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TheSprinter85
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6 years ago
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Why is it so easy to revive in PvZ: BfN?

Hello everyone, hope you're all having a great time! 🙂

As a person who really enjoys to revive other allies, I've noticed that, if comparing GW2 to BFN, that in BFN, it's generally really easy to revive allies (especially if playing as a Support). Being able to revive and slowly move around instead of being rooted to the spot while doing so is really good as you're that little bit harder to be hit. 

Has everyone seen those revive upgrades (most notable for supports)? Being able to use Arcane Enigma as a rose and revive at the same time, with the Super Saviour upgrade, it's so good and fun to do, yet so overpowered. Or being able to jump as well. 1 cost upgrade - free revive every 20 seconds! Being able to stun nearby plants with Engineer while reviving. Giving the healers those revive upgrades as well, they can be very powerful. There are so many revive upgrades for all characters as well which makes reviving easier (great in combos). Upgrades like "Revive Reward" and "Refreshing Revive" can also be really good.

I think it's excellent, but possibly a little bit too overpowered!

Thoughts, anyone? 😃

  • ToastedSarnie's avatar
    ToastedSarnie
    6 years ago
    @TheSprinter85 I have the opposite view, I'm afraid! Sorry - I do LOVE that you enjoy reviving though!! 😍

    There's a little trick with reviving in the GW games that most of us call a "jump revive".
    If you hit A to jump at the same time as holding B to revive, while keeping a forward movement going, you can move away from the player you're reviving. (I might have to double-check that next time I go in, I do it on autopilot now! 🤣)

    This enables you to still revive but get to a safer position, and in GW2 this is even better than it was in GW. In GW, you move away from the player you're reviving, but they are revived in the same spot they were vanquished. In GW2, the player gets revived in the same place you move to, so they are safer as well.

    I miss this feature SOOOOO much!!! If you get a chance, you should give it a try in GW2 in solo play - it's initially a bit tricky getting the timing & your finger-work right but well worth the practice!!! 👍

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  • ToastedSarnie's avatar
    ToastedSarnie
    6 years ago
    @TheSprinter85 I have the opposite view, I'm afraid! Sorry - I do LOVE that you enjoy reviving though!! 😍

    There's a little trick with reviving in the GW games that most of us call a "jump revive".
    If you hit A to jump at the same time as holding B to revive, while keeping a forward movement going, you can move away from the player you're reviving. (I might have to double-check that next time I go in, I do it on autopilot now! 🤣)

    This enables you to still revive but get to a safer position, and in GW2 this is even better than it was in GW. In GW, you move away from the player you're reviving, but they are revived in the same spot they were vanquished. In GW2, the player gets revived in the same place you move to, so they are safer as well.

    I miss this feature SOOOOO much!!! If you get a chance, you should give it a try in GW2 in solo play - it's initially a bit tricky getting the timing & your finger-work right but well worth the practice!!! 👍
  • spIash_damage's avatar
    spIash_damage
    6 years ago
    @ippig wrote:
    @TheSprinter85I have to agree with @ToastedSarnie and @Splash_damage about reviving in the previous titles. I was so confused when I tried jump-reviving in BfN for the first time just to find out that it doesn't work.

    Same.

    With jump revive and Peashooter, I’d activate hyper and be across a map with the revive complete before I stopped bunny hopping.  I miss this badly.

    Worse yet, I didn’t know you only had to hold the revive button momentarily in BfN for months.  You can see my Mt Steep Solo Tutorials, I held the ▪️ button the entire time I revived. 🤦🏼‍♂️

  • spIash_damage's avatar
    spIash_damage
    6 years ago
    @ippig wrote:
    @spIash_damageWait what? I'm still holding the button all the time...

    EDIT:  😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣


    You can FIGHT, brethren!  Hold that button for less than 2 seconds and just make sure you stay in the circle till complete.  Step out on accident and hop right back, mash the button a second, and it’ll resume (relatively close) with the same health/percentage of revive complete.  

    This is still a FAR CRY from GW.... but way better.

    Thanks for making me feel better (for not noticing longer.  You’re now my new best forum friend.)....

  • asabaida's avatar
    asabaida
    6 years ago
    @spIash_damage wrote:
    @ippig wrote:
    @TheSprinter85I have to agree with @ToastedSarnie and @Splash_damage about reviving in the previous titles. I was so confused when I tried jump-reviving in BfN for the first time just to find out that it doesn't work.

    Same.

    With jump revive and Peashooter, I’d activate hyper and be across a map with the revive complete before I stopped bunny hopping.  I miss this badly.

    Worse yet, I didn’t know you only had to hold the revive button momentarily in BfN for months.  You can see my Mt Steep Solo Tutorials, I held the ▪️ button the entire time I revived. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    Wait....... what???? 😮 seriously.............. so you take your finger off the button and it carries on reviving them? but the circley thing stops going round....
    omg.... my bf is now telling me "yeah yeah... didn't you know that?" 🤔 ehhhh.... no I didn't hahahahah 😃

    Away to investigate this now 😃

  • TheSprinter85's avatar
    TheSprinter85
    Hero
    6 years ago

    @ToastedSarnie  Unfortunately (for me), I've seen people performing this trick on YouTube (most noticeably boss hunts), but never actually found out how you were able to do it. I once managed to perform Heroic Kicked as Super Brainz, mid-kick, held B quickly while passing a fallen ally, and managed to revive someone that way. It's the closest I ever got to this technique. It's a shame, I never actually managed to perform this. Honestly, I thought it was a PC-only feature! But thanks for telling me anyway and I'll give it a go! 👍 

    @spIash_damage  Will give this a go at some point (in GW2). I suppose, because BFN doesn't carry this revive feature, it's not a huge deal, but I'm going to try it! 🙂

    @ippig  Never knew how to perform this technique 😢!

    Thanks for your responses! 😃

  • spIash_damage's avatar
    spIash_damage
    6 years ago

    Yes!  @asabaida  That is great!  I LOVE that you didn’t know this either.  

    If it makes you and @ippig feel better, stupid face told me about this during Picnic and it didn’t occur to me until months later... like a brain fart, I reckon? 🤷🏼‍♂️

    @asabaida  the circle doesn’t go away but you no longer have to hold the button.  


    You can fight until team member is resurrected but you have to stay in the circle and unless you equip an upgrade that allows abilities to be used with revives, cannot use abilities or the revive will pause (and the percentage of revival slowly drops).

    Hope this makes sense.

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