Roadie Z is a Super Rare Engineer variant in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. He was revealed on the Plants vs. Zombies Twitter page on November 24, 2015. His appearance is the same as a regular Engineer with a yellow beard and hair but with four drumsticks attached to his hat and what could possibly be an electric guitar amp on his back. In the Moon Base Z trailer, he is briefly shown shooting soundwaves. He also has extra health, due to his close-ranged weapon. He was the only Engineer variant unlockable in the beta.
Descriptions
Stickerbook description
"Roadie Z's been on tour for so long, he can't even remember. He would've joined the battle of Zomburbia earlier, but he couldn't hear what anyone was telling him."
In-game description
Roadie Z's short-range sound cannon inflicts mega damage up close!
Primary Weapon
His primary weapon is the Ear-radicator, which is a close-ranged weapon that deals 9 damage, but when the target is at low health, it will deal 35. Its ammo capacity is infinite but with a overheating system that after the weapon has been used for 6 seconds straight needs to cool down. When a player is attacked with the Ear-radicator, their screen begins to blur.
Abilities
Sonic Grenade
The Sonic Grenade is a grenade that, when thrown, will stun plants in a small radius for a short time and forces burrowing Chompers out from the ground.
Proximity Sonic Mine
An alternate ability of the Sonic Grenade, the Proximity Sonic Mine is a landmine which can stun plants for about five seconds when stepped on and makes Chompers come out of their burrow. This can be very useful for defending a Teleporter or trying to escape from plants.
Jackhammer
The Jackhammer allows for quicker movement.
Turbo Jackhammer
An alternate ability of Jackhammer, the Turbo Jackhammer travels faster, but lasts for a shorter amount of time.
Big Bolt Blaster
The Big Bolt Blaster is a mounted turret similar to the Pea Gatling. It has 100 ammo and a very high rate of fire.
Gallery
Trivia
- The Roadie Z was first named in a tweet by Gary Clay,[1], was later renamed and revealed on the Plants vs. Zombies Facebook page and got his final name revealed in the beta.
- The end of his trailer reveals a new Engineer gesture named "Jackhammer Strum". This involved him summoning his Jackhammer and strumming it like a guitar, in a similar way to one of the Foot Soldier's gestures in which he does the same thing to his weapon.
- His weapon resembles a speaker and is named "the Ear-radicator". This makes sense due to the fact that he shoots soundwaves to attack.
- This is the first Engineer that has no shoes at all. Instead, he wears a sandal on one foot and nothing in the other.
- If the Ear-radicator is near its overheating point, the player will begin to hear slight speaker feedback.
- It's the first zombie character class to have extra health, the second being Lil Drake's Mech.
- While playing as this character, the player will constantly hear faint music playing from the amp on his back.
- Roadie Z is the only close-range Engineer variant.
- Roadie Z is the only armor zombie variant.
- A glitch made it where Roadie Z whould disable a plants abiltites for a few seconds this was fixed in the Trouble in Zombopolis Part One DLC
References
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