Jeff Rubenstein over at PlayStation.Blog recently got a chance to check out Fat Princess' new stompin' grounds at the game's demo booth at PAX -- you'll find his video preview of the Roman-esque New Pork arena posted after the jump. The map not only possesses a visual aesthetic that stands out from the title's pre-existing levels, it's also got a neat instant-travel sewer system and a central resource hub that should lend itself to some fairly hectic skirmishes.
Also discussed in the video is the upcoming content patch, which will renovate the ranking system, balance the classes a bit and make the team switching mechanic less exploitable. Not discussed are the quartet of new classes hinted at by Titan Studios last month. We want -- nay, we need ninjas in this game.
when are they going to release the demo for this game? i need a try it out first before i buy it SONY. Why can't PSN be like XBL where every game comes out with a demo.
did the US get a demo? I hate switching between accounts just to download a demo. It's fucking stupid. Just give us the demo. The fact that they can;t co-ordinate these things is stupid.
I get what you are saying Levi but if you are saying you hate switching accounts then that means you already have one setup...it take all of 15 seconds to switch accounts and sign into the PS store....lol
Posted on 11 September, 2009 at 8:37 am by Mike Kebby "We’ve unfortunately been told to remove the Fat Princess demo from the store, seems we released it a bit too early :("
Aggie, that makes sense, but I get major connection issues when I go from account to account. As in, I won't be able to get online at all. The only thing that seems to fix it is to change the account that automatically logs in at boot and restart the system... Then I'll forget, and in the case of at least one recent game, I'll have my game stats, saves, and trophies for that game on a separate account.
Minor complaint with technical difficulties aside, but it's still annoying.
Nice....would be nice if they gave us this for free....
Can't wait for the added characters....I wonder when and where those will come from...I mean some of the maps don't have ROOM for anymore hat machines in the bases...
The map with the bases having breakable walls has room for at least two hat machines to the right (or left) of the main gate, where the flower gardens are. I'm sure they can just update the maps/bases so there's plenty of room.
yea that one has room...but the Ship doesnt....the 2 lava maps don't have any room for more hat machines...unless they put them in the middle of walkways
The only thing that needs fixing is the ability to sabotage the enemy's hat machines. On Team Deathmatch there's nothing to do once you get into the enemy's base but get man-handled by newly spawned players.
The enemy team should have to constantly worry about managing their weapons (i.e. hat machines) because fairly experienced teams manage to upgrade everything within 4-5 minutes of a match. After that it's pure bum rushing the enemy base.
Also, there should be an indicator somewhere that let's you see how many people on your team are in each class. This way you can be able to see what class needs more people assisting in. This could be put in the mini-map by pushing Select.
Other than these two things the game is fantastic.
hell I like being able to get in their base and reak havoc with their bombs....I get SOOO many kills that way its ridiculous...not to mention I usually take out their castle doors as well...
"The enemy has capture an Outpost" "We have captured an Outpost" "The enemy castle has been breached" "They have capture the prisoner" "We have the princess"
I guess it didn't really bother me, but the fact that I can hear his voice in my head just by reading those lines and I've only played Fat Princess for a few minutes says a lot
Nice eye, I believe that was a ninja. Interesting how it doesn't really have any identifying colors. Must be their way of having a spy, wonder what its upgrade will be!
There will be no correcting, you are correct. You can tell because no class in Fat Princess moves that quickly. You can see someone even puts his hand across the camera to point it out.
Sorry but you are being corrected. You can see the villager pop in and run to a hat machine. He just has black hair... what looked like prison handles and dark skin. He bouncing around like that because its a villager and villagers move exactly like that.
this game needs much better siege weapons and maybe a beefy mode like castle crashers, this game has something but really needs to be refined, i have a feeling that they are gonna add a lot of stuff to the point where it changes dramaticly kind like warhawk
I wonder is these updates will allow me to find a good game more often. Cause right now, I have so many connection issue, I've all but given up on the game. I really think this game would have benefited form either dedicated servers or a lower player count in game say 10v10, cause at 16v16 just seems to put too much stress on my cable modem :(
Wait.. *thats* how the ranking system worked? It used your average points gained from the most recent 10 games to decide your rank? No wonder it didn't make sense!
