Comedy, Chaos,
Creativity, Competition…and Community. Those are the five C’s that govern PAIN’s
development process. At times that last C really makes me nervous. I think it’s
because I have to make decisions and then come back and vet them with you all.
Sometimes those choices are awesome (PAINLabs). Occasionally they are less so
(Online multiplayer delays). Sometimes they are both. Like today. So lets get
that bad news out of the way…
The Bad News
Amusement Park will release
in September, but not 9-4 like we originally planned. The reason for this delay
was at least in part due to our retooling the PlayStation®Network trophies.
The Good News
When I posted the
trophies on the Official Blog there was a fair amount of hoopla about the
difficulty of the trophies. The hoopla over them caused us to change one trophy
immediately (Harder Dicks Balls) from Bronze to Silver. Then we went about
making the final version.
While we were testing it
became apparent to quite a few people that although the trophies were
achievable they began to resemble the tedious level grinds in MMOs and not the
spoils for being good (or experienced) at PAIN. So that 5th C
was staring me in the face again.
See Travis, they told
you this on the blog. Whatcha gonna do?
So when you tell people
that you listen to them, you need to try to mean it.
So we thought rather
than making people play PAIN for the trophies, it might be a better idea
to let people play PAIN because it’s REALLY FUN and let the earned trophies
come from that experience. If you collect the majority of these trophies in PAIN
there is no doubt you know how to play well and that’s more important than you
spending your life playing PAIN. That’s my job. You’re supposed to be
having fun.
What follows are the
brand new trophy requirements for Downtown and the Amusement Park. Adjusted for
“normal” PAIN players and not all the mutants that are on the top 10
list.
GOLD TROPHIES
-
King of Pain: Get All Downtown Trophies plus Trill and Grenade-a-Maid
- Affliction Addiction: Get One 100 Million Points in Downtown (Change
from 1 Billion)
SILVER TROPHIES
-
Harder Dick’s Balls: Get all of Dicks Balls in the Block Party
Dumpster w/o reset
-
Rodeo Clown: Use Ed to Explode 500
barrels in Clown Toss (Change from 5,000)
-
Ninja pwn: Hit the Target Stuffed Ninja in every Amusement Park Mode
-
2 Mill Club: Get “Pain in the Park” and “D-Town Destruction” (Change
from 10 Mil)
- Trill: Get Painful Bullseye Trophy with Scurv Dogg or Hung Lo add-on
characters (Instead of Tosser)
BRONZE TROPHIES
-
Dude Abides: Use “The Dude” to score
30 Strikes in Bowling (Change from 50
Strikes)
-
D-Town Destruction: Get 2,000,000 score in Paindemonium and
Aftermath (Change from 10 million)
-
Pain in the Park: Get 2,000,000 score in Abusement and After
Hours (Change from 10 million)
-
Combo Mambo: Get 15x Combo in Paindemonium, Aftermath, Block Party,
Demolition (Change from 20x)
-
Horsin’ a Clown: Take the Clown for a ride on the Roller Coaster
-
Glutton: Make 30
“Eat It!” shots in “Call da Shot”
-
Constipated: Get 100 Strikes in Bowling (Change from 250 Strikes)
-
Pain and Mane: Play 100 Games of Trauma or Horse
-
Attention Spam: Get every type of PAIN (Groin, Head, Arm, Hand,
Leg, Foot and Body) combo in Paindemonium, Aftermath, Block Party, Demolition.
- Grenade-a-Maid: Get Exploded 200 times with any female
launchable add-on character*(Change from 500 times)
I feel pretty good about
these changes as they really do appear to be a lot more “reasonable”. Sorry for
the delay in getting the Amusement Park out to you…I’m hoping you think the
delay was worth it. I’m thinking we did the right thing. But you all are the 5th
C, so you tell me.