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Iron_Guard8's avatar
6 years ago

New character ideas

We had one a long time ago and had several suggestions. We know more are coming and as the game will rely more on brand new characters over variants, it's time to suggest more! (Also, I was pondering a new plant support class last night).

Lemon: the lemon is a plant support with 100 or 125 health.

Main Weapon: Lemon juicer. This is beam weapon that overheats, it does a bit more damage than Sunflower at close range, but it dissipates rapidly, so at long range it causes very little damage. It's similar to the Citron beams after the sniper nerf in GW2.

Abilities:

Lemon Drops: has 2 charges. When you activate it, it drops a lemon drop near you. When a plant runs over it, it reloads 50% of their ammo capacity instantly, or if they have an overheat weapon, it dissipates up to 50% of their total heat meter instead. This uses the drop up. Can be destroyed, maybe 25 health or so.

Lemon-aid: has 1 charge. When you activate it, it drops a pitcher of lemon-aid nearby. When a plant runs through it, it refreshes all their cooldowns by 50% of their total meters. No effect on cool downs that are already reset. It too can be shot, I'm thinking 35 health or so.

Fresh Scent: This is an aura that you activate that follows you around for 5 seconds or so. It's a translucent effect so it doesn't block LoS or hide anyone but  zombies in the aura take minor damage every tick, plants have a small heal for every tick. I'm thinking 2 damage/healing per tick but it could be adjusted.

No idea if this is too weak or what but I wanted a support character that felt like a support!

Some of the upgrades could be (some of the names may already be used by Citron):

Freshly Squeezed: Lemon-aid also heals the plant that picks it up by 10 and gives a brief HoT that heals 2 per tick for a few seconds as well.

Improved Recipe: You can lay 3 instead of 2 lemon drops being needing to recharge.

Lemon Scented: Faster revives for anyone inside your fresh scent aura.

They would have the basic plant support upgrades and would need a few more to fill them out.

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  • You've really thought this one through! I doubt popcap will take on our ideas but it is still very fun to hear people's inventions 😀

  • Just came up with this one earlier: Ghost Pepper. He would be an attack class.

    Primary Fire: Seeds that ignite after you land a couple hits (similar to when electric slide stuns someone) His rate of fire will be about the same as corn's shogun guard upgrade.

    Abilities:

    Possession: Take control of an AI unit for a limited time and provide powerful buffs, similar to wizard's co-star, but you play as the AI unit. This can include AI reinforcements, potted plants, and maybe even bosses? (Not sure about the bosses part XD)

    Haunting aura: Ignite your supernatural talents and make the very air around you scolding- damaging enemies at a slow but steady rate.

    Carolina grim reaper: Unleash your full potential and deliver a devastating beam of white hot fire. (This would probably be as powerful as crater maker, but slow to aim.

    Special: When igniting enemies with haunting aura, your primary fire does more damage.

    And there it is. Had a lot of other ideas of what you could do with this character, but had to narrow down my ideas. I do know we already have a plant fire class, but I was just speculating a class that is similar to the wizard's playstyle.

  • 34975634954957's avatar
    34975634954957
    6 years ago

    For Zombies how about a Zombie scary clown?

    Designed to be a close range attack character, primary would be a water jet fired out of a flower on his coat, a constant stream on an overheat. Decent damage but shorter range.

    Ability 1 is a bucket of confetti which does damage over a limited area. Ability 2 is an old fashioned car horn that makes a loud noise and throws enemies up into the air and slows them down for a couple of seconds. Ability 3 is a custard pie that can be thrown over a short range. Does decent damage of 75 or 125 damage for hitting the face. A bit of splash too.

  • Plant Hero: Wall-Knight (same design as in PVZ heroes)
    Roll: Defense
    Weapon: "Nutcracker" A laser bean very similar to the citron in GW2, very good for damaging armored zombies and shields
    Abilities:
    HOT WALNUT: Wall-Knight launches into zombie zombies exploding on impact (honoring the PVZ minigame)
    Hard Shell: For a short period of time, Wall-Knight gains armor (similar to PVZ heroes).
    WALNUT WALL: This ability has two packs, creates a large walnut wall that blocks zombies from passing (as references, they can take Mei's ability in Overwatch)

    updates
    Nut Breaker: Increases Nutcracker damage to shields.
    Tall nut: increases resistance to damage
    Cooldown: The nutcracker takes time to overheat
    Recovery: The nutcracker takes less time to cool down
    Grill: Burn your enemies by using hot walnut
    Bowling: Increases the impact radius of hot walnut
    Ripe Walnut: increases the duration of Hard Shell
    Quick Shell: Hard Shell takes less time to recharge if it takes a lot of damage.
    Explosive nuts: The wall explodes when destroyed
    Deep vision: See the zombies through the wall

  • What about a grapefruit and lemo combo. So the grapefruit and lemon are brothers, that use their own abilities.

    You summon one at a time,but can use the others unique traits to give different combos.

  • Shadowphinx101's avatar
    Shadowphinx101
    6 years ago

    This is my my new, more advance thoughts.

    The new class should be the 'citrus brothers'. There are a duo of grapefruit and lemon, that are younger cousins of the citron. They can change between each other. The grapefruit is a hard-working strong character whois more offensive. The lemon is a cool hip-hop star, using his dance moves to energise the plant team. They have been sent by their father to join the foregrounds of BFN. *NOTE they are ONE CLASS...

    Grapefruit:

    He is a noble, strong plant. He uses his samurai style and katanas to slice thorugh any zombies hair in a clean cut.

    Primary Weapon:

    Katanas-C: Weapon box is same to chomper and super brainz. He slices in a three-burst combo

    Middle Ability: Summons an ancient spell to call his brother, lemon.

    Left Ability: Punches the ground with his fist, stunning zombies in the vicinity.

    Right Ability: Throws three mini-grenades in the front direction, poisoning and exploding zombies.

    Sprinting: Uses a propeller to move quickly.

    Lemon:

    The Lemon is a hip-hop star who uses his dance moves to dance his way around Olds Cool. Watch out Electric Slide, there's a new dancer in town!

    Primary Weapon:

    Lemonz Dancez: Shoots pellets of lemon juice to inflict acidic damage!

    Middle Ability: Dances and spins to summon his brother, Grapefruit

    Left Ability: (Dancing Power) Uses the power of DANCE to create a golden aura that boosts defense and speed.

    Right Ability: (Lemon Sherbet) Eat zingy-sugary power and shoots massive orbs of vitamin C that HOME IN on zombies

  • I have a great idea for a new character. It would be good to see Bitter Dill as a boss character. He might cost a lot of money and will have 400 HP. What do you guys thinks?  Side note: I hope they will re-add Big Stump 🙂

  • JonnyTyler820's avatar
    JonnyTyler820
    6 years ago

    i also have a idea for a plant character. it is Spudow from plants vs zombies heroes. he would be in a new category called strength. he has a longish hammer so he can attack from a little farther away. he also can shoot out potato mines, and use super strength as another power. it lasts about 3-5 minutes but this is debatable. and if popcap liked this idea they could come up with whatever they wanted his moves to be. 

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