We’re also very happy to announce that Patch 1.06 activates the new Fat Princess Party feature!

Due to the overwhelming fan response, Patch1.06 delivers four-player same-console co-op for FREE to everyone who owns Fat Princess! Fans will be able to enjoy [...]]]> I received this update from the playstation blog and decided it was worth posting:

We’re also very happy to announce that Patch 1.06 activates the new Fat Princess Party feature!

Due to the overwhelming fan response, Patch1.06 delivers four-player same-console co-op for FREE to everyone who owns Fat Princess! Fans will be able to enjoy couch co-op in both online and offline games. Players will also be able to re-spawn at outposts, which adds a whole new level of co-op strategy to all gaming modes and levels.

And that’s not all. We’ve also included clan tags and password-protected games to make playing with your friends even more easy and fun.

And for those of you who have heard about the game, but have not yet sampled the cake…what are you waiting for? Go ahead and download the Full Fat Princess game on June 29 for just $14.99. It includes everything from the initial release updated all the way through Patch 1.06, so you get all of this great content (all original maps plus four recently released new maps, party feature, clan tags and loads of enhancements) in one fell swoop.

Stay tuned, see you all on the battlefield, and as always…

Cake for everyone,

The Fat Princess Team

On Tuesday June 29, our favorite heiress to the throne will get a little added bulk thanks to our good friends at Atomic Operations, and we can’t wait for all you Fat Princess fans to check it out!

Fat Princess Fat Roles DLC (USD $4.99) unleashes Pirates, Ninjas and Giants (oh my!) into the world of Fat Princess. These three new character classes bring a whole new level of awesomeness to the frenzied 32-player battles alongside our beloved royal beauty.

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Patch 1.04 which includes a new, FREE city-themed map called Brownie Town as well as some online ranking fixes. See you on the battlefield.

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 [...]]]> 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.

Game System Tweaks

• The host’s ability to kick and ban players has been removed.
• The ability for players to switch teams in the 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, 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.

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Has anyone out there experienced [...]]]> From Titan’ s Blog: “After receiving countless images and YouTube videos from our fans, we have successfully reproduced and debugged the wackiness of the missing Princesses.  The collision error that was discovered also helped us to fix the Hat Machines that sometimes forgot to spit out hats.” Great Job Titan.

Has anyone out there experienced a buy where the camera zooms in way to close and you can’t see your character?  I’m talking barely above the ground/and cut into higher areas zoomed in.

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Our primary focus with this patch was to improve connections and reduce lag.  We also addressed the AoE scoring exploits, a few other [...]]]> Only American players have received the patch so far. European Fat Princess fans will have to wait a week, but it will definitely be worth it.  From the Titan Blog:

Patch Notes

Our primary focus with this patch was to improve connections and reduce lag.  We also addressed the AoE scoring exploits, a few other scoring imbalances, and made minor tweaks that should reduce stalemates.  Here are the details:

• The server selection heuristic has been modified so that ping time has been more heavily weighted when selecting potential matches.  This will result in players being connected to games in such a way that game population and ping are more evenly weighted.
• Newly hosted servers will be more attractive to potential clients and thus fill up more quickly. The change will also better distribute connection attempts among servers and thus reduce failed attempts.
• Potential servers will be given less time to respond to ping requests.  This should speed up that portion of the connection process.
• Selected servers will be given more time to establish a connection, resulting in fewer failed attempts.
• The connection code is less sensitive to packets coming back out of order.  This was a cause of failed connections.
• Ice Mage and Dark Priest AoE scoring has been adjusted from 10 points to 2 points per enemy affected.
• Non-worker resource return has been reduced from 20 points to 10 points.
• Feeding the princess has been reduced from 20 points to 15 points.
• Castle door hit points have been reduced slightly from 30 to 25.
• The Princess’ calorie burn has been increased at weight stage 2, 3, and 4.  Calorie burn was previously 2 per second at all stages.  Stage 2 is now 4 per second, stage 3 is 8 per second, and stage 4 is 12 per second.

I’ve personally noticed that finding a game has gone from a try and fail, try and fail situation that took 2-3 minutes a try to getting into games within a minute of choosing jump in.    That should silence 90% of the whiners.  Lag issues have also mostly gone away.  Thanks Titan.

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