Plants vs Zombies: A Post Mortem Analysis
Good evening everyone, I decided to make a post about the challenges of playing as the Plants when up against Zombies. I know there have been a lot of complaints about this match up and that it does...
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You managed to get heal master with toxic and fire pea? Amazing.
You can't post one game using peashooter with high kills and justify it by calling everyone else bad. I went 58-2 the other night with a 29 kill streak and 41 assists with toxic pea, and? It was gnome bomb and I was camping on a roof. It doesn't change the fact plants suck. The moment I drop down everything can one shot me. On this game mode I defended our base in overtime and we won, this doesn't work in any other game mode or when they're half the skill of me.
You did all that and your team still lost. Why is that do you think?
@Zaheen1337 wrote:You managed to get heal master with toxic and fire pea? Amazing.
You can't post one game using peashooter with high kills and justify it by calling everyone else bad. I went 58-2 the other night with a 29 kill streak and 41 assists with toxic pea, and? It was gnome bomb and I was camping on a roof. It doesn't change the fact plants suck. The moment I drop down everything can one shot me. On this game mode I defended our base in overtime and we won, this doesn't work in any other game mode or when they're half the skill of me.
You did all that and your team still lost. Why is that do you think?
Yes, they are called sunflowers, you can plant them at the turfs to get a lot of healing points 😇.
I get this several times a day.. I do not screenshot every single one of them.. A lot of the times I do manage to hold them off, but it's tough when only one other guy can really play good enough in your team. The team balance was just bad, way too many low levels on one side. The round after that, I even got placed into the better team 😞 You can imagine how easy that round was..
Besides, FYI, I was not roof camping like you were.. I do not share the same "everything can one shot me on the ground" thought. Jump around for gods sake, use your super speed, drop your chili bomb, go into machine gun mode and obliterate them all..
@Gryphon222 I have won lots and lots of times with plants side and steam rolling over the other side.. Maybe it doesn't happen on console a lot but it sure as hell happens a lot on PC. Especially when you got one other good player on your side like in this screenshot:
That's an issue with a lot of games, it's not always the guns or the abilities etc that's overpowered. It's a matter of balancing players. That's Especially hard to do in a game like Plants vs Zombie for two big reasons:
• big variety in player ages, from little kids that just like to play to adults who really understand the game and the tactics behind it
• There are so many different variants and characters, a player can be god with one plant but be * with another. Yet people kind of play every single one of them to level them up.
I'm not saying the zombie or plants side is perfect, not at all, many variants/characters need little tweaks! Just don't expect the game to be balanced, just because the plants / zombies technically are. That's only consistently possible in a Gaming event with "Pro's".
Heck, I've always wondered how on earth they would balance the new characters along with the old ones, It's turned out far better than I expected it to be with all those new abilities..
I agree that balancing the game is not going to be easy or even possible. I am just making the argument that in order to help the situation out there needs to be more close quarters capabilities on the plants side. You cannot argue that the Zombies don't completely dominate that space. If you took players of equal skill and put them on the two different sides, I would bet in objective based modes that the Zombies are going to have the edge because of the constant close quarter fighting.
I'm afraid it never will be perfectly balanced (not even talking about the players now). The way they are balancing it, is just too slow.
They should've made a system where they can adjust the numbers on the fly without having to push an update to the game.
- This character +0,5 damage, that other character -1 damage, other character bullets per minute slightly up etc etc.
I think I misunderstood you, and I think you misunderstood me. ;P
I wasn't putting you down, I just thought you meant you had one game as Pea and said its balanced. Sorry about that 🙂
