February 2018 Patch

The February 2018 Patch is a balancing patch in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 that was released on February 15th, 2018.

Dev Notes

The latest in our series of balance updates has sprouted for Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2! You can download it now and then shamble into battle – where things won’t be quite the same as yesterday. Here’s a look at what has changed:

Party characters not in “Party Time!” feel lackluster and don’t have the same kind of game impact as other legendary characters. This patch looks to change that by giving the Party characters a much-needed boost to their base damage.

Sunflower is our token healer but gets punished heavily, and as a result is not seeing much playtime. We are increasing the Sunflower’s health for all variants with the goal to improve her survivability. Additionally, Stuffy Flower received a damage buff so it’s easier to get that final blow and utilize her passive ability.

Captain Squawk, Plumber, and Landscaper were seeing low playtime. We made some quality of life tuning changes for them so they should play and feel better.

Full Balancing Notes

• Captain Squawk
  • ▲ Increased speed at which the reticle constricts from 12 - 15 (both standing and moving)
• All Party Characters
  • ▼ Decreased Party Time Damage Buff from 1.5 - 1.25
• Party Imp
  • ▲ Increased Party Blasters damage from 4 - 5 (close range) and 3 - 4 (long range)
• Captain Partyman
  • ▲ Increased Party Scattershot damage from 25 - 35
  • ▲ Increased Party Spyglass damage from 18 - 22.5
  • ▼ Reduced effectiveness of damage upgrade from 1.1 - 1.06
• Party Brainz
  • ▲ Increased Party Fists damage from 5-15-35 - 15-25-45
  • ▲ Increased Party Beam damage from 3.5 - 4.5 (close range) and 2.5 - 3.5 (long range)  
  • ▲ Increased effectiveness of damage upgrade to Party Fists
    • ▲ Punch 1: +1 - +2
    • ▲ Punch 2: +2 - +3
    • ▲ Punch 3: +5 - +6
• Party Corn
  • ▲ Increased Party Busters damage from 6 - 7.5 (close range) and 5 - 6.5 (long range)
  • ▼ Decreased effectiveness of damage upgrade from 1.2 - 1.15
• Party Rose
  • ▲ Increased Party Thistles damage from 7.5 - 9.5
• Party Citron
  • ▲ Increased Party Laser damage from 3.5 - 6 (close range), 2.5 - 3.5 (long range), and 4 - 5 (splash damage)
• All Sunflowers
  • ▲ Increased all Sunflower Variants HP by 10
  • Health Upgrades still give +10HP
• Scallywag Imp
  • ▲ Increased Looty Shooties damage from 14 - 17 (close range) and 10 - 13 (long range)
• Stuffy Flower
  • ▲ Increased Rainbow Sunburst damage from 8.5 - 10 (close range) and 6.5 - 8 (long range)
  • ▲ Increased effectiveness of damage upgrade from 1.125 - 1.13
• Plumber
  • ▲ Increased projectile speed from 60 - 70
  • ▲ Decreased bullet drop from 2.5 - 1.5
• Landscaper
  • ▲ Increased projectile speed from 90 - 100

Official notes can be found here.