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Anonymous
12 years ago

Stats

Guys,

I have a nice Sunday evening Q for all of you - I don't know, if you care, but I would love to see some "official" stats - something like which char is played most, how many kills in total, how many ZPG shot etc.

Some nice stats to really dig into ...

You know if there is already something like that? Have searched but found nothing - think, we have to wait for PopCap to come around the corner

Cheers

Dark

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  • The only official stats I know of are the ones Xbox keeps track of: Plants vanquished, Zombies vanquished and Rank.

    I would love to see a more complete set of stats online, along with a game viewer to allow browsing back and looking and individual game statistics.

    They're supposedly working on an official forum, or that's what I was told so maybe they will have a fully-featured stats breakdown there.

  • AWMaxSterling's avatar
    AWMaxSterling
    12 years ago

    I really dislike stats, especially in games like this where challenges kind of force or persuade you to play a certain way. 

  • xcrimsonlegendx's avatar
    xcrimsonlegendx
    Seasoned Ace
    12 years ago

    @AWMaxSterling wrote:

    I really dislike stats, especially in games like this where challenges kind of force or persuade you to play a certain way. 


    I know you do, I guess it just depends on the type of player you are. I enjoy stats as a fun way to keep track of your progress and something cool to check every now and again to show off how many times you've completed certain acts. I could see how they could be a problem though, its the same reason I'm glad this game doesn't keep any leaderboards because they always lead to cheating.

  • AWMaxSterling's avatar
    AWMaxSterling
    12 years ago

    @xcrimsonlegendx wrote:

    @AWMaxSterling wrote:

    I really dislike stats, especially in games like this where challenges kind of force or persuade you to play a certain way. 


    I know you do, I guess it just depends on the type of player you are. I enjoy stats as a fun way to keep track of your progress and something cool to check every now and again to show off how many times you've completed certain acts. I could see how they could be a problem though, its the same reason I'm glad this game doesn't keep any leaderboards because they always lead to cheating.


    Stats in a game like this are meaningless and misleading. They are not a true indication of how good one is. One can easily sit in G&G and do nothing but sit on the zombie team and camp from a distance making themself look better than they actually are. When you have challenges telling people to play one way and you have a game type in which you're "supposed to play" a certain way... and people don't play that way... it skews the stats.

    I do enjoy stats when they actually reflect how good I am and they separate themself according to game type... but I'm old school. I started out with Starsiege Tribes, Quake, and Half-Life, where they only showed kills, "skill" wasn't based on k/d ratios, and teamplay was all about throwing yourself out there to sacrifice yourself to save an objective..

  • ACactoos's avatar
    ACactoos
    12 years ago

    Watch, for non-classical games, it's going to be the Toxic Peashooter as the number 1 most overused character.

    Here's a list of other predictions for a global leaderboard:

    • Astronaut/Mechanic = Most unused character(s)...sorry...
    • Most kills ever achieve = probably a max ranked person before all the hackers arrive and fill up the number 1 spot for most kills
    • Rank = Shows the first people that reached max rank
    • Cactus overused = Fire Cactus
    • Sunflower overused = Fire Flower
    • Chomper overused = Fire Chomper
    • Scientist overused = Marine Biologist
    • All-Star overused = The one that uses fire I think...
    • The person with the most earned coins (without buying it) = xcrimsonlegendx probably
    • The person with the most earned coins (with buying it) = Some adult probably
    • Highest vanquish streak ever = Some guy that reached somewhere in the 50s...
    • Highest vanquishes in one game = Somewhere in the low 100s
    • The person with the highest amount of deaths overall = no clue...

    Anything I listed is in no way 100% true yet, but they are almost certainly 100% accurate. The overused list is not trying to say that those are the strongest variants, but the most used by many. Trust me, there are much stronger variants then the overused the ones, you just have to figure it out yourselves.

    Also, I'd like to actually see the global stats. It would be an awesome thing to do if they can.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Yeah, guys, you know, thats the thing I would love to see: Some fun facts about how "the mass" is playing - whats the average rank? Whats the average K/D? How often are characters switched per game etc.?

    BTW: How many coins do you guys have earned in total? Or is there a seperate thread on that? May be worth doing one.

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