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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:06PM (Unverified) said

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I've been playing in the UK for a few days now and the only gripe I have is the shoddy AI in the game. The team with more human players always wins and people never opt to balance teams. Self regulation doesn't work!

FEED ME CAKE!
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:11PM Shadowbender said

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FEED ME UPVOTES! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:50PM Shadowbender said

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It's called sarcasm guys.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:03PM Sly C said

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come on guys, he'll starve! we have to end world hunger, one upvote at a time!
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:28PM Shadowbender said

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*Cries in corner* I need...food.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:35PM ArchiGamer said

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I rather see someone starve, so I can start my own Anorexic Princess game. Oh, it will be good.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 5:42PM Sly C said

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not fans of sarcasm? oh well.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 6:25PM Shadowbender said

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Seriously, I thought you guys lived on sarcasm.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 11:32PM Indefinite Implosion said

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FEED ME SARCASM!!!
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 11:09AM HydrophobicFish PSN ID Hydrophob said

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HURT ME MORE, SNAKE!
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:08PM s ls said

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This game is only going to get better.
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 12:45AM BananaBoat said

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How could it not? They released it as a beta for 15 dollars, and now we are providing them with delicious data to mine for nuggets of wisdom.

Here's a list of the things that are still broken, and of why people still shouldn't buy the game:

- The AI is awful (and most matches will have at least some AI characters)
- The stalemates can go on forever (they're going to fix that next patch...wee for next patch)
- The class balance is still screwy (they gimped ice mage point scoring, but not their ability)
- The point scoring system, like the class balance system, is screwy (you'll never get over 1000 as the worker...unless you are super human)
- There is no way to know what new ways to get fabulous have gotten unlocked without changing your character and then having to manually change him back
- Host migration is still borked
- The single player campaign still has bugs up the ying yang (text appearing over text being number one on my list, not that I'll ever play the awful single player mode again)
- No matter what they say, the connection issues are still there in some capacity (it takes 2 or 3 tries for me to get into a game now, compared to 6 or 7) meaning the net code is probably awful and the source of the problem

I could go on and on. I'm frustrated at Sony (for making them release a beta) and at Titan for making a game that has so many problems folded into such a simple game. I think the failure of the game is that it's not pick up and play (a match can go for an hour) and that will probably kill the community once Modern Warfare 2 comes out (or something else of that sort).

Genius game idea, poor execution. I hope other companies can learn from this
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 1:15AM SoCoolCurt said

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i gotta agree with Bananaboat on this. i actually love the game but there are HUGE glaring problems with it. my main issues are the online connectivity (still haven't been able to play an online game yet), the text overlap during the single player was pretty annoying, and then the fact that the game is WAY too easy.

despite all that, it's still a fun game, just wish they would have waited now to release it (even though i was one begging for them to release it, but i would have made do)
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 9:21AM BananaBoat said

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The truth hurts I suppose
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:10PM NathanDTS said

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I wonder if SCEE's longer time to check patches has ever shown up anything SCEA missed.
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 3:33AM Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar said

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Yes. SSFIITHDR was delayed in Europe because of the bugs. The game was released here soon after the US patch.
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 11:56AM NathanDTS said

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Huzzah for SCEE. They did something right. Wait a minute... Weren't they minor bugs which weren't even affecting the American with the game?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:18PM jhowlett said

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the thing is if it happens on psn they'll say because it's the whole systems not good enough, if it happens elsewhere it's normal because online sometimes has unexpected problems. i just laugh when they say that type of stuff
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:31PM Marius said

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Really enjoying this game
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:42PM wardob said

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I think I will finally download Fat Princess.

I can't wait to start contributing to the health problems plaguing America!

By the way, do most people here use headsets for this game, is it really an issue if you don't have one?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:25PM Bagels said

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It seems like only a few people per match use one, so i t shouldn't be a problem. But it is, obviously, an awesome game to use a headset for.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:43PM Sly C said

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"Better yet, you can don a silly hat and start throwing cake at ladies in real life."

me & the gf do that every week! don't you guys?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:43PM Sly C said

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*once a week
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:36PM ArchiGamer said

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Do you throw it at your gf or other women, cause either way I find that entertaining.....
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:07PM Bubbameister33 said

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Isn't once a week still every week?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:43PM NathanDTS said

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Grimace = Smarty pants!
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:47PM RANDOM G Joystiq Troll Slayer said

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I prefer to throw pie. Cake, is the superior dessert and should not be wasted.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 5:45PM Sly C said

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yeah once a week is still every week, but every week isn't specific enough. saying that might mean we throw cake at each other everyday, or it might mean we throw cake at each other only 1 day a week.

and sara lee pound cake is the secret of our success. no icing, so no mess besides some crumbs :D
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 7:48PM cbarrentos said

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i've tried this trick at BBW clubs, and let me tell you... it attracts the ladies like you wouldn't believe!

...i'm just kidding.

i don't go to clubs.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:51PM JohnAHD said

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old news... this blog should update kind of faster on stuff but still come here even reading news again cuz i definitely like it better the way you guys do it overall

on the matter... i think the patch is just great it now work amazing-ly! flawlessly, even when host leaves i get into the game immediately !
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 2:56PM McWilly said

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I don't think the bf1943 case is really the same as the problems PSN has had with almost every major online game. It's gotten to a point where it's expected to happen.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:38PM ArchiGamer said

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Still want Fat Princess..........
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 12:24AM mahouneko said

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Then go buy it already. Seriously man, what's stopping you from buying Fat Princess?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:55PM Wiizer said

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McWilly, if you're going to be a troll, you have to get better at it...

Don't show up here with that weak shit.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 3:56PM McWilly said

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Obviously it ran better on PSN because there was no-where near as many people playing it on PS3 than 360. Are you being intentionally dim?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:25PM Pure Black World Tendency said

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Sorry McWilly, you may look like a Troll but you don't have the attitude. If you search the dumpsters near your local BestBuy you might be lucky and catch Sprinkles so he can give you some trolling lessons.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:43PM McWilly said

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Sorry if common sense goes over your heads guys. I guess it's my fault for trying to educate people I thought were simply mistaken but have proven themselves to be fanboy sheeple.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 5:09PM Grauw said

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Yeah the ‘this team sucks put me in the other team’ functionality doesn’t really work, you end up with 1 full team and 1 empty. Pretty much forces you to restart with a fresh game after a while.

Other than that it’s fun, and even though we don’t have the multiplayer patch yet, two out of three times I’ve played so far have been pretty lag-free fortunately. And everytime the host leaves my connection (100mbit) gets picked so I guess that helps too :).
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 5:11PM Grauw said

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Wasn’t XBox live down for the entire winter holiday period a few years ago?
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 5:48PM FreakinPuertoRican said

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This game is very fun and the patch helps alot. Before the patch it sometimes took up to 15 minutes to find a game but now it only takes one or two. The gameplay is fun and addicting, with 5 different classes that are well ballanced. The patch also got rid of the ice mage and dark priest expoits that made it way to easy to get points,( i used it 3 times and each time i got 10,000 points!!!!) I do think however the priest is unbalanced because everytime i go around healing with him I come in first easily. Also the ranking system needs to be fixed because now it ranks you based on your average number of points over the last ten games. I would much perfer an XP bar. The gametypes offer enough diversity toa llow alot of replayabilty but the main mode, Capure the Princess, takes way to long alot of the time due to the lack of people with mics and lack of a timer. I think that one person should lead attack and one should lead defense on each team and they should be able to mark wayopints for the team. This would improve the strategy a great deal. But the hack and slash gameplay and fun classes overcomes these shortcomings and if I were to rate this game i would give it a 9/10
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 7:24PM Roxas560 said

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i love cake
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 9:42PM Jacksons said

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Awesome! This game is great.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 10:00PM ToTheMoon said

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@McWilly

Okay, I'm going to bite on this one...
You say that you expect this from all PSN games even though it's not the case.

What do you say then for XBL, which you pay $50 year after year, when it flakes out several times a year (Christmas, big releases like 1943, etc..)?

You gripe about a peer to peer (and free) system that flakes out here and there but yet have nothing to say about a pay to use system that fails just slightly less than the free one? If you have nothing to say about that, then I'm going to have to agree with the troll comments posted above...

You can't rail on one system without pointing out the flaws of another. Unless of course you are a blind fanboy... then there is really no debating with you because logic will have taken a back seat to emotion.

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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 5:06AM (Unverified) said

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Sadly, I still cannot connect to any online games. I sure would like to be able to play this game I bought.
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 2:45PM (Unverified) said

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Im in the EU, and I'm enjoying the game without the patch. Chances are I'll enjoy it more once the niggle are ironed out.

Forgive my optimism, but the total lack of understanding from some of the trolls on this board HAS to be addressed.

So...FP was borked, they have patched it, problems solved. Yet the tw@s will still moan. So, would you have preferred they left it? We have your money....now f**k off. I think it shows A)dedication to the platform to perform due diligence after the fact and remedy what has gone wrong and B) shows a dev will panda to the masses and eat humble pie at it's won expense.

This happens a lot on the PSN, yes, because devs care. It'd be simple to point out that they should just release a picture perfect game from the get go but beta/test environments are a lot different that releasing it worldwide and pushing the servers to the extremes, and a lot of the problems you'll find in a title CAN only be found once in the public's hands. How quickly these issues are remedied is what should be at the forefront of peoples minds, and even tho I have yet to receive the Patch, I think Titan did a bang up job.
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Posted: Aug 9th 2009 2:49PM CrashTunoku said

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The patch changed nothing for me. I can get into games about 15% of the time instead of 10% and I've yet to be able to finish a game.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 3:08PM Erdie said

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As many have said, all it needs now is auto-balancing. Every game I join ends up becoming all humans vs CPUs. It reminds me of StarCraft when every game in the join list was 7v1 COMP STOMP~~~~
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