Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-4804333-20140111070353/@comment-976523-20140208024139

Agree with the Lightning Reed firing backwards. The only defense against Prospectors is Split Peas, and Chickens can be annoying.

If I were to buff some, I'd probably buff Cabbage-pult to be a bit more competitive. As it stands, it's somewhat stronger than a regular Peashooter and fires at an arc, but I can't help using the Kernel-pult which is better because of the chances of landing a butter on zombies. It's that kind of plant that, when you get the upgrade (Melon-pult -> Winter Melon) you rarely use unless you're forced into it. Making it cheaper won't work, though.

Pea Pods should definitely count as one plant. While not as bad now since Challenges are rare, originally you couldn't use Pea Pods on limited-plant challenges because each bit counted as one plant. That said, its cost has to be revised; two Repeaters in two (horizontal) lanes do more for you than one Pea Pod in one because you can build them faster (200 sun vs. 250 sun). Since it'll still end up being expensive (500 sun for a fully-stocked Pod), reducing it to the same cost of regular Peashooters would be fair; even with the increased cost, you'd think of adding Kernel-pults or Winter Melons first, because of their properties.

Funny enough, I don't mind Bonk Choys staying as they are. Setting one on each lane behind a Wall-nut/Tall-nut is a fair set-up, since they can hit pretty fast. They only falter when there's more than one high-def zombie, because you get that many bites to your hits. If they were to get an upgrade, I wouldn't mind, but they'd be on lower priority than Cabbage-pults and Pea Pods. A Bonk Choy/Wall-Nut/Spikeweed or Spikerock set-up can clear lanes for you at a very cheap cost, allowing you to set up good but costlier plants (Winter Melons, for example).

Grave Busters and Spring Beans are gimmicks, at most, so they need no change. It'd be like asking the developers to make Planterns useful... Chili Bean goes straight into "lethal joke" (of the worst kind, BTW), so it's not so bad that at least two zombies can bypass it (Explorers and Gargs), when it's death sentence for the rest (particularly Armored Ponchos).