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.

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.