Fat Princess CAG Night - SUNDAY (3/28) Friendlies @ 5PM PST (IRC @ 4:30)

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Calling all Fat Princess fans!



Today is a great day indeed. Your faithful developers at Titan Studios and team at Sony Santa Monica Studio are extremely happy to announce that after careful thought and great labor, Patch 1.03 is complete and ready for imminent release.
Patch 1.03 contains the awesome New Pork city level, and due to the amazing support we have received from the community, we have decided to release the map for free! Yes you heard us right, for free!



Just as important, we have implemented many fixes and tweaks to make the game better than ever. The Fat Princess demo will also go live with the release of 1.03, so everyone who has been dying to try out the game can finally check it out. Huzzah, cake and candy confetti (see below, if you please) for everyone!

1.03 Patch Notes
After playing innumerable games, reading the forums and piles of email, and reviewing all the great feedback we received from you, the fans, we have made a variety of tweaks to the gameplay balance and systems to ensure the game stays fair, fresh and as fun as ever.
Here is a full breakdown of all the changes that can be found in the upcoming patch:

New Map

  • A brand new awesome city map has been added called New Pork…and it’s free!
Game System Tweaks

  • The host’s ability to kick and ban players has been removed.
  • The ability for players to switch teams post-game is now restricted so that sides cannot be unbalanced by more than 2 players.
  • A new switching team system has been implemented during matches: * If there is a deficit of 2 players between teams, the weaker team will drop a team colored ball on the death of a player.
    * Picking up the colored ball switches a player’s team and rewards them with a 300 point bonus.
    * So…get the ball.
  • The 10 game average ranking system has been removed.
  • A new ranking system has been implemented, which adds rank points for every game based on the player’s score.
  • Awarded ranking titles will now never go down once earned.
  • Online leaderboards have been increased to display all players not just the top 1000.
  • All online leaderboards are to be reset shortly after patch 1.03 is released, but all unlocked customizations and trophies will remain unlocked. You will not lose them.
Main Bug Fixes

  • The Princess disappearing bug has been fixed.
  • The issue with statistics and trophies not saving correctly has been fixed.
Character Balancing

  • The Dark Priest’s lock-on range has been reduced.
  • The Dark Priest’s drain ability has been slightly reduced.
  • The Ranger now has larger movement penalty when locked on and charging attacks.
  • The Adv. Ranger has a smaller shot dispersion and increased damage per shot.
  • The Warrior’s attack damage has been increased slightly.
  • The Warrior’s movement speed has been increased slightly when locked on and charging attacks.
  • The Warrior’s 360 degree protect when his shield is raised has been increased from 20% to 40%
  • Warrior’s Lock on range increased to match Ranger to stop class being hit from behind when retreating
  • Warriors weapon collision box increased in size to aid with hit detection
  • Adv Warrior speed increased slightly when locked on and charging to match his normal movement speed
  • Adv Warrior damage increased
  • Adv Worker’s bomb knockback force removed
  • Princess calorie burn decreased slightly in weight state 3 and 4
Control Tweaks

  • Two new control schemes have been implemented to allow players to use the R1 button to attack and to free the player’s right hand for target switching. This is AWESOME.
Scoring Updates

  • New switching team bonus added of 300 points.
  • Princess rescue score increased to 300 points.
  • Princess rescue assistance bonus increased to 150 points.
  • Princess escort bonus increased to 75 points.
  • Win game scoring reduced to 150 points.
  • Match completion bonus added of 75 points.
  • Average Rank bonus award removed for games won under 3 minutes.
  • Bonus score for winning games in under 3 minutes removed.
Additional Tweaks

  • Candy confetti added as a special effect when blood is turned off. Check this out – it is really cool.
  • All loading screens now in color.
  • Loading screens now allow players to scroll to next and previous tips during the load.
We look forward to slaughtering you – ahem, seeing you – on the battlefield!


Cake for everyone,

The Fat Princess Team
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Yay! Bug Fixes! Free Map ...and character balancing? Oh noes! :whee:
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']Why the hell would they take out the ability to kick and ban players?[/QUOTE]

I have no idea, but it might have something to do with keeping both teams balanced, though that's only a wild guess. :whistle2:k

[quote name='brighenne']Less worker knockback!? BLASPHEMY!

Also, no more winning under 3 minute bonus just plain makes me sad :([/QUOTE]

Doubly agreed. Less worker knockback sucks, and I don't see why they have to reduce those bonus points... I mean, where's the motivation!? :nottalking:
 
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[quote name='brighenne']Less worker knockback!? BLASPHEMY!
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Boo! So a worker can't hold a checkpoint by himself as good anymore :lol:

Warrior sounds useful now, can't wait to try out the new controls.
 
[quote name='brighenne']Less worker knockback!? BLASPHEMY!

Also, no more winning under 3 minute bonus just plain makes me sad :([/QUOTE]

Somehow I managed to read that both of these were reduced and not removed, the first time through. That is terrible.
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']According to the blog comments, the patch will be out on Thursday.[/QUOTE]
Thursday? ugh, one day late.... I just wanted to get in on the bitching
 
Nice patch, never been a huge fan of developer "balancing" because it's generally a slippery slope where they constantly have to mess with it and continue to jack it up... but New Pork City = win.
 
Pfff, uh huh... yeah sure. :speaktothehand:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsUdZrG1Fpo[/media]

Get ready to lose Team Blue. We've already mastered our master plan. :applause:
Get ready to lose Team Blue. We've already mastered our master plan. :applause:
 
Last set of games before the patch goes up next week. Here's hoping we (team blue) can break the losing streak :bomb:

Definitely excited for next week, maybe we can start doing our full-on CAG clan if the update gets more people playing.
 
[quote name='evergoo']Get ready to lose Team Red. I have laid out the Master Plan. :cool:[/QUOTE]

Ahhh but will your allies follow, Evergoo. There are cries of a lack of leadership and whispers of a mutiny. Or not, and I'm just talking out of my ass. lol

As always, it shall be epic -- and Red shall be victorious.*

* Provided we all arrive in a timely manner ... *cough*Kandal*cough*
 
I would just like to take a minute to congratulate Blue on your first win in CAG-vs-CAG. Now having said that, I hope to never say it again. GO RED!!

I kid. Seriously, great games tonight. Red will come back stronger.
 
[quote name='Apollo Creed']I would just like to take a minute to congratulate Blue on your first win in CAG-vs-CAG. Now having said that, I hope to never say it again. GO RED!!

I kid. Seriously, great games tonight. Red will come back stronger.[/QUOTE]

Second that. The last two matches were outstanding. Go Red.
 
Red for life!! I had a really great time tonight, Although we lost I still feel it was a solid finally Cag vs Cag for real Night. Congratulation to the blue team for finally putting up a front against the Red. I was really getting bored of winning. Great game and I do wish the blue team to continue their tough battles in the near future. Because playing a lop sided win every night wasn't just as fun. Good Game - Kandal
 
I'm stil upset i haven't reached King before the patch. On the plus side I think I figured out how you can grind up your rank but it requires like 12 people working in tandem.
 
[quote name='Wolfkin']I'm stil upset i haven't reached King before the patch. On the plus side I think I figured out how you can grind up your rank but it requires like 12 people working in tandem.[/QUOTE]

Grinding up your rank is easy. Just play games of soccer by yourself. Get the fire mage hat and just cast the AOE over and over. Most everyone stays in close quarters in soccer so it's easy to get 6K per game.

[quote name='brighenne']Yeah, the highest I ever got was duke...but I justify it because I got to king in the beta, haha.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I got up to duke once, never king though.
 
CAG Night bump.

I'm at 90% on trophies. Just need the 20 princess escorts and gladiator trophy. Trophy boosting on Soccer ftw!
 
GGs everyone. Wednesdays are turning out to be black sheep days with poor attendance.

In regards to who was tonight's overall winner, I'd say it was a tie. We each won 1 game as 4-on-4; Dmunkee got screwed one game and he was our base guarder so we lost that game; then the last game was 2 of my Blue crew on Team Red. If you guys want to claim the victory go ahead.

Anyways, Sunday will be CAG's meaty day. :D
 
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In regards to who was tonight's overall winner, I'd say it was a tie. We each won 1 game as 4-on-4; Dmunkee got screwed one game and he was our base guarder so we lost that game; then the last game was 2 of my Blue crew on Team Red. If you guys want to claim the victory go ahead.

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We claim victory... ;)
 
Ah hell, mark it as a NC -- No Contest. Too many issues this evening.

Evergoo, you weren't by chance trying to take advantage of a glitched princess now were you? ;) I noticed quite a few 5 man rushes. Only after the 40th failed attempt did you exit and rejoin. lol

I kid.

Good games. Glitched princess did drive me nuts, though. Here's hoping the patch fixes it.
 
[quote name='Kandal']Let's just count Sundays!! all in favor say CAKE ME!![/QUOTE]

The biggest problem with todays game is that it always felt like we were missing someone. It's like if the lakers were up 3-0 in the nba finals and Coach Phil Jackson gets on Playstation home instead of showing up for the game, basically I'm saying someone let the team down.
 
[quote name='jrsmaster411']The biggest problem with todays game is that it always felt like we were missing someone. It's like if the lakers were up 3-0 in the nba finals and Coach Phil Jackson gets on Playstation home instead of showing up for the game, basically I'm saying someone let the team down.[/QUOTE]
Get used to it. He was chatting with me on AIM during the games and orgasming over the L4D2 demo or something..
 
[quote name='jrsmaster411']The biggest problem with todays game is that it always felt like we were missing someone. It's like if the lakers were up 3-0 in the nba finals and Coach Phil Jackson gets on Playstation home instead of showing up for the game, basically I'm saying someone let the team down.[/QUOTE]
Phil Jackson?! Who the hell cares about him. All you need is Kobe
Freaky
. Besides, we're just playing for fun and kicks. Like some of us have already mentioned, Sunday will be D-Day. :evil:
 
Maybe I should have added one of these :lol: in my post. I was kidding. We could beat Team Blue with the Lakers bench. We're more like the Western All-Stars.
 
wow, i havent played in a while. i was struggling to remember what the buttons were. i must have spent a few minutes trying to figure out why i couldnt pick up a hat. Who the hell uses "O" instead of "X"?

and I only caught the end of the last game by joining blue. ive been reading at how bad blue is. But I didnt expect that there would be the minimal number of upgrades in a late game and the red has tons of shit. I probably had one of the worst games that i remember.
 
Dude I did show up for last night game. We manage to get 2-1. Blue team got us on The Gorge map again. Because Clockwork and I were a bit off page. We talked it over and now our plan is clear. As for playstation home.. that was My wife. I was on Left 4 Dead Demo for the whole night until around 10.20 PM EST

At the same time That's no excuse. I do apologize to my teammates. Hope you guys will forgive me and give me some CAKE please =)
 
patch is LIVE!!!!!

one griefer nearly cost me the first game. spent the entire time bombing our own walls and since they removed kick there's nothing to be done about it. just a terrible terrible way to start
 
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New Pork City is gigantic. Not sure how I feel about the map itself yet. It seems like it might be too big. Which could make it one of those horribly long stages if our CAG vs. CAG turnouts are low. Still, the few games I've hopped on seemed to fill up pretty fast, so our CAG vs the world games should see more competition. Not sure how the team switching/balancing will affect things though.

The new controls are great (secondary control C, I believe) letting you attack with R1, getting rid of zoom and mapping strafe to L2. Definitely makes healing teammates (if their name isn't ChibiJosh) much easier.

Like Wolfkin said, not being able to boot players seems like a huge mistake on Titan's part.
 
you know I lied to dmunkee during the game. I told him I would miss the claw shape your hand takes when you're healing and switching people. After spending 5 minutes playing with myself I will never go back to style a or b. I'm on D for the moment but I completely forgot to even see what C looks like.

New Pork City is definitely a HUGE map. and has a lot of vertical space too. I'm seeing ladders that take you to rooftops but I don't see where the rooftops lead yet. I see one sewer pipe exit without a known entrance yet. trees, doors, and trampolines everywhere. It's going to be insane. and yeah there's no way we do this map with less than say 28 people. I was playing with myself and it took me about 20-30 minutes to get 13 wood and 6 metal (worker+catapult+ladder). You can do that in (heck even) great gorge in like notime.

maybe with the new ranking system I'll be able to break into the gender ranks. I've been stuck at Warlord for forever. My main classes haven't been touched too much but I did notice a distinct lack of punch with my bombs now.

I guess what we need now from Titan is to bring back kick and rooms. I'd settle for something as sloppy as a keyword that took everyone to the same game. Imagine how much easier CAG night would be if all you had to do was enter the word CAG to get in the game.
 
[quote name='dmunkee'] Definitely makes healing teammates (if their name isn't ChibiJosh) much easier.[/QUOTE]
Whatever. You were healing me just fine when I got the princess on that one level. I think most of the time you choose not to heal me. :lol:
 
Been messing around with the tweaked warrior. He's definitely improved a little, Though my only proof is that I'm doing a little bit better with him in gladiate mode. Still can't beat it though :lol:
 
[quote name='dmunkee']Been messing around with the tweaked warrior. He's definitely improved a little, Though my only proof is that I'm doing a little bit better with him in gladiate mode. Still can't beat it though :lol:[/QUOTE]

Agreed. He seems to be improved, but I can still only get to wave 9 in gladiate. :bomb:
 
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