Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Lily + wall seed.
This man speaks the truth.
On a side note, is there a more useful plant than the wall-nut? I can't imagine ever leaving that one off my selection for a level.
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Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Lily + wall seed.
This man speaks the truth.
On a side note, is there a more useful plant than the wall-nut? I can't imagine ever leaving that one off my selection for a level.
Tall Nut 8-)
beat'd, so hard
Also note, Tall nut, while he costs more than twice as much as wall nut, lasts longer AND has a faster recharge.
Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Lily + wall seed.
This man speaks the truth.
On a side note, is there a more useful plant than the wall-nut? I can't imagine ever leaving that one off my selection for a level.
I should clarify that I usually make 1 1/2 to 2 columns of sunflowers, as the upgraded Sunflower spot just doesn't seem worth it to me yet. I make use of pretty much all of my units, and sacrificing one of them I suppose is an option, but by the time I can make efficient use of the upgrade, it doesn't even matter any more.
Last new enemy I found were scuba zombies. I have no idea how to kill them short of putting up a decoy lily pad for them to munch on while other stuff shoots.
Lily + wall seed.
This man speaks the truth.
On a side note, is there a more useful plant than the wall-nut? I can't imagine ever leaving that one off my selection for a level.
Tall Nut 8-)
beat'd, so hard
Also note, Tall nut, while he costs more than twice as much as wall nut, lasts longer AND has a faster recharge.
And most importantly, blocks pogo zombies.
And I'm still sticking to garlic as the best plant ever, although it's only pretty awesome instead of amazing on the pool levels (even number of rows instead of odd).
snow peas and frozen watermelons, I would guess you wouldn't need walls then. course it takes so long to get watermelons out let alone upgrade them but then I guess it would be time to bust out two lines of sunflowers whereas I usually only use one
snow peas and frozen watermelons, I would guess you wouldn't need walls then. course it takes so long to get watermelons out let alone upgrade them but then I guess it would be time to bust out two lines of sunflowers whereas I usually only use one
They're a godsend for some of the survival modes. Fireballs plus frozen watermelons tossed over them equals horrible freezing burning death. Well... all the AoE is great for them.
I just finished off Night (Hard), and I would have taken a screenshot of my corridor of death horrible death (although it was a bit of a neutered corridor since you need so many magnets for the miners), but the game decided to spawn 5 gargantuas in one of my sunflower rows on the very last wave. I killed them without too many issues, but they did throw their imps past my defenses and force me to use one lawnmower, thus ruining my symmetry. If I had built my sunflower rows optimally, it wouldn't have been a problem, but c'est la vie.
Also, oddly, the gargantuas will actually attack the spike plants. It takes them about two hits to kill the normal ones and three or four to kill the upgraded ones.
snow peas and frozen watermelons, I would guess you wouldn't need walls then. course it takes so long to get watermelons out let alone upgrade them but then I guess it would be time to bust out two lines of sunflowers whereas I usually only use one
I haven't gotten watermelons yet, but the snow peas are my weapon of choice. I usually leave wall-nuts off my seed list because of them. This gives me more room for death. And that grave eating thing at night.
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finding garlic pretty useful for early on. instead of building a 100+ unit to counter an early zombie, I can just spend 50 to divert it into my one peashooter/wall. ignoring those several lanes early on really saves on the solar power and lets you build everything else up quickly
Well, after finishing the 10 survival modes, you get to do an endless mode.
End-game, a screen filled with repeaters (with as many upgraded as I could afford) with the next to farthest right column the fiery tree trunks and the farthest right column tall nuts got me to the 19th or 20th flag.
After that, killing gargantuans as soon as they appear just wasn't fast enough.
The frozen watermelons were worthless at half that level, and more expensive.
I feel like I;m the only person who's not a fan of threepeaters, just too expensive. I just regular repeaters instead.
Right now my begining of the level plan is STALL until I get a three-peter or two up; its not as hard as it sounds and provides a solid firepower base.
At 4-8 now. I played Slots a few times to save up for Cattails, and they are GODLY.
Seriously, get them. Ten grand well spent.
only downside is that you can only use them on one kind of level. but they sure as hell are useful for them. not sure what to buy now, besides the occasional item for my zen garden
Well, after finishing the 10 survival modes, you get to do an endless mode.
End-game, a screen filled with repeaters (with as many upgraded as I could afford) with the next to farthest right column the fiery tree trunks and the farthest right column tall nuts got me to the 19th or 20th flag.
After that, killing gargantuans as soon as they appear just wasn't fast enough.
The frozen watermelons were worthless at half that level, and more expensive.
Yeah, I just learned that the hard way.
A screenshot pictoral of my garden's evolution through my first try at endless survival mode.
Where things start to go downhill when 4 miners spawn on the top row at the end.
And things get worse.. Guess which row's going to spawn a gargantua, a giga gargantua, and a catapult all at the same time!
And the one that did me in.
I was really fucked over early on by gargantuas, gigagargantuas, and the fucking catapults all appearing in the same wave. 4 miners appearing in the same row also did a number on me in one round. The catapults just decimate your back lines when they show up behind gargantuas, and even pumpkins don't protect them. After that wave of doom, the most dangerous thing was something like a fucking screendoor. So not fair.
It's steamrolled by gargantuas and vehicles, but otherwise, it's pretty awesome. Just remember to put two in a row when one gets finished off or for polevaulters who jump the first. It does make playing the 'new game+' with Crazy Dave's picks sort of dumb though since you don't see any of those for a long time.
Edit:
Oh yeah, typing in 'mustache' also changes the zombies. That (and 'future') are really the only decent things the tree of wisdom has told me so far after pumping it full of like, $40k worth of fertilizer, if not more.
Geeez this Last Stand mode is hard. They just don't give enough money to be able to expand on any buildings, you're fighting a war of attrition that just doesn't quite work.
Geeez this Last Stand mode is hard. They just don't give enough money to be able to expand on any buildings, you're fighting a war of attrition that just doesn't quite work.
It's not that bad, just don't bother with defense and be economical. Repeaters on land, threepeaters in the water, set fire to everything.
Geeez this Last Stand mode is hard. They just don't give enough money to be able to expand on any buildings, you're fighting a war of attrition that just doesn't quite work.
It's not that bad, just don't bother with defense and be economical. Repeaters on land, threepeaters in the water, set fire to everything.
PHEW, I finally stopped throwing so much money for tall-nuts and just funneled them into 4 lanes of gatling fire-ball doom. Thanks for the advice!
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I haven't used wall or tallnuts since I got them, they don't seem that necessary in the campaign so far o.O
Maybe I'm just a lunatic however. The game is great fun so far, although I've been using 3 columns of sungenerating plants every level so far and mostly the levels haven't gone on long enough to reward me for it
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Lily + wall seed.
This man speaks the truth.
On a side note, is there a more useful plant than the wall-nut? I can't imagine ever leaving that one off my selection for a level.
Tall Nut 8-)
beat'd, so hard
Also note, Tall nut, while he costs more than twice as much as wall nut, lasts longer AND has a faster recharge.
The mega wall-nut is pretty fuckawesome
I should clarify that I usually make 1 1/2 to 2 columns of sunflowers, as the upgraded Sunflower spot just doesn't seem worth it to me yet. I make use of pretty much all of my units, and sacrificing one of them I suppose is an option, but by the time I can make efficient use of the upgrade, it doesn't even matter any more.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
The Popcap guys truly are the masters of their domain.
And most importantly, blocks pogo zombies.
And I'm still sticking to garlic as the best plant ever, although it's only pretty awesome instead of amazing on the pool levels (even number of rows instead of odd).
They're a godsend for some of the survival modes. Fireballs plus frozen watermelons tossed over them equals horrible freezing burning death. Well... all the AoE is great for them.
I just finished off Night (Hard), and I would have taken a screenshot of my corridor of death horrible death (although it was a bit of a neutered corridor since you need so many magnets for the miners), but the game decided to spawn 5 gargantuas in one of my sunflower rows on the very last wave. I killed them without too many issues, but they did throw their imps past my defenses and force me to use one lawnmower, thus ruining my symmetry. If I had built my sunflower rows optimally, it wouldn't have been a problem, but c'est la vie.
Also, oddly, the gargantuas will actually attack the spike plants. It takes them about two hits to kill the normal ones and three or four to kill the upgraded ones.
I haven't gotten watermelons yet, but the snow peas are my weapon of choice. I usually leave wall-nuts off my seed list because of them. This gives me more room for death. And that grave eating thing at night.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
Seriously, get them. Ten grand well spent.
End-game, a screen filled with repeaters (with as many upgraded as I could afford) with the next to farthest right column the fiery tree trunks and the farthest right column tall nuts got me to the 19th or 20th flag.
After that, killing gargantuans as soon as they appear just wasn't fast enough.
The frozen watermelons were worthless at half that level, and more expensive.
Right now my begining of the level plan is STALL until I get a three-peter or two up; its not as hard as it sounds and provides a solid firepower base.
only downside is that you can only use them on one kind of level. but they sure as hell are useful for them. not sure what to buy now, besides the occasional item for my zen garden
Yeah, I just learned that the hard way.
A screenshot pictoral of my garden's evolution through my first try at endless survival mode.
Where things start to go downhill when 4 miners spawn on the top row at the end.
And things get worse.. Guess which row's going to spawn a gargantua, a giga gargantua, and a catapult all at the same time!
And the one that did me in.
I was really fucked over early on by gargantuas, gigagargantuas, and the fucking catapults all appearing in the same wave. 4 miners appearing in the same row also did a number on me in one round. The catapults just decimate your back lines when they show up behind gargantuas, and even pumpkins don't protect them. After that wave of doom, the most dangerous thing was something like a fucking screendoor. So not fair.
Also, appropriate avatar-change time!
I like him better with his head half eaten
I can't let either die. EVER.
It's steamrolled by gargantuas and vehicles, but otherwise, it's pretty awesome. Just remember to put two in a row when one gets finished off or for polevaulters who jump the first. It does make playing the 'new game+' with Crazy Dave's picks sort of dumb though since you don't see any of those for a long time.
Edit:
Oh yeah, typing in 'mustache' also changes the zombies. That (and 'future') are really the only decent things the tree of wisdom has told me so far after pumping it full of like, $40k worth of fertilizer, if not more.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
In retrospect, doing it the other way around would have been so much faster and easier.
its like he's getting better! also windowed would have better sized and better looking ones
It's not that bad, just don't bother with defense and be economical. Repeaters on land, threepeaters in the water, set fire to everything.
edit: hell yeah! aim anywhere on the map and fires the cob like a guided missile. two of em up and its goodbye zombie waves!
PHEW, I finally stopped throwing so much money for tall-nuts and just funneled them into 4 lanes of gatling fire-ball doom. Thanks for the advice!
Maybe I'm just a lunatic however. The game is great fun so far, although I've been using 3 columns of sungenerating plants every level so far and mostly the levels haven't gone on long enough to reward me for it
Also it was the first time I lost a level. I could have used more screaming from inside the house.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
Use wallnuts.