Re: Character Upgrades Guide: Garden Warfare 2!

@TheSprinter85 

Bit of a tome to get through, but that said. An impressive piece of work and - I might add - an incredibly useful tool for someone like me who only plays GW2.

Thanks for that. It's great.

Thanks - I do appreciate that feedback! 

I did have to split this guide into multiple different parts, due to how large the guide ended up becoming, so apologies if it takes ages to get through the whole guide. I always tend to make use of the character upgrades that are available in Garden Warfare 2, including the rarer upgrades, and I always found it hard to find information on exactly what the upgrades do and how significant of a change or addition they add to a character. I used this guide to give others information on concepts that might be hard to come across regarding the character upgrades, or to give me more information on exactly how the character upgrades work, which allowed me to learn a lot more about the upgrades as well.

No worries. I read the whole thing through the other day, but in future, as I only play a fixed set of characters anyway, I can pick and choose from yr suggestions and recommendations and apply what I find most helpful to me.

Through the years I have copied walk-throughs of Boss Hunts, tips on gameplay and now this, yr Character Guide, just in case EA do intend re-juvenating the game, so really appreciate this tremendous effort of yours. Brilliant stuff. So thanks again.

I really do hope that EA does decide to update the game in the future, or alternatively, if they add some of the old events back into the town hall (I have no idea why they were discontinued). This game is still quite popular, which is why EA should continue providing the community with updates. If this was not an option, hopefully a new shooter could be made in future which would add new content and expand on existing content. Battle for Neighborville (BFN) ended up being cancelled and no longer receiving updates, so an update to this game or a new PvZ Garden Warfare shooter game would be great to see in future.

It was great fun learning about the "secret" gimmicks that the upgrades provide, especially the less known upgrades.

Re the "secret gimmicks". Absolutely! Despite having played the game since it came out and being a Max ranker in two of my three accounts (.....this is an embarrassing admission!) some of your upgrade commentary was new to me, so it was definitely worth the read.

As regards a possible GW3 (rather than a BfN2). Although there are aspects of BfN that could be transferred to an upgraded version of Garden Warfare I do find the game a regression in so many aspects of gameplay when compared to the GW series.....but of course opinions will undoubtedly differ on that one.

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@ManicMossie wrote:

Re the "secret gimmicks". Absolutely! Despite having played the game since it came out and being a Max ranker in two of my three accounts (.....this is an embarrassing admission!) some of your upgrade commentary was new to me, so it was definitely worth the read.

As regards a possible GW3 (rather than a BfN2). Although there are aspects of BfN that could be transferred to an upgraded version of Garden Warfare I do find the game a regression in so many aspects of gameplay when compared to the GW series.....but of course opinions will undoubtedly differ on that one.

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I just hit 3k on my GW2 play time but 3 accounts is dedication!

And Agreed, we need a GW3 as while I don't hate BfN like some do, and some ideas the game adds are great, it just isn't as fun as GW2 and has more issues than GW2 does on top of that. I keep eyes on here, the reddit, and Twitter for news on a new PvZ shooter, but still nothing. We really need a new one, and the sooner the better.

As always @TheSprinter85 thanks for the info! Glad you're still around and posting!

Thanks @Iron_Guard8 . Those accounts were the result of having (finally) been able to complete the Trials of Gnomus, and being so surprised that I actually managed to complete one that I had to try and do another one just to make sure that it wasn't a freak one-off piece of luck. Did the second and the third one, but never managed to max rank my last account before BfN came along.

 

I'm definitely far from hating BfN, but that said, I was doing my level best at being diplomatic recogninzing that a lot of people enjoy the game..........on afterthought, I suppose that they wouldn't be on the "Other Plants vs Zombies Games" portal anyway, so I could have been less so. 

Bumping this post for visibility.

I do intend to create guides similar to this one in the near future, including one I am working on now - and hopefully we will see new or returning content for GW2 in the (near) future as well. 

Actually I would recommend using this guide if starting to build certain characters for Boss Hunt regarding the choice of upgrades.

@VendetedFox Good question. I would say the top three, respectively, are Electro Pea, Plasma Pea and Agent Pea, as they seem like good candidates. Although, all Peashooters have their merits due to their abilities and different gimmicks.

Actually that gives me an interesting idea for another guide I could create in future, regarding how effective each character and character variant could be into Boss Hunt modes. 🤔