The Tumultuous History of Torchwood: PvZ's Most Changed Plant
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Plants vs. Zombies is now 15 years old. It's no surprise that some plants have undergone massive changes and iterations throughout the course of the franchise. Whether it be changes to the plant itself, or changes to the games around it, such a plant may find its utility fluctuate drastically over time.
One such plant has been a recurring figure since the very beginning in 2009 who, despite all odds, rose from a controversial past flooded with changes and alterations, to become one of the best plants in Plants vs. Zombies 2. This plant is none other than Torchwood. But how has Torchwood fluctuated so much throughout the course of Plants vs. Zombies 1 and 2? Well, let’s chronologically dissect the tumultuous history of Torchwood.
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Let me know if you guys liked this style of video, its definitely a bit different from what I normally do. What plant would you want to see the history of next if I make another video like this? (Or even make it a series...)
I should also mention I would only cover the tower defense games, like in this video
I love your channel
I really liked the new structure, I think it has a lot of rewatchability and was very enjoyable.
Isn’t ice Shroom the most changed plant?
I think Doom shroom might be a good one
Oil up Koala
No matter its history, i wont forget the memories i had with it and threepeater.
same
💀 😏
Agree.
PACK YOUR THINGS PARTNER ITS BURNIN TIME
@@mustafaking-t5d bruh 💀
threepeater lostits old heads:(
You're undermining Torchwood's usefulness in non-endless survival. Gatling Pea + Torchwood is a pretty easy way of beating Survival Hard and you can even use Split Pea in those setups to defend the backline better.
True that. It's also useful in adventure 2 where you have it already unlocked, and it's pretty good in some of the minigames.
Also hello mask!
ohmagah its the man himself
Yoooo
IT IS HIM
THE LEGEND IS BACK
not to mention Adventure Mode 2
Still I prefer star fruit for it. Hate how weak it is in 2
5:33 THAT HEADPHONE WARNING WAS NOT ENOUGH OF A WARNING
yeah, my ears actually still hurt even after the vid ended
i jumped even after the warning
I wasn't paying attention and didn't even see the warning......my earphones were on almost full volume......
@@iamterrible253rip
Where's the loud part?
About snapdragon at 8:22
Snapdragon was only given the ability to thaw out plants in a recent update. Version 9.1.1 to be exact.
Wow so Torchwood was even more special then
@@koalapvzyup
We still had pepper pult but yeah
Wasn't pepper pult designed to be the main plant thaw-er or smth in frostbite caves
@@thehansboi I think so but that didn’t really go as well due to pepper pults dumb recharge
Plantern: Somehow a bioluminescent plant. Can clear fog.
Torchwood: A fucking flaming stump. Can't clear fog.
Plantern eats darkness. I guess the fog counts as darkness.
Idk the pc but in mobile torchwood can clear fog, I mean it’s small asf not even 3x3
@@greeddydude It was mentioned in the video.
according to the almanac:
plantern defies science it eats darkness and spits out light which clears fog
Fire is warm. Fire is actually not all that bright. It’s like a filament bulb vs an led.
Fun Fact: The ability to hurt zombies while being eaten was actually an ability that Torchwood had in the December 2nd 2008 prototype of PvZ1, albeit it was removed from the final game for whatever reason.
Fun fact: it does in pvz2😂
But only after getting eaten completely @@Thefnaffnfgamer
@@Ab.editz1nope
@@Ab.editz1not just that. It does while it's getting chomped by the zombies
@@TheodoreBuell yea but it deals less compared to when it's destroyed
At this Point I finally unterstand that the new Pop Cap actually does care for balancinc.
Edit: A history of the Snow Pea would be nice: From a mid Plant to a broken plant
Now they just need to save chomper
@@Navman_ Imo Theres no rescue for the Chomper. But I actually for a new Plant Food Concept: what if he could poison every Zombie in a 3x3 area After his plant food by farting? That poison damage would be able to kill every Basic Zombie and Some Special Zombies Like parasol oder jester. Its counters would be every Zombie With the bully Build ( Rockpuncher, Arcade Zombies etc.) Gargs and Zombies who Counter poison.
Snow pea was never mid
Well, maybe in 2, I haven't played it in a while
It's an amazing plant in PvZ1 though.
@@spooklass3588 Yeah your Right but I only meant PvZ 2
@@Guardian13106 Ah, fair enough
i love analysis videos like these, and one on Torchwood’s history just *had* to be a good watch. great work!!
hey look its the guy who beat pvz2 with only pvz1 plants
Hi there OriginalAlex
Yoo
"Why is it when something happens, it's always you three???"
(Torchwood, MGP, Peavine)
Lol
@@realleonardgibson god of peas: apeasemint
1:40 dude I play this game for quater of my life time and never know this oh my god
As a Torchwood addict who used it every level after unlocking: I knew.
"[Torchwood] has negative synergy with wintermelon because the flaming peas throw out chilled zombies" 😭😭😭
no one is gonna mention how this is probably one of the only people in multiple years to say “tumultuous”. could have used ANYTHING else, but this man opened a dictionary and read all 800 page, word for word, to use this creature of a term on a title.
This reminds me, shoutout to the one guy who used the word apotheosis in the comments of some page on the PvZ wiki
It’s not that rare
I knew i wasnt crazy about the memory level
Funfact: torchwood doesnt know how to read
I wouldn’t too if I was slowly dying to a fire in my head
I mean you wouldn’t think but these are plants working super hard to defend crazy Dave, anything could be possible
this is from the almanac btw
7:24 Yeah, screendoors were like jesters in PVZ Brutal Mode EX+.
PVZ Unnamed*
4:45 i am still shocking after discover most of mobile game have micro transaction nowadays 😔😔😔
12:34 this clip is crazy
What? I got touchwood for free
Torchwood can be gained NOW in PvZ 2 from daily rewards. But when PvZ2 first released you needed to pay irl money
@@BurntRavi07 nice thanks for the info
lmao “OP-ness” I saw that
threepeater,pea-pod,mega gatling pea,pea vine,+ torch wood is such a good combo saved me so much time with the more harder levels(if you bought pea vine and mega gatling pea)
0:02 Plants vs. Zombies older than me 💀😭
You forgot adventure 2 in pvz1 letting you replay the adventure mode with torchwood from the start giving you a lot more uses for him
torchwood being able to light up some of the fog is my favorite niche fun fact about pvz1
I was expecting Plants vs Zombies Heroes to be mentioned.
i like this style of video you should make this into a series
as a pvz hero zombie player you completely forgot how unfair torchwood is in pvz heroes
Against Captain Combustible....
You're NEVER safe...
yeah captain combustible and the card itself is SOOO unbalanced, gatling pea and torchwood is 8 damage with DOUBLE STRIKE for 8 sun, you can do that on turn 8. if its a chompzilla, combine that with the sun production and you could do gatling pea and torchwood on turn 5. and dont even get me started with captain combustible. people absolutely SPAM black-eyed peas making it impossible to play tricks (and im a professor brainstorm player so tricks are really effective for me), along with peashooter spam. that's only his mega-grow side. his kabloom side is just so unbalanced. poison oak, 6 sun, 4 strength, 5 health, and you wanna know one of the worst parts about poison oak? oh he has anti-hero FIVE, now usually for me, around turn 6 to late game, i run out of cards more often. so whenever i can only fill like 3 lanes, they put this down in the empty lane to deal NINE damage to my hero for SIX sun.. SIX?!?! but lets take a step back a bit, because what if you combine that with the 6 cost plant that damages the zombie hero for half their health. HALF. then they play a poison oak next turn and you can't do anything. then we've got cherry bomb, another 6 cost plant, except hes a trick that deals 4 damage, but its only in that lane right? wrong. ITS IN THE LANES BESIDE THE LANE IT WAS PLACED IN TOO. SPLASH DAMAGE EXISTS FOR A 4 DAMAGE TRICK?? and finally kernel corn, which might be one of the only balanced plant cards in the game, oh but there's two things about kernel corn, 8 cost plant, 6 strength, 6 health, but deals 4 damage to every zombie on the board. im just sick of how unbalanced this game is, whenever you're a zombie and you play something like a gargantuar and have this huge army, it just gets absolutely destroyed by the unbalanced plant cards. its like you almost have to pay for better zombie cards. and i dont wanna hear anyone replying with "zombies whine to much" "get good at the game" its not whining, its facts. get good at the game when you're playing unbalanced cards is crazy. oh speaking of that, im not gonna talk about him but my most hated plant in the game. MIRROR NUT. and yeah i spent like 30 minutes typing this whole thing out giving my opinions on a lot of unbalanced plant stuff in pvz heroes. thats about it.
CC has some cool stuff but the torchwood card is just okay
6:05 i love it when i give my plant food a torchwood
Goddamn. I love when koala om uploads. Especially this video even for being a shake up of his normal formula is a really good video in my opinion. I genuinely think in terms of quality no npc comment here. But i genuinely get happier when he uploads and think hes one of the best pvz2 youtubers. Especially since people are mosy obsessed with pvz1 vids so its nice to see someone differ.
What if EA didn't bought PopCap out before creating and finalizing Plants versus Zombies 2 back then?
I remember when I torched my own wood..😢
Haha…wait what?
Just wanted to add that you forgot to mention a really important nerf to torchwood in pvz2.
It does not have splash damage, that would make it completely OP in Modern PVZ2 but it also makes it unviable for the endless modes there since the Zombies scale and you need Plants like Pokra or Winter Melon that have splash damage.
I was a Lucky duck who got the 1 week event thing that gave out a free torch wood
Jester zombie lore: SCREW YOU UR BAD I CAN DODGE PROJECTILES HAHAHAHA
stickybomb rice : I will help you
I AM THE ANGRY PUMPKIN 🤫
@@Mr_Bacot_ Split Pea: Me too
Fun fact : if u freeze the imp with the camping bag with iceberg lettuce in the mid of the animation, it will automatically die
I love these types of videos and would love to see more, you also significantly went up in quality my friend keep it up!
Also I think Chomper could be a fun next one.😊
Actually, endless doesn’t “pigeonhole” people into using cob setups, it’s just that cob setups tend to be the easiest to carry out. Some people (by which i mean the Chinese pvz1 community) have developed incredible setups which require zero cobs, instead completely relying on instakills, iceshroom, and high amounts of skill. It requires a very high level of skill but nonetheless works.
There are reliable torchwood strategies for survival endless. You don't NEED the classic cob cannon strategy for it.
Torchwood is a sinergy plant, which imo its extremely interesting because on these last days its getting more rare to see this things, and its a shame, because it helps to introduce other plants more smoothly and adds complexity to a game without needing a plant that has 3 secondary abilities.
Edit: A shame that It got buffed because acording to Modern PopCap a plant can't be good without having an only specific ability...
Which is ironic considering that Torchwood has 2 secondary abilities
@@fedethegreat88 I like the plant, not his buffs. Thats why I use It in mods and not in Vanilla
In fact Im gonna edit the original comment now that you mention It.
It got buffed cause it sucked. Though after Pea Vine was introduced, it might not have needed the buff anymore.
I'm glad somebody else agrees that the torchwood Jalapeneo attack is overkill and overtuned. Then again, you could argue that a lot of modern PVZ2 is just "here's an even more broken plant to take over the meta" every update, but the health increase and small melee attack at least makes sense for torchwood and is reasonable, you know? It felt like a step in the right direction, and then they made torchwood basically better guacadile and made snow pea more broken for kicks. It's just a really strange update I guess...
4:13 "AMAIZING I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOOOVE IT" -little timmy
I remember one time during an arena season there was the frostbite caves zombot and I came up with the best idea ever, I put three torchwoods In the middle three lanes 1 mega gating pea for each, 1 fire pea in between them and the next plant to thaw them, and I think I put repeaters at the back and at the start of the level I would plant food the torchwoods and let everything else go to town on zomboss . Since lawnmowers regenerate in arena I didn't care about the outer 2 lanes because dealing damage to zomboss gave you the most points. I think I won every arena match that I used that strat.
Very cool!
"most changed plant"
literally the plant: uhh pea go burn lol
the change: H O T D A T E W I T H O U D A T I N G
Torchwood from 2009 look like he's bouta crash out😭
I just realized after 8 years of playing this game that pvz 1 torchwood was angry and his mouth was tilted to the side of his face, Originally i just thought he was smiling goofily...
Should’ve mentioned how he was changed in the spinoffs being basically a boss in gw2 and also playable character in it and in hero’s he buffed your pea plants if he was infront
Great video! Just as an FYI;
Certain zombies like excavator and jester do indeed counter appease mint strategies, but you can bring in other plants to counter these zombies. In particular, draftodil can stun jesters while they are spinning, allowing you to attack them. Of course, there are other plants you could use to just kill them before they would start reflecting projectiles
I would also like to mention that Torchwood makes an amazing zomboss shield, if you plant one before your offense (even if it isn't peas) when he runs into the Torchwood it does in animation which stops zombossboss immediately
I thought that torchwood was buffed to high heaven with its own buffs, but with Gatling pea and pea vine,it’s livin in luxury!
I got Torchwood for Free in PvZ2 today
Torchwood in PVZ: Please don't eat me
Torchwood in PVZ 2: Just try to get close to me and I'll burn you
I’m currently doing Penny’s Pursuit to get my recently unlocked Gumnut up to lv5, and I was thinking about how cool it is that peavine made the peas + Torchwood combo arguably the best in the game, just like in PvZ 1. I think that’s so cool.
"You've changed."
We're supposed to.
This is a pet peeve of mine regarding torchwood in PvZ2 (and you somehow omitted it), that torchwood being premium plant felt so wrong was because that it was nerfed in 2. To be more specific, it was the splash ability (that you metioned) in PvZ1 that got removed in PvZ2, which made it purely a x2dmg multiplier for pea plants. I’d say giving pea shooters the ability to deal splash damage on top of the x2dmg is the reason why it is as good as it is in PvZ1, removing it is removing half of torchwood potential in PvZ2. Also, you did say that torchwood was perhaps weak against chicken wrangler, and well, I think maybe it wouldn’t be weak against that kind of zombie if torchwood also retains its splash ability.
I think that a good plant to cover next could be the hypno shroom, if you haven’t already.
I haven’t played Pvz in years but fuck it imma watch a documentary of the history of one single plant anyways
You can use fire peashooter and torchwood and the fire pea will become a plasma pea that does quadruple the damage of a normal pea
15:33 Or Imp Dragon from Dark Ages.
In total the conclusion of this video is torchwood overpowered
I love seeing pea vine 2 shot a gargantuar
My best trio plants was reinforce-mint, pea-nut, and torchwood. This is also a total carnage when you want to end a level so quickly 😂
Torch Wood changed between PVZ1 and PVZ2 - it no longer had that splash damage. In a game as zombie-dense as pvz2, we can see why it became worse now. It didn't magically become a bad plant.
I fail to realise that pvz1 Torchwood and gw2 Torchwood are meant to be the same character
Torchwood have 15 years and today I see that he have pupils.
Pvz in 15 years old omg i remember loving it as a kid
You forgot to mention they removed the splash damage in pvz 2
This must be a history of purely the tower defence because if it was the full timeline of torchwood they would have mentioned garden warfare and bfn
history of Blover?? ☘☘
I n t e r e s t i n g
Straight up might be the most buffed plant ever
Replace squash and torchwoods unlock positions
Today i learned the sprite in pvz1 has two eyes. I always thought it had one eye and just looked chill asf
I just learned that torchwood in pvz1 can help to see through fog
When i still in the frostvite cave i got torchwood for no reason
I remember watching pvz animations when I was a kid
Pvz gw2 torchwood joins the party
Torchwood got buffed and it's better now
Who ever use ice pea shooter and double torchwood setup for being rich
Didn’t know there where plant metas in the main line series
Why's nobody talking about the name being a Dr Who reference?
i wish they made gatling pea an adventure plant and a balanced plant it was so fun to use in the first game
not to mention reflourished making it even more complicated than it needed to be
How? All that is different is the ability to double up on torchwood
it was perfect in pvz 1, health could've been higher, pvz 2 improved it greatly, making it have a less strong jalapeno effect when killed and do damage when zombies are eating it,, bit like endurian, and with the perma plant food buff, which let's be real on any plant is usually good, it is actually great now thanks to the plant food buff , it may be the price of fire pea, but sun isn't scarce in pvz 2 and literally twice as common, a sunflower only needs to make 1 sun to have a neutral r.o.i, and i knew this when i was very young, i breat pvz 2 when i was abt 8, going through the whole game without sunflower except when i HAD to like when sun doesn't fall. so yeah.
I like PVZ2's torch wood.
You can just get it after a week of calendar prizes and it's like an Endurian Jalapeno.
Actually you can get Torchwood by doing daily rewards in pvz2
You should do the history of chomper. Used to be my favorite plant, even though it sucked. Now it cost money.
Just time to wait for 3 more years
This needs to be a series
Ice shroom in pvz2 be like:
*hold my iced beer*
Could you do a history video on the entire history of PVZ2? Please!! With all the mechanic changes.
Im pretty sure we forgot about Torchwood in GW2 and BFN
Edit:I know people will hate me cuz I talked about BFN💀
2:25-2:27 What is blud yapping about 💀
Torchwood and frozen plants such as wintermelon have negative synergy, because flaming peas thaw out chilled zombies.
8:30 Bro I Dont Even Remember How Many Ads To Get Gems I Watched Only To Go To School And Brag To Everyone That I Had Fire Pea 😂.I Literally Used A Fire Pea Set Up Even If It Was So Bad In The Situations It Was Only In Neon Mix Tape Tour That I A Non Fire Pea Set Up Because Of The Rock And Roll Zombie 😅
Good video as always
Can you beat pvz2 with only explosive plants ?? 🤔
The only reason I got Torchwood for free is because for some reason I got the seeds for them in Plants versus Zombies 2
They changed to it be free on the upgraded plants update back in 2017 or somenthing
8:15
Incorrect, Snapdragon did not count as a hot plant until a MUCH later update (post modern day I think) so the situation was even worse than you said
I loved this video style also im happy torchwood is rlly good because its one of my favorite plants.
Ik i wasn't tripping
The imitator plant which makes the copied plant white maybe an specific or older version of pvz pc that i played when i was a kid
Big wawe beach was relaeased before frostbite caves
4:13 AAAAAAAH, GEE, NOOOOOOO, AAAAAAAAAH!!!
Ah, who am I kidding? What else did I expect? Classic PvZ 1 RUclips.
Okay be honest, has any of you guys heard the word tumultuous?