Super Sap Trap not working is intentional

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Super-Sap-Trap-doesn-t-deal-damage/m-p/9443180/highlight/false#M3560

I made a bug report on Super Sap Trap almost never dealing damage. It was correctly explained to me that shockwave damage had been removed in a patch. This shouldn't have happened. It broke the ability. All of this because people only complain when a plant has a strong ability but zombies are allowed to have crazy good abilities and upgrades. I'm starting to get really annoyed by this.

In addition to this, Sap Tap doesn't even work when directly attached to a zombie 80% of the time.

Space Station having a crazy insta-kill Cratermaker with broken op upgrade that enables it to take down the entire plant team? Fine!

Oak having a single insta-kill that is way more limited? OMG nerf Acorn and Oak! And the devs actually listened to this. And now that they gave Acorn a second dash and enabled Acorn Passengers to overheat themselves and their Oak, people are asking for nerfs for these characters again. This makes me really sad. As soon as there is one powerful ability a plant has it gets nerfed into the abyss, while zombies have way stronger abilities that are even lobbied for to be buffed by the community.

TheSprinter85
5 years ago
Remember the 100 Sap Trap Vanquishes Challenge? How were any of us supposed to do it if most of our shots don’t register. I got quite frustrated when doing this challenge, my brother more so.

25 Replies

GutmanSca
5 years ago
@benn1nat0r I don't know why, but at least for me, Sap Trap works just fine (being a broken ability lol).

What doesn't work for me is Hit detection.
GutmanSca
5 years ago
@benn1nat0r And one more thing: Crater Maker is evitable and predictable even with the broken upgrade, Sap Trap (not super) is inevitable and a fight winner against anything with stupid knock back that comes back in 9 seconds.
PineapplePiano
5 years ago
@benn1nat0r I noticed this the other day, strange to find out it wasn’t a glitch!
benn1nat0r
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@PineapplePiano If they remove shockwave damage from it they should increase its normal range. it hardly ever works. It can be extremely close to a zombie without dealing any damage. It just produces unnecessary knock back.
@GutmanSca Yes, Cratemaker is predictable, but that doesn't help in my experience. When using Cratermaker Space Station is super fast, you often can't escape even when sprinting. And the Assimilation upgrade is just crazy op. Another thing I consider is the game modes: nearly all of them feature you trying to capture a very small point. When playing the weekly mode, I encountered Space Station camping at the points and using this upgrade. As soon as someone got close, they activated Cratermaker, got a vanquish, had their fuel reset and continued. This way they could take down the entire plant team. I consider Oak to be a joke against Space Station, as I have detailed in another post.
And I think you are right about normal sap tap. It is very fast to deploy, but it "only" does 65 damage if properly aimed. This means you still have to get most zombies down to half health in order to vanquish someone with it. If you use sap trap first and then try to vanquish them by using sap tap, they will sprint away. Sap trap isn't good compared to all other zombie insta-kills. And Sap Trap is terrible as Acorn Passengers, because you can't aim with it. Dockt Space Cadets get a rocket they can precisely aim and that does way more damage than Sap trap.
Oak's Super sap trap has a delay and is rather slow and is therefore predictable. In my opinion, it is rendered useless after the May patch and nothing compared to Cratermaker.
Weird to hear it works properly for you. For me it only works like 20% of the time. I fire it directly at a zombie, it even attaches to him, but it still does zero damage and only produces the annoying knock back.
shurikeninja
5 years ago
@benn1nat0r Yeah it only works half of the time for me. And what's with the detonation not working sometimes?
benn1nat0r
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@shurikeninja I also encountered the detonation issues, but I was assured Sap Trap is working fine in a response to my bug report.
benn1nat0r
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Acorn & Oak players who want to use Sap Trap be like:
TheSprinter85
Hero
5 years ago
Remember the 100 Sap Trap Vanquishes Challenge? How were any of us supposed to do it if most of our shots don’t register. I got quite frustrated when doing this challenge, my brother more so.
benn1nat0r
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@TheSprinter85 Yes that was terrible. I hope some more people comment on my bug report so that the team will notice it is indeed not working as intended.
TheSprinter85
Hero
5 years ago
That is why I did Acorn and Oak's challenges first last time, to "get them out of the way". Because I knew they would take so long, my best suggestion is just to try giving yourself as much time as you can to work on those challenges.