Boss Mode

"With the power of the Zombox I can actually beat the Plants without having to touch dirt! I just sit back, point at things, make things explode! and take credit for other people's work! I call it: *Overly dramatic* BOSS MODE!"---Dr Zomboss in the Boss mode trailer.

Descriptions of all Crazy Dave's abilities

Descriptions of all Dr. Zomboss's abilities

Boss Mode is a playable class in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare for both the plants and the zombies. It works very differently from the other classes as it is not an actual character that does combat or support up front in the battlefield, but rather, it is a flying vehicle up in the air. The point of view is also very different, as every plant and zombie present on the field can be seen through a birds-eye view of the map. The Boss Mode aircraft can deploy spotting, healing and reviving stations, along with an airstrike. The Boss Mode aircraft also has the highest health in the game among the playable classes; with a total of 2000 health. To gather up the resources to do actions, the player must gather sun or brains (dependent on which side Boss Mode is played in). The sun and brains fall from the screen at determined intervals and must be picked up with a cursor that works with the Kinect Sensor. Due to the power of the class, only one player can be Boss Mode in a team.

When an ability (except for the Airstrike) is deployed, it will be airdropped to the ground in a container (a wooden shipping crate for the Plants and a metal box for the Zombies). The container shatters on impact with the ground.

When damaged, the Boss Mode aircraft will (if unhurt for some time) begin to regenerate health at a rate of 20 health every second until all health is restored.

Boss Mode is available on all versions of the game except Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Xbox One variation is compatible with both the Kinect and SmartGlass apps.

Boss Mode does not return in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Abilities

1. Spotting: Lets your allies see what enemies are near the spotting machine. It can be destroyed and costs 75 sun/brains to deploy.
   • Plants: Coconut Spotting Station
   • Zombies: Superb Zomboss Radar
2. Heal: Lets you heal your team. It can be destroyed and costs 100 sun/brains to deploy.
   • Plants: Twin Heal Flower
   • Zombies: Zomboss Healing Station
3. Airstrike: Lets you call in an airstrike similar to the Zombot/Garlic Drones Airstrikes. It costs 250 sun/brains to deploy and cannot be prevented.
   • Plants: Cherry Strike
   • Zombies: Cone Strike
4. Resurrect: Lets you revive all vanquished allies near the station. It can be destroyed and costs 250 sun/brains to deploy.
   • Plants: Revive Rainbow
   • Zombies: Reviving Brainz BBQ

Degrades

When the Boss Mode aircraft is damaged, it will progressively start to show signs of varying degrees of damage before it explodes.

First degrade (1800-1200 HP)

The Boss Mode Aircraft will begin slightly to emit black smoke.

Second degrade (1200-600 HP)

The Boss Mode Aircraft will now start emitting a lot of smoke, leaving a clearly visible black smoke trail behind itself. It also gains dents and holes on its hull but this is hard to see.

Third degrade (600-0 HP)

The Boss Mode Aircraft will visibly seem to catch fire, suggesting that the damage sustained is severe enough to cause fires on board.

Boss Mode Video Transcript:

*Different screens showing different things*

Dr. Zomboss: *Mad* "Erghhh!"

*Screen shows a Zombie style "Please stand by" screen.*

Dr. Zomboss: "Gah!"

*Metal hitting sound*

Dr. Zomboss: *mad* "Blast!"

*Screen shows Dr. Zomboss sitting in his desk* Dr. Zomboss:

*Surprised/happy* "Hey..."

*Dr. Zomboss fixes the camera*

Dr. Zomboss: *Relieved* "Ah... okay! Since the dawn of Time! Plants have been the mortal enemy of Zombies! locked in an eternal str- Wait. Is the lens cap on?!?"

Unknown Zombie: "Gahhh!"

Dr. Zomboss: *Sounding dumbfounded* "seriously?"

Dr. Zomboss: *takes off lens cap* Ok... where was I? Oh right! It is I! the terrifying brilliant and startlingly Good looking! Dr. Edgar. George. Zomboss! Or, as in also know... The GREATEST evil genius that has ever lived!"

*Piano plays in background*

Dr. Zomboss: Decades from now, you will ALL look back at where you were on this day! The day... I unveil my greatest invention yet! To the LAB!"

*Dr. Zomboss spins his chair to the right and tries to get off only to trip and fall*

Dr. Zomboss: Oof! Ow! Curses!

Dr. Zomboss: *Trying to get attention* "Down Here!"

*The unknown zombie behind the camera pans down to Zomboss*

*The Screen shows a Zombie style "Please stand by!" screen.*

*cut to the LAB, which was right next to his "office"*

Dr. Zomboss (On a hover machine): "I meant to do that!"

"Behold!"

*Pointing to the collection of screens*

Dr. Zomboss: "I give you...."

Dr. Zomboss: "THE ZOM-BOX!"

*Zomboss steps off the hover machine*

*The Zom-Box turns on showing a screen that says "Activating user interface" The other screens show plants and zombies fighting in Main Street, Wall-nut Hills, Etc. another screen shows heath bars of a Soldier, Scientist, and Engineer, another screen shows the second point of Main Street with a lock-on target slowly moving across the battle.*

*The hover machine flies away.*

Dr. Zomboss: "With the power of the Zombox I can actually beat the Plants without having to touch... *angry* dirt! I just sit back, point at things, make things explode, and take credit for other people's work! I call it: *Overly dramatic* BOSS MODE!"

*The Screen in the middle shows the second capture point of Main Street.*

Dr. Zomboss: "With simple gestures and voice commands I release HUGE waves of zombies... *Screen shows the 8-bit icons of brown coats getting deployed in Main Street's second Garden*

Dr. Zomboss: "Uncover the plans of those weeds, and resupply my troops with DE-licious BRAINZ!"

Random Zombie: *In background* "Brainz!"

Dr. Zomboss; " I have also created an option for a more... hands on approach! With my Zombie tech delivery tablet I can perform all the same functions from anywhere in the world!"

Dr. Zomboss: "Plus, I love buttons."

Dr. Zomboss: "My favorite part, dropping Zombomb Strikes!"

*Screen shows Cactus in Wall-Nut Hills on the tree house getting bombed*

Dr. Zomboss: "Weed to death from above! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!"

Dr. Zomboss: "I think that Cactus got the point! *Dr. Zomboss starts laughing CRAAAAAAAAAZY*

Dr. Zomboss: "So... to sum up! I'm a genius, all brainz will soon belong to me... Feel free to cast models of me now for the status that will be undoubtedly erected in the future! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!"

Gallery

Dr. Zomboss using the Boss Mode (beta gameplay, one can tell because of different HUD)

Crazy Dave's abilities

Dr. Zomboss's abilities

Ability textures

Plants's Boss Mode screen

Zombies's Boss Mode screen

Render of the Cherry Strike ability

Render of the plant spotter ability

Render of the Revival Station ability

Render of the Twinflower healing station

Trivia

• This class marks the first and currently only time Dr. Zomboss and Crazy Dave are playable, albeit indirectly.
• If a team manages to destroy the opposing team's Boss Mode aircraft, the player who used Boss Mode will be sent back to the character selection screen and the Boss Mode choice for that team will be disabled for 30 seconds.
• While a player is being revived by a Boss Mode player it will say they are being revived by Crazy Dave or Dr. Zomboss depending on which team they are on.
• Destroying Crazy Dave/Dr. Zomboss aircraft is one of the scores that gives all players on the same team coins, others are the Good Try Bonus for plants, destroying Tallnut Cannons, Corn Mortars or Flax Cannons and Capturing Gardens as zombies.
• Crazy Dave's RV has a visible pot on its top.
• There's a couple of picture mistakes in the Stickerbook descriptions.
  • The Revive Rainbow picture for Crazy Dave is actually what the Reviving Brainz BBQ is in-game.
  • The Twin Heal Flower picture for Crazy Dave is a recolored Zomboss Healing station while in-game it is the Twin Sunflower from Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • The Coconut Spotting Station does not have sonic waves coming out of it, has a different background and has an orange glow instead of a blue glow.
  • The Cherry Strike has a different background and is facing differently.
  • The Superb Zomboss Radar looks different that what it is in-game, but instead looks like when it is placed in the map.
  • The Reviving Brainz BBQ is different in-game.
  • The Cone Strike photo is a bunch of cones instead of a bunch of fireballs.
  • This makes the Zomboss Healing Station photo the same both-in game and the stickerbook.
• Originally, the Zombie Boss Mode had the ability to spawn hordes of AI Zombies and heal players with brains. However, for reasons unknown both abilities were cut from the final game.
  • This is because Boss Mode cannot deploy any Spawnable Plants or Zombies in any way.
  • The healing ability though, is partially true in the way that Boss Mode can deploy Heal Stations.
  • The reason healing with brains (and most likely sun) was scrapped is because it would beat the purpose of The Twin Heal Flower and Zomboss Healing Station and it was not shown how console players would do it as Zomboss healed his zombies in brains with the mobile tablet.