Scrapped content part 3: bfn
Bfn scrapped content
Bfn has quite a few of these since we all know the game was officialy cancelled not even a year after launch and had a shadow cancellation even before that.
Characters
Berry brigade
As of the January 2020 patch, some assets related to the character such as the weapon data and model were added to the game files, but were removed in the March 2020 patch.
Iceberg Lettuce
Since the November 2019 patch, there has been a character select icon in the game data that simply says "L." However, this has been revealed to be the placeholder icon for the Ice Plant as of the January 2020 patch, as the filename has been renamed to that. She even has an partially finished model.
As of the May 2020 patch, or CU5 (Content Update 5), character models, weapon data, upgrade data, and ability data for this plant exist in the game files. However, it has been confirmed that she has been scrapped due to the game's end of support.
Super bean
In the July 2020 patch, The files for him were added to the playable characters folder, complete with a primary weapon, 3 abilities (Cape Twirl, Team Shield, and Warp), and one passive ability, to jump long distances when the jump button is held down. He already appears in the game as a boss along with its cape twirl and warp abilities. The Team Shield ability seems to be specific to the playable version of the character, as it can give nearby plant characters force fields to protect them from a certain amount of damage. He was considered playable before wildflower but scrapped since wildflower required less time.
There are also references to other playable characters in the game, such as Cabbage, Squash, Mini Gargantuar, Toxic Zombie, and Browncoat. However, not much is known other than their internal names, and for some their weapon data.
Toxic Zombie would supposedly have had a chargeable sniper rifle called the "Needle Rifle" and a "Sticky Grenade" attack.
Mini Gargantuar had a primary attack that would have involved him aiming his weapon forwards, which would have likely been similar to Gargantuar's power pole attack, and a secondary attack that would have aimed his weapon downwards, which would likely have been something similar to Gargantuar's slam attack.
Browncoat, also known as "Eric", had 8 possible primaries in the game's code, one of which allowed him to throw vinyl records that roll along the ground when unzoomed and throw records like frisbees when zoomed in, similarly to peashooters scrapped legendary upgrade.
Cabbage had an alternate name in the game's code, "Catapult". This may have meant that it would have been similar to the Cabbage-pult from the tower defense games.
Gnome tag
An unreleased playable character that has a complete model, fully functional weapon, and abilities. It has 340 health and three abilities: Warp, Hammer Slam, and Grenade. While sprinting, the Gnome Cave theme song from gw2 plays.
The primary weapon has a rate of fire of 420 RPM and deals 9.5 damage, with an occasional damage increase to 10.
The Warp ability allows it to warp 45 meters (147.64 feet) away from the current position, three times farther than Scientist's Warp, and has a recharge time of 6 seconds.
The Hammer Slam ability currently deals no damage and has a recharge time of 15 seconds.
The Grenade ability deals 175 direct damage and has a recharge time of 16 seconds
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Bosses
Super Chili Bean
A scrapped boss from gw2 who was planned to debut in Bfn under the new name of "Mexi-Bean".
Captain Smasher
A boss from a Boss Hunt quest in gw2 was planned to return to Bfn
A scrapped boss from Garden Warfare 2 that was supposed to be released in Battle for Neighborville but it is unknown for which game mode or content this boss would have been part of.
Sasquatch
A boss from Boss Hunt in gw2 was planned to return in bfn
Chompzilla
A plant hero from heroes who was planned to be released in Bfn.
The Yeti King
A boss from Boss Hunt in gw2 that was planned to return to Bfn.
Reworked naval laser and turbo twister.
As of the May 2020 patch, there are some weapon data for a new version of Navel Laser and Turbo Twister.
The new version of Navel Laser would have allowed the player to fire the weapon manually but the weapon would have had 30 rounds. The upgrade is unfinished as the cooldown will still be triggered after 6 seconds due to it reusing the same weapon data as the current Navel Laser. It also has 7 charge stages, possibly intended to allow the player to fire the weapon before the weapon is fully charged, at the cost of having less ammo to fire.
The new version of Turbo Twister would have had a longer cooldown and caused Super Brainz to move in a circular pattern while using the ability, but dealt more damage and lasts longer
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Abilities.
Hey you and astrouanut dock.
Acorn and space cadets would call allt acorns/cadets to their position.
Cannon rodeo
It is unknown if this ability was cannon rodeo as the icon shows him being shot out of it. This was scrapped in favor of anchors away.
Festivus activity sheet.
For Feastivus 2019, multiple activity sheets were released. On three of these sheets are multiple icons for abilities that seem to be from an earlier build. It is unknown why these icons were used instead of the current ones. Noticeable parts of these sheets include -
Unused Hey You! and Cannon Rodeo ability icons.
A Kernel Corn icon left completely unused. Its position makes it likely this was meant for Shuck Shot.
Hyper Jump Thump facing a different direction than the finished icon.
Rocket Ride's color is blue rather than purple.
Sprint Tackle's color is blue rather than pink.
Fung Fu's coloring is slightly darker than its finished icon.
A different activity sheet shows a Fung-Fu icon with one less surrounding shadow
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Cut mechanics
Confidence
A cut acorn mechanic referenced in two u used upgrades.
Bravado:
Gain large amount of confidence randomly when earning a vanquish.
Unknown effect, it appears to utilize a scrapped mechanism called "confidence" according to the description. 2 points.
Determination: Gain more confidence when dealing critical damage.
Unknown effect, it appears to utilize a scrapped mechanism called "confidence" according to the description. 3 points.
Damage falloff
A means of reducing weapon's effectiveness at longer range for balancing purposes, but is almost wholly absent in bfn for no good reason, save for the Sunbeam and Scientist's primary weapon, although the latter has an inverse falloff instead, where the damage is higher at longer range because a shotgun should of course do better at longer range; logic.
Two of the unused upgrades present in the game data—Carbine Rounds and Increased Bullet Range—suggest that damage falloff was meant to be added into the game, but was cut during the development, as these upgrades increase the damage falloff start and end distances
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Unused upgrades
Peashooter
Pea Suped Hover Speed: Increases movement speed by 150% while Pea Suped is active. 2 points.
Damage Reduction Pea Gatling: Reduces the damage taken while in Pea Gatling by 34%.
Bean party:
Chili Bean Bomb yields multiple explosions via smaller bombs.
Actual effect unknown. It appears to last for 10 seconds. The name suggests that this might be an earlier version of the Bean Party upgrade in the final release. 3 points.
Musical fruits: Launch three Chili Bean Bombs instead of one. 7 points.
Chomper
Chomp Explosion
Cause an explosion while using Chomp. The explosion deals 35 damage within a 6m (19.69 ft) radius and knocks enemies 5m (16.4 ft) upward and 12m (39.37 ft) backward. 7 points
Gashag
Increased projectile speed and damage on direct hit of Fumes
Grody Goop has a 100% faster projectile speed and can deal 25 direct hit damage.
2 points
Health on Burrow Vanquish
Vanquishing enemies with Burrow regenerates health at a rate of 2.5 HP per 0.25 seconds for 3 seconds, for a total health recovery of 30 HP. 1 point
Spikeweed Victim Adds Magazine
Trapping enemies with Spikeweed adds a magazine (rather than ammo) to the primary weapon. It is unknown why this upgrade adds a magazine as the game gives an unlimited amount of them for the players, which would have rendered this upgrade useless. 1 point.
Corn
Shuck Shot Size
Unknown effect, actual data seems to have been removed from the game, but it might have changed the projectile blast radius according to its filename. 2 points.
Uber
Unknown effect. 2 points
Nightcap
Fung Fu Kills Reduce Cooldowns
Reduces Fung Fu's cooldown timer by 3 seconds by earning a vanquish with it. 3 points.
Shadow Sneak Strafe Speed
No effect, but the game data shows that it was meant to modify the movement speed in a similar manner to the Parkour upgrade. 3 points.
Uber (Night Cap)
Allows Night Cap to perform an invisible jump and/or a triple jump. 3 points.
Snapdragon
Wider Primary Spray
No effect, but the game data shows that it was meant to modify the projectile shape displacement for the Flame Blower, which does not exist. 2 points.
Cactus
Extra Mines
Increases the amount of Potato Mines the Cactus can carry to 5. 2 points.
Petal Propeller Move Speed
Increases movement speed by 900% while using Petal Propeller. 2 points.
Citron
Spin Dash Vanquish Heal
Vanquishing enemies with Spin Dash fully restores Citron's health. 1 point.
Navel Laser Movement Speed
Increases movement speed by 50% while using Navel Laser. 2 points.
Acorn listed above.
Sunflower
Sunbeam Damage Boost
Increases Sunbeam's damage by 11.1111%. 3 points.
Overflowered
Increased heal rate of Heal Beam. Heal target shoots out Sundrops at max overhealth.
Increases Heal Beam's heal rate to 1.25 HP per 0.25 seconds (5 HP per second). Heal target shoots out an unknown amount of Sundrops at max overhealth. 2 points.
Larger Enigma
Unknown effect, but supposedly it increases the radius of Arcane Enigma.
Larger Jinx AOE
Increases Jinx's inner blast radius to 3.9m (12.8 ft), blast radius to 4m (13.12 ft), and shockwave radius to 4.5m (14.76 ft)
Uber
Increases the rate of fire of allies' weapons by 25%, reduces the reload time and Cactus charge time by 50%, and increases movement speed by 100% for teammates inside Arcane Enigma. All cost 3 points.
Foot soldier
Carbine Rounds
Increased range, reduced recoil of primary weapon.
Decreases the recoil increase per shot by 90% and increases the damage falloff start and end distance by 50%.
Rocket Jump Land Knockback
Landing from Rocket Jump knocks enemies 5m (16.4 ft) upward and 12m (39.37 ft) backward within a 5m (16.4 ft) radius.
ZPG Kill Cooldown
Reduces the cooldown time of ZPG by 3 seconds upon vanquishing an enemy with it.
ZPG Vanquish Gas Cloud
Spawns a Stink Cloud on the location of the vanquished enemy that lasts for 3 seconds. 3 points.
Imp
Faster Missile Madness Low Health
Increases Missile Madness' rate of fire by 100% upon reaching 50% HP or below.
Gravity Grenade Speed
Increases Gravity Grenade's projectile speed by 100%. Both cost two points.
Super brains
Clay Pigeon
Enemy stays aloft longer when hit by Hyper Jump Thump.
Increases the knock-upward distance of enemies hit by Super Jump Thump to 10m (32.81 ft). 2 points
Knockback on Turbo Twister End
Turbo Twister knocks enemies within a 3m radius of the player 5m (16.4 ft) upward and 12m (39.37 ft) backward. 2 points.
Turbo Twister Miss Cooldown
Decreases the cooldown time for Turbo Twister by 5 seconds if it doesn't hit an enemy. 3 points.
Whirlwind Duration
Multiple stage upgrade. 2 points.
80s action hero
Dynamite Dodge Speed
Increases movement speed by 100% for 2 seconds while using Dynamite Dodge.
Can't-Miss-ile Damage Reduce Cooldown
Dealing Damage with Can't-Miss-ile reduces its cooldown time by 1 second.
Secure Landing
Unknown effect. It appears to affect the Dynamite Dodge. All cost 1 point.
Electric Slid
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Funky Bouncer Explosion
Enemies caught in Funky Bouncer receive 25 damage.
Faster Electric Form
Increases movement speed while in Outta Fight! by 25%.
Larger Storm
No effect. It appears that it was meant to increase Disco Tornado's storm size, but the data was removed. All cost 1 point.
Captain deadbeard
Launch Explosion
Deals 35 damage at a 5m (16.4 ft) radius when being launched from Barrel Blast. 1 point.
All star
Uber
Unknown effect. It appears to affect Imp Punt. 3 points.
Space cadet
Gravity Smash Height Damage.
Increases the damage output of Gravity Smash the higher the Space Cadet is from the ground. It is split into 4 power thresholds: a power threshold of 1 gives 12.5% increased damage, 0.75 power threshold gives 14.2857% increased damage, 0.5 power threshold gives 16.6667% increased damage, while 0.25 power threshold gives 20% increased damage.
Big Bang Beam Miss Reduce Cooldown.
Reduces the cooldown time of Big Bang Beam by 5 second if it doesn't hit an enemy. 1 point each.
Scientist
Uber.
This ability either allows the Scientist to have 50 more overhealth points or the Healing Hose to increase the amount of overhealth it can provide by 50 points, similar to Cocoon. 2 points.
Warp Extra Charge.
Adds an additional charge for the Warp ability for a total of 4 Warps. 3 plints.
Engineer
Double time damage.
Double time can deal 25 damage within 3 seconds of deploying it.
Jumpstart
Allies move faster for a short time after landing from Jump Pad.
Increases movement speed of allies by 20% for 3 seconds upon touching Double Time. Both cost 3 points.
Attack classes
Increased Bullet Range
Increases the damage falloff start and end distances by 35%. 2 points.
Support classes
Increased Zoom
No effect. It appears that the data for this upgrade is missing. 1 point.
Ranged Revive
Revive allies from a farther distance.
Increases the maximum revive range by 100% and increases the movement speed of the reviving character by 100%. 1 point.
Legendaries.
Bombing Run
Gain flight and homing on fired rockets. Fire additional rockets by earning a vanquish with Rocket Ride. 7 points.
Peashooter
A legendary upgrade for the Peashooter that fires vinyls that roll when unzoomed and fly in the same fashion as frisbees when zoomed.
Snapdragon
An unfinished legendary upgrade for the Snapdragon, named "Magma Projectile," as of the March 2020 patch. This weapon has a longer effective range than the Flame Blower as well as spawning some magma trails on the ground that deals 13 damage every 0.75 seconds
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Citron
A legendary upgrade for the Citron in the May 2020 patch that fires lasers similar to Navel Laser or Orange Beam.
Acorn
A legendary upgrade for the Acorn in the May 2020 patch that fires high-gravity projectiles.
Oak
There are three legendary upgrades for the Oak added in the May 2020 patch, possibly for testing purposes. They are:
A straight-firing rocket gun that fires in 6-round bursts.
A rocket gun that fires in a sweeping pattern in 10-round bursts.
A shotgun that fires multiple rockets and reloads in a tibe shotgun fashion.
Foot Soldier
A new legendary upgrade for the Foot Soldier in the May 2020 patch replaces the legendary upgrade found in earlier patches that fired ricocheting rounds. The first three shots of this weapon deals a higher damage than the subsequent shots when the fire button is held.
Imp
There are two legendary upgrades for the Imp added in the May 2020 patch, possibly for testing purposes. They are: A rocket gun.
A gun that spawns explosions on the Imp's position
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Many unused cosmetics, gestures, and costumes like the talking crown from gw2 and more.
Breaking hearts.
An item-collecting activity called "Breaking Hearts" during Valenbrainz, similarly to pie-collecting event during Fall Food Fight. It would've had a new NPC called "Valli Gnome". Player were supposed to collect hearts for an unknown reward.
Unused sir biff music.
Ops phase 3
A massive ops update that would use the blue stars currency for upgrades such as:
Unlock BarricadesUnlocks the ability to place Barricades.20 Blue Stars.
Upgrade Gardenator/Grave-o-MaticIncrease Base Health1 Blue Star.
Slow Chilling AuraSlows down nearby enemies.10 Blue Stars.
Upgrade BarricadesBarricades last longer and deal damage to enemies.40 Blue Stars.
Gardenator/Grave-o-Matic DefensesBase now defends itself.1 Blue Star.
Slow Chilling Aura UpgradeIncreases the slowing effect and range.10 Blue Stars.
Big Red ButtonPUSH THE BUTTON!1 Blue Star.
Upgrade Gardenator/Grave-o-Matic IIIncrease Base Health1 Blue Star.
Upgrade ButtonPUSH IT AGAIN1 Blue star.
Gardenator/Grave-o-Matic Healing AuraBase provides Healing.1 Blue Star.
Upgrade Gardenator/Grave-o-Matic IIIEven more Base Health1 Blue Star.
Garden/Graveyard Defense IIIncreases Defensive Abilities.10 Blue Stars.
Man I knew bfn was bare bones but holy crap this is the bare bones of bare bones. So much of this should've been base content.
The upgrades seem stupid as so many seem redundant or stupidly overpowered.
Leaving such a vital mechanic like falloff to upgrades is so stupid and shouldn't have even been considered wtf.
Instead of introducing gimmicks to ops maybe just maybe they should've actually given a crap about making the enemy and ally variety have more content than THE FIRST GAME.
This game could've easily gone two more years in development at least.
It's just so frustrating to go from the overall stable area of gw and then freefall off a cliff here.
