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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 open beta 14-18 January.

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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
Hmm watching the vampire sunflower one now and I'm definitely not a fan of full heal.
They could up it to 75% and it wouldn't be so bad. Makes sunflowers redundant if people can regen fully on their own
 
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realwords

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Dem new character models and map designs.

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Bums me out so much that I won't have access to my PS4 during the beta. :(
 
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Bessy67

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Those videos look great, can't wait. The person playing is pretty terrible though.

Hopefully it'll be up for download tomorrow morning before work so I can play when I get home.
 
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Briarios

Member
Wow, I didn't realize they added so much single-player content. I more interested now. I enjoyed the first one, but I wasn't really considering picking this up until now.
 
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Mindlog

Member
I played the 360 version to the point I unlocked just about everything. Couldn't get to it on PS4 because of all the new games, but this new one looks great again. I developed a deep respect for the quality and care given to the first game. The game really deserves to be a bigger hit. Hoping this next title does well for them.
 
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GnawtyDog

Banned
Rain and snow would be soo good. As well as some sort of BF levolution scripted events. Nothing too over the top but big enough to disrupt a hotspot at a given time/progress.
 
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Planet

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Soooo... the wife is going out tonight (with friends, not me), my kids are going to bed early today (though they don't know it yet), my friends and collegues have been sufficiently hyped to get a party or three running this evening. Consider me ready for the touchdown.

It's 10:29 on the 14th and no download in sight.

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Zank Frappa

Banned
Yup, waiting for this to pop up in the Playstation Store as well now. Can't wait to try this out. I remember being completely amazed by the first Garden Warfare.. it wasn't supposed to be that good!
 
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ElzarTheBam

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Planet said:
Soooo... the wife is going out tonight (with friends, not me), my kids are going to bed early today (though they don't know it yet), my friends and collegues have been sufficiently hyped to get a party or three running this evening. Consider me ready for the touchdown.

It's 10:29 on the 14th and no download in sight.

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Download by my understanding won't be up for another 9 hours.

Then the game servers go live another few hours after that.
 
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Skele7on

Banned
Interested has this got the same god awful sticker f2p as the first one though, as that really killed the first game for me
 
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Planet

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ElzarTheBam said:
Download by my understanding won't be up for another 9 hours.

Then the game servers go live another few hours after that.
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You have to be kidding me! :-o

If that truly is the case, it will hardly be the 14th anymore when the Beta starts. Also I do have something else tomorrow evening, so I can't play with my friends until the weekend. *sob*
 
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ElzarTheBam

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Planet said:
You have to be kidding me! :-o

If that truly is the case, it will hardly be the 14th anymore when the Beta starts. Also I do have something else tomorrow evening, so I can't play with my friends until the weekend. *sob*
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Yep, it'll be the 15th for me.

Which is poooooooopy
 
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Matt_

World's #1 One Direction Fan: Everyone else in the room can see it, everyone else but you~~~
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Tatsumi Oga

Banned
Yeah exactly, seems to be around 3 in the morning here when it goes live. So 8 before before it unlocks it will be downloadable, right?
 
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EASTC0AST_GH05T

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orichalcos said:
From Reddit

PST - 6PM
CST - 8PM
EST - 9PM
GMT - 2AM Jan 15
Sweden - 3AM Jan 15
Australia - 1PM Jan 15

For any other time zones that you can follow this link and just put in the date and time, the beta is opening (Jan 14th at 6pm PST/California USA) and then convert to where you live.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

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Thanks for this! I am actually excited because I will be home from work before it goes live and my friends can't go haha we played it before you. Usually I end up trying new games out last within my circle because of my schedule.
 
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Planet

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It is not the timezone's fault that Popcap is unable see obvious implications with their chosen evening kickoff time.

Let's just hope they don't stop the beta in the morning (of their time zone) so we can at least play all evening on the 18th.
 
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ElzarTheBam

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Planet said:
It is not the timezone's fault that Popcap is unable see obvious implications with their chosen evening kickoff time.

Let's just hope they don't stop the beta in the morning (of their time zone) so we can at least play all evening on the 18th.
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I think the reasoning was server stress.

But in that case maybe had a pre load a day before and staggered launch times for the servers.

But no way will they stop the servers, you dont have to worry about that
 
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TheCarrotKiller

Banned
What, no!? I was waiting right now for it to pop up on the store, and now instead it's in the middle of the night... I hate timezones! Even the PlayStation Store update on the EU blog stated that it would release the 14th, but it will be the 15th then.
 
noomi

noomi

Member
Just got wind of this the other day from a friend, after watching some gameplay videos it looks insanely fun.

I imagine since this is an open beta, all we would need is access to PSN to download? Was there ever any form of a signup to gain access?
 
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Safe Bet

Banned
8 PM...

frikkin fiddle sticks

:/

Edit:

I guess I shouldn't haven't gotten my kids hyped for "beta day".

They'll be going to bed the same time it becomes available for DL.

goddammit guys...
 
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Tankard

Member
Adored the first Garden Warfare, downloaded for free courtesy of EA on some E3 or Gamescom, i hope they improve on some aspects with this one.
 
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nel e nel

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Planet said:
It is not the timezone's fault that Popcap is unable see obvious implications with their chosen evening kickoff time.

Let's just hope they don't stop the beta in the morning (of their time zone) so we can at least play all evening on the 18th.
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Let's consider this for a moment, if they do stop it in the morning in their time zone it will still be however many hours ahead in the other time zones. The total time the beta will be available is the same for everyone, regardless of time zone. So folks in Europe and Asia will have it from the 15-19 is all.
 
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Planet

Member
ElzarTheBam said:
But no way will they stop the servers, you dont have to worry about that
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What I meant was they will stop the Beta on the 18th, but will they do it in the morning or mid-day of their time? That would mean we get closed out off the first evening and then again at the end.
nel e nel said:
The total time the beta will be available is the same for everyone, regardless of time zone. So folks in Europe and Asia will have it from the 15-19 is all.
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But that doesn't help much when you need to sleep at night and work at most of the day, and it starts in the middle of sleep and ends just before work is done.
 
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ElzarTheBam

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Planet said:
What I meant was they will stop the Beta on the 18th, but will they do it in the morning or mid-day of their time? That would mean we get closed out off the first evening and then again at the end.

But that doesn't help much when you need to sleep at night and work at most of the day, and it starts in the middle of sleep and ends just before work is done.
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Ahhh OK gotcha.
 
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MrBlonde

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No wonder why I couldn't find it just now, I wanted to start the download before I left for work. 9est, that kind of sucks, I get my son tonight and wanted to play with him but that won't be happening.
 
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