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What is the moustache mode in Plants vs Zombies?
This is only available on steam, requiring you to enter a "cheat code" to activate this. It does nothing, except turn on moustaches.
To earn this achievement, the player must simply type "mustache" ...
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Is Tall-Nut worth its price?
Tall-nuts have pros and cons to them. Personally, I use them instead of walnuts but your decision.
Pros:
Take up less space than 2 wall-nuts, giving more defense area
Recharges faster than 2 wall-...
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What is the highest DPS plant?
Here are some of the highest DPS plants that do not have a long recharge:
Winter Melon: 80 DPS with slow.
Melon Pult: 80 DPS.
Gloom Shrooms: 80 DPS.
Gatling Pea: 80 DPS (with Torchwood:160 DPS and ...
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What is the imitater useful for?
There are a few reasons depending on the level you are playing.
The main reason I personally used them was for pumpkin armor increasing the survivability of your defenses.
But other good options would ...
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Is the Melon-Pult worth its price?
Melon-Pults are the best if you use them right, especially in endless levels.
They are best used on the lines just below the top one or just above the bottom one due to their Area Of Effect.
The DPS ...
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How do you destroy Dr. Zomboss
The trick to his level is to be conservative with your Jalapenos and Ice shrooms. They are NOT there to attack the boss, but rather to defend your plants. So let your other passively deal with the ...
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Is doom shroom worth its price?
To offer a counter-perspective; it can be, depending on the situation.
Yes, during the main campaign, not really. You may find it useful in some levels, simply due to its cheap cost and effectiveness, ...
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How do you complete last stand: roof?
Last stand roof is beaten by using the right plants.
Winter Melon : Awesome AoE DPS and AoE slow
Melon-Pult : Awesome AoE DPS
Umbrella Leaf : Protects itself and all other plants arround it
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Is the gloom shroom worth it?
The gloom shroom is one of the strongest plants in the game. It is absolutely worth the price.
Pros:
Extremely high DPS (4 hits per second)
Hits ALL zombies in range, even full stacks
Hits through ...
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How do you defeat the yeti zombie?
Instant kill plants like the Squash, Jalapeno and cherry Bomb can kill him easily. His HP is only 1350 so he should not be that hard to kill with the right plants (Seeing a standard Buckethead has ...
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Can the direction of wall nut bounce be controlled?
I noticed while I played it has the chance to bounce up or down. This is the chart: 1st lane 100% chance of bouncing down. 2nd lane 75% chance to bounce down 25% chance to bounce up. 3rd lane 50% ...
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How often do zombies bite plants and how many bites can normal plants take?
Bite Speed:
According to this thread, different zombies have different bite speeds, and consequently may bite plants different numbers of times. However, even though they bite faster, zombies should ...
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What determines the chances of a coin appearing in an adventure game?
Unfortunately there is no available source for a specific drop rate from just general zombies, but this is random. There are specific situations that will lead to a drop however:
Killing zombies (...
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If I can only take one of them, should I take cherry bomb or doom shroom?
The Doom Shroom and Cherry Bombs have similar purpose so are nearly interchangeable.
Taking the Doom Shroom as a base these are the advantages and disadvantages it has agaisnt the Cherry bombs:
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Is the cob cannon worth it?
There are a few advantages you are forgetting:
The Cob Cannon does not need to be planted where to attack. So it can
be launched on top of a defensive Tallnut(also allows to be fired on
ice, or ...
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Is the cob cannon worth it?
In a regular level, no. There's no regular level long enough for you to make back your investment (two spaces, 700 sun, plus initial waiting time before you're able to fire it) compared to using a ...
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In Plants vs. Zombies 1, is it possible to beat Zombotany 2 while only using one column of plants?
Source
OK, so I've come back from doing testing, and it's most likely impossible without perfect RNG. However, at least I made it to the final flag.
My strategy:
Loadout
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In Plants vs. Zombies 1, is it possible to beat Zombotany 2 while only using one column of plants?
Link to run
Sorry for posting another answer, but it turns out that the challenge in question actually is possible.
I introduce to you what I am coining as the Poor Man’s strategy.
Plants I used
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What is the highest DPS plant?
Cob Cannon would have the highest DPS then.
Once the corn cob is produced, the player can click on the Cob Cannon and can manually launch the corn cob onto an area that the player targets. The corn ...
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Is fume shroom worth its price?
The Fume Shroom is worth it for a multitude of reasons.
First the Downside of the Scaredy-shroom: If a zombie coms too close they go and hide making them useless. Close is when they are either 2.5 ...
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What is the imitater useful for?
Imitater shroom has a fixed sun amount. It is useful because it's cooldown is not in sync with the copy plant's cooldown.
It can be used as an extra plant. If the plant you copy is used constantly, ...
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How do you complete zombotany 2?
Seeing you can apparently not open the guide links.
The trick is to use as few lanes as possible. This can be achieved by using Garlic to force Zombies away from the lanes you got plants on. and then ...
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Is doom shroom worth its price?
Really, if I had to choose (1 slot, a different plant, or Doom Shroom) I would pick the other plant.⠀
The Doom shroom has a wide area of effect, but leaves a crater on the ground for 3 minutes. That ...
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How do you pass night level 8 in Plants vs Zombies?
Option 1: Defense.
Dancer zombies will stop moving forward when either they, or their "support dancers" hit something (i.e. a plant). So one option might be to place a Wall-nut to allow for ...
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Is it better to use Gatling Peas or Fume Shrooms for Endless Survival?
When playing Endless Survival, Gatling peas are sub-par compared to any AoE due to the enemy clumping up. But even then, Fume shrooms are not the way to go.
Some basic tips for Endless:
Cattails are ...
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How can I protect my Cob Cannons?
A strategy that I've seen is not putting cob cannons in the 3rd/4th column range and placing pumpkins with winter melons, gloom shrooms, and an umbrella leaf. The end result is a space where the gloom ...
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How long does it take for magnet shroom to recharge?
It takes 10 seconds for it to recharge. It can be quite effective against Football Zombies, so you could integrate it in your defense, should you have troubles with them.
Unfortunately, it makes ...
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How do you get the monster masher achievement in the ipad version?
Once you completed the game you can go another run, but then with all plants unlocked from the start.
At an early level take pumpkin, Tall nut and the regular wall nut. Fill the top lane with those ...
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How do you complete columns like you see em?
This can be tricky, because you don't always get the plants you need (sometimes you'll just get an abundance of pots) which can spell your doom.
The plants you get are:
Pots
Melon-pults
Chompers
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Plants Vs Zombies Progress disappearing (Android)
If you logged in with Google Play Games your progress should be saved in the cloud. Try to log out and login again.
If you want to recover the savegame from the old phone itself, look at /sdcard/...
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