Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-11748776-20150411151859/@comment-20539136-20150424013312

1Zulu wrote:

Mbartel500 wrote: since the spring update, the homing thistle has been performing badly. It often shoots zombies after killing them, it shoots between zombies, and often does not target the left-most zombie. Before the update, it did none of these things. It was deadly efficient and very accurate. Strange things going on with the plants. Since the update, the Fume Shroom performance went up, and the Homing Thistle performance went down. After paying 109 gems for the HT, I don't like the downgrade. Every plant does that. I have already explained this multiple times, but here it goes again.

Regular zombies have 10 HP, right? WRONG! Regular zombies have 13.5 HP.

However, they have a "critical point" at 10 HP. What is this critical point business? Well, it's a point after which the zombie's HP drops rapidly to zero, but it is still alive to the game. This means a zombie who's taken 10 shots is still alive for a couple of seconds. Even though it can no longer damage your plants, it will still absorb shots.

This is why zombies who appear dead (lost their head) are still attacked by plants, including Homing Thistle. Plants don't attack dead zombies. Internally, a zombie without its head is not dead yet. It would be too confusing to list the regular zombie's health as 13.5. I think that for the purposes of this wiki, the health should be listed as the number of peas required to drop the zombie's health below the "critical point." I know that a headless zombie technically still has some health remaining, but most people don't really care.