This Tuesday Sony are releasing the “Fat Roles” add-on pack for the evergreen Fat Princess. The five dollar pack includes three new classes – pirates, ninjas and giants – and, more importantly, a new option to allow up to four players on the same PS3, which will massively improve communications and team planning, something the game has been blighted with since the beginning.
It seems that the new classes will be activated via a ‘multi-class’ spawner, which suggests it’s random which you get, but with the pirates having cannonball attacks, ninjas the ability to hide in the shadows and giants that can cause earthquakes, it probably doesn’t really matter.
The DLC will also be accompanied by a free patch (taking the game to 1.06) which will allow four-player same-console co-operative play, which is a most welcome new feature. Four players will now be able to use the same PS3 in both online and offline games, and the players will also be able to spawn at outposts, creating an almost Battlefield-esque twist to the tactics.
Patch 1.06 also adds clan tags, new Trophies and password protected games, so hopefully we’ll be getting in on the action here at TSA if anyone fancies a game.
Nauraph
Hmm.. this sounds interesting. I think this will lure me back to stealing fat princesses, but now wíth friends.
ProjectJAY
Let there be cake!
…especially for me, ‘cos it’s my 18th :)
TSBonyman
Let there be Beer! Have a good ‘un. :)
tonycawley
Never played it. I was put off by the fact that it completely hinges on teamwork, yet there’s a total lack of headsets on psn. The same problem blighted the potentially excellent mag, making most games more about doing your own thing as opposed to working cooperatively to achieve objectives. Shame really.
aerobes
This is very welcome news, an already good game … made great, cheers nofi. (+ happy b-day ProjectJAY)
gybrocker
my fatty princess im coming back to youuuuu…..sorry i went away i was aways i was shooting noobs in battlefield badcompany2 but now im back…..(um but not sure for how long though)
kevatron400
This is brilliant news! I’m always in search of local 4-players, and this already great game just got better for me! Role on Tuesday.
GhostViper
Wow, this will be fun. Didn’t they tease with pirates and Ninjas for a long time ago?
smokeybeef
This sounds like a much-needed update. The main problem with the game was lack of split-screen and slow, long games.
Now we can do split-screen (and online no less!). Plus the outpost spawning should speed up games and add a bit more strategy.
smokeybeef
Or of course, rather than adding strategy, it could just end up being sheer brute force, but meh.
TSBonyman
Not a huge fan but that seems a decent update.
boboboba
YES! I have been waiting so long to play this locally. But by the video it looked like you all had to be in the same part of the screen at all times. Which would totally turn me off of this DLC.