LittleBigPlanet 3 is getting a hefty 1.32gb update taking the game up to version 1.25 and it is scheduled to go live on Friday March 17th at 12:01am GMT. Now I know what you’re thinking, what’s so special about that? Well you can pre-load the update, it will be fed out your PlayStation 4 over the next few days and then will auto install an everyone’s machines on Friday.
“That’s a new thing! You can download the update early and install it at that time when the new update officially launches!” tweeted LBP.
Here’s a list of the new features in the update:
New Feature – Genres
Genres arrive to LittleBigPlanet and can be located under the Community menu from your Pod Computer.
Selecting this new option will take you a familiar looking menu that has replaced all your classic community categories with a range of 23 different genres including:
- 1st and 3rd Person
- Arcade
- Cinematic
- Driving
- Fighters
- Gallery
- Mini-Games
- Multiplayer
- Platform Shooters
- Platformers
- Puzzle
- RPG
- Shooters
- Social
- Sports
- Story
- Strategy
- Stylised Platformers
- Survival Challenges
- Time Trials
- Top-Down
- Tutorials
- Vehicle Shooters
New Labels
- With the arrival of the new Genres, we have added a new range of genre-defining Labels that Creators can add to their published creations or Reviewers can select as a recommended Label to describe the level.
- These new Labels have also been added to the Filters menu that can be displayed by pressing R3 in any Community Category under either Genres or Recommended to allow you to Filter for community levels that have your chosen Label as one of its most selected Labels to describe the level.
New Feature – Online Connection Quality Display
The Host Player of an Online Multiplayer session can now view the Connection Quality of other players within the Manage Players screen of the Pause Menu or by pressing R3 during gameplay.
A player’s connection rating will be displayed as such:
- Three Green Dots = Good Connection
- Two Amber Dots = Okay Connection
- One Red Dot = Bad Connection
Improved Community Browsing
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A number of improvements have been made to the in-game Community menus to reduce the number of instances where slowdown or lag may occur when browsing Community Levels.
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You may notice that the scroll speed between categories on the main Recommended and Genre menus has been reduced slightly. This is intentional to prevent the game from trying to download too much data at once and is amongst the changes that we have implemented to help optimize the overall experience.
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The other changes are more behind-the-scenes and should be less noticeable other than these combined changes should help to reduce the number instances of slowdown and lag.
TrumpyMx
Updates and bug fixes now have official launch dates? You have to wait until a predetermined time to get a bug fix? This is the point right here where human devolution started….
FluBBa
The only reason I can see must be online games where they change (some of) the networking code so you can’t play online with old server/new game, new server/old game. There would be downtime when everyone is updating their game while the server is running the new code. Todays scheme is probably also quite straining for Sony when Call of Duty releases a new patch.
I guess they test it out on LBP first to see if it works as expected.
TSBonyman
The update preload part is a bit odd but genres are a welcome addition, they should make it easier to find the type of levels i want to check out.
TheShepanator
I had all but given Lbp3 up for dead, nice to see there’s still some support. I wonder if all the bugs are FINALLY fixed.
They really need to revisit the idea of a f2p LBP game, with all the content of all 3 games available (yes I mean the campaigns too!!), with a slick and refined front end. The Lbp3 menus are bloated and full of redundancies (and removing the joyous ability to browse around the badges of a planet directly instead of by proxy just down a list is a horrific sin)
I did enjoy Lbp3 and it’s by no means bad, but it just seems flabby and unrefined compared to the first two games. A proper f2p re-release would give them the opportunities to fix those problems, while bringing in new players and giving the community a better platform for long term survival.