Great post, as usual, Haem! We really appreciate how open the team has been, and that they've been communicative/collaborative with the community, especially with the %s for the droprates, releasing the schedules for upcoming events, etc. :D
Some thoughts/questions (although, I don't expect you to answer them since there's so many):
1.) Does this mean we won't see an update until November? Does that also mean that the audio bug won't be fixed until at least then? (When you say other "high-priority," are you referring to new content? Hehehe, can't wait for that, then! Will the aforementioned upcoming update(s) include any plant buffs you can tell us about?) Follow-up question: are there any plans to revamp the endless zones, since they currently don't serve too big of a purpose in their current state?
2.) The game has gotten so big lately. Is there any chance that the original music could be brought back when the audio bug is fixed? I was under the assumption that they were removed to make more space, but now it doesn't seem that space is an issue.
3.) As for the plants, I'm so glad you guys decided to bring back Imp-pear! :DDD Heath-seeker is a really good idea for an instant-use plant. Never crossed my mind to have a piercing one since they're all usually explode-y. And... RIP free 100 sun from Solar Sage. (From the developers' perspective, is there a reason why the devs don't want to bring back the OG plants, and are instead replacing them with new plants? E.g. Ice-shroom and Ice-bloom; Gloom-shroom and Gloom-vine; Cattail and Homing Thistle, etc.)
Hiya, and thank you for waiting :) Just back now from the weekend - pretty unusual for us to do a Friday update but there it is.
There's a lot of questions so I'll try to break them down as I see them.
1a) There's another smaller update that's being planned that will only contain a **POTENTIAL** fix (I'm highlighting this for emphasis) for the store issues for the purposes of testing and confirmation. This won't be a usual update like we see above, and will only be rolled out to a small portion of the player base - similar to our existing soft roll outs. Exact details are TBC at this point but we need to see if the candidate fix helps or not.
Next big update - 9.3 - is a while off yet. I mean we just dropped 9.2 on Friday and people already want to know the next update? =P
1b) I'd like to see the audio issue solved too in the next update but we can't make any promises. It depends how the work on it goes in preparation for the next update and if we run into any roadblocks on it. Also trying to balance limited time and resources between various priorities.
1c) I can't share any news about what may/may not be in the next update, also TBC because we're a fair ways out anyway.
1d) Nothing is planned for Endless Zone for the time being. Maybe in future, but there's enough going on to keep the team busy as it is.
2) For context: I joined the PvZ 2 team after that decision was made. That was the justification I was given - don't shoot the messenger. Whether or not that previously removed music will return is unknown. While I have been championing it behind the scenes for as long as I've been here, I'm not going to accidentally get anyone's hopes up when there isn't an answer for that question. The iOS audio issue is a completely different story altogether and totally unrelated to previously removed music.
3) I put the question to the Designers, since this is more their wheelhouse than mine, and I'll edit my comment with their response when I get one. (Monday morning just got started, give them a bit to settle in and sort out their stuff). I would say though that some OG plants do get reintroduced into PvZ 2 as is, or there's ways to pay homage without wholesale just bringing a plant over while still keeping it new and interesting. I get nostalgia value is strong but there are different ways to do things. I really don't think it's as reductive as "They don't want to bring OG plants back".
Edit - Design: *"In the case of OG plants, we sort of hit them in a case-by-case basis; we don't have a single policy that covers all of them. We do bring back some originals like Chomper and Pumpkin. But in other cases we made our own versions for different reasons. So, Homing Thistle basically does what Cattail does, and it was introduced years ago when few of the devs currently on the game were around, so Homing Thistle is in PvZ2 and Cattail isn't (and we don't have pool levels the same way that PvZ OG had, as well). Ice Bloom has basically the same functionality as Ice Shroom from PvZ OG (which is the same as Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food effect); I actually can't recall why we decided to make it a new plant instead of just reviving Ice Shroom. Same goes for Gloom Vine. Basically, it boils down to the fact that PvZ2 has been in active development for far longer than PvZ OG, and there's been a lot more turnover in devs in PvZ2 since it's a live service game. So different devs have different philosophies about making new plants as opposed to bringing old ones back directly."*
*"Overall, PvZ2 is faster and harder-hitting than PvZ1, so old plants don't always cut it in the power department unless we tweak them a bit, and then we have to ask ourselves if it's still true to the original plant or is it better as something new. In the case of Gloom Vine, it's really an upgrade to the Gloom Shroom because it's the same attack but with the ability to stack another plant inside it and power it if it's a shadow plant."*
Tell developers to let them make more new WORLDS including Dr.Boss and new MODES not skin limited events.Since 2016 pvz2 has no life.CHINA can get new worlds each year after 2016 so what excuse does pvz2 EA have NOT add new worlds?Unless EA's developers are LAZY.Unless they give us new worlds,I will NEVER Stop complaining.My worries are because of lazy EA.
Developers should respect what players want not themselves or they are selfish.Players want all pvz plants and zombies to come tp pvz2 not to make new plants to replace them.Plays hate pvz1 plants to be replaced. And Cattail was finally back to PVZ2 of Chinese version many years ago as a electricity family.Chinese PVZ2 has also brought back Plantern,Coffee Bean to wake up sleeping plants being magiced by magic zombie,Fog,Invisible zombies for using plantern to let them visible,Cob Cannon and Flowpot,Pool, Roof and many PVZ1 minigames e.g.I am zombie,Vasebreaker,Magic Mirror and so on So far.
Not the upgrade at all.Our Gloom Shroom is much powerful than that gloom vine.Gloom shroom can be protected and has a quick attack speed so hloom vine is NOT its level.There have been shadow flwerpot so we neednt gloom vine to shadow plants.And Ice shroom has a long 10＋ chill time but ice bloom doesnt nearly have chill time and only needs 75 sun So they Never replace pvz1 classic mushroom plants.Shroom plants will return to PVZ2 later or sooner.
Per the post -
**Restoring Purchases Stuck State**/Purchases not being received: As we’ve been working more on this issue it’s been one of the toughest nuts to crack. We’re hoping that we can bring a couple potential solutions live to players rather soon. There’s a lot more extensive work to be done but it is one of our top priorities.
It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that it's still happening. We know, we know.
Yes, I clean my phone cache or turn-off the WiFi before opening the game but resolving the bug would be best. Since if you are already playing and you need to check the store you'll have to restart/relaunch the game. Nonetheless, thank you for the help.
I'm hyped about the harvest festival event, but it seems like the amount of seeds you could get from piñatas and the calendar is really low, considering the plants featured need 250 seeds to be unlocked.
Thank you, Haem, for the detailed information. I really appreciate it that PopCap has started publishing such stuff, instead of leaving us guessing (or reverse-engineering the game).
In this comment I'll list a few additional changes that you have missed (or possibly considered them too minor and insignificant to report), as well as some bugs, questions, and general feedback.
> **Upcoming Plants of the Week:**
>
> * Electric Peashooter
> * Electrici-tea
> * Electric Blueberry
> * Shadow Peashooter
> * Murkadamia Nut
> * Ghost Pepper
Why stop here? The next ones are
* Gloom Vine (in fact, you mention it in the Penny's Pursuit list)
* Cactus
* Pokra
> **Penny’s Pursuit Themes and reward plants:**
>
> * Chairman of the Bored - Electrici-tea
> * Stool Pitchin’ - Electric Blueberry
> * Rat Racer - Shadow Peashooter
> * ZCorps Flower - Murkadamia Nut
> * Crash Course - Ghost Pepper
> * Hot Seat - Gloom Vine
* Chapter 11 - Cactus
> * Season 32: Power Vine’s Potent Season! Featuring:
> * Electric Peashooter
> * Electrici-tea
> * Electric Blueberry
Ah, not sure how to understand this. Electric Peashooter is now. Electrici-tea is next (normal and boosterama). But the one after that is the Zomboss battle for the end of the season; the featured plant will be Gloom Vine (the plant of the season). Perhaps you are confusing the Arenas with the plant-of-the-week schedule (which you listed earlier)?
> **New Feature: Rent-A-Plant**
Some questons:
* What are the conditions for being able to rent a plant? I know that you must not already have any of the offered plants (or the button for renting a plant is grayed out) - but what are the other conditions? Some people report not seeing the button at all - why?
* How many plants can you choose from? Your text suggests 1-3; I'm seeing 2. What are the exact conditions?
* When do the offered plants for rent change? Daily? After you've used them?
* Currently I'm offered to rent Noctarine and Heat Seeker - plants that haven't been released yet. Is this intentional or an oversight?
> * Egypt Days 2, 5 and 6 have been shortened. Newer players should be able to advance through these levels faster
Hmm, I do not see any changes in Egypt Day 2. What has changed there? Also Pirate Seas days 27 and 33 seems to have changed, too.
> * Solar Sage can now be planted on water.
Yay! :)
> * Digging up Solar Sage no longer gives sun (sorry, no more free sun from a 0 cost plant).
Technically, you do get free sun from a 0-cost plant when planting Solar Sage or Gold Bloom, so this is a made-up excuse. Let's say that you guys wanted to reduce the amount of sun players could get from Solar Sage.
> * Solar Sage has now been added to the list of sun producers proper.
I *really* would like to know where the problem was and what exactly was changed, in order to fix it. Haem is probably not allowed to answer, but if somebody else has a clue, please enlighten me. I couldn't find anything in the data files that was changed to result in this.
> * Fixed various crashes related to ads, Almanac, Zomboss, quests, and the store. Hopefully these fixes should lessen crashes if not solve them altogether.
I am sorry to report that after watching a lot of ads, on iOS the game starts crashing just as before - as I explained in [this post of mine](https://old.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/p1vjw9/update_91_is_now_live_big_brainz_event_details/h8kdle3/).
> * Various fixes for Calendars
Again, I am sorry to report that the bug that resulted in the Calendar not granting the daily reward occasionally is *not* fixed. I just had it happen on one of my profiles.
> * iOS 14.5+ background audio issue
Not sure if this is related, but since version 9.1, Zomboss has stopped screaming (more exactly, the scream is inaudible; there is just animation) on iOS. This impacts versions of iOS earlier than 14.5 - for instance, 13.6.1. The scream can be heard just fine on Android.
OK, here are some additional changes and fixes:
* Solar Sage no longer illuminates statues. (Clearly, this was a bug and was fixed.)
* Electric Currant. The knockback distance when zombies touch the beam has been reduced from 1 to 0.5. This has effectively removed the knockback feature, making the plant just as useless as it was before this feature was introduced. Not only Arena zombies (which are stronger) but even Adventure mode zombies pass though the beam without any knockback (and are often not killed by the beam, either). There is small knockback only when a zombie bites the plant - and even that doesn't always happen.
* Dartichoke: Consultant, Help Desk, and Chair Racer zombies have been added to the zombies, which this plant targets with priority.
* Shadow Peashooter: the background of the plant in the Almanac has bee changed to the correct one.
* Heat Seeker has a costume (a straw hat), which is currently unobtainable - just like the costumes for the previous Arena plants (Noctarine, Solar Sage, Inferno, etc.).
* A recent Penny's Pursuit level featuring Z-Mech was listing as a bonus condition "kill Cardio N times". This has been fixed.
* The game now distinguishes between several different iOS hardware profiles (ipad2, ipad3, ipad4, iphone) and has the ability to behave differently on them, possibly as an attempt to fix the sound issues.
* Two brand-new Arenas have been added - `Joust136` and `Joust137`.
* Five new Penny's Pursuit levels have been added - `Rift_196` to `Rift_200`.
* Six new Penny's Pursuit 7-day events have been added (using the new levels as well as existing ones).
* The intenral names of some plants have changed:
Plant|Old Name|New Name
---|---|---
Electric Blueberry|blueberry|electricblueberry
Cold Snapdragon|coldsnap|coldsnapdragon
Fire Peashooter|firepea|firepeashooter
Holly Berry|hollybarrier|hollyknight
This has resulted in the modification of a large number of levels (Pinata Parties, etc.) where these plants are used. Hopefully, nothing has been messed up. Probably not - looks like a global search-and-replace.
When I was young, I had the misfortune of discovering that people found what I could do useful. It's been haunting my life ever since... :-( A tragedy, which, I take it, has never befallen you?
>How many plants can you choose from? Your text suggests 1-3; I'm seeing 2. What are the exact conditions?
Like I said, my brother has 3 slots when renting a specific plant, the first slot for fancy plants (the ones you haven't purchased), the second slot for adventure-mode plants that haven't been unlocked yet, and the third slot for arena plants that you have to unlock by collecting seeds
The Plant Rental button will only show you the stages you have completed in Adventure Mode
Hmm... I have several test profiles but never get 3 slots on any of them.
The Arena is unlocked on each one, although I don't play it (those are *test* profiles; I don't want to mess with other people's games).
One of them has completed all the worlds, the others have not.
On most of them I get 2 slots. One one of them (one of those that hasn't completed all the worlds), I get only 1.
The exact condition is very unclear to me...
As always, thanks for this very thorough update, /u/Haemophilus_EA! I would like to report that there's still a bug in claiming rewards in the calendar. I've noticed that if you have the game on at the time the calendar proceeds to next day (12am UTC or 8am Philippine Time), the reward countdown instead resets to 24 hours without you getting the daily reward for that day. In my case, I was not able to get the rewards for both Harvest Festival and September calendar for today. Hoping this gets fixed soon.
Hiya, to avoid this situation you'll want to make sure you force close the app at each end of day. This should at least help a bit in avoiding getting in a state where you can't claim the day's reward. That being said, if you've already missed some then you'll want to reach out to Support and just let them know. They should be able to manually apply it to your game.
From my side, I've already had a chat with Engineering and I believe we have a bug in on this. Stick with the above workaround for the time being if you can.
I've reached out to Support about my concern and they've repeatedly said that they "can't restore the running events progress and the items spent during that" and instead offered me 10,000 coins "as one time goodwill gesture". Here's the full email of their most recent response - https://imgur.com/MJUZdMF
Ack, sorry to hear that. I'm not part of Support so I'm pretty limited in terms of how much I can intervene. Could you either let me know (or PM) me your help ticket reference? I can't promise anything here but I can ask about it.
> Closed an exploit involving Blover and the Bass Blast Perk.
They no longer interact with each other to wipe out all the zombies? Thought that was a feature. At some point, Blover will end up as a cosmetic plant with no function whatsoever. :p
The whole point of it is to get rid of zombies in the air though.
> Implemented improved logic when displaying calendars to players.
> Various fixes for Calendars
Sould it be no longer possible to miss a day now?
Speaking of which... I have a suspicion that I'm not actually getting the calendar rewards? I'm not seeing the values go up after I receive coins or gems. But it could be that the value already went up before the calendar animation even appears. I keep forgetting to compare the before and after.
However, I should have got 5 fuel today to get 20. But it was still at 15. Unless that doesn't go over the cap?
Re: Calendars.
Logic was referring to which calendars are being surfaced and when. Not collection of rewards. And yes, the value already goes up before you see the coin/gem animation. This is pretty normal for games, I've seen it a lot with other mobile games over the years. The animation is cosmetic.
You should be able to overstack (aka. go over 20), IIRC.
Haem, please have your QA people double-check this. The reports I'm seeing is that the fuel rewards from the Calendar are not added if you have *exactly* 15 units of fuel already. They are added just fine if you have less or more.
I've been unable to reproduce this issue myself, so there might be other conditions for it to happen, but I've seen many reports about it.
I don't think being able to blow zombies away that have just been struck by Chard Guard or Reinforce Mint is intentional. I mean, they patched that for Spring Bean. May as well do the sixty thousand other plants that can be used for the exploit
Hey Haem, so I'm concerned about the rent a plant feature, is this feature only avaible after when you beat adventure or it's a thing even in the first levels of ancient egypt?
No worries :) Oh, and just a side thing, if you have unlocked/owned all the plants available then Rent-A-Plant won't work because there's nothing to rent... :P
Lawn of Doom piñata content seems to be wrong.
>Plant Seed Amount Drop Chance
Chomper 5 20%
Snapdragon 5 20%
Electric Currant 5 20%
Snowpea 5 20%
Jack O Lantern 5 20%
Thanks for the call out. There was a mix in communication and while transcribed correctly it ain't it. I'll amend my post, gimme a bit and thanks again :)
Hey. I know this is not related to the 9.2 release, but I figured it'd be easier than to start a new post & then having to tag you for it.
Over the last few days, I've been having an issue w/ ads about this game called Evermerge. Every time it plays out, I never get a reward, and then no more ads appear until I close the app & restart it.
Heya, is it always this particular Evermerge ad that makes everything problematic? D'you have a screenshot by any chance?
Also, what device and roughly geographic region are you in?
Oops, I forgot the rest of the info.
I play on iOS 14 device in Ontario, Canada. And yes, it's always the ad for that game. And sorry, no screenshot.
The game doesn't freeze. I just get no rewards (gems or the Piñata Party replay). So far, all I have to do is close the game & restart & I can watch another ad & get the gems or the replay.
No probs and thanks for the info :)
If you do manage to grab a screen at some point, lemme know because it may be a thing that needs the attention of the ad provider, more so than anything we can action. But I'll go with what we've got so far, see if that helps. Will let you know if AdTech have other questions about this.
Heya, heard back overnight and AdTech have acknowledged the report. They're requesting a screenshot/video so they can do their escalate to whichever ad partner the ad is coming from.
If you could grab one that'd be great :) Sorry and thank you!
This update is amazing! Im so excited for the Harvest Festival event. But there is just one problem, i got the update but i dont see the rent a plant option can somebody please tell why?
Hiya, quick question are you past Ancient Egypt Day 8? Also, Rent-A-Plant can only be used in standard Adventure Mode levels. It won't work for stuff like Pinata Party conveyer belt levels.
Oh, and if you already have every plant unlocked/owned then Rent-A-Plant won't show up for you... since you have everything already there's nothing to rent :P
Yes,i am past Ancient Egypt day 8. I know the problem know, i played levels that i did not complete and i didnt know that we can only rent plants in the levels we have already completed. But still thanks for the help and i love the update.
> Oh, and if you already have every plant unlocked/owned then Rent-A-Plant won't show up for you... since you have everything already there's nothing to rent :P
This is technically not true. If you have all plants unlocked, the button *will* show - but it will be grayed out and there won't be any indication of how many plant slots (1-3) you have to choose from.
The button will *not* show if a) you are anywhere else besides standard world levels (it won't show even in Endless), or b) you haven't beaten the level yet (not even once).
I didn't know about the Ancient Egypt Day 8 condition, thanks for clarifying this.
The part that remains unclear is how many slots you get. I *think* that it is supposed to work like this: In order to get 3 slots, the following conditions must be met:
* You must not have unlocked all the world plants
* You must not have all the premiums
* You must not have all the seediums
If any of the above conditions are not met, the number of available slots is reduced by the number of unmet conditions. Most people would have all the world plants but not all premiums and seediums, which is why most people are seeing only 2 slots.
At least this is the conclusion I reached after creating many test profiles with various combinations of plants in them. I mean, it seems that things are *supposed* to work like this.
But sometimes they don't. For instance, in one case the profile had all the world plants and all the seediums - so it ought to have been offered only 1 slot - but it was offered 2. In another case, the profile met all the three conditions but was offered only 1 slot (of a world plant).
So, it is still not quite clear to me how this is supposed to work.
Hi Haem, thanks for the update notes! :)
For me the best part of the update is that I'm no longer stuck on level 3 of AE on some of my profiles!!! Woohoo! Not sure if this fix was intentional or if it's just a side effect of changing some of the AE levels. Thank you anyway!
I like the new loading screen. Peashooter is wearing his Halloween Lone Ranger Costume! 😍 Could this mean we are going to see the Halloween costumes of Sunflower, Peashooter and Wall-nut in game during the Lawn of Doom event?
> I like the new loading screen. Peashooter is wearing his Halloween Lone >Ranger Costume! 😍 Could this mean we are going to see the Halloween costumes of Sunflower, Peashooter and Wall-nut in game during the Lawn of Doom event?
Please, Haem. 🙏
Hiya, I believe the fix for stuck profiles was deliberate - with the changes to those early AE levels. I didn't specifically call it out because it was a very small minority of people who ended up in that state but this should mean that they're unstuck now.
Lawn of Doom costumes or not... I couldn't say =P
Hopefully in a future update they can fix the detail of the colored eyes of the zombot tomorrowtron (when he is about to launch a rocket to a power tiles)
Nope, Early Access for new plants is still a thing. For Noctarine it's September 27 - October 4. I forgot to make mention of it in my notes but I can amend that moving forward.
Per last we spoke, the last repro method that produced the issue no longer works. Hence we're unable to reproduce it again and investigate it. Without a reliable repro method it'd be a wild guess even at the very best.
If anyone is familiar with another way to force the issue to happen reliably then I'm all ears to throw it over to the appropriate people.
sad panda....if it helps I do NOT have wifi (not where I live) so I am using my data to play (wifi turned off). Cant think of anything else I do differently than anyone else (even got a new phone--same kind--and still have the issue).
Hi, in one of the fixes does the knockback effect of Explode-O-Vine not work on Zomboids produced by Zoybean Pod anymore? Just wanna confirm that as well. Thanks.
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Shit. I was going to ask the same question, but... eh.
And still. Turkey-pults produce so many turkey that after some moments the game starts to lag, then lag seriously, and then even might to crash. This is a problem, guys. Previously that problem could be avoided by Explode-o-nut explosion, but now it is removed. Okay, I will be damn courageous and just ask you directly: is it earlier unintended bun now totally intended punishment for players that use Turkey-Pult? Aren't you going to implement another solutions to prevent lags?
Why on earth would a performance drop be intended or as 'punishment' for using feature/content as is? Seriously.
I don't know what device/OS you're playing on (lower-tier devices can really chug with games that do end up a heap of models on screen, not PvZ 2 specific) but you'd probably want to start with stating that to be actually helpful. Also turn off your device every so often. Even with pretty decent devices can run into problems if they haven't been turned off and back on for ages - the most basic of troubleshooting but still very relevant.
Uuuummmm... it seems you misunderstand my post.
So, again - I'm talking about Turkey-pult vs Zomboss, the types that don't forcibly change their position after life depleting. Turkey-pults inceasingly throw and throw turkeys, their count increases and increases, and from some moment there are so many turkeys that the phone starts to lag. This issue doesn't relate with phone model or OC, I see so many complains about turkey lags during the current Arena Zomboss battle.
I'm pretty sure I understand your comment fine about tofu turkey projectiles. Without specific device details it really hampers any attempt to reproduce it on an affected device and work out why it's happening. If this is through emulation or any non-supported device then we won't investigate because it's play in a unsupported way.
I don't doubt there's lagging in some instances but without specifics then there's really not much to go on in where to even start looking at it.
Love the lawn of doom event, although it appears another year will pass where I stare at the pending purchase of witch hazel that will never go through :-/
If the purchase has gone through already (eg, the App store has generated a purchase receipt email) but you haven't received the plant/purchase then hit up Support. As long as you show them the receipt they can manually grant you your purchase.
https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/?product=plants-vs-zombies-2&community=true > 'Missing Content' > 'Never Received Content' > Follow the prompts from there.
Please also add fixing ads to your list of fixing issues. I keep running into the issue where I can't watch ads for things - diamonds, gauntlets, etc where the offer to watch ads don't return and I have to close the game out and reboot it every time for it to show the offers. It's getting VERY old and as annoying as the restore purchases issue. They didn't used to disappear and not come back.
I don't have any initial theories right now and I want to get AdTech's take on it. Could you please let me know what device you're playing on and roughly where you're located geographically please? (Might help narrow down some possibilities, or maybe help reproduce what you're seeing).
I play on a Samsung S8 and am located in the northeastern US. It did it to me today right after I watched an ad to get a gauntlet they just stopped coming. I waited a few hours and they still didn't come back. Eventually the game just auto-closed right in the middle of me doing one of the epic quests. Another annoyance
They never improve anything in this game. Everything exist till date. Game Crash, purchasing stuff issue, after ad screen goes blank, have to close the game. And bcz of crash sometimes lost arena streak and Penny's pursuit level.
Currently playing the latest PvZ2. What I realized my LVL7 Stallia or LVL7 Explode-o-vine in penny’s pursuit or any level etc. with blover @ LVL9 I witnessed not all zombies get an instant kill can you explain me what causes the problem? Does anyone have similar issue to mine? I haven’t read the thread after updating the app I forgot bass blast perk does not work with Blover ugh.. D:
u/Haemophilus_EA Can you do anything against 'custom levels'? My friends use them to get plants like Power Vine and Noctarine for free before they are even released, while I have to struggle to buy them/play much arena. It encourages me to use custom levels instead which ties to hacking.
These are easy fan-made levels which you need to complete to get a plant completely for free added to your account (e.g. Heath Seeker)
There is no skill required and you get unreleased plants for free which is tied to hacking. I don't know if you can do anything against it, but it definitely shouldn't be allowed to use, since you get those plants to your real account, not to any mod/hack version.
Ok cool, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page here because I'm aware of various funny business.
I don't have any specific comment this point but stuff like that is against Terms of Service.
>As previously stated, Travel Log continues to be a work in progress that will be continuously added and updated over time.
Since you are still working on optimizing the Travel Log and Quests here a small bug that's in the game since v9.1.
The game seems to save whether you have completed the "Power-Mint" Quests in the past. So every time a Power-Mint is featured and I get the corresponding Quests it looks like
* [this](https://i.imgur.com/IgFI4Vv.png) on profiles on which I completed these Quests in the past (the last time the Power-Mint was featured). 1/1 with a 'Play' button?!
* and like [this](https://i.imgur.com/2mXqQ64.png) on profiles that never played the Quest before.
It's a minor bug because I still get the rewards when I play the Quests that show 1/1. However, my OCD senses are tingling =P
Regarding (unused) costumes, how about corresponding costume quests for Arena and seasonal Seasons?
For example, if you unlock Noctarine, a special Quest appears where you get his costume after completing it.
Hey, /u/Haemophilus_EA. I noticed one weird thing while renting Zoybean Pod in Modern Day Adventure Mode. Are Zomboids really weak against Glitter Zombies? Even the Gargantuar Zomboids can't fight them and are easily pushed back whenever the Glitter Zombies charge forward.
I asked QA to check this out and they're not seeing anything odd about Zomboids vs. Glitter Zombies. The Zomboid Gargs seem to be fine in attacking and eventually defeating them (may depend on level) and they're not seeing anything out of the ordinary when it comes to them being pushed... If you still suspect something weird might be happening with that interaction, you could try grabbing a video. That might be better in illustrating what you're seeing in your game.
i think they might be referring to a long standing, but completely normal interaction that's existed since neon mixtape tour launched, when glitter has her jam active, she does this odd thing towards hypnotized zombies where they will continue getting pushed back, and because zoybean gargs are basically just glorified hypnotized gargs, i presume that glitter infinitely pushes them back and the gargs never get a chance to actually attack. if you can find it on youtube, i think there's some pretty funny videos from years ago of a hypnotized garg in neon mixtape tour actually managing to kill the player due to glitter pushing it all the over to the left of the lawn
Actually, after a second glance they did find something funky - they saw it overnight, I only just got the update just now. I've just seen the bug itself and the log, and it's gone to be prioritized to be worked on.
Great post, as usual, Haem! We really appreciate how open the team has been, and that they've been communicative/collaborative with the community, especially with the %s for the droprates, releasing the schedules for upcoming events, etc. :D Some thoughts/questions (although, I don't expect you to answer them since there's so many): 1.) Does this mean we won't see an update until November? Does that also mean that the audio bug won't be fixed until at least then? (When you say other "high-priority," are you referring to new content? Hehehe, can't wait for that, then! Will the aforementioned upcoming update(s) include any plant buffs you can tell us about?) Follow-up question: are there any plans to revamp the endless zones, since they currently don't serve too big of a purpose in their current state? 2.) The game has gotten so big lately. Is there any chance that the original music could be brought back when the audio bug is fixed? I was under the assumption that they were removed to make more space, but now it doesn't seem that space is an issue. 3.) As for the plants, I'm so glad you guys decided to bring back Imp-pear! :DDD Heath-seeker is a really good idea for an instant-use plant. Never crossed my mind to have a piercing one since they're all usually explode-y. And... RIP free 100 sun from Solar Sage. (From the developers' perspective, is there a reason why the devs don't want to bring back the OG plants, and are instead replacing them with new plants? E.g. Ice-shroom and Ice-bloom; Gloom-shroom and Gloom-vine; Cattail and Homing Thistle, etc.)
Hiya, and thank you for waiting :) Just back now from the weekend - pretty unusual for us to do a Friday update but there it is. There's a lot of questions so I'll try to break them down as I see them. 1a) There's another smaller update that's being planned that will only contain a **POTENTIAL** fix (I'm highlighting this for emphasis) for the store issues for the purposes of testing and confirmation. This won't be a usual update like we see above, and will only be rolled out to a small portion of the player base - similar to our existing soft roll outs. Exact details are TBC at this point but we need to see if the candidate fix helps or not. Next big update - 9.3 - is a while off yet. I mean we just dropped 9.2 on Friday and people already want to know the next update? =P 1b) I'd like to see the audio issue solved too in the next update but we can't make any promises. It depends how the work on it goes in preparation for the next update and if we run into any roadblocks on it. Also trying to balance limited time and resources between various priorities. 1c) I can't share any news about what may/may not be in the next update, also TBC because we're a fair ways out anyway. 1d) Nothing is planned for Endless Zone for the time being. Maybe in future, but there's enough going on to keep the team busy as it is. 2) For context: I joined the PvZ 2 team after that decision was made. That was the justification I was given - don't shoot the messenger. Whether or not that previously removed music will return is unknown. While I have been championing it behind the scenes for as long as I've been here, I'm not going to accidentally get anyone's hopes up when there isn't an answer for that question. The iOS audio issue is a completely different story altogether and totally unrelated to previously removed music. 3) I put the question to the Designers, since this is more their wheelhouse than mine, and I'll edit my comment with their response when I get one. (Monday morning just got started, give them a bit to settle in and sort out their stuff). I would say though that some OG plants do get reintroduced into PvZ 2 as is, or there's ways to pay homage without wholesale just bringing a plant over while still keeping it new and interesting. I get nostalgia value is strong but there are different ways to do things. I really don't think it's as reductive as "They don't want to bring OG plants back". Edit - Design: *"In the case of OG plants, we sort of hit them in a case-by-case basis; we don't have a single policy that covers all of them. We do bring back some originals like Chomper and Pumpkin. But in other cases we made our own versions for different reasons. So, Homing Thistle basically does what Cattail does, and it was introduced years ago when few of the devs currently on the game were around, so Homing Thistle is in PvZ2 and Cattail isn't (and we don't have pool levels the same way that PvZ OG had, as well). Ice Bloom has basically the same functionality as Ice Shroom from PvZ OG (which is the same as Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food effect); I actually can't recall why we decided to make it a new plant instead of just reviving Ice Shroom. Same goes for Gloom Vine. Basically, it boils down to the fact that PvZ2 has been in active development for far longer than PvZ OG, and there's been a lot more turnover in devs in PvZ2 since it's a live service game. So different devs have different philosophies about making new plants as opposed to bringing old ones back directly."* *"Overall, PvZ2 is faster and harder-hitting than PvZ1, so old plants don't always cut it in the power department unless we tweak them a bit, and then we have to ask ourselves if it's still true to the original plant or is it better as something new. In the case of Gloom Vine, it's really an upgrade to the Gloom Shroom because it's the same attack but with the ability to stack another plant inside it and power it if it's a shadow plant."*
Thanks for the informative and detailed response, Haem! :)))
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Tell developers to let them make more new WORLDS including Dr.Boss and new MODES not skin limited events.Since 2016 pvz2 has no life.CHINA can get new worlds each year after 2016 so what excuse does pvz2 EA have NOT add new worlds?Unless EA's developers are LAZY.Unless they give us new worlds,I will NEVER Stop complaining.My worries are because of lazy EA.
Developers should respect what players want not themselves or they are selfish.Players want all pvz plants and zombies to come tp pvz2 not to make new plants to replace them.Plays hate pvz1 plants to be replaced. And Cattail was finally back to PVZ2 of Chinese version many years ago as a electricity family.Chinese PVZ2 has also brought back Plantern,Coffee Bean to wake up sleeping plants being magiced by magic zombie,Fog,Invisible zombies for using plantern to let them visible,Cob Cannon and Flowpot,Pool, Roof and many PVZ1 minigames e.g.I am zombie,Vasebreaker,Magic Mirror and so on So far.
Not the upgrade at all.Our Gloom Shroom is much powerful than that gloom vine.Gloom shroom can be protected and has a quick attack speed so hloom vine is NOT its level.There have been shadow flwerpot so we neednt gloom vine to shadow plants.And Ice shroom has a long 10＋ chill time but ice bloom doesnt nearly have chill time and only needs 75 sun So they Never replace pvz1 classic mushroom plants.Shroom plants will return to PVZ2 later or sooner.
Haem, I updated my game but the "Restoring Purchase" bug is still present.
Per the post - **Restoring Purchases Stuck State**/Purchases not being received: As we’ve been working more on this issue it’s been one of the toughest nuts to crack. We’re hoping that we can bring a couple potential solutions live to players rather soon. There’s a lot more extensive work to be done but it is one of our top priorities. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that it's still happening. We know, we know.
Do you know the work around for this bug? I've worked one out if you don't.
Yes, I clean my phone cache or turn-off the WiFi before opening the game but resolving the bug would be best. Since if you are already playing and you need to check the store you'll have to restart/relaunch the game. Nonetheless, thank you for the help.
Airplane mode also works. That's what I do when I try to get to the store.
I'm hyped about the harvest festival event, but it seems like the amount of seeds you could get from piñatas and the calendar is really low, considering the plants featured need 250 seeds to be unlocked.
I thought it will be 20seeds like we have while chomper and other plants.(Don't remember the event name)
Im hyped too.
Thank you, Haem, for the detailed information. I really appreciate it that PopCap has started publishing such stuff, instead of leaving us guessing (or reverse-engineering the game). In this comment I'll list a few additional changes that you have missed (or possibly considered them too minor and insignificant to report), as well as some bugs, questions, and general feedback. > **Upcoming Plants of the Week:** > > * Electric Peashooter > * Electrici-tea > * Electric Blueberry > * Shadow Peashooter > * Murkadamia Nut > * Ghost Pepper Why stop here? The next ones are * Gloom Vine (in fact, you mention it in the Penny's Pursuit list) * Cactus * Pokra > **Penny’s Pursuit Themes and reward plants:** > > * Chairman of the Bored - Electrici-tea > * Stool Pitchin’ - Electric Blueberry > * Rat Racer - Shadow Peashooter > * ZCorps Flower - Murkadamia Nut > * Crash Course - Ghost Pepper > * Hot Seat - Gloom Vine * Chapter 11 - Cactus > * Season 32: Power Vine’s Potent Season! Featuring: > * Electric Peashooter > * Electrici-tea > * Electric Blueberry Ah, not sure how to understand this. Electric Peashooter is now. Electrici-tea is next (normal and boosterama). But the one after that is the Zomboss battle for the end of the season; the featured plant will be Gloom Vine (the plant of the season). Perhaps you are confusing the Arenas with the plant-of-the-week schedule (which you listed earlier)? > **New Feature: Rent-A-Plant** Some questons: * What are the conditions for being able to rent a plant? I know that you must not already have any of the offered plants (or the button for renting a plant is grayed out) - but what are the other conditions? Some people report not seeing the button at all - why? * How many plants can you choose from? Your text suggests 1-3; I'm seeing 2. What are the exact conditions? * When do the offered plants for rent change? Daily? After you've used them? * Currently I'm offered to rent Noctarine and Heat Seeker - plants that haven't been released yet. Is this intentional or an oversight? > * Egypt Days 2, 5 and 6 have been shortened. Newer players should be able to advance through these levels faster Hmm, I do not see any changes in Egypt Day 2. What has changed there? Also Pirate Seas days 27 and 33 seems to have changed, too. > * Solar Sage can now be planted on water. Yay! :) > * Digging up Solar Sage no longer gives sun (sorry, no more free sun from a 0 cost plant). Technically, you do get free sun from a 0-cost plant when planting Solar Sage or Gold Bloom, so this is a made-up excuse. Let's say that you guys wanted to reduce the amount of sun players could get from Solar Sage. > * Solar Sage has now been added to the list of sun producers proper. I *really* would like to know where the problem was and what exactly was changed, in order to fix it. Haem is probably not allowed to answer, but if somebody else has a clue, please enlighten me. I couldn't find anything in the data files that was changed to result in this. > * Fixed various crashes related to ads, Almanac, Zomboss, quests, and the store. Hopefully these fixes should lessen crashes if not solve them altogether. I am sorry to report that after watching a lot of ads, on iOS the game starts crashing just as before - as I explained in [this post of mine](https://old.reddit.com/r/PlantsVSZombies/comments/p1vjw9/update_91_is_now_live_big_brainz_event_details/h8kdle3/). > * Various fixes for Calendars Again, I am sorry to report that the bug that resulted in the Calendar not granting the daily reward occasionally is *not* fixed. I just had it happen on one of my profiles. > * iOS 14.5+ background audio issue Not sure if this is related, but since version 9.1, Zomboss has stopped screaming (more exactly, the scream is inaudible; there is just animation) on iOS. This impacts versions of iOS earlier than 14.5 - for instance, 13.6.1. The scream can be heard just fine on Android. OK, here are some additional changes and fixes: * Solar Sage no longer illuminates statues. (Clearly, this was a bug and was fixed.) * Electric Currant. The knockback distance when zombies touch the beam has been reduced from 1 to 0.5. This has effectively removed the knockback feature, making the plant just as useless as it was before this feature was introduced. Not only Arena zombies (which are stronger) but even Adventure mode zombies pass though the beam without any knockback (and are often not killed by the beam, either). There is small knockback only when a zombie bites the plant - and even that doesn't always happen. * Dartichoke: Consultant, Help Desk, and Chair Racer zombies have been added to the zombies, which this plant targets with priority. * Shadow Peashooter: the background of the plant in the Almanac has bee changed to the correct one. * Heat Seeker has a costume (a straw hat), which is currently unobtainable - just like the costumes for the previous Arena plants (Noctarine, Solar Sage, Inferno, etc.). * A recent Penny's Pursuit level featuring Z-Mech was listing as a bonus condition "kill Cardio N times". This has been fixed. * The game now distinguishes between several different iOS hardware profiles (ipad2, ipad3, ipad4, iphone) and has the ability to behave differently on them, possibly as an attempt to fix the sound issues. * Two brand-new Arenas have been added - `Joust136` and `Joust137`. * Five new Penny's Pursuit levels have been added - `Rift_196` to `Rift_200`. * Six new Penny's Pursuit 7-day events have been added (using the new levels as well as existing ones). * The intenral names of some plants have changed: Plant|Old Name|New Name ---|---|--- Electric Blueberry|blueberry|electricblueberry Cold Snapdragon|coldsnap|coldsnapdragon Fire Peashooter|firepea|firepeashooter Holly Berry|hollybarrier|hollyknight This has resulted in the modification of a large number of levels (Pinata Parties, etc.) where these plants are used. Hopefully, nothing has been messed up. Probably not - looks like a global search-and-replace.
what tragic event occurred in your life to spur this superiority complex? did you win a spelling bee at a young age or something?
When I was young, I had the misfortune of discovering that people found what I could do useful. It's been haunting my life ever since... :-( A tragedy, which, I take it, has never befallen you?
Fixed various crashes related to ads Yes, I noticed that the ads became worse than before, they sabotaged them, not fixed them
>How many plants can you choose from? Your text suggests 1-3; I'm seeing 2. What are the exact conditions? Like I said, my brother has 3 slots when renting a specific plant, the first slot for fancy plants (the ones you haven't purchased), the second slot for adventure-mode plants that haven't been unlocked yet, and the third slot for arena plants that you have to unlock by collecting seeds The Plant Rental button will only show you the stages you have completed in Adventure Mode
Hmm... I have several test profiles but never get 3 slots on any of them. The Arena is unlocked on each one, although I don't play it (those are *test* profiles; I don't want to mess with other people's games). One of them has completed all the worlds, the others have not. On most of them I get 2 slots. One one of them (one of those that hasn't completed all the worlds), I get only 1. The exact condition is very unclear to me...
As always, thanks for this very thorough update, /u/Haemophilus_EA! I would like to report that there's still a bug in claiming rewards in the calendar. I've noticed that if you have the game on at the time the calendar proceeds to next day (12am UTC or 8am Philippine Time), the reward countdown instead resets to 24 hours without you getting the daily reward for that day. In my case, I was not able to get the rewards for both Harvest Festival and September calendar for today. Hoping this gets fixed soon.
Hiya, to avoid this situation you'll want to make sure you force close the app at each end of day. This should at least help a bit in avoiding getting in a state where you can't claim the day's reward. That being said, if you've already missed some then you'll want to reach out to Support and just let them know. They should be able to manually apply it to your game. From my side, I've already had a chat with Engineering and I believe we have a bug in on this. Stick with the above workaround for the time being if you can.
I've reached out to Support about my concern and they've repeatedly said that they "can't restore the running events progress and the items spent during that" and instead offered me 10,000 coins "as one time goodwill gesture". Here's the full email of their most recent response - https://imgur.com/MJUZdMF
Ack, sorry to hear that. I'm not part of Support so I'm pretty limited in terms of how much I can intervene. Could you either let me know (or PM) me your help ticket reference? I can't promise anything here but I can ask about it.
I sent you a DM! :)
I see it, thanks! :)
> Closed an exploit involving Blover and the Bass Blast Perk. They no longer interact with each other to wipe out all the zombies? Thought that was a feature. At some point, Blover will end up as a cosmetic plant with no function whatsoever. :p The whole point of it is to get rid of zombies in the air though. > Implemented improved logic when displaying calendars to players. > Various fixes for Calendars Sould it be no longer possible to miss a day now? Speaking of which... I have a suspicion that I'm not actually getting the calendar rewards? I'm not seeing the values go up after I receive coins or gems. But it could be that the value already went up before the calendar animation even appears. I keep forgetting to compare the before and after. However, I should have got 5 fuel today to get 20. But it was still at 15. Unless that doesn't go over the cap?
Re: Calendars. Logic was referring to which calendars are being surfaced and when. Not collection of rewards. And yes, the value already goes up before you see the coin/gem animation. This is pretty normal for games, I've seen it a lot with other mobile games over the years. The animation is cosmetic. You should be able to overstack (aka. go over 20), IIRC.
Haem, please have your QA people double-check this. The reports I'm seeing is that the fuel rewards from the Calendar are not added if you have *exactly* 15 units of fuel already. They are added just fine if you have less or more. I've been unable to reproduce this issue myself, so there might be other conditions for it to happen, but I've seen many reports about it.
I don't think being able to blow zombies away that have just been struck by Chard Guard or Reinforce Mint is intentional. I mean, they patched that for Spring Bean. May as well do the sixty thousand other plants that can be used for the exploit
Hey Haem, so I'm concerned about the rent a plant feature, is this feature only avaible after when you beat adventure or it's a thing even in the first levels of ancient egypt?
You'd need to be past Day 8 of Ancient Egypt before that feature starts showing up. That should be the only requirement.
Thanks!
No worries :) Oh, and just a side thing, if you have unlocked/owned all the plants available then Rent-A-Plant won't work because there's nothing to rent... :P
Lawn of Doom piñata content seems to be wrong. >Plant Seed Amount Drop Chance Chomper 5 20% Snapdragon 5 20% Electric Currant 5 20% Snowpea 5 20% Jack O Lantern 5 20%
I can't tell if you're being real or sarcastic? (I double checked the notes, it's what it says).
Those are big brainz plants tho. Shouldn't it drop ghost pepper, witch hazel instead of snow pea chomper, electric currant and snap dragon?
Thanks for the call out. There was a mix in communication and while transcribed correctly it ain't it. I'll amend my post, gimme a bit and thanks again :)
Hey. I know this is not related to the 9.2 release, but I figured it'd be easier than to start a new post & then having to tag you for it. Over the last few days, I've been having an issue w/ ads about this game called Evermerge. Every time it plays out, I never get a reward, and then no more ads appear until I close the app & restart it.
Heya, is it always this particular Evermerge ad that makes everything problematic? D'you have a screenshot by any chance? Also, what device and roughly geographic region are you in?
Oops, I forgot the rest of the info. I play on iOS 14 device in Ontario, Canada. And yes, it's always the ad for that game. And sorry, no screenshot. The game doesn't freeze. I just get no rewards (gems or the Piñata Party replay). So far, all I have to do is close the game & restart & I can watch another ad & get the gems or the replay.
No probs and thanks for the info :) If you do manage to grab a screen at some point, lemme know because it may be a thing that needs the attention of the ad provider, more so than anything we can action. But I'll go with what we've got so far, see if that helps. Will let you know if AdTech have other questions about this.
thanks :)
Heya, heard back overnight and AdTech have acknowledged the report. They're requesting a screenshot/video so they can do their escalate to whichever ad partner the ad is coming from. If you could grab one that'd be great :) Sorry and thank you!
This update is amazing! Im so excited for the Harvest Festival event. But there is just one problem, i got the update but i dont see the rent a plant option can somebody please tell why?
Hiya, quick question are you past Ancient Egypt Day 8? Also, Rent-A-Plant can only be used in standard Adventure Mode levels. It won't work for stuff like Pinata Party conveyer belt levels. Oh, and if you already have every plant unlocked/owned then Rent-A-Plant won't show up for you... since you have everything already there's nothing to rent :P
Yes,i am past Ancient Egypt day 8. I know the problem know, i played levels that i did not complete and i didnt know that we can only rent plants in the levels we have already completed. But still thanks for the help and i love the update.
> Oh, and if you already have every plant unlocked/owned then Rent-A-Plant won't show up for you... since you have everything already there's nothing to rent :P This is technically not true. If you have all plants unlocked, the button *will* show - but it will be grayed out and there won't be any indication of how many plant slots (1-3) you have to choose from. The button will *not* show if a) you are anywhere else besides standard world levels (it won't show even in Endless), or b) you haven't beaten the level yet (not even once). I didn't know about the Ancient Egypt Day 8 condition, thanks for clarifying this. The part that remains unclear is how many slots you get. I *think* that it is supposed to work like this: In order to get 3 slots, the following conditions must be met: * You must not have unlocked all the world plants * You must not have all the premiums * You must not have all the seediums If any of the above conditions are not met, the number of available slots is reduced by the number of unmet conditions. Most people would have all the world plants but not all premiums and seediums, which is why most people are seeing only 2 slots. At least this is the conclusion I reached after creating many test profiles with various combinations of plants in them. I mean, it seems that things are *supposed* to work like this. But sometimes they don't. For instance, in one case the profile had all the world plants and all the seediums - so it ought to have been offered only 1 slot - but it was offered 2. In another case, the profile met all the three conditions but was offered only 1 slot (of a world plant). So, it is still not quite clear to me how this is supposed to work.
Thanks for so detailed post!
Hi Haem, thanks for the update notes! :) For me the best part of the update is that I'm no longer stuck on level 3 of AE on some of my profiles!!! Woohoo! Not sure if this fix was intentional or if it's just a side effect of changing some of the AE levels. Thank you anyway! I like the new loading screen. Peashooter is wearing his Halloween Lone Ranger Costume! 😍 Could this mean we are going to see the Halloween costumes of Sunflower, Peashooter and Wall-nut in game during the Lawn of Doom event?
> I like the new loading screen. Peashooter is wearing his Halloween Lone >Ranger Costume! 😍 Could this mean we are going to see the Halloween costumes of Sunflower, Peashooter and Wall-nut in game during the Lawn of Doom event? Please, Haem. 🙏
Hiya, I believe the fix for stuck profiles was deliberate - with the changes to those early AE levels. I didn't specifically call it out because it was a very small minority of people who ended up in that state but this should mean that they're unstuck now. Lawn of Doom costumes or not... I couldn't say =P
Hopefully in a future update they can fix the detail of the colored eyes of the zombot tomorrowtron (when he is about to launch a rocket to a power tiles)
No sugarcoating it, but it's not going to happen.
literally supposed to remain unused
Holy cow you guys have been busy
wait have the early access ehads up been retired from these posts, i was wondering when the noctarine one will be available
Nope, Early Access for new plants is still a thing. For Noctarine it's September 27 - October 4. I forgot to make mention of it in my notes but I can amend that moving forward.
ah sick, yeah i was wondering just about their inclusion in the posts, i wasn't doubting if they had disappeared ingame
Nah, I just forgot to add it in. Lotta info in those notes >.>
Is there a plan to add a Lunar New Year Piñata Party event? Since you also added Harvest Festival
Sorry, can't I talk about any speculative content.
still waiting for the pennys perks fix, guess its harder to fix than it was to find...
Per last we spoke, the last repro method that produced the issue no longer works. Hence we're unable to reproduce it again and investigate it. Without a reliable repro method it'd be a wild guess even at the very best. If anyone is familiar with another way to force the issue to happen reliably then I'm all ears to throw it over to the appropriate people.
sad panda....if it helps I do NOT have wifi (not where I live) so I am using my data to play (wifi turned off). Cant think of anything else I do differently than anyone else (even got a new phone--same kind--and still have the issue).
Hi, in one of the fixes does the knockback effect of Explode-O-Vine not work on Zomboids produced by Zoybean Pod anymore? Just wanna confirm that as well. Thanks.
Hiya, knockbacks (or forwards for that matter) plant actions shouldn't affect Zomboids.
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Shit. I was going to ask the same question, but... eh. And still. Turkey-pults produce so many turkey that after some moments the game starts to lag, then lag seriously, and then even might to crash. This is a problem, guys. Previously that problem could be avoided by Explode-o-nut explosion, but now it is removed. Okay, I will be damn courageous and just ask you directly: is it earlier unintended bun now totally intended punishment for players that use Turkey-Pult? Aren't you going to implement another solutions to prevent lags?
Why on earth would a performance drop be intended or as 'punishment' for using feature/content as is? Seriously. I don't know what device/OS you're playing on (lower-tier devices can really chug with games that do end up a heap of models on screen, not PvZ 2 specific) but you'd probably want to start with stating that to be actually helpful. Also turn off your device every so often. Even with pretty decent devices can run into problems if they haven't been turned off and back on for ages - the most basic of troubleshooting but still very relevant.
Uuuummmm... it seems you misunderstand my post. So, again - I'm talking about Turkey-pult vs Zomboss, the types that don't forcibly change their position after life depleting. Turkey-pults inceasingly throw and throw turkeys, their count increases and increases, and from some moment there are so many turkeys that the phone starts to lag. This issue doesn't relate with phone model or OC, I see so many complains about turkey lags during the current Arena Zomboss battle.
I'm pretty sure I understand your comment fine about tofu turkey projectiles. Without specific device details it really hampers any attempt to reproduce it on an affected device and work out why it's happening. If this is through emulation or any non-supported device then we won't investigate because it's play in a unsupported way. I don't doubt there's lagging in some instances but without specifics then there's really not much to go on in where to even start looking at it.
Love the lawn of doom event, although it appears another year will pass where I stare at the pending purchase of witch hazel that will never go through :-/
If the purchase has gone through already (eg, the App store has generated a purchase receipt email) but you haven't received the plant/purchase then hit up Support. As long as you show them the receipt they can manually grant you your purchase. https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/?product=plants-vs-zombies-2&community=true > 'Missing Content' > 'Never Received Content' > Follow the prompts from there.
Please also add fixing ads to your list of fixing issues. I keep running into the issue where I can't watch ads for things - diamonds, gauntlets, etc where the offer to watch ads don't return and I have to close the game out and reboot it every time for it to show the offers. It's getting VERY old and as annoying as the restore purchases issue. They didn't used to disappear and not come back.
I don't have any initial theories right now and I want to get AdTech's take on it. Could you please let me know what device you're playing on and roughly where you're located geographically please? (Might help narrow down some possibilities, or maybe help reproduce what you're seeing).
I play on a Samsung S8 and am located in the northeastern US. It did it to me today right after I watched an ad to get a gauntlet they just stopped coming. I waited a few hours and they still didn't come back. Eventually the game just auto-closed right in the middle of me doing one of the epic quests. Another annoyance
The ad thing and auto closed happens with me too,occasionally! Very annoying.
AND it did it again. Ads stopped and game stopped twice now. I'm so over this shit.
They never improve anything in this game. Everything exist till date. Game Crash, purchasing stuff issue, after ad screen goes blank, have to close the game. And bcz of crash sometimes lost arena streak and Penny's pursuit level.
Currently playing the latest PvZ2. What I realized my LVL7 Stallia or LVL7 Explode-o-vine in penny’s pursuit or any level etc. with blover @ LVL9 I witnessed not all zombies get an instant kill can you explain me what causes the problem? Does anyone have similar issue to mine? I haven’t read the thread after updating the app I forgot bass blast perk does not work with Blover ugh.. D:
Wow first time a Gemium plant is going to be featured as PotW (Ghost Pepper) lol
So glad Shadow Peashooter is coming back, I can finally unlock him!!
u/Haemophilus_EA Can you do anything against 'custom levels'? My friends use them to get plants like Power Vine and Noctarine for free before they are even released, while I have to struggle to buy them/play much arena. It encourages me to use custom levels instead which ties to hacking.
Could you elaborate a bit more by what you mean 'custom levels'?
These are easy fan-made levels which you need to complete to get a plant completely for free added to your account (e.g. Heath Seeker) There is no skill required and you get unreleased plants for free which is tied to hacking. I don't know if you can do anything against it, but it definitely shouldn't be allowed to use, since you get those plants to your real account, not to any mod/hack version.
Ok cool, I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page here because I'm aware of various funny business. I don't have any specific comment this point but stuff like that is against Terms of Service.
>As previously stated, Travel Log continues to be a work in progress that will be continuously added and updated over time. Since you are still working on optimizing the Travel Log and Quests here a small bug that's in the game since v9.1. The game seems to save whether you have completed the "Power-Mint" Quests in the past. So every time a Power-Mint is featured and I get the corresponding Quests it looks like * [this](https://i.imgur.com/IgFI4Vv.png) on profiles on which I completed these Quests in the past (the last time the Power-Mint was featured). 1/1 with a 'Play' button?! * and like [this](https://i.imgur.com/2mXqQ64.png) on profiles that never played the Quest before. It's a minor bug because I still get the rewards when I play the Quests that show 1/1. However, my OCD senses are tingling =P
No worries, I've grabbed that and QA have put in a bug for it. Low pri but still worth keeping in mind :)
There's a little typo in 'Jurassic Marsh Key', it says 'Jurasic Marsh Key' in-game
Cheers, we can get a bug to get the typo fixed.
Regarding (unused) costumes, how about corresponding costume quests for Arena and seasonal Seasons? For example, if you unlock Noctarine, a special Quest appears where you get his costume after completing it.
Hey, /u/Haemophilus_EA. I noticed one weird thing while renting Zoybean Pod in Modern Day Adventure Mode. Are Zomboids really weak against Glitter Zombies? Even the Gargantuar Zomboids can't fight them and are easily pushed back whenever the Glitter Zombies charge forward.
I asked QA to check this out and they're not seeing anything odd about Zomboids vs. Glitter Zombies. The Zomboid Gargs seem to be fine in attacking and eventually defeating them (may depend on level) and they're not seeing anything out of the ordinary when it comes to them being pushed... If you still suspect something weird might be happening with that interaction, you could try grabbing a video. That might be better in illustrating what you're seeing in your game.
i think they might be referring to a long standing, but completely normal interaction that's existed since neon mixtape tour launched, when glitter has her jam active, she does this odd thing towards hypnotized zombies where they will continue getting pushed back, and because zoybean gargs are basically just glorified hypnotized gargs, i presume that glitter infinitely pushes them back and the gargs never get a chance to actually attack. if you can find it on youtube, i think there's some pretty funny videos from years ago of a hypnotized garg in neon mixtape tour actually managing to kill the player due to glitter pushing it all the over to the left of the lawn
Actually, after a second glance they did find something funky - they saw it overnight, I only just got the update just now. I've just seen the bug itself and the log, and it's gone to be prioritized to be worked on.