Proto:Plants vs. Zombies 3/Pre-September 2021

This is a sub-page of Proto:Plants vs. Zombies 3.

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?

To do: Way more unused plants and zombies, [use this as a staring point]. Make comparisons (and discuss differences) with later post-September 2021 builds. A far bit more.

Plants vs. Zombies 3 made its first debut when it was released on Android devices for pre-alpha testing on July 16, 2019 mainly for users in the United States and Canada. This pre-alpha ended on February 10, 2020 and the game would enter a soft launch on February 25, 2020 in select countries, namely the Philippines, Romania, and Indonesia.

Owing to frosty reception from fans, PopCap and EA would scrap everything and restart with a new direction, with the soft launch made unavailable on November 18, 2020 to make way for these changes. Thanks to this change in direction, any unused content seen here will likely remain unused in the foreseeable future.

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Differences A whole lot of differences.

Unused Text

Mega Minions

"UNIT_NAME_BROWNCOATMB": "Mega-Zombie"
"UNIT_DESC_BROWNCOATMB": "So huge! Where do they shop for coats?" 
"UNIT_FLAVOR_BROWNCOATMB": " "

"UNIT_NAME_FLAGMB": "Mega-Flag Zombie"
"UNIT_DESC_FLAGMB": "They wave their ginormous flag to speed up all zombies on the lawn!" 
"UNIT_FLAVOR_FLAGMB": " "

"UNIT_NAME_IMPMB": "Mega-Imp"
"UNIT_DESC_IMPMB": "This little one is huge—a real Jumbo Imp! When defeated, he pops into 4 Imps. Don't ask where he kept them!"
"UNIT_FLAVOR_IMPMB": " "

Some unused text relating to scrapped Mega Minions.

Brainiacs

"ZOMBIE_ROLE_BOSSNITRO": "Nana Nitro Minion"
"ZOMBIE_ROLE_BOSSRECLUSE": "Brown Recluse Minion"
"ZOMBIE_ROLE_BOSSSMASH": "The Smash Minion"

Mentions of scrapped Brainiacs that do not appear in the final game.

Unused Plants

Acorn Oak

A plant based on Acorn and Oak from Battle For Neighborville, Acorn Oak can fire shells that home in on the left-most zombie on the lawn. It's plant food effect, Super Sappy, fires a spiral of acorn shells that slow zombies they hit. It's tacobility, Wood Grief, makes it gain a third acorn, plus a cannon that deals heavy damage with a chance to knock back zombies.

Seeds of Destruction

Splash Screen description

To the Acorns, every battle has a taste, and that taste is always fudge. Good thing they like fudge. Oak, on the other leaf, is more of a nougat guy, so he concentrates on military logistics, which (for the record) taste like nougat.

Flavor text.

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PVZ 2017 Leftovers

To do: Scoop though anything from early pvz3 builds and archive them here. Where is this from? If it is from one of the test builds, it should be documented on this page.