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xcrimsonlegendx
Seasoned Ace
10 years ago

New ability suggestions

Balancing on the battlefield seems to be a big subject lately so I wanted to throw out some ideas for abilities to bring things up to pace with some of the lacking classes.


Plants


Cactus: Infi-nut

From: PvZ 2

Replaces Wall-nut and Iron maiden with a Wall-nut variant from PvZ 2's Far-future, when placed it emits a medium sized bubble shield to protect plants inside. Can be taken down more easily with electric attacks for balancing reasons in Gardens & Graveyards.

Peashooter: Jalepeno

From: PvZ & PvZ 2

Replaces Chili bean bomb and Sombrero bean bomb with a hot pepper that explodes igniting all zombies within its blast radius, to balance the DOT effect the radius and blast damage would be less than that of the Chili beans.

Chomper: Garlic

From PvZ & PvZ 2

Replaces spike weed with a deployable garlic that emits a noxious gas cloud that damages and disorientates zombies for a short time so Chomper can eat them more easily. Similar to the Foot soldier's stink clouds but green and affixed to the garlic that is spat out on the ground.

Sunflower: Intensive carrot

From PvZ 2

Replaces heal flower and dark flower with a deployable carrot that will revive any plants within its radius, much like the heal and revive stations deployed by Crazy Dave and Dr. Zomboss in GW1. This ability would allow sunflower to drop an intensive carrot on a downed plant and then move on so she can stay in the fight, instead of standing still and getting hit with a ZPG.


Zombies

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Engineer: Zombot turret

From pre-release GW1

Replaces the mounted turret and drones with a planted zombot turret, like the ones you can construct around the teleporters. This ability would mirror the Sunflower's Dark flower potted turret ability. This ability was once in the game, it was planned to be anyhow but was removed and replaced with a drone in order to compete with the Cactus' Garlic drone, it can be seen on the game's box art as well as in the zombie class trailer.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    sounds cool but u would be outlined so its not op
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I wish the sunflower had something similar to the bean bomb:  maybe a spinny bomb and call it a solar windmill or just a regular bomb and call it an Ellerman bomb.  Alternatively, maybe something along the lines of Arcane enigma that allows you to escape and do damage (coronal eruption).  She'd have to trade her flare, of course, for any one of these.  Just as you are forced to choose between goop variants and the like.

  • jamesgunn9828's avatar
    jamesgunn9828
    10 years ago

    What I felt before heal zombie healer consumable was a thing was where the scientist wore the heal station that way all you would need to deo is move and heal your team easy mode. Unfortunately healer zombie is a thing so it probably won't happen, but one can dream. 

  • Zaheen1337's avatar
    Zaheen1337
    10 years ago

    I strongly suggest you think of new abilities that balance the game and not make it more broken than it is.

    Scientist with a vampire heal beam, is that a troll ability? They kill anything in like 2 seconds what kind of sucky sucky Scientist player would need that?

    Sunflower should be able to replace her beam with some sort of Absorb Shield, a glowing aura around her that allows her to survive long enough to bloody revive someone, or even kill someone 🙂

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    These ideas were prerelease ideas. So much disappointment must had been happening when you realized the only new abilities were from the deluxe edition and only for corn and super brainz. Chomper got 1 super useless one too. But that's it.
  • @XMalakhX

    Hopefully they buff Chompers new ability because right now it is garbage. I'm sure they have stats on how many people are killing with it. I bet all them kills are backyard tests.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    @Zaheen1337 wrote:

    Sunflower should be able to replace her beam with some sort of Absorb Shield, a glowing aura around her that allows her to survive long enough to bloody revive someone, or even kill someone 🙂


    This is a great idea during revives.  I feel like I can't revive anyone without buying the farm myself.

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