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Re: Balancing Going Viral

@ bythehill The timer stops for the animations now, I think it has since season 2, could be wronjg on that. As long as you don't take your time with your plays, you can get quite a few tricks in.

Also, you could say environments and team up... But then again you can also cheaply overwrite that environment with strikethrough + deadly on the same turn, taking care of both of those issues... Something plants don't have the luxury of.

And while yes, exactly like clique peas, you need a good draw to get there; also like clique peas, it happens often enough that my friend knew to start recording there. (It's my YouTube channel, but my friend gameplay he sent me)

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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Hey, this thread has had a lot of replies since it was started - it's... Going Viral!
boom boom! :eahigh_file:
(terrible joke, I know...)
daalnnii
8 years ago
@brainzfreeze lol that's so bad... Haha
Anonymous
8 years ago
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I still say that clique peas at a 2 cost would have been fine and never needed(it really didn't) to be fixed, and by fixed I mean neutered

The only really scary clique peas deck(s) I found to be were the green shadow beans deck. Having those extra 1sun beans was pretty strong, and although I love my magic beanstalks, the peas got scarier as game went on
Anonymous
8 years ago
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Personally I think going viral is quite balanced. Plant players already pack so much freezing and removal that I've never really had an issue with going viral unless I play as captain combustible
daalnnii
8 years ago
No, I agree, I was just sitting the similarities in the arguments about cliques. And to me, they really we're somewhat equal in my eyes. Going viral was a bit more powerful in the right circumstances, but it also couldn't be played on turn one. They can both spiral ridiculously out of control.

Honestly, I think the game is in a decent spot. I've built a few different overall winning plant decks that are at least break even against the current zombie metas. To me that screams balance.

I just thought it was funny for zombie players to be using the same defences that plants used for cliques. They failed to see the downsides, much like plant players fail to see them with going viral, and realize with it that it takes a good draw and well built deck to get them to be overpowering, without acknowledging that the same was true for the other side.
Anonymous
8 years ago
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That's not just the game though. The game reflects life, look how divided by beliefs so much of the world is, because both sides cannot imagine what it is like to be the other side. Sometimes the only thing that we have in common is enemies.
daalnnii
8 years ago
@patdk75 that may be too much truth for these forums!