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Time to Seriously Go Outside

Time to Seriously Go Outside

Promote 20 characters to the rank of Master

How to unlock the Time to Seriously Go Outside achievement in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville - Definitive Guide

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


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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132 Comments
If you boost with a second controller, make sure that your second profile is able to activate the bounty hunt. You unlock the bounty hunt by talking to Air Ron and acquiring the hunting license.
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By Kalonn on 12 Sep 2019 06:05
@Kalonn. Thanks for mentioning this. Forget to put that in the guide
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By evil terrorr on 12 Sep 2019 06:53
Also, I've noticed, if you click the L Stick, the lawnmower can 'Sprint' and move faster.
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By Dwaggienite on 12 Sep 2019 20:36
Not getting patched till October
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By Kamera on 13 Sep 2019 00:49
@kamera how do you know?
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By Kalonn on 13 Sep 2019 03:24
And I am sorry, but those 5 people who voted neg, I hope you sprain your toe today. I am sick of these people who spawn negative votes. May there is too many words and they just can't read.
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By Kanchanaburi on 13 Sep 2019 15:00
Well, I THANK YOU for posting this. these are solutions to obtaining achievements. I know there are many petty reasons people downvote, but it tires me out. They don't seem to understand the time 'we' take to create these solutions. Too many entitled people on this planet. BUt again, thank you! clap
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By Kanchanaburi on 13 Sep 2019 17:45
Another good way to level up fast is playing the Suburbanation battle chest. It isn't as fast as the Lawnmower/Bounty but it takes some of the monotony out of the grind. Especially once you learn where the zombies spawn.
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By MiggyBombs on 14 Sep 2019 17:19
Anyone know how to get the hunting license on the zombies side?
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By Squ4rex on 15 Sep 2019 01:04
@squ4rex
I’ve put it in the guide where to get it. Even with pictures of the location
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By evil terrorr on 15 Sep 2019 13:45
Thanks for the help and updating the guide! Upvote from me 🙂
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By Squ4rex on 16 Sep 2019 03:18
Does this method work with Guest accounts? If so, how?
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By TheRealJoeSchmo on 16 Sep 2019 04:18
Upvote for me , but even with this trick , this achievement is still a pain in the ass for me tbf ..

Dont forget to buy your daily 10000 XP ( 5 X 2000) for 75000 coins ( 15000 X 5 ).

You can do this every 24H,
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By ManuxBakaTeam on 16 Sep 2019 09:08
Patched? I tried a few minutes ago and the lawn mower does not kill them at a stroke, unfortunately.
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By DarkSquallXx on 19 Sep 2019 14:52
Patched? I tried a few minutes ago and the lawn mower does not kill them at a stroke, unfortunately.
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By DarkSquallXx on 19 Sep 2019 14:55
I just checked it. But for me it still works. So it doesn’t seem patched
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By evil terrorr on 19 Sep 2019 15:22
Positive vote because it works, even if it works for me sometimes and because of the availability of evil terrorr
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By DarkSquallXx on 20 Sep 2019 14:05
Thanks for this. Ya it’ll take quite a while still but couldn’t imagine this achievement without using these methods..... the zombie one is super easy with a second account
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By NateDawgSn1per on 20 Sep 2019 18:25
She played as the peashooter, but think anything that could absorb damage would be a good shout. I'm not sure if this works online but drop me a message and we can try it out if our schedules match up wave
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By SwelterinBeaver on 05 Nov 2019 17:22
I am almost done with this and I can confirm it still works. Zombies was easy but plants is a bit more annoying. The mower seems to glitch after a while and you will need to reload.

I am not sure if this was intentional way to level or something they have not thought of. My personal thought it, this was not intended so I am getting while the getting is good.

For those about to grind? FIRE!! It is a long boring grind but if this is a glitch and gets fixed, this is going to be a long cheevo to get.
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By El Diablo Queso on 27 Sep 2019 17:51
another way to lessen the grind of this, is if you have a turbo controller or cronusmax, you can take the character you are working on and go to the shooting range. place your character on the side of the targets and turbo you fire button. Leave it on over night and level up while you sleep. Occasionally it will glitch out and the game will close, but free is free.
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By Kanchanaburi on 28 Sep 2019 07:59
I recommend watching something for Zombies lol it's so boring. Already watched a ton of Disney movies x]
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By A Batwoman on 28 Sep 2019 08:30
Thanks
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By EscapeTheRoach on 29 Sep 2019 15:45
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By A Batwoman on 01 Oct 2019 18:11
Ill have to check when i have the time. If someone else can check and confirm that would be much appreciated
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By evil terrorr on 01 Oct 2019 18:27
I can't confirm zombies but on plants the moment you start the bounty, it kicks you out of the mindblower now.
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By Beachy259 on 01 Oct 2019 20:56
zombies is gone too. grenade doesnt move the boss
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By BaronVoNewman on 01 Oct 2019 21:49
i can also confirm that both methods have been patched. i will adjust the solution
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By evil terrorr on 01 Oct 2019 21:57
Just tested
Patched plants
Patched zombies

shit :/
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By DarkSquallXx on 01 Oct 2019 23:00
man I knew I should have grinded this over the weekend haha
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By ResinousHashish on 01 Oct 2019 23:23
DAMN IT. I literally went and bought a second controller yesterday so I could do this.
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By Dark Death 90 on 02 Oct 2019 00:10
@Dark Death 90. That sucks but hey atleast you have a spare controller now so its something i guess
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By evil terrorr on 02 Oct 2019 00:26
are there any other glitches by chance?
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By DarkSquallXx on 02 Oct 2019 08:12
That's what I get for dragging my feet. Only 1/4 of the way done. I'll take a break from the grind until a "best way to level" is determined.
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By MrZombieChicken on 02 Oct 2019 10:08
Yeah there's two exploits kind of they are basically doing it normal.
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By A Batwoman on 03 Oct 2019 02:22
The Bounty Hunt in Mount Steep for Tiny is fairly quick and fairly easy and offers a lot of XP. If you have a partner and your leveling up upgrade turned on you can do it pretty fast. Obviously, some characters are harder to defeat Tiny while using, but this helped me level up several plant characters pretty fast.
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By Vonnalushi on 04 Oct 2019 12:53
So its gone ?
Jeez, i will probably never do it legit haha.. well too long :/
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By In Gyi Yoon on 07 Oct 2019 13:47
I'll finish this someday in 2034.
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By DiegoCaldo on 09 Oct 2019 15:48
Bitey Bros in Town Center is great for leveling up zombies.
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By MiggyBombs on 12 Oct 2019 01:22
@MiggyBombs I can confirm. This is a very fast way to level up zombies. I had brought all of them up to super elite before the two exploits were patched out and it took about two days to bring them all up to master. Thank you!
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By DanTheWhale on 13 Oct 2019 19:21
is it a bounties?
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By DarkSquallXx on 13 Oct 2019 22:27
@DarkSquallXx. Yeah, it is a bounty in Town Center. Another good bounty is Wild Ones, in Weirding Woods. It worked better for Captain Deadbeard and the Imp.
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By MiggyBombs on 14 Oct 2019 04:48
Here's a new xp trick for the zombies, haven't yet discovered a good way for the plants tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdS0loJzqc
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By NaWaFx360 on 15 Oct 2019 13:16
@Gaidcn: it seems that it doesn't work with all zombies, but only one unfortunately. Thank you for the tip

@Miggy: Thanks a lot, I'm using Bitey Bros, the other a little more complex
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By DarkSquallXx on 15 Oct 2019 14:00
@Gaidcn thank you for sharing
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By evil terrorr on 15 Oct 2019 14:20
If anyone have some videos to share on fairly easy methods to grind xp feel free to share it and ill add it to the guide
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By evil terrorr on 15 Oct 2019 14:25
@DarkSquallXx you can do split screen or online i'm sure, one person is electro slide and the other levels up different characters
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By NaWaFx360 on 15 Oct 2019 14:33
Sure it's not patched? can you confirm that it still works?

I'm trying all the time, but I can't complete because the "boss" explodes. Enemies to fly away appear elsewhere and all at different points :(
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By DarkSquallXx on 16 Oct 2019 10:49
ive added your comment to the solution thank you
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By evil terrorr on 26 Oct 2019 08:39
Any one know how to unlock the zombie town hunting licence - unable to access the bitey bros bounty without it
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By Captain Ice Pop on 28 Oct 2019 10:14
https://youtu.be/jbiDnV1cm8Q
2:14 to 2:30 of this video for the permit
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By J2B9 on 28 Oct 2019 10:43
^ thanks
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By Captain Ice Pop on 29 Oct 2019 08:19
Today’s update has significantly reduced the xp for bitey bros. Haven’t tried out any other areas, but this was not as viable for me today
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By Vonnalushi on 31 Oct 2019 01:21
XP gains has been nerfed across all modes thanks to the latest update, no idea why but it has.
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By Serious X Devil on 31 Oct 2019 03:51
What a bunch of mother fucking assholes at EA, only 55xp for completed bounties instead of 625. FUCK YOU EA
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By Dr Tinus NL on 31 Oct 2019 14:41
Not only bitey bros has been nerfed, all bounties are now only worth 55xp with the leveling ability.

I won't play this game anymore, I'll log in every now and then to get the 5x 2000xp boost but thats it. They are killing this game :(
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By Dr Tinus NL on 31 Oct 2019 14:50
Goddamit!! angry
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By MrZombieChicken on 31 Oct 2019 15:29
cry
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By DarkSquallXx on 31 Oct 2019 15:50
Wont be suprised if they add microtransactions in the near future.
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By lacman38 on 01 Nov 2019 00:15
Plumbing gig is now useless. That's the last straw. I am tired of this garbage and constantly moving the goal post. The achievement was ridiculous even before they nerfed all these methods. I'm just going to get the rest of the story achievements and forget this crap!!!
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By MrZombieChicken on 01 Nov 2019 03:36
How are we supposed to do now cry
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By In Gyi Yoon on 01 Nov 2019 12:27
Just tried plumbing gig the other night and still was getting 100xp per Yeti, so minimum 1500xp for a run. Why is it useless?
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By Squ4rex on 03 Nov 2019 23:25
When I did a run the other day I got very little. A normal round gets me a few thousand XP from what I remember. Maybe it was a fluke. It used to be that after 4-5 rounds the game didn't give you any XP at all unless you quit to the park and come back.
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By MrZombieChicken on 03 Nov 2019 23:51
Interesting - I'll try the plumbing gig again tonight but when I did it straight after the update i was getting 5xp per Yeti
I noticed the servers were down again for a few hours Friday evening so maybe they undid some of the nurfing
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By Captain Ice Pop on 04 Nov 2019 08:44
I ran through my last 4 plants yesterday and this morning at plumbing gig and was getting 110 for each yeti with the leveling up perk on as well as 27 per superbrain and 5 for each yeti imp. Granted my last 4 were all at Super Elite level 1 when I started I still managed to get through super elite 1-10 in about 25 minutes or so for each of those characters.
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By Vonnalushi on 04 Nov 2019 16:06
How do you do the plumbing gig with a weak character like Sunflower or Rose?
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By MrZombieChicken on 05 Nov 2019 03:13
MrZombieChicken, I had to employ the help of my wife on split screen to get the rose done. The 2nd character doesn't have the almost instant kill, however acts as enough of a distraction to get the job done. Also she ran around collecting the taco's so it only cost about 25 per go.
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By SwelterinBeaver on 05 Nov 2019 09:36
OK so with all these nerfs to XP gains to bounties and what not, what is essentially the fastest way to level Plants and Zombies at the moment? Just to clarify...
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By ŤRIBULXTIONŠ on 05 Nov 2019 13:21
There is no real good grind for Zombies currently, the plants you can net around 1600 - 1800 xp every minute with the Plumbing gig. It took me 18 minutes to get 1 - 10 on elite level. So it's likely to take around 1 hour 20 minutes give or take from rookie 1 to master
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By SwelterinBeaver on 05 Nov 2019 13:25
Thanks for the tip Beaver. I can try to recruit my 9 year old to help, but I don't think I can get him to restrain himself from killing Yetis. Maybe I should let him play the account I'm leveling up.
So did your wife play a beefy character like Citron, or a support one that helped you out? Like sunflower for healing for example.
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By MrZombieChicken on 05 Nov 2019 15:11
MrZombieChicken. I think Rose is awesome for the plumbing gig, lol.
What I did for my weaker characters like Rose was starting the activity and then run to the side of the area up the stairs into a sewer pipe. And then peek above the stairs to aim at the enemies. That way you barely get hit, takes a little longer but I never died and still managed to pick up most gold and tacos.
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By Dr Tinus NL on 07 Nov 2019 15:15
Can I just ask for clarity? - is the bitey bros / spaceship zombie method still the fastest way to farm taco's?
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By Captain Ice Pop on 08 Nov 2019 08:54
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
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By Lythiris on 10 Nov 2019 06:26
But can we farm in solo ?
If yes, where's the quickiest way ?
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By In Gyi Yoon on 10 Nov 2019 20:52
I would also like to know if Bitey Bros is the best way to farm taco's thanks everyone for sharing methods too it really helps.
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By Serious X Devil on 13 Nov 2019 02:30
The XP machine isn't working for me anymore, it says CAN'T DO THAT RIGHT NOW. Goddamnit
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By Dr Tinus NL on 15 Nov 2019 19:09
Xp machine also not working for me - get same message as Dr Tinus - will try again in a few hours hoping it’s just a server issue
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By Captain Ice Pop on 15 Nov 2019 21:20
For zombie side exp farm I've been doing the Wild Bunch bounty in Weirding Woods. Start it, shoot the squash, run near the squash and then run back to the box to restart it. The squash will kill itself and end the bounty but reward you 110 exp. From start to restart takes 10-12 seconds for 550-660 exp per minute and any class can do it. You HAVE to damage the squash or else you won't get any exp.

EDIT: As of November 17, 2019, Popcap patched it so that there's a 15 second cooldown on restarting bounties so this method is garbage.

The Solar Sisters bounty offers decent experience @ 82xp/kill and you can easily average over 500xp/min with most zombies. Otherwise I would recommend starting skirmishes then exiting to Giddy Park and re-entering Weirding Woods to start another skirmish asap if you don't want to play online.
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By Martel18 on 16 Nov 2019 02:32
ive adjusted the solution slightly to reflect the xp nerf. and added in some tips from yall. thank you for all the helpful comments much appreciated
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By evil terrorr on 16 Nov 2019 05:22
For anyone that needs to farm tacos to do the plant side plumbing gig, I put together a map for each side that contains only the chests that reward tacos. You can farm the 40 chests + 6 secret invoices in less than 30 minutes for ~1300 tacos on a new silver account.

Plant side chests + invoice locations (yellow dots):
https://i.imgur.com/YXjHtu5.png

Zombie side chests:
https://i.imgur.com/uBULJmI.png

I also suggest doing this while in split screen with your main account because any taco you pick up off the ground (not from chest rewards) is also collected by your main account, giving you an extra 160-200 tacos.
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By Martel18 on 17 Nov 2019 04:33
New update puts cooldowns on bounty hunt and the gnome missions
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By DJB Hustlin on 28 Nov 2019 02:25
@HUstlinonradio - absolutely pathetic isn't it.
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By IVIr IVIeNsA on 30 Nov 2019 23:19
^ Wow really? Thanks for the info and yes that is indeed pathetic, just let people play how they want to play...
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By Serious X Devil on 01 Dec 2019 13:46
Nothing's new there ? :-(
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By In Gyi Yoon on 25 Dec 2019 20:23
Started up doing Solar Sisters with the All Star. Getting around 2000-2500xp once the timer ends. May do Plumbing Gig but only have 200 tacos so need to farm
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By DJB Hustlin on 27 Dec 2019 23:14
Nope nothing new... yet. cry
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By Serious X Devil on 28 Dec 2019 01:40
Wish there was a better way with zombies takes forever!
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By GtechApocalypse on 04 Jan 2020 05:24
So, here is what I have personally been doing.

With the zombies I have been doing the Tiger Klaus bounty mission. It gives me around 600-800xp (average is in the 600 range but the zombie sniper if you get max damage adds 11xp with each shot) per 45 secs-1 minute of work (plus the 15 seconds restart) but more importantly it gives are 20 tacos in that 45 sec-1 minute which cumulative is the best way to get them in order to do the plumbing gig mission to level up the Plants.

So for example, just getting my Space Cadet from Super Elite to Master got me over 1500 tacos which for comparison sake was enough to get 3 characters from Prestige 2 to 3 with tacos to spare. I believe that same amount can get a Super Elite character from level 1 to around level 7 or 8
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By DJB Hustlin on 08 May 2020 00:42
^ This guy is a goober, I wrote a nice solution but he wanted credit.. I wasn't aware he was the only one that knew you could connect (2) controllers and start a private match to kill the second.
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By ResinousHashish on 23 Jan 2020 00:10
ResinousHashish, stop whinning. You have copied my exact words in your solution, like a kid copying his homework from Wikipedia, and that is the reason I complaint. Please be original for once in your life.
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By DiegoCaldo on 09 Feb 2020 05:27
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
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By UNDEADZ3LD4 on 09 Feb 2020 13:40
Thank you, Undeadz3ld4. I got the achievement using the same technique. Me and a friend, two extradummy accounts. Worked like a charm.
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By DiegoCaldo on 10 Feb 2020 01:17
I couldn't get it to work with dummy accounts and a friend. Could not get the 4 of us in 1 lobby. It said that online options are disabled when playing splitscreen. Really stupid.

Doing it the hard way now, just use giddy Park with online options. The gold marks pop up a lot and are worth 82xp a piece. I also spawn kill the other team so it goes fairly quick. Still slow, but better than playing online.
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By Dr Tinus NL on 16 Feb 2020 11:24
@DiegoCaldo could you elaborate a bit more on how it works with 2 people and 2 dummy accounts? Cause me and Dr Tinus NL couldn't get in the same game with both using split screen.
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By evil terrorr on 16 Feb 2020 16:28
It dosnt work in splitscreen. You actually have to use 4 different accounts, on 4 different xbox (as far as i know), or at least 2 different profiles for splitscreen. Guests does not work with friends in giddy park
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By Sharlak Intulak on 17 Feb 2020 10:53
Anyone else has problems with starting up the game. When I'm in the starting screen and press A to continue, the game freezes. My Xbox also makes a lot of noise when this happens. Had it since a week but after a restart it started working, but right now it's not working at all, can't start the game. Goddamnit
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By Dr Tinus NL on 18 Feb 2020 16:37
can you just delete this as it just doesn't work anymore
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By ArkhamRitter on 05 Mar 2020 19:41
the achievement still works and i explain on what you need to do to get it so i see no point in deleting it.
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By evil terrorr on 05 Mar 2020 20:01
Can anyone tell me how people are getting split screen and joining a friend? As soon as a friend joins or i join them the option to join goes away. This is how we did it on garden warfare 2 but as of this week on this i can't do it.
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By OneChicago51 on 09 Mar 2020 11:51
As far as im aware you can’t play 4 players with 2 xboxes. You’ll need a minimum of three i think
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By evil terrorr on 09 Mar 2020 16:37
For zombie I highly recommend doing the solar sisters bounty hunt in weirding woods as you can get 1.7k to 2k every 3 minutes it does take time but it's the quickest to get them max
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By True Reclaim on 11 Mar 2020 02:21
How long will this take with the current patch? Not bothering to pick up the game if it's going to take long.
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By speardrops on 15 Apr 2020 05:45
Very long, more than 150 hours. I did half of my characters with the glitch, and had to play another 75 hours minimum to max them all. And I did the golden targets and killing in giddy Park method, worked the fastest for me. Not worth the time and effort in my opinion.
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By Dr Tinus NL on 26 Apr 2020 11:04
Quick question about plumbing gig: If you have a second player logged in, do they get the same amount of XP, or does only the player who gets the vanquish get the XP? I'm thinking that they both probably get XP for finishing the bounty, but not for killing the Yetis.
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By MrZombieChicken on 29 May 2020 04:22
Very low xp for killing other players now 42 or 44 xp
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By KarlEva8 on 09 Jul 2020 20:57
Really? I was getting 190ish xp the other day using a 2nd controller.
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By MrZombieChicken on 23 Jul 2020 20:52
Anyone know if the Wildflower (Swarm) works for this? Would make it a bit quicker if you can do 11 plants with the plumbing gig.
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By iiAssassinXxii on 28 Oct 2020 18:49
The Wildflower does count thankfully. Cuts the grind down a little bit. If only they'd released a second DLC plant character.
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By SafeCanoe740314 on 11 Dec 2020 08:05
Just a note - if you do buy the wizard - can confirm this characters also counts as 5%
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By Onsidic on 15 Jan 2021 16:59
I've been AFK leveling my zombies using the flying glitch with 80s hero to exploit the dance game. You only need to babysit a controller for input every ~10 minutes, and promote when necessary. If you're interested, the details are available on YouTube here: /watch?v=SIFRD0CVs_g

EDIT: I recently used this method (with the leveling-up upgrade) for TV Head from zero to master, so I thought I would share some numbers to give an idea of the time required.

Recruit to Advanced: 27m
Advanced to Specialist: 39m
Specialist to Elite: 53m
Elite to Super Elite: 80m
Super Elite to Master: 127m
Total: 326m
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By nothingHz on 14 Mar 2021 00:49
thank you for pointing it out. ive tested it and confirmed that it works. heres hoping it wont get patched too soon
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By evil terrorr on 14 Mar 2021 08:06
Thank God this is now done! I can’t believe I wasted my time playing this game.
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By A Big Radroach on 20 Mar 2021 15:28
it was so much easier to do when the game first came out sucks that they had to patch it all
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By evil terrorr on 20 Mar 2021 16:36
This solution sucks and doesnt work at all.
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By MagmaticNevada8 on 18 May 2021 03:28
Top method still works as of May 25th 2021
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By BlindBanjo88 on 25 May 2021 18:39
28th of June 2021 the dance hall float glitch still works.
Also you can tape RT while aiming at the shooting range for a little bit of extra XP.
EDIT: The new zombie characters - the wizard and TV head counted for the progress.
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By LordMakanaki on 28 Jun 2021 05:06
Since you can do one swap while doing the zombie glitch, does that mean you can swap over to a plant? I want to do this farm but if it’s only for zombies then there’s really no point because you still have to spend dozens of hours getting xp with the plants
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By on 15 Jul 2021 17:09
Lorne, no, zombies only. However, you could use a different xp farming strategy for plants. For example, you could play Turf Takeover on crazy difficulty vs all deadbeards for decent xp. The details can be found in the following link.

https://youtu.be/bcbAlcH8lvE
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By nothingHz on 16 Jul 2021 00:23
^I agree the turf takeover vs. crazy difficulty AI method is one of the most efficient. Play on Loggy Acres as the plants or Tourist Trap Island as the zombies and just sit on the payload and mow down the enemies as soon as they come out of the spawn point. Easy 70-80 kills which is about 7k-8k xp per 5 minute game
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By ZilchMass on 20 Sep 2021 02:27
the 80s glitch is still working on sep 5 2022, a little tricky to make the glitch happen, but once you get it, it works. its like 11 XP every 1-2 seconds (not sure if have XP boost on or not)
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By rocking23nf on 06 Sep 2022 04:53
I 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.
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By AtomicToast15 on 16 Feb 2023 16:54
Instead 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!
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By invader134 on 18 Aug 2023 16:23
Just 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.
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By Cqpt on 26 Mar 2024 22:17
@Kanchaburi.
There is a multitude of reasons why people vote negatively. It’s either because I don’t have the achievement yet. Or because this way of boosting defeats the purpose of playing the game normal. Or because the videos aren’t mine. Just to name a few

People tend to get upset at the little things.
I don’t really care about the negative votes. As long as I helped some people with this solution I’m happy with that. But I do wish people who vote negative would give some feedback so that I could improve the solution
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By evil terrorr on 13 Sep 2019 15:13
If you have a team of 3-4 people it goes insanely fast.. just do the solar sisters.

Defeat Tiny in Mount Steep is the best way to farm XP takes longer. And you can block him with Citrus having a 4 player team again.

https://youtu.be/0_pStkosT7Y

Also use Pea Shooter with gat upgrade and Sunflower with solar upgrade. But you can use any character. FYI Rose has a damage boost as well as Corn ability.
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By A Batwoman on 15 Oct 2019 23:00
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.
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By P1 Insane on 25 Oct 2019 21:47
Just tested it, plumbing gig still works. I'm pretty sure it was nerfed before but I am getting 110 xp for a yeti now. So plants can be grinded. Zombies can't
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By Dr Tinus NL on 05 Nov 2019 19:40
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.

Does anyone wanna test this method tonight?
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By DiegoCaldo on 08 Jan 2020 19:49
I recommend Tiger Klaus on the Zombie side too, simply for ease and quickness. Takes about a minute, you get 7 'hero' kills (6 of which are the easy Acorns), and you can farm tacos. Depending on your zombie, it may or may not be an easy task, depending on whether you can attack the attached acorns. It's about 710 XP with the XP Boost ability, plus several tacos.

80's Hero can use Rocket Ride to easily kill the last 3 acorns when they attach, and his bow seems to actually kill the acorns if you're up on the stairs. Engineer has AOE on his concrete launcher, makes it easier to get the acorns plus his turret can help damage Klaus. And you can just attack Klaus as Electric Slide, as her chain lightning will damage the attached acorns.

Basically, anything with AOE that can damage the acorns as well.
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By Bahaumaut on 12 Jun 2020 17:25
They both still work. And both are pretty easy with a second controller. For the plants one, if you are using a second controller make sure it's an OAK since it can take a lot of damage while you are driving the mower. Also note, there is a limitation you can kill that boss hunt for the plants side, after awhile, the mower will not kill them and you will need to leave and return. When using the mower, try to make sure you detonate the mower after the zombies spawn into a leap, as they are coming down. it's a brief frame but it will get them every time and is more important then the exact placement of the mower.

And yes, this is a long long grind.... a joked about in the title of the achievement.

Seriously?
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By Kanchanaburi on 25 Sep 2019 18:16
Guys, I have two xboxes and my dummy account is from my nephew (we share the games I buy). We do not play on split screen, but on TV and Monitor installed side-by-side. My friend did the same.

If I am not mistaken, you can play splitscreen in a public Giddy Park, but you will face lots of randoms.

In this case, both accounts (dummy and main) should stay inside the safe zone, and you let your dummy account get killed by a random (they usually siege the area). Immediately, use your main account to revive the dead, granting you 55xp. Rinse and repeat. If you are playing with the sunflower/scientist, you will level up pretty fast, because they are faster.

PS: While in Giddy Park, some randoms are pretty bad and you may level up faster killing them and shooting golden targets. If you play with snipers (Cactus and Pirate), all you have to do is camp and shoot them in the head.

When playing with Citrus, you will earn 11xp for each enemy shot that hits your shield. Depending on the enemy (ex. the football zombie or soldier zombie), you can earn up to 230xp in seconds.

Back to the campaign, I have realized that starting those big brawls in town center, weirdwoods etc, may help you earn lots of XP, because of the generals + heros + special units that appear. Depending on the area, you can grant up to 2500xp + tacos for the plumbing gig.
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By DiegoCaldo on 17 Feb 2020 15:32
For a lot of zombies, you can do the Solar Sisters in Weirding Woods and get around 1700-1900 xp per 3 minute runs. I used this method for Imp and All-Star. It's not nearly as fast, but still gets decent xp. If you just go back and forth between the two sunflowers that spawn on the opposite of the starting point of the bounty hunt you can rack up that way. With leveling up on you get 82 xp for each sister and often get 5 xp for a critical vanquish and occasionally more if using abilities (i.e. max zoom with deadbeard brings in an extra 11xp for each shot and it takes 3 fully charged shots to bring one down). This has been the way I've handled my zombies since the update and have all but 2 up to master. I get bored so I will occasionally seek to start a battle which can change up the monotony of the grind and still bring in a huge chunk of xp if you are able to beat it from start to finish.
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By Vonnalushi on 06 Nov 2019 16:10
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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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01 Nov 2021 02:25

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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09 May 2020 15:12

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Hold down the RT to charge up his punch and aim slightly above the Oak in order to get the acorns. I also utilized his lunge ability to get on top of the Oak to get the Acorns and the energy ball to help bring them down
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By DJB Hustlin on 10 Sep 2020 15:53
How do you convert tacos into coins
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By Phoeenix on 08 Apr 2021 02:18
In 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...
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By DJB Hustlin on 08 Apr 2021 04:01
Thank you. Didn’t even know about those shops tbh
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By Phoeenix on 08 Apr 2021 07:59
That isnt the fastest way to earn tacos. You have another profile logged in whilst doing the plumbing gig and both will earn around 50 each run (i sometimes earn more than 75) so that allows 2 accounts to start it up
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By H4rdcorekillah on 27 May 2020 22:07
It is the fastest way when it comes to someone who does not have an additional controller or another player with them (which is what I referred to when I stated solo since other solutions brought up methods with those aspects in their solutions).
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By DJB Hustlin on 27 May 2020 23:40
is there anyway to do super brainz with this as the punch keeps killing the oak when the acorns are on top of him and he no longer has the beam attack from GW2
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By ArkhamRitter on 10 Sep 2020 14:58
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Short and sweet! But not really. Ugh.
You need to rank 20 characters up to 5 Stars for this insult of an achievement.
NOTE- Every day(24hrs.) you can spend 75,000 coin to buy XP if you play and earn it.

The quickest way seems to be:
-Get a buddy with a second controller with a Gold tag and meet in the park. The host doesn't seem to be able to bring in a split screen companion. Be sure you're on Private with No AI.
-For the second controller use the Imp or Acorn because they only have 75 Health and put it against an object to keep it from moving. One tag kills it for 192xp and the other revives for 55xp. Most characters have a special kill that gets you an extra 27xp. Rinse and repeat. Over and over and over....
-During those down moments shoot Red Targets for 5xp and Gold ones for 82xp plus some coin to buy XP that spawn randomly about every 1-2 minutes.
-It took about an hour to go from 4 to 5 Stars being the killer. Quicker for 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 Stars
SWITCH yea!
-All in all it took 2.5hrs. To bring one character from 3Srars to 5 switching rolls with a buddy. So saved about a half hour per character which adds up.

-Solo boosting works too. A guest sign-in works here. Go Private with NO AI. Put yourself where the other character lands from respawning so you can see about 7 Targets. You'll figure out a rhythm so you can one hand the dummy's controller and take out 3-4 Targets inbetween respawns. It takes a little less than 1.5hrs. this way to go from 4 to 5 Stars this way but it's sooooooo tedious.

-Bonus! I was getting about a dozen Prize Bulbs and 20k coin along the way from 4 to 5 Stars. I wonder if they put "Seriously" in this cheevo as a salute to GoW? Mfr's!
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24 Mar 2020 05:28

It’s not very often I stop and look at a game like I did with this one, but it helped me get through in a way I felt was more efficient than tediously repeating the same Bounty or what ever over and over again.

At he time of writing this there are 23 characters that you can choose from. I’ve tried to lay out what I remember doing to level up each of the characters I used, there are some I didn’t get along with very well so I did a bit of guessing here and there with their Plant or Zombie counterparts.


This is for those of you who want to be more active when leveling your preferred 20 characters to Master rank. I mainly played Garden & Graveyard Ops to do all this because multiplayer can be a rough time and like the previous Garden Warfare games, the Zombie team seemed to win like 75% of the time because of their steam roller characters and because repeating same boring ass bounty grinds in the story areas put me to sleep.

Below is a rough guide to what I did to try and maximise the XP gained for each character / class.
I rarely used the Leveling Up perk as I felt it wasn’t worth it in my eyes, unless you are good in multiplayer the extra 10%xp makes very little difference when most enemies give you 5xp.
Playing ruthlessly helps a lot, get as many multi-kills as possible because some skills with have their own multi-kill reward. Reviving other players helps as well if their body isn’t too crowded and as stated in other guides, spending 75k coins every 24 hours at the XP machine helps to take a chunk out of leveling up a character you are focusing on or another you don’t want to touch (brrr, Captain Deadbeard…). If I ever had a character that had a few hundred xp left to get I would drop into Giddy Park and smash a few gold targets or a few players trying to camp out the spawns / just minding their own business XD


Anyway:

Swarm - Newbies to the roster, gaining an armour buff when near other pots / bots and similar minions.

TV Head + Wild Flower - The extra health perk is a must for these 2 once you get them, then what ever you want to do with the other 3 points is up to you.
I generally played territorially with them and stayed near and pots or bots because not many people had gotten them once they were available to unlock (currently October 2020, can be bought for 500k coins or 1000 stars each), that way I got an extra 5xp for each armour bonus given by the pots, and a 5xp bonus for armoured pot kills (both tested on Town Centre at the Plant’s base, gaining a +55% armour bonus from the 2 peashooter pots and 2 grown scaredy shrooms on the wall above, effectively any browncoat I killed was giving me 25xp).
If there is more than one of you in a match then try to travel together to get armour assists on any enemy you might have missed. I did this just before earning this achievement with Wildflower and got a little giddy watching all the 5s pop up in the xp feed, saying “The numbers Mason, what do they mean?!”


Assault - ALL Assault characters benefit the most from having the Combo perk on, it is a must have.

Foot Soldier - Bit of a tough one. He mainly gets bonuses from kills with his ZPG and if allies kill enemies inside his Stink Cloud. Leveling Up would make progressing him easier. I had him using Liftoff and Sticky! for quick escapes and sticking the gas grenade to bosses.

Imp - The Imp benefits from being in his mech as much as possible, so having Mech Hunter when you unlock it will help keep that up. Until you do get Mech Hunter, Combo will have to carry you a lot of the way, be sure to cycle through each weapon as you use another or overheat your main gun.
Aside from accompanying Impkata, Supermassive is another useful perk to have. If your mech has a small amount of fuel left and you think you will make it, push into a group of plants, eject from the mech to start its self-destruct, then as you are flying up throw your Gravity Grenade at the mech and it’s increased range should lock any plants nearby in place so that the mech can take them out or severely damage them.
Earning kills whilst in your mech will earn you a bonus that will start at 10xp and increase up to 25 extra xp from the 5th kill onward for the remainder of you are time in the mech.

Super Brainz - Be aggressive, always first to the fight, if there’s an group of plants your teammates are shooting at, Hyper Jump over them and follow up with a Turbo Twister or Ultra Ball. Focus your perks on healing, so Vampiric and Fearless will go well with Combo.

80s Action Hero - This character took a while to work out a rough plan for him, but I believe I finally found out his best use. You need to focus on earning tags on enemies with the appropriate perks and a fully charged bow shot. Ultimately I finished leveling him with Combo and The Huntsman.
What I found is that the Can’t-miss-ile gets you 75xp for earning a multi-kill, on top of the 20xp for a multi-kill, and if you are lucky an extra 5xp per plant you kill for a critical kill. So for 2 wildflower or weed kills, you can earn at least 105 - 115xp, Combo will help refresh Can’t-miss-ile quickly, so you could just romp around a Town Center or Weirding woods taking out the small groups of plants and possibly the larger fights you can trigger.
Solo plants should be killed with a fully charged shot to their weak point as you will get a 25xp bonus for the fully charged bow and the extra 5 for a critical kill.

Electric Slide - She quickly became one of my favourite characters because of how evil you can be with her. My setup for her bounced between Combo, Cooling Sparks and Malfunction, to Combo, Amplification and Chain Lightning.
Disco Tornado is amazing for crowd control, especially to save the objective from being swarmed in Ops and the ability to arch her basic attack off multiple enemies is very useful to, being the most destructive and most profitable when fighting the Pumpkin Squash when you have the damage boost active, I was able to go well over 300 kills in a match where the other 3 players didn’t know what to do, by simply arching my shots off the boss, which would zap everything around him.
On maps with cliffs or other lethal drops, Funky Bouncer can be a game changer. Take Rocky Flats, in Ops the objective has a clear view on the cliff side behind the upright tanker, simply throw a Funky Bouncer towards the cliff if things are getting crowded and watch huge clumps of plants bounce away to their doom, netting you a nice chunk of xp and a guaranteed multi-vanquish. This doesn’t work with the cheese river though, that will just kill them and yield no xp. You should also be careful to not do this to the gluttonous chomper that gives you the seed during the Elite Pumpkin Squash boss as you can’t get hold of the seed and must waste more time to kill another.

Peashooter - This plant earns the most xp when earning kills while Pea Suped is active. So try to charge a group of zombies with Pea Suped on, toss a Chili Bean Bomb and you should get a good amount of xp. I mostly ran around with Combo, Bean Party and Fearless on. Activating Gatling Pea will cancel Pea Suped.

Chomper - Chomper is kind of a combination of Super Brainz and Foot Soldier. Aggressive play is advised with him primarily being a melee character, drop spike weeds in strategic places or on the objective in Ops. Face Bite is a must as you will earn a Critical Vanquish xp bonus more often, which pairs nicely with Critical Blow for a faster refresh on your abilities. Grody Goop should be used in a similar fashion to Foot Soldier’s Stink Cloud, hit a group of enemies that your allies are fighting with it, then go to focus on another group, that way you can pick up assists on the kills they make.

Kernel Corn - I mainly used Combo, Mob Cobs and Hopscotch for him, but he also works well with Husk Hop and Shuck Shot. I used Mob Cobs a means to get quick kills to trigger the faster cool down from Combo. In Multiplayer, you might be able to get more from boosting his Butter Beacon, 20/10 practically doubles the range, meaning you could lob it at a wall where zombie players can’t see you an mark a lot more of them for your team.

Night Cap - Looking back at what I did to level this characters, I can see it was a lot similar to 80s Action Hero. I tried to stay out of the way, medium to long range if I could and only really used my stealth skills as a way to escape being swarmed and Fung Fu to clear an objective if it was taking a beating in Ops.
I mostly used Piercing Power, Vampiric and Fearless.

Snapdragon - The king of Ops for the plants IMO and oddly, despite his ability to burn a map to the ground, I didn’t use Combo on him, focusing mainly on Coolant, Vampiric and either Excellent Accelerant or as I found more recently, Engulf, as Blazing Trail can yield an xp bonus for multiple hits.
Pretty much the same as Super Brainz and Chomper:
- Play aggressively, use Swoop Slam to get to a group of zombies first if you must;
- Burn every zombie you can to extend you Flame Blower usage and use Blue Blazes if you end up overheating;
- Toss a Blazing Trail down one path to defend one direction and go down another to take out other groups.


Defend - Most Defend characters will earn their xp best from assists unless you are willing to take big risks to play aggressively.

Captain Deadbeard + Cactus - Despite being snipers I played in close quarters with these 2 and used Leveling up to help them along as I’m really not a fan of their skill set in this game. Cactus is the only one I got to Master rank and its was mostly with perks like Health Regeneration and Health Regeneration Delay. Pressure Point is very useful for a random multi-kill or a kill and damage to a nearby hero etc for clean up by you or an ally. If you want to provide even more of a supporting role, Spud Spotting can be handy.
I used Long Barrel, Health Regeneration Delay and Leveling up on Deadbeard, really couldn’t get along with his abilities while using him which is why I haven’t provided much info’ for him, sorry :(
Never use your drones in Ops, they will get shot down very quickly by the AI’s precision accuracy.

All-Star - I mainly used the health regen’ perks and Supercharged Football Coolant so that I was firing as much as possible.
You could probably use Star Struck or Follow Through to knock plants off cliffs but other than that he plays best when always doing damage like Super Brainz, add a Scientist and Wizard to him and you’ve got a tank that can push into a crowds quickly for a Spell Disaster massacre.

Space Cadet + Acorn - Since only 2 people in my xbox friend lists play this and when they do is very rare, i tried to play these characters by myself. If someone hopped onto me cool, free assists if they managed to kill something, but I was there to earn xp for ME, so I played greedily and used their heavy attacks to clear groups my allies had softened up.
- Focus on multi-kills, pop a shot at lone non-hero enemies for a lazy assist from allies;
- I think I recall them being able to stop a Squash / Zom-bomb from moving in Ops if you block their path, not sure if they changed this is the recent rebalancing patch.

Citron - You primarily want to focus on staying alive and keeping your Peel Shield charged as it will give 10xp for X amount of damage blocked, as well as reward you with 15xp for allies who make a kill that fired through / near it.
A good way to boost some xp with your shield is to block an Elite Disco Zombie’s spin attack until your shield shatters (do it on the final time you have to lure him to a record player so you don’t screw up too much and fail the fight), then regain it however you want and repeat, you’ll see a string of 10xp rewards pop up for blocking so much damage (or 11s if you use Leveling Up).
Kinetic Energy, and the 2 Health Regen’ perks work well with this.


Support - Can be played offensively but will mainly gain the most xp from playing their role.

Scientist + Sunflower - Always, be, healing. You will gain 3xp for every so many points of health you heal, and as long as you are healing another player, pot / bot when they make a kill, you will get a “Heal Assist” as well.
I originally used Blossom and Full Bloom on Sunflower to do as much healing as possible but it seems the dev’s decided Blossom was a tad OP and it is now 5 points instead of 4… so tie what ever you want to use with that.
For the Scientist I originally used, Diffusion, CPR, Super Savior and Refreshing Revive. I did swap him to use the Steam Blaster when it was available to unlock and have been able to be both aggressive with my kills and warp around to heal my allies.

Engineer - Engineer was a relatively quick character to level because I would make sure I could build a healing bot, then slap my turret down near it when ever I could, that way I could get a regular stream of 3xp for healing my turret, sometimes other Engineers would drop their turrets too and I got even more xp from healing multiple turrets.
For perks, I worked my way up to Progress Report, Signal Amp and Super Savior.

Rose - Rose’s xp gains are all from supporting her allies:
- You will earn 25xp for killing a Jinxed enemy, or a 10xp assist for an ally killing a Jinxed enemy;
- You will earn 10xp for every zombie that is turned into a goat and get 10xp for an ally killing them;
- You will earn 1xp every few seconds while Arcane Enigma is active for each player that is in your area of effect.
Rose only has one skill that boosts skill cool down and I never really noticed if I was getting critical kills so you will have to play patiently with her, however you can build her towards having a Goatify or Jinx focus with Psychedelic Goatify and Goatality, or Pollination.


All together, this achievement took me approximately 330 hours of playtime to unlock.
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29 Oct 2020 22:40

PvZ BFN XP GRIND:
First you wanna do zombies, go to the town centre and go to right at the top of the map where you get the hunting pass for bounty hunts, then right near there is a bounty hunt where you kill 6 acorns then an oak just repeat this you will get tons of tacos and gems too the only problem with this was superbrains couldnt efficiently kill the acorns without killing the oak and if you kill the oak first it just completely nope you and tell you to fuck off so i just kept buying his levels

Then for Plants, you need to first collect all secret invoices (i will post a map of there locations in a sec) this will then unlock the plumbing gig you need to go into the sewer and in the open area there is a picture you need to give 75 tacos (you should have shit ton after doing zombies) then when doing this jump off weild the legendary plunjolnir and you will get a 10% increase of XP and a 400% damage increase then you have to kill 15 yetis scoring 100 XP each and just repeat this if you die it will reset and you have to pay again

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26 Sep 2020 17:52

On the Internet I found a great glitch for experience, money and tacos. We will need one partner and minimal knowledge of English.
1. Video guide (en).
2. Change the system language in the settings to English.
3. Go to the game and in the Accessibility settings, activate the item "Enable Text to Speech".
4. And then everything is on video.
Notes:
1. To use the text field that we enabled earlier, simply hold down the right stick, i.e. press R3.
2. The host must complete the mission through the menu, i.e. Options (on the gamepad) -> Abort the mission.
3. The person who activated the glitch, after a successful boost, should simply exit by closing the game via the PS button, i.e. PS -> Close the application.
4. You can activate the glitch together and kill the boss. Both will have endless chests.
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12 Aug 2021 19:37

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I’ll add a glitch that works for both plants and zombies
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By Finest_la on 01 Sep 2021 17:54
When opening a chest, the experience gain will not be displayed, but it happens. You can track your level paws by the characteristic light and sound made by the character.
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By iScrag on 26 Aug 2021 08:48
You can copy w and paste faster this way
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By Fuinf on 31 Oct 2021 17:58
The best glitch from Mirridel and it still works. For him, it is enough to collect only 3 diamond gnomes in the central city with plants or zombies. In terms of time, it takes up to 5 minutes to pump up 1 prestige with all downloads. In total, if you download 5 pristiges for all 20 Persians from scratch, it will take about 8.5 hours for one person.
How to speed up the process as much as possible:
The host to enter the game throws an invitation to a friend and runs to the altar of the gnomes (the friend must have an English system language and the game, as shown in the video, has a command line enabled, which is turned on by holding R3). The host starts entering the dungeon as soon as the friend's nickname appears in the upper left corner, and the friend at this time changes the character if necessary and launches the text menu (R3). There is no need to run to the host and your friend has 30 seconds to do everything. while the dungeon is starting because it does not confirm. Then the host skips the introductory video, and the friend, as soon as he appears, presses “w” and waits for about 50 seconds. until it finishes printing, presses ok (R2) and tells the host that it’s ready. The host exits the dungeon (you can press exit dungeon in advance, just do not confirm). Now a friend can endlessly open a chest for one opening of 1100 experience. Based on the sound and glow from the character, you can count the number of levels received (glow earlier, sound later). How a friend got lvl 10. presses (PS) and closes the game and enters again using the prompt (the host does not have to give a new prompt each time). And all over again, the friend changes the character, etc. The host is located next to the entrance to the dungeon. In this way, you pumped 10 Persians up to lvl 10, then you can change or a friend will give everyone a boost and a new one.
PS You can, of course, set the system language for both people, activate the text panel and kill the boss (the damage to the boss is not shown the same way as it is to you, but it is there), but it will take 10 times longer since the boss will have to be killed every time. I think you can do a glitch with 3~4 people, but I haven’t tried it.
The video says that if the chest is opened too often, the game may close. I didn’t have this, but there was a problem that when a friend connected, a window appeared and the game did not respond to any buttons, I had to restart the game, perhaps because of this. And a couple of times the game required me to accept the licensing agreement again.
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By ExeQtor_PS on 22 Oct 2021 13:18
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Alternatively, you can pump plants in the sewer. To do this, you need to grind tacos in the city (do not spend on all sorts of hats), in particular we grind for zombies, and we spend for plants.
Actually for the plants there is a mission in the sewers for 75 tacos activated. For the mission to open, you need to look behind the plants through all the telescopes on the map and dig up the invoices. After this, at the entrance to the sewer from the side of the city center, a picture will become active. Having activated it, we cause a fight with the Yeti - you need to kill 15 Yeti, for each 110 experience (with an experience booster) plus small things. With some plants you can manage to kill 17 Yetis. Total on average 2000 experience per 1 minute (plus/minus).

z.y. IMHO using boxing gloves is the longest and dullest. There is not much experience there - and a lot of time is wasted. It’s better to aggro bosses at locations then.
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02 Apr 2020 22:05

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There are 3 ways to farm experience for 2021.

1. Farm tacos and pump Plants in the sewer - Video guide (en).
2. Create a closed match against bots and farm bots - Video guide (en).
3. With the help of glitch, we immediately farm experience for Zombies, but there is a minus - you need a 2nd gamepad - Video guide (en).

Additional tips:
  • Complete PvE 100% in every location, using different characters. For finding gnomes, chests and other things, we are given character experience.
  • When going through the city 100% with Zombies and Plants, DO NOT SPEND THIS AT ALL. It will be useful to you for farming experience in Sewers for Plants.
  • All gold received (local currency), DO NOT SPEND GOLD ON COSMETICS. It would be better to buy Experience every day for 15,000 gold 5 times a day - that’s 10,000 experience per character. I advise you to pump up zombies for gold, because it takes longer and more difficult to farm experience for them. If you have a 2nd gamepad, then I advise you to upgrade at your own discretion.

IMPORTANT: We need 155,615 experience per character or 3,112,300 experience for all 20 characters.

PS Below is a spoiler with detailed information about how much experience is needed for each level and rank.
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By Vuplit on 17 Mar 2021 18:49
When farming for zombies with a second gamepad, so as not to crash due to AFK, run information about the creators of the game from the stone and pause - credits (while it works)
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By navigator_777 on 11 Sep 2021 14:03
I’ll add on my own behalf regarding Taco farming. Same sewer. A second controller is needed - a person is not required.
The advantage of this game is that everything you collected is Taco, money, etc. is not divided between two players, but falls in exactly the same amount to the second player.
You need to open the sewer for both players. Activated by any player, but only the first player kills because we pump him up, the second one stupidly moves away, but don’t forget to periodically check him so that he doesn’t get thrown out for AFK. In one run in the sewer, if you move well, you will collect 30-40 Tacos, but your second player will also receive the same amount. As soon as the first player runs out of tacos, the second player activates the picture, moves away and plays as the first player.

I am attaching my statistics on Taco - Difficulty level EASY - I did the race - Peashooter, Citron, Nibbler, Rosette
Player 1 - 67 tacos, Player 2 - 2107 tacos, respectively, the picture was launched by the second player, the plunger can be the first. (I advise the second player to give a stronger player like Citron, so that they don’t kill him)
Bottom line. Player - 2 - 72 Tacos left, Player 1 - 2619 Tacos. In the end, I ended up with a profit of 507 Tacos.
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By selvo13 on 04 Oct 2021 14:25
Glitch with the second gamepad was fixed as of 10/22/2021 does not work
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By RickSanchez1910 on 22 Oct 2021 08:59
To the above, namely:

All gold received (local currency), DO NOT SPEND GOLD ON COSMETICS. It would be better to buy Experience every day for 15,000 gold 5 times a day - that’s 10,000 experience per character. I advise you to pump up zombies for gold, because it takes longer and more difficult to farm experience for them.

It’s better to pour everything into the plants at once (cactus, rose, catfish, don’t pump them up), you pump up zombies with 2 joys much faster, but it’s not clear where to get a bunch of tacos, and there you need a lot of tacos to pump up the plants. Or run into closed matches and get 10k experience in 1 battle, and so on for 16-17 battles in one location, just to pump up the plant.
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By ZELKALF on 04 Apr 2021 15:33
Glitch with 2 gamepads still works. To speed up getting experience for zombies, do the following: start everything as before and while you are getting 11xp, go to a carefree park and stand in the very center of the place where you fell. A lot of targets appear in the area (about 15), so when you play in an open game and not in a private game, golden targets often appear that you just need to break. For each such target you get 82xp and some gold. Thus, pumping speeds up significantly. There are 10 golden targets per minute, which is 820 experience and plus you constantly get dance experience 11 experience, count it yourself. One minus is that if you are killed, you will have to start the dance again.
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By redfox2012 on 20 Nov 2021 04:40
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