10000+ flags. Took him 1 year to get there…….WOWOWOWOW

has everyone seen that teaser – an image of the zombie hand holding up a letter saying: “Save the date August 2” with a picture of a bridge.

That’s a fun guide, though, it’s interesting to see where the strategy consensus ended up.

instants do 100 damage I believe. HP of: Gargantuars 150 ; Giga Gargantuars 225 or something.

Magnetshrooms are a no no. Ice Shrooms seem to look extinct in all your screenshots
and you guys need to just shove as many gloomshrooms on the lawn as you can – you guys aren’t doing enough damage.

Guide on Endless building:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/959255-plants-vs-zombies/faqs/57815

myself currently on flag: 104
flag 96: http://tinypic.com/r/k24pv/3
dunno if the link would work. sorry if it doesn’t.

Having to choose whether to spend your sun on more zombies for the enemy garden or more plants for your own would add some much needed pace compared to the I Zombie mode. While having someone intelligent choosing what to send against your plants (out of their preselected horde) would keep the early game more then just sticking to a preselected build order.

It would be your typical story of “RTS gets defence mod; defense mod becomes whole genre; Popcap reinvent said genre; reinvention gets taken back to RTS; world forever changed.

It almost physically killed me though, and I feel that having got past 20, I’ve kind of done Survival.

Second playthrough of adventure mode.
Level 4-4.
Pool, at night.
Conehead zombies, balloon zombies and dolphin zombies.
No extra slots bought.
Three slots taken up by Crazy Dave’s marigold, peashooter and potato mine.
The other three slots needed for sun-shroom, anti-balloon plant and anti-water plant.

I can’t do it.

100 Flag setup part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anldCwBBbWY&feature=related

Yatatata Song by Heavy from TF2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOhcUT0Ir_o

Haven’t watched it myself yet.

Wow.

Just wow.

Here is my layout, similar to Canucks but with some changes. The system works well and with a few refinements to the theroy I can perfect it. And then I can tend to my Zen garden.

Here is the Main functional layout when all was happy and dandy(lion).

http://i42.tinypic.com/2hg4o3o.jpg

On flag 35 I was weakened very much on the flanks. My Pool was very strong despite some jack in a box setbacks.

http://i41.tinypic.com/fvdx84.jpg

Though by the end I was just trying to hold them off by using explosives which drained my sun a lot. I might take a leaf (groan) out of Canuck’s book and expand my lines a little furthur to get more firepower. I would go on but this is getting rather anal. I need time to plan.

Now that I know 41 flags is attainable. Im making 40 a minimum goal to achive. Though surely there must be a theoretical limit to how far you can go.

Suddenly Gardening is much more interesting. My mum is revamping the garden and Im very tempted to plant sunflowers and peas ect in praise of this game.

Maybe that will work to defend our house from zombies. The machette I had under my bed took a lot of akward explaining.

Ah well, you gave it a good shot. So cant blame you.

As it is, I’d download it if it were a freeware game. Wouldn’t pay money for it, though.

A different approach, decided to just let the diggers through and take them out with Cob Cannons, and let the bungees through, opting for more power with the Gats:

Flag 32:
http://cubeupload.com/img/134e00level326.jpg

Flag 34:
http://cubeupload.com/img/701a00level346.jpg

Flag 36:
http://cubeupload.com/img/5ca800level366.jpg

Flag 38:
http://cubeupload.com/img/b83600level386.jpg

Not sure that setup is really better, it really seems to come down to luck in what the zombies throw at you. A couple of Flags in there didn’t have any Zombonis, which helped alot, and it was an easier round in general.

Nonomu198, the Cob Cannons do die easily, but if they’re in the pool, they’re pretty well protected. On the lawn, they’re taken out by imps really easily. But after playing that last round letting the diggers through, alot of Cattails might be better, though I saw a fair amount of diggers, and the worst they could do was take out a Gat, which is easily replaced. But to get to 38, I needed all 4 Cob Cannons just to deal with the swimmers, particularly dolphins.

I’m hesitant to go without the nuts, though. Seems like you want them stopped by the nuts, so the spikes can work on them. It would free up a spot to get rid of them, so maybe you’re right. But in later rounds, that first row of nuts gets taken out regularly, and they’re easier to replace than anything else.

Yah, all the magnets in the world couldn’t help me with these diggers so I put lots of cattails. I guess I should put the magnets 2 columns backwards, and put the Gloom-Shrooms up in the front to help the upper and lower raws. I try to avoid Cob Cannons, they take too long to reload and die easly. I think that I can place one Cob Cannon in the back of one of the pool raws, but that would weaken it. If I put 2 Cob Cannons instead of Cattails Diggers will utterly destroy me. I also don’t use Tallnuts/Wallnuts because they only help when the stategy collpses, and how would you improve and learn more stategies if you got a spot where you could plant something active taken up by a nut?

I think of completely changing my strategy, but that would take some time and thought.

http://cubeupload.com/img/ddbe00level305.jpg

Magnets and umbrellas were interchangeable, but that was the basic setup.

At the end of Flag 32:

http://cubeupload.com/img/856800level325.jpg

And when it was done:

http://cubeupload.com/img/ae5800level34end4.jpg

Went for more of the Winter Melon and Spike attack, which worked surprisingly well, until they just wore me down.

Nonomu198, I do change out the umbrellas for what’s needed. Its the randomness of the levels, sometimes I’d get 3 rounds in a row with bungees, sometimes its diggers. I tend to overcompensate against bungees so I don’t have to replace something that will take up too many spots in the load-out. I liked your setup, but I think you could get further with only one cattail. One is all you need for balloon zombies, and you could fit in 2 Cob Cannons back there. But I’m sure 6 cattails deals with diggers in the back row pretty effectively. In the pool, I think it would go down pretty quickly around Flag 28 or so. At that point, the packs of swimmers take out anything less than a TallNut with a pumpkin in seconds, but I could be wrong.

With some luck, Flag 36 could be possible.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/9003/endlessurvival32.jpg

33rd wave was over very fast, didn’t have a chance…

Curse the man who gave this game to me!

Still, the game just had no real hold for me. It could just be the demo, but I quit on the sixth(?) level, because although there’s probably a lot of extra stuff, the central mechanic itself was fairly… dull.

Here is my latest try at survival. I have to say, I know this is a “casual” game, but the amount of luck the waves rely on are upsetting. This attempt is a good example of why. Also, this is the first time I have seen Giga Gargantuars. Why don’t they have an entry in the Almanac? Becuase I don’t know how they are different from normal Gargantars. Are they tougher? How tougher?

Anyway;
Flag 21
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png
Looks pretty good, right? Except some spikes, it is intact. The Gloom-Shroom does an amazing job covering the lines close to the water. The Golden Magnet is there because I still needed the Mime card thing (I got it after this game, I still need some zen garden etc. stuff).

Flag 21:
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3391/plantsvszombiessurvivalr.png
HOLY CRAP.
That basketball thrower guy popped my spikes, and I was too busy fixing them and didn’t notice the basketballs hurt my plant directly. I had about four Gargantuars and one Giga Gargantuars on the top line, and here is the result. I was sure I was a gone for. Sure, I was right for the long range, but I survived for a surprising long amount of flags.

Flag 25:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

Aaaah holy crap. Using many explosives, and engaging no Bungee Zombies, I have managed to survive 3 more waves. Heck, I thought. With one more lucky roll on the waves, I can get the good old format back! Everything is going to be just fi-

Flag 25:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

AH CRAP CRAP CRAP. I didn’t think you can have so many Gigas and Gargantuars. They came so early I couldn’t rebuild my lawn. Even explosives didn’t help. I was damn sure my brain will be eaten soon.

Flag 26:
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

Look at this. I screwed up so badly this flag is gonna start with some Gigas from the last one. I didn’t really know it was possible.

Flag 26:

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

Just look at this crap. Blah. I actually managed to beat it because yet again I got very lucky and got weak zombies and only like three Gigas the whole round.

Flag 27:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

After flag 26 I had some nice plants. But of course, all I have seen on this wave was Dancers, Football zombies, Gigas, and finally my brain was eaten by an odd single pogo zombie.

As you can see, the water stayed intact. I guess I should have put a cob cannon or something in there to help the ground levels? I’m not sure.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8210/plantsvszombiessurvival.png

Just a last picture so you can see my record.

It’s like time moves a lot faster while you are playing. The demo does a good job of making you see how deep the game is, yet how simple it is to pick up and play.

Simple concept of DON’T GET EATED, and the possible combinations and different zombie types make it tower defense like, but somehow also different.

It’s an odd experience. At first I felt stupid for playing the game, yet I couldn’t stop. I’ve been addicted to games before, but not like this. I am/was a big WoWhead, and even WoW I got bored enough while playing to stop and do something else.

In an hour’s time of any other game, I usually stop for a bit to check out some things, but it’s like this one brainwashed me to keep playing…

And now I must buy it.

I’m not a fan of Tower Defense-type games, and despite the cheery look that this game is rocking, it doesn’t really do it for me. But I’m not a fan of strategy games in general.

There you go, Jazmeister. There’s your one. (also, BRAINS)

On a side note, the devs who made the wonderful end of the world have released the alpha of an incredible free-falling game. I recommend it to everyone here: http://www.dejobaan.com/aaaaa/

Flag 26
http://cubeupload.com/img/19600level262.jpg

Flag 28
http://cubeupload.com/img/9cea00level282.jpg
missing a couple of components, but easily replaced.

Then at Flag 29, one little thing goes wrong and this happens:
http://cubeupload.com/img/7c1400level292.jpg

I was busy dealing with the Zombonis, but my guess is that a bungee or two dropped down and took my cattails. My umbrellas covered everything left of the Tall-Nuts, but the Cats weren’t covered. Or a pack of scuba zombies dove under and made really quick work of them, but the pool hadn’t given me any trouble up to the point. Best guess – it was the bungees hitting the two spots that could ruin me.

Were it not for those damn balloon zombies, I would have made it out of that Level with just about everything intact. Between the 4 Cob Cannons, I had two Cherry Bombs, a Squash and a Jalapeno to deal with the Gargantuars and Zombonis once they got through the spikes. They’d flattened a Tall-Nut or two before, but never got beyond that.