Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-976523-20141119073824

(Or, what happens when you Clear Data)

So yeah: this isn't really an exploit, but something that happened a few weeks ago. I had to update a few things, and that involved making space at my phone to do so. Without wanting, I clicked on "Clear Data" on the PVZ 2 App, since it had the most amount of data at the moment. That had the (un)fortunate (?) circumstance of deleting my entire save data from when the game was pretty much released, having all worlds unlocked and complete up to BWB 12 (grr!), plus Ghost Pepper unlocked and enough gems to buy all three Gemiums twice. So, naturally, anyone would consider this a great loss...

...except I saw this as an opportunity and said "well, why not try again from the beginning?"

Turns out, the game suddenly turns interesting when doing so.

I skipped the tutorial (as I did the first time I gamed), and passed the tutorial pretty much easily. No biggie. AE Day 1, and I'm left with Sunflower, Wall-Nut and Potato Mine. AE World 1 is easy, so no biggie there. Then I go to AE Day 2, and...I start again with Sunflower, Wall-Nut and Potato Mine. Here's where it clicked: where's Peashooter? To my surprise, my game has no Peashooter. I mean, I can get a Peashooter on certain worlds and occasions, where it's fixed to have a Peashooter, but I simply can't select it from my loadout. That means that, until I reached Cabbage-pult, I had to pass the first three worlds undermanned (or, should I say, underplanted?). Haven't checked the Endless Worlds, but it's a possibility that I don't get Peashooter there. In fact, it doesn't even appear in the almanac!

So yeah, I decided "awesome, now I can play PvZ 2 on hardcore mode!" I reach up to AE Day 8. finish it with ease, and unlock the World Key. I go to Pirate Seas, of course, to unlock Kernel-pult. When I get my first Zombie Yeti...it happens to appear right at PS Day 24, just one step short of PS Zombinator. Trying to do that quest with only a handful of plants was, once again, a challenge, but I did! That made me jump 'the entirety of Pirate Seas, allowing me to do it as I please. No Twin Sunflower, though, so trying to get the Extra Seed slot power-up is a tad difficult.

Checking the Almanac again, while I don't have Peashooter, I have ALL Zombies filled up to where I was (i.e. up to Surfer Zombie, Mermaid Imp and Deep Sea Gargantuar), so apparently there is some data that the game still recognizes.

Not much else to mention, except I got most of the plants from Pirate Seas, slowly re-working my way through Ancient Egypt, got the PS Zombinator trophy before even reaching AE Zombinator, and have Wild West open once again. Hoping to see if I can leap my way through WW, and whatever else I can get.

As a final bit of info: I don't have Google+ (an account, sure, but I refuse to activate Plus since I don't like social networks other than blogs and forums), so I can't access Google+ Games, which might have probably saved my account (but prevented me from playing this unexpectedly bugged game). Then again, I want to see how this "version" of the game proceeds. And, sometimes, the loading screen disappears, making the worlds' background appear a lovely shade of night.

Anything you want to comment? 