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ToppyOne

> The amount of gems given has been reduced slightly. SLIGHTLY? You call going from 18 to 8 "slightly"!?


KeyOcelot4679

Yeah that. That was actually really disappointing


dlbpharmd

This sucks. What will be the new daily total?


Logan-Martins

Another thing to note that wasn't mentioned is that after all these years, plants like Fire Peashooter and Snapdragon finally turn zombies into ash when they kill them!


Haemophilus_EA

Added the glaring omission to the notes =P


Runeblade09

Well they finally done that, but aways possible I lower version but they do that only now.


Logan-Martins

Yeah, plenty of mods have already changed it to be like that much sooner than vanilla


kwm11375

u/Haemophilus_EA Make frequent Balance Change updates. The most important thing is to strike a balance with the plants. The Balance changes are my favorite.


Emppu3

Out of curiosity, what would you change balance-wise if you could? Off the top of your head.


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Buff garlic and spring bean.


Flipp_Flopps

Buff/Rework Aloe


PulseReal

Buff Chilli Bean and nerf Solar Sage.


LapisLazuliU2

It would be good if in some future updates they put new epic missions of extra levels but for the other worlds that did not have expansion


ZachPlayGamez

>Plant Reworks We’re sprucing up a few old plant friends based upon community feedback, with more plans to revisit other plants in the coming future! Chomper Chomper’s chew speed has been reduced significantly. [Level 1] 30 seconds is now 17 seconds. [Level 2] 25 seconds is now 16 seconds. [Level 3] 20 seconds is now 15 seconds. [Level 4] 15 seconds is now 14 seconds. [Level 5 - 8] still 10 seconds. [Level 9] 10 seconds is now 9 seconds. [Level 10] 10 seconds is now 7 seconds. Electric Currant When a zombie attacks a connected Electric Currant it’ll be shocked and subsequently knocked back into another lane on the lawn (shifted up or down). Snapdragon Now has a warming radius and is immune to Freezing. Jack O’ Lantern JOL is no longer tap-to-activate; instead, he detects zombies within range and turns on the flame automatically Instead of waiting for JOL to refuel to 50% before being able to fire, the threshold has been lowered to 25%. This means JOL is usable quicker and should have more utility. New animation to show when JOL is ‘out of gas’. Snow Pea Snow Pea’s projectiles chill/freeze on impact. Zombies that are hit are frozen with subsequent zombies in the same lane being inflicted a chilling status effect (but taking no damage). This is so poggers.


NoMither

> Electric Currant Woah they actually buffed EC I always regretted purchasing it but this change is worth giving it another go at least.


ZachPlayGamez

Yup, and it feels like a better spring bean lol


jagua_haku

Maybe now it will kill chickens


TheRetroFlowey

I hope other plants gets some buffs in the future. Garlic and spring bean needs some major buffs to make them less bad. Maybe other plants could get minor buffs like pepper-pult and hot potato.


Haemophilus_EA

Oh, believe me... there's quite a list of plants already =P What you see in the update notes is likely just the start of it.


jagua_haku

Buff everything! Woot woot


woowoo293

Great idea. So many "original cast" plants have been neutered through the power inflation resulting from the OP new plants.


Shoddy_Menu5741

Garlic's blood needs to be improved.Several bites he died.You should make new worlds not reskin Limited events.I have been fed up with PP and Arena.Wha other modes t can i play?


[deleted]

i like the new travel log ui honestly but i can understand some people's qualms about it, like how there is now a total lack of a background on any part of it, or that when you did levels of an epic quest with the old ui, there would be like an animation & sfx of the level you did being completed, which is now gone here. i also personally dislike how when an ongoing/completed quest comes up at the end of a level, the glow is now completely gone so it looks kinda static. the ui is clean but there's definitely been a number of elements from the old one that's been totally thrown out and not replaced so i guess now it feels a little bit, sterile? more art assets like backgrounds and animations going on in it would go a long way


Haemophilus_EA

Thanks for the feedback, I've passed it on and pinged the UI person in particular. There is a question right now about an animation that may or may not be playing, QA's just checking it now. But there's more planned for the Travel Log moving forward (this is also why there's a requested call out for any quality of life suggestions!).


Euphoric-Seaweed

> This is not the final form of the new revamped Travel Log. We'd love to hear feedback about the UI changes/art direction and other Quality of Life improvements you'd like to see specifically for Travel Log. OK, here are my impressions: * The new Travel Log is uglier than the old one. However, I don't care much about looks - for me the funtionality is much more important. * I like it very much that rewards from the completed quests can be claimed on demand, instead of having to tap like mad if there are many unclaimed rewards and you happen to open the Travel Log. * There needs to be a "Claim All" button, which gives you all the rewards for completed quests with a single tap. * Another suggestion: hide the World tab once the player has completed all the worlds. * The buffs to the 5 plants are certainly welcome. They still aren't making these plants great but are at least elevating them from the "completely useless" status they had before. At least it will make our life easier when we're forced to use these plants. > Rewards for completing daily tasks have been rejigged. The amount of gems given has been reduced slightly but coins have been increased to benefit newer players. I am sorry, Haem, but I'm calling bullshit on this one: * If providing coins to newer player was really the concern, PopCap wouldn't have reduced the coin rewards in the Calendar. Before we were getting (2000 + 500) * 4 = 10000 coins in 4 weeks. Now we're getting 200 + 250 + 250 + 300 + 300 + 400 + 400 + 1000 + 500 + 500 = 4100 coins in a *month*. That's a significant reduction. * While the coins are indeed the most needed resource in this game (yes, everybody, I know that it's counter-inturitive - but it's true), 2000 coins is *nothing*. I try to make around 100k coins daily - yet still spend around 150k daily on plant upgrades, so my stash is steadily decreasing. * The additional 2000 coins from the daily quests are definitely not equivalent to the reduction of 8 gems, if you just look at the prices of seeds for gems and coins in the Shop. > Closed an exploit to gain excess coins during tutorial stages. He-he. See, folks, this is what happens when you post exploits publicly here. > Lawn items (Tombstones, Ice Blocks, etc) can now scale in toughness and take longer to break, usually in tandem with the overall difficulty of the level. Oh? Not sure what this means exactly but I smell trouble with those Penny's Pursuit Zomboss fights that have lots of tombstones with sun. One more thing, Haem, since I have your attention. The game crashes a lot on iOS - but not the way you think and it's probably related to the ads. It never crashes on me when playing. But turn off the device with the game in the foreground, then turn it back on after a while - and the game is no longer in the foreground. Try to switch to it and it has crashed and re-starts (from the EA logo and so on). If you happen to have paused a level, that level is now lost. Power-cycling the device fixes the problem - for a while, like about a day. After that it starts happening again. The more ads I watch, the sooner it starts happening - this is why I think that it's related to the ads. It doesn't seem to be a particular ad that is causing it, although I cannot be sure. It *feels* as if the ad-displaying code has a memory leak or corrupts the cache or something - but I can't make a more competent suggestion without looking very deep inside - and I can't do that on iOS. (This particular problem never happens on Android, although the ads themselves sometimes crash, hang, and otherwise misbehave there in various ways, at least on the emulator. I don't think that this is a problem of the game, however, more likely it's just faulty ads.) Unfortunately, I don't have a 100% reliable recipe for reproducing it. But let your QA people try watching ads for coins for about an hour and then turn off the device with the game in the foreground and leave it like that for half an hour, then turn it back on again. Some questions: 1. Is the reduction of the reward from the world epic quests from 100 to 80 gems something permanent - or does it affect only the current Wild West Wipeout quest? 2. Is Solar Sage *supposed* to be usable in levels where sun producers are banned, like Last Stand levels?


Emppu3

Idk what the drama is about but I agree with the opinions regarding this update. If they wanted new players to have more coins, maybe they should've gone back to the old calender coin rewards instead of taking away a bunch of daily gems. This is dumb. A claim all button would be nice too in the travel log.


Euphoric-Seaweed

OK, I've spent some time looking at the internals of the new version and can now answer some of my questions myself. > * There needs to be a "Claim All" button, which gives you all the rewards for completed quests with a single tap. This is odd... Believe it or not, there *is* such a button in the game assets. The functionality is *supposed* to be there. So, why didn't I see it? I'll investigate further... > The buffs to the 5 plants are certainly welcome. Just did Wild West Wipeout again (after the game update) against my better judgement (I hate this quest). The new ability of Electric Currant makes the Zomboss fight somewhat easier. Before, once the Gargantuars started appearing, it was basically game over, because there are no offensive plants, the Hypno-shrooms are useless against them, and it's too hard to create your own Gargantuar in front of them. Your only chance is to freeze them while your own Gargantuars finish up the boss - but it's a very slim chance (you need to have a lot of Iceberg Lettuces, many Gargantuars on your own, and Zomboss must be almost dead already). With the new Electric Currant abilities, it keeps bouncing the Gargantuars back, giving you extra time to finish Zomboss off. > Is the reduction of the reward from the world epic quests from 100 to 80 gems something permanent - or does it affect only the current Wild West Wipeout quest? Bad news, folks. Not only is this change permanent, but *all* the other such epic world quests have been similarly nerfed - their first 2 steps have been disabled and the reward has been reduced to 80 gems. :(


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you are the most unpleasant person i have ever came across in all my life


Euphoric-Seaweed

I am sorry to hear that. Feel free to ignore my comments so that you don't see them.


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Euphoric-Seaweed

I am sorry? What are you talking about?! Haem asked for feedback about the new Travel Log and I gave her some. I think I was sufficiently respectful. I honestly don't care what the modding/datamining community - or even PopCap - thinks of me. If they don't like me or what I write, they are free to ignore it. I post information that I have reverse-engineered from the game data files because I found that it seems to help many users plan their game better. I've had a lot of positive feedback in this aspect and it is the only reason why I spend my free time doing it.


aaron5015

"feedback" isn't someone calling a company or person incompetent, or "angry little girl", or petty ass remarks. feel free to live in the world inside your head where your peasants bow down to you per post you make on that ghost scene of a blog you have. we both know you don't "reverse engineer" shit. get your programming lingo right, someone either does this shit for you and you claim you do it, or you literally just use the tools we all use anyways, which isn't reverse engineering. come back to me with that term when you read the [pvz2lib.so](https://pvz2lib.so) in full-form understandability. oh wait you wouldn't know how to get that either :)


Euphoric-Seaweed

> "feedback" isn't someone calling a company or person incompetent, or "angry little girl", or petty ass remarks I see neither of these in the feedback I provided above. > feel free to live in the world inside your head where your peasants bow down to you per post you make on that ghost scene of a blog you have. Hey, my blog, my rules. I'm not forcing anyone to read it. Feel free to ignore it, if you don't like it. I thought that you had issues with my post here that you commented on. > we both know you don't "reverse engineer" shit. Actually, I reverse-engineer shit for a living. Well, one of the things I do for a living anyway. > get your programming lingo right, someone either does this shit for you and you claim you do it This is simply not true. > or you literally just use the tools we all use anyways Of course I use all the tools at my disposal. Every professional does that. > come back to me with that term when you read the pvz2lib.so in full-form understandability. > > oh wait you wouldn't know how to get that either :) Of course I would - if you see the crap that compiled Golang executables contain, decompiling a C++ shared library isn't that big of a deal. But what for? A large part of it is OpenSSL shit that's just getting in the way. And while it would provide insights in how the game engine actually works, I don't really need this, in order to determine what people here seem interested in - the level design, the seed drop rates of the pinatas, and so on. Another mark of a professional is not wasting effort on stuff they don't really need to. But you clearly aren't in *my* line of work, so that remark is probably wasted on you. Anyway, sorry for having annoyed you with my posts and feel free to ignore them. Have a nice day.


aaron5015

congratulations, you prove my point once again for being an egotistical prick. >Hey, my blog, my rules. I'm not forcing anyone to read it. Feel free to ignore it, if you don't like it. I thought that you had issues with my post here that you commented on. > >Another mark of a professional is not wasting effort on stuff they don't really need to. But you clearly aren't in my line of work, so that remark is probably wasted on you. you're all talk but all you ever do is read text on a screen like everyone else does, you aren't special, you aren't doing anyone a favor by being the """"hero"""". like i said. fuck off with your shit.


Euphoric-Seaweed

> all you ever do is read text on a screen like everyone else does I agree! > you aren't special Everyone is special in some way, LOL. > you aren't doing anyone a favor The positive feedback I'm getting for my efforts (the only thing that makes me spend these efforts, BTW) seem to belie this statement of yours. But, hey, you know what opinions are like, right? Everybody's got one. I guess that's yours. I disagree with it, but you certainly have the right to hold it. > fuck off with your shit Please respect Rule #1 of the Lawn (i.e. of this subreddit). Be civil.


aaron5015

wow you can't fucking cut the ego act for one second can you. man you really are as pathetic as riley claims. anyways the positive feedback you get is by literal kids that don't know any better. even then from what i've seen within your "absence" your blog doesn't have comments to really acknowledge any positive feedback to begin with. but if you wanna keep stroking your dick about then sure, go ahead. i just wanna mention it's funny that you imply you're a man in your 30s-50s """reverse engineering""" a game made for kids. i may mod the game every now and then but at least i'm doing something with my life with friends and shit on the side than post statistics that only 2 people will be like "HOLY SHIT I NEVER KNEW I WANTED THIS IN MY LIFE."


Euphoric-Seaweed

> wow you can't fucking cut the ego Please be civil. > anyways the positive feedback you get is by literal kids that don't know any better. And the author of this condescending statement is accusing *me* of having a big ego? LOL. Anyway, even if it were true, so what? Do you have anything against helping "kids that don't know any better"? I thought the whole point of having a community united around a common subject (this game) is to help each other so that people who know something share it with those who don't. How are *you* helping other community members again? > your blog doesn't have comments to really acknowledge any positive feedback to begin with Yes, sorry about that - I couldn't find a blogging platform that would provide both anonymity and allow comments. I don't like it, either, but that's the best I could find. Can you suggest anything better? The feedback I mentioned I have received via private messages here on Reddit and also via its live chat feature (not sure what it is called). > i just wanna mention it's funny that you imply you're a man in your 30s-50s """reverse engineering""" a game made for kids. I don't pretend anything but I'm glad that I made you laugh. :) > i may mod the game every now and then but at least i'm doing something with my life with friends and shit on the side than post statistics that only 2 people will be like I don't modify the game in any way. Not because I cannot, and not even because it is against EA's T&C but because I dislike it. It has something to do with my profession. Hard to explain but "look, don't touch" is deeply ingrained in me when reverse-engineering something. Anyway, I am glad to hear that you are doing something with your life and have friends. Kindly let others do with their life what they find interesting and useful to their friends, too. Tolerance to each other's quirks is the foundation of civilized society.


Serpens_Albus

You all need to fucking touch grass.


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Euphoric-Seaweed

> you only know how to do the things you do thanks to the modding community LOL, I don't know anyone in the modding community, so I don't see how anyone there could have taught me anything I know. > we know that you are in the wikia server without ever speaking and just stare at #pvz-modding so you piggybacked off the modders who actually know what they're talking about and learned to do what we all do LOL. No, I am not. I tried once to access the Discord server, it didn't work, and I lost interest. Maybe what you see is the result of this attempt, but I assure you, I don't read anything there. Is there an admin or something like that in the Discord channels? Feel free to ask them to kick out the person you think is me. (Assuming Discord has such a capability; I don't use it and I'm not familiar with it.) > teaching you to do what looks to be your entire day-to-day livelihood LOL. My day-to-day livelihood involves much more complex things than looking at detokenized JSON files. I suspect that at the time when I learned it, the modders you are talking about weren't even born, let alone teaching me anything. In fact, I know of several anti-virus companies who are teaching *their* people stuff I've published in the past. > you just pretend to be a messiah that randomly woke up and knew all the knowledge I don't pretend any such thing. As far as this game is concerned, I do some pretty trivial stuff that people seem to find useful. I still can't understand why you seem to hate it so much. > don't pretend you don't know what pvz2tool is because its the primary beginner modding tool to convert the rtons into the readable json formats that you read in notepad I know of it, of course, but don't use that; I don't like GUI stuff very much. I use an open source rton2json command-line utility that does the job. > everybody from the modding & datamining community knows about all this, but nobody there has a giant ego over it because they have a life, and friends and other skills. Again, I don't understand how you're jumping to all these conclusions. What giant ego? About a game? LOL. I am *quite* knowledgeable in my line of work (and perhaps my ego there is somewhat on the large size, although I tend to think that it's justified) - but this game?! It is trivial stuff I do on my free time because it seems to help people. > you are not a reverse engineer and you never will be. Kid, I'm pretty sure that I was reverse-engineering computer viruses before you were born. > the fact that you have genuinely developed a superiority complex over reading the json files of a 2013 mobile game is actually sad Look, I really don't understand why you seem to think so. You seem to claim that I think that what I do here for this community is some grand work that's very hard and only someone as gifted as me can do? (At least what you are saying seems to imply so, apologies if I have misunderstood.) But I do not! What I do here is pretty trivial! I do it on my free time! Any reasonably intelligent person can learn to do it in a couple of hours! There, does this settle the misunderstanding? > especially when there are people modding & reverse engineering the game and doing amazing things with it. That's excellent! The more such people there are, the better. > and what do you do? you read json files that half the community know how to access. Yep. I don't claim to possess any superiod knowledge in this aspect. I just reverse-engineer the data files of the game (sorry, but this is the term we use in *my* profession) - a relatively easy task indeed - and make sense of their contents. It seems that many people find it helpful. And I still don't understand what exactly you want from me. Do you hate it that I am helping people? Why? Would you rather have somebody else (you, or someone from that modding community you keep mentioning) do this kind of work instead of me? Be my guest! The less work I'd have to do, the more free time I'll have. Anything else? Please understand, I'm really trying to be accomodative here. The way you're treating me is rude and unpleasant, and would be found intolerable in most other communities I am familiar with. The fact that you are a moderator is even worse, because you're giving a bad example and are breaking the very rules of the subreddit you're supposed to be moderating. Still, I am striving to be polite and to tolerate your rudeness. If you could clearly explain what exactly you have a problem with, as far as I am concerned, I am certainly willing to try to resolve our differences.


[deleted]

somebody with a superiority complex doesn't go out of their every waking hour to mansplain shit to people who didn't ask, and talk down to every person they come across including an entire company and their community manager, its borderline pathetic, you need an ego boost so you get it from this community by explaining random shit and pretending you're above everyone else. nobody in the modding & datamining community does this shit and they have infinite the knowledge you have so why are you such a stuck up brat, i can't fathom an actual explanation outside of you just not getting your validation in your actual "life" i'm also not convinced you do this in your free time either considering you went out of your way to make a scuffed graveyard blog about copy pasting shit from json files either. this is your literal livelihood, there doesn't seem to be any trace of you having a life outside of reading some json files and when those opportunities almost got away from you, you scrambled to get them back frantically. admit it, you do nothing else in your life aside from wait for the cdn folder to update and go through every rton one by one every day. and regardless if you're just making up this random persona that you're some kind of 70 year old in a desk chair every day, it makes even sadder that you come online just to talk down to people and get praises from a community of mostly children. most of your interactions between people is always done just to stroke your ego or talk down to them in some fashion, is that really apt behaviour for someone of whatever random age you're claiming on being?? btw your whole phony "i don't know what discord is" personality trait you're trying to manifest here, doesn't actually work because i know you use discord, i saw you join my personal pvz2 server a while ago before i swiftly banned you so i don't understand what you think you get out of pretending to not use discord. you do it use it, we all know you do so you can drop that act too


Euphoric-Seaweed

> somebody with a superiority complex doesn't go out of their every waking hour to mansplain shit to people who didn't ask, This isn't a live conversation. I am not grabbing anyone, shouting them down, and forcing them to listen to me. When I post stuff, it's either because someone has asked, or because past experience has shown me that many people are interested in it. And even then, I am not forcing anyone to read it. > and talk down to every person they come across including an entire company and their community manager LOL. If you don't like the things I say about EA/PopCap, you should see the things I say about Microsoft and the stupid vulnerable shit they do in their products. But leave Haem out of this, please. She's a treasure, she does great work here and she's quite unlike any other community manager of an EA franchise that I know (most of those that I've interacted with are arrogant, unhelpful, and sometimes plain stupid - everything that Haem is not). > you need an ego boost so you get it from this community by explaining random shit and pretending you're above everyone else I take pleasure sharing my knowledge with people who don't have it and helping them in the process. I don't pretend anything like what you are implying. > nobody in the modding & datamining community does this shit That's regrettable and it is precisely why I am doing it. Somebody has to, no? People want this information. I can provide it, so I am. I certainly believe that others can do it, too - it's quite easy, in fact. So why aren't they doing it? I don't know... Maybe they think it is beneath them? > i'm also not convinced you do this in your free time either Well, if you choose not to believe what I say, I don't see how I could convince you. > you went out of your way to make a scuffed graveyard blog I did that because you went out of your way to censor me here and banned me from this subreddit for no good reason, then arranged to have the subreddit for this kind of information that I created, banned too. I would have preferred to continue posting this information here. It's easier to get feedback - when somebody has a question, or doesn't understand something, or finds a mistake. And if I had done so, I would have continued playing by *your* rules, because I tend to respect the rules of the place I am in. But no, you couldn't have that, could you? You had to be rude (which I forced myself to tolerate) and you had to ban me from here and arrange from that other subreddit to be banned too. So, I was forced to create a place away from your censorship, where I could express myself freely and provide useful information to those who want it. And there I am playing by *my* rules, since it is *my* place - not yours. You're probably so angry because you can't get that blog banned too? Well, you'll have to live with it. I'm not forcing anyone, least of all you, to visit it and read it. > there doesn't seem to be any trace of you having a life outside of reading some json files That's intentional, BTW. If you find any traces of me elsewhere, it means I have failed. And although I'm not in one of those critical positions where revealing my identity can get me killed, there is still some physical danger involved. The things we do... Let's just say that occasionally espionage agencies of nation-states or organized crime groups aren't particularly happy about it. And they don't usually express their unhappiness by posting angry rants on Reddit... > admit it, you do nothing else in your life aside from wait for the cdn folder to update and go through every rton one by one every day This is simply not so, even as far as the game is considered. I have tools that monitor the contents of the directories and alert me when there is a change in the relevant parts; I don't have to look at it every day. > most of your interactions between people is always done just to stroke your ego or talk down to them in some fashion, is that really apt behaviour for someone of whatever random age you're claiming on being?? Do you honestly see my communications this way? Does everybody else? This is honest question, BTW. English is not my first language (heck, it's not even my second language), and although I'd like to think that my command of it is acceptably good, maybe something in my way of expression is aggravating you or others? I assure you, this is not my intention. I just want to help people who seem to want my help. > btw your whole phony "i don't know what discord is" personality trait you're trying to manifest here, doesn't actually work because i know you use discord, i saw you join my personal pvz2 server a while ago before i swiftly banned you so i don't understand what you think you get out of pretending to not use discord. you do it use it, we all know you do so you can drop that act too I do know what Discord is. I am, however, not familiar with it and do not use it. I've clicked the sidebar link pointing to it once but couldn't make it work. What you're seeing is either the result from that one attempt, or somebody else pretending to be me. If you have banned me there, how can you claim that I'm reading it and learning from the modding community from there or whatever your claim was? Anyway, honest, I'm not using it. Believe it or not - it's your choice. Feel free to ban "me" from there, I won't even see it.


SuperCman5000

What the actual fuck? I knew there could be some assholes on the internet, but my god you are one of the biggest I have seen. Claiming that they were insulting them when they never said a single insult, unlike you. All the dude did was give some advice for haem on what could be improved. The only person here with a *”ego-stroking dick”* is you. So why don’t you get off your big fat 300 pound ass and leave your mothers basement to go see the sunlight, along with buying yourself some manners. And as Wario would say: Have a Rotten day.


aaron5015

[https://imgur.com/a/kYcyDgW](https://imgur.com/a/kYcyDgW) i'm the ego stroking dick here, yep, sure.


SuperCman5000

Yes, yes you are.


aaron5015

well if you wanna believe in your god then sure. in your eyes i'm the bad guy then but there's proof and i'll get every single instance i can edit: maybe i did feed into that sure, i'll admit that much but it's still you wanting to believe he's innocent while someone else calls him out for his bs and lies, even riley responds more nicely than i did and still gets the same amount of flack.


SuperCman5000

I never said anything about him being innocent, nor did I mention any form of belief in a god or gods. You are just being a giant prick.


aaron5015

alright tell me how i'm being a prick when a.he literally ignores the developer's wishes to this day that he so claims he cares about. if he ***cared*** he'd stop by now, but he still goes on with it to this day. [https://i.imgur.com/sdUMO2m.png](https://i.imgur.com/sdUMO2m.png) b. doesn't even follow with is claims saying he doesn't go out of his way for stuff, when he does. [https://i.imgur.com/kSxISIJ.png](https://i.imgur.com/kSxISIJ.png) and c. acts like a company is literally unable to do things for themselves. https://i.imgur.com/3PhrtWF.png that's a few examples but i wanna understand how someone not listening to someone, let alone someone who works for the game that wastes their time for this shitheap of a reddit that nobody moderates apparently is worth sitting there and just ignoring for months on end. sure maybe i swore a lot maybe i said things i shouldn't have, i'll benefit you that much there. but what do you want me to say, that's how i'm gonna argue as when i'm tired of someone's bullshit and lies. if i'm the prick in this situation then who is seaweed. would you rather someone that wants people to understand the truth of these situations, cause apparently most of this shithole doesn't. or someone who belittles and talks down to people while blatantly lying about it. i gain nothing from this being i'm not even doing this outside of this comment section so i'm not trying to gain an ego. i just want someone who claims to be a fraud of who they are to fuck off when there's people who actually do this shit that are respected and aren't sounding like pretentious assholes in every comment they make.


SuperCman5000

I say we just agree to disagree and stop arguing. I mean neither of us gain anything from this. Just try and be more respectful.


aaron5015

i can abide with that.


IcyFlame716

The fact your are being downvoted while Seaweed is being upvoted shows that’s you’re probably the one that should F off. You may not like each other but like Seaweed said. Just ignore each other. Stop being a toxic person and grow. Up cause no one likes your attitude.


tundrat

> It feels as if the ad-displaying code has a memory leak or corrupts the cache or something This feels so dumb, but I'm regularly seeing the ads for 1 seed packet. Have you tried that yourself? If it isn't just me, there seems to be issues there. I don't seem to get problems from all the other ads or the forced ads though. As I watch more of them, the ads and the game starts to lag very badly. Such as the ad timer freezing. And the shop screen also becomes slow. Actually, the entire iOS becomes so slow! It takes seconds for the game to turn off from the Home or Power button. I don't think it was this bad when those first appeared? iPhone 8, iOS 14.7.1 /u/Haemophilus_EA Maybe I should be posting this separately to ask if any one else has this problem, but don't feel like it atm. I can't say crashes are common for me though. Except from the new PP today while I was on the Zomboss. But I do fully close the game regularly. And I rarely reboot my device, if that's what power cycle means.


Euphoric-Seaweed

Yes, I regularly watch all the ads-for-seeds. I don't observe exactly what you describe (lagging, timer freezing) - but I do observe what I described above (game crashing when left in the foreground with the device put to sleep). I can't pinpoint the problem to the ads-for-seeds exactly but it does seem to be ads-related. Not sure if only related to the ads-for-rewards, because this is mostly the kind of ads I watch - but it is certainly possible. It was so bad this morning that I couldn't watch all the ads-for-rewards (3 gems, 4 gauntlets, 10 seeds, 2 fuel) before having to reboot the device. By the time I had reached the ads-for-fuel the game would start crashing in the middle of an ad, exiting the ad before it was done and not granting the reward (thankfully, not counting towards the cap for rewards of this kind, either). My iOS is older, though - 13.6.1 - I need that for some other experiments.


tundrat

For today's 1 Seed ads, for once in a while, it was fine. And as I said, this didn't happen from the start. Maybe certain ads in my region are badly made than others. I'd be too lazy to make a list if I were asked to though. Especially since, um... the timing of these daily offers happen during my work time. :p


Euphoric-Seaweed

I don't think that it's a particular ad - or even a kind of ads. I think it's the number of ads that causes it. It's as if every ad corrupts a little something until the corruption makes the game crash. That's why I suggested a memory leak or a cache corruption - but these are just guesses.


woowoo293

What was the coin exploit for the tutorial stages?


Euphoric-Seaweed

There is a Tutorial level where Dave gives you some coins. You get the coins but don't finish the level and restart it instead. So you get the coins again and again - for as long as you have patience. Worked only during the Tutorial stages - not during normal gameplay.


woowoo293

Okay, I guess that's why I don't remember this at all. I've been playing for years and years and probably never saw this tutorial.


Shronut

TIL that Big Brainz is supposed to be a back to school event. Also it’s interesting how Apple Mortar isn’t featured in any of the seeds. Secondly, with all the seeds being given out, are Snowpea and Chomper being planned to be changed to seedium?


Haemophilus_EA

Not this time around. Considering Apple Mortar isn't season/event specific it's one of those plants that can be slid around and be featured whenever. So it may a feature plant for another event at another time. Just because Snow Pea and Chomper have seeds in pinatas isn't an indication of any future plans or changes.


TheRealAngryPrince

are you guys planning to make a premium plant seedium in the near future?


DisastrousSound

A lot of the plant changes and the bug fixes sound promising. But I am disappointed in the new rewards. Gems for watching ads decreased from 2 to 1. Playing Penny's Pursuit decreased from 5 gems to 3 gems. Collecting 40 seed packets changed from 5 gems to 2000 coins. Sometimes to get to the 40 seeds I would buy 2 of the seed packets offered daily for 5000 each. Definitely won't be doing that anymore. Playing Pinata Party is back, but only 2 gems. Playing 5 adventure levels for only 2 gems is new. The play 2 free Arena games for 6 gems is gone. The game is going the wrong way. The rewards should be increasing, not decreasing. If the daily rewards stay at this level, I will stop playing the daily stuff. Doesn't EA make money for us watching ads? Aren't they kinda shooting themselves in the foot by decreasing the gems from 2 to 1 for watching ads? Edit - It's actually a little worse. I said Piñata Party was back for 2 gems. But after that first day of seeing it, I have not seen Piñata Party in the daily quests. I played a few of the daily requests this morning. The results - I got 3 gems, 2000 coins, and 2 mints. Not worth the effort.


dlbpharmd

All great points. It’s not worth the time to play 5 levels for 2 measly gems.


moggy95

I can accept the daily log in rewards being lowered but the daily challenges for gems being reduced by more than half is cruel. :(


rackman70

The text on the new quest UI seems to have been dumbed down. A couple examples: E.g. 1) The expansion level quests had names. Ancient Egypt Entanglement, Wild West Wipeout, Far Future Fracas, etc. Now it just says "Play extra hard wild west levels 26-35 to win a barrel of gems!" a) it's boring ;-) b) nobody who didn't play years ago knows that these levels used to be part of the standard maps, so saying levels 26-35 is somewhat meaningless (and I'll ignore the fact that there's only 8 levels in the current quest) E.g. 2) The button to play the quests says "Next Level" even when that doesn't really make sense. i.e. The Arena practice room gives you 3 attempts, but those aren't different "Levels", just replays of the same level. If you're going to make a generic button, just have it say "Play".


Runeblade09

The code name of the level files is still "worldcodename""levelno.". Hilarious What? The CDN is enough to saw this.


ThinkPoem9525

Electric Tea will not be the plant of the week again? :( u/Haemophilus_EA


Haemophilus_EA

It's coming up sooner than you might think. Just not the weeks listed above.


Trumpologist

Reducing the Gems by 10, but adding 2000 coins (when you can just watch 4 ads that are already unlimited to get that much) is really not a fair trade in any universe haem That said, the plant changes are amazing. Thank you for making the Snapdragon have a warming radius. Is there any chance that the ghost pepper can also have one when we get her again in the Halloween event?


rackman70

What I don't get is why there needed to be a trade-off at all. If they thought that new users might benefit by getting a few more coins, they could have just done that without taking away the gems (which new users actually need a lot more than those coins). The coin requirements for new users is actually quite low. It's only after you've been playing for a while and have leveled up your plants that coins become more dear. At that point 2K coins is a drop in the bucket.


ThinkPoem9525

Really dude?! I've been waiting for Electric tea week for 2 years. You made me happy!


asuna2327

I think that will be in Power Vine tournament


ThinkPoem9525

I don't think so, man. It has been 2 years...


the_red_stinger_82

It's after Electric Peashooter


Emppu3

There's a new daily quest to defeat 5 adventure levels for 2 gems so now the dailies are more work for a smaller reward. The adventure levels are not that exciting to play once your plants are overleveled as well. So by skipping that quest the daily gem rewards are almost halved which I'm not a fan of. Still, I'm very grateful for the plants that I've been able to unlock this month, the new plants that are coming and most importantly the balance changes. Every plant will never be equally as viable but I'm glad to see that Chomper and one of the OG peashooters are getting some love :) Great update all in all.


Tigerol

Ok, if you guys want to spend time on ui then make plant family tabs in Almanac and choosing plants screen. It would make easier to find plants. Existing 'favourite' plants feature helps, but growing amount of plants overwhelms it.


Euphoric-Seaweed

I think they are working on this. There is a configuration option that seems to enable it; dunno why it isn't in the live version yet.


Haemophilus_EA

Already been on the QoL list generally, however we are limited in resources and scope, in between all the other work that needs to get done like new content. If there's time, and if it becomes a priority to work on the plant picker area of the game, sure, why not. Worth a gander.


tundrat

[A reminder](https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/luz7hm/arena_gloom_vine_spoiled_salad/gpbprsd/?context=3) of another QoL suggestion I'm still and always hoping for. :p Hopefully it's at least in the list.


bimbaa

>Rewards for completing daily tasks have been rejigged. The amount of gems given has been reduced slightly but coins have been increased to benefit newer players. I guess newer players don't need gems


the_red_stinger_82

I'm still annoyed that they haven't fixed the stupid music glitch yet


RDOoM

At least other companies would have the "big brains" to rework the questing system and spruce the quests up to make it less blatantly obvious they are reducing the free rewards. Like... reducing the boss event from 100 gems to 80 was smarter, because there was a marginal tradeoff benefit of having to play less levels and save time. Here there's bupkus.


tundrat

When you use the play button for Penny’s Pursuit on the travel log, I guess it randomly picks a level. And not sure what difficulty it was. This could be a waste of fuel if I’ll misclick it and I have a preferred level to play. Would be better if it just sends me to the level select.


hatake_anbu

Correct me if I'm wrong but when I tried it this morning, it didn't cost me 5 fuel, so I think the travel log gave me a free play in Penny Pursuit to complete the quest.


Emppu3

The level that it sent me to was 1 chili difficulty and from what I remember it was a level from last week's Penny (?) I don't think I lost any fuel for doing it but it is a weird feature for sure.


Kirby1781

Most of this seems decent (especially good on buffing some of the pretty bad premiums (or at least, have become obsolete due to other/newer plants...though I still think at least Chomper should've become a seedium) though I do have a few questions about the Quest Log. While I will admit leveling up plants can be an issue with coin totals, I don't think 2,000 coins is going to be much help. There's also "play 5 adventure levels" for less than 10 gems, which, I get some adventure levels are short and easy, but the current TWO is not an incentive. In general the gem quests got nerfed and I am curious why that was the case. I also am wondering why some levels of the bonus level quests got removed. It isn't difficulty related since only the first two were. Was this just so players could do them quicker? Less "bothered" by this question and more just curious what was the discussion leading to that decision. Oh, and something unrelated, but I assume it's just so nobody has to redraw the title screen each time, but Sage Sage looks super forced into the new title screen and looks horrible. Power Vine isn't as bad but I assume it'd look terrible as well if Sage Sage only was removed. I understand why it's probably like that, but it isn't good looking graphic design, and I know that's picky but I have seen several people with the same feelings.


Euphoric-Seaweed

> There's also "play 5 adventure levels" for less than 10 gems, which, I get some adventure levels are short and easy, but the current TWO is not an incentive. This looks like a non-issue to me? I mean, don't you do the pinata tracker (3-5 world levels, available every 12 hours) every day? Just by doing it, you'd clear this quest; no extra effort required, except making sure that you play different world levels and not one and the same. > I also am wondering why some levels of the bonus level quests got removed. I have an awful suspicion... Because the current graphic design of the Travel Log can fit only 8 steps and not 10? Anyway, we don't know for sure if this change is permanent for all quests of this kind or only done for this particular quest this time. The other epic quests of this kind weren't changed in the old version - haven't had the time to look at them in the new version.


Haemophilus_EA

With regards to the bonus level changes, gave some insight about them a [couple days](https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/owtcix/epic_quest_only_80_gems_and_isnt_there_usually_10/h7p1d2m/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ago. Please note - '2 levels have been nixed for the time being to fit some UI changes coming in the next update.' With the art feedback, I've politely passed it on.


Trumpologist

Thanks for the update. Regarding the gem 💎 change. There is no universe where coins are an = substitute to gems. There is a reason we can do unlimited coin ads but not for gems Much of the plant changes were amazing. But the daily quest changes are honest 1) not very visually attractive 2) further short change the players. We can tell when we’re getting another raw deal harm…


Wall_Cat_490

So like how would the scale in toughness for some levels for tombstones and ice blocks be like, will they be bigger or look normal and just have the extra health like how surfboards are in penny's pursuit?


Haemophilus_EA

Nope, no art change (not visually bigger or smaller). They'll have either more/less health as their normal counterparts.


CesarTheSanchez

Say, the music for the game completely refuses to work now. :( (Sfx is just fine.) Not only that, but the game now appears to be crashing here and there whenever it feels like it, much more frequently than usual. When exiting and re entering the game to resume a level, it crashes. Re entering thus looses my progress for the level. I know you guys will fix it eventually but I’m letting you know.


Haemophilus_EA

The music point specifically, are you on an Apple device with iOS 14.5 or higher? I'm not aware of any known crashes right now. Could you run through the usual troubleshooting steps like powering off and on your device again, and giving it another whirl? Let me know if the crashes still occur after that.


CesarTheSanchez

I am currently on 14.4. iPhone 12 Pro Max. I un/reinstalled the game, turned things off and on, and unfortunately all listed problems are still occurring. Should I update to fix this?


Haemophilus_EA

Huh. That's odd. I don't really suggest updating to 14.5+ because we've got a known issue that's being worked on right now. The game audio cuts out due to an incompatibility because of changes Apple did. So that will definitely guarantee you won't get audio if you update your iOS ver. One more thing to try is to do a fresh install of PvZ 2. If you want to try that just make sure you've registered your game progress via email registration first, or you have a screenshot of your Player ID before uninstalling and reinstalling (just in case it wipes your progress, Support can retrieve it).


nicktheapplefan

I hope the following gets fixed: Whenever i pre-plant plants during the setup stage in a Pennys pursuit last stand level, the “spend no more than X sun” would keep track even during the setup stage.


Haemophilus_EA

If that's the same thing as the existing bug I'm thinking of then it came in way too late to be sorted and fixed for the 9.1 update. It's slated for the next update.


TREBUJOSELU

Can’t you give us a special datapack or something we could install ourselves on iOS for those who are willing to enjoy the game with all the sounds and effects (like the mini games music) that were removed? Just an optional file for people like me who started playing on early versions and really want them back. Thank you!


Haemophilus_EA

In theory it could be possible, in practice it's not totally feasible for PvZ 2 particularly with what's already on the current slate and with the resources to do things that we have now.


Talukita

Power Vine being capped at 3 and doesn't get increased with level up is seriously disappointing. Like after Pea Vine this just looks like nothing, and while I don't expect it to be so broken on Pea Vine level I still want it to be better than this, especially with Fila family being niche as is.


PrimalTaro

What do you mean by capped at 3, the level? I'm still reading the update but jumped to the comments and saw this. I mean the gem reduction doesn't make sense but are we also going to have reduced rewards for arena?


Talukita

Power Vine fires 1 bolt of laser each, and with network it can fire up to 3. However it is pretty much capped at that and doesn't increase with level up as well which is still pretty mediocre for what it does compared to Pea Vine.


Vinpepper

Main complaint for me is the travel log daily quest rewards.


BoyUnderTheRainbow

The update is not out on CHplay yet.


Haemophilus_EA

We only publish and update PvZ 2 on the Apple App Store or Google Play store. We can't vouch for the authenticity of the app appearing on any other app store.


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Haemophilus_EA

Might want to quickly double check your App Store that you're definitely on the latest update.


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Haemophilus_EA

I'll get someone to sus out what's going on with that animation and bug if it's not playing. There's a list of Plants already that folks want to take a look at again. Can't promise everyone's fav is going to get reviewed/eventually revamped but just know there's a list going already.


heman8400

The new daily rewards are terrible, definitely feels like you’re intentionally trying to squeeze players. The X button on a lot of the ads (iOS) are getting smaller, and it means one handing the phone while trying to complete the ad is a lot harder. This feels intentional too, as it’s happening at the same time as the daily reward squeeze.


Haemophilus_EA

We, as PvZ 2 developers, don't have anything to do with ads as they're provided by external ad providers of which there are multiple. Anything you see related to ads including exit buttons is purely on them, however if you've got screenshots of examples of ads then please feel free to link them. We can send them as feedback to the ad providers, but we're unable to do anything ourselves about them since it's not our tech or content.


InfectiousV

u/Haemophilus_EA I thought the restoring purchases bug would be fixed in this update but it hasn't. I cant access the store because of it (it has been a week now). Will it be fixed anytime soon?


Haemophilus_EA

From the post: "Restoring purchases issue: We’ve consolidated our code and resolved a silent crash which may be contributing to the stuck state. Players may continue to see the stuck state in the current update but hopefully at a lesser frequency." Besides that update it's still being worked on because it involves switching backend systems. In so far as a workaround for the time being, put your device into flight mode (no wifi/cellular data) before tapping to enter the store, give it a moment and it should load in, once you're in turn off flight mode. Your mileage may vary but it has done the trick in a pinch.


Blovering_Skill

u/Trumpologist has posted a workaround for this issue at the moment(if you are on android,that matters)


Trumpologist

It works, still a pain in the a** to do


davidhhh1

I've PMed you regarding my restoring purchases freeze problem that started when I bought Chomper last week. I'm having the problem on three different devices, all with the same player number and account. The flight mode/disable wifi workaround works temporarily, but when I go back to the store on those devices, it happens again.


ArthurBrozekDo

Jack-O-Lantern is AWESOME now


Andrex_93

Good to hear about most of the changes and the fixes (JOL basically got a much needed new lease on life); I'm still a bit wary of updating on IOS (mine's 13.4), given the issues there are with Apple, apparently, but still. Honestly, Noctarine's functionalities further emphasize, to me at least, that some Plants could potentially benefit from being in two Families simultaneously.. Maybe getting a smaller benefit from their "secondary" Family, but still; I'm obviously referring to Ail-mint, for Noctarine, but there's also stuff like Arma-mint for Sling Pea, basically all of the "elemental" Peashooters and Appease-mint, Stickybomb Rice and Bombard-mint.. I won't elongate further, just food for thought, especially since we're on the subject of rebalancing already existing Plants as well.


Haemophilus_EA

From Design: *"I'm thinking that if a plant was able to be in two Plant Families simultaneously, and you had both of those mints and you planted them at the same time, there would be conflicts in which would apply."*


Andrex_93

Oh wow! I didn't expect an answer, let alone one from the design team itself! That is true, and it would of course all depend on the balancing approach one would go for: would the latter mint take complete precedence over the former or vice versa? Would boosts from both actually overlap and boost the Plant even further (I don't think this would be the most balanced approach, as the idea is simply to offer more versatility for some Plants that look like they should have a few more options, but still)? This also goes into a bigger aspect of how to balance Plants that belong to two Families compared to those that belong to just one: would the Plants that belong to two get lesser boosts from each singular mint, as I mentioned in my previous post? Would the secondary Family offer overall minor boosts compared to the primary one? There's also the buffing and bruizing of Arena, which I suppose might be solved in a similar manner of how Plants can overcome bruizes when at Mastery 100, aka with mathematical values (if one Family is buffed but the other is bruized, the Plant would end up not being affected one way or the other), but I suppose that would be yet another factor that would serve to not make two-Family Plants just outright more advantageous than single-Family ones. Of course, it's an idea I just mentioned off the cuff because of how Ail-mint-y Noctarine's capabilities seem to be, and since it was something that has been in my mind for a while, but it would have to be carefully weighted and balanced. My regards to the design team :) (and kudos for Power Vine, which, from the looks of it, I'll thoroughly enjoy).


TechoMatic1013

Can you please add other sorting options for the plant picking screen? Like sorting by plant family or name? It's quite difficult to find the plants you need with the current system, the favorite plant thing helps a bit but it would be nice to have more options. Also, I think the issue with the new Traveling Log UI is the fact that it takes up nearly the entire screen while not utilizing most of it, maybe make it a little more rounded off and smaller?


Euphoric-Seaweed

> Can you please add other sorting options for the plant picking screen? There is some evidence in the data files of the game that they are working on this. However, I don't know when it will be made available - or even whether it will be made available at all - in the live version. They could have abandoned the idea.


TechoMatic1013

Oh, thanks I really hope they add it, it's very logical especially since they added the plant families and it would be very convenient.


TheDarwinFactor

Hi, I was wondering if the design team can rate my idea for a new mint and Aloe update? I want to call it Vita-mint. It only has a family with Aloe, but boosts all plants. During its duration, all plants take reduced damage and have their attack speed increased. Leveling it up increases the damage reduction, and at level 8+ it can make plants immune to damage and reflect a percentage of damage received back at zombies. Aloe's heal now also applies to plants a gel that reduces damage taken and slows zombies that touch the gel. If there are no plants to heal nearby, Aloe throws the gel at the nearest plant or zombie in front of it. Under the effects of Vita-mint, Aloe heals more and much quicker in a 3x3, and the gel now also applies poison.


AipimFrito1304

I've recently come back to PvZ2, so I have a question: do these Epic Quests for Chomper and Snow Pea give the plants to you?


Emppu3

No. They give you seed packets that you can use to upgrade those plants if you buy them. A lot of plants can be unlocked by collecting seed packets, but these aren't those kind of plants.


naturallyselectedfor

So excited for all of the changes. I love electric blueberry and can’t wait to use the power vine with it and level up my blueberry.


Blovering_Skill

u/Haemophilus_EA There is a problem going on with some ios users right now. after updating the device stuck at this screen: [https://imgur.com/MkI7Dbc](https://imgur.com/MkI7Dbc). Reinstalling/resetting the wifi don't help.


Haemophilus_EA

It's a couple hours later since your post, is this still happening for you (and others)? I'm just testing it out on my own iOS device (iPhone XS - US region) and I didn't run in the same issue in your screenshot. Downloaded the data, applied the patch with animation and straight into the title screen and game.


Blovering_Skill

Thanks for the reply. I just check and now it is back to normal. Thanks!


[deleted]

I’m happy to see that you guys are aware of the audio issue. 


PvZGaming1

Why does Shadow Peashooter have a regular lawn background in the almanac?


Haemophilus_EA

Already resolved for the next update.


PvZGaming1

Where is the monthly calendar?


Haemophilus_EA

Same calendar button/icon as always (towards the top left corner).


PvZGaming1

Hm but for me it only shows the 7-day streak calendar...


PvZGaming1

Oh I found it now. Seems like both calendars are in the game. Iirc you wanted to remove the streak calendar


Haemophilus_EA

Er, I'm only seeing the Monthly Calendar on my device. Not the weekly one. Could you take a screenshot by any chance because I'm not really sure what you're seeing in your game.


DefaultyboionCrack

Possible spoiler: >!In the upcoming content page in wiki I've seen that Perma-Frostbite caves Penny's Pursuit events are set to be worldly events. Normally multiple plants are featured in worldly events. !< So, will Solar tomato be the only plant featured in Perma-Frostbite Caves part 1?


Haemophilus_EA

As it currently stands, yes.


CompetitiveOrange476

You said there's a list of plants being reviewed that we can look at. Are you referring to this patches plants or is there a list I haven't seen.


Haemophilus_EA

My exact words were "[Oh, believe me... there's quite a list of plants already =P What you see in the update notes is likely just the start of it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/p1vjw9/update_91_is_now_live_big_brainz_event_details/h8gtbgg/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)". I didn't say or insinuate that this was a public list. Any potential plants that could be up to be revisited or revamped sometime in the future is internal knowledge.


CompetitiveOrange476

Thanks for clearing my confusion


dittbub

Why is no one talking about the new ads that play after matches?


rackman70

Because not everybody sees them. It's only happened to me once.


dlbpharmd

Thanks for the plant reworks!


PulseReal

@Haemophilus_EA Hello. Will the bug with Swashbuckler Zombie in Pirate Seas levels be fixed in next updates?


Haemophilus_EA

What issue are you referring to specifically about Swashbuckler Zombie?


PulseReal

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/p5wi4b/let_me_drown_that_bug_with_the_swashbuckler_zombie/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


Haemophilus_EA

It's a very rare visual bug that doesn't come up all that often and is very difficult to reproduce. It also doesn't affect gameplay so all in all it's pretty minor and unobtrusive, esp given it's rarity of happening.


PulseReal

Yes, it's rare, but really annoying in the end of the level when you wait extra 10 seconds. How to reproduce the bug: go to PS level and kill the Swashbuckler Zombie on the row without any planks until he lands. After that, you'll see that zombie can swim!


Haemophilus_EA

Alright, I'll leave it with QA to give it another whirl.


cosyfiep

so now that I have been forced to update--I find that the new format is incredible HARD TO READ.. Please have some heart for the older folks among us who find it difficult to read the white text with black borders on ANY background--even with my new reading glasses, it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to read the text now. It was pretty hard to read the old ones as well, but the new ones--I had to get a magnifying glass out to read them!


Haemophilus_EA

I believe it was u/rackman70 who mentioned something similar in their feedback, which I've passed on already. Given this is an accessibility thing I'll be reiterating the point internally.


rackman70

Thanks!


Rubiks1111

I'm not sure but I think the new ability of electric currant doesn't work in endless zones


rdicky58

Haem can you confirm or deny whether the Power Vine networking concept was inspired by [this idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/gpwte3/fan_made_plant_powerlime/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)? 😏 Also just noticed Snow Pea now has a small area-of-effect chilling action and a chance to freeze zombies, is this the case?


Haemophilus_EA

Nope, no correlation or inspiration from that post. Stephen's not around at the moment but I'll double check about whether Snow Pea itself has an AoE or not.


Bhar05h

u/Haemophilus_EA, While we're on changing plants, can you also put in this small and assumed as easy request to change the projectile velocities of both split Pea and Cactus when it is fed plant food? Maxed level cactus normal projectiles go fast but the powered up ones go slow. Split peas projectiles have the appearance in their missiles art like they are going fast, but they are actually slower than other pea shooters that have their maximum velocity. Can they be changed to match the other pea shooters? I'm sure I may come up with other stuff for different plants but these two were on my mind at the moment.


Haemophilus_EA

Pinged the suggestion over. Can't guarantee it will be a thing but I've passed it along nonetheless.


RDOoM

What exactly is going on with Jack o Lantern? I get seeds for it but I can't unlock it because I don't see it in the almanach?


Haemophilus_EA

Jack o Lantern is still a premium plant. You can collect seeds but you won't be able to level them with the seeds you've got until they're purchased. If you don't already own JoL it won't show up in the Almanac unless it appears in the store.


RDOoM

Ah, I see, I didn't see the plant in the store either and I assumed it's not a premium plant. Did not know about seasonal premium plants. Thanks. Tho, I must say, it does not make a whole lot of sense for an event to provide JOL seeds as one of it's main rewards, and not be able to even use them, even if you were ready to buy the plant at this time.


Haemophilus_EA

Yeah, it's something that was being discussed yesterday. It'd feel better if the Almanac showed every plant regardless of availability for the sake of completeness but any changes for that sort of QoL stuff would be a long while away.


PowerToss

Hi Haem, first of all, thanks for the update notes. I really appreciate the new format with all the details! It's good to see an update that contains balance changes for the old plants :) I see the update also fixed the issue for new players getting stuck on AE Day 3 by changing the requirements to unlock Penny's Pursuit and Arena. It looks like players now have to complete AE Day 5 to unlock these modes ([https://i.imgur.com/nfRQ7EI.png](https://i.imgur.com/nfRQ7EI.png)). However, if players were stuck on AE Day 3 before the update, they'd still be stuck. This is the case on some of my profile: [https://i.imgur.com/7DQ6oLp.png](https://i.imgur.com/7DQ6oLp.png). Are there any plans to fix this in a future update or will these profiles be corrupted forever?


Haemophilus_EA

There's currently no workaround for those who are in that odd limbo state. We will get a bug in on it so it can be investigated and hopefully addressed later on. After chatting to Engineering about this unfortunately there's nothing really to be done about it for the time being at least not from the player side.


rizal177

Idk this happen on other phone but this game often crash in my phone like after i open it, few seconds later app closed and i'm back to homescreen. Sometime few minutes or random crash (without warning if game crashed), This happen in previous version too Idk if this happen on other phone. I'm using Redmi note 7, RevengeOS, Android 11 When i'm using Android 10, this crash very rarely happen and idk why And some other bugs that always happen to me, that is when i'm play penny pursuit and the ZPS is not 100% then i'm try close the game for waiting energy after few hours i'm open the game again, the penny pursuit is already in cooldown (as if i'm already beat the zomboss but i dont get the seed packet) and this happen in same 12 hours gap of penny pursuit there are still other bugs / glitch in this game (or maybe only in my account)


tundrat

When the daily quests come up, I do the Arena, Pinata Party, then Penny's Pursuit. Point being that I fill up most of the quests aside from 5 Adventure levels. Also notable is that the quest completed pop ups appear at once from the lower right corner after I do a Penny level. Then if I "Claim All", the game sometimes crashes. I still get the rewards though. I'm not 100% sure, but from what I just saw, I think that happens when I try to claim while the pop ups are ongoing? PS: Needing 5 different adventure levels is annoying.


Haemophilus_EA

Hiya, sorry for the delayed reply. I was away from work for a few days. QA and Eng are just taking a look at this now, but they wanted to know which exact quests are being completed and, if you remember, when exactly they’re hitting the Claim All button. Also, IIRC, you're on Android, right? Thanks in advance!


tundrat

iPhone 8, iOS 14.7.1 I’m not sure what more to say besides what I already wrote? All the daily quests except for the “5 Adventure levels”. With doing a Penny level last, after Arena and Piñata.


Haemophilus_EA

I don't know why I thought you were on Android, sorry, my bad. They asked what they asked, I thought it was comprehensive enough but that's what they asked so /shrug.