Capture the Taco

On Again, Off Again

This game mode is not always available to be played in-game. It is only available sometimes. It is currently available.

Capture the Taco
Classes available	All
Playable maps	Backyard Battleground, Zen Peak, Colizeum, Lunar Landing, Frontline Flats

Not to be confused with Taco Bandits.

Capture the Taco is a limited-time game mode in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 that was added in the Capture the Taco DLC along with new Torchwood and Hover Goat-3000 costumes. The goal of the mode is to get the most Tacos before the time runs out.

Unlike Taco Bandits, plants can now capture tacos, and zombies can now defend their own tacos. The match now has a fixed time and is simply based on the number of tacos captured, rather than the game ending if three tacos have been captured. If a match is tied at the end of the game, the match will continue in a sudden death overtime, similar to Gnome Bomb. This mode can be played on 5 total maps, those being Backyard Battleground, Zen Peak, Colizeum, Lunar Landing, and Frontline Flats.

Origins

The name and mechanics of this game mode is based on the "capture the flag" game mode commonly found in shooter games.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Capture the Taco music (Version 1)
	Capture the Taco music (Version 2)
	Taco Dropped music (Version 1)
	Taco Dropped music (Version 2)
	When a taco is captured
	Picking up a taco
	Resetting a taco

Gameplay

Players start the round on their side of the map. Once the game begins, the teams have eight minutes to capture as many tacos as possible while still defending their own. To capture a Taco, the player must simply walk into it (it will be positioned in many different places, depending on the map).

Tacos have circles around them that disable abilities, so be careful. If the player successfully picks it up, they will receive a slight speed boost and get a red aura notifying other players that they are the Taco holder. In order to score a point for their team, the player must return it to the taco return point, which will have an icon pointing to where it is. Doing this will reward a large amount of XP. Unfortunately, like Gnome Bomb, while carrying the Taco abilities are unable to be used.

However, if the player is vanquished while carrying the Taco, it is considered "dropped" and a teammate will have to pick it up and finish the task while the player respawns. The opposing team, though, may reset the Taco's location by going up to it and holding the interaction button for some time. That will relocate the Taco back to its starting point near the spawns.

Whenever a Taco is captured, it will either relocate itself to where it originally was, or it will spawn in a different part of the map.

At the end of the round, whichever team captured more tacos wins the round and each player on the winning team receives five Rainbow Stars as a reward. The losing team's players will get three Rainbow Stars each.

Gallery

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  A taco

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  Scoring UI

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  Return point

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  The event timer in the Backyard Battleground during Capture the Taco

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  How abilities will appear when you grab a taco

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Capture The Taco
Traditional Chinese	佔領玉米捲
French	Capturez le taco !
German	Erobere den Taco
Italian	Conquista il taco
Polish	Zdobądź taco
Brazilian Portuguese	Capture o Taco
Spanish	Captura el taco

Trivia

• This is the first Mystery Portal event which features the Backyard Battleground as a playable map.
• It is the only remaining Mystery Portal event which does not feature an altered character selection. Therefore, it is the only one in which Twilight Chomper, Torchwood and Hover Goat-3000 can be played.
• There is a glitch in which the scoreboard will occasionally malfunction, giving one team an extra point.

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