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Time to Seriously Go Outside achievement in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

Time to Seriously Go Outside

Promote 20 characters to the rank of Master

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  • evil terrorrevil terrorr
    22 Sep 2019 11 Sep 2019 14 Mar 2021
    casterisknt Pointed out a great AFK farm for this so use it while it lasts. i can confirm that this method works as of 14-3-2021
    Credits goes to Youtuber Psycho Sibs Gaming for making the video


    As of october 31st they nerfed the xp gains across the board and bounty rewards took the biggest hit making this an even longer grind than usual
    Bounty reward xp has been lowered from 625xp to 55xp with the leveling up perk wich is a massive decrease in xp.
    As of October 1st the xp farm spots listed under the spoiler have been patched

    To get this achievement you will have to promote every character 5 times. There is a total of 20 characters that you'll need to do. 10 for the plants and 10 for the zombies.
    They have added a total of 3 new characters. 2 for the zombies and 1 for the plants. these also counts for the achievements so it can save some grinds near the end.
    You can promote a character after every 10 levels. When every character is fully leveled you wil have a total level of 901
    To promote a character you need to go to the promotion station in the hubworld in giddy park.
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    When going for this achievement and you want to make the grind a bit shorter i reccomend equiping the Leveling up Perk this gives you more xp for everything that you do.
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    And dont forget to use the XP station. This can be used 5 times every 24hrs for 2.000xp per time for 15.000 coins each. this is 10.000xp for 75000 coins.
    Thil will make the leveling go slightly faster.
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    Ive highlighted some tips from the comments but ill also recomend to look at the comment section on this solution for some tips and tricks offered by the community




    DiegoCaldo said:
    I was thinking about a method using the Giddy Park that may help us. I'm looking for people to test it during the week. The method is the following:

    - If you kill another player in Giddy Park, you receive from 164XP to 194XP, plus some extra XP (up to 27XP) depending on how you kill them (critical shot, max zoom, ZPG etc.);
    - Apparently, if you create a group of 4 players, in a private Giddy Park, it is possible to have one plant against three zombies or vice versa. The "lone wolf" can kill two enemies and then wait for the third one to revive the dead. Kill both enemies again, wait them to be revived, rinse and repeat. Using these method, the killer player will receive around 400XP per double kill in seconds and the "necromancer" 100XP per double revival;
    - While the players are revived, gold targets might be destroyed for some extra 82XP.
    - I have been playing in Giddy Park with snipers to gain XP and both Cactus and Captain leveled pretty fast. I think in a Private Game, it will go faster since everybody is grinding together.

    according to UNDEADZ3LD4 this works.
    DiegoCaldo - I can say that this truly works, i used my main account with a random profile to split screen another friend who wanted cheevo, and a dummy account on seperate xbox to just die, had the 2 dummy accounts to die, and me and friend switched between killing and reviving best way I have found so far

    Here is a video for the Bitey Bros bounty in the Town Center for the zombies




    vl Insane lv said this
    I found a super quick way to get xp with plants. About 2k xp every minute. Do the plumbing gig in town center. It costs 75 tacos per go. But really only lose about 30 tacos since pick up some from the enemies. You have to kill 15 yetis in the time frame. With leveling ability equipped you get 125 xp per yeti. Plus whatever from the super brainez and mini yetis you kill. And you practically 1 shot everything so with vampiric ability you wont die and it's super quick. I farmed about 3k tacos using that method above with space cadet fighting the bitey bros. Tacos from zombie side of town center carry over to plant side of town center. I went from novice snapdragon to master in less than an hour.
    The xp has been nerfed so the yetis will only give 100xp now.

    Here is a tip from Lythiris
    I recommend always doing the plumbing gig split screen. Your dummy will get tacos also, reducing your net loss drastically. Once your primary account runs out, your dummy will be loaded up on tacos. Start it with your dummy and siphon tacos back into your primary. Repeat. You can also farm bitey Bros coop for double taco gains. Get your space cadet to max rank and you will be set on tacos forever if you do it split screen. For characters like cactus, rose, make your dummy sunflower and connect the heal once it starts. I placed the sunflower on the opposite side up high next to some pipes. It usually worked well enough
    ive also found a video for it to show a bit whats it about




    This method has been patched
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    If you feel like something is missing from this guide? Feel free to let me know so I can adjust it accordingly

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    AtomicToast15I have a small addition to the dance hall glitch - (which still works as of February 2023 - doesn't seem like they're gonna patch it at this point) if you want to speed things up slightly while still mostly AFKing you can rubber band your RT down while standing in front of the targets in the shooting range. If you line it up right you can hit about 3 different targets. You can also do this with plants but without the dance hall's XP it's painfully slow, but still an option if you wanna AFK this as much as possible.

    Obviously this won't work with all characters BTW - if their attack is melee or semi-auto.
    Posted by AtomicToast15 on 16 Feb 23 at 16:54
    invader134Instead of breaking your controllers joysticks while doing the AFK farm, have the one that's receiving the XP to roll the credits and pause it. It is close to the dance hall

    That will prevent you from leaving due to activity for both players and you can turn off your controllers and check back later to promote!
    Posted by invader134 on 18 Aug 23 at 16:23
    CqptJust wanted to add a relevant comment for those actively going for it in 2024, the 80s action hero dance hall glitch still works. March 26 2024.
    Posted by Cqpt on 26 Mar at 22:17
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  • DJB HustlinDJB Hustlin
    13 Nov 2020 09 May 2020 26 Oct 2020
    I wrote a shorter version of this in the comment section of the first solution but thought I could elaborate more on this. This is a solo method that benefits both the Zombies and the Plants (though it helps your progress for the Plants more).

    You are going to use the Zombies and the bounty Tiger Klaus. This bounty involves killing 6 Acorns and then a Oak. With the XP boost on you will obtain around 600-800xp depending on the character and whether you utilize their abilities. Each run will take you between 20 seconds to 1 minute depending on your character (and then you use the 15 second window to heal and refresh your abilities).

    However, the most important aspect of the Tiger Klaus bounty is that you can also obtain around 17-23 Tacos per run as well. This is the fastest way to get Tacos in the game currently and will allow you to get enough Tacos to do several runs of Plumbing Gig for the Plants. Plumbing Gig is by far the fastest way to level up in the game with Plants earning between 1800-2200xp plus around 30-40 tacos back from the 75 you spent to do it.

    A simple example of this method from a run I did last night. I went from Advanced to Specialist with my Electric Slide and it produced almost 500 tacos. I had around 1950 tacos after that which allowed me to do the following:

    SnapDragon from Level 7 Specialist to Elite
    Acorn from Elite to Super Elite
    Cactus from Specialist to Elite
    Corn from Elite to Super Elite

    The 500 tacos alone should be enough to get a Plant from Specialist to Elite

    Once all the Plants are done, you have a choice between doing this or Solar Sisters bounty. It depends on the character and your efficiency

    To get a Plant from Super Elite to Master, it should take between 700-900 tacos (again depends on the character also factoring that sometimes, the game will decide to end the Plumbing Gig run before you get the 15 yetis). A zombie can get you up to 1000 tacos when going from Elite to Super Elite

    Also note that once you are finished the Plants, the tacos that you get can be converted to coins for the daily XP (15K for 2000xp up to a maximum of 75K for 10000xp). 50 tacos gets you 6000 coins

    Update: An update around August 2020 introduced Private Matches to the game. If you have a second controller or other players then this is a good way to get XP and you can do it without the fear of bots. How I am going to explain it is through Split Screen only.

    In the settings select Private Play and the following options:
    Mode: Vanquished Confirmed, Map: Pressure Pier, Difficulty: Crazy (this gives the regular coin and xp multiplier as matchmaking). Team Setup: 1 Plant and 1 Zombie (You have to set it this way so that you can get the XP and also not have any bots in the game).

    Now, Vanquished Confirmed with the XP boost gives an additional 55 XP (with the XP boost) per kill due to the collection of the orb. The important thing is that you are going back and forth between killing the other player and running away far enough in order to trigger the same spawn or somewhere very close to it (as shown in the video). With this, you should get over 10,000 xp after 20 minutes of work. I found that this was faster than the bounty hunts for some zombies like the IMP and the 80s Action Hero

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    PhoeenixHow do you convert tacos into coins
    Posted by Phoeenix on 08 Apr 21 at 02:18
    DJB HustlinIn the shops at each hub, in addition to the ability to purchase maps of collectibles and cosmetics. You can exchange Tacos for Coins

    For the exact location and more on tacos see this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Plants-amp-Zomb...
    Posted by DJB Hustlin on 08 Apr 21 at 04:01
    PhoeenixThank you. Didn’t even know about those shops tbh
    Posted by Phoeenix on 08 Apr 21 at 07:59
  • Daedric SpiderDaedric Spider
    31 Oct 2021 01 Nov 2021 01 Nov 2021
    The method I'm gonna put really helped me level the zombies fast except for the Super Brain and Scientist, as this is a kind of ranged way of doing things, and my Scientist was done the regular grinding way forever ago.

    Go to a private Turf Takeover, set the difficulty to Crazy then the following settings down below~

    For Zombies set the only teammates to Scientists, the only plants to Cactus. I chose the Tourist Trap Island where the Zombies are defending. You can stand on the payload and kill the Cactus that spawn basically right away. you get 50 exp for defending the objective, 25 for the plant hero kill, 5 for the critical kill if you crit kill, and if that cactus had shot anyone you get 25 for saving an ally. Don't worry about moving or healing as the Scientists will stay around and non stop heals going on. There's also another map you can do this with for Zombies where you have to defend the zone, if you do that i recommend lowering the amount of Scientists on your team as they will overwhelm the cactus spawn and you'll get a lot less kills. On Tourist Trap it took me about 45 minutes to finish a Super Elite from fresh off the rank to Master getting 100+ kills a match and it only takes 5 minutes a match!

    Plants are a little slower, at least in my opinion, I did the Lodge map where again the plants are stopping a payload. The team setups would be Pirates for Zombies, Sunflowers for Plants. big downside of that map is the Pirates can easily Barrel Blast a lot of Sunflowers away and then kill you so you 're wasting time running back to the objective. There is a defend the zone for the plants, I forget the map name, that's a lot safer but at the cost of kills. I did not do this for the Chomper or the Snapdragon, but everyone else was fine.

    Biggest downside is you don't get Taco's from anything to grind the Plumbing Gig, but you do get coins fast so it helps build up coins for the free Daily Exp at least.
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