Plants vs. Zombies: Evolution Origins (2024)

Plants vs. Zombies: Evolution Origins (abbreviated as Evolution Origins or EO) is a third-person shooter game that takes place in the humble city of Townopolis, where plants and zombies have been fighting for generations. Evolution Origins takes a lot of inspiration from existing games, such as Garden Warfare, but has a lot of tricks and turns that set it apart in important and whimsical ways. From the streets to the fleets, there's a little something in it for everyone.

This is what each Edition of the game gives you when purchased:

• Standard Edition: The basic version of the game, no special perks. Just good ol' fashioned Evolution Origins fun. $29.99.
• Evolved Edition: A fully cosmetic upgrade that gives you a cool purple name and a big bunch of exclusive cosmetics. $39.99.

Update History[]

Game Description[]

Bash baddies brutally like never before in Plants vs. Zombies: Evolution Origins!

Rule the brawl when you evolve your character after vanquishing a number of enemies without being vanquished yourself. Take the power upgrade even further with Supercharge, where you can unleash a temporary burst of elemental power as an Evolved Character by continuing the streak! Unleash new powers such as Sparks and the reimagined Abilities system to dominate your foes and force them to submit.

Explore, uncover, and decorate your very own Redwood Retreat, where you can kick back and relax high up in the trees when not ruthlessly obliterating your enemies. Complete with training grounds, vending machines, and even a fully functioning mail system, it's fit for a king. Or, if that's not your style, hang out with the whole pack in the Cool Cat's Clearing, where dreams become realities and realities become dreams.

Keep an eye out for Gnome Patrols blinking in and out of the Cool Cat's Clearing, and harness weird technology to bring the fight to the gnomes in Timeless Trials. Destroy waves of gnomes and sworn enemies with up to five friends in the ever-shifting, ever-mysterious Timeless Temple, and turn the difficulty up to Evolved for a stinging fight! Unlock bountiful cosmetics and mythical champions from Timeless Chests. Ever wanted to play as a Yeti? Now's the chance!

Core Gameplay (He/Him)[]

The core is very heavy, and it is full of wondrous gameplay. This is a game, and as such there is some fun gameplay. It shares a lot of similarities with the Garden Warfare and Battle for Neighborville games. This is, of course, where it is rooted in as a third-person shooter. However, there are a lot of twists here and there that spice up the gameplay in ways that make them still be familiar yet feel new and exciting as well. It's a wonderful mix of ideas that makes some sense if you squint the right way.

DaBasics[]

As previously mentioned, a lot of the gameplay is taken from the Garden Warfare games. Players run around the way that they know they want to, and they shoot at other enemies with their assortment of weaponry. There is no sprinting, which is important to mention because it was a big sort of controversial feature in Battle for Neighborville and because there are more interesting ways to give the player mobility options. I'm listening to Featherfall right now and I just need to fill up this section so that it is full. Have you had any good cheese lately? Drop a comment.

Cosmetics[]

Slightly less related to the core gameplay but still being somewhat relevant (and without another good place to put this), cosmetics return from the previous games. They are, for the most part, relatively unchanged from Garden Warfare 2. The idea of having multiple slots for different sets transfers over from Battle for Neighborville, and the number of available slots is increased all the way from 3 to 99 because why not? There are silver and gold variants of items but they aren't part of the normal drop pool for cosmetic items so they won't pop up in places in place of actually interesting pieces of cosmetic wonderfulness.

Variants[]

In Evolution Origins, the variants system remains mostly unchanged at its core. The biggest difference beyond some additions we're about to get into in the coming sections is the addition of more rarities. Instead of there just being Rare, Super Rare, and Legendary character variants the lineup is expanded to include Common, Rare, Epic, Mythical, and Legendary character variants. The mathematically inclined among you will notice that is a total of 5 rarities instead of 3. It gives rarities a little more purpose and distinction from one another, since that wasn't really a thing in Garden Warfare or Garden Warfare 2 beyond the Legendary variants.

Here is every variant in Evolution Origins, and its rarity. There are individual character pages linked here as well, but there is a big template at the top to help you with that, because this doesn't include every playable character.

Peashooter[]

• Peashooter (Stock): Peashooter is great at dealing with groups, all thanks to his highly-explosive peas which he shoots with deadly effect. His shots travel slowly, lowering his range game.
• Commando Pea (Common): Commando Pea specializes in taking down weaker targets with his rapid-fire Pea Gatling. Built for long range and suppression, the Commando Pea only sometimes misses his mark.
• Rock Pea (Common): Commando Pea specializes in taking down weaker targets with his rapid-fire Pea Gatling. Built for long range and suppression, the Commando Pea only sometimes misses his mark.
• Sea Pea (Rare): Sea Pea shoots globs of seawater that only vaguely resemble peas which don't deal any immediate damage on impact but leave behind a swirling whirlpool that deals damage over time.
• Cosmic Pea (Rare): Cosmic Pea fires a single high damage shot filled with a bazillion lightyears of cosmic energy packed into a small pea, then has to reload immediately after due to poor planning.
• Sweet Pea (Epic): Sweet Pea is sweet as can be! He scuttles across the battlefield with haste, blasting zombies left and right with his close-range Candy Crusher. However, he's not the most durable.
• Lead Pea (Epic): Lead Pea launches heavy Lead Bombs over cover which deal explosively high damage, but can be quite difficult to aim. He also comes with a sleek metallic look, perfect for any occasion.
• Shadow Pea (Mythical): Shadow Pea brings some serious firepower with his totally questionable dark magic. His shots travel slowly, explode in a small area, and look really awesome while doing so.
• Plasma Pea (Mythical): Plasma Pea can charge up his attacks to deal more damage and explode in an even larger area than usual! A max charge shot from his Plasmic Disruptor renders foes... certainly defeated.
• Sappy Pea (Legendary): Sappy Pea shoots sap bombs that stick like glue! Sap bomb explosions trigger after a short time, and trigger other sap bombs in the blast radius to explode with bonus damage.

Chomper[]

• Chomper (Stock): Chomper is great at ruining the day of any zombie he gets close to. Since his Chomp can only be used up close, his Vilethorn and Reflux help him catch up to zombies or bring them to him!
• Hot Rod Chomper (Common): Hot Rod Chomper zooms around incredibly quickly and attacks super fast, but doesn't deal as much damage per bite. He's also not very sturdy and has a bottomless hunger for gasoline.
• Armor Chomper (Common): Hot Rod Chomper zooms around incredibly quickly and attacks super fast, but doesn't deal as much damage per bite. He's also not very sturdy and has a bottomless hunger for gasoline.
• Dragon Chomper (Rare): Dragon Chomper breathes weird dragon energy blasts that cover a moderate distance, with respect to himself and his social status as a weird hybrid. He also dreams of unicorns and dinosaurs.
• Count Chompula (Rare): Count Chompula restores some of his missing health with each and every chomp, and he gains a large portion of his health back after each vanquish - at the cost of losing natural health regen.
• Chompacotta (Epic): Chompacotta doesn't hit as hard with each bite, but fires out a ceramic shard that can damage enemies further away. His terracotta shell slows him down a bit but also bulks him up as well.
• Chomp Thing (Epic): Chomp Thing can be charged up to unleash waves of super high-damage muck upon those squeaky-clean zombies! His best friend is a donkey and he yearns for the love of a princess.
• Disco Chomper (Mythical): Disco Chomper deals funky amounts of damage to everything all around him with each attack. Each consecutive hit on the same target in a certain period of time deals lots of extra combo damage.
• Great White Chomper (Mythical): Great White Chomper can charge up his bites to deal massive amounts of damage, and each bite also deals bonus damage to enemies if he can sneak up and get them from behind.
• Unicorn Chomper (Legendary): Unicorn Chomper dashes across the battlefield, fueled with the magical power of rainbows and sunshine. Any zombies in his path will be stabbed by his horn of magical pain and agony.

Cactus[]

• Cactus (Stock): Cactus thrives at medium-to-long range with her mighty Spike Shot. While she's able to stand her ground against enemies close up, she is much more vulnerable than she is further away.
• Citrus Cactus (Common): Citrus Cactus fires bursts of four fruitful shots that deal damage to enemies in a small area. Her immaculate scent gives her increased speed at the cost of reduced health.
• Bandit Cactus (Common): Citrus Cactus fires bursts of four fruitful shots that deal damage to enemies in a small area. Her immaculate scent gives her increased speed at the cost of reduced health.
• Phantom Cactus (Rare): Phantom Cactus charges her next attack up to deal tons of bonus damage after each hit. By tons of bonus damage, we really do mean tons of bonus damage. Those boosted spikes hit HARD.
• Camo Cactus (Rare): Camo Cactus shoots a single, silent spike that deals devastating damage at long range - not so much up close. She has to reload immediately afterward, however, so it's not all fun and games.
• Zen Cactus (Epic): Zen Cactus fires ancient orbs that deal a percentage of the victim's maximum health in damage. Has a limited number of shots, allowing her to take out a single max-health enemy before needing to reload.
• Jade Cactus (Epic): Jade Cactus' armor protects her from all but the mightiest of blows, and her Shard Shatter gives her a special edge against groups of enemies while still being formidable against single targets.
• Future Cactus (Mythical): Future Cactus shoots awesome lasers of futuristic awesomeness that can be used to pick opponents off far away. Her attacks can be charged up through 3 levels, each dealing more damage than the last.
• Echo Cactus (Mythical): Echo Cactus fires resonating spikes that penetrate enemies in body and soul, and will stick into the environment. When Echo Cactus reloads, all of those spikes are recalled for a second wind of damage.
• Petrified Cactus (Legendary): Petrified Cactus shoots really powerful egg shots that can be manually detonated in air for an extra-large explosion, proving once and for all that the egg is truly mightier than the sword.

Sunflower[]

• Sunflower (Stock): Sunflower is a sunny-side healer with a talent for keeping her teammates alive, but don't let that fool you. She's no slouch when it comes to damage and is more than capable of holding her own in a fight.
• Moonflower (Common): Moonflower isn't quite as sturdy as some of her Sunflower comrades, but her lunar moonbeams are fired very quickly for major damage. Why did the flower jump over the moon?
• Metal Petal (Common): Moonflower isn't quite as sturdy as some of her Sunflower comrades, but her lunar moonbeams are fired very quickly for major damage. Why did the flower jump over the moon?
• Vampire Flower (Rare): Vampire Flower shoots taxing shots of vampiric vampiricness that convert damage dealt into healing. This also doubles as a surprisingly effective business strategy.
• Stuffy Flower (Rare): Stuffy Flower shoots amazing and wonderful rainbows of greatness that apply a shine effect to enemies. Shining enemies, when vanquished, turn into a healing Super Sundrop.
• Sun Pharaoh (Epic): Sun Pharaoh's Cursed Cobra burst-of-three shoots faster and faster over time while maintaining fire until she eventually burns out and has to cool down/ponder life's meaning for a while.
• Ring Bloomer (Epic): Ring Bloomer shoots mysterious pink rings that can uniquely clip enemies as they travel through the air. We're not entirely sure how this one works either, but we don't really feel like asking.
• Dr. Sunshine (Mythical): Dr. Sunshine shoots weird medicinal bolts of sunshine which inflict damage over time to enemies that are hit, or healing over time to friendly teammates instead. Just what the doctor ordered!
• Mystic Flower (Mythical): Mystic Flower fires mystical bolts of mystical energy that deal mystical amounts of damage to her enemies! She can fire them as regular magical bolts or charge them to EXPLODE!
• Alien Flower (Legendary): Alien Flower fires questionable spores that leave behind lingering clouds of damage that stick around for a moment, reducing damage and mobility. Multiple clouds can stack for extra pain and suffering.

Foot Soldier[]

• Foot Soldier (Stock): Foot Soldier is a versatile zombie fighter. His Z-1 Assault Blaster and ZPG make him a threat at all distances, while Zombie Stink Cloud and Rocket Jump help capture key points.
• Sky Trooper (Common): Sky Trooper's Weaponized Air shoots at an extremely quick rate of fire but can't carry as much ammo at once, allowing him to quickly burst down targets with ease.
• General Supremo (Common): Sky Trooper's Weaponized Air shoots at an extremely quick rate of fire but can't carry as much ammo at once, allowing him to quickly burst down targets with ease.
• Private Paintball (Rare): Private Paintball shoots colorful paintballs that eventually cover plants in paint after taking enough hits, which prevents them from being able to use their abilities briefly.
• Camo Ranger (Rare): Camo Ranger's silent yet steady shots deal consistent damage across any distance, and have a larger-than-usual damage bonus for landing a critical hit! They won't see it coming!
• Super Commando (Epic): Super Commando shoots bursts of three high-damage crossbow shots, then has to immediately reload. Landing all three shots in a burst rewards you with another free round.
• Park Ranger (Epic): Park Ranger fires concentrated blasts of skunk stench that leave behind damage-over-time clouds. The effects of several skunk stench clouds can stack for a higher damage output.
• Vanquish Burglar (Mythical): Vanquish Burglar shoots high damage shots that can be fired as fast as you can press the trigger, making them highly effective for taking out tougher threats at any distance.
• Scuba Soldier (Mythical): Scuba Soldier's heavy gear slows him down but gives him more protection from plant attacks. Heavy weapon reveals enemy locations to your team but must reload after two shots.
• Tank Commander (Legendary): Tank Commander carries a single heavy shell which deals colossal damage to groups of plants based on how far he's fallen, and he's more agile than your average soldier. He can ride the waves of his explosions to propel himself.

Engineer[]

• Engineer (Stock): Engineer fires heavy chunks of hardened concrete that explode violently on impact. He also builds a lot of anti-plant machinery, but he doesn't really know how any of it works.
• Painter (Common): Painter fires explosive paint bombs that quickly cover plants in paint, prevents them from being able to use their abilities briefly. He has a burning hatred for interior design.
• Plumber (Common): Painter fires explosive paint bombs that quickly cover plants in paint, prevents them from being able to use their abilities briefly. He has a burning hatred for interior design.
• Builder (Rare): Builder fires a burst of four explosive clocks that deal varying damage - starting off weak, but ending off strong. The only downside is that now he'll never know what the time is.
• Blacksmith (Rare): Blacksmith is a heavily-armored attacker who hurls explosive metal doohickeys which leave behind sharp debris on impact. Plants that step on the debris will take additional damage.
• Grenadier (Epic): Grenadier fires a single, immensely powerful shell that devastates plant forces. However, he has to reload after each shot and isn't as sturdy as the other Engineers might be.
• Technician (Epic): Technician launches strange and unusual orbs made up of wacky sci-fi energy that might travel relatively slowly but are effectively able to seek out and home in on moving targets.
• Landscaper (Mythical): Landscaper fires blobs of plant-unfriendly pesticides that pierce the target and keep moving, leaving behind a nasty trail that will slow and gradually damage anyone passing by.
• Stonemason (Mythical): Stonemason slings bouncing bricks which can be charged to bounce more furiously and deal damage more aggressively. He's had enough of wolves blowing down his houses.
• Architect (Legendary): Architect throws friendly little robots that seek out targets all on their own (they're very grown up and independent), run over to them, and then EXPLODE. Direct hits cause immediate explosions.

All-Star[]

• All-Star (Stock): All-Star is the zombie tanks and are total powerhouses. He's slow, smelly, and remarkably stupid - and mows down hordes of plants with his ever-powerful Football Cannon. Much like Creepes.
• Hockey Star (Common): Hockey Star shoots really, really, really quickly. He might not be the most accurate All-Star ever, but he more than make up for it with the sheer number of shots he cranks out.
• Rugby Star (Common): Hockey Star shoots really, really, really quickly. He might not be the most accurate All-Star ever, but he more than make up for it with the sheer number of shots he cranks out.
• Tennis Star (Rare): Tennis Star runs quickly and can jump while firing but doesn't have the same emotional or physical toughness that his colleagues have. His tennis balls bounce off walls and other map obstacles as well.
• Pinball Star (Rare): Pinball Star shoots powerful pinballs that bounce indefinitely between nearby targets, dealing potentially massive amounts of damage if enemies are hanging out in larger groups.
• Wrestling Star (Epic): Wrestling Star wears heavy armor that slows him down significantly, but makes him one of the toughest fighters out there. He steadily shoots high-damage action figures that EXPLODE.
• Baseball Star (Epic): Baseball Star winds up for a short while, then delivers a constant stream of high-damage arcing baseballs relative to how much time was spent winding up his Baseball Blaster.
• Golf Star (Mythical): Golf Star looks absolutely dashing with his dainty attire, and he launches golf balls from a healthy distance that deal more damage the farther away the target is. The golf balls can also be charged to make them more effective.
• Bowling Star (Mythical): Bowling Star rolls slow-moving bowling balls that chart their own path forward, damaging and being a general nuisance to everyone. The bowling balls can be charged to roll faster and further, and to stun enemies briefly.
• Rock Star (Legendary): Rock Star charges up an energized lunge that travels a distance depending on the charge, damaging and chaining between everything in its wake, making sure nothing is left safe and untouched.

Scientist[]

• Scientist (Stock): Scientist excels at being able to deal tons of damage to enemies up close with Goo Blaster but definitely does not excel at damaging enemies that are farther away from him.
• Chemist (Common): Chemist blasts plants at point-blank range for absurd amounts of damage, obliterating anything that lets him get that close. Nobody knows what's in the beakers. Not even him.
• Astronaut (Common): Chemist blasts plants at point-blank range for absurd amounts of damage, obliterating anything that lets him get that close. Nobody knows what's in the beakers. Not even him.
• Dentist (Rare): Dentist fires medium-damage, close-range toothy blasts that can be used as fast as you can pull the trigger! The Orthodontist, however, is much less forgiving towards plants.
• Cryptologist (Rare): Cryptologist's Ghost Buster fires grumpy ghosts which deal a certain amount of damage based on the target's health. He's a little flimsier, but he can regain health with each hit.
• Meteorologist (Epic): Meteorologist fires a one-two wombo combo blast of saltwater that has to be reloaded immediately after. His forecasts are never correct, but most other zombies don't care.
• Gastronomist (Epic): Gastronomist launches blobs of inorganic, scorching oil which leave behind slippery oil puddles on the ground that deal damage over time. The best kind of victory is hot, hot, hot!
• Photographist (Mythical): Photographist flashes enemies up close with his trusty camera, making them uncomfortable with how close he is. He can also charge up the camera (turn flash on) for a stunning blow!
• Cardiologist (Mythical): Cardiologist's attacks might not be the strongest, but they can be charged to infatuate plant foes struck, causing them to take additional damage from all sources briefly.
• Nephrologist (Legendary): Nephrologist puffs out steam clouds that slowly float forward, dealing huge amounts of damage to any plants that might just so happen to be hanging around inside of them.

Abilities Reimagined[]

For Evolution Origins, we wanted to introduce new systems for characters to deepen them and expand their horizons. Instead of implementing something like an upgrade system we've chosen to go the route of expanding the ability system into something new and more personalized for each player. Every player can play the way they want to, and there are lot of new build opportunities. The new Ability system divides Abilities into two camps, Active and Passive.

• Active Abilities unleash a powerful effect when manually activated, though they will need to recharge for a time after being used, and those are the abilities you are probably familiar with from other games.
• Passive Abilities affect their character throughout the entire match without needing to be recharged, such as granting vampiric healing for successful hits or casting an aura of sorts.

All Abilities also come with some extra passive Character Boosts, such as a Health or Speed Bonus, that are active for the entire match, independent of the Ability's effects. Each character has a number of Abilities to choose from, but only three can be equipped at any given time. This means there are a lot of choices that have to be made when figuring out builds for your different variants.

Evolutions[]

This game's main breadwinner is the of course the Evolution system it has. It's in the name. You should have guessed that. Evolutions are stronger forms of individual character variants that power up their weapon and add new abilities or properties to it, as well as their Spark which is covered in a little bit. Characters will evolve after vanquishing a certain number of enemies or reviving a number of teammates, and will remain in the Evolution state until they are vanquished. If revived, they will revive as a normal character.

Evolutions are meant to award players for playing well and to encourage sort of aggressive yet smart playstyles, but also allow for supportive characters and variants to succeed as well with the whole reviving side. Evolutions also help to add more variety to the game and make each variant feel a little more unique compared to the others. For example, a certain variant might be somewhat on the weaker side normally but become very powerful when Evolved, which would be something to consider when picking a variant.

Supercharge[]

An extension of the Evolution gameplay is Supercharge. Each character class has its own type of elemental Supercharge, which is an extremely powerful form of character variant that massively improve its strength as a whole. Evolved characters can Supercharge manually after vanquishing a certain number of enemies, and will remain in the Supercharged state for a limited time. There are four different types of Supercharge, and all variants in a certain class will share the same element.

• Summer Supercharge: Enhances the character's power and imbues them with the fire element.
• Winter Supercharge: Enhances the character's power and imbues them with the ice element.
• Autumn Supercharge: Enhances the character's power and imbues them with the toxic element.
• Spring Supercharge: Enhances the character's power and imbues them with the electric element.

Supercharges being class-wide is important to their design because it makes different classes feel more distinct. The actual power boosts vary as well as the elements, so by its nature two similar character variants that are in two different classes will play differently because they have different types of Supercharge, even if the other parts of their gameplay will overlap.

Sparks[]

Sparks are an additional ability tacked on to each character variant, and are unique in the same way that Evolutions are. Sparks are special powers that are unique to each character variant. They are charged by dealing damage or healing teammates, and can be activated whenever the player wants to. Sparks charge faster and have a shorter cooldown when the player is Evolved. In the same way that Evolutions reward aggressive gameplay, Sparks not recharging unless damage is dealt also works for that. Charging with healing also lets support characters again get a slice of the cake.

What Does This Mean[]

With Abilities, Evolutions, Supercharges, and Sparks all combined there is a ton of variation and diverse character options, with deep customization choices. Instead of in the past where players might be inclined to pick a variant and just sort of the stick with the base abilities, plus or minus one or two, in Evolution Origins players have to think about not just the special inherent weaponry and properties of the variants but also the other fun things that come along with them, in addition to picking a lineup of Abilities that compliments them in particular.

Progression[]

Coins[]

Coins are the main currency in Evolution Origins, obtained (as you may expect) from just playing the game. Throughout each match, everything you do will net you some number of coins. They're awarded at the end of each matches to ensure players don't leave early and abandon their team, and the number of coins you actually earn is based on how well you performed during the match (and if you team actually won or not). Coins can be used to purchase cool cosmetic items and some other things because, honestly, who wouldn't want to purchase cosmetics? That sounds great to me.

Here's how coin gains work:

• Scoring a vanquish: +20 coins
• Vanquish streak bonus (2+): +5 coins
• Vanquish streak bonus (5+): +10 coins
• Vanquish streak bonus (10+): +15 coins
• Reviving a teammate: +20 coins

These are the boasts available for Evolution Origins. Unlike Boasts in the other Plants vs. Zombies shooter titles, Boasts in this game are chosen per team (for example, a First Strike for the plants AND for the zombies). Each Boast the player receives will increase their coin earnings by 5%. Boasts are not awarded in Ops mode, so there is just a passive 15% increase to coin earnings to sort of compensate in a strange way. It also just makes that mode a bit more valuable for coin grinding.

• Vanquish King: Obtained by scoring the most vanquishes
• Streak Lord: Obtained by scoring the highest vanquish streak
• Assist Ace: Obtained by earning the most assists
• Healing Master: Obtained by healing the most health
• Guardian Angel: Obtained by reviving the most teammates
• Objective Hero: Obtained by playing the objective the most
• First Strike: Obtained by scoring the first vanquish in a match

Assists are earned by dealing at least 35% of the enemy's health in damage, while shared vanquishes are at least 75%. Winning the match gives you an additional 20% coins on top of however many coins you've earned, giving you a little bit of an extra incentive to do your best. The 20% bonus is applied after all the Boast bonuses or any other bonuses, so it has extra weight.

XP[]

XP is a secondary sort of pseudo-currency present in Evolution Origins. XP is less of a currency than it really is more of a point system, but for our purposes we've included it here anyway. XP is earned just like you'd expect it to be earned: scoring vanquishes, reviving teammates, destroying parts of the map, doing other things as well, pretty much everything gives you some form of XP unless it's either not productive or not enjoyable. XP is used to rank up individual variants through an indefinite number of Levels, and those Levels for the individual variants are all combined for a Class Level that encapsulates the entire class and progress that class through a track of rewards, such as new abilities or variants.

This is a list of some XP events to give you an idea of how things operate. Mode or character specific events are not included, as well as some other fun ones because we don't want this list to be too long. We all know you're not here to read our list of exciting, yet probably boring, XP events. It's okay. We still love you. There are a whole set of other ones for the PvE modes as well. Here's how XP gains work:

• Vanquish (125 XP): Obtained by scoring a player vanquish alone or landing the final blow
• Shared Vanquish (100 XP): Obtained by dealing at least 75% of the vanquished player's health
• Assisted Vanquish (75 XP): Obtained by dealing at least 25% of the vanquished player's health
• Streak Bonus (25 XP): Bonus XP event when a vanquish streak of 2-4 is achieved
• Super Streak Bonus (50 XP): Bonus XP event when a vanquish streak of 5-9 is achieved
• CRAAAAAZY Streak Bonus (75 XP): Bonus XP event when a vanquish streak of 10+ is achieved
• Revived Teammate (125 XP): Obtained by reviving a teammate alone by initiating the process
• Assisted Revive (75 XP): Obtained by reviving a teammate after revive was already started
• One-Shot! (25 XP): Bonus XP event for vanquishing a full health enemy player with a single attack
• Healing (10 XP): Obtained for every 25 health you heal a teammate for with any healing effect
• Topped Off (50 XP): Bonus XP event for healing a teammate from <10% health to full health
• Landscaping (10 XP): Obtained by destroying a minor map decoration, such as a cactus
• Bulldozer (25 XP): Obtained by destroying a larger map decoration such as a breakable wall

Just as a quick recap, collecting the XP for a variant will add to its Level, as previously mentioned. The amount of XP you need to progress to the next Level is equal to that level multiplied by 1000 (so going from Level 2 to Level 3 would be 3000 XP and going from Level 81 to Level 82 would be 82,000 XP), and the XP meter resets after each level up so it increases gradually over time, plus all variants start at Level 0. Each level up also awards the player with 1000 coins. The Class Level is classwide and is the combination of all the Levels for the individual variants, and the Class Level is the important part. This is the stuff you get based on the Class Level of the class:

• Class Level 1: Unlocks the first Ability
• Class Level 2: Unlocks the second Ability
• Class Level 3: Unlocks the third Ability
• Class Level 5: Choose a Common variant to unlock
• Class Level 10: Unlocks the fourth Ability
• Class Level 20: Choose a Common variant to unlock
• Class Level 30: Unlocks the fifth Ability
• Class Level 40: Choose a Rare variant to unlock
• Class Level 60: Unlocks the sixth Ability
• Class Level 80: Choose a Rare variant to unlock
• Class Level 100: Unlocks the seventh Ability (if applicable)
• Class Level 150: Unlocks the eighth Ability (if applicable)
• Class Level 200: Choose an Epic variant to unlock
• Class Level 250: Unlocks the ninth Ability (if applicable)
• Class Level 300: Choose an Epic variant to unlock
• Class Level 400: Choose a Mythical variant to unlock
• Class Level 500: Choose a Mythical variant to unlock
• Class Level 1000: 250,000 coins
• Class Level 1500: 250,000 coins
• Class Level 2000: 250,000 coins
• Class Level 2500: Unlock the Legendary variant

There is also a special kind of consumable item called XP Boosters, which increases by 50% the next X amount of XP earned depending on how many XP Boosters the player has. XP Boosters are placed as rewards in certain places for all sorts of fun and games, and act as a replacement for the XP multiplier that was featured in Garden Warfare 2.

Hub Gameplay[]

Like in the previous games, there is a special hub world in Evolution Origins. As we mentioned at the top of the page, the game takes place in Townopolis, which is the equivalent more or less of Neighborville or Suburbia from the other games. The hub experience is split between a more personal Redwood Retreat and a more community-oriented Cool Cat's Clearing that contains more combat and party experiences. It's a sort of expansion almost on Giddy Park from Battle for Neighborville but with a bit of the mechanics from the Backyard Battleground.

Redwood Retreat[]

When you enter Evolution Origins, you will spawn in at your own personal Redwood Retreat. Your Redwood Retreat is your personal retreat, like in the name, where you can buy things and do all the tasks and stuff you would expect a personal hub world to have. High up in the sky above the forest floor, the Redwood Retreat is safe from any sort of dangers that might one day happen and cause the high ground to become more valuable. Just saying.

The Redwood Retreat contains a few basic functionalities; the Multiplayer Portal, Trial Portal, Mr. Mailbox, Changing Booth, Smithing House, Shiny Forge, Rux's Emporium, and Training Grounds.

• Multiplayer Portal contains multiplayer and singleplayer gameplay functionality as well as the Content Creator, so all of that stuff is in one place.
• Trial Portal contains all Timeless Trials functionality in one place, making it easy to find your way into the Timeless Temple. If the right conditions are met, the Trial Portal can also summon gnomes during either type of Gnomish Raid.
• Mr. Mailbox allows you to send messages and game invites to friends, and to also receive those same messages and game invites in a more immersive and game-focused way.
• Changing Booth allows the player to switch characters or teams, but since both teams use the same space there's not a world of difference.
• Smithing House is where the player can equip different Victory Slabs and Punchers to customize that part of the experience. They can be collected as cosmetic items through Rux's Emporium but also from some other places in the game.
• Shiny Forge is where the player can reinforce cosmetic items of their choice using excess coins to unlock their silver or their gold variant. The silver and gold variants are fully recolored items and have fun sparkle visual effects to give them more weight.
• Rux's Emporium is where players can purchase cosmetic items for coins. They can buy a completely random item for a heavy discount, whatever they want for regular price, or one of five daily highlighted items for a moderate discount.
• Training Grounds is a larger area of sorts comprised of multiple smaller places where the player can practice their combat against training dummies and targets. They can also summon false enemies to practice their skills on as well.

The Redwood Retreat is extremely customizable via decoration items and other options that can be unlocked for coins and also through some special achievements or class levels or some other places. It's sort of like the Backyard Battleground like that, but the shape of the Retreat can be changed in addition to stuff being placed in it. The Retreat can also be customized with special traps and weapon defenses that will defend it against raiders. What kind of raiders? You'll have to wait for the Timeless Trials content in the next section to find out.

Players can only hand out in the Redwood Retreat with themselves and their friends for the most part. However, players can also invite their friends to come over and take a look at their cool stuff. PvP is disabled by default in the Redwood Retreat, but if you're going for a sillier type of hangout session you can turn it on and have at it with your most wonderful, battle-ready buddies.

Cool Cat's Clearing[]

From the Redwood Retreat, players can drop down the hole into the Cool Cat's Clearing, which is a public area on the forest floor that many different players can mingle and interact in. The Cool Cat's Clearing is quite large and filled with fun and games. There is an upper area that has PvP enabled as well as passive plant and zombie spawns (from the Ops pool, with more aggressive spawning as the fight rages on) as well as a lower area that is more relaxed and equipped with utilities like a dance floor or a parkour course to just sort of hang out with randoms. The focus of the Cool Cat's Clearing is much more on the social experience than the individual experience of the Redwood Retreat.

Activities are events that occur at random intervals in the Cool Cat's Clearing. There are a grand total of six wondrous activities: Treasure Chest, Bounty Hunt, Target Shooting, Super Parkour Course, Treasure Hunt, Gnome Patrol, and Coin Shower. Gnome Patrol is the most important one, by the way. Activities show up at random intervals around 7 or so minutes after completion. The activities scale with the number of players participating in them, sometimes adding additional challenges or just becoming more engaging to cater to the larger audience.

The different events are:

• Treasure Chest (18% chance): This activity requires the players to find a hidden treasure chest in the upper area of the Clearing. If none of the players can find the chest within 3 minutes, the game will highlight the location of the chest for 2 minutes before the chest vanishes. The chest takes a few moments to open, so it's important to secure the area before starting. The contents of the chest is a random amount of coins, and the amount of coins is larger before the location is highlighted.
• Bounty Hunt (18% chance): This activity begins with the player having to vanquish either a player from the opposing team when the activity starts. Those who manage to score a vanquish will then need to accept the bounty offer that appears within a 5-minute time limit. Afterwards, they need to defend themselves while the other players or increasingly powerful AI enemies attack you and score 30 vanquishes within 10 minutes to escape their bounty. If the bounty target manages to vanquish 30 enemies, the bounty event ends and a large number of coins will be awarded to the bounty player. However, if the bounty target is defeated by another player, that player will receive the coins instead.
• Target Shooting (18% chance): This activity requires the player to shoot a number of targets that will pop up across the entire upper area of the Clearing. There will most commonly be red targets, which are worth 1 point each. Yellow and blue targets can also appear which are worth 2 and 3 points each respectively, but they are less common and will appear in trickier spots. The Target Shooting event will conclude after a total of 5 minutes, and the top three players per team in terms of points will be awarded coins based on position.
• Super Parkour Course (18% chance): This activity requires the player to complete a long, daunting, randomly generated parkour course that floats in the air above the upper area of the Clearing. The course has numerous obstacle types and checkpoints scattered throughout to provide some relief, but falling off the course will reset the player to the last checkpoint they reached. The event has a time limit of 7 minutes. Players who successfully reach the end of the course within the time limit will get a lot of coins, but the coins are reduced for each player who has already finished.
• Treasure Hunt (18% chance): This activity spawns continuously Marigolds and Treasure Yetis that run around the upper area of the Clearing. In the 10-minute period provided, the Marigolds and Treasure Yetis can be vanquished to award players with coins. The Marigolds and Treasure Yetis give fewer coins than they usually would elsewhere, but not enough less to make the event not be worthwhile for the prospective player. The player who vanquished the most Marigolds/Treasure Yetis during the event will receive a bonus of coins.
• Gnome Patrol (9% chance): This activity spawns a small group of Shooty Gnomes and a Giga Gnome somewhere in the upper area of the Clearing, which despawns after 5 minutes if not interacted with. This activity is not broadcast, unlike the other ones, but there are visual cues. This means you will have to be in the vague area to know it's happening. The Giga Gnome cannot be damaged until the other gnomes are destroyed, and when the Giga Gnome is vanquished all players who got at least an assist will receive a Gnomish Curse. The Gnomish Curse can be taken back to the Redwood Retreat to start a Gnomish Raid, but if a cursed player manages to vanquish 6 enemies of any kind on the way back they can upgrade their curse to an Evolved Gnomish Curse which strengthens the Raid it creates.
• Coin Shower (1% chance): This activity causes a number of coins to rain from the heavens upon the upper area of the Clearing. That is literally it, it's just a ton of money for free with absolutely no effort required by anyone. This can only happen after at least 3 activities have occurred in the lobby already, so players will run into it naturally instead of trying to skip around to force it.

Players can boot up a private lobby of the Cool Cat's Clearing, but the Coin Shower event can only occur in public lobbies, which bumps Gnome Patrol chances up from 9% to 10%.. The coin and XP rewards of all the other events are reduced by 75% in private lobbies to encourage players actually using the Clearing to interact with friends and family across the globe, while still giving them the option to find Gnome Patrols as a hermit.

As previously mentioned, vanquishing the Giga Gnome in a Gnome Patrol (the golden child of Clearing activities) can lead to a Gnomish Raid. What is a Gnomish Raid and how is it initiated? The Gnomish Curse can be taken to the Trial Portal in the Retreat, and a screen pops up that allows the player to confirm whether they want to start the Raid or not. If the player says they don't want to start the Raid, the Gnomish Curse will be removed from them. This is the only way to get rid of the Gnomish Curse, even being vanquished doesn't get rid of it. The Trial Portal is very important to the Gnomish Raid, so it's not just a random choice of piece.

Initiating the Gnomish Raid locks the main set of interactable pieces (like Smithing House for example) and causes the Trial Portal to overflow with gnomish energy, which makes it spawn waves of gnomes that invade the Retreat with a fiery passion. There are a total of 5 long waves, each far more powerful than the last, and it adapts to the number of players helping to defeat it in the Retreat as well. The gnomes from the Gnomish Raid will drop coins and award a lot of bonus XP, which makes it not only very fun to play around with but an efficient option for leveling up characters. Each player has three lives during the Gnomish Raid. Completing the Gnomish Raid awards a ton of coins, XP Boosters, and one of a bunch of exclusive cosmetic items. Better ready your Retreat defenses!

If the player has an Evolved Gnomish Curse, an Evolved Gnomish Raid will appear instead of the regular one. The Evolved Gnomish Raid has 10 waves instead of 5, spawns more and stronger gnome enemies, causes the raiding Trial Portal to call energy airstrikes upon players, and provides random positive status effects to the gnomes every once in a while. However, the rewards are a lot better than the regular Gnomish Raid ones despite it being incredibly difficult, and there is another batch of exclusive cosmetic items that are unique to the Evolved Gnomish Raid and that cannot be obtained, ever, from the regular Gnomish Raid variant.

Timeless Trials Gameplay[]

Gnomes are important to Evolution Origins, and etta, of course. Not only do they blink in and out of the Cool Cat's Clearing in the form of patrols, and directly enter your Redwood Retreat through raids, but they can be directly fought through our delightful Timeless Trials experience. After successfully completing an Evolved Gnomish Raid, the Trial Portal can be regularly interacted with (since the gnomes already hooked it up to invade you) in the same way you would interact with the Multiplayer Portal. Instead of taking you into multiplayer lobbies, the Trial Portal takes you to the Timeless Temple, which is the home of the Timeless Trials.

Timeless Temple[]

Within the Timeless Temple lies the Timeless Trials. Upon entering the Timeless Temple through the Trial Portal, the player will be placed into the Temple Atrium. The Temple Atrium is a sort of starting and preparation room that comes with a Changing Booth and a few other utilities to let the player figure out what they want to do before entering the Temple. It also allows the player to team up with their friends if they choose to go in with a group of fighters, rather than just going in alone. The difficulty and reward of the Trials scales with the number of players in the same way that Ops and Gnomish Raids do, so more is not always necessarily better.

Going further into the Temple past the Atrium will begin the Timeless Trials for realsies. The Timeless Trials consists of an indefinite series of difficult rooms, filled with challenges and rewards, that are randomly generated before your very eyes. Each room contains a number of different notable pieces, which will work in combination with other procedurally generated aspects of the different parts all together in new and exciting ways. In addition, each room is more difficult than the last. These are the different notable pieces that can appear in Timeless Trial dungeon rooms:

• Music Box: Music Boxes start to spawn a set number of enemies when a player is nearby while playing a long-forgotten eerie tune. The enemies can be gnomes but they can also be AI enemies of the team opposite to the ones the players inside the Temple belong to. In very high rooms they can spawn Mini Boss and Boss enemies. When all enemies spawned by a Music Box are vanquished, it will eject a number of coins as well as a number of Timeless Crystals.
• Timeless Chest: Timeless Chests appear here and there within the rooms of the Timeless Temple. They can be opened by players that get close enough to interact with them, and they will shower their opener with some coins and some Timeless Crystals as well. Music Box and Timeless Chest rewards encourage players to move around the room rather than stand still in order to collect all of the rewards, and Timeless Chests in particular take some time to open so they're more likely something that gets opened after clearing out some of the room.
• Gnomish Pot: Gnomish Pots appear in great numbers throughout the rooms of the Timeless Temple in addition to the other notable pieces. Gnomish Pots can be destroyed by melee attacks as well as projectiles, and when they are destroyed they will drop a number of Timeless Crystals. Unlike Music Boxes and Timeless Chests, the Gnomish Pots will not drop any coins. This means the player doesn't feel like they are obligated to find every single Gnomish Pot in the room because they will only drop a handful of Timeless Crystals rather than a bigger bounty.

After completing a Timeless Temple room, the players must go to the gnomish teleporter that activates and leads them to the next room. Players cannot revisit previous rooms or go back in any other kind of way, so each room is an isolated and original experience in a way that feels very distinct when compared to other Evolution Origins features.

A maximum of 8 players can enter a single Timeless Temple run. The Music Boxes spawn additional and more powerful enemies for each additional player that is playing, and the rooms will generate to be larger and more expansive as well so that it doesn't get too cramped with everyone milling about at once. Of course, a larger room also means more space for extra Music Boxes, Timeless Chests, and Gnomish Pots, so the experience scales quite well.

Timeless Trials have an Evolved variant like most other things in the game, which brings more difficulty. The Evolved Timeless Trial experience comes with unique rewards at the end, and a much harder Trial experience while playing. The Evolved mode can be turned on when the player is in the Temple Atrium before beginning a trial run.

Timeless Rewards[]

You might have noticed that Timeless Crystals were mentioned a few times in the previous section. As you complete the Timeless Trials in the Timeless Temple, you will inevitably collect a bunch of Timeless Crystals, whether they are from the Music Boxes or the Timeless Chests or elsewhere. When players run out of lives completely, of which they are given 3 each, they will be removed from the Temple and placed into a special reward room called the Temple Treasury.

The Temple Treasury is sort of like the final area after a round of Infinity Time, where each player's Timeless Crystals are funneled into a sort of “ultimate” chest that offers great rewards at the end. In this case, it can be used by individual players one at a time. They can wait for their friends or just go, open the chest, and go back to the Retreat. Their fate is in their hands, like the ham sandwiches they will soon be eating after they finish their Trial experience. Just kidding. There are no ham sandwiches.

The number of Timeless Shards poured into the ultimate chest dictates how good the rewards will be, and the Evolved Timeless Trials ultimate chest comes with its own set of unique potential loot items. Keep in mind the chest can drop multiple different things and not just always one. Plus, the following list of rewards is listed from most to least common and some of them require a certain number of Timeless Crystals to be collected for them to be possible drops.

Regular Loot Pool[]

• Coins
  • Coins are 100% guaranteed to drop, but the quantity varies.
• XP Boosters
  • XP Boosters are 100% guaranteed to drop, but the quantity varies.
• Exclusive Punchers
• Exclusive Victory Slab
• Exclusive Cosmetic Item
• Random Common Variant
• Random Rare Variant
• Ability Mod
  • The third item drop will be one of these possible objects, and they are in order of rarity.
  • There is a small chance for a fourth item drop that increases the more Shards are collected.

Evolved Loot Pool[]

• Coins
  • Coins are 100% guaranteed to drop, but the quantity varies.
• XP Boosters
  • XP Boosters are 100% guaranteed to drop, but the quantity varies.
• Exclusive Cosmetic Item
• Random Common Variant
• Random Rare Variant
• Ability Mod
• Random Epic Variant
• Random Champion Fragment
  • The third item drop will be one of these possible objects, and they are in order of rarity.
  • There is a small chance for a fourth item drop that increases the more Shards are collected.

Timeless Trials are the only way to collect Ability Mods and Champion Fragments. Ability Mods are alternative forms of Active or Passive Abilities that work a little differently than you might expect them to. Mods play around with the numbers and may introduce new mechanics or gimmicks. However, the heart of the Ability will remain the same. Champions are standalone playable characters that exist until an umbrella “Champion” class for either side. Collecting four fragments for a specific Champion will unlock it as a playable character. It's a grind to get everything from Timeless Trials, but that's all part of the experience.

Multiplayer Gameplay[]

Just like you'd expect, there's a wide variety of game modes available to play in Evolution Origins. Most of the game modes are returning ones from Garden Warfare 1, Garden Warfare 2, and Battle for Neighborville, but there's still a good few original modes that have been created just for this game. All maps support all game modes! Turf Takeover does exist and break the rules but it is mentioned later to avoid confusion, hopefully. Lol. Since there's 9 game modes and a total of 15 (45 with functional variants) maps, there's a total of 405 different possibilities for each match. In addition, each match has a 50% chance to use one of 7 modifiers, so that total is now all the way up to 3240. Matches are usually 12v12, but there are options for 8v8 and 16v16 instead for those who prefer a more mellow, slower-paced experience or those who prefer more exciting and action-packed gameplay.

Each game mode also has an Evolved variant that is a little trickier and has a harder objective (for example, Evolved Team Vanquish requires a lot more vanquishes to win) but they will also offer more rewards to compensate for how long those matches can get. Players at the end of a match can vote whether they want the next match to be Evolved or not and a 75% majority is needed to pass. A match that is 8v8 and Evolved can take a very long time to complete. With all of this in mind, we find our final total of possible matches to be 19440 (don't trust my math, this sounds horribly wrong), and that isn't even including Turf Takeover. It's truly wild.

Game Modes[]

• Team Vanquish: Collect points by scoring vanquishes! Each vanquish is worth 1 point! Reviving teammates deducts points from the enemy team equal to what was earned from that vanquish. First team to reach 75 points wins the match.
• Vanquish Confirmed: This mode plays similarly to Team Vanquish, but players drop an orb (worth 1 point when collected) instead of just adding points directly. This means you can steal points from the enemy team if you're quick! First to 75 points wins.
• Gnome Bomb: Players attempt to secure a Gnome Bomb and deploy it at various enemy bases while defending their own. The bomb explodes if it's been carried for longer than 45 seconds. Once a bomb has been planted, the enemy team has 30 seconds to defuse it - which itself takes roughly 8 seconds - before it destroys the base. The first team to destroy all 4 enemy bases wins.
• Suburbination: Two teams attempt to capture four zones (A, B, C, and D) around the map. When a player stands in one of the zones, they'll collect a single point from it every 2 seconds. Each zone can only provide a maximum of 25 points per team before being "captured" by that team (the other team can still get points from it), and to reach 100 points and win the match all four zones must be captured.
• Last Life: Two teams enter, one team leaves. This mode plays similarly to Team Vanquish, but knocked out players can't be revived or respawned! The first team to vanquish all members of the opposing team wins the round, and the first team to win two rounds wins the match (best of 3 format). In addition, the playing area gradually shrinks over time as Rude Fog rolls on in - players caught in the fog take 20% of their max health per in total tick damage per second.
• Townsball: Players attempt to gain control of a single Townsball and score goals against the enemy team by "kicking" it into their score zones. Each team has three different score zones that all count when the Townsball enters them. When a player is carrying the Townsball, they move slower and can't attack or use active abilities, so their teammates have to support and protect them. The first team to score 8 goals wins.
• Taco Bandits: Players attempt to steal as many tacos as they can from the enemy team. When carrying a taco, players can't use their abilities or Sparks - but are still able to use their main primary weapon unless it's a mobility-related attack such as the Unicorn Chomper's attack. First team to capture 8 tacos wins.
• Rolling Stones: This is like the bowling minigame at the end of Moon Base Z in Garden Warfare 2 turned into an actual game mode. Players roll giant boulders around by standing near them, and score goals when they successfully push one into one of the 6 goal stations that are dotted around the map. The first team to reach 12 goals wins.
• Duck-of-War: The map is divided into two clear sections, one is the plant side and the other is the zombie side. A massive, absolutely gigantic rubber ducky appears in the center of the map, and can be pushed around by players sort of like the boulders in Rolling Stones. Every 0.75 seconds that the rubber ducky is on a team's side, they get 1 point. The first team to 300 points wins.
• Mixed Modes: Don't know what you want to play? Mixed Modes will randomly select a mode after each match to keep things feeling fresh.

Modifiers[]

• Soda Poppers: Sweet Soda bottles will spawn across the map constantly, with some variation. There are small bottles that heal the player who picks them up for 25% of their maximum health, medium bottles that heal for 50%, and large bottles that heal for 100%.
• Grass Effect: During the course of the match, Weeds and Browncoats will spawn from the plant and zombie spawn areas respectively. Sometimes, Wildflowers and TV Heads will spawn instead and as the match progresses more threatening and powerful types of spawnables will appear, and more quickly as well.
• Ticking Time Bomb: If the player doesn't get a vanquish or an assist in under 30 seconds, they'll explode. Earning a vanquish of any kind will replenish the full 30 seconds, while earning an assist will only replenish a partial 15 seconds.
• Crystal Dog: A crystal dog appears in a random space every so often, and when someone picks it up they will become invulnerable and more powerful for a period of 15 seconds. After the effects of the crystal dog wear off, the crystal dog will reappear again in another random place after about 30 seconds.
• Shifting Spawns: Instead of respawning in fixed locations, vanquished players will respawn in a 10-meter area around where they were vanquished. They are given a moment of invulnerability when they spawn in to avoid potential spawncamping.
• Berserker: Players will deal much more damage the more health they lose. For every 10% of their health that is lost, they will gain a 20% damage bonus. This can very quickly ramp up and allows any character to dominate the fields.
• Battle Caps: Bottle caps that are magical in nature will spawn across the map constantly, and to an extent where they are most everywhere. They can charge Sparks, Evolve players, or charge Supercharges depending on the cap variant when picked up.

Turf Takeover[]

Turf Takeover is a returning game mode from the previous Garden Warfare and Battle for Neighborville games, but expanded and blown up to a frightening scale. Instead of playing with a 12v12 lobby like in the past, Turf Takeover is expanded to a 24v24 lobby, which is the largest lobby for any game mode in all of Evolution Origins. There is no variance in lobby size, so it's always 24v24. However, there still is an Evolved variant like in regular game modes which amps up the craziness even further. It gets pretty wild in Evolved Turf Takeover matches because more points to capture or defend are added.

Turf Takeover is a combination of Gardens & Graveyards and Herbal Assault, where it flips between zombies playing on offense and plants playing on defense and zombies playing on defense and plants playing on offense. Unlike in Garden Warfare 2, you do not have to play the same map twice in a row on both sides. Turf Takeover matches consist of a total of 9 points and then an absolutely epic grand finale stage, and they are meant to take about an hour. Evolved matches are around an hour and a half to two hours. Each match has a different finale for each side and can be played both ways.

To accommodate the gigantic lobbies, the capture circles and payloads are a lot bigger and more important. Sometimes, there are even multiple capture points or payloads to manage, which brings an extra kind of dynamic to the battle. In addition, there are teleporters and music boxes like those found in singleplayer content that can be used by players to summon spawnables into the battle, and each player can only spawn up to two spawnables per point to avoid there being a billion different things. There are also limits on how many of a certain spawnable can exist at once to encourage variety.

Turf Takeover has a total of 6 maps, and with the functional variants that goes up to 18 total in terms of cool gameplay. Just like with regular matches, there is a 40% chance (slightly less than it is for other modes) for one of 4 modifiers to be used, which increases the total of possible matches up to 90. What a really cool piece of knowledge to carry with you on all of your future adventures!

Modifiers[]

• Soda Poppers: Sweet Soda bottles will spawn across the map constantly, with some variation. There are small bottles that heal the player who picks them up for 25% of their maximum health, medium bottles that heal for 50%, and large bottles that heal for 100%.
• Ticking Time Bomb: If the player doesn't get a vanquish or an assist in under 30 seconds, they'll explode. Earning a vanquish of any kind will replenish the full 30 seconds, while earning an assist will only replenish a partial 15 seconds.
• Berserker: Players will deal much more damage the more health they lose. For every 10% of their health that is lost, they will gain a 20% damage bonus. This can very quickly ramp up and allows any character to dominate the fields.
• Battle Caps: Bottle caps that are magical in nature will spawn across the map constantly, and to an extent where they are most everywhere. They can charge Sparks, Evolve players, or charge Supercharges depending on the cap variant when picked up.

Garden/Graveyard Ops[]

Garden/Graveyard Ops is a returning game mode from the previous Garden Warfare and Battle for Neighborville games, but expanded and blown up to a frightening scale. Instead of playing with up to 3 other players, the limit is increased to up to 7 other players with the difficulty scaling a lot more for each player than in the past. This means that a match of Ops with a gang of 8 players gets really, really crazy. It's bumping for real, for real. Real. For real. Real real. For real. There is, of course, still an Evolved variant for this game mode. Imagine an Evolved Ops mode with 8 players. Insanity. The regular Ops mode has 10 waves, while the Evolved version has 20 waves, with those extra 10 waves being in addition to the existing ones. Waves 5 and 10 are boss waves, and for Evolved the 15th and 20th waves are also boss waves.

When a player enters an Ops match, they will be presented with five different Garden/Tombstone locations which is a slight expansion of what happens in Garden Warfare 2. There's a 20% chance for one of the options to be "Evolved" which doubles the difficulty but also doubles the reward. If the matched is already Evolved Ops, that is replaced with a "Supercharged" variant that is even more potent, because why not? Why shouldn't Ops of all modes have both the most control over difficulty and also the biggest spike in difficulty? Self Revives and Team Retries do not exist as consumables and instead each player gets 2 Self Revives and the team gets 1 Team Retry as a collective. To use it, players can vote and a 50% majority is required to pass. Otherwise, you're just not going to really get another opportunity. Oopsie!

Each uninteresting, regular wave has a chance to have either a special wave instead of a regular wave, or a special objective in addition to the regular stuff going on that awards a bunch of extra resources at the end of the Ops match. Special objectives cannot be combined with special waves, because that would be too much specialness for the average individual. There are a total of three special waves in a regular game of Ops with a 50% chance for four, and this is doubled for Evolved Ops matches (six waves, 50% chance for seven and additional 50% chance for eight) due to the extra waves. Special objectives aren't guaranteed, as each wave has a 20% chance to have a special objective. If the wave is already a special wave, the chances are increased very slightly to 25%.

Ops Enemies[]

Ops enemies have scaling health, damage, and attack frequency based on the difficulty and if the match is Evolved or not. They also vary in power and rank from Horde to Mini Hero to Hero to Mini Boss to Boss. As you could probably assume, Horde enemies are the weakest links whereas Boss enemies are the most powerful, strong, and formidable enemies. They have a variety of attacks and need to be approached in ways that are perhaps more intelligent than just standing there and shooting. There won't be any Hero enemies listed because it includes the base classes and their variants and special abilities and everything. Bosses cannot easily take more than 300 damage at once. The damage over 300 is reduced by 90% and over 400 is reduced by 99%.