This is really strange, normally the PvZ Twitter announce the update one day before it happens, and nothing was posted period.
Really hope they didn't cancel it or anything but... It's really strange.
Announcement from Shaun on Twitter 🙂
Ok, I've just had 3 games of turf.
Ist game: Was on Turning Point as a zombie in what started as a full lobby.
The zombies of course did the usual holding the plants at the bottleneck. A couple of minutes in, I checked teams & noticed plants were now a player down.
I tried swapping teams & got the usual "Are you sure you want to change teams? You may lose coins blah blah". I selected continue, but got message saying I couldn't because the other team had too many players . . . I double-checked & plants stll had 7 players to our 8.
I would've said my team had a larger amount of higher ranks as well - but I know that rank may not be used as a way to gauge balance in teams.
Game finished predictably & boringly at first base.
2nd game: Game started 8 zombies to 7 plants, zombies attacking, but we very quickly lost 2 plant players. A new player came in & they were added to plant side - whether that would've happened if there had been space on zombies, I can't tell. Lobby filled up & ended 2nd base.
3rd game: Found I'd been put on plants again, but plants were * still a player down. I don't know if I was moved because doing so meant that I was separated from a player who had just joined the lobby & was similarly ranked - the two of us were the highest ranks by a considerable margin.
That other player turned out to be a long-time nemesis from GW2 & by the time my team lost at the end of the game, I'd had enough of PvP experimenting!!! 😭😂
Would be interested in other people's observations!
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@ToastedSarnie Did the weekly event today (finally got around to it), the lobby numbers varied/fluctuated a lot. It was hard to really tell, but there was this one game which actually started as a 5v5, it did not change until people started leaving, then when the lobby started filling again, than it stayed around the same! I found it hard to determine whether the update was active (on team swap and whatnot). There were no stable numbers of people as people kept leaving and joining.
There was one game where it was 5 plants VS 2 Zombies (I was on plants). I'm pretty sure the lobby started at 5v5 in this game, but than zombie players started leaving (plants kept dominating on this game mode).
Probably good to keep an eye on this! 🤨 👍
I had sort of 2 and a half games I think... as both @ToastedSarnie and @TheSprinter85 have already said was difficult to tell whether the new changes have made any difference. However I was put on the zombies team twice in a row, so this might have been due to the changes last night.
Guess as reports roll in as people try it we will know more 🙂
When I played yesterday, I entered the worst stacked lobby I’ve seen to date. Plants had two kills and Zombies had 30 something. One Zombie had 26 kills at the end of the match and 3-4 others had 10 or more (which suggests due to the lack of revives in stats) that some of them had just switched teams.
The next match, I was on the same team as the taunting 26 frags from before so I SWITCHED teams to be against him. This was ~2 hours after yesterday’s Tweets.
I’ll check again in 30-45.
I'm curious as well. I did play for a bit last night but was hanging out in Weirding Woods to work on soldier challenges. I would say the team balance and getting mechanics (lag, hit boxes, crashes, etc.) are the 2 key issues the game has right now, so it will be nice to see it in better shape!
I'm not able to get online today, so I was wondering if anyone has played since the game updated? And did team switching get limited? Does matchmaking seem better?
Oops @ToastedSarnie I am such an observant person! XD sorry about that!
