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Fat Princess |OT| Misogynistic Cake
- Thread starter KilgoreTrout
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I have collected a bit more data for the curious.
By the way: I also experience lag most of the time. I think if the Snail in the lower left corner is completely still it is particulary bad.
Code:
| Attempt | Start | End | Success | Wait in Min |
|---------+------------------------+------------------------+---------+-------------|
| 1 | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:43> | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:44> | No | 1 |
| 2 | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:45> | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:46> | No | 1 |
| 3 | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:48> | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:49> | No | 1 |
| 4 | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:49> | <2009-07-31 Fri 04:51> | Yes | 2 |
| 5 | <2009-07-31 Fri 05:22> | <2009-07-31 Fri 05:23> | No | 1 |
...
| 45 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:32> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:33> | No | 1 |
| 46 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:33> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:35> | No | 2 |
| 47 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:35> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:36> | No | 1 |
| 48 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:36> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:38> | No | 2 |
| 49 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:38> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:39> | No | 1 |
| 50 | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:39> | <2009-07-31 Fri 15:40> | Yes | 1 |
|---------+------------------------+------------------------+---------+-------------|
| Results | | | 26% | 1.1 |By the way: I also experience lag most of the time. I think if the Snail in the lower left corner is completely still it is particulary bad.
Purist said:
It does tell you. When you get close to a machine, it should tell you what you need in order for it to be upgraded. If there's a brown number, then you need more wood (by bringing it to an outpost or base). If it's silver, then you need more metal.
If there's a green construction thingy, it means it can be upgraded.
EDIT: Haha MAN am I slow. Beaten hardcore.:lol
You can deliver to towers now as well. In the Beta you could only deliver at base buildings.eznark said:
Delivering material and upgrading buildings are separate processes.Purist said:
All materials go into a common pool. To upgrade a building stand next to it, hold R1 and Square.
3 logs and 3 metals are required to upgrade a machine, yeah, but a machine will never upgrade by itself. Once you have a stock of at least 3 wood and 3 metal (there's an icon in the top right side of the screen that shows how many resources you have) a worker needs to go over to the machine of their choice and hold L1 and square to upgrade it. (it actually doesn't matter which building you deliver the wood or metal to... even outposts work, as long as your team is in possession of it)Purist said:
Mr.NiceGuy
Banned
so buy or no buy ?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I seen that. Prior to game setup of course but I couldn't do it between rounds.Drame said:
And as an added bonus, the cable company just came and changed my feed wires to the main boxes. I should be even faster now. Either way I can host a full 32p match so GAF better represent when I start the games later.
KilgoreTrout
Banned
GAF game going on right now. Add me if you're interested. Just look at my profile for my PSN.
ChackanKun
Member
One thing that bothers me (other than the connection problems) is the in-game map. The damn thing occupies half the screen lol :lol
Re: Worker
The worker is useful as defense/support throughout the entire game. If you keep gathering resources (particularly wood) even after everything is upgraded, you will be able to rebuild doors and stuff when they get broken. Repairing your castle doors costs resources. If you've ever tried to rebuild a door and nothing was happening--it's because you have no resources to fix it with!
Having a good stash of resources even after everything is upgraded makes defending go smoother.
The upgraded bombs also work quite well for defense. I managed to take on one upgraded warrior with my own worker by myself yesterday, dodging his lunging attacks and chucking bombs during his 'recovery'. I'm sure he was cursing
The worker is useful as defense/support throughout the entire game. If you keep gathering resources (particularly wood) even after everything is upgraded, you will be able to rebuild doors and stuff when they get broken. Repairing your castle doors costs resources. If you've ever tried to rebuild a door and nothing was happening--it's because you have no resources to fix it with!
Having a good stash of resources even after everything is upgraded makes defending go smoother.
The upgraded bombs also work quite well for defense. I managed to take on one upgraded warrior with my own worker by myself yesterday, dodging his lunging attacks and chucking bombs during his 'recovery'. I'm sure he was cursing
VGChampion
Member
eznark said:
There's a story mode?
:lol I thought it was online only. Sweet, I'll have to check it out.
RubxQub
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Charging up the bomb and hucking it into the fray is always good times.JKTrix said:Re: Worker
The worker is useful as defense/support throughout the entire game. If you keep gathering resources (particularly wood) even after everything is upgraded, you will be able to rebuild doors and stuff when they get broken. Repairing your castle doors costs resources. If you've ever tried to rebuild a door and nothing was happening--it's because you have no resources to fix it with!
Having a good stash of resources even after everything is upgraded makes defending go smoother.
The upgraded bombs also work quite well for defense. I managed to take on one upgraded warrior with my own worker by myself yesterday, dodging his lunging attacks and chucking bombs during his 'recovery'. I'm sure he was cursing
I usually go worker until I upgrade all of the hat machines and then go priest the rest of the game unless the team has no workers at all.
Priests are where it's at man...
Juggernaut
Member
JKTrix said:Re: Worker
The worker is useful as defense/support throughout the entire game. If you keep gathering resources (particularly wood) even after everything is upgraded, you will be able to rebuild doors and stuff when they get broken. Repairing your castle doors costs resources. If you've ever tried to rebuild a door and nothing was happening--it's because you have no resources to fix it with!
Having a good stash of resources even after everything is upgraded makes defending go smoother.
The upgraded bombs also work quite well for defense. I managed to take on one upgraded warrior with my own worker by myself yesterday, dodging his lunging attacks and chucking bombs during his 'recovery'. I'm sure he was cursing
Also i'm pretty sure that the workers destroy stuff faster then the other classes. So they are good if you want to take down the opposite team doors or their siege weapons.
Mushroom021
Member
I cant wait to buy it today!!!! Looks awesome!
Communication isn't a must it's an awesome game, if something needs to be done someone will shout up over VC.
Just wish you could connect to on-line games quicker and catapults wouldn't break when there's a small amount of lag. Don't let that put anyone off though I think I'm addicted to it :s
Just wish you could connect to on-line games quicker and catapults wouldn't break when there's a small amount of lag. Don't let that put anyone off though I think I'm addicted to it :s
True, it isn't. It's my experience and maybe it's useful for the several people that couldn't join any game at all. They can see how high my chances were to get into a game and that it took me more than 6 tries once. It's just one additional data point for people to consider.depward said:
My PS3 is wireless, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. I can stop Fat Princess and get a great Killzone 2 game in, start Fat Princess again and the experience is just as it was before.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Can't predict the future. Play it yourself and see. It has that TF quality. Not the best question to ask as it's not answerable.10dollas said:
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Drame said:
Would love to play with some fellow GAFers but currently don't have a working bluetooth headset
Is that a problem? Don't wanna be left out of the chat or anything so just interested to know on average how many use headsets.Add me too, decon89. Is there a gaf chat room up and running?euro stalker said:
Played the game for about an hour last night. Got it free from a buddy of mine. Didn't have many expections before playing. So I start up the game and the first thing you see is the awesome menu. This game just has humor spelled all over it. The graphical style is up there with AAA titles. Each class is fun to play, even the worker class is fun to play. Online system works fine for me, and there seems to be a proper invite/friend system in place. I love the fastpaced "arcady" gameplay. It's so easy to get into yet there seems to be much depth when it comes to strats, class choice etc. I only played a 8-player match. First I thought it was the max and I actually didn't mind. It was great fun wiht only 8-players, can't wait to play with more people tonight! It's TF2 of downloadable games!
This game is less fun than I expected for some reason. It almost feels like there are too many people in a game at a time.
Also it was pretty disappointing that in the first minute after booting up the game I saw an obvious B bug that I can't believe made it past QA. When the can't connect to host screen came up I hit the button to continue and the text and button prompt remained on the screen even though normal menu functionality had returned.
And the fact that it takes so damn long to actually get into a game just makes it even more annoying.
Also it was pretty disappointing that in the first minute after booting up the game I saw an obvious B bug that I can't believe made it past QA. When the can't connect to host screen came up I hit the button to continue and the text and button prompt remained on the screen even though normal menu functionality had returned.
And the fact that it takes so damn long to actually get into a game just makes it even more annoying.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
bluemax said:
Yeah, I've had this problem a few times too. Also happened to me today when playing single player
Rummy Bunnz
Member
I figured that snail had to be ping related, but the one time I saw it was during the one game I played that didn't have anyone lagging all over the place! Maybe that means I was the warping lagger that time...bandresen said:
Sure seems to me like most folks in this thread are having connection issues. Glad you're not having issues but please don't act like people who can't play are raising a big stink over nothing.depward said:
Also wireless vs wired really shouldn't make a difference when trying to join an online game.