7 years ago

Soil Survivor discussion

Soil survivor starts tomorrow so I open this thread to discuss your experience, your feedback(improvement and defects) you like to report.

Soil Survivors Comes to the Mystery Portal

Grab your friends and get ready for battle in a new team elimination mode – Soil Survivors – coming to select co-op maps in the Mystery Portal, February 19–25. Take the best of five in this fast-paced game mode where the arena shrinks every 30 seconds, bringing players so close you can actually smell Captain Deadbeard’s briny musk (at least we think that’s what that smell is). There are no health regeneration or revives in Soil Survivor, so once you’re out, you’ll be a spectator until the next round starts. Plus, teams are auto-balanced, so anyone can join in on a fair fight!

From this overview, seems we have:

1. 5 plants vs 5 zombies

2. Autobalance: If this means level based matching, not sure if this's a good idea.

3. Fast pace: Hope it doesn't do super speed here. I hate super speed.

Strategy:

1. Sun Flower or scientist healing is key to keep the team healthy and strong.

2. Stick together to stay alive and cover each other back.

3. Control the central point as early possible as a team since the map will shrink to this point.

4. While together means strength but need to watch out for suicide/catastrophic attack such as imp punt, anti-gravity, bean bomb, that could wipe out the whole team.

5. Jump and shoot like a bunny 🙂

Questions:

1. Is Z-Mech allowed in this game mode? If yes, it will be a huge disadvantage for plants since when all z-mech show up at the same time, there's no way to win it.

2. If you have toxic brains, pair with a scientist that always healing you, then punch, punch (even punch poor plant pot) and go to toxic mode then finish the rest. Not sure if they allow toxic brains here, it's too overpowering.

If you've other strategies, post it here.

40 Replies

bobburgers6
7 years ago
With the added nexus, height advantages can become disadvantageous as players can hide under terrain and use the enclosing field to force out camping snipers. Z-mech is allowed, but best way to combat is to stay slightly out of the safe enclosure as the field can help blur where you are attacking from. Also points like frosty creek, have a smaller map size with the nexus so try to finish players early, otherwise you will be forced in the open.
asukojo
7 years ago
Sneak peak from Zerox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOfTLrpkB4
From the video:
1. Seems a lot of fun, intense and quick.
2. The arena is shrinking pretty quick.
3. ZMech is allowed.
4. Normal speed (good).
5. Level based matching is not on which is good.
Overall it's a good game mode.
ILLINOIS1977
7 years ago
6v6 with no regen of health or respawing. You can heal as a scientist or sunflower. You can be any character. It's team death match. Best of 5. I give it a 5/10.
asukojo
7 years ago
I would like to have more players but it's harder to collect more players at the beginning of the match such as 10vs10 or 15vs15.
Remember: we can't have new players or switch side once the game start.
What is your feedback?
1_Bl4ckSt4r
7 years ago
Players stay AFK just to farm Stars and that's a problem, there should be a 20 seconds timer to quit someone. That'll reduce this issue, also players can join during a fight or only on the next round?
bobburgers6
7 years ago
Only on next round. Secondarily if more players were to join, there would be greater latency issues. For the afk players, either push them into the open or in a couple cases like zen peak off the cliff. I dislike the star farmers a lot, but until an adequate security system is set up to disable outside programs like that, they will keep appearing. I would be interested since this is dm to have a character limit restriction (I.e not all players choose to be brains, torchwood,imps, etc.) as I have played a couple matches earlier that relied only on this type of thinking.
Gormey
7 years ago
1) Imp is a big problem too. Search the whole map and find nobody then 3 mechs pop out.
2) They need to do something to level the sides...perhaps letting a player switch to losing team after 2 rounds or something
3) The big time zone is collapsing flashing across the middle of my screen while I'm playing is beyond annoying...can barely see anything
4) The amount of time to wait between rounds is way too long
5) The fact that I can't move my character at all at the first of a round even to turn around, is making me rage for some reason
With a few tweaks this could be very fun, but most games are too lopsided right now at least on PC. I've only had a few competitive rounds that went to 5, and that's usually because people joined in the 2nd or 3rd round. I really wish they would allow me to switch to losing team to help balance.
People haven't seemed to wise up yet that the sunflowers are the perfect char for plants, specifically Stuffy, with two ways to regain health and/or Vampire, since it regains health as you shoot.
dwooten77
7 years ago
Im enjoying it overall. Imps should have a cool down between rounds for mechs. Or at least some sort of delay. I’m use to exiting out of an ability with O,B. So I’ve suffered from that change a couple of times. All in all I wouldn’t be upset seeing it again in the future. It could count for the cats and Dino’s achievement as well for those who don’t have it.
Jumpy_Bumblebee
Seasoned Vanguard
7 years ago
I also find Mechs very unfair to play against 👿. And I don't like that you don't spawn only at the beginning of NEW games, but often in the middle of an existing match during the third round or so.
But well, it's also not cool that people quit in the middle of it. And of course, if they only stand somewhere doing nothing. - Often, these people who stand around manage to survive as the last player of our team and seem to have fun when we all watch their strolling casually around (only if on one else lives anymore) or sitting in a bush. 🤒 The bush sitting looks funny, though. 🥳
I especially don't like sunflowers or scientist who don't even TRY to heal someone (or just place a healing station), also in multiplayer. During the Bigfoot event I shot and danced around a sunflower who just STOOD there doing nothing whilst I had only 10 percent life. Wo does that????
However, I kind of like the soil survivor event, because it's rather quick and you get stars, other than on Wallnut Hill where it was bugged.
On our European server (PC) they don't seem to do matchmaking with ranks... I'm happy for that, because I mostly play private or solo games, multiplayer only sometimes (too old for that action and speed, lol). Which means that even if I'm working towards a higher rank and hoping to get it maxed before GW3, I'm not someone you want to have in your game for making great kills. I more like to be a supporter.
My kid is the hero of vanquishes and she's such a great sniper (don't we all hate them, lol) in GW1 and GW2. If I am in a multiplayer game, she often joins me and sees that my team doesn't lose because of me. Rather embarrassing. 😳
YeetYeetGw2
7 years ago
I realy like this mode, but as many others have said, AFK players and mechs are an annoyance. If they could fix those, I think it would be good enough to put into the normal multiplayer portal