest Xbox) the game will randomly crash and it makes my entire Xbox lose audio even when I go into other games. Then if I keep playing the game it will eventually freeze entirely and I have to restart my Xbox Series X. This makes the game IMPOSSIBLE to play and I wanna be able to complete the game! I have already tried multiple fixes for this, like clearing my Alternate MAC address and clearing Blu Ray and Disc Space storage. The other thing I do is I always have a fast internet speed and a WIRED connection. So I know this is not an internet issue. I believe this is an issue due to the fact that Plants Vs Zombies Battle For Neighborville is no longer receiving updates and is not supported anymore, and Next Gen consoles (including the Xbox Series X) did NOT come out until AFTER the game stopped receiving updates, so they never optimized it. So I need someone to go and make the game optimized for next-gen consoles including the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and the PS5 if you could contact them to make it possible. I’ve already read the EA Answers HQ and multiple people just like me are having the same problem. I think someone who works at EA needs to go and make the game optimized for Next-Gen consoles including the Xbox Series X and S, and the PS5. I chatted with someone on EA Help about this over the summer, and he told me he was going to let the workers at EA know about the issue so hopefully they could fix it. Well here we are  MONTHS later and still nothing. So if you could PLEASE ask them to go in and fix something on that game, they can easily have someone go in and optimize Plants Vs Zombies: Battle For Neighborville on Xbox Series X, S, and the PS5, so that me and many others can enjoy playing the game without interruption! What you need to do is have an EA official worker go in to the game files or Xbox system, apply a patch that addresses this Next-Gen issue, Optimize the game for Next-Gen, and then release the update for everyone on all consoles so that this issue does NOT happen anymore. I know it would make not just me, but other players having the same issue happy as well!

Thanks, C Pett

I've been a big fan of PvZ ever since the first game. Then the second game came along and as soon as it came out on Android it hooked me even more. I also played all the spin-offs such as PvZ Heroes and the shooter games (GW1, GW2, BFN). I literally have thousands of hours on PvZ GW2.

• I play PvZ games on PC and mobile. I don't have a console but I frequently play the PvZ shooters on PC. I have also played PvZ 1 on both PC and mobile. I've also played all the PvZ games on mobile (PvZ 1, PvZ 2 and PvZ Heroes). 
• Don't really have a strong preference but I guess zombies. I really enjoyed seeing what PvZ GW2 did with its twist of making plants and zombies switch roles and show us some zombie controlled environments.
• My favorite gamemodes are Turf Takeover, Garden/Graveyard Ops and Capture the Taco. Some of my favorite maps in the series are Moon Base Z, Zombopolis, Time Park and Z-Tech Factory.
• I don't really have any PvZ merch myself unfortunately though it could've probably been cool to have some.

These interactions from EA mean a lot to the PvZ community. Many of us still really wanna see the series thrive again. The PvZ shooter fanbase is still going strong even after all these years of no new updates or games to speak of and we greatly value these interactions.

Thank you for all the help with the ongoing issues and everything.

Finally dug up this old fella. Got him years ago alongside two Bonk choys I can't find atm at a walmart for a few dollars.

I know I also have the old figures of pvz1 disco zombie and wallnut alongside a floaty zombie and peashooter that are also mia.