Tale of the Taco DLC
The Tale of the Taco is the eighth free content update for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, released on July 16, 2019 and ended on September 2, 2019. This update is a series of weekly Community Challenges in the Progress-O-Meter, as well as a series of altered versions of existing modes in the Mystery Portal in the Town Hall. This update also included multiple changes to Soil Survivors, mainly that now teams are balanced by adding AIs into empty slots for more fair games.
Events
Week 1
- Date: July 16 - 22, 2019
- Game Mode: Rain of Flavors - A Suburbination variation where ice cream cones rain randomly from the sky, giving players who collect them a random buff (either a health regen, damage or speed buff).
- Community Challenge: Ice Breakers - Vanquish as many enemy players/AI with ice characters as possible.
- Goal 1: 5,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 7,500,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 10,000,000 - Legendary Item
Week 2
- Date: July 23 - 29, 2019
- Game Mode: Taco Panic - A Capture the Taco variation where only one taco spawns on the map instead of two, forcing players to try and capture the same taco.
- Community Challenge: Vanquishing Well - Vanquish as many enemy players as possible.
- Goal 1: 20,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 25,000,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 30,000,000 - Legendary Item
Week 3
- Date: July 30 - August 5, 2019
- Game Mode: Dairy Disaster - A Gardens & Graveyards variation where molten cheese rains from the sky every time the Zombies capture a point, giving those who pick it up a toxic aura and faster health regeneration for a small time.
- Community Challenge: Weekend at Burnie's - Vanquish as many enemy players/AI with fire characters as possible.
- Goal 1: 5,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 7,500,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 10,000,000 - Legendary Item
Week 4
- Date: August 6 - 12, 2019
- Game Mode: Hot Headed Rumble - A Soil Survivors variation where the Berserk Crazy Setting is activated, causing players to deal more damage when their health is low.
- Community Challenge: It's Mock O'Clock - Taunt as many enemy players after vanquishing them as possible.
- Goal 1: 100,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 200,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 300,000 - Legendary Item
Week 5
- Date: August 13 - 19, 2019
- Game Mode: Devious Cheese - A Gnome Bomb variation where the Zombies try to plant cheese traps (replacing the gnome bomb) onto different gardens while the Plants defend them.
- Community Challenge: You Glow, Girl - Vanquish as many enemy players/AI with toxic characters as possible.
- Goal 1: 5,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 7,500,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 10,000,000 - Legendary Item
Week 6
- Date: August 20 - 26, 2019
- Game Mode: Snack Attack - A Herbal Assault variation where Plants have to collect meal pickups and deliver them to capture points in order to capture them, while the Zombies defend.
- Community Challenge: Revive Overdrive - Revive as many fallen allies as possible.
- Goal 1: 1,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 1,500,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 2,000,000 - Legendary Item
Week 7
- Date: August 27 - September 2, 2019
- Game Mode: Farewell Taco - A Vanquish Confirmed! variation where a taco spawns randomly on the map, and the player holding the taco gains a wide variety of buffs.
- Community Challenge: Multiplayer Madness - Vanquish as many enemy players as possible.
- Goal 1: 20,000,000 - 250,000 Coins
- Goal 2: 25,000,000 - Special Item
- Goal 3: 30,000,000 - Legendary Item
Patch Notes
Gather close, powerful plant proponents and shuffling zombie aficionados. You won’t want to miss a word of the story that we’re going to unearth.. It’s time for the Tale of the Taco! Which is also our latest free* update.
What, we hear you asking, is the Tale of the Taco? As you might expect, it’s a story about a taco. What you might not expect is that it’s a story of a giant, magnificent, space taco! Created crazily by Crazy Dave and launched out into the outer reaches of the galaxy years ago. But now this crispy bit of genius is crashing back down – to land right on the Town Hall! Is chaos ensuing? Sure! But even better, the space taco appearance is creating a series of challenges that are going to unfold week-over-week in the Community Portal. If you survive and win through these, you might just save everything! And, as winners, get great rewards.
But What Is Tale of the Taco About, Really?
Beyond being about Crazy Dave’s taco love, and how sometimes everything goes wrong in even the most romantic stories, the Tale of the Taco is a festival of awesome Community Challenges involving variants of existing modes, with even-more-awesome rewards, all unveiled weekly from July 16 to September 2. There is so much amazing action happening that we can’t even explain it all. Instead, we’re going to show it to you, and then explain it!
Details on Each Tale of the Taco Challenge
Discover every challenge (or, chapter in our tale, if you will) below, along with the dates, and hints on what you and your PvZ pals can expect within this spectacular space taco soirée!
- Rain of Flavors
- Date Beginning: July 16
- What the Heck is Happening: In this Suburbination variation, ice cream cones rain from the sky in random places, exploding on landing, but leaving behind joy and chaos.
- Taco Panic
- Date Beginning: July 23
- What the Heck is Happening: Capture the Taco mode is back! But – and here’s where the panic comes – they’ll just be a single taco.
- Dairy Disaster
- Date Beginning: July 30
- What the Heck is Happening: Dig into this Turf Takeover offshoot where capturing a point leads to molten cheese pickups, toxic auras, and better health. It seems impossible. But the impossible is becoming possible!
- Hot Headed Rumble
- Date Beginning: August 6
- What the Heck is Happening: Calling all Soil Survivors superstars. Are you ready for the Berserk crazy setting (with lower health equaling higher damage)? You’d better be!
- Devious Cheese
- Date Beginning: August 13
- What the Heck is Happening: As if cheese wasn’t devious enough. With this take on the Gnome Bomb mode, only zombies are attacking and they’re planting cheese traps! Cheese traps? Is nothing sacred to those dastardly zombies?
- Snack Attack
- Date Beginning: August 20
- What the Heck is Happening: We’re not sure ourselves, to be honest. But it’s all about plants, snacks, progressing by collecting meal pickups, and entering the capture zone in this tasty Turf Takeover mutation.
- Farewell Taco
- Date Beginning: August 27
- What the Heck is Happening: It’s the triumphant taco topper, as the traditional taco from Capture the Taco spawns around maps, providing a variety of buffs to the taco holder. Taco!
But What Can I Earn?
You’ll need to rally the community and work hard to reach taco-rific heights, save the day, and gain the rewards waiting in three Chests. Can you do it? We sure think so! And if you do:
- Chest 1 Reward: 250,000 Coins
- Chest 2 Reward: A Special Item (if you have the items already, you’ll get 250,000 Coins)
- Chest 3 Reward: A Legendary Item (if you have the items already, you’ll get 500,000 Coins)
Anything Beside Tacos?
The Tale of the Taco is, admittedly, a moment one will sing about to their little Sunflowers until the end of time. But, we’ve also made some quality-of-life game improvements in this update to make your botanical battling even better, including better team balancing, shortened ring collapse times, an added ability to modify team sizes in Soil Survivor, and a few other behind-the-scenes fixes. And we ate a lot of tacos doing it all!Gallery
Gameplay showcasing the Rain of Flavors game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Taco Panic game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Dairy Disaster game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Hot Headed Rumble game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Devious Cheese game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Snack Attack game mode.
Gameplay showcasing the Farewell Taco game mode.
