The suprising lack of foodfight (thanksgiving) content in pvz shooters

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Thanksgiving should be the perfect time for a game with walking vegetables to utilize to their best advantage so why wasn't it?

Fall Food Fight or just known as food fight was first celebrated in gw1 on November 25, 2014 and saw the release of a new exclusive sticker pack, the Turkey Attack Pack, which contained a new Thanksgiving-themed Spawnable Zombie named the Turkey Browncoat.

Gw2 has no food fight stuff at all.

Food Fight was in bfn on November 1, 2019. It includes a Food Fight prize map, with the Kitty Cap costume for the Night Cap as a reward.

It also includes character challenges for Sunflower, Night Cap, Captain Deadbeard, and Super Brainz, as well as a pie scavenger hunt event, where players can collect 24+ pies scattered around Giddy Park and the free roam areas in exchange for an Acorn hat similar to the one worn by the acorn npc who gives the quest.

Turkey browncoat was the weakest browncoat variant at 40 health which is only rivaled by bunnycoat in gw2. Hes one of the few vegan zombies as well.

Giddy park in bfn also got a facelift with airballoons of burgers and turkeys. Food fight banners can also be found.

I think bfn takes it here as it has the most content yet gw1 has the one that influences gameplay the most.

I get what they were going for with the pies but it was just a chore to re search every pve region for a hat.

Why was content so lacking, it couldve been ewsy to utilize thanksgiving in a way to suit the theme like pvz 2 did with say reskinned chicken models to be zombie/tofu turkey as a suprise mob attacking everyone or something. Just shake up gameplay like every other holiday did.

Turkey in game

The hat

Giddy park

I have no idea what to post next until christmas.

thesprinter85 · Answer

Wow, I never knew how little Food Fight (Thanksgiving) content was available in the shooters. Garden Warfare 2 has plenty of seasonal events, however never really paid attention to the lack of Food Fight content. Plants vs Zombies 2 and Heroes has some of this content I believe though.

At least Battle for Neighborville has more of this content, including a themed Giddy Park and a festival. I actually do like the pie event as well, although the reward is not super special (although I think that the reward is cool). It provides another reason to return to the free roam regions, even though it is only for a small time.

iron_guard8 · Answer

When BfN added the pie quest for this time of year, I was really looking forward to more events like it, and more reasons to return to the free roam regions! Alas, that never materialized, so while I agree that BfN largely wins this event of the 3 shooters, it never again did so.

I still have some turkey browncoats in GW as I try to keep some of any of the special event stuff and items not returning like the legendary consumables in GW2 that Rux isn't selling anymore.

stukapooka · Answer

@Iron_Guard8 I haven't seen turkey zombies since 2016. I still have some festive Browncoats but don't use them since they can't be refreshed. Shame how popcap never made festive and legendary spawnables in gw still obtainable.

Bfn really needed to capitalize on the new content with cosmetics that weren't Rux exclusive but they never did after the pie hunt.

Like you said Bfn wins out for food fight but only really got there because gw never really did anything with it.

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