The Problem with Modern Premium Plants...

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  • @HierXu
    @HierXu 8 місяців тому +394

    Since I focus more on the endgame content in PvZ2, I'll drop in some thoughts from my experience since I am not a 'casual' player per se. Apologies in advance if I repeat what someone else mentioned, but I just want to be thorough since the answer isn't really all that simple.
    1) Scaredy Shroom is pretty good in Arena since of its powerful PF effect (it isn't as terrible in that sense as one may initially assume)
    2) Arena is def weird. A lot of people think its P2W and the best strategies involving killing zombies as fast as possible with the zombie 'spam,' but this is not the case most of the time. There is something we call score decay, where you need to keep killing zombies at a constant rate to keep the difficulty level of zombies as high as possible so they drop more points. Killing a wave of zombies too fast means that this constant rate is lost, and the difficulty level drops, resulting in less points.
    2a) You really do not need a lot of high mastery plants (Aka it isn't really P2W). You can still score high with high level or even low-mid level plants; it just comes down to optimizing your strategy and understaning how arena works (like understanding score decay, but that isn't so much of a concern with lower level plants where your damage output is lower)..
    2b) For the most part, the zombie layout in each tournament and the map layout is slightly different, though they do rerun older tournaments.
    2c) Unlocking the new plant at 500 crowns is a bit tedious, and long ago, this amount was lower. But, if you can win consistently (even with low level plants) and use your free plays every day, you should be able to reach 500 crowns by the end of the arena season.
    3) Plant of the week lines up with the plant family featured in the ongoing arena season. For example, as of me writing this comment, the current arena season features the Conceal-Mint family, and the 4 POTW are all conceal-mint plants. They are sorta random, but we datamined these plants; Check the PvZ2info wiki if you want to see this.
    4) Penny's Pursuit can be quite difficult, even with max mastery plants (in partiuclar, the begouled blitz levels), but given how the gamemode alongside Arena is designed for higher level post endgame content, this isn't too surprising. You can watch Darren-G if you want to see some guides with level 1 plants.
    5) You can easily unlock new plants by playing Penny's Pursuit with the zomboss fights. You get less seed packets with an easier difficulty, but you can easily get enough to just unlock a plant. You could also unlock plants with the Rent-A-Plant feature by replaying adventure levels over and over, so waiting for it to be featured isnt a concern.
    6) Overall viability of new seediums is def inconsistent. Some plants are just outright better than others, so I don't really have anything to 'argue' against this. Though I will say, once you level up primal potato mine, its range can hit all 5 rows if you place it in the center row, so that can be very strong versus teleportato mine.

    • @lingduan3488
      @lingduan3488 8 місяців тому

      How long did this message take?

    • @xgczero
      @xgczero 8 місяців тому

      Telepotato mine cant be spammed in boosterama

    • @tadeoprieto5573
      @tadeoprieto5573 7 місяців тому +26

      No casual player is gonna waste weeks to get a plant that has shitty animations and some lame power just to grind even more to get more seedpacks and level it up, and its like every month, its repetitive, boring, and brain smother

    • @shapshapshapshap2829
      @shapshapshapshap2829 7 місяців тому

      Question: is their any method to farm certain premium plants without arena and plant of the week/penny pursuit events? Reason I ask this is because that often I find the POTW to be something I’m just not at all interested in unlocking, so most of the time it’s just waiting for the plants I actually have an interest in to come by and be featured.

    • @xgczero
      @xgczero 7 місяців тому

      @@shapshapshapshap2829
      Theres other ways which are very slow

  • @thefantasylife
    @thefantasylife 8 місяців тому +1225

    ok so I believe the reason why the new plants look so off is because of the lack of easing. Its an animation term for how, in real life, when living things move, its not at a constant rate. for example, if you move your arm, right as the movement ends, your arm starts slows down to prepare to stop. That, i believe, is whats causing these new plants to look badly animated

    • @justsomeguyontheinternet5898
      @justsomeguyontheinternet5898 8 місяців тому +212

      So you’re basically saying the reason why the animation feels off, is because it’s a sudden stop in animation. like it’s not slowing down as it naturally should, so it looks kinda uncanny compared to plants back when the game was new.

    • @DaNoob1485
      @DaNoob1485 8 місяців тому +148

      As someone who uses flash/adobe animate (the same program the PVZ2 plants are animated in. I THINK!) it’s definitely because they didn’t add any easing… which is awful considering that, in flash. you can add an ease to a tween in your animation within the span of 3 seconds or less. I’m not joking.

    • @xtroyr_5747
      @xtroyr_5747 8 місяців тому +28

      So, yeah. Mediocre animation

    • @shonmamontov7593
      @shonmamontov7593 8 місяців тому +12

      Right on the mark

    • @Potato-so6zr
      @Potato-so6zr 8 місяців тому +36

      Erm, actually, the reason the animation is different from the older animations is because the original animators from Popcap left. 🤓👆
      But that can also be a reason too.

  • @sharkwekk2837
    @sharkwekk2837 8 місяців тому +751

    In arena mode, you’re not fighting an actual player or a bot you’re just fighting someone shadow stats. Meaning that you’re trying to beat the score they had gotten before

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +183

      OHH! See these are why I love comments, sometimes I get more information then what I get on Google, lmao

    • @KaslisCat
      @KaslisCat 8 місяців тому +13

      Im pretty sure its the average of all their scores fro that arena cycle@@CreeperPlayesMC

    • @katifis27-levyoftheabyss98
      @katifis27-levyoftheabyss98 8 місяців тому +92

      I always had that suspicion that it was shadow stats. Especially since you can just pause in the middle of a match. It was too suspicious to believe you are fighting other players in real time

    • @filizcivan2485
      @filizcivan2485 8 місяців тому +11

      Oh well i huess that explains how a guy that i eas fighting against arena mode LITERALLY GOT NEARLY 2 MILLION SCORE IN A KINDA SHORT TIME

    • @xgczero
      @xgczero 7 місяців тому +5

      @@filizcivan2485 that is a hacker or a very pro player...

  • @TheRedStinger82
    @TheRedStinger82 8 місяців тому +180

    There are some modern plants that I do really like, such as the heath seeker. I do mostly agree that most plants are just unfitting. They're either way too broken or severely underpowered with rarely a middle ground.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +33

      There's no consistent power levels... It's very strange. And with the leveling system it's absolutely insane how broken some of them are...

    • @Not_Jasonn
      @Not_Jasonn 2 місяці тому +4

      @@CreeperPlayesMCmy pokra is level 5 and it deals 150 damage PER SHOT 😭

  • @CoralReaper707
    @CoralReaper707 8 місяців тому +248

    many of the plants that were made prior to arena (as well as a small selection of arena plants) were animated by Liam Robinson. He actually has a youtube channel called Liam Automated Animator. Seeing all of the quality animations done by him and then looking at the crappy animations of the modern plants is like night and day.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +32

      Why did they stop hiring him?

    • @tpfoxCastro
      @tpfoxCastro 8 місяців тому +45

      @@CreeperPlayesMC
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    • @CoralReaper707
      @CoralReaper707 8 місяців тому +4

      @@CreeperPlayesMC idk

    • @hattsoffthehatt3379
      @hattsoffthehatt3379 8 місяців тому +8

      @@CreeperPlayesMChis contract ended with pop cap at blockoli I think

  • @aridadventure5018
    @aridadventure5018 8 місяців тому +83

    Dude the effort and quality of the new premiums are decreasing so much you can literally tell with no effort. Like for example, if we look at the animations from the old premiums like homing thistle or shadow pea, we can see it that the animation actually looks natural and unique. Then we look at electric peal. The animation is even an animation. They just fucking streatch the plants out and call it a day. And for their abilities, they copy the ability from an adventure plant and then buff the absolute hell out of it

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +7

      I know right? It's so sad to see the decline...

  • @user-ww5qd5gl1k
    @user-ww5qd5gl1k 8 місяців тому +59

    If their adding back old plants, there's a lot of other better plants like umbrella or doom shroom for gameplay mechanics

    • @Luperecio
      @Luperecio 8 місяців тому +17

      In my view, the plant that should be back is Umbrella Leaf. Because its function is simple but useful. Can deal with multiple projectiles and zombies. It's sad they don't care about this plant

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +11

      I for sure agree on umbrella. It would make sense that they would bring it back, Doom shroom on the other hand, I don't think so.

    • @IDoNotLikeFutureTrunks
      @IDoNotLikeFutureTrunks 7 місяців тому +5

      ​​@@CreeperPlayesMCDoom Shroom is the perfect example of what an Arena plant is like, and yet they don't do anything with it. Umbrella Leaf would work amazing too, mostly because screw the octo zombie.
      They're both great candidates, but we all know PopCap is just gonna make a dumb 0 sun insta that destroys the whole map instead of doing things well

    • @maciejpatura
      @maciejpatura 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Luperecio Unfortunately, There is no way, they would reasonably return a Gimmick Plant as a Premium, Without some added abilities

    • @GilgaLev
      @GilgaLev 4 дні тому

      They actually did

  • @drago252
    @drago252 8 місяців тому +21

    two plants are currently shown to be released at some point, the Guard Shroom and the Aqua Vine
    the Guard Shroom is probably the strangest plant to look at, animation and design, even mechanically its so strange
    while the Aqua Vine is well, a new vine (which tbh i’m happy for cause we do need some new vines after a while after Shine Vine) and it looks decent

  • @8xviktor
    @8xviktor 8 місяців тому +53

    My main gripe with newer plants is that their animations reek of lesser quality. Compare how most newer plants are animated (in general) to how the older plants are, you might see what I'm trying to say.
    As for balance, lol idk I haven't touched the game in 4 years

    • @sboxes4021
      @sboxes4021 8 місяців тому +2

      Arena plants like pokra exist in the same boat scaredy shroom does

    • @Potato-so6zr
      @Potato-so6zr 8 місяців тому +4

      OG animators left Popcap

    • @8xviktor
      @8xviktor 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Potato-so6zr I already knew that but I doubt that's an excuse to do a half assed job on animations for new plants.

    • @Potato-so6zr
      @Potato-so6zr 8 місяців тому

      @@8xviktor Probably focused on PVZ3 instead of PVZ2 so animations are rushed

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +1

      They shouldn't be rushing animations at all, it's absolutely dumb.... :/

  • @diananer
    @diananer 8 місяців тому +19

    There is actually a reason for the animation quality completely differing from older plants to new ones. In Danerade’s video about PvZ as a whole, he mentions how major team members of the art direction for PvZ 2 left the project, so Popcap had to get more guys for it. And they did not even TRY to recreate the old artstyle as you can see.

    • @sandradozai4192
      @sandradozai4192 25 днів тому

      I thought it was outsourcing to Asia or something

  • @Dwayne_LaFontant
    @Dwayne_LaFontant 8 місяців тому +191

    They literally look like clickbait art.

    • @Alriseehowitis
      @Alriseehowitis 8 місяців тому +15

      Real

    • @Latte_Da_Cat
      @Latte_Da_Cat 6 місяців тому +7

      Lmao

    • @Tyranid_Hive_Mind
      @Tyranid_Hive_Mind Місяць тому

      Still waiting for that one gatling pea

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      @ཞ̇̉ Місяць тому +1

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    • @Dwayne_LaFontant
      @Dwayne_LaFontant Місяць тому +1

      @@ཞ̇̉Verminator NFTs coming in the year 2042

  • @crud5237
    @crud5237 8 місяців тому +149

    I’m an animator, and the reason the new plants look so badly animated is because of a few reasons.
    One reason is the lack of anticipation and timing before they fire their shot and do their idle animation. With a plant like Peashooter, you can see him swing back and forth with a small slow down as his swing comes to a peak for around half a second, and then he speeds up to swing backwards. For a plant like Scaredy Shroom, however, he swings around at a constant speed.
    Another reason is the lack of easing. I’ve seen another comment talk about this, but there is a heavy lack of easing. For that Dragon Fruit plant, they swing their head around, reach a peak in their swing, and then immediately swings his head back around with no buildup to it at all.
    The last thing is that I think they’re too scared to have really fast animations, like with that one bamboo plant. He thrusts his spear forward like he’s poking something with a toothpick and not stabbing a zombie heroically.
    i did not mean to write an entire essay for this

    • @ba6tatz
      @ba6tatz 7 місяців тому +7

      ah so no wonder shit looks like pvz 2 china plants(cause of the bad animation and designs but some pvz2c plants are well animated)

    • @jam-ham-handed
      @jam-ham-handed 4 місяці тому

      I swear these new plants feel like their from​ pvz heros and were drawn and animated by the pvz Chinese devs. @@ba6tatz

    • @MationsDam
      @MationsDam 3 місяці тому +2

      About writing the essay. Dont be ashamed, i am guessing you are an animator, I'm an animator too and we are passionate and should express the technicality of such things, its really nice for people to understand these things, and you explained it well in a short manner.

  • @KL53986
    @KL53986 8 місяців тому +29

    The plants they added after MD finish simply dont serve no real purpose, they are either OP or simply useless or redundant additions eating up your precious storage.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +5

      They're there just for people to play more

  • @GabrielOrihuela-v5n
    @GabrielOrihuela-v5n 8 місяців тому +84

    (Not to be rude) Scaredy shroom is DEFINITELY better than tomb tangler or vampire wall nut (I don't know the name)

    • @mythlostintime
      @mythlostintime 8 місяців тому +36

      vamporichi?
      yeah the plant is lowkey the most useless plant to ever exist. the life drain isnt that good

    • @BlackAntoITA
      @BlackAntoITA 8 місяців тому +9

      Yeah i agree that Vamporcini is terrible and imo it deserves a buff by making the health drain more consistent and that on higher levels it can drain the HP of the zombies much more faster and get much more health but especially when on defensive mode it should start swallowing their HP if it’s getting low on health and the plant food should be that it swallows all the HP from the zombies around it and gets a defense boost.

    • @XWeeking
      @XWeeking 8 місяців тому +6

      I think scaredy shroom is pretty powerful because it's plant food effect, all 9 scaredy shroom plant food simultaneously can melt almost any zombie in 3 lanes.

    • @Justshay123
      @Justshay123 8 місяців тому +3

      Tombtangler is to bad imo

    • @IDoNotLikeFutureTrunks
      @IDoNotLikeFutureTrunks 7 місяців тому +2

      I'll say this once and stand by it
      Vamporchini is the plant of all time 🔥🔥

  • @gummywormfriedinbutter
    @gummywormfriedinbutter 8 місяців тому +62

    Seed packet unlocks are definitely FAR worse than paid plants. It’s pretty obvious that they make them hard to unlock as bait for you to buy seed packets in the shop, which end up being incredibly expensive, to the point where it might cost 20 dollars to get a plant rather than 5. Sure, you can technically unlock plants for free, but I don’t think that’s how they really designed it.

  • @Mothsune
    @Mothsune 8 місяців тому +19

    I swear the biggest problem with modern plants is just the lifeless animations

  • @Itspablogm
    @Itspablogm 8 місяців тому +38

    Also a big problem for me is, once i get the plant, *what do i do?* The only gamemodes are arena, penny’s pursuit and campaign (which I’ve already completed). The game turns pointless. What’s the point in getting that plant?

    • @Sploobicious
      @Sploobicious 8 місяців тому +5

      I mean, I replay adventure in pvz 1 a lot

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +21

      Exactly. They need to incorporate these premium plants in a much more useful environment.

    • @tpfoxCastro
      @tpfoxCastro 8 місяців тому +3

      @@Sploobicious Because there's still a challenge both levels and plant power creep make using new plants on adventure very boring

    • @manachromeYT
      @manachromeYT 8 місяців тому +9

      ​@@CreeperPlayesMCendless mode exists as a 4th game mode and some of them are balenced better than the campaign there.

    • @manachromeYT
      @manachromeYT 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@tpfoxCastroadd new difficulties for adventure bronze level two zombies gives a bronze star next to level when completed silver level 3 zombies gives silver star. Gold level 4 zombies and veterans gold star. Mastery no leveling no premium gemiums seediums or mints no power ups and no mowers with level 4 zombies. Gives a taco and 10 seed packets related to the word.

  • @LJC-zz8xz
    @LJC-zz8xz Місяць тому +4

    1:34 you accidentally put 25 sun for peashooter

  • @ZeroTwo01006
    @ZeroTwo01006 8 місяців тому +18

    It does suck when some of the new plants like Pokra and Ice Shroom are overpowered like the Metal Blade from MM2 which makes old plants obsolete. I still like them but I only use them because I haven’t tried them in a while and give them a break by using different plants so it won’t become stale. Great and valid video dude.👍

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +5

      Thanks! And I agree on the whole scenario where they pretty much make the old plants useless

    • @Simbala-bq5vy
      @Simbala-bq5vy 7 місяців тому +4

      Pokra is not a new plant. It's definitely 3 years since Pokra released. It was one of the plants that needed 100 seed packets instead of 250

  • @СашаКабин-п2г
    @СашаКабин-п2г 8 місяців тому +10

    I agree with you on arena because at max it gives you only 1 plant in a month and you have to work for it really hard that it's not worth it. But I definitely disagree with you on Penny's pursuit. It's way easier method of unlocking plants. It changes every week so you can get a new plant more frequently. The way you obtain it is through getting 250 seed packets. All you need is fight dr. Zomboss 3 times on level difficulty 2 which will give in total 45 seeds (15 seeds each fight). Overall, it's just 6 by 3 fights with Zomboss. You just have to use a good strategy to win him all the time. You can update bowling bulb till level 3 and pile turnip and take them. This combo generates lots of dmg because bowls usually reach the boss. As a defensive plant you can take explod-o-nut.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому

      Although you make good points, I have a weird agenda with leveling up so I refuse to do it at all. Although I see where you're coming from!

  • @king_of_sandfall
    @king_of_sandfall 8 місяців тому +10

    they should make another version of arena where its like the one console minigame on the og game where one person is zombies one is plants

  • @TheXLPlays
    @TheXLPlays 26 днів тому +1

    Fun Fact, Scaredy Shroom actually had a Pv2 design that actually looked like the other shrooms, I believe it was in a now defunct Chinese game called PvZ All-Stars, In that game he actually looked good and was the middle evolution (Yes you read that right) of the Puff Shroom/Scaredy Shroom/Fume Shroom line.

  • @thepuppet7134
    @thepuppet7134 6 місяців тому +9

    Ok, I understand your point, but honestly, I love the return of sea shrom
    I love her in the first game and I will love her in the second, I don't care if sea shroom does the same or if she is useless (also, her design is so cute)
    GO AHEAD SEA SHROOM🥺!

    • @rasul3217
      @rasul3217 20 днів тому

      Понял, ты какой то изгой.

  • @paradiseplaysgames6353
    @paradiseplaysgames6353 7 місяців тому +3

    In the arena section, I was crazy enough to play and play to get blastberry vine

  • @gateofworlds4167
    @gateofworlds4167 8 місяців тому +8

    Sadly Scaredy-Shroom was originally going to come out in Dark Ages Part 2.

  • @DylangamerTV
    @DylangamerTV 8 місяців тому +27

    3:46 heck no

    • @JohnnyboiRando
      @JohnnyboiRando 8 місяців тому +6

      we dont need to suffer anymore than we already have to get to modern day

    • @tpfoxCastro
      @tpfoxCastro 8 місяців тому +3

      skill issue

    • @Alex169o
      @Alex169o 25 днів тому

      Skill issue lmao

  • @mananta6579
    @mananta6579 8 місяців тому +4

    The fact that in the background gameplay I can't name half of the plants and/or their effects tells about how much unecessary plants they're shoving in it

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly. There's nothing unique or special to them anymore

  • @vukyy
    @vukyy 8 місяців тому +3

    The main reason why i prefer modded version od pvz2 like PvZ Reflourished isn't because of new worlds or different zombie AI it is because in Reflourished you have some levels on worlds after Zombos and you can unlock premium plants like Electric pea and etc. Everything is free 2 play and it gives vibe like pvz1.
    Edit: And you can actually play it in 60fps like in the good old times instead of locked 30fps.

  • @MarkKravchuk
    @MarkKravchuk 7 місяців тому +2

    I wish that PVZ2 could have you make a feature
    The feature is, you can choose the level of your plants but you can make your max level bigger by collecting seed packets. This means that if you have a plant at level one, you can only have it at level one. But, if you have your plant at level eleven, you can choose the level of it between one and eleven. It's like you can upgrade you max level but still choose it to be level one because it makes the game more fun. This is probably going to make PVZ2 fun because it allows experienced players to be able to feel the spice of difficulty in the game everybody loves.

  • @BlackAntoITA
    @BlackAntoITA 8 місяців тому +5

    I do agree with most of the problems you've described in the video, especially the ones where getting a new plant is getting too difficult for the amount of points you have to get in the Arena and plus a crazy amount of seed packets just for only unlocking one and upgrading it but it’s more easier getting seed packets on Penny’s Pursuit against Zomboss depending which one is the plant of the week and i'm honestly very glad they made more OP plants and both Levitater and Tomb Tangler even got buffed because they now have a 50% chance to get rid of the zombies completely when before they had only 10% chance. But yeah besides the lacking of new worlds they really should nerf the amount of zombies that you get on Penny’s Pursuit because there's seriously too much of them and there’s nothing you can really do if the levels have the conveyor belt since it does give you the worst plants against the worst freaking zombies ever and even some of the Powerups aren’t worth maxing out at all, and in my honest opinion they should absolutely buff more plants such as Zoybean Pod by making new types of Zomboids randomly and an Anti-Machine one that has a pumpkin or pineapple as protection, plus they need to fix the Zomboid Gargantuar's range because it’s seriously too short that he easily takes a lot of damage and gets killed before he can do anything against the zombies that are high leveled on Penny’s Pursuit but what actually annoys me is that with the recent update i cannot rent any plant i've missed and because of this i'm struggling so much to unlock them and plus the game is still very buggy with the sounds and many other things. But yeah after all this game is still very awesome but they should also revert back the reward from completing the extra levels of the worlds from 25 gems to 80 cuz i really hated that change so much and the daily gems from the videos must go back to 15 instead of only 9.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +1

      I think the game wants/expects you to level up plants, thus the spam of zombies. It's almost like they're forcing you to level them up in a way

    • @BlackAntoITA
      @BlackAntoITA 8 місяців тому

      @@CreeperPlayesMC Indeed and this is why there are even levels where you need high leveled perks to be able to beat them.

  • @schnozgaming989
    @schnozgaming989 7 місяців тому +12

    My main problem with game is a fact what it's weird arena-penny pursuit cycle, because where is no others gamemodes there you even can use theese plants, i suppose most players just leaving game right after completing adventure

  • @talentlessanimator2831
    @talentlessanimator2831 8 місяців тому +21

    Sometimes i wish some of the more powerful plants had way higher price

    • @BlackAntoITA
      @BlackAntoITA 8 місяців тому +6

      There's Nightcap that costs 300 suns and the cost doesn’t even get cheaper and Ice Shroom has a slow recharge.

    • @talentlessanimator2831
      @talentlessanimator2831 8 місяців тому +2

      @@BlackAntoITA yeah she is the one exception

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому

      It really depends on the plant!

    • @talentlessanimator2831
      @talentlessanimator2831 8 місяців тому +3

      @@CreeperPlayesMC plants like pokra are way too cheap for their power it is 25 sun extra for a better version of bonk choy in every way

  • @JoseViktor4099
    @JoseViktor4099 7 місяців тому +5

    Oh man I had bad news.
    Remember Doom Shroom?
    Well sh*t

  • @pjtheprimalpeashootergamin6159
    @pjtheprimalpeashootergamin6159 7 місяців тому +2

    the thing is
    popcap has a "another location" in the world located in hydrabad this is because ea layed more off of the seattle studio completely making 20 in a half people in the studio so thats why

  • @puppy5267
    @puppy5267 8 місяців тому +4

    What makes me shocked is max level Ice Shroom does 2,000 damage per hit, which 2 shots a garg..

  • @Fortaplus
    @Fortaplus 5 місяців тому +2

    I think instead of reworking pennys persuit they can add a feature to under level your plants when you upgrade a plant the plant ti level 2 they can add a bottom to make it to level 1

  • @PedroHenrique-vs3mf
    @PedroHenrique-vs3mf 8 місяців тому +6

    Hell yea! I went back to gaming it these days, but brooo the list of plants we need hell to acess is so huge. A shame they focus on quantity over quality

  • @Antarctica74
    @Antarctica74 5 місяців тому +3

    5:10 its not a bot, its the ghost data of someone else who played arena.
    also nice im not the only person who refuses to levelup my plants from pure spite! :D

  • @kirbykraftgames
    @kirbykraftgames 6 місяців тому +1

    This video showed me that the Dragon Brute is a shadow plant
    I genuinely did not know this information

  • @bowser3017
    @bowser3017 28 днів тому

    14:40 absolutely everyone has forgotten about the existence of pea pod

  • @mohammadawan69
    @mohammadawan69 8 місяців тому +8

    People really dont appreciate the scaredy shroom plant food, put two tile turnips on row 2 and 4, column 2 and then a 3x3 of scardey shrooms over it. Then feed one of the scaredys on the power tiles a plant food and then you can wipe the entire board

    • @TheMistermastermario
      @TheMistermastermario 8 місяців тому +1

      doesn't this apply to basically any good plant food with tile turnip though?

    • @phantominway
      @phantominway 8 місяців тому

      ​@@TheMistermastermario Well yeah but the scared shroom plant food activates for the other scared shrooms as well. Also tile turnip tiles have a slight delay after the first plant food activates so the scaredy shrooms will chain activate

    • @light6666
      @light6666 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@phantominway that typically doesnt matter.. 9X of *any* plantfood is op the fact this is quite litterally just peashooter with slight KB is not worth it no matter the context to something like fume shroom or ice melon

    • @phantominway
      @phantominway 8 місяців тому

      @@light6666 Think about it this way. Each tile activates after the plant on it ends its plant fooding. Then all corresponding tiles activate resulting in the second plant food blast. However, if the scaredy shroom also activates other scaredy shrooms then placing a scaredy shroom on a tile next to another scaredy shroom on a tile will result in a loop of scaredy shroom planting fooding.

    • @light6666
      @light6666 8 місяців тому

      @@phantominway you *wish* it worked like that.. but nope its just like puff shroom.. meaning it wont work.. besides even if it did its still outclassed by.. litterally everything

  • @custi
    @custi Місяць тому +2

    To me it feels like arena would be so much better if you didn't have endless lawnmovers and the difficulty increased overtime. The winner would not be decided by points, but how long the player lasts the onslaught. Once one player loses the match ends simple as that.

  • @Tillallareone5
    @Tillallareone5 8 місяців тому +16

    Lovely video dude you have done a great job on it.

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +1

      I appreciate it!

    • @Tillallareone5
      @Tillallareone5 8 місяців тому

      @CreeperPlayesMC No problem, I always appreciate a good and well-made video.

  • @Theterrarian-51113
    @Theterrarian-51113 3 місяці тому +1

    Scary shroom would be so good if when he was hiding he’s was invincible while he was hiding

    • @Expedention
      @Expedention 2 місяці тому

      That'd be too op and ppl would prob abuse it

  • @純元素PureElement
    @純元素PureElement 8 місяців тому +8

    I thought they "stole" the plants from chiness version cause the animation when I just replay this game after 1 year ago.I also get shocked when the first time I saw chili pepper, tomb tangler, bean sprout...... This is absolutely a horoor game now.

  • @AzazelAlice
    @AzazelAlice 7 місяців тому +2

    quite a well made video but the script (if you even used one) felt a bit too improvised, but keep it up! i love seeing smaller creators get some videos that do well, and seeing how your views on this vid is already on the 6 digit mark, that's really good

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  7 місяців тому +1

      Admittedly it was all improvised! But tysm.

  • @СашаКабин-п2г
    @СашаКабин-п2г 8 місяців тому +2

    I think that many new plants just do not have purpose. Some of them don't help to beat the levels, while others are way too powerful making the old ones useless. Take shadow-peashooter, for example. It damages all the zombies on a line like lazer bean but makes more damage, slows the zombies, can swallow 2 zombies into the ground when powered and costs cheaper by 75 suns. Even with moon-sunflower, they will cost 175 which is less than 200. Or grapes that, in addition to doing an area damage as cherry bomb, also throws these grapes. What the point of the cherry bomb then? Basic plants, like peashooter, aren't used at all. Mints are broken. You can plant 1 spear-mint and summon 5 spikerocks each of which will have 5th level. Then why do you need spikerock itself which costs 225 on level 1 when you can take 1 spear-mint for 0 which will give you 5 of them? This is way too broken.

  • @deemack74
    @deemack74 6 місяців тому

    good part about scaredy shroom: placing in the back and using sun shroom 1 column over him

  • @CalderTF2
    @CalderTF2 6 місяців тому +1

    Haven't played for a bit so I can't speak for other new plants, but sea shroom for 5 bucks isn't too bad if you don't want to grind arena.

  • @dyoshi99
    @dyoshi99 2 місяці тому

    I'm just glad Mega Gatling Pea isn't animated like the most recent plants, since it's just a Peashooter copy, and yes, a Peashooter, not Repeater, Peashooter

  • @plantbefore
    @plantbefore 7 місяців тому +1

    for sea shroom and scaredy shroom, they simply dont fit the game, sun is much more plentiful with 50 sun being the base, and scaredy shroom was meant to work with a 25 sun meta when the sky didnt drop sun, its a budget plant in a game where sun spam is so rampant its worse in all cases. also sea shroom, it could have theoretically worked if they were drop dead easy to unlock, or in big wave beach, but the same issue stands, if they add more worlds then it could work better, and i think they try to do this with events but it more ends up shoving stuff down your throat
    also if seediums were 100 packets instead of 250 it would be MUCH better imo
    and pennys pursuit shouldnt have been built around leveled plants, i can do 1-2 usually, occasionally difficulty 3 if i get lucky, but you can do pennys pursuit over and over for the plant, or buy plant of the week packets in the shop, i think pennys would be fun without leveling (and zombie spam being replaced with something fun) but a good way to deal with treadmill zombie is 2 mega gatling peas and a plant fooded torchwood. which is stupid, 950 sun and a plant food to kill a track zombie over a fair bit of time! all of that just to one lane! its very stupid.
    also different scaredy vs fume and puff could be up to og pvz1 team being behind fume and puff, but not og pvz1 team being behind scaredy

  • @flippyroyale5360
    @flippyroyale5360 8 місяців тому +6

    Hey so did the game change where you can’t buy the 8th slot anymore?… or has it always been renting that 8th seed slot?…

    • @techmark3665
      @techmark3665 8 місяців тому +7

      It changed, but if you bought the 8th slot on an older version, you get to keep it.

    • @flippyroyale5360
      @flippyroyale5360 8 місяців тому

      @@techmark3665 gosh darn it😭😭😭😭

  • @x-tra8627
    @x-tra8627 8 місяців тому +1

    Back when i was 9 , i used to get so excited when they announce new plants or new other contents. Then suddenly everything went downfall after modern day

  • @sebastiansalazar9506
    @sebastiansalazar9506 3 місяці тому +1

    whats worse about arena is that they completely removed gauntlets from the awards so free to play players are either forced to watch several ads or wait for a free turn, not to mention candies are completely useless now you can’t buy anything with them and serve no purpose

    • @Proximitytwo
      @Proximitytwo 2 місяці тому

      Who's watching ads just buy them in the shop 150 gems = 35 gauntlets

  • @Wolfstenium
    @Wolfstenium 7 місяців тому

    Just gonna say this, out of the mordern PVZ2 plants, I like one of very fondly:
    Meteor Flower
    They are pretty balanced like, yeah if you have a row of them... yeah that will anhilate any zombie, but that aplies to most plants, and still for a post game point of view, pretty balanced I'd say
    Also their design is great, and even if the animation is a bit weird, I do think it doesn't matter too much, their size is a little too big, I will adimit it
    Meteor Flower is probably the best seed packet plant we are getting for a while, and I very happy it is them

  • @xtroyr_5747
    @xtroyr_5747 8 місяців тому +5

    You win with only lv 1 plants? Bro thats crazy, I got them to like five to have some chance. You amazing

    • @leomassafm160
      @leomassafm160 8 місяців тому +3

      Leveling breaks the game in half. And I refuse to engage with a bad game mechanic.

    • @vencedor1774
      @vencedor1774 7 місяців тому

      ​@@leomassafm160 And it enrages me when I'm forced to upgrade peashooter to level 2 cuz tutorial.
      xtroyr, try planting your sun producers often and on the right and your attackers on the left.

  • @haidynwendlandt2479
    @haidynwendlandt2479 4 місяці тому

    It just sucks how many of these plants would have made perfectly fine world plants. Like imagine a second night world (that actually doesn’t give you sun, I’m looking at you, Neon Mistake Tour) that’s a water world, like the night pool levels in PvZ1. It could include Sea Shroom, Scaredy Shroom, and a couple other water and shroom plants like Nightcap and SeaFlora. Maybe it could be based on the Viking Age or something

  • @The-Greek-Zeus
    @The-Greek-Zeus 8 місяців тому +1

    They fired the employees was, because they didn't want to put in game purchases

  • @kennydarmawan13
    @kennydarmawan13 7 місяців тому

    BTD 6: We aren't bringing back Bloonchipper because it's so unbalanced.
    PVZ 2: Scaredy-Shroom. Ice-Shroom. Sea-Shroom. You want it? It's yours my friend. As long as you have enough money.

  • @phantomx6807
    @phantomx6807 Місяць тому

    premium plants need to be considered in a lot of aspects. with mods some premium plants are very helpful. but I'm talking vanilla. vanilla game you literally only rely on the plants you've earned. up until arena and penny's pursuit. its annoying how some bad plants are behind a pay wall/gem wall and its also annoying to grind for them because winning these plants is you're only option in getting any mints or seed packets for any plant

  • @popkorn6844
    @popkorn6844 8 місяців тому

    Fun fact: the reason new plants look different from old plants are because the old plants are drawn using shape tools, while new plants are drawn with strokes

  • @AlvinCwk
    @AlvinCwk 7 місяців тому

    I just abuse the "rent a plant" option and got enough seed packet to unlock and level up pea vine to level 5.

  • @EIBozo
    @EIBozo 6 місяців тому

    I also feel like another problem is that either the arena plant is trash or the plant is too op, seashroom and scaredy shroom are the first and dragonbruit is the 2nd, one dragonbruit pellet at lvl 1 can easily 2 shot a basic zombie, if u have one to two rows of them they just take down a gargantuar in like 6 shots. Also for the hard ones to get that u have to grind, the easier way is actually to buy the early access now. Its just ridiculous, I miss the old arena

  • @TheBatteryist
    @TheBatteryist 7 місяців тому

    They have a small team dude course the animations are gonna change I think it’s great that they are actually still updating in the first place

  • @jaxonhopkins2691
    @jaxonhopkins2691 5 місяців тому

    I REALLY wish scaredy shroom had his design from before dark ages

  • @definitelynotalice
    @definitelynotalice 17 днів тому

    Seeing the dev team almost remove the easing for the animations of the new plants makes me think that they are focusing on quantity more than quality

  • @datboi8830
    @datboi8830 5 місяців тому

    I like how no one mentions that the Chinese version got the OG gatling pea, cob cannon and Cattail and they yet have to add them internationally

  • @LesTer-o4d
    @LesTer-o4d 2 місяці тому +2

    What is Walter White Jr doing in PVZ2 dawg😭💯

  • @dtthalcyon9690
    @dtthalcyon9690 3 місяці тому

    missed the golden era when levels for plants and zombies werent a thing yet

  • @KeenanWilliams777
    @KeenanWilliams777 6 місяців тому +1

    There is nothing to use them on. No new maps. No new zombies. No new mechanics that juxtapose with new plant mechanics. There’s no feedback. It’s DLC to help you finish a game… that’s already done.

  • @worstjgleuw6658
    @worstjgleuw6658 2 місяці тому

    The answer to this is creating a survival endless mode for every world so that they can all be useful

  • @aurevion
    @aurevion 5 місяців тому

    Scaredy Shroom is actually not that bad. I use it very often in the Arena when there's no jester zombie. The plant food power is so powerful when paired with tile turnip. 2 tile turnips is enough to get high score in the Arena

  • @Its_itz1
    @Its_itz1 2 місяці тому

    "NOSTALGIA BAIT" or maybe they just wanted to include every plant from the original game Bertha ❤

  • @Firecat962
    @Firecat962 2 місяці тому

    With arena I am fairly sure that the other person is always a bot, because you are able to rent a plant beforehand in the planting phase, you can pause mid match and it actually pauses, and you would be unable to do they with a real player

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  2 місяці тому

      @@Firecat962 I should've elaborated more, but arena is genuinely bullshit.

    • @Firecat962
      @Firecat962 2 місяці тому

      @@CreeperPlayesMC only reason I play it is to get the plants, because some of them are genuinely busted. I came back to the game this year for nostalgia, and I had not played since you could access every world for free. And I was very surprised how many premiums I missed, and I was very confused about not being able to go to every world. Also there are so many fucking ads now

  • @tpfoxCastro
    @tpfoxCastro 8 місяців тому

    Many people are complaining about the new plant's animations and I perfectly agree but there's a detail I want to focus on more...The new plants just DON'T fit the game's artstyle. Like, look at the adventure plants or old premium/seedium plants, they look perfectly normal and. Now, majority of the plants look so...Weird. I don't know how to explain, the porpotions are weird, the thickness of the lines is weird, eyes and so much more. Mega gattling Pea is one of the few recent plants that is saved from that and the reason seems obvious

  • @Munki_
    @Munki_ 8 місяців тому +2

    Wait that added sea-shroom already?

  • @AYGodFox123
    @AYGodFox123 Місяць тому

    I love that seedium plants are insane and op, but..
    - Premium Plants (Paid Ones) are sometimes worse than Seedium Plants
    -Seedium Plants are WAYY to hard to get; miss that plant during arena, take months to get one plant.

  • @mase123
    @mase123 Місяць тому

    Hey, presume and sea Shroom are basically the same thing, but one can be planted in water one can’t

  • @DJ_Wolfy5
    @DJ_Wolfy5 8 місяців тому

    Apparently I am the only PvZ2 Scaredy Shroom enthusiast on earth.

  • @Nosracplayz
    @Nosracplayz 3 місяці тому

    i actually think arenas one of the things holding the game together also it might sound weird but as a relitivley new player myself arena is very welcoming towards newbies and if you put enough time and effort it becomes really fun and the only realistic way for me to get gemiums cus lets be honest im not watching adds every day just for like 10 gems per day

  • @pukenmg284
    @pukenmg284 7 місяців тому

    When Scaredy shroom was newly introduced in PvZ2 I asked my friend what's the difference of it from the first game and his answer is "WORSE"

  • @mightye258
    @mightye258 4 місяці тому +1

    They literally removed two of the best soundtracks in the franchise in attempt to market off pay-to-win plants.

  • @TheClapinator
    @TheClapinator 8 місяців тому

    In order to be successful and get far in pennys persuit and arena you pretty much have to level your plants

  • @h.r2375
    @h.r2375 5 місяців тому

    sea shroom is actually buyable and is different from before, so I think it's fine

  • @goldentamaro1987
    @goldentamaro1987 Місяць тому

    The worst experience I have ever had is losing save data, it won't save on google play, won't save on EA registered, the game got crash and lost everything, second play again got update lost again and crash. I hope the third won't happen again

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  Місяць тому

      I recently lost my data too, hence why I haven't uploaded

  • @ChillyUltraKill
    @ChillyUltraKill 8 місяців тому

    From my eyes. They are just upgrades and different versions of previous plants. A literal; upgrade!!! Button.

  • @gsalex1235
    @gsalex1235 6 місяців тому +2

    the thumbnail is clickbait. sea-shroom isnt a premium plant (somehow)

    • @vihowong4250
      @vihowong4250 5 місяців тому +1

      It is or I'm just dumb which me being dumb is 9999999999999% is

    • @tonyzefox
      @tonyzefox 5 місяців тому

      Seedium i think?

  • @Eggslayerrr
    @Eggslayerrr 4 місяці тому

    What’s even worse is that you pretty much NEED premium plants to win in the arena

    • @Proximitytwo
      @Proximitytwo 2 місяці тому

      Erm no one using premium plants in arena bud we use seedium plants 🤓☝☝

  • @charliesofficialchannel5606
    @charliesofficialchannel5606 7 місяців тому

    The problem is that they take forever to unlock like these things cost 250 seed packets💀

  • @NoahWood-j1v
    @NoahWood-j1v 5 місяців тому

    one letter: P, pokra, power creep, powering (levelling) etc

  • @hansaakurasa4377
    @hansaakurasa4377 6 місяців тому

    6:22 Zombies slightly gain health and eat dps depending on your league ranking

  • @Puff-Shroom
    @Puff-Shroom 26 днів тому

    3:46 Dark Ages expansion does not translate well with PvZ 2 Dark Ages,but Scaredy Shroom also does not translate well with Adventure mode so screw it,in unison they work.

  • @drintrovert4564
    @drintrovert4564 8 місяців тому

    there is an internal reason why the animations are looking off, and it was shown in a long pvz documentary with the old and current devs being interviewed. its due to EA as a whole using more contractors to work. in the case of pvz alot of them came from overseas, so some of these people are doing this for the first time with a new environment. and contractors are meant to be short term workers, so with new people coming in and experienced people leaving, your bound to be stuck at a certain standard. but theres also no insentive to improve either because of the amount of money the plants make reguardless

  • @Walking_terraria_wiki
    @Walking_terraria_wiki 4 місяці тому

    Ngl scaredy shroom is for me very usefull for penny and arena like even at lvl 1 on arena when you fill 5x3 and you add tile turnip in midlle 2 4 line and use plant food on tile it do so much damage. At arena boss figth eazy 26m points

  • @Bytex734
    @Bytex734 8 місяців тому

    Cant wait for a plant that needs 500 seed packets to be unlocked and has the same purpose as peashooter but with a different art style and an animation where it barely moves

  • @thebeeking1220
    @thebeeking1220 7 місяців тому +1

    My complaint is just how long they take to get

  • @SheranTraplock
    @SheranTraplock 8 місяців тому +4

    So many people say scaredy shroom are useless use him at last stand level he with plant food will cheese the level

    • @CreeperPlayesMC
      @CreeperPlayesMC  8 місяців тому +7

      Many plants can cheese the level with plant food

    • @SheranTraplock
      @SheranTraplock 8 місяців тому +4

      @@CreeperPlayesMC but with less sun

    • @ARandomUserOnline
      @ARandomUserOnline 8 місяців тому +6

      @@SheranTraplock Iceberg lettuce’s plant food is literally an ice shroom effect. And it costs…. NOTHING. Even with scaredy shroom’s plant food effect, there are many other plants who have far better plant foods that can cheese levels. Scaredy shroom should absolutely never be used.

    • @SheranTraplock
      @SheranTraplock 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@ARandomUserOnlinewhat? You have an idea to make it usefull bc for me if it useless let it be useless i will try to make it usefull im just appreciate what people make

    • @jastme0102
      @jastme0102 8 місяців тому +1

      I agree with you...and i use scaredy shroom in arenas combo with tile turnip...

  • @newquu
    @newquu 8 місяців тому +2

    what emulator do you use to play pvz2?

  • @Garibaldoo
    @Garibaldoo Місяць тому +2

    your video looks a little off, maybe if u edit more and cut these spaces i. between your sentences it would be better, like, you speak slowly and if u cut these pauses the video would be more fluid, you sound like "we dont get premium or gemium.......... only arena plants......... if[...]"
    (just feedback, im not hating, the video is good, but it could be great)

  • @themarxfromkirby
    @themarxfromkirby 8 місяців тому

    i always thought the new oremiums look like ass, except... im actually kind of intrigued by electric peel, i think it looks actually decent, not as good as the older plants but still prtty good