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• Posted by Jason Coker

Greetings, all.  By now, I’m sure you’ve noticed a few changes around the House of PAIN, yeah?  We figured it’s only fair to give you some new eye candy for the holidays.  I’m sure you’ve also noticed that the PAIN Labs have gotten a bit of festive treatment, too.  Oh, and Ed, our resident costumed crusader of holiday cheer, will be donning a reindeer suit in celebration of the holidays, too.  Fear not – there’s even more to come.  Ao No Kutsu, the Beast From the East, will be in the house next week.

With the release of the Replay Editor, we’re looking forward to seeing even more of you and your PAINful antics on YouTube™.  Believe it or not, we learn a lot from watching you all play, so give us your best runs, edit away, upload, and teach us a thing or two.  It’s pretty much the perfect learning experience for us.  How do PAIN lovers play the game?  BAM!  There it is.  What are some of the most amazing things people are doing in PAIN?  BAM!  There it is.  Bring it on.  We love it.

Oh yeah, more to come – Online Multiplayer is still being tested, but will be headed your way soon.  In addition to that, we’re well into development on the next TWO environments, and you’ll be seeing them in the coming weeks.  All in all, things are looking good in the world of PAIN.

So, while you’re all busy stuffing your faces with turkey, cookies, and gravy (preferably not at the same time since that sounds completely gross), the PAIN elves will be busy putting the finishing touches on plenty of new goodies that will be coming your way soon.  And just to help keep you all in good holiday spirits, here are a couple PAINful moments from the Ghost of PAIN Future: 



That’s.  How.  We.  Roll.  Baby.

Happy Holidays,
Coke

 

 
• Posted on 12.18.08 // 10:00 AM Comments (534)   Digg This   

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i L-O-V-E the wrestler! Now wrestlers will feel some real pain when they're body slammed into a car! Haha

Posted on 12.11.08 09:17 AM by Zachary

looking good guys, especially the karate dude!!!

Posted on 12.11.08 09:22 AM by cheedw06

LOL... good stuff... 2 environments, eh? I like hearing that. Just make sure they have single player FWE and it's all gravy.

BTW, any update on darts?

Posted on 12.11.08 09:26 AM by deadhead19420

Cool - did they mo-cap travis for Brock Lee? I was pretty sure you guys got mo-capped.

Posted on 12.11.08 09:38 AM by StalkingSilence

Excellent news! I'm going to start the speculation on the new environments that we're getting a small glimpse of in the BGs.

The top looks to be a gym or a jail (based on the extruded walkway), and the bottom is a factory or warehouse.

Posted on 12.11.08 10:02 AM by irridium

@Coke

I Hate wrestlers - perfect!

Any news on bug fixes?
Namely the missing trigger crates in FWE plat club, both areas..
"Trigger crate appeared" it saucily tells me - but oh no, it lied!
Are you aware of said bug?

Why cant we see leaderboards of you guys scores?
An Idol Minds only board which we can access from within pain - I'd like to see what you lot are capable of too..

Or maybe post some of yours & others from your offices scores here.
Be interesting to find out..


@deadhead19420
& multiplayer FWE too!
us dojo members need our fixes too..

But the fact that you want more FWE anyway sits just fine with me.
I'm looking forward to the 'noobynoo vs deadhead' FWE online showdown!
Two best girls fight it, so glad I'll get to see it live too!

So much pain goodness coming - I can't wait..

Posted on 12.11.08 10:05 AM by FurrQue

BROCK LEE MUTHA FLIPPA!!!!!!!

BROCK LEE!!!!!!!

Posted on 12.11.08 11:37 AM by TonyB

video editors out? how do you access it?

Posted on 12.11.08 11:55 AM by SomeDude

Awesome. Can't wait to here more. Keep up the good work. You've never disappointed me once. By the way I got asked by some of my friends why I like Pain. I consider Pain a hobby. Not just gaming, but a hobby itself. I'll never stop playing as long as if you guys keep the Pain rolling.

Posted on 12.11.08 13:13 PM by Logan

@Everyone - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beware of PSN user: HOME_BETA

I got a PSN messege from someone with the user name: HOME_BETA saying there is a problem with my email and I have to send them my email and password in 24 hours or my account would be cancelled. I wrote back saying nice try, SONY wouldn't ask me for that info. Then they replied to me that they were for real and I must send the info. It is an obvious scam because the persons grammar was lousy and they don't use proper english, as a person in this position would.

"There is a problem at our registration and your email is broke on our server"

Not the kind of messege a SONY rep would use I think. Just make sure if you have kids or young bros/sis's using the PS3. The 1st messege wasn't too bad language wise, and someone could fall for it. They are just trying to scam free downloads off your account I'm sure.

Just a heads up to my PAINful homies...

@Travis - If you could pass this on to anyone you know who could look into it, that would be great.

Posted on 12.11.08 13:41 PM by TonyB

@Travis,

Are you going to GDC '09? I am.

Posted on 12.11.08 14:23 PM by zakupilot256

@FurrQue

For sure. Tell Nooby that she needs to up her Plat Club score before then too Smile

Posted on 12.11.08 16:16 PM by deadhead19420

@Travis - i hope this "buggin' out" is in referrence to A Tribe Called Quest.

- the wrestler was a great idea. i look foward to these new environments. haven't been dissappointed with any of the updates.

Posted on 12.11.08 16:47 PM by 0ompa

@tonyB
you do get real weirdos on things trying to get money by getting another users user name and password all the time...

Posted on 12.11.08 17:15 PM by James

dis is da sony boss guy. we need every account detail cos our thing is busted dis is not a lie!!!


LOL

Posted on 12.11.08 17:16 PM by James

have you guys ever thought about using water in an environment? i only ask cos the first picture looks a little like a swimming pool

Posted on 12.11.08 19:43 PM by cheedw06

O & M & G
awesome travis and co.
i was like shet 2 ENVIRONMENTS...then like SHET!! BROCK LEE

u guys are doing a good job...
...and thanx for keeping us brits/europeans up to date Smile,

any news on darts, will it be free like FWE was...?

Posted on 12.11.08 20:07 PM by Pacman_Ownage

Naaaaaajs!

Posted on 12.11.08 20:41 PM by KnizzleHizzle

Yeah Jason, I don't know if you mis-typed what you wanted to say, but the Replay Editor isn't out yet.

Posted on 12.11.08 20:59 PM by DroppinPlates

Looks good Laughing

Posted on 12.11.08 23:05 PM by George

@jason

so whats the name of the enviroment these pics were taken off Wink

im pretty sure it isnt the old ones

thanks for everythin

Posted on 12.11.08 23:07 PM by BarnsleysGreeny

Travis! you guys are awesome!PAIN is the only game I play! As for people complaining about the price of characters and such,are you Fricking kidding me?!??? How cheap are you people? Keep up the awesome work!And belated happy birthday.

Posted on 12.11.08 23:24 PM by Bill

hi

Anyone ever experienced that all their pain saves was lost?

I started up pain yesterday and i had to do the crash cause again?!!Frown

I lost all my unlockables and trophys???

Posted on 12.11.08 23:36 PM by spammer4life

i like the wrestler, im gonna elbo drop everything!

Posted on 12.11.08 23:44 PM by kieran

Gday Coke and Merry Chritmas mate! I just want to thank you for the 12 days! However true Christmas is a family BBQ in 30+ degrees heat with a huge afternoon thunder storm and taking off before the washing up, not this snow flake thing you guys have done! can't wait to see day 8 tomorrow!

Posted on 12.11.08 23:57 PM by Olaus

@Travis and Coker

I'm just playing PAIN with one of my buddies... we're having a lot of fun. Thanks for all your work and Merry Christmas from both of us.
Over and out,
KingDragunov

Posted on 12.12.08 00:05 AM by KingDragunov

OMG i cannot w8 for the new enviroments!!!!

Posted on 12.12.08 00:07 AM by Jake

this game is by far the best game on the PSN network! i always ask my parents to get the new environments whenever they come out! well done guys

Posted on 12.12.08 00:10 AM by Jake

Will there be more trophies with the new environments?

Posted on 12.12.08 00:14 AM by BarnsleysGreeny

The Chuck Norris Pwnage trophy. Brock Lee kicks the snot out of Chuck Norris in every level. Then Chuck Norris goes home and cries because he can never be a Brock Lee. I just now realized that Brock Lee sounds like a horrible vegetable children won't eat. I feel like an idiot.

Posted on 12.12.08 01:10 AM by Doorhandle1975

Dude that wrestler guy looks great! I think he'll be a welcome addition to the PAIN Crew. and Brock Lee of course is just gonna be the shiznit.

Posted on 12.12.08 01:23 AM by sicdude

OMG BROC-LEE, I LOVE IT...can't wait. Between PAIN and LBP I have ALL the DLC you can offer. 2 of the best games on the PS3 IMO.

Posted on 12.12.08 01:45 AM by Seiven

the second image looks like it on an airfield of some sort maby a hangar?

Posted on 12.12.08 02:43 AM by Daniel

Well this is just frickin heartbreaking. My PS3 just had the infamous yellow light shutdown yesterday. All this new PAIN content and I won't be able to enjoy any of it!!! Happy Holidays my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 12.12.08 03:19 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

OMG this brill news
cant wait to see the new enviroments in the coming weeks
i reckon that there gunna be a big update next year which includes:
online play
new enviroment number 1
new enviromanet number 2
brock lee
wrestler guy
and other stuff

where is the street fighter characters
I WANT THEM SO BADLY

Posted on 12.12.08 03:29 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@Coker
What ever to the zombie we were promised onths ago i really wanted him, any news on him??

Hey again everybody been a long time since i've commented here...

Posted on 12.12.08 03:43 AM by Mullypower

was supposed to say months not onths...

Posted on 12.12.08 03:44 AM by Mullypower

Wahoo Pain is most downloaded PSN game of 2008
OFFICIALLY

Posted on 12.12.08 04:15 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

www.ps3fanboy.com/.../

Posted on 12.12.08 04:34 AM by THitter

Keep up the good work guys! I'll buy the new environments day one!

I must admit that I'm not too high on buying chars but hey...I bought the Hoff. any chance that more free chars will get in in the way of unlockable content like Buzz? Or at least unlockable new skins for base chars and DLC chars?

Thanks in avance for the reindeer!

Oh, did you guys think about a local multiplayer with 2 controllers at the same time? ...even if it would have been just one laucher for 2 chars, lol, it could be fun, the couple-launcher! ...the camera pans to see the 2 chars once they launched if they get a little far...and the 2 people playing can ooch they war where they want or grap (or keep the grab on) the other one! lol

Posted on 12.12.08 05:33 AM by Daveed!

Hey everyone… Since Coker did this post I am not in red just wanted to let you know a little more about what you are seeing and answer the question that you all asked (but I answered before)

1. Due to high demand we had to bring Brock-Lee to PAIN. Trust me when I say you haven’t lived until you have seen his in air poses. I am sooooo in love with him. I just launched him over and over again just to see it. Congrats to Idol’s character department for keeping it gangsta.

2. The Luchador is also a riot. Wait till he drops the LaRasa Elbow on you.

3. Yes there are new environments still being worked on. And wait till you see the modes in the new environments. One of the modes is a mode that was highly suggested by you all when we solicited opinions. It’s so awesome. You WILL dig it.

4. Multiplayer is coming and soon. It’s in the last stages of test. You will see the Online Multiplayer modes happen before the new environments. The new environments are coming real soon too. Darts is a Multiplayer Mode (and an online multiplayer mode too) You will see them at the same time.

5. The YouTube moviemaker, Reindeer Ed and Sumo are coming out next week (before Christmas) we are done with format so it’s gonna happen no delays. MoltenKevlar I want a good movie out of you before the new year. Consider it a Christmas Present to the PAIN team.

6. Juggz: Dude call the warranty department at Sony.

7. @Mully: You will see the Zombie very soon. We haven’t forgotten him.

8. Thanks for making us #1 in 2008 everyone. YOU GUYS ROCK MY SOUL!!

Posted on 12.12.08 05:47 AM by travis williams

@Travis
I think I'm gonna have to. Only problem is my system's 2 years old. Not covered any warranty anymore. Any suggestions?

Posted on 12.12.08 05:55 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

*under warranty
my bad

Posted on 12.12.08 05:55 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

Brock Lee! Score! So any chance we'll be seeing a sports complex/stadium environment to go with the new characters? (Just a thought, but an olympic village style envrionemnt would be great.)

Also, a thought for another couple premium characters. Any chance we can get the Pumphrey Brothers from G4's Human Wrecking Balls? Considering they're the closest thing to watching PAIN in real life, it might work pretty well.

Great work guys, keep it comin'!

Posted on 12.12.08 05:58 AM by Terwallace

@ Travis and a la Coker,

Happy Holidays to the both of you, your families, and at IDOL minds. It has been an outstanding year on many fronts, and 2009 is gonna be unreal, I know it.

2 more environments? Sh!t soon you will have a new one every month. Hey, its not a bad idea.. put one out every month, the certain jackoffs can keep their traps shut, and you guys can have a little vacation! lol

I LOVE the wrestler, he looks a lot like Mil Mascaras from back in the day. Seriously.
Really. LOL
Thanks for the 12 days of Christmas Labs, very cool. I didn't like the one yesterday with the alien ships, just my thoughts.

I wonder what the 2 new ones will be.
It has to have a good amount of moving parts..like Downtown.. buildings, cars, people walking...Amusement Park...duh.. Movie Studio, many lots, different movie sets a lot of things going on.. but the new areas?

Maybe the Olympic Arena? Hmmm.. a little winter Olympics maybe...

A construction site maybe: again lots moving around, and going on..ladders, cranes, trucks, buildings..hmmm..doubt it...

A Space Station: rockets, astronuts, aliens, stars..ehhh

A Carnival: not like a amusement park.. pretty much ALL side games, no rides,
-water pistol into the clowns mouth blows the balloon til it pops,
-the milk container where you throw the softball in it, well try to keep in it, goldfish toss to win the goldfish of course..
-the Dunk Tank..launch Jarvis into the bullseye to dunk em, pony rides
-The 3 or 4 blocks, or the milk bottles and you gotta knock em ALL off the platform to win.
A carnival also has a:
Circus Big Top..elephants farting and pooping..acrobats flying around..the tiny car and al the clowns popping out of it, or fitting in it, then hit it with some TNT, BOOM it's raining clowns...togers through flaming hoops..

Hey Travis,
can you give moi an update on a couple of ideas I put out to you,I think it was September, and with Dave.
The team multi or single player game and the camera angles, launch lines you can see when someone else goes
And the ideas where you have 2 teams, 1 on each side where you have to launch yourself to the other side where the other team is, and either blow up objects on the opposite side, and you gotta destroy em, or pick em up and bring it back to your side etc

It was back in Sept I think.. That may have been the ones where you said you would show Dave when he was coming in a day or 2 later.
I gotta look for it.

oh, and FINAL question:
Any Update on my PAIN Trauma Center for HOME?

Ok, OK, on your PAIN Space

Always never is forever
Haskell Titanius

Posted on 12.12.08 06:14 AM by Hello Hello

@Juggz
Dude, I NEVER heard of the Yellow THING, tell me, what the hell happened?


Are you in HOME yet? If so, I sent you an invite to my Resistance 2 Clubhouse

Posted on 12.12.08 06:16 AM by Hello Hello

Why does no one comment on my things? (sob)

Posted on 12.12.08 14:10 PM by joseph

@Haskell
Basically, I was playing Warhawk, my system shut off on me, then the red light started blinking.
When turning it back on it starts up as normal, the light turns green, then goes yellow, then blinking red. In the Manual it says this happens when your system overheats. Allow your system to cool, then restart it. Well I waited 14 hours and still the same problem. I looked around online, search engines, you tube, and it is referred to as the Yellow Light Of Death! It's most common in the earliest editions of the PS3. The 60 gb. Which is what I have. Online the common answer is you gotta send your system into Sony, they then charge you $150-160 for a refurbished model. You loose all saved data and end up in the end paying almost $700 for their system.

Posted on 12.12.08 15:03 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

@Haskell
So, I can't go to your clubhouse because BECAUSE I CAN'T EVEN BOOT UP MY SYSTEM! I GOT WARHAWK TOURNAMENTS THIS WEEKEND!

Posted on 12.12.08 15:04 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

@hello hello
can i com 2 ur club
if its a european 1

Posted on 12.12.08 15:20 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@juggs

ouch - sorry to hear the bad news..

Cut your losses & buy & new baby, obviously not the most cost effective option, but a PS3 gives so much in return..

Great deals around too

Posted on 12.12.08 15:22 PM by FurrQue

Why does the Wrestler kinda remind me of Rey Mysterio?

Posted on 12.12.08 15:27 PM by KingDragunov

@Juggs
also, Im sure you can locate those precious save files if you remove & connect up your PS3's current HD to a PC & copy those babys off using the right software..

Not 100% - but positive I've read about it being done, don't sue if wrong!

Posted on 12.12.08 15:28 PM by FurrQue

What up, all? Fortunately, Travis has already shed some light on things for you. I’m going to have to agree with his assessment of the Luchador. Our wrestler friend is about 60% “Awe”, and another 60% “Some”. Yes, my math is correct. I mean that he is 120% awesome. Frankly, I don’t think I could choose a favorite between him and Brock Lee because they’re both so freaking hilarious.

As for the new environments, I won’t say anything about them. OK, yes I will. But this is the ALL I’m going to say, so let your imaginations run wild:

- The next add-on environment is actually more than one location…..
- Daniel said that the wrestler’s screen shot looks like a hangar of some sort, and he is 100% not wrong…..
- Expect a mode that is epic and rare - so rare, in fact, that you might only see such an event happen every few years….

Now take that information and let your imagination run wild. I’m not going to say another word about it, but I’m sure we’ll all be fascinated by what you nutty cats come up with.

We’re glad you’re enjoying the 12 days. Thanks to all of you for the holiday wishes, and I wish the same right back at you.

Peace,
Coke

P.S.
We’re not done with characters, so expect to see more of the fine folks we’ve talked about on the boards in the launcher.

Posted on 12.12.08 15:37 PM by Jason Coker

How about the new PAIN website the PAIN team is making and when will the PAIN game space come in, in PlayStation Home?

Posted on 12.12.08 15:43 PM by FredNation

@FurrQue
Can that be done even if I can't power up my system?

Posted on 12.12.08 16:08 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

@Juggs
Sorry to hear about your PS3...I had the same issue with a BC 80Gb that was out of warranty. I ended up using a product replacement warranty with Best Buy. Lost everything on the HD though. A Sony phone rep told me I could swap out my old HD and recover the saves. (Wrong. I should've done some research.) Ended up with a newer 80Gb without BC, but it runs much cooler. The $150 might be the way to go, especially if you want to keep BC. If you do get a new one, your trophies should sync though as long as you keep the same PSN name...Good luck buddy.

@FurrQue
I wish I looked up possibly recovering info off the old HD. Off hand, do you know what I need to hook it up to my laptop externally?

@Everyone
Happy holidays!!

Posted on 12.12.08 16:10 PM by gottarun

Can anyone give me some tips on the mimes 100 ft in the air trophy?and also as far as the trophy where all launches break glass?I've done that but no trophy.Is there something I'm missing?Thanks for the help.I know it's generally frowned upon to ask,but I can't access any of the message boards for some reason.

Posted on 12.12.08 16:20 PM by Bill

@gottarun
Thanks man, appreciated.

Posted on 12.12.08 16:51 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

@Juggs - Sucks man. I know it's too late, but keeping a backup of your HD seems like a good idea. I've never bothered to do it either and I have a 60gig as well. I'm gonna backup tonight. I'll try putting my old HD in an enclosure and see if I can figure out how to get the saves off of it to my PC. If I have any luck I'll let you know.

Posted on 12.12.08 17:54 PM by TonyB

I know this is probably old news for everyone else but I finally unlocked Buzz! Woo hoo! I definatly had to increase my skills to get him. I hope these new levels follow suit with movie studio and give us more unlockable characters.
@ Coker
Is that Brock Lee in that photo or just someone who looks similar?

Posted on 12.12.08 18:55 PM by jasonmc

@JasonMc: That's the Lee of Brock alright. You have no idea how fresh he is....

Posted on 12.12.08 21:31 PM by travis williams

@NUFCRULE-Liam,
Sorry dude, but you can't be a part of my Resistance Club in HOME. I can only have 32, or 33 members, and I invited some friends in HOME that were testers with me from months back, and who I am in a R2 clan with. I also invited club members that i had in the club prior to the release of 1.0, and 2 were from Japan, and speak no english lol hey having a japanese friend helps!

With how they have it setup, deleting, or declining a requests blows hunky bits to the Nth degree.
EVERY few seconds in the upper right hand corner of my TV, I see the notification that I got mail, and all i would see is: RESIST 2

I created it last Thursday, Dec 11th, I got hammered with requests, and I AM STILL getting between 30 and 50 requests every day but thankfully it is slowing down some what. I even had to change the club profile to read "CLUB IS CLOSED, PLEASE STOP SENDING REQUESTS'
Yet I still get them ...sigh

I created it at roughly 3:30pm EST.. Now there were some problems as you should know with people trying to login to HOME. Well as the day went on, and more people finally got in, the requests started piling up.
By 6pm EST I had 17 requests
by 9pm EST I had 57 requests
by 12am EST I had 117 requests,
by 3am EST I had 210 requests and then I went to bed at 5am and checked, added up and
by 5am EST
I now had a grand total of 236 requests to join my Resistance and Beyond Club.

So I went to bed and woke up at 2pm, and did not get on my PS3 until 3pm the 12th, last Friday. I was actually scared, so to speak, about opening my mail box and seeing how many more came. When I opened my mailbox, and counted from the last spot I did at 5am, my total went from 236 up to 407 in 10 hours or so.

Since I created it, I have had a total of 1,43 requests to join the club.
A FRIGGAN THOUSAND PLUS!

When you turn on you PS3, and you go check your mailbox, if you had some from a few weeks ago, scroll through the list, and watch it whip by.. MINE? takes like 10 minutes lol
Then delete one. Press triangle, select delete, press x, then circle .. now do that a 1000 more times lol..

I sign on and I am cringing before I open it, I did not time it, but when I scrolled to the date of Dec 11th, 2008, It probably scrolled through the list by just staring at the screen and the only visible words I would see is RESIST 2 which is it's tag, and the list keep going.. and going .. and going and after a few minutes I stopped Then scrolled through again and it was disgusting seeing all the requests.

Here's a kicker though.. I went to invite a few friends, and it would not let me because I had more requests to join, then the member limit of 33

Posted on 12.12.08 23:55 PM by Hello Hello

@Coke/Travis - Thanks for the info nuggets guys. The amount of content pumped out in the last few months is pretty impressive. You are 'in the zone' it seems.

Congrats on PAIN's sweet success as well. The emotional scars from the AP's release date canundrum are just a horrid memory. I'm sure the nightmares are less frequent too. Good times.

Of course, you are aware of the commitments bestowed upon the recipient of The Most Downloaded PSN Game of 2008. Well, I don't want to get too far ahead here, but I believe S E Q U E L is the term I'm looking for. One day in the not too distant future technology will allow up to 16 online players to battle at once in a massive FWE Blitz free for all. 'Capture the Hag', 'Last Man Ooching' and so forth and what not. Yep. Pretty lame but not completely.

Anyways thanks again for one of the coolest and most replayable games I've played in years. Best wishes for the holidays and one more thing:

SEPARATE THE FWE LEADERBOARDS

Peace

Posted on 12.12.08 23:57 PM by obscured

Ok all I got a great glitch for ya. Its even better if your a FWE fan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO8dpzLLvOE

Here we have a non-existent trigger crate but yet there is the trigger crate light. I went for this crate cause it said it was there but it wasn't. Not to mention the fact that we are still dealing with heart breaking freeze ups. If you guys truly care about us player please listen to us and look into this. My run should not end because I went for a trigger crate, only to find its not there but the light is.

Posted on 12.13.08 00:31 AM by deadhead19420

@ Juggz,
Damn dude, I never heard of the Yellow, "Their not yielding sir" Light
i got my 6ogb back in Jan of 06, an thankfully I have had no problems. The other day I thought it crashed!
I was in HOME, I got booted out, i hear beep,beep,beep and a message on the screen that says, "The Hard Drive must be rebuilt"

WHAT??????? OHNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I was freaking out, biting my lip as I pressed X, and when I did, THANK YOU GOD.
But now I am buying a Male A to Male A 10ft USB cable so i can attatch it too me PC without having to buy a usb storage device, and copy over my files ot my PC.

@Pie a la Coker,
Feliz Navidad mo frer lol

How's it going "Hey did you know that Coke makes Sprite" Coker? lol

Ok my imagination is running wild. Ohhh YEAAHHHH I AEM the MAcho Maan.....Ohh YEAHHHHH..

So yes, it does look like possibly a hanger,
-maybe a airline hanger or

-maybe could be a hanger for a plane museum.

--maybe it's a military hanger, and the wrestler is their supporting the troops, like for a USO show.
Like how the WWE does every year for the Christmas.
(Which by the way should be on this Monday on USA because they always show it right before Christmas

But as for the other clue/hint."epic,every few years"

Coker, are you doing a Presidential Inauguration possibly?

-The multpile locations is odd.. unless your showing parties going on around the country and at headquarters....nahh too boring but if you add some Hookers.....

--News Years Eve partiesfrom around the World. Show Times Square in the City, millions of people, the ball dropping, fireworks going off... then showing the West Coast's celebration...ehhhh odds 10,000-1

Continuing with the "epic" every few years" comments..
Maybe
-My Olympics is coming to fruition???
as they are Epic, they do go every 2 years for Winter, and 4 years for the Summer Games..there are MANY different areas in the olympics for each event is mostly somewhere different.. got track outdoors, high jumpin etc..indoors gymnastics, karate, many different locations to use!

--A spoof of Wrestlemania 1, where they had 4 different locations going on at once, and you could only see it on closed circuit TV...(remember those days lol)

ok i'm tired and my back is killing me

Nighters
Haskelliaties The Greek God of What?

Posted on 12.13.08 00:39 AM by Hello Hello

hmmm....
if i know you guys (travis,coker) like i think i do...
was there a hint as to what one of the new environments were...
the zombies ARE coming...
and one of the new environments, we will DIG it...hm... now what have I personally requested...lol

im still waiting for mr.T...
c'mon crazy FOOLS Tong

Posted on 12.13.08 03:45 AM by Pacman_Ownage

@Coker
Brock Lee is teh rulez, new enviornment's gotta be some kind of army thing, I said it for the last one and I'm saying it for this one too....Probably has a gym AND a hangar. This mode is interesting, I wonder if it will ACTUALLY take place every few years or will be based off of something that happens every few years, Olympics does seem like a very good guess and it's something me and other have suggested...
@Pacman
Good going there. They'd probably wait 'til Halloween 09 to do that, unless they really want to put it out there.

Posted on 12.13.08 04:29 AM by TheMyTMonarch

we need a pain space in home wud be awesome

@hello hello quite a popular club then i guess
i just wanted 2 see wot the clubs looked like
there'l be other clubs

Sounds like it could be the olympics happens every few years

Posted on 12.13.08 05:30 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

Olympics Ftw!!! Thats my guess anyways. Also ~ I cant wait for the online ~ btw, do u guys have an ETA for the arrival of the Replay Editor - I have a very twisted idea for a movie starring the one and only -Tati

Posted on 12.13.08 06:58 AM by STALLONE

@STALLONE

Replay editor is Tuesday.

@Haskell

Stop drowning out my posts! lol... Coker, Travis, please have a look at my video above and do something about this, it's to the point I don't even wanna play painful OR plat club anymore because of the problems.

Posted on 12.13.08 08:50 AM by deadhead19420

Play littlebigdestiny 2, now on lbp

Posted on 12.13.08 08:51 AM by James

Thanks deadhead. Btw, Idol Minds and Media Molecule should team up and make a premium level pack for LBP about pain (this would be freaking amazing, slingshotting my terrorist sackboy would be amazing) and make launchable sackboys in pPain

Posted on 12.13.08 09:21 AM by STALLONE

@ Haskell,

You're right on it being different Olympic venues. One adjustment, not to be a smartars, but to inform, they summer and winter alternate every two years so there are actually 4 years inbetween each type. Looking forward to seeing your edits.

Posted on 12.13.08 11:48 AM by MarlyT35

Every 4 years...duh must be the Olympics ? New locations , large hanger / arena ?

Why won't the Team answer the "Bug" questions?

Scott........

Posted on 12.13.08 15:24 PM by Scott_R_K

@Tony
Sounds like a plan. Lemme know how it goes. Have fun at MNF. I'll look for you on tv. We better friggin' win!!

Posted on 12.13.08 16:44 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

When will Brock Lee and the Wrestler be available? I can't wait^^

Posted on 12.13.08 17:11 PM by KingDragunov

@ Pac Man
Dude, speaking of crazy fools.. what are you looking at? LOL !
You are seeing things that are NOT there, nor implied and are seeing what you want to see. And while you may think, that you may know them, if your saying that because you see "hidden" meanings behind what he said, your imagination is kicking in lol

Travis said.
3. Yes there are new environments still being worked on. And wait till you see the modes in the new environments. One of the modes is a mode that was highly suggested by you all when we solicited opinions.
(key part right here)
"It’s so awesome. You WILL dig it."

Now he did NOT capitalize "DIG IT" like you did, he capitalized "WILL", implying that whatever it is, I/me/you, that "EVERYONE" WILL LOVE IT

And considering he also said it is one that WE have talked about and asked for many times before, I highly doubt it has anything literaly to do with A shovel, or digging, because I for one do not EVER remember anyone asking for a shoveling contest lol

And maybe 1 or 2 people have EVER suggested having a new mode, or area in a cemetary.

2nd At the bottom of his post where he replied with comments to others he said to Mully:

7. @Mully: You will see the Zombie very soon. We haven’t forgotten him.

Since we have asked them many times for a zombie chracter, either they have made it , or are making a Zombie character and he will be out soon for us to use.
Again I see NO hidden hints in that comment as well.

But hey, DAT'S ME!

Posted on 12.14.08 02:18 AM by Hello Hello

@ gimme a 6 pack of Coker,
You said "Expect a mode that is epic and rare - so rare, in fact, that you might only see such an event happen every few years….

Something Epic is grand in scale, a long
journey or a saga, aka something that takes a while and/OR is HUGE

Expect a mode that is Epic AND rare - so rare it might only happen every few years?
Hmmmm?
So what never really happens....What never really happens, but when it does, it's huge?

Ok I said Inauguration, Olympics, not a meteor shower, or Haley's Comet, not a volcanic eruption..not the Knicks actually being relevant again, lol....

Epic and rare...so rare, it only happens every few years?
Epic and rare, and happens only a few years, BUT at the same time, has a lot of things going on around it, because in PAIN, as we all know, we need a lot of things in the area to:
- bounce off of, be thrown off of, be thrown into, bounced into, ooched into and ooched off of
- something to be shot out of, and to be hit with
we also need to have moving things like:
- cars, trains, planes, carts, bicycles, motorcycles etc, cranes, people, animals...

So takes parts from all of those things mentioned, randomize them, and add it too a rare event that happens maybe every couple of years, and in doing so, will figure out what is next.

Posted on 12.14.08 03:29 AM by Hello Hello

This message was posted on the 18th which was thursday and they say that we will get reindeer ed in a week. So 1 week from thursday is Xmas and thats when we are getting ed and the final festive pain lab and proberly the sumo along with darts. i think this because the update after consists of online mp 1 or 2 new enironments 2 new characters and new game modes and hopefully psn trophies which is more then enough so i think we might get some extra stuff on the Xmas update to stop the Jan update being too much at once but what do i know i am currently on my 18th hour of non stop raping of CoDWaW and Pain sad i know but i was desperate to get the ridiculous pain trophies and unlockables and now i am not tired but i cannot see properly and keep seeing silhouettes of people every now and then but ya know a lil bit of pain never hurt no one

Posted on 12.14.08 08:38 AM by josh

Yay, thanks for the holiday LAB stuff. I can't wait for Brock Lee!

Posted on 12.14.08 10:09 AM by Clinton514

@Coker
Area 51 maybe?

Posted on 12.14.08 14:19 PM by David

@Juggz, TonyB, Gottarun

Firstly, sorry about delay in replying - had a housefull of homies that would'nt go homey!

Been looking into retrieving data from a ps3 drive today & yesterday evening - just can't find the right 'geek' with the right 'speak!

It would appear possible - PS3 uses linux, albeit scaled down, so in theory should it be possible to view the drive on a linux capable computer.

I've read (but no confirmation, god dammit) that it may be possible to put your HD in another ps3 - sounds promising though a ps3 does make you auto format new drives, but one with a PS3 operating system already on it may work(?)
I dont think using an external cage connected to the PC/Laptop via the sata cable will work unless its linux(?) - theres no current way to mount a PS3 drive & have it running in a PC enviroment (if there was, then surely the PS3 would've been blown wide open by 'hackers' by now!)

Pity really because you can do this with an XBOX 360 hard drive - whip it out - plug it in - tada!

Sony needs to address this..
Especially if we are losing save files & thousands of hours of gameplay gone in the yellow blink of an eye..

Also, you should ask sony if they will let you keep that HD - tell them you seriously unhappy about losing all your gameplay hours & worried about some sensitive data on the drive - I have heard (read) cases where some customers have done so.

In theory - you could save the drive - then again if you put enough jet engines on it, the Earth could fly around the moon, so theories are no help..

Long shot, but how about travis & team?
They know about these things, working with PS3's, so they must know if its possible or not.

Certainly worth a poke..
Even if its a 'No' - at least you got it from the horses mouth & not is arse!

I had something simular happen yonks ago with dodgy DATEL PS1 memory cards - we learn the hard way, sadly..

Posted on 12.14.08 14:46 PM by FurrQue

@Painteam & deadhead

sure would be nice to know if they were looking into fixes for the FWE bugs.

Plat club is a nightmare - missing trigger crates, non-existant trigger crates with lights on & no one home, dodgy camera in downtown that flips out when you are near the ends if the streets & when flying out the subway vent AND when around the bowling alley entance/hotel side..

Hate to flame FWE, honestly! I love FWE - but these bugs are growing in numbers and are starting to make me not want to play it anymore either..

shocking staement - cant beleive i said it!
Me?
not play FWE?
Humbug!

Fixes for chritmas please...

What a welcome gift that would make!


BTW
got 2 new dual shock 3's
Love the lonnnng rumbles when hitting crates, im such a kid!

Posted on 12.14.08 15:18 PM by FurrQue

forgive grammar
got me one hell of a hangover today!

Posted on 12.14.08 15:28 PM by FurrQue

@juggz

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_3

if you could just get it to boot into linux & find the right 'geek'

Posted on 12.14.08 15:40 PM by FurrQue

Woot looks awesome!
sadly, i can't play now cos my Ps3s getting repaired but when its fixed im gona upload all sorts of painful stuff!

Posted on 12.14.08 15:41 PM by Kashif

why don't you save all your data onto a large USB memory stick and then upload it onto your new hard drive i do this sometimes when i download game saves from the Net

Posted on 12.14.08 16:32 PM by josh

@deadhead - What's up FWE co-queen. I've had the phantom trigger box happen too but just once in MS so far. I actually had that happen once in DT a long time ago. Given how much I play, it's a very rare issue.

But the issue of trigger boxes not showing up at all is a real piss off and totally unacceptable. EVERY SINGLE I PLAY THIS HAPPENS. Like today for instance while clawing my way up to 1.800 I'd say conservatively it happened 10-15 times easily. Then, as the field depletes and struggling to get another 15, finally one shows up. It's reachable so I hit it and as I continue the run I get to 30 and no trigger. I continue to 45 and no dam trigger. Took the wind right out of my sails. So I reset with about 7 secs left and scan the field. A pathetic spattering of crates remains and I launch one last hail mary , get about 7 crates and stall out at 1934. Complete buzz apocolypse

I really wish someone would just acknowledge these issues and restore some confidence. This and leaderboards should be a priority.

Posted on 12.15.08 02:50 AM by obscured

well they dont look famous like the HOFF which is what pain really really needs next to enviroments is more celeb's in the launcher, even if it's crappy celeb's like Gilbert Gottfried,Flava Flave, or any washed up has been clamoring for a few bucks like that one reality show the surreal life anyone from there would do nicely.

Posted on 12.15.08 04:24 AM by darksoul1978

@FWE EXPERTS

Missing a trigger crate---Try the launcher behind the tetanus & shoot into the outer-upper street....also look in the gladiator arena.



@Obscured

Day by day I get closer to taking you down....

Don't want to make you feel threatened or anything but I have a razor sharp dagger that with every launch it inches closer n closer to your trigger finger....

TEAR DOWN THE WALL!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 12.15.08 06:36 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@RON

"I have a razor sharp dagger that with every launch it inches closer n closer to your trigger finger...."

uhhhh... ok? LOL. What exactly are you smoking, because that made no sense. It was a nice thought though Smile

@Obscured

I know the "phantom crate" isn't as big of a problem, it was just a little easier to portray in a video, to show there ARE problems... yeah, the totally missing crates are a huge issue, had a great run end at 670 yesterday because my last two triggers were nowhere to be found (and no, they werent by the ship or in the Rome area).

Posted on 12.15.08 14:24 PM by deadhead19420

@deadhead

I'm smoking the same stuff you're smoking & I said ON THE OUTER-UPPER ROAD not the ship....

Posted on 12.15.08 14:42 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Upper road... ahhh... nope, weren't there either. Same with the top of the buildings, always check those.

Posted on 12.15.08 14:56 PM by deadhead19420

@Juggz: I think you're fucked in regards to backing up the disk if they give you a new one as it will want format if the disk isn't from that particular ps3. Trust me, I've tried, I had to swap 3 disks around on some ps3s. I saw this vid, he seems like a freaking idiot, but hey it might work:

www.youtube.com/watch

Also, try blowing some compressed air through it. Last resort is to crack that mutha open and see if there's anything that looks broken.

Posted on 12.15.08 15:13 PM by KnizzleHizzle

@Ron_Is_Gilbert_Godfried_420
First of all, lol.

Secondly, roflmao.

Thirdly, lship (laughed so hard I puked)

Forthly, either you or deadhead need to hook me up.
Actually that should have been firstly.

Fifthly, check the upper road? And the Rome area? What's that? Amateur advice for the experts? Bonk! I should have had a V-8! Are you implying that you've never experienced missing triggers? Oh and you didn't mention the tall building . I never check there either.

Sixthly, you have proven you are worthy. I cannot deny you that. The day you take me down in painful I will humbly congratulate you. Until then my friend , threat level remains at DEFCON 1.

Seventhly, God wants winners, God wants solutions, God wants TV - Godwants contributions.

Eighthly, see Forthly

Ninethly, see Thirdly. Yep, dry heaves.

And Tenthly - Peace

Posted on 12.15.08 15:49 PM by obscured

ok....so maybe not cemetery...

but how about every so often games on MS or DT the A-TEAM van drives across screen, and if you make it explode... YOU GET MR.T

BOOOO YA...
...although that was a crap idea ROFL...

or maybe you unlock a special clothing for jarvis,
which is...A SNICKERS CHOCOLATE PACKET YEY lol...
'GET SOME NUTS!'

Posted on 12.15.08 18:23 PM by Pacman_Ownage

@Obscured Sense of sumthing sumthing........

I was just trying to help but I guess it WAS a lil obvious.

I DO get missing triggers but they aren't as common OR as run-ruining as furry and deadsy say they are. I mean, I get them but usually I can get 15 more boxes n get one that IS there. And by then, it doesn't really matter.

My biggest killer is over-ooching to get to a crate or just to get momentum & end up dying bcuz of it....this usually happens on my way to my 15th crate...which ultimately kills the run.

The painful mode is my overall fave cuz it is just fun to see how high you can get that box counter...I love plat too, don't get me wrong, its quite challenging to get those "mini events" going!!! But painful is so much more satisfying, minus the freeze-ups.
The only REAL gripe I got with it is the timer. WHY does it have to give you so much time, I think it should stop at 30 min or even 45. Anything more than that is useless.
If you can't get things goin in 30 min then you should Try Try again anyways.

And finally....


"I wish, I wish I din't kill that fish."
~Homer J. Simpson

Posted on 12.15.08 18:31 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@Knizzle & Juggz
Glad someone cleared that up, I'm thinking juggs, that was maybe you're last hope - pity putting it in another PS3 won't help..
Tried Travis & team yet?
Long shot juggs, but questions cost nothing to ask!
Even if it is a "no" - you can say you tried every angle..

@obscured
Have you seen step btothers 2008, with will ferrel & john reilly starring?
Remind you of anyone?
You can call me dragon - lol
Best will ferrel movie for ages..
& im not a great fan either!

@Ron_Is_GOD_420
Think you are slightly missing the point..

Missing trigger crates that occur 4times on the bounce ruin the game completely - you've just not experienced it yet, maybe?

And its not rare either.

To say missing trigger crates don't matter is a confusing thing to state.
Just 1 Missing trigger crate = minus 15 boxes + NO new crates, of course this will kill the game!

If you are unlucky enough to have this happen often (which it does) the only result is a gradually emptying playing field that you cannot restock effectively enough to continue your run AND find 15 boxes without emptying the place even more & therefore NEVER getting the score you sat there for 45mins attempting to rack up in the 1st place..
I can work around the freezes (amen to that, 56k), but I can't beat the missing trigger crate problem, sobs!


"you can keep that silly fat w*nker, the lads can't lift him"
~Brick Top - Snatch

Irrelevant quote, I know, but everyone is doing it so I thought I'd join in!

Posted on 12.15.08 19:57 PM by FurrQue

@Knizzle & Juggz
There are some interesting replies of reported succes in the pages & pages of comments on that you tube link.
100% worth a look juggs!

Nice find knizz, just hearing BOOYAH was worth the watch anyway
May even sample that for a ringtone Laughing

Posted on 12.15.08 20:18 PM by FurrQue

Day 10 is the best by far.

Posted on 12.16.08 00:24 AM by Logan

Tomorrow is the big update right? Replay Editor and other things?

Posted on 12.16.08 01:47 AM by DroppinPlates

Juggz – I failed to send you my condolences on your PS3 before. Not good. I’ve had mine since launch and have never had a problem, but I back my drive up every couple of weeks just in case. I got an Xbox 360 the day it launched, and I’m on my FOURTH machine because of the red ring, so I think I’m scarred and now take extra precautions with my systems. Good luck, cat. If it’s any consolation, you’re just going to have that much more PAIN content to enjoy when you get back. Enjoy the holidays, though, mang. Your lady and your young one are more important than us anyway.

Deadhead – Reading you loud and clear. Idol Minds is looking into this now. FYI, I don’t think Travis or I have EVER said that there are no bugs in PAIN. That would be silly for any Producer to say about any game. Unfortunately, you seem to have caught one that we didn’t, so we’ll see what we can do. We have to make it happen in order to fix it, so I guess it’s time for us to go buck wild on FWE again, eh? I have ZERO problem with that!

Peace,
Coke

Posted on 12.16.08 02:07 AM by Jason Coker

@Everyone: The update is tomorrow. So enjoy the goodies. Replay, Ed and Sumo. I wanna see some cool videos!

@Haskell: I just think we are really hitting a stride with the content and that it shows that making PAIN incrementally was a good idea. So at the point where we decide to take PAIN to another level it will be better for all the collaboration we have had here. I can’t really thank all you regulars enough. You all made PAIN along with us. You don’t have to wonder if we made the Zombie. We did. You voted on him. We are just in the process of making him “Fit for Flight”.


@FurrQue/Dead: We will see what the bloodclot is going on with the F.W.E. Issues. Can’t promise anything until the next update. We will see what the deal is. (AKA) Yeah, what Coke said.

I AM SOOOO GLAD I AM STILL ON VACATION! WORK IT OUT COKE!

(RUNS AWAY)

Posted on 12.16.08 02:43 AM by travis williams

@Travis / Coker

Looking forward to all this new stuff. WORD!

Posted on 12.16.08 02:47 AM by KingDragunov

@ Coker

Just one question

On my musings above, excluding my possible areas I mentioned, (olympics, inaguration etc)

With the comments you made:
"Epic and rare, so rare it only happens every few years?"

What do you think of my explained reasoning on my breaking down your comments??

Am I close? Far?

Haskell

Posted on 12.16.08 03:14 AM by Hello Hello

@Travis & Coke

Thank you, good news!

Posted on 12.16.08 05:00 AM by FurrQue

@Travis and Coke

See what happens when a woman gets pissed off? Things finally get done Smile But then again, if I remember right you're both married, so you should know that by now. I wouldn't be so pissed if I didn't think FWE had so much potential to be a GREAT, competitive mode. It shouldn't be marred by so many F'ups, in painful and plat club.

Posted on 12.16.08 06:54 AM by deadhead19420

@KnizzleHizzle
I seen that video. Didn't read all the comments like FurrQue recommended. Might have to give it a try. As far as that youtube guy is concerned, it's all bs in my mind. He don't show it boot up on a screen so It's all speculation to me. Beside that I tried his technique 100+ times (LITERALLY).

For everyone who has made comments/suggestions on the death of my PS3, I greatly appreciate it, and wish the happiest of holidays to you and yours.

@Coke
My girl loved your comment man. LOL! She's always telling me to get off that thing. Why must her happiness bring me so much sadness! Best wishes to you and yours homie.

Posted on 12.16.08 07:09 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

Travis/Coke - Yeowtch I just got double-dissed. I just recently posted a game scenario in which I experienced over a dozen such incidents of missing triggers. So when did I get elected Mayor of Dooshville, thus unworthy of a reply shout out? With a healthy lead on the FWE plat leaderboard, I'm pretty sure I experience this problem more than anybody. Tired of my colorful anecdotes are we? Well if it was that thing I said about Coker's ass in dolphin shorts looking like two guinea pigs rasslin' around in a silk potato sack when he walks away - it was a joke. I'm sure he's probably quite svelt. Anyways no hard feelings and thanks for looking into the trigger issue you guys.

Take a ride on the Peace train

Posted on 12.16.08 07:33 AM by obscured

@Ron_Is_God_4tothe20
Perhaps I am on a roll in which my demeanor is not properly represented by my choice of words. So I'll be blunt. Firstly, thanks for trying to help. Also, I can see you creeping up over the second ridge, ever closing in on my camp. You have conquered Mt 5K and surely have the treacherous peaks of Mt 6K AND 7k in your reticle. I wish you luck in your quest but I have just one request. It's just that should you reach my elevation, fear not as you are in good company and welcome. Just save a bit of the sticky icky for the occasion would you. I ran out and nothing grows up here, ok. Cool. Also, it's freezing cold so when you wizz, get your back to the wind or your doodlehiemer will freeze and break plum off.

Peace

Posted on 12.16.08 08:04 AM by obscured

How about the new PAIN website. Any word? Please tell us thanks.

Posted on 12.16.08 08:27 AM by FredNation

How about a quick idea for a new character: Sloth, from The Goonies! Just think, launching that big, not-so-bad boy, and hearing his famous "HEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY YOOUUUUUUUUUUU GUUUUYYYYYYYSSSSSSSS!!!"

Don't ask why I posted that. I was just sitting in front of the TV, with my chex-mix, watching that 80s classic.

Posted on 12.16.08 12:51 PM by Steelebourne

I still have NEVER seen The Goonies!



I know, I know.

Posted on 12.16.08 14:11 PM by qb2bTheReaper

@qb

GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW....

Posted on 12.16.08 14:38 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@ob-scared

I might just have to climb that 2k platinum peak as well........

Posted on 12.16.08 14:41 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

any1 know when the new content releases?

Posted on 12.16.08 15:49 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

hasnt updated

Posted on 12.16.08 16:58 PM by James

@coker
pain hasn't updated att all! i still have pain labs day 8 and no ed sumo and replay. ps store hasnt updated either

Posted on 12.16.08 17:02 PM by James

@Travis
Do you know roughly what time the content will be shipping? Cos I'm on GMT so I'm not sure what time we're looking at.

Posted on 12.16.08 17:23 PM by George

@James
PAINlabs day 8?!?! You should be on at least day 10 by now Tong

Posted on 12.16.08 17:23 PM by George

it releases today on the 23rd!

Posted on 12.17.08 04:38 AM by Bill

What exactly do u guys mean by trigger crates?

Posted on 12.17.08 04:39 AM by Bill

By the way,if I'm not on here again til after christmas,Merry Christmas everybody!

Posted on 12.17.08 04:40 AM by Bill

Just got all the new content Laughing Just one problem though...I can't play as the Sumo dude, whatever his name is. It says that 'there is an error with the content and that i should re-download it', but obviously as it is a patch I can't do that. Anyone else having this problem?

Posted on 12.17.08 06:02 AM by George

Thanks for the new content Idol Minds. Just one thing that painlabs day 11 is extremely glitchy. the biggest most frequent glitch i've seen in pain actually. the camera is mental! thats all.

thanks again!

Posted on 12.17.08 06:06 AM by jamesrazor

@jamesrazor
Are you able to play as the sumo wrestler?

Posted on 12.17.08 06:11 AM by George

no i cant. do you not have to pay for him?

Posted on 12.17.08 06:19 AM by jamesrazor

well there is no price for him i supose.

Posted on 12.17.08 06:20 AM by jamesrazor

No he's meant to be free. And there's no way to re-download him as he came with a patch. It must be a bug. I hope they can fix it before Christmas!!

Posted on 12.17.08 06:23 AM by George

well they should have painlabs day twelve ready for tommorow. if its a simple fix maybe they could put the fix in with that download. i dont really know how it works.

Posted on 12.17.08 06:25 AM by jamesrazor

Yeah same.

Posted on 12.17.08 06:33 AM by George

I was all happy about checking out the update this morning but I'm getting error connecting to the network when I start Pain. Hopefully it'll start working soon.

Posted on 12.17.08 06:39 AM by Sethaniel

@sethaniel
I sometimes get that. I normally just have to quit PAIN and then start it back up again a couple of times and it works.

Posted on 12.17.08 06:41 AM by George

I keep getting "network error" too. I restarted for about 20 times and it still won't work!

Posted on 12.17.08 07:16 AM by KingDragunov

@Bill
The trigger crates we speak of are in platinum fun with explosives single player...


@sethaniel
I'm getting the same error message.....grrrrrrrrrr

Posted on 12.17.08 07:16 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Awesome news. You know what I think would also be awesome, is a create a player option, with tons of options.

Posted on 12.17.08 07:21 AM by Jeremy

NOW.......I don't get the error & it connects but NO UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!

Not even pain lab 11............

Posted on 12.17.08 07:44 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Cant wait to try out the stuff Laughing

Posted on 12.17.08 07:56 AM by STALLONE

YAH there is no update, and no pain lab 11...they've must of took it off, although I've never even seen them to begin with. IM VERY EAGER. I HAVE TO MAKE SUPER SMASH HIT MOVIE WITH PAIN REPLAY EDITOR!

Posted on 12.17.08 08:03 AM by STALLONE

@STALLONe
There is defiantely an update. I have PAIN labs 11 and both the characters, although i can't play as the Sumo Wrestler yet. However, I've already tried out ED in his Reindeer suit.

Posted on 12.17.08 08:04 AM by George

I don't have anything. No Painlab 11, no characters, no replay editor... nothing.

Posted on 12.17.08 08:08 AM by KingDragunov

I'm seeing the same as some of you now. No error connecting anymore, but no update either.

Posted on 12.17.08 08:16 AM by Sethaniel

...and I guess in a few hours Coker will tell us what's wrong.

Posted on 12.17.08 08:20 AM by KingDragunov

sumo not working 4 me either

Posted on 12.17.08 08:41 AM by James

It looks like some of us have got some of the content, while others can't even get any. So far Ed, Replay Editor and PAIN labs is working fine for me.

Posted on 12.17.08 08:52 AM by George

No update for me either. Ugh...things can never be smooth.

Posted on 12.17.08 09:04 AM by DroppinPlates

Long time reader first time poster. First of all I would like to state that some of you guys on here are just sick at this game. I thought I was doing good and then I checked the leader boards to find that I well sort of suck. I do keep working on getting better and am showing some improvement.

I have had this game for almost as long it has been out(about 2 weeks less) and it keeps me coming back for more. No matter how much it aggravates me I always come back for more (maybe I just like the pain).

As for today I started out getting connection errors now that works but no update and I am still getting the day 10 lab. Glad to see its not just me.

Posted on 12.17.08 09:22 AM by paricite

Paricite......Welcome to the E.R!!! Smile



TRAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSS

Anything you got could help

Posted on 12.17.08 09:28 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

I WANT TEH UPDATE SAD FACE Frown

Posted on 12.17.08 09:38 AM by STALLONE

since the xmas update,on my pain main menu i lose the audio by about 50% when it says checking purchases and it doesn't come back this happen 2 anyone else?

Posted on 12.17.08 09:48 AM by olly

humm i wonder whats happening, i messaged both Trav and coker on their facebook, hopefully i get a response.

Posted on 12.17.08 09:58 AM by STALLONE

Gday gang! HURRAY for Christmas eve!

I love Ed's new Reindeer outfit especially the strategic missletoe positioning. Incidently my wife has a pair of undies that are the same. Smile

Sorry to tell ya but sumo elvis won't work. He is greyed out and the game tells me there is a download error Frown if I try to select him.

Have a merry christmas all on here and Travis and Coke!

I can't wait until tomorrow I have 2kg of prawns for christmas lunch with the family and I'm going to make a serious dent I can tell you!

Posted on 12.17.08 10:18 AM by Olaus

This is becoming a pain

Posted on 12.17.08 10:38 AM by Tebeau23

Just got on at 3:40 est.and no update,thx for the info Ron!

Posted on 12.17.08 10:40 AM by Bill

I still have day 10 too. I don't have the Blue Shoes or the Reindeer Ed. This is really disappointing. I don't want to miss a day of the days. I really hope that this is updated by the time the Playstation store is updated. You guys said that Blue Shoes and Reindeer Ed are free and are available at the time? I find this a little hard to believe, sorry if i'm wrong.

Posted on 12.17.08 11:00 AM by Logan

Where are people getting the idea Ao is free?

"Ao No Kutsu
When we were taking suggestions for the next pay character, a lot of you wanted a Sumo wrestler. Well, here you have it! MEET Ao No Kutsu"

Did we forget the previous blog post so soon? :p

Posted on 12.17.08 11:27 AM by pick-e

I knew he wasn't free. Or is he? I didn't think he was free all I know is that the Reindeer Ed is free.

Posted on 12.17.08 11:29 AM by Logan

nothing new for me, no painlab no ed. no network error though.

Posted on 12.17.08 11:33 AM by flagada28

i have the new update
BUT
ao no kutsu wont work , probally becoz the store hasnt updated yet
and for som reason it has given me painlab day 6
BUT
reindeer ed and replay editor r brilliant

Posted on 12.17.08 12:23 PM by Liam

I got the new update and everything besides ao no kutsu (waiting for store update ) looks trill!!

Posted on 12.17.08 12:55 PM by QCVic

i just made a video
clicked export to youtube and its done nothing i went on 2 youtube searched for it but cudnt find it
if any1 finds it tell me its called : Buzz PAIN TV
only my first video was just trying it out

Posted on 12.17.08 12:56 PM by Liam

@ Paricite

Not to worry...

I've had this game since day numero uno and I'm crappy. I can bust the top 100 but can't hang on for more than a week. Hang in there...

Posted on 12.17.08 13:06 PM by MarlyT35

anyone gets a video onto youtube
please tell me how
i need help
when you select export to youtube it does nothin
doesnt need u to sign into youtube or anything
does it only upload 2 the american youtube ???
anyway of to bed for me (its late here in england)
Happy Christmas Everyone

Posted on 12.17.08 13:08 PM by Liam

Store updated! Get the Sumo guy everyone!

Posted on 12.17.08 13:14 PM by KingDragunov

Great! Now my PS3 froze 3 times while I was editing some replays. Lol.

Posted on 12.17.08 13:38 PM by KingDragunov

Color me disappointed. As I understood it, with this update we would be able to capture and export screenshots of the game to the XMB, not just replays. Frown

Reindeer Ed and the new PAINLab are pretty nice though.

Posted on 12.17.08 13:41 PM by pick-e



Great! Now my PS3 froze 3 times while I was editing some replays. Lol.

Posted on 12.23.08 16:38 by KingDragunov


mine to, very frustrationg FrownFrown, what shall we do? Frown

Posted on 12.17.08 13:47 PM by Daniel

@everyone
I was just able to download the update and I received Ed's reindeer outfit and replay editor.

@Liam
When you use the export to youtube option, your replay will play from beginning to end. After that a screen comes up asking for you youtube account and password. After you confirm that, an upload progress screen will show up. Once the upload progress screen shows you should be able to find the video under My Videos in youtube. My experience with other videos is that my videos can't be found in search until a few hours have passed after posting.

Posted on 12.17.08 13:48 PM by Sethaniel

I just uploaded a vid to Youtube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfSmSDN6fBA&fmt=22

The first one that worked... lol

Posted on 12.17.08 14:26 PM by KingDragunov

Heres mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyPyeFiK3vg

Posted on 12.17.08 15:21 PM by Tebeau23

Reindeer Ed rocks! He's oochtastic (he even says "Ooch" and "Superooch" when you ooch him). I've gotten my highest scores in Abusement Park Trauma using him (usually 2 to 3 million, never under a mil).

Of course I owe a debt of gratitude to Travis for the "never ooch more than twice" tip. My scores really went up after I took his sage advice.

Sumo, not so much. And he makes a terrible bowling ball (the distractions knock him much, much farther than The Dude).

Posted on 12.17.08 15:31 PM by Wiggo

FINALLY.....

Posted on 12.17.08 15:38 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@developers

i was PAIN-player since first moment..
and i was sure that i will buy any new park/area..

but since i saw, that you add trophies that i only can get with buying DLC-characters..
i was really sad about your work.

PAIN is a absolutely good game..
but i think it's poor to show such a "money-machine"-move.

Posted on 12.17.08 16:00 PM by marcel

cool, i uploaded my first vid. add me to ya friends list. my screen name is getitgood945

Posted on 12.17.08 16:00 PM by DO2

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the things that I've been meaning to bug you guys about was allowing access to "All Songs" through the Jukebox. My playlists don't really work all that well. I just noticed that you guys already added that without me saying a word about it!! You are mind readers!

Can't wait to see your videos too guys this should be interesting.

Posted on 12.17.08 16:01 PM by sicdude

@Marcel: You get trophies when you have PAIN period you don’t have to pay any more and still get trophies. According to Sony policy if your game gets bigger (expansions) you can add more trophies. So you are in fact paying for content not trophies. PAIN was always going to have more content ALWAYS if you don’t believe me look back to our first posts (when there were NO PSN Trophies) and see if we spoke of more content. People making content are professionals and need to be paid. This is why we charge for more content. If you don’t want said content you don’t have to buy it (although we think it’s very much worth it) we give away free content all the time with PAIN. Ask anyone around here. PAIN last year didn’t have this much content.

@SicDude: Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome Your Welcome! Happy Holidays.

@Ron: Indeed.

@Wiggo: Happy to help out man. That third and fourth Ooch is for desperation or for SUCKAS!

@Everyone: Happy Holidays: Make me some cool videos for Christmas!

Posted on 12.17.08 17:07 PM by travis williams

@PAIN Team - Good job guys. You are UNSTOPPABLE. Happy holidays and thanks for the efforts.

Posted on 12.17.08 18:20 PM by obscured

@Travis - Thanks for separating the FWE leaderboards. I hate to nit pick but you but the hi scores are reversed. Not a big deal though because I couldn't get 8,300 boxes in DT. But now I do lol. Appreciate the help!!!

Posted on 12.17.08 18:26 PM by obscured

@Coke (Classic's the best, especially in the original glass bottles...screw diet)

Heheh, something epic and rare, here? Uploading the new environment(s) on time, would be pretty epic. Not sure about rare though...haha. Of course, that could just be the 'nog talking.

@Everyone
Happy holidays!

Posted on 12.17.08 22:23 PM by retaihec

@Sethanil
kl thanks
now i gotta set up a youtube account
i knew i would have 2
but i was just hopeing that when i selected export to youtube it wud giv me the option 2 sign up
but anyway

Posted on 12.18.08 00:55 AM by Liam

okay so i just created an account for youtube
uploaded my video (Buzz PAIN TV)
and it says my video is unavailable
help ??? plz

Posted on 12.18.08 01:11 AM by Liam

ahhh dw
its working now lol
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AuUyYZy2PGE

Posted on 12.18.08 01:14 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

Is anyone else having trouble with the FWE leaderboards on Movie Studios? I was tenth yesterday, and now i'm 19th with a score that i got a few weeks ago. I've also noticed that everyone elses scores have dropped, thus meaning everyone has moved different places. Is this just a bug?

Posted on 12.18.08 01:15 AM by George

@Trav/Coke

I am officially done with FWE until there's a fix for the glitches. I quite simply cannot put up with it anymore. I decided to try it again after the update today, just on the off-chance that it might be playing smoother. I get into my fourth event in MS painful, 242 crates into it -- I'm still ooching, about to keep it goin when it FREEZES - with my high score at 4174!!!!!!!!! I can't put up with it anymore, it just keeps getting worse between the freeze-ups in painful and the missing/phantom triggers in plat club. Will NEVER work in online play at this rate either. Let me know when ya guys figure something out for a permanent fix - until then I'm done. Frown

Posted on 12.18.08 01:46 AM by deadhead19420

FWE?

Posted on 12.18.08 02:17 AM by Russ

FWE- Fun with explosives

Posted on 12.18.08 02:35 AM by Kevin

@Travis and coker
can we have all 12 days back
i wana make videos for each 12
ive done day 11 and 12

Posted on 12.18.08 03:52 AM by Liam

oops ment 2 put each 1 of the 12

Posted on 12.18.08 03:52 AM by Liam

When I played the game last night it seemed that the character select screen was different (all character pics on one the screen at once rather than scrolling left) and I was not able to see the character bios? Is there a way that we can still read those or have those been removed? I like those little touches of having bios of the characters. Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Posted on 12.18.08 15:58 PM by LordZar

@George - Yes the FWE leaderboards were finally separated but now they are backasswards. So the score you had in MS now shows in the DT leaderboard and vice versa. I'm sure it's an easy fix. Unfortunately it probably won't happen until the next update. Whenever that is.

@LordZar - I haven't actually checked the bios since this recent update but did you try pressing square or circle for bios? Not sure which one it was before.

Posted on 12.18.08 19:43 PM by obscured

@deadhead - I feel ya sista girl. It's a let down I've grown all too used to. It's a real shame the most popular mode of this great game is marred by these unforgiveable bugs. How did this get by test? Travis and Coke addressed the missing trigger issue which was nice to hear but I can't recall if this freeze scab has ever been acknowledge. Has this never happened to anyone on the developers side?
In Idol Minds defense I can't think of any other game that comes close to the amount of explosions and pieces of debris flying around at once. Along with the physics aspect of everything going on it really is a remarkable programming triumph. I don't make games and this is just a guess but it appears as though these chain events are potentially just too much for the hardware to handle. But they're so frickin cool to experience. It's like taking Spot to the park. He's so thrilled he's bruising your shins with his tail wagging. You toss the frizbee and he proudly brings it back but then you beat him with it.

Posted on 12.18.08 20:15 PM by obscured

@Deadhead & Obscured

I'm hearing you both, the bugs make it unbearable to play at times. The missing triggers make me want to find a rock the size of a VW & crush myself with it & the PAINFUL freeze-ups are going to eventually freeze my PS3 and kill it.

BUT....

I'm not sure I can just STOP playing....seems like a waste of all that money I spent on this game. I HATE HATE HATE the glitches....but I will play it till my PS3 DOES die & then I'll make Idol Minds buy me a new one!!! Smile


Happy Holidays & Have A Good Smoke!!!!

Posted on 12.18.08 21:10 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

WTF is the "fart effect"? I just got that message while I was scoring some points in After Party...

Posted on 12.18.08 22:38 PM by KingDragunov

Character profiles seem to be gone. Frown

Also I can't for the life of me get Day 12. Frown

On an unrelated note, the new character selection menu shows how much of a sausagefest PAIN is. 10 guys vs 5 gals. Add in the two upcoming dudes at the top of this very blog post, the Zombie (likely male) and the rumored Sackboy and Ryu and it comes out to 15 to 5...

Posted on 12.18.08 22:42 PM by pick-e

@Travis and Coke
I also miss the character profiles, but not that much. What I'm wondering is, even if you've given one before, I could get a price range of how much darts will be around. Cuz I wanna buy a character or two, but since I'm cheap, I wanna have enough money left over for darts.

@pick-e
Yeah, I can't get day 12 either.

Posted on 12.19.08 01:45 AM by TheMyTMonarch

@Ron

puhleaze. you've spent what.. $25 if that on pain? you didn't even BUY the movie studio. Don't fake the funk.

I'm sorry, but there's been nothing worse in my video gaming days than my overall experience with Fun With Explosives. There's not a more horrible feeling in the world than sittin' with my honey, smokin some wee, uh, rolled cigarettes, playin some good tunes, ooching my ninja in a complete euphoric zone, then BAM! LOCK! I already live in Minnesota and put up with freezing enough throughout my winter days, I SHOULD NOT have to put up with it from this f%$#ing game as much as I do.. RUINING my zone and makin me get up, reset my PS3, possibly f#%k that up too.. yeah that's just what I need.. at this rate Idol Minds should be paying ME to play this game, because they've taken the fun out of it. BLAH.

Merry Christmas by the way. Hope everybody is safe with their families, warm, and having a good time.

Posted on 12.19.08 02:43 AM by deadhead19420

Dear Travis,

You broke a little kids heart for Christmas... mine!

I was hoping you would post the PAIN version of "The Night Before Christmas"

oh well.

Smile

Posted on 12.19.08 03:01 AM by DougHeffernan

Hey Travis / Everyone

Is i just me who can only record 30 seconds replays?

I cant save the whole replay?

and if I'm in the replay editor to long my Ps3 freezes?

is that just me? Frown hope not FrownFrownCry

Posted on 12.19.08 08:14 AM by Daniel

Merry christmas Travis and coker!

and of course PAIN JUNKIES Smile

Posted on 12.19.08 10:01 AM by Tebeau23

Merry Christmas Travis and all the IdolMinds family. Keep up the great work. And ignore the whiners for today.

Posted on 12.19.08 13:00 PM by TheBrainMachine

@ Everyone...

Guess who's back?

@ Trav

Downloading all the shit now... I'll be posting something before New Years. Kinda late for a Christmas present, but I'll make up for it in quality. I'm thinking of something along the lines of a "PAIN: Year End Review"

Posted on 12.19.08 14:18 PM by MoltenKevlar

When people return from break we will see what the deal is with the F W E bugs you are talking about but nothing can be done now as everyone is on holiday. We have people looking at the PAINLab issue and it should be resolved soon. I will let you know when I hear something. In the meantime everyone calm down we will fix this in the January content push.

Welcome back Molten.

Posted on 12.19.08 15:21 PM by travis williams

@Trav

Thanks... been playing with the editor and I got 2 words for ya bruddah...

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!

Posted on 12.19.08 15:35 PM by MoltenKevlar

does anyone have the same problem with the edtor? please tell me Embarassed

Posted on 12.19.08 16:04 PM by Daniel

is anyone having a problem destroying the war zone in Movie Studio? That is the only one I can't destroy when trying to get After Party Frown

Posted on 12.19.08 16:16 PM by David

Happy Christmas everyone Laughing

@David
You need to destroy all the mines in the war zone. theres four of them, hidden under the ground. Just fire all around teh ground until you blow them all up.

Posted on 12.19.08 17:53 PM by George

@Daniel

I've come across the same issue of the editor periodically freezing... Exit the editor, replay the same run and re-load it. Annoying? Yes, but a solution for now.

Also, the longest clip I've saved is 55 seconds, so I'm not sure why yours is capped at 30 seconds.

Posted on 12.20.08 02:53 AM by MoltenKevlar

@Everyone - With a special not to the PAIN team and of course, my friends THE MUTANTS!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good launch!

Posted on 12.20.08 07:35 AM by TonyB

DANG! supposed to be a special NOD!

Posted on 12.20.08 07:36 AM by TonyB

HAPPY JESUS' BIRTHDAY
&
GOOD LAUNCHING......



P.S.
LBP MGS DLC

ROX MY SOX!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 12.20.08 08:33 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

I love playing PAIN the only problem is I earned the two million club silver trophy but was not given it ... is there a way to fix this error ?

Posted on 12.20.08 09:50 AM by Aaron DS

@moltenkevlar

I can't do anything when it freezes. I need to restart the ps3 when it happens

Posted on 12.20.08 13:42 PM by Daniel

@Travis
What's wrong with the FWE leaderboards? I finally got a good score which put me 10th, and then the next day it set everyone's score back a few weeks. please don't tell me we've all lost our scores?

Posted on 12.20.08 15:43 PM by George

@Pain Team & Painiacs

**A belated merry xmas from all us here at the Furry Dojo**

FurrQue,
NoobyNoo,
TheBreadRunner,
FurrQue2,
Peedotron,
& the rest of the nutnuts here,

all wish you all a very happy holiday!

Hope everyone is happy, at home & with ones they love..

Peace & love

Posted on 12.20.08 15:45 PM by FurrQue

where is the 12th day on pain lab?
seems to have stopped at 11 for a few days now,

Posted on 12.20.08 21:25 PM by rob

Well, I got the update and made a quick run to test out the video editor and show off Reindeer Ed as well. I included both camera cuts and a slow motion run of the water tower falling to show all it can do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmcJjAQ1Gc&eurl

I do have a question for the PAIN team: Around the time the video editor went into testing (based on comments from Travis and Coke) You Tube updated their site to show in wide screen. The PAIN videos were designed to show a letterboxed widescreen in the old 4:3 screen. It looks good when I embed it on a site that still just shows the 4:3 screen, but when viewed on You Tube it now also has black bars on the side and makes the video seem smaller than it really is. You can see this effect in my link above.

I understand this is no fault of Idol Minds or Sony, as Google/You Tube did not announce this in advance, to my knowledge, and stopping testing to update the PAIN editor would have meant delays. And we all hate delays.

Is teh PAIN team aware of this and are there any plans to update the PAIN editor to fit the new screens on You Tube? Or do we know if You Tube intends to update to make the display screen fit the native screen ratio of the videos?

It isn't a big deal as it is no worse than 720 commercials being displayed on a 1080i TV broadcast.

I also exported the video to my XMB and I noticed I get a small file as well as a 720p file. The 720p file looks just like in-game footage.

Overall it is a great addition and I was quite surprised at the versatility of the editor. I expected to just get a video from the in-game angle, following the player. I did not expect camera angles and almost missed the playback speed options because I didn't expect to look for them.

Thank you very much guys. I will definitely be using this for any awesome replays I get.

Posted on 12.20.08 21:40 PM by FoolKiller79

@George - It never hurts to scroll up and review the recent posts. I posted above that yes, the leaderbords in FWE were finally separated BUT they are now reversed. Meaning: Your high score in MS is now showing in the DT leaderboards. And vice versa. The devs do read this board and Travis just posted stating after holiday they will look into it and hopefully fix the evil bugs as well as get these leaderboards in the correct order for the Jan - Feb? content push. Quite the canundrum indeed.

@FurrQue - Holy frijoles batman, don't tell me you cloned yourself. FurrQue2? What , did you incubate some foreskin cells? It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!!. Which reminds me - a company has now started making wallets out of discarded foreskins. If you rub it juuust right it tuns into a suitcase! (b' bap bap tsssss)

@Molten - Welcome back Spielberg Jr. Lofty expectations await.

Posted on 12.21.08 01:10 AM by obscured

Im in the same boat as you Aaron DS. Unfortunately, getting an answer around here means submitting a legal document to the supreme court, notifying them that a question has been asked, rather than just another comment. It's a shame, really.

Posted on 12.21.08 02:18 AM by KrimsonSky25

@obscured

Happy THC'mas matey!
Special warm reagards from us all to you, our favourite American!
Well, we knew we'd like one of you lot sooner or later Laughing

FurrQue2?
He aint bad, no PS3 sadly..
Not shy to admit he's a clone - derived from the cheese of my undergarments..
That may explain somewhat his green skin tone - but who knows..

Some say his testicles are upside down & he sucks moisture from ducks, all we know he's called FurrQue2..

(yes, i know its a top gear rip off!)

Top gear?
No obsy, calm down - its not what you think!
Sadly..

Poor sod, my pal (TheBreadRunner) his PS3 was dud on xmas day!
What are the odds of that?
Would'nt turn on..
How gutting, got a replacement today but work 2moro at 04:30 so still can't use it!!

HoHoHo - merry xmas to him!
or not, as it would seem..

Posted on 12.21.08 02:28 AM by FurrQue

Hey gang! I am seriously prawned out. I don't want to even look at another prawn...until next christmas! What was the best gift everyone scored on behalf of our old mate Jesus? Mine was a baby Cockatoo - TRUE

Posted on 12.21.08 02:33 AM by Olaus

@Daniel

Sounds similar to frame rate issues that the few of us that made it to H&C plat came across. Try deleting any unused files off your drive and see if that helps. Beyond that? I'm clueless dude, sorry.

@Obscured

Thank you sir... Vids usually take a few hours to make. I'm HOPING to get this done before 2009... Give you an idea as to the scope of what I'm planning.

@Trav, Coke and the good chaps at Idol Minds

Guys... badass editor. I've been playing with it quite a bit and it is really awesome. Making my life a lot easier in some respects. However, it would not be a Pain Blog post if it didn't have a few suggestions for making it even better. All dependent of course if you guys ever intend to expand it.

1- First HAS to be freezing issues. When setting an angle (usually fixed) and previewing the clip will cause the clip to freeze in place at one frame... Horrible news with a good launch.

2- In the future... I would LOVE to see the possibilities of a moving cam. Much like the default shot but from different angles. Could possibly be easily programmed by editing the position of the default cam angle.

3- Audio Editor... Some effects seem to get lost in the replays. Explosion or comments etc. Add a 4th bar and menu of lines to select from and add to the timeline with volume controls.

That all having been said... I'm honestly not shitting on the editor as it stands... It really is a great tool and I'm really happy to see the resolution difference in the editing process.

Keep up the good work and enjoy your vacation. You guys have certainly earned it!

(Holy Damn..... now THATS a Haskell!!!)

Posted on 12.21.08 04:15 AM by MoltenKevlar

@FurrQue - 'ello Furry ol chap. I'd like to give an 'Oi' out on behalf of the Yankee Republic and assure you that my opinions represent the entire N. American continent verbatim. For example: fire=bad ; vajayjay=good. Here in the States even our homotesticles are allowed to marry - and rightly so. My opinion - vajayjay still good. The People have spoken.

As for your partner breadrunner, that sucks profusely. Please forward my condolences concerning his PS3 lemon. Bright side? I suggest he take advantage of this misfortune and change that bloody handle to something perhaps... less career divulging. I'm not saying that delivering crumpets to cafes for a living is anything to be ashamed of by any stretch. It's just that 'breadrunner'... well it just kind of lacks that competitive 'umph' that's sometimes necessary for the psychological edge. Of course I'm just yankin his chain event but I do feel bad for the bloke. May the Indica Goddess sprinkle seeds of good fortune in your garden of life. PEACE

Posted on 12.21.08 04:46 AM by obscured

@obscured
TheBreadRunner?
lol, its sophisticated & stuff - he could mean he's some kind of money launderer too - well, kinda!!

Took him 3 months to come up with that, he's gonna be well deflated now after that character assassination!

He's prob reading this now & sobbing his heart out..

you ruthless b*stad

& its xmas, how could you?

Laughing

Hey, off topic, I was at the ATM/cashpoint today & an old lady kindly asked me if I could check her balance.

So I pushed her & she fell over.

Towely is in the H*O*U*S*E, slaying 'em with gags!

Much Love

Posted on 12.21.08 05:46 AM by FurrQue

@Furrque

Did she sound like the PAIN's Granny when you hit her?

Posted on 12.21.08 15:46 PM by Tebeau23

@FurrQue

Breadrunner = Lame
YeastyMcFee = Stupid, disgusting and crude... PERFECT!!!

Posted on 12.21.08 16:42 PM by MoltenKevlar

@TheBreadRunner - Please accept my apologies on the name debacle. Don't let my narrow minded ASSumption break the olive branch or deflate your will. It makes much more sense as Furry explained it. My faithful minion Molten was merely expressing loyalty to his fellow countryman. Or not. His call. Times like this remind me I'm not as I clever as I think. Wait. No screw that I'm still clever. It's just that when you talk as much doo doo as I do, your liable to step in a pile once in a while. <<< See there? An unrehearsed droplet of oozing cleverness. I tell ya man - it's a curse and a blessing. It's a clurssing. <<< Ok here we see a great example of a dried droplet of uncleverness that just flakes off when brushed vigorously. I should go now.
Ok I'm back - to thank the good citizens of the Furry dojo and reciprocate their wishes of wellness.
And to the readers of this board. Thanks for allowing my asinine hijinx to continue virtually unmolested. However, should you feel the urge, start with the neeples.PEACE

Posted on 12.21.08 20:17 PM by obscured

@obscured

"virtually unmolested"

Love it!
Sounds almost like an ugly/awkward Playstation Home incident..
I tell ya, its not a place for girls!


@Molten
Lots of the better 'names' he wanted to use were already taken - YeastyMcFee or DoughBoy all good alternatives - but he likes TheBreadRunner, afterall he is THE man with much dough in his pocket!
'Playa' they cry as he trundles past on his 26" rims sitting crazy low with his gangsta lean so far on he's horizontal!

Does'nt quite have the same effect being a Renault as it would've a Bentley, but you gotta start somewhere I guess..


@Tebeau23
No, but she was supprisingly fluent in Kung-Fu..
I've never seen so many backflips in one move!

Posted on 12.22.08 00:37 AM by FurrQue

@FurrQue

All in good fun dude. For god sakes my name doesn't even make sense... Kevlar being made from nylon I'm not exactly sure what it would look like melted or even if it can... probably just flash-burn when it got hot enough.

God bless the USA and we kicked your ass in the 18th century... nevermind that little issue in 1812... didn't count!

Posted on 12.22.08 03:19 AM by MoltenKevlar

@FurrQue
Home has quickly become the XBox Live of the Playstation Network...Have you SEEN the blackface people on there!?

Posted on 12.22.08 05:31 AM by TheMyTMonarch

Ao No Choppa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYKmZli_i0k

Ao Nooooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDz3RUhvtQ

Posted on 12.22.08 16:31 PM by STALLONE

@obscured - Painteam
so...
the leaderboards are split now....

I hope when they sort it out the bugs in FWE it does'nt become too easy.

Once in a shower it'll be endless without the freezes..
This will blow it wide open & strip FWE painful of any challenge.

Plat club will benefit the most - fixes will blow that appart too, but with having to find a trigger crate, it'll always be a tougher challenge than painful.

I hope painful FWE does'nt become like STM painful.
STM painful is about endurance rather than skill.
Once memorized the patterns, its a case of plugging away till you get the score you want.
I had a 6900+ score going & lost it due to a power hic-up (ouch) I was going for 11,112!

Pausing the game, going to bed etc., coming back to it the next day carrying on, pausing it etc..
Took me about 4 days to get the 6900+ STM score, off & on in small sessions, but it felt pointless & unchallenging.

I was sick to lose the score but sicker at the thought of having to do it again, so I have'nt bothered.

I KNOW how long those two top scores took & it was pure endurance all the way!

Not flaming STM, you guys see my point, right?

I just don't want FWE painful to end up the same.
Fix the bugs - where will the challenge come from??

I want the bugs gone too - but I worry where this will take my baby!


@Molten
& WE have'nt lost a war since! Laughing

Best end this now, you know how these kinds of topics end up..
Last piece of pro-UK banter from me!

My man stuck with TheBreadRunner, gotta go with your favorite I guess!

Well, look at my PSN nickname, anyone here know where FurrQue (Fur-Q)comes from?

A little xmas trivia 4u all!



@TheMyTMonarch
blackface people?
What do you mean?


@TheBreadRunner
Our tech department is closed now till January 6th.
Please call back then..
Laughing


@The Board
Gonna upload some Dojo replays to YouTube soon - got some real fancy stuff to share!
Well, as long as I can do it without it fookin freezing all the time, hoots mon!

Much Love

Posted on 12.23.08 06:48 AM by FurrQue

My 5$ amusement park purchase is currently a waste, because the download doesn't work. Many people are having this problem. ( boardsus.playstation.com/.../message ) The download on PSN appears to be corrupt. Please fix this ASAP. Thanks.

Posted on 12.23.08 11:50 AM by Moe

@FurrQue
Well I guess you haven't seen them then. Apparently though, if you do a certain combination of things when stylizing your avatar, it ends up quite disturbing. And that's exactly what they're aiming for, of course.

Posted on 12.23.08 12:27 PM by TheMyTMonarch

@FurrQue

I can't really agree with your statement on FWE. The point of playing a game is to play it without having to worry about it freezing your whole system constantly and possibly screwing with that. It's nothing like STM, where it's just memorizing. FWE is alot more unpredictable. It's NOT easy to keep a shower going for more than 1,000 - 1,500 crates, and once it stops, you gotta work hard to get it going again. It's never the same pattern that you can follow, there's alot more skill involved. The bottom line is, the bugs HAVE to be fixed, and once they are, we should see the scores reflect the player's actual skill.

Posted on 12.23.08 15:12 PM by deadhead19420

@ Travis

Well Santa, you came thru.... Ask and yee shall receive. Brock Lee... Brock....Lee..... Now I need the theme song for "The Last Dragon" and my best Bruce Leroy impression.... Can we get a model of Sho'Nuff the Shogun of Harlem? Talk about a battle of epic proportions.... Add a little Hung'lo in there... tear that Dojo up!

Posted on 12.23.08 15:14 PM by ShirtNinja

BTW, here's all I could come up with on the origins of "Fur-Q"..

From the Urban Dictionary:

"Gangsta Rapper created by Chris Morris in the early 90's. Now used as an insult by many teens in Hackney Community College.

1st Man: Hey boy... Gimme your phone!

2nd Man: No! Fur Q...."

LOL

Posted on 12.23.08 15:48 PM by deadhead19420

@deadhead19420

Gotta disagree there honeybuns, sorry!.. Laughing
Showers 'will' be endless without the freezes, take it from someone who knows!

Not being arsey, honest, just talking from a lot of experience.
My 56k score was done in under 15 launches...


I know the bugs need fixing - but I hope im not posting here in 3months time saying, "I told you so!".

Idol minds need to look at FWE closely before disecting it..

I've spent hundreds of hours playing FWE painful - I know it back to front, inside out & all around..

Trust me when 'I' say that showers would be endless..

btw
Is Hackney Community College something in your country?
Assuming you're not in the UK?

Theres a Hackney Community College not too far from me, Hackney is a place in greater london..
Wonder if you are refering to that?
Odd reference though..

Got the Fur-q thing right - no one here in the UK I know has heard of Chris Morris, so they all think its an anti social thing!


@obscured
What do you think about the freezes fix debate?


@TheMyTMonarch
You typed "blackfaced", I see now - you meant "Blank Faced".

I was a little shocked to be honest about that original comment..


Posted on 12.23.08 18:23 PM by FurrQue

@FurrQue
Uh...No, I meant blackface....And I bet you had a feeling I would reply to you that way. It's quite disturbing, am I the only one who sees these people?

Posted on 12.23.08 19:39 PM by TheMyTMonarch

@TheMyTMonarch
oh, i see, lol - been a confusing one this!

Can't say I remember any - perhaps they are wearing some kind of trophy item.
Certain games in the bowling alley give you prizes for certain scores.

Maybe its that?

Posted on 12.23.08 20:17 PM by FurrQue

Well, I highly doubt they would hand out rascist masks for prizes but maybe parts of it? This is getting way too complicated, look, there are people that have somehow stylized themselves to look like a minstrel show and it freaks me out. That's it....0_o

Posted on 12.23.08 21:53 PM by TheMyTMonarch

Whats tragically pathetic is that I was able to make my avatar on PSHome look EXACTLY like I do... Complete with black wife-beater and cargo pants while barefoot. The only thing missing is about $1600 in tattoo's.... here's hoping for an update on the body-mod front.

Posted on 12.23.08 22:41 PM by MoltenKevlar

Tatoos, ROFL....The whole thing would quickly turn into a body-art show, with all kindsa innapropriate stuff made by combining multiple tatoos into shapes...I've seen it done with Miis.

Posted on 12.24.08 01:24 AM by TheMyTMonarch

@TheMyTMonarch
I'm understanding you properly now, lol!

Defo not an arcade prize then - unless it was in the minstrel section I missed!

Oh man, I've really had my wires crossed on this one - thought you was a facist! Laughing LMAO!

I've managed to make my avatar invisible, well, all apart from the head..

If you see a handsome flying head in home, its maybe me!

Handsome flying minstrel head?
Thats just scary..

Posted on 12.24.08 07:01 AM by FurrQue

@Travis & Team

Just saw the ozzy osbourne warcraft TV advert - funny!

Anyone suggested ozzy as a pain character before?

"SHARON"
He'd holler as he flew like a brick!

Could even have a quad bike launch pose complete with crash sound effects..

Surely someone must've put ozzy up for consideration?

Posted on 12.24.08 07:33 AM by FurrQue

Lots of swearing Smile

Posted on 12.24.08 16:09 PM by Russ

Anybody know what the next character is going to be?

Posted on 12.24.08 20:06 PM by Logan

@Coke and Travis
Can we get a cosplaying geek character? It would be really fun, he could have different costumes and one of them would be him cosplaying as Brock Lee! His normal costume should be a troll or something. And I'm not making fun of cosplayers, I've done it before. I was Dr. Thaddeus Venture for Comic-Con '07.

@ FurrQue
Ah, now ya gettit! Can I see a picture of your avatar, it sounds really cool. Ozzy would be a really funny character, he might even be up to doing his voice...He could even talk about how his wife knows the Hoff from America's got Talent. There are some other musicians who would make good characters, like Elton John (no way that's ever gonna be politically correct though, they wouldn't allow it) and Michael Jackson and Slash.

@Logan
That's my name too, it really is.

Posted on 12.24.08 21:09 PM by TheMyTMonarch

Hey guys I started up a new Youtube account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Playstation3Power

That's the one for PS3 news, Trailers etc.
My old one is still in use and my PAIN Replays will be uploaded there. Just so you know.

BTW: If there are any Gran Turismo fans somewhere around here, bad news for you:
Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the GT series, announced that GT5 will not come out before 2010. Great^^

Posted on 12.25.08 02:29 AM by KingDragunov

FurrQue/deadhead - My position on the freezes/fixes issue? Very interesting you(FurrQue) should ask . This may take 2 posts.
I began playing PAIN a few mos. after release. Didn't fall in love until 1p FWE was added. No plat club yet. 200 was a good challenge at that time. Then 300 and so on. One day, playing as I always did, I had my first chain event. Blew my mind and sealed the deal - coolest game in recent years. Found the zone and hit #1 spot at just over 1,000. Months passed as I gradually increased a commanding lead. Months without a challenger. Painful FWE chains in DT were never endless. That was the challenge. My longest single launc at the time was about 900. Freezes did occur as well. After months at the top of my game we get an update. Immediately afterwards I'm showing a friend the game and get a chain going. I remember saying 'oh my god it just keeps going and going - it's never gone this long before man this is unbelievable.' My high score at that time was around 1,900. (Continued)

Posted on 12.25.08 05:43 AM by obscured

(CONT....) So we watch as it hits 3,000 and shortly after it freezes. Then within 2-3 days of that you, my felonius friend, burst onto the scene and run amuck with the bitch and start your historic ascent with ridiculus scores. 56,000?Mind boggling and 100% legit. Hooray for you but boohoo for me. We both agreed that something was different after that update. That was a tough pill to swallow. Gulp.
My whole point here is you don't want them to change a thing , even if it's buggy - yet it was the change after that update that allowed your stellar rise.
Bottom line is it needs to be fixed. Badly. Between freeze ups and missing triggers, and the leaderboard hasn't been right since MS released and it still isn't even after they attempted to fix it, my patients and faith has declined immensely. I'm with deadhead. Fix the dam game for once and for all. And LISTEN PAIN TEAM to the players that have tested your game over and over and trust what we say. We love your game. Peace Furry Peace all

Posted on 12.25.08 06:15 AM by obscured

@PAIN TEAM

Amen to obscured's post... You guys have created the coolest and most original game in ages but it is sadly plagued with glitches such as freezes... With all love and respect... After the new year, get off your fat asses and fix the shit... ya hosers!

Posted on 12.25.08 06:19 AM by MoltenKevlar

Agreed....

Posted on 12.25.08 06:27 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Not to add to the aggravated assault but what is with the announcements that get announced but take months to actually see???????

Example would be the new pain website.....

"you'll be seeing changes"

Uhhhh......where are they then??????



Are the freeze-ups & missing triggers the reason FWE didn't make it in the amusement park update????



When will this pain crew be STRAIGHT with us???????

We've been discussing the glitches for awhile now & just recently has travis even acknowledged that that we've even said anything!!!
I know that Idol Minds and Sony are businesses with business-ppl running them. But it takes TEN SECONDS to log on & type a few lines & answer a few ?'s......

Seems as if the last "C" has been forgotten & laid to rest behind the first $$$$.

This new make-over for this site is needed NOW more then ever.
If I have to scroll past one more youtube upload, I'm gunna......well........do nothing, I suppose, bcuz I'm a stupid white kid with no gun, no posse & I recently found out I smoke too much pot to be of any use in any situation EVER.


When is it enuff?????



Posted on 12.25.08 06:53 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Well Ron I'm not trying to start a revolt or flame or defame anyone's efforts. As I said - I love the game. I love my boy Furry too. He's my British doppleganger and has my sincere respect. Person 1st then the player. My post above I was sincere, hence a tinge of bitterness resonates. No assault. Because it does. I'm a person who dosen't like to hear ppl trash the game. Even if their beef is substantiated. There's more tactful way's to forward issues. Plus it just kills the high. Be it natural or herbal. It's uncomfortable.
I'm hooked on this game and I can't get my fix because it's wacked with bugs. So today in the post above I became the downer post dude. Uncle uncomfortable. I no longer lament that day after the 1.67 update and changes or not, Furry's 56,000 is legendary in it's own right. Still love the game. Please PAIN TEAM don't let these issues into next evirones.
Lol Ron, your last paragraph summed up and salvaged your post. Classic and cracked me up dude. I'm not Francis, but I'll lighten up ok! PC

Posted on 12.25.08 08:06 AM by obscured

Ahhh.. peace and love are in the air. *tears*

I got an idea. Let's all smoke a blunt, get naked, and sing "Kumbaya" in a circle around my frozen PS3. Smile

Posted on 12.25.08 09:11 AM by deadhead19420

@obscured, deadhead & ron
I too have been with Pain since around a month or so after its release - I hated it untill FWE arrived, then, like obsy - hooked..

We here are 'multi-playas' - FWE has been our 'game' since it release & its all we play when we are together here at the dojo!


You all already know that when done right & when FWE is in its shower the only thing that stops it is a freeze..
Fix that freeze - where will the challenge come from??

I can kick off a shower in 1 launch - so by saying that, I can have an endless score from one jump.
Hmmmm, yeah I'd play that twice - NOT!

As I've stated many times before - I quit my 56k score due to (hate to say it) 'boredom'

If it did'nt take soooo fookin long I'd show you all 100k+ scores - thats the point Im making here.

Spank the monkey painful is the same'ish - pick a score & stop when you get there..

Would hate to see FWE end up the same..

I know with my top score this makes it look like sour grapes from me, looking like I don't want you all to have what I've got - honestly, its not like that at all.

I've spent so much time playing FWE I know too well..
Im thinking outside the box & about the game, the players & its future.
Fix the freezes & it will kill it stone dead, trust me.
Endless showers are pointless - I've seen them 1st hand & they're boring!

Much Love

Posted on 12.25.08 14:39 PM by FurrQue

Question for Travis/Coker:

The content (no naming needed) that caused the MS delay and was removed, you said:

"We are removing the content (that you haven’t seen yet since it hasn’t been announced) and developing a patch for this content so that when/if we are allowed to go forward we will be able to do this seamlessly."


- So can we get any update on this? Is it moving forward, stuck in limbo, or permanently cancelled?


Also, is the screenshot firmware 2.5 update going to be used for PAIN anytime soon?


Pre-thanks for any reply.

Posted on 12.25.08 16:03 PM by KylieDog

@obscured, deadhead & ron

..continued..

While addressing the freezes, Idol Minds will need to change the game - a little..
Thats assuming they do a complete overhaul.

What will these changes be?
How can they tackle 'endless' showers?

Maybe limit the clock to 5mins?
Reduce it to a 15 launch only game?

Well, none of my two above suggestions would stop a no freeze game from going off the clock - so what needs to change?

We all here at my place who play it regulary have been discussing this now for a few days - we can't agree on anything other that a complete overhaul.

But what will this bring to a game that we all (dare I say) love & what will it take away?

Look at monkey target in NGC Monkey ball 1
Then look at the same in Monkey Ball 2

Get my point?
In the overhaul/sequel, what was fun was about the game was killed stone dead.

And I mean DEAD!

Now, I don't disagree one iota that FWE plat club needs its ass kicking back into shape - its where the 'real' battles between us cratewhores will take place.
MS FWE plat is frickin A1 ding dong!
I can't wait till thats fixed.. (drooling at prospect..)
Best FWE yet - once fixed, its gonna be cracking off everywhere between us all!
A minor fix - a major improvement.

The FWE painful metoer showers I don't think were ever part of the original concept for the game - its kind of a loop hole/glitch that we FWE players all exploit.

Reduce the number of bonus crates falling by half?
Thats one good fix - But will require wiping the leaderboards & we all start again to make it fair?

So looking at it from that perspective, maybe thats where FWE painful will end up.

OR create a new polished up balls'a'shining game that lives along side the current one?

I don't really want to lose my current FWE baby forever! Frown


Sorry to fill up the blog today with a couple of Haskell's, (by the way where is he?)
And I agree with ya all fixes are required -
but be careful what you wish for..

Much Love

Posted on 12.25.08 18:08 PM by FurrQue

@KingDragunov

Regarding that GT5 news, are you talking about the article that was on GamingGrep, OXCGN and N4G? If so, those were linking to a very old Import Tuner article, and since that interview Kazunori Yamauchi has said that it should be out sooner than we expect and SCEE has even mentioned 2009.

See here to see the timeline of events surrounding this:
www.gtplanet.net/.../

If you have a different source please let me know so that I can pass the news on to Jordan at GTP.

-------------
Back to PAIN.

I finally played with Ao No Kutsu last night. His ooch gives him a big bump but he loses his moment fairly quick too. Well, done. It balances the strength of a sumo wrestler with the drag caused by his weight

Posted on 12.25.08 18:31 PM by FoolKiller79

@FoolKiller79

I've got some sources here:

www.fragland.net/.../

www.videogaming247.com/.../

Posted on 12.26.08 03:21 AM by KingDragunov

OMG I just brought the Abusement Park and it dosent work, its like the floor is all white and its a endless sky, Im really mad about this seeing as how there is no fix and no refund HELPPPPP...I included a you tube link so you can see what Im talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCuvTNNaKGM

Also and ps forum on lots of other users having the same problem
boardsus.playstation.com/.../message

riches76@gmail.com

Posted on 12.26.08 03:27 AM by RICHARD

@FWE Luvva's

I think that Painful needs no fix besides the never ending timer.....

THERE IS NO NEED FOR 90+ MINUTES.....too much waiting after a good long run. Stop it at 15 or even 30 would do fine.

Other than that....its fine, furrQue is right, if it wasn't for the freezes, that leaderboard would be FULL of 56k and up.

Then what???
I didn't look @ it that way till I read furries last couple of posts. But he is right.

Sorry to say it but if it changes...I might not want to play AT ALL.


FWE is the ONLY reason, until online drops, I play pain at all.
I like the game as a whole but FWE has got its TNT hooks right in my gill and I prefer it not to change bcuz it might cut off my breathing.

With everything on the table...
I step back to let it all in and contemplate a solution.

And the way I see it...two things need to change & ONE question needs to be answered....

1) THE timer in painful needs a shallower limit.
2) The missing trigger needs to be found and put back where it should be.

.....and WILL THE FREEZES KILL MY PS3????

If not then we are cool cats...
but if so.....then, by all means, fix away!

Posted on 12.26.08 09:56 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@anybody saying the freezes shouldn't be fixed.

Bullsh!t.

That's all fine and dandy if you wanna think "oh the showers will be endless if the freezes are fixed, oh what shall I do?!" But ya know what? Too bad. Yeah, obviously some things have to be tweaked. The time thing is ridiculous. NOBODY needs hours of worthless time built up just to spend 5 minutes gathering remaining crates after the showers end. Maybe once you hit 300 crates building 20 seconds with every 10, it switches over and you only get an extra 20 seconds after every 50th crate? Because by then you should have gotten an event going anyway. That would solve the time issue. As far as the freezes go, they HAVE TO BE FIXED. I won't play a game that's going to screw me over whenever it wants and freeze up my PS3, not to mention the time that's been wasted building up the score before it froze. Anybody who thinks the right thing to do is leave the freezing in the game needs to have their head examined, and possibly enter treatment for crack addiction. No offense intended, I'm JUST SAYIN Smile

The simple fix would be to lower the amount of bonus crates that drop. Even lowering it by a couple crates, I think would have a big difference. It doesn't sound like it should be too hard to push through with a patch either.

But FREEZING UP MY PS3???? Nuh uh. Can't be happenin.

Posted on 12.26.08 13:14 PM by deadhead19420

Do you realize how EASY it is to start a shower????

Whenever I play I get it going on the first launch!!!!!

Now, whats going to stop me or anyone else that knows how to ooch from just going n going????

The ONLY reason my showers even end is when I re-launch b4 the bonus trigger crate explodes, which eventually ruins the run.....or it freezes.

Now if you take out the freezes & steady my ooching...all I have to do to beat Sir FurrQue's 56k is go around the block for as long as I please...racking up my never-ending score!!!!

DAMN.......Can't WAIT to be that BORED!


The freezes give us balance to an un-even mode.....keeps the noobs at bay, if you will. I am proud to be with the Greats of FWE and so should you.
You take out that freeze & everyone with 1000+ crates will take that greatness away from us & when that happens I will play this mode full of sorrow and regret.

What we need to do is stop the bickering & find the solution...

Posted on 12.26.08 13:48 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

RON.

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

I just GAVE you a solution. A few less bonus crates fall, each time you earn bonus crates. Trust me, it would have an impact. But to suggest we should just keep the freezes in & keep people frustrated so us "greats" can stay at the top is redonkulous.

Now, if we could only get Travis or Coker to give us some input on these ideas....

Posted on 12.26.08 13:53 PM by deadhead19420

P.S.

Also, if these freezes are just left in, multiplayer will N-E-V-E-R work.

We need an ACTUAL solution if FWE painful is going to be playable.

Posted on 12.26.08 13:55 PM by deadhead19420

I'm not sure about this, obviously, but my idea of FWE online is the multiplayer FWE that we have now only with someone not in your house.

That makes the freeze & the trigger crates a problem that rests solely in single player.

But I could be wrong.....

Posted on 12.26.08 15:16 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

I can't believe what I'm reading. Deadhead is logical. You guys have both gone insane. Remembering games, and daisey chains and laughs. Got to keep you loonies on the path.
Leave those ****'d up lock ups? That's your solution to 'keepin it fresh'? My god...we've lost em deadhead. No...don't look, it's gruesome. b..bbBRAAALPHPFFLcack. Shouldn't have looked. Brain matter everywhere.
Seriously guys if that is the answer guess what? This games broke. And don't you think it's safe to say that frequent lockups NEVER beneficial to hi tech devices? Snap out of it man the lockups are wrong in so many ways it's not eeeeven funny. Hey fellas wanna borrow my cherriest of rides for your Vegas trip? She huals ass baby you'll be there in nooo time. Or, stranded on a gooey 130 degree ribbon of asphalt dead cuz she stalls out now and then. HOO HOOO I'm goin for it duude. <<<Lil bit like that. Lil bit.
Really though FurrQuesan and Ronsan - you sleep off your little benders and deadhead and I will give you each a pass!PEACE

Posted on 12.26.08 17:51 PM by obscured

@deadhead19420
I dont 'think' showers are endless, I KNOW.
You've missed my point, I never said keep the freezes Cry
I suggested above less falling bonus crates as a possible fix, but who wants to sit through endless showers?
No skill required there, is there??


@Ron
glad you understand - got something on the boil to prove my point..
soon!
Never had or seen any freezes in 2p FWE, so its good to go.
And we've played 100's hours of too..


@obscured
I never said keep the freezes.
I thought you of all the players here would understand the way FWE painful plays..

You KNOW the only thing to stop a proper shower is a freeze.
How many times has it happened to you?

Why would someone with your skills want to play a game that would'nt require any skill at all once the place rips down?

Gotta trust me on this one - Have faith in ya uncle furqy..


Put that billygoat down & reread my above posts, you silly goose.

Much Love
Woooo
New Years Eve!
Woooo!

Posted on 12.26.08 20:52 PM by FurrQue

OMG.... ok... *blocks complete b!tch mode from comin out*.... *deep breath*.... *takes a few hits*.... *thinks of fuzzy bunnies, glittery unicorns, and Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy*... LOL

Guys, this is the bottom line. We cannot keep the freezes in the game, REGARDLESS of whether or not they would be endless or whether or not they'd affect multiplayer (which btw I don't believe will be as simple as ya think). Cant be happenin. No way Jose.

Now, that being said, I've said I'm all for including something else in that fix that will also allow for a little more challenge, for those afraid of "endless showers".. I gave my idea.. I'd LIKE to hear a few more ideas, and also some from Travis or Coker, both of whom I'm giving the benefit of the doubt on this because of the holidays, I understand not bein around right now... BUT, the freezes HAVE TO BE FIXED. That my friends is the bottom line.

But I'll also say this, and I think someone posted about it before also... if FWE painful is CHANGED besides fixin the freezing, the leaderboards should be archived and started fresh.. we should still have access to VIEW the old leaderboards (which are still screwy right now as it is)... but we should get new ones to get a true representation of the difference in the game.

Happy New Year!

Posted on 12.27.08 03:40 AM by deadhead19420

BTW FurrBoy, I see that you did also mention less falling bonus crates as a fix Smile missed that before

ok I'm done now.... stay safe, don't drink and drive, stay home and smoke yourself silly, by the time ya come down from the clouds it'll be 2009... woot!

Posted on 12.27.08 03:59 AM by deadhead19420

@Deadhead

I guess this all falls back to my original question, fix the freezes where will the challenge come from?.

No one has answered this yet properly..

Im Not saying keep the fookin things, I hate them as much as you lot - too many hours have I wasted due to the soul crushing lock ups..
Arrrrgh

The current game 'as is' fixed & freeze free is what I don't really want to see happen.
You could kick off a mega shower, put the controller down, walk off, clean ya teeth, go to bed & wake up to a 6mil score - This has been is my point all along..

Its tough trying to make my point here as it seems Im the only one whos PS3 does'nt freeze - errr.. well not quite as much anyway. It happens, but rare for me - dunno why?
So I have seen a full force no holds barred meteor shower 1st hand, ooching around avoiding boxes to keep it interesting whilst banging in lauches that often reach 5 figure numbers.
zzzzzz.. sorry, dozed off, it has that effect after 50k!

I agree, overhaul the game >>FIX THE FREEZES<< but don't just patch the current one, do it properly.



Happy new year!

Posted on 12.27.08 04:22 AM by FurrQue

don't know if this has been brought up before but...

has anyone noticed the Hospital billboard in the Amusement Park? is that a hint of a new environment? Just an observation.

Happy New Year all you PAIN Freaks!

Posted on 12.27.08 05:16 AM by sicdude

Does anyone have a video on a sure way to unlock Buzz? There are some, but I can't pull them off.

Posted on 12.27.08 05:47 AM by Logan

@Everyone

Happy New Year

@Trav and Coke

Well, I wo't make the deadline for the movie I'm making... Taking a bit longer than I expected, I WOULD apologize... but... delays... I feel like were family at this point and love means never having to say your sorry.

Truth be told I could probably pull an all nighter and finish the damn thing, But along with moving I am single again for the first time in 4 years and... Well as much as I love making movies... Ole Molten aint exactly got the ladies beating down the door cause of a few youtube vids... Jesus there is only one girl on the board and shes married.

So suffice to say... I'll be a little late... but Daddy gotta go find him some strange.

Later

Posted on 12.27.08 05:51 AM by MoltenKevlar

Uhhh yeah, so I just got a new system, re-downloaded PAIN, went to play AP & BAMMMMM!! NO SURFACES!!!! ALL WHITE!! What's the deal PAIN crew? Also, I no longer have a darts icon. Did it disappear 4 everyone? Congrats 2 pain 4 being not only the most downloaded game of 08, but the most glitched game of ALL TIME!!! An entire environment has gone missing. Yall gave us awhite christmas, that's 4 sure, lol!!!!

Posted on 12.27.08 06:45 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

@juggs
welcome back..

seems to be a common thing at present - you're not alone with that one judging by the amount of others suffering too!

Anyway fook that, happy new year - get w*nkered & worry about it 2moro

Theres a pint on the Dojo bar - enjoy!

Posted on 12.27.08 06:51 AM by FurrQue

Yo Juggs! That's weak... Good to see your mug back in the game tho. Happy 09 kid... We'll get to that ballgame this spring for sure! I'll get the tickets - you buy the brats!!

Posted on 12.27.08 15:23 PM by TonyB

@ ALL

Happy freakin New Year!

Posted on 12.27.08 21:29 PM by deadhead19420

Happy new year, Idol Minds and Painiacs. My game doesn't have any bugs, so it's all good here.

Posted on 12.27.08 21:59 PM by TheMyTMonarch

To the locals and lurkers. Ghosts of nutants passed ( oh Mortal_Sinner how we doth miss thee). Wise guys who built the game. All you bastitches - HNY!!

Posted on 12.28.08 01:58 AM by obscured

Out With the old, in with the new..

Happy New Year Painiacs!

Ooch long, prosper & may the ooch be with you always!!

Posted on 12.28.08 04:27 AM by FurrQue

Happy New Year everyone. Curious... I've had Painlab Day 11 since day 11, and a bunch of the other days never showed either. Did anyone get day 12? Ihad hoped we would get all 12 on Xmas.

Posted on 12.28.08 08:34 AM by TheBrainMachine

@ Pain Team

Would it be possible to have a 'Next High Score' tally in the corner of the screen? What I mean is when playing FWE for example there would be a counter showing the next score you have to beat, and if you excede it the next positions score. Ihope you get what I'm trying to say. Basicaly a target to aim for.

@ FWE Players

These bloomin' Invisible Crates, are they actualy there? I mean is it possible to hit one by mistake? or are they just completely untouchable?

@ Obscured

Happy New Year to you too.*sob*

The Probe AKA Atomic-Turd

Posted on 12.28.08 13:36 PM by The_Probe

@Turdy
Happy new year!
I think the missing triggers are actually missing.
The game seems to choke - I've given up with MS FWE plat, for now, untill its fixed..
Im not beaten, just turning my gaze elsewhere!
Back to Bioshock then...

Posted on 12.28.08 13:54 PM by FurrQue

@ Furrque

Happy New Year dude.

@ Everyone

Happy New Year guys!

Posted on 12.28.08 15:59 PM by The_Probe

?

Posted on 12.28.08 17:00 PM by john

how the hell do I change my name here to my psn name ? ?

Posted on 12.28.08 17:05 PM by john

@Atomic-Turd (The_Probe) - Sorry mate, my favorite modes are all buggy in one way or another. I still need my PAIN fix though, so it was Uranus Assault or deal with my withdrawls. The lead may look daunting but I know you'll take it back soon enough, as yours always seems to be the score to beat in these two MS modes. You possess the skills to building multipliers, then it's a test of endurance. With a 120x multiplier I reached it quicker than expected. A good challenge keeps the gears oiled too.

@FurrQue - 100k in DT FWE? That must have taken 5 or 6 hours at least. Just amazing. Something tells me you chose to end it there, and could have kept on. What's a better term than 'legendary'? - I already used that word to describe your 56K score! PS I know you don't 'want' to keep the lockup issue in game and understand your fears if they tweak it too much. We're on the same page bro. You know it's a good product when a $10 download game stirs so much debate and emotion. Good times my friend.
Peace

Posted on 12.28.08 17:35 PM by obscured

I need to add my 2 cents to the FWE issue . Uh , first , hi , been playin pain and reading here for about 6 months , think you people are cool and gotta hand it to you guys that get them scores in the thousands !! .OK so , it seems to me that the only people having issues are the ones that have these amazing scores . I've never gotten a score any where near yous guys . My highest and I just got it is 236. So , is it possible that the console just cant handle all that happens when these showers go off and that it isnt a problem actually with the game itself ? Changing the # of bonus crates or changing the bonus time is only going to make it harder for those of us that arent as good as you guys (i'm not sayin I dont like a challenge ) and I am sure that there are more of us average players than there are of you greats . If they lowered those #'s it would be a hell of a lot harder and I'm sure it would piss plenty o people off .Unless it was done as mentioned above by someone , I think deadhead ? that after a certain # of crates the play changed then that would be fine with me , but making changes to game play just because the few top players experience freezes when shit gets going crazy like you say it does isnt fair to the rest of us . I'm not knockin or saying anything at all to upset you people , like I said , you guys are amazing being able to get those #'s , but I think you are the minority . The majority of us suck !!ok ,I'm done . Thanks for your time ! Happy New Year !!

Posted on 12.28.08 18:11 PM by john

@Tony
Sounds good man. Who's picking up the beer tab? They charge $7 bucks each & the brewery is literally right across the parking lot. I say we tailgate!

Posted on 12.28.08 18:40 PM by MutilatRJuggalo

@John

236, huh???? Not bad.....get that count in one or even two launches and you will see......I agree with you on the system not being ablto handle it. When your counter jumps 40 crates in a half of a second, you are forcing all that data through that processing cell and initially grinding it down to a snail's pace. But if they were to cut like 7 or 8 crates out of each batch of bonuses it would cut the grinding considerably. Maybe then the system COULD process without locking up.

And the timer is to be cut short because after you get over 3000 crates the timer eventually gets to 99 minutes and stops BUT 20 seconds is STILL being added to it. STILLo when I finish getting all crates, I now have to sit & wait for the timer to hit 0 but have no way of knowing exactly how long I gotta sit which is AT LEAST an hour n a half. Whick SUX A$$....


HAPPY ENTERING OF YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND NINE!!!!!

Posted on 12.29.08 05:48 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Fuck... I'm back at work today. Everybody had a good new years eve? I didn't do the fireworks thing and we almost missed it, we were playing LBP I think and noticed it with about 8 seconds to go. That was the quickest champagne opening I've ever seen. In all fairness we had all been parting the day before so we were pretty toasted.

Ah well, I got wasted so my aim for the day was reached Smile

Posted on 12.29.08 05:56 AM by KnizzleHizzle

Well, the holidays are over, so hopefully we'll hear some word from Travis and Coker within the next few days on the numerous issues with the game.... We can only hope..

In the meantime, off topic (sorta) but I was drivin by my local Subway sandwich shop tonight and apparently they have a meatball sandwich special or something going on right now... check out the pic I took:

i232.photobucket.com/.../SD531258-1.jpg

hehe Smile

Posted on 12.29.08 06:59 AM by deadhead19420

sorry its a bit late, but fallout 3 has had me hooked...

HAPPY NEW YEAR...and a merry xmas...

about the FWE problem...well i have no opinion...as thats the 1 game mode i hate Tong

and how are people playing as the sumo...kutso bloke, i cant find him in the store, sad face Frown

but heres to a new painful year Laughing

Posted on 12.29.08 09:03 AM by Pacman_Ownage

@Pacman: I couldn't either but you can buy him in-game, guess they just forgot to add him in the store Smile

Posted on 12.29.08 11:48 AM by KnizzleHizzle

no offence 2 the FWE freaks
but the new AP download glitch seems to be a bigger issue right now for idolminds
i personaly have never experienced what u guys are talking about
i understand how annoying it must be for ya
but i hope u understand that this is a bigger issue

Posted on 12.29.08 11:49 AM by Liam

@obsy
True, I did quit the 100k game too.
I wanted to put in 112009.
(1st of the 1st 2009)
So everyone knew when it was done, but got so hacked off with it at 90k that I just could not sit through anymores I tells ya & went for 100k lesson 101. (get it?)

Said I could do 100k & there it is for the non believers who thought my 56k was a fluke!

I know 1million is poss, I can bang in 10,00 every hour or so, do the math - its why 1mil 'aint there - I just don't have the spare time to do it OR the desire to tie my PS3 up for an eternity either.

That 100k score took around 11 hours in total.
I had one freeze in MS recently at 79k - its where I get all my freezes, to be honest.
Well 'all' my freezes probably total up to under 20 so far, so I should'nt really grumble - and Im not!


@Ron
don't sit there waiting for the timer, this is what I do..
You need to get to the game over screen.

when fed up or when the run ends with 99.99+ on the clock and you don't want to wait a week or two for it to get to zero,
reset the level with the select button, launch your next 'new game' character & wait till the 60secs are gone & the time is zero.
Press R1, the game goes to the 'game over' screen & you don't lose your score.
The game remembers the highest entry.

I know resetting the level sounds stoopid but it works, trust me.
Feels scary doing it, I've done it loads & it still spooks me, lol

Thats what I did when I got the
100k (lesson 101!) score on new years day.
Its what I always do & have always done..

Don't just quit via the menu, you'll lose the lot.
Trust me with that one too.
(sobs Cry )

Less falling bonus crates?
Yes in DT
No in MS


@john
You need to merge your PSN account with the playstaion underground account for ID's to be shown at the bottom of your comments/posts on here.

Look into sony playstation underground -
http://www.us.playstation.com/PSN/SignUp?url=http%3a%2f%2fboardsus.playstation.com%2fplaystation

FWE?
keep it tight
waste NO boxes
Get to 170+
wear a steel helmet
the showers will begin..

You are soooo close with 236 - bet you lost a lot of boxes on launches that finished over or under the 15mark, right?
Thats why it never 'went off'.
Keep launches (not total score) strictly @ multiples of 15 (30 - 45 - 60 - etc)
A run that ends on 14 is 14 wasted & no bonus crates.
Gotta keep it tight to score BIG.

Wasted 15boxes?
Start again & go for the 'perfect' game. (I do)
You only need to get to 170+ before the place will start ripping down & you should be getting to 170 in under 9 launches.
You can do it in one launch, if your ooching skills are high.
Does'nt matter how many launches you need, just don't waste your stocks Wink

Good luck

Posted on 12.29.08 13:09 PM by FurrQue

@John
From that link in my above post, go to the forums area & on the right hand side of the forum front page, in red, is this:

"Please associate your PSN Online ID with your current PlayStation Underground account. You can check here for more information and details. Please associate ASAP!"

boardsus.playstation.com/.../message

Hope thats helps.

Posted on 12.29.08 14:14 PM by FurrQue

test

Posted on 12.29.08 16:34 PM by john

trying again

Posted on 12.29.08 16:36 PM by john

@ron and Furr

Thanks for the replys guys . And yeah , when got the 236 , my first launch was 192 crates . Then the panic set in . Overhead view for where are the most crates , lookin lookin lookin time running out , lookin lookin lookin , just launch f**cker !! times runnin out . Launched and well , I was satisfied with what i got , but could have been better . Last night had a total of 211 , 14 for that launch , the tip of nigels spikey hair literally touching the friggin crate , wouldnt blow !! My thumb still hurts !!
Thanks again .

Posted on 12.29.08 16:46 PM by john

@John

Are you TheBreadRunner???

Posted on 12.29.08 18:57 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@ ALL

I've obtained an exclusive interview with one of the monkeys who has since lost her job thanks to Idol Minds working her out of the script. She has an interesting comment on the whole FWE thing, click here to check it out:

www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/?mid=29223724

Posted on 12.29.08 19:26 PM by deadhead19420

@deadhead
Lool, great! I have to admit, that site is kinda funny. I made something myself...
That's the Undertaker (from the WWE) in 20 years:

www.careerbuilder.com/age-o-matic/?mid=29223814

Posted on 12.29.08 19:39 PM by KingDragunov

*lol*

Posted on 12.29.08 19:40 PM by KingDragunov

@ron
nope , I'm the first #32 on the list , and tryin my balls off to get climb the ladder to greatness . well , I havent looked at the scores yet today , just got home , but either way , your answer is still no !!
Take care peeps .

Posted on 12.29.08 20:17 PM by john

@furr
sorry to not put this in th above post . I did merge my ID's the other day , and I did again a few hours ago when I read your post about it . Still didnt work . Maybe I'll look into it more tonight , but I got some oochin to take care off .

Posted on 12.29.08 20:20 PM by john

@Ron
BreadRunner is someone else, one of our dojo to be exact.
Got his PS3 this crimbo.
He's a cracking 2p FWE player..
Can't wait till it goes live, I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg with pain so far...


@John
any luck?
I see above that your name was still the same on the test post.
Do you post here via a pc?

@deadhead
online is where the real fun with explosives will begin!
Looking forward to seeing what you've got in your arsenal when it goes live.

Posted on 12.29.08 20:52 PM by FurrQue

Don't mind me, just trying something.

Posted on 12.29.08 21:20 PM by The_Probe

@furr
Yes , posting from a PC . It doesnt really matter I guess , I would like to have my PSN name here , but....anywho...Furr , you da man . I knew about every 15 and all that and I thought I had a good strategy for myself goin on ,but I reread your post , thought about it and since I got home I have been gettin over 2 hundred each try . Your gonna be sorry you were so nice !! eh , you aint got nuttin to worry about from me lol...yet...

gtrplyr467

Posted on 12.29.08 21:35 PM by john

scratch the 4

Posted on 12.29.08 21:36 PM by john

@John & Liam
Log into the playstation underground site, once in, look for the 'my profile' tab, probably by your name somewhere near the top right,
once on the new page you can change your display name there!

Theres various other settings to play around with, nothing too exciting but worth a look.

DT FWE is way too addictive, stop now, I beg you - before its too late!

your PSN ID gtrplyr67?

Posted on 12.29.08 23:13 PM by FurrQue

@furr
yes gtrplyr67
I went to my profile and checked everything . It shows my ID , not my name . I went to the pain board there and test posted to see who I am and I am gtrplyr67 . Beats the piss outta me why I am me here but not this me there or the other way around . Its no biggie , but feel free to think on it more if ya want and I'll try what ever you can come up with . Thanks again for your help .

Posted on 12.30.08 00:17 AM by john

@deadhead - That was good, clap,clap,clap!!

Posted on 12.30.08 01:47 AM by TonyB

Ok so I uploaded a quick edited replay for the 1st time to youtube.... www.youtube.com/watch

But is there a way to upload it so it fills up the screen? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Posted on 12.30.08 06:36 AM by DroppinPlates

@furrque
apreciate the help but i gave up with the underground thing
if i post from my laptop it comes up with 1 name post from in-game it comes up with another or my computer or the internet browser on the ps3
so when i post here it comes up as :
Liam
or
NUFCRULE - Liam

Posted on 12.30.08 07:33 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@ john

Hi dude, I've got the same problem too. My profile says I'm 'Atomic-Turd' but underneath there's a small box which inside looks like a red square, triangle, cross, circle and the name 'The Probe'. But for the life of me I can't work out how to change it. I'll keep at it and get back to ya if I get any joy.

Posted on 12.30.08 15:34 PM by The_Probe

@John, Liam & Probe'y
Im stumped!

Long shot (kick'e'bucket) but have you tried deleting your browser history/cookies?

Liam & probe'y, I know you two have been posting here for a while now, so cleaning the browser history has probably already been tried by you two - but like I said, its a long shot..

Does seem weird, theres got to be a way to change it.

Does it say something simular to this on your profile page on PS underground?:


""Your PLAYSTATION®Network Account is merged with the following PlayStation® Underground™ account:

FurrQue [Edit]

To update any of your PlayStation®Network account information, billing preferences or wallet balance, please visit your PlayStation®Network Account Management.""??


Got to be a settings issue, theres quite a few posts regarding this too on the PS underground site. (if you can fookin find 'em, lol)

Defo some kind of merge issue, try merging again.
Clean the cookies (PC)
Pray!

Gonna look at it some more later - there has to be an answer, mine is ok, so yours should be too.

Posted on 12.30.08 17:44 PM by FurrQue

test post

<a href="www.us.playstation.com/.../FurrQue"><img src="pid.us.playstation.com/user/FurrQue.jpg" width="235" height="149" border="0" /></a>

Posted on 12.30.08 18:15 PM by FurrQue

lol, screw my test post

Posted on 12.30.08 18:16 PM by FurrQue

@John, Liam & Probe'y
Did you use the same PSN name when you signed up for PS underground?

Give those user settings a good look, maybe something you guys have missed?

Posted on 12.30.08 18:27 PM by FurrQue

cleaned cookies on pc cleaned cookies on ps3 . signed in again on both . i noticed that it isnt saving some other changes either . like my location or the option to opt in for emails from affiliates . posting this from ps3 . never again untill i get a key board !! 3 days to type this .

Posted on 12.30.08 21:55 PM by john

@john
its an odd one..
You may have to email sony support - they must have some kind of human response to questions, surely?

Agree about posting from ps3, its a nightmare..
I hate it when you accidently hit the circle when typing a msg - bam, 20 minutes wasted!
Wish they'd introduce a 'do you want to cancel' dialogue.
I post here via a PC, soo much easier..

Posted on 12.30.08 23:54 PM by FurrQue

@Furrque

Cheers,I'll give that a go.

Posted on 12.31.08 01:36 AM by The_Probe

hi

havent posted 4 awhile cos ive got so much new stuff. Pop,web of shadows, resistance 2, tomb raider and loads off wii games and spore on pc. so havent had chance to check these boards 4 awhile.

could someone give a quick post saying whats happened over xmas?

Posted on 12.31.08 17:01 PM by James

@James
Not sure if you've already checked, but we've got the replay editor and Ed the reindeer now as DLC. You can also buy the sumo wrestler on the store.

Posted on 12.31.08 18:12 PM by George

yep. got them. played pain just havent been on this forum 4 ages. thanks anyway!

Posted on 01.01.09 03:42 AM by James

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn it damn it damnit .!!!!!! Forget anything I said about fixing the freezes !!!!!!!!!! Friggin 586 crates ,sh*t blowin up everywhere and the G*d damn thing f**ckin freezes on me !!!

I'm friggin pissed !!!

Peace

Posted on 01.01.09 03:53 AM by john

How about a flotting worker?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1e4gbjWAow

Posted on 01.01.09 06:45 AM by Mark

notice the shadow on the stairs.

Posted on 01.01.09 06:47 AM by Mark

@john

Welcome to the wonderful world of PAINful freezing. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please feel free to b!tch and moan about this issue whenev ---------------------------------------
............................................

(please reset your ps3 at this time)

Posted on 01.01.09 07:49 AM by deadhead19420

The only problem at the moment is the PS3 drops off line at times.

Posted on 01.01.09 07:55 AM by Mark

The only problems I'm having are the replay editor freezing at one point (you can still quit out though) and the 12th day not coming. It might have since the last time I've been on, I haven't checked. Though from what I'm seeing all the freezing seems to be taking place on the high levels of the crate modes when you get a lot of points, and I can't unlock PAINful on Cratetastic and I'm good, but not THAT good enough to get 3000 crates. So, er, being really good actually seems to be bad for the game.

Posted on 01.01.09 08:53 AM by TheMyTMonarch

@deadhead
Thank you , thank you very much for the warm welcome to the wonderful world of PAINful freezing !! . I probably wouldnt be as pissed as I am about it if I was better at FWE . I'm getting better , averaging around 2 hundred per session , but its still a struggle . It was beautiful while it lasted tho I gotta tell ya . Score shot up so fast , I looked and was at 3 something , 2 seconds later at 5 somethin and I see my name in lights up there with you guys , and then it happened . Surprised the neighbors didnt come knockng my door down to see who was trying to murder me .
Peace

Posted on 01.01.09 10:14 AM by john

hey I have a bug report...

I'm trying to get the "unlock after party" in-game trophy for the movie studio. but it is getting annoying because sometimes I could destroy an entire set but I get no notification, It mostly happens with the war scene (although it has happened with other scenes too.I have to keep pressing select and try to get the trophy all over again because one scene fails to notify me when I destroy it, please try to work this bug out because I just wasted two hours of my life trying to get a trophy that doesn't even work.

Posted on 01.01.09 11:44 AM by SomeDude

Yay!! i Love not having a reply in weeks! this is awesome! who's with me?

Posted on 01.01.09 12:08 PM by KrimsonSky25

I NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i bought the amusement park and when i play it all the rides are there but nothing else it all white i dont know what to do any help would be great thanks.

Posted on 01.01.09 14:58 PM by Cam

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Posted on 01.01.09 15:37 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@somedude

Dude read back a few topics to when movie studio came out you have to hit all the dang land mines. There are no bugs with that trophy. Given there more then enough bugs in the damn game but thats not one of them.

Posted on 01.01.09 16:57 PM by deadhead19420

CRATETASTIC-----

Fun, challenging but quite boring! I just played it for the FIRST time (only cuz FWE is MY bag) & I unlocked both hard and painful on my first try. I got about 35 or so into painful & just got bored....not enuff going on. I think the mode is well thought up & holds a good tension line but eventually I just wanted it to end.
Maybe instead of crates, it could be characters or a cluster of like 4 or 5 crates.

Maybe make it an online mode where player 2 gets behind a launcher n is able to launch debris or themselves at P1 to Fck them up......

I do like the mode, as I said, its challenging but when I looked at the corner of the screen & it said 30/85......I was done...GAME OVER...85 is too many.
I guess someday I'll have to give it another go to see what the quad-box is like but as for now....FWE is waiting......

Posted on 01.01.09 17:17 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

is anyone using the replay editor? I have yet to see a video that wasnt made around the same time as the 2 billion glitch or by I.M. themselves.

Posted on 01.01.09 17:35 PM by Darkangel269

GOD-I agree, I thought cratetastic was boring too. Plat club isn't much harder than Painful. I only played it ONCE and got a Platinum medal on my first try! and haven't played it since. STM Plat Club took me over two months to get a platinum medal AND it never got boring... for me anyway. I'm not even sure exactly WHY cratetastic is so boring. Well, I think part of it is because there is no time limit. Something about a time limit adds to the excitment. It not only pressures you to do better but trying to make it a little farther each time is funner than hitting a fixed number of crates then hoping you get a better score in the end. That reminds me, I don't like the scoring either. Its the same way with HnC. I like to see a more specific number.

Also I would like to comment about the FWE Painful freezing. I don't play FWE much and had not experienced the freezing until the other day I thought I would try to get some showers going and see what all this freezing fuss is all about. after a little while, I got my score up to 923 and sure enough it froze. A couple of tries later I got 1,900 w/o freezing. Thats my personal best, which is cool and all but that was still easy to get. Then I realized, if I'm getting the platinum medal 9 times over in one game, then maybe I should be playing Plat Club instead. I also realized that the freezing isn't really a bug at all, some of you are just TOO DAMN GOOD at that mode, thats all it is! Your showing off your basic math skills when you've already graduated to calculus. Painful is what it is, you should move on to plat club to show your true skill. I know you guys aren't going to agree with me but I think tampering with the existing FWE Painful Is going to have negative side effects, I just know it. FurrQue was right when he said "careful what you wish for".

Posted on 01.01.09 19:00 PM by qb2bTheReaper

@Reaper
Thanks for the understanding - its going to be a tricky fix, not sure how they'll tackle FWE painful.
Its a finely balanced game.
On one hand you can smash it all up regardless of wasted crates & NEVER see a freeze & score around a 1000.
However..
If you wsste none & have a perfect game it shines - keep pushing it & it becomes an endless chain. (in a freeze free game)

Im fairly lucky, my PS3 hardly locks up in DT, but MS freezes far more IMO.
For me anyway..

I nearly took you STM painful score a few months back.
Took me 3 days or so, in sessions, to get to around 6900.
Then, one sleepy night I forgot to leave the PS3 on whilst doing the 'switching off stuff' at bedtime routine..
"click"
ouch.
I was going to put in, 11.112 - Wink

I just could'nt face doing it again, so you're safe from me!
How long did it take you?
Its simple enough to do - but so damn time consuming - must've taken you ages.
Would you take it back if you lost it?
I Don't think I would bother!

Cratetastic?
played it once - I really tried to get into that bear hunting nonsense in AP, which has put me off trying cratetastic somewhat.

H&C is ok, but why relaunch when you find that target bear?
Keep going is what I would've like to have seen - for bonus multipliers etc..
Get rid of the timer.
make it a 5 launch limit.
special visible bears that when hit give you back a super ooch/bonus score (But not too easy to hit) - rather than the random flip a coin system in place at present.

I could keep going, but Im in the minority here because I don't play it anymore - so I'll stop there!

gotta stop typing Haskell sized posts in the AM, makes me late for work!

And my coffee's gone cold.

Posted on 01.01.09 21:25 PM by FurrQue

@FurrQue-Turning off your PS3 after all that work!? Thats gotta hurt! I bet you were kicking yourself after that.
Yes, STM Painful is very simple, after you get the hang of it. The real fun with STM for me is in Plat Club, which is very challenging. I didn't decide to go for the #1 spot on Painful until after I had #1 on Plat Club. I just felt I needed to complete the set. Believe it or not, I got my 11,111 in practically one sitting. Just under 20 hours with two lunchbreaks and a nap. I was actually going for 20,000, but a wicked thunderstorm rolled in just after 10,000. In fear of a power outage, I had to make the decision to end now or tough it out to end on a cool number. During those last 1,000 or so monkeys, the lights dimmed twice! That was a very stressful ending to an otherwise dull monkey run. But the mighty Zeus showed mercy upon my petty monkey spanking existence and I was able to lock in a good solid legendary number. Would I do it again if the bar was raised? Thats a good question. Maybe, if I found the time, but thats a big maybe. I'll worry about that when the time comes.
Also, I like your version of HnC better. It wouldn't have gotten old so quickly then. There is just too much luck involed in HnC. That mode is just OK to me, I'd rather play that then cratetastic, though.

Posted on 01.01.09 22:46 PM by qb2bTheReaper

@Reaper
Blew a gasket so hard when I switched it off my left ear nearly caught fire..
11,111 in almost one sitting?
Kudos to you - that took a lot of red eyed effort.
Especially whilst kacking ya pants as that storm raged above!

Wish Idol Minds would discuss future game modes 'PROPERLY' with us - I would've said HELL NO to H&C.
Perhaps others may have said the same?
They coud've saved themselves months in development of a game mode that hardly anybody plays.
(except obsy, anyway Laughing )

They had a good line up to start with, embelish these modes & take 'them' to a new level.
STM in MS & AP?
Why not?
Format was there, game is solid & just by being in the new areas alone would've made it worth playing.
If they keep introducing 'lemmon' modes they are going to kill Pain stone dead.

DT is buggy, but still the best mode so far.
I play MS & AP only because of FWE, I enjoy aftermath etc - my ooching abillites translate well into these modes & you feel like you are using 'skill' - rather than blind luck.
I know we all can't keep playing FWE,STM etc forever, but with more game mode misses than hits, pain could be killed from the inside by Idol Minds in thier blind rush to develop shiny new ideas that really should not have left the drawing board in the first place...

Make painlabs THE place to show us new modes, not somewhere to dump a pointless level that looks as if it was created by a computer..
Speed oocher was different, it followed an old idea & revamped it - could be an intersting development..

Name another decent painlab?
errrr..
well, thats me out of suggestions!
Thats my point about painlabs, they are not using it to thier & our benefits - well, not yet anyway.
What about beta testers?
Some of us here are top of our game, give betas to them.
If anyone is going to find bugs, surely its going to be the top players who hammer these modes to death on a regular basis?
Otherwise, whats the point of painlabs?
To show off ideas?
Be OK if there was a voting system...

Posted on 01.02.09 00:05 AM by FurrQue

@Reaper & the board
After rereading my above posts, have decided to go to hospital to have stick, stuck in ass, removed!
Forgive the sour mood.

Grumpy ole FurrQue, he's having a right proper grumble today, bless him!

Posted on 01.02.09 01:36 AM by FurrQue

just downloaded amusement park, level has no floor

Posted on 01.02.09 02:39 AM by damage420

Damage, can you tell me how big the Amusement Park download was? You can check your available downloads in the PlayStation Store if you don't remember offhand.

Coke

Posted on 01.02.09 04:59 AM by Jason Coker

Woot! Coke! Good to have you back!

Posted on 01.02.09 05:33 AM by KingDragunov

@Darkangel269
I posted a clip from the replay editor earlier in this thread. Here's the link again, just to make it easier. It is nothing fancy, just showing that it works and is fairly versatile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JmcJjAQ1Gc

I think no one is doing much with it right now because it is tough to beak any high scores at this point. Once we get new modes and can show off new skills I imagine a lot of us will be showing stuff.

And I see coke is back. The holidays are over and it is back to business as usual.

@Coke
If you want to see what it is doing ps3fanboy reported on it and has some videos of it.
www.ps3fanboy.com/.../

Posted on 01.02.09 05:51 AM by FoolKiller79

coke,
if it any help when i downloaded the amusement park , the day it came out , it was a 51mb download

Posted on 01.02.09 06:00 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

Nufcrule - Thanks for the info, cat. That's the file you need, but.....

I downloaded PAIN on a brand new PS3 several days back and got the same issue. We put a fix in, so I deleted my installation of PAIN (NOT my Saved game data, though), re-downloaded and installed everything from the Downloads link on the PlayStation Store (PAIN, Amusement Park, Characters, Movie Studio), and everything is working fine now. Since I kept my Saved Game data, I didn't lose any progress. Anyone who has experienced the Amusement Park issue should try this fix. It worked perfectly for me. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it should only have affected people who purchased and/or downloaded the Amusement Park during a specific short period of time.

Coke

Posted on 01.02.09 06:16 AM by Jason Coker

coke,
it didnt affect me at all
good to hear it can be fixed tho
any word on idolminds finding the fwe issues,im not fussed but im getting bored of the people here moaning about the problem

Posted on 01.02.09 06:21 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

King D - Thanks for the welcome back. I was supposed to be on holiday, but the issues with PAIN kept the holidays unhappy. I can't enjoy myself if we're not actively keeping the mutants and future mutants in PAIN. It's good to be back, but it'll be a lot better when people are up and running in the Amusement Park again.

Coke

Posted on 01.02.09 06:22 AM by Jason Coker

AAH HELL NO! MY GOD DAMN CAT JUST PISSED ON MY COMPUTER!!! LOL!

Posted on 01.02.09 06:39 AM by KingDragunov

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Posted on 01.02.09 07:14 AM by nicola

Lol! Sorry but... sometimes I really hate my cat!^^

Posted on 01.02.09 07:15 AM by KingDragunov

im allegic to cats but had one once. you should see my old chairs...

Posted on 01.02.09 07:22 AM by James

Here's a new YouTube Group to share all your PAIN edits!
http://www.youtube.com/group/sharethepain

Posted on 01.02.09 17:15 PM by michael

btw, would be nice if the PAIN YouTube uploader would comply with the new YouTube HD standards... guess we (users) can deal with the issue doing "manual" uploads exporting the replays as file and uploading through a PC (still have to try though)

Posted on 01.02.09 17:23 PM by michael

Anyword on the new PAIN Website?

Posted on 01.02.09 18:07 PM by FredNation

Sweet mother of.... a 10 second replay is 50mb? A 2 minute replay 672mb almost as large as the game itself?! I now understand why EVO said no to replays in Motorstorm. Physics = memory hogging monster.

Posted on 01.02.09 19:12 PM by pick-e

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Posted on 01.02.09 19:17 PM by nicola

@QB & FurrQue

I got bored today & decided to go for that cratetastic platinum platinum......

Which I got on first try....I do like plat over painful but there should be another variable, like you said, a timer makes you play better.

I don't think I'll play this mode again unless I get tired of FWE.


I LOVE the HnC idea....when I lost my save data with the 2.53 update, I had JUST unlocked HnC Plat & was in the process of finding all the stuffed ninjas. Now that I've had to redo everything HnC has been at the bottom of the list. I have tried once since & got bored within 30 sec & haven't touched it since. Although now I might have to. Smile

Posted on 01.02.09 20:49 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@Coker

Now that the massive AP glitch has (hopefully) been fixed, any thoughts on a timetable for the FWE problems?

Posted on 01.03.09 00:06 AM by deadhead19420

Thanks for sharing this:
"AAH HELL NO! MY GOD DAMN CAT JUST PISSED ON MY COMPUTER!!!"

It gave me a good laugh at breakfast. Smile

Posted on 01.03.09 02:39 AM by Peter

@Liam
I know that reading constant bug reports within this blog is boring - but by making that comment you alienate & ridicule those folks who actually bother to take time posting here trying & make the game better for all of us, including you.
You benefit from these actions because you play the same game we all do, so why dismiss them as boring or moaners?

These people here are simply using this forum to communicate with the developers of pain as intended.

If it bores you, don't read it!
The only reason people here keep repeating thierselves is due to the lack of answers comming from the pain team.

Liam, im not attacking you, just offering you another point of view other than yours.

Posted on 01.03.09 07:42 AM by FurrQue

Deadhead - The Amusement Park issue IS fixed (thank GOODness!), and we are looking into Fun With Explosives. The trouble with bugs like the ones you guys experience is that they are so hard to pin down. If it were as simple as "Blow up 60 crates with Tati, and her butt falls off," it would be an easy fix. FWE's issues are not quite so simple, but everybody's working on this and we'll be putting in a fix as soon as we track down what's causing the issues.

Coke

Posted on 01.03.09 10:42 AM by Jason Coker

@pick-e
Are you reading those file sizes correctly? My video that I linked earlier is 30 seconds and the 720p file takes less than 10MB on my hard drive.

Posted on 01.03.09 11:03 AM by FoolKiller79

@Coke (sorry for the double post)
If you haven't already, you may want to pass along the information about the fix to some of the gaming news outlets like PS3Fanboy/Joystiq, GameSpot, etc just so that new people who don't hang out here can see it and know what to do.

Posted on 01.03.09 11:04 AM by FoolKiller79

@coke
lets hope you guys don't accidently ruin FWE whilst attempting to fix/patch it..

And why you're at it, please fix the camera issues in DT also.

12months on & the original DT FWE bugs that shipped with pain are still here..

jeez!

Posted on 01.03.09 12:34 PM by FurrQue

@FoolKiller79

I've actually been meaning to ask about that. But first, yes I am reading those sizes correctly. Check out the replays within PAIN itself (extras -> replays) and right there you'll see their true filesizes. Or just exit to the XMB and check out the details on PAIN. With just a couple short replays saved my copy of the game now weighs in at 1.6 gb!

"I also exported the video to my XMB and I noticed I get a small file as well as a 720p file. The 720p file looks just like in-game footage."

Unless I've read this wrong... you get two files when exporting to the XMB? I only get the small 640x368. When I check the sizes on them - they are indeed small unlike their in-game counterparts.

Posted on 01.03.09 14:05 PM by pick-e

@ Pain Team

Hope everyone had a good Christmas/New Year, just a couple of ideas.

*) Now we've had celebrity people to launch, have you lot thought of, or considering 'celebrity' areas? I can't really think of anything really cool at the moment, but things like a LBP or MGS levels and Movie themes like Goonies with all the traps and such? Just a thought.

*) Would it be possible to have variations on existing levels? I'm thinking DownTown. Maybe using the same basic layout but set in the 80's or something. With rollerskaters and a different area where the construction site is, possibly a Drive-thru or something which has later been demolished in the original DT. Could have vandalised trains with Guardian Angels in the Underground area.
Even the original Granny could be standing in the same place (but obviously alot younger).
These could be 'stop-gaps' inbetween more original levels, and slightly cheaper. Please don't read this as a complaint/sly dig as I love Pain and the more areas the better in my opinion.

*) Would it be possible to have the original FWE layouts as extra levels in Pain mode? Just curious what kind of scores we could get on those set ups.

*) Any thoughts on my idea of a 'Target Score' that shows you the next person ahead of you in certain modes, so you can see how close you are to getting that extra place on the leader board?

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hope I did'nt come across in the wrong way. ie - a moaning git.

Posted on 01.03.09 14:10 PM by The_Probe

@Furrque
haha okay
im sorry
im not gunna stop reading your messages becoz sumtimes there funny how much u guys get frustrated
i didnt reli mean to offend
i think i was just getting annoyed at the fact no1 on the pain team was responding to u
but thats acceptable seing as it was the holiday season
but coke is back
travis soon i hope
and much to look forward to in pain
new characters
new enviroments
online play
and hopefully a fwe fix

Posted on 01.03.09 15:03 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

yo, thanks 4 repairing AP glitch, going 2 ride some rides, peace

Posted on 01.03.09 15:53 PM by damage420

@pick-e
I see what you mean now. The one thing I didn't do was save the replay within the game. I had no reason to. I am guessing those are raw files as exporting in any way has the step where it slowly plays through the video one time, which I assume is the codec being applied, just like converting video recorded on my PC's tuner card. A 10 second video before compression will be about 30-50MB there as well.

I didn't realize it would actually save video doing that. I thought it would be like Gran Turismo, where it just saves input, car, and track data and then rebuilds the replay live as you watch it. Gran Turismo replay files are about 256KB for a three-lap race.

I'll have to double check, but I do know that when I exported my video files to the XMB I had two files, the small one at 640x368, which was a little over 3MB, and a 720p file which was just over 7MB.

What resultion is your PS3's video output set for? I'm doing 1080p via HDMI, and if you are running using an SD video signal PAIN may be detecting that to determine whether to give the 720p video or not. I don't know, I'm just taking a wild guess.

Or perhaps one file was exported to the XMB when I did the You Tube upload?

Posted on 01.03.09 16:31 PM by FoolKiller79

You know what I think would be handy and keep us all busy during the development stages......I think the idea has been bandied about before...but a Lab editor....so we could play with placing things down that we already have...objects, characters....explosives...just to play with and even upload for others to play......at the very least give us access to all the labs ever released at once....so we can choose to download and keep them on are hard drives if we wish or purge them if we tire of them.....

I see a lot of banter about FWE....so i decided to try for the Platinum medals....I finally got the normal platinum on MS...now onto hard....It's quite addictive once you get into it....I am still a little ....nah..a long way off the leaderboards......but I am coming....

It's kinda like the Matrix....I CAN SEE THE NUMBERS NOW...I just dont understand them yet....lol..

Started to see how ouching skills are essential...a little twist to change angle here and there...I am starting to get the hang of doing the block....

This game is subtly great.......

What about a mini game called Downhill....it would work as a 2 player thing on and off line...

You basically wouldnt need a normal launcher....maybe a shotgun type or cannonball barrel...that would shoot you almost straight down say from the top of a mountain....or tower structure with stairs....basically you head downwards and cannot come back up unless you hit explosives or or momentum adding devices...but you have to get the greatest score on one or a couple of runs...

Another aspect would be a challenge set where its like a preset horse or call da shot.....you have to hit the list objects...or 5 of these 3 of these and two of these...type of scenario...again down the mountain or structure..


On the mountain objects are placed on and around for you to aim at....

Think SSX with no skis or snowboards....doesnt have to be snowy...but it works...and you could have tracks like that wooden one that could help guide round and down corners or ice glacial structure extra slippy.......big drop offs...think base jumping......helicopters to hit etc....not too sure how big the environments can be in PAIN....but i am sure this would work.....

what do ya think....

Posted on 01.03.09 16:50 PM by Ian

@FoolKiller79

I'm definetely playing in 720p so it must be the youtube thing. I can't be bothered to create an account on there and upload videos. I guess they allow you to export 720p replays to the XMB only if you've uploaded them to youtube first. Frown

Posted on 01.03.09 17:06 PM by pick-e

@Ian - DOWNHILL PAIN!!!!!!!

Always wanted to see that... That was the point of the snow hill we asked about long ago... The PAINlab version was sweet!

Back to my secret lair now.... playing with a certain new operating system that will be announced in a couple hours..MWAHAHAHA!!!

Posted on 01.03.09 17:34 PM by TonyB

Foolkiller – The word on the fix is out. Thanks for the heads-up. No worries on the double post.

Probe – More celebs in the works. Hadn’t thought about celeb environments, though. I likes….
Variations on existing levels is a GREAT idea! I’d love to see a disco downtown or something like that.
Not sure what you mean about original FWE layouts as extra levels, but more FWE is coming if that helps.
I’m not sure if we can work that Leadrboard functionality in, but that’s a pretty sick idea.
I like your style, man. You looking for a job? You seem like a good fit for Idol Minds (AKA “pretty strange”)

Nufcrule – We’re enjoying the stuff that we’re preparing for you guys. We certainly hope you’ll dig it.

Damage – Sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for your support. We love this game, and it sucks to see things go wrong. Glad to be back and running proper-like.

Ian – A Lab editor would be sick, but developing a tool to let you make your own would be a HUGE task because things weren’t designed that way from the beginning. Perhaps one day in the future, though….
The mountain/building idea sounds sweeeeeet!

TonyB – What the heck is going on in that lair of yours? Are you really Bill Gates on the down-low? Am I ever going to get all that cash for forwarding your e-mails to all those people? Come on, man – you can afford it! Hook me up!!

Coke

Posted on 01.03.09 17:38 PM by Jason Coker

@ Pick-e
My bad. I just checked, and my larger file is the 640x368 file. I am guessing the smaller file was put there for the You Tube upload. So, I'm the crazy one, not you.

@ Coke
Yeah I saw PS3Fanboy had the story at 3:00 PM ET.

Speaking of celeb characters, I have been inspired by today's video store update. Monty Python characters. I can see John Cleese doing poses and lines for Ministry of Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, and Lancelot.

And Killer Rabbits must be involved.

Posted on 01.03.09 19:09 PM by FoolKiller79

Watch my new video" PAIN: Downtown Easter eggs on YouTube in TRUE HI-DEFINITION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvByVPPmLIA

Posted on 01.04.09 05:56 AM by SomeDude

nice one SomeDude. I found out about the UFO a few weeks before Amusement park, and the Coral Essex adter my friend failed to get to the roof. LOL

Posted on 01.04.09 06:22 AM by KrimsonSky25

@COKE

Are you guys EVER gunna announce the next enviro?????

& maybe a guesstimation on when online will be functional......is it still coming out this month like planned?????

AND what is going on with the "Top Secret" stuff that postponed MS, is that DOA or still being worked out?????

Posted on 01.04.09 07:15 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@Coke - Let's just say that me and Ms.Daisy both know how hard it is to find a good driver...and leave it at that!

Posted on 01.04.09 07:53 AM by TonyB

@Liam
As obscured once said, "its good that a game that costs less than $10 can cause so mush heated debate".
Or wise words very simular to that.

As I said, I was'nt attacking you, it was quite hard trying to make that point without it looking like an attack!
Hopefully you took what I said the 'constructive' way as intended & not the 'destructive' way.
The funny thing is, we come here to communicate with Idol Minds for whatever various reasons & end up crossing swords with each other in our boredom whilst waiting for some kind of response from them!
You gotta love forums!!

Much Love

Posted on 01.04.09 12:48 PM by FurrQue

Sup Coker!

I would kill to have Nathan Drake as a character in PAIN of course voiced by Nolan North (he was funny in a realistic game, imagine how funny he would be in the PAIN world)

show some love to Drake...after all Busta Rhymes did <_<;

any update on the PAIN avatars for PSN?

Posted on 01.04.09 17:10 PM by Captain_Fury

@Furrque
lol yh they r gd

@Captain_fury
nathan drake would be reli gd
who else likes the idea?

Posted on 01.04.09 18:40 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@Liam
yeah liking the idea Wink

I quite like the idea of having Jeremy Clarkson as a launchable character...

Posted on 01.04.09 19:26 PM by George

@Furrque

OMFG well done for achieving that huge high score remember when I said I was coming for ya, well I have tried and tried but those freeze ups keep coming. I agree with what your saying that if they fix the freeze ups they would have to drastically change the showers so leave well alone thats what I say!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL


Posted on 01.04.09 20:06 PM by Slaminthelamb

Foolkiller – A Monty Python character would be most excellent. We’d also have to have some swallows flying around carrying coconuts by the husk (because coconuts clearly don’t migrate).

Ron/God – We’ll be announcing the next environment at some point, but as I’ve said before, I’m done telling folks WHEN stuff is going to happen because of the ninja monkey wrenches that haunt me every step I take lately. As for the Top Secret stuff, those damned ninjas snuck into our office and murdered the plan. Can’t say much more than that, unfortunately.

TonyB – I know it’s time to stop asking questions when you start getting all Morgan Freeman on me, so I’ll leave it at that.

Cpt. Fury – Don’t you think Nathan Drake would kick the snot out of everything in the PAIN environments? Actually, I love that guy for the same reasons I love Officer John McClane from the Die Hard series – he takes lumps. It’s cool to be a hero and all, but even Batman got jacked up by a dog in Dark Knight. No hero should be perfect, and Drake is pretty cool like that.
Speaking of Nolan North, I met him a few weeks back, and he is CRAZY cool. Strange but true story: This was the first time I’d ever met the guy, and he walks in talking about how he was just listening to Onyx in his car. Now, I take it pretty seriously when somebody starts talking about hip-hop from back in the day, so I challenged him a bit by starting off the rhyme, “I’m a B-Boy...” Well, ANYbody who knows Onyx’s song “SLAM!” knows that line, so I figured that if Nolan was for reals, he’d at least be able to give me the next couple of words. He didn’t. He rocked the WHOLE VERSE, and we were trading lines back and forth like we were on stage with baldies, hoodies, and screw faces. Well, the only thing I was missing was the hoodie, but I think you get my point. I’d admired Nolan North before that, but since that day, that dude is a role model to me. I want to be just like him when I grow up.

George – Would you be launching Clarkson because you dislike him, or do you think he’d actually be funny? Just curious. I don’t know him well.

Posted on 01.04.09 20:21 PM by Jason Coker

Not talking trash here, but my 1st attempt at MS plat FWE was 234... good for 12th when it posts... C'mon people...let's see more scores out there!!! I thought I'd be in the 100's! I've still never seen one of these shoewrs of boxes, but I just play straight oochin, so I don't expect to. I'll leave the crazy scores to you FWEmasters... I can't devote the time you guys do. But to everyone else... I'm a little underwhelmed!!!

Posted on 01.04.09 20:29 PM by TonyB

Fury - Looking into Avatars now. Forgot to mention that.

Oh, and 400th post!

Posted on 01.04.09 20:36 PM by Jason Coker

NICE!

Posted on 01.04.09 20:55 PM by TonyB

Anyone have any tips on how to achieve top-level trophies in FWE on the three [3] environments?

Any sort of sweet spot for things like 50 / 60 in Multiplayer for Downtown, or the best paths for ten [10] Teddies and Staying in the Air for Six [6] Explosives?

Any tips would be a big help, and, greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-M*

Posted on 01.04.09 20:58 PM by Anthony

@Anthony - Practice, practice, and more practice!!!

Posted on 01.04.09 21:18 PM by TonyB

@ Coker

Thanks for the support, I'd love to work for you guys but being in the UK pretty much puts an end to that idea! It would definately beat my boring job.
What I was trying to say about the FWE levels was:- Could the FWE layout with all the explosives, positions of objects/people etc be used as a bonus level for the original Pain mode (where you go for a high score). No changes at all, just the fact that you would now go after a multiplier/damage high score instead of aiming for bonus crates and extra time. Hope you get what I'm trying to say, it seems simple in my head...just puting it down in words is the hard part.

Looking forward to the new stuff.

Posted on 01.04.09 21:37 PM by The_Probe

@Coker

Good to see you're tryin to get FWE fixed. I'm hoping, at the very least, Plat Club will be a little easier to fix with the trigger issues.

On a side note, I don't think anybody's ever mentioned it but I've noticed that if you launch and grab a crate, then throw it down and it hits another, it only counts one of them. Only noticed this in MS, but it's REALLY annoying.

Posted on 01.04.09 22:18 PM by deadhead19420

@coke
english people find clarkson funny well most
he got in trouble a while back in america , and he made some bad comments about your cars out there
he has a show thats all about cars
and he aint so nice bout americans somtimes
there was an american lady in the studio the other day he went up 2 her sed wer ya from or sumin she sed im american , n he sed u cant be ur no wer near fat anoth 2 be american
he actually got banned from making his documentry show in america unless he sed nothing mean and he wasnt allowed 2 be funny

so basically english people wud like it
and well americans wud 2 they get 2 hurt som1 that doesnt like them lol
wer as the japanese wud be like who the ..... is he

anyways how u doin wiv the japan stuff hav u launched there yet ?

Posted on 01.04.09 22:58 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@TonyB

Do you happen to work for PALM by any chance. I'm totally waiting for their new OS announcement at CES. not that I'll be there but I want to see what they've come up with.

Posted on 01.04.09 23:01 PM by sicdude

@Coker
Are you joking?! I love the guy! Can't get enough of him out here in England. I just think it would be funny to see him on the launchpad Smile

Keep up the good work Smile

Posted on 01.04.09 23:21 PM by George

@Coke

Would that be an African Swallow or a European Swallow?

Regarding Jeremy Clarkson; it would probably work well, because he could be funny and insulting at the same time. And while he does insult Americans, it is funny, and any car guy will agree, when he keeps his comments in relation to cars.

Besides, they are already working with Sony and Polyphony Digital with Top Gear episodes on GT-TV and the their test track is going to be in GT5. So, the connections and working relationship are already there. I know, I made that sound waaaay easier than it really is.

Although, I think launching Hammond would be more fun because he would whine the whole time.

Posted on 01.04.09 23:42 PM by FoolKiller79

@sicdude - Nope... I work in show biddnez...

Posted on 01.04.09 23:50 PM by TonyB

@FoolKiller79
Why stop at Hammond?
Have all three, captain slow is my fave..

Buy all three in one pack!

Posted on 01.05.09 00:15 AM by FurrQue

Probe – I think I get what you’re saying, and that’s freaking brilliant. We might have to change some pathing around since there would be crates everywhere, but that’s a pretty money notion. I likes. Hey, Idol Minds! I know you guys are lurking here. Let’s make this happen!

Deadhead – A little bird told me that FWE is actually fixed. I’m gonna spend some time testing it out, but I don’t know if I’m enough of a PAIN Mutant like yourself to break the game. We shall see.

Nufcrule, George, & Foolkiller – An Englishman who hates on people? I have no problem with that at all. I love this guy already! No worries on his comments about Americans. I can tell you with 100% certainty that more than 98% of the people I hate are Americans.

Posted on 01.05.09 01:20 AM by Jason Coker

lol yeah man top gear trio lol

Posted on 01.05.09 01:22 AM by Slaminthelamb

YES! to Nathan Drake.

Posted on 01.05.09 01:39 AM by qb2bTheReaper

hey guys, watch my PAIN Easter Egg videos.
IN TRUE HI-DEFINITION.

Amusement Park

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsXom_raSQY

Downtown

www.youtube.com/watch

feel free to comment and rate!

Posted on 01.05.09 02:32 AM by SomeDude

@Coke - Word! I'm willing to be there is no Brit who hates more Americans, than your average American!

Oh and on a similar subjuct... I read that more Americans buy Canadian Flag suitcase tags than Canadians do!!!

Posted on 01.05.09 02:39 AM by TonyB

@Coke

So far so good! Played a round of painful, got up to 3800 with no freezes or glitches, also played some plat club and haven't run into any missing triggers yet. We'll see.

Doesn't look like there was any modification of painful so we'll see if the predictions are correct of sky-high scores....

Posted on 01.05.09 15:17 PM by deadhead19420

@Coke - I've had a few ideas for launchable celebrities, let me know what you think of launching these guys:

Ernest P. Worrel - extra costumes could include his Auntie Nelda and redneck persona
Mr. Bean - complete with his teddy bear
Billy Bob Thorton - with Slingblade accent dressed like Slingblade
Richard Simmons
Wierd Al Yankovich
Dana Carvey - with his various costumes
Jeff Dunham and some of his puppets
Whoopy Goldberg
Bobcat Golthwait
Steven Wright - the comedian
Jim Carrey - one of his costumes could be the Mask
Elmo
Hope thats not too many.

Posted on 01.05.09 15:34 PM by Jonathan

@ COKE/BLOW/SNOW

The missing trigger still happens just not as much and in FWE MS PLAT, I got 2201 & got a trigger in the arena, so I got 10 crates 4 (the) 20 seconds to relaunch to the crate...but when I hit R1, it ENDED my run instantly, regardless of the bonus time.
& when the final screen popped up it said my total box count was 2211 but my high score said 2201. It didn't credit me 4 the last 10 crates I aquired.....
BUT then I played again losing at 224 but my high score was now 2211 like it should've been.

Posted on 01.05.09 16:04 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@Coke - You mentioned FWE is fixed.There are others like myself who have been waiting quite a while to hear those words. So on their's and my behalf, please clarify a couple details.

First of all, which mode and in which environment?
Personally I hope it's MS Plat club trigger issue. I'm afraid the lock up's in both of the painful environments are terminal issues - unfortunately.I'd love to be wrong on that.

The only FWE mode that runs pretty much perfect is good ol' DT plat club. Plus - the construction fan works again! By far the most challenging of the FWE's.

Also, is deadhead correct in assuming said 'fix' has been sent out to us already? I haven't played in a few day's so I may have my own answer waiting when I fire it up in mere seconds from now.

Thanks for your attention to the matter, Coke. Your positivity is somewhat contagious - and discolored. Get it off me!
I WILL promise you this - that when the official statement is recieved we, the mutants, will test the living crap out of it and hopefully be able to concur with your findings. You'll know either way!

Peace

Posted on 01.05.09 16:12 PM by obscured

@Coke - Of poo you speak? NOT! I'm a pretty tired mofo at the momo. I need to sleep but I did play both FWE modes . Enough. It felt strange...but in a fuzzy nipply kinda way.

It felt so... different and yet... so right, so...good. Then, when it moved I knew - that it was, and had become so.

It felt solid. It felt durable. It felt proper man I think you wise bastitches may have pulled this off. Off to bed with me but let me step waay out for a sec and say:

Hey PAIN dudes - Thanks for making things right .YOU FIXED FWE (pretty much sure ftm part)(dam, probly shoulda played a bit more to be sure) (it did feel better tho so)(sh*t)(still, totally premature on the call)(disgraced mutant? nonsense)(just hit backspace diltard) 'save coment' (oops)(sh*t)

Posted on 01.05.09 17:40 PM by obscured

btw....I'm a liar...1211 crates not 2211

Posted on 01.05.09 20:46 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@COKER

Your lil birdie is a dirty rotten liar. I think the trigger crate problem might even be WORSE now. I have NEVER gotten a missing one on my first 15.....that is until now.
Seems as if I get them the more I play too.

Grrrr

Posted on 01.05.09 23:36 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

yyeeeeehaaaaw got back in the top 10 in MS FWE. this bug must have been fixed, got a shower running for like 5 minutes with my character layin dead on the ground , no more lag or anything , it stopped raining at around 1250 , ended at 1527 which is not so good compared to these 3 aliens , but im getting better

Posted on 01.06.09 00:24 AM by flagada28

wahhhhoooooooo
thank you fro fixin FWE
even tho i hardly play fwe but i guess as its fixed nows the time 2 hav a real crack at it

Posted on 01.06.09 01:18 AM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@FurrQue
I like how you think, but we can't forget The Stig. He wouldn't say anything and every time you attempt to do a special pose he just turns and gives you "the look."

@Coke
You really have not heard of Jeremy Clarkson, or Top Gear befor? I might be mistaken, but I believe that is one of the most popular TV shows on the planet.

Go to topgear.com and watch their videos, or search for them on You Tube, or if you want it in HD, I am sure that a Sony employee knows someone with Gran Turismo 5: Prologue. Chances are they have purchased at least one Top Gear episode on GT-TV. The one where he attempts to out run a tank in a Range Rover Sport is pretty good.

Oh, and if you get BBC America you should be able to find it there too.

Once you have done that you can come back and thank us for introducing you to an entertaining show. If you are a car guy then you will come back and thank us for introducing you to your new favorite show.

Posted on 01.06.09 01:42 AM by FoolKiller79

@Coke
Haha you should get on perfectly with old Jeremy then Wink I strongly suggest that you watch the Top Gear American special, i guarantee that you won't stop laughing Smile

Posted on 01.06.09 01:50 AM by George

@Coke
Oh yeah and also just remembered, is there somin wrong with the FWE leaderboards? I've seen that everyone's score has been set back a couple of weeks, is that a bug or is that a permanent change?

Posted on 01.06.09 01:52 AM by George

Firstly, happy new year to all, hows everyone doing lately? Good Christmas/New Year?
I've fallen behind with the Pain world lately but still lurking this board. Too many games still in the wrapper to name but I'll be back on the leaderboards at some point in the near future. Keep the good ideas rolling & catch you all soon!

Posted on 01.06.09 02:02 AM by mortal_sinner

Since there's been some talk on here about Nathan Drake taking his turn in the launcher, I've gotta say That would rock, especially if North did the voice. With that said though, there's one line from the 1st game that just fits..."Ok, ok, count to 5...12345 pull!"

And I don't know if anyone's ever brought this up, but what are the odds of getting Crow T Robot or Tom Servo?

Posted on 01.06.09 05:46 AM by Terwallace

William Shatner? Next up on the launch pad?
I hope the rumor is true....

Posted on 01.06.09 06:12 AM by SgtRufus

@Coker

Last post, Travis said that online Multiplayer will come in January. Can you still confirm that?

Greez from the one and only...

Posted on 01.06.09 06:25 AM by KingDragunov

@Coker

cool story, respect for Nolan + 1

looks like Im not alone in the ND for PAIN wagon Smile

any update on the PAIN avatars would be greatly appreciated.

Posted on 01.06.09 07:31 AM by Captain_Fury

@COKER

STM & CT & FWE AVATARS:

STM could be the munky spinning his football on his finger.

CT could be spunky's face all evil grinning.

& FWE could be a dyn-a-mite box with FWE printed on it.
OR a couple of crates bunched together....
OR even a propane tank with PAIN or FWE printed on it.


I HOPE you guys put some effort into these avatars....not just headshots or crappy pixels or gay colored poo....

& you guys think you could update us when/if they are available....

PLZ & THNX,
~God

Posted on 01.06.09 07:50 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Shatner coming up next?

"www.videogaming247.com/.../

According to the Sony Europe PSN release schedule, on the 19th March William Shatner is set to follow in the hallowed footsteps of David Hasselhof by appearing in Sony PSN title, PAIN.

PAIN was PSNs most downloaded title in 2008 and a celebrity such as Captain James Tiberius Kirk will only serve to keep the juices flowing…or maybe that’s just us?"

Posted on 01.06.09 07:50 AM by pick-e

All - I have NO idea where the William Shatner rumor came from, but while it would be most awesome, it's unfortunately 100% false.

Posted on 01.06.09 08:16 AM by Jason Coker

Thats gay....someone oughta write that b*tch.......

Posted on 01.06.09 08:42 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Dang. Was believing this one was real to, especially since we all know SCEE isn't exactly leak-proof. Frown

Posted on 01.06.09 09:31 AM by pick-e

hey guys, watch my PAIN Easter Egg videos.
IN TRUE HI-DEFINITION.

Amusement Park

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsXom_raSQY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsXom_raSQY

Downtown

www.youtube.com/watch

feel free to comment and rate!

Posted on 01.06.09 11:55 AM by SomeDude

@SomeDude

We get it....you have Easter egg vids on youtube.....

No need to post it ten times.

Your making this forum full of repeated info....

Posted on 01.06.09 15:16 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@COKER

WE NEED ANOTHER LIL MIDGET TO LAUNCH.....

Maybe the black dude from Bad Santa & Me, Myself & Irene....

Posted on 01.06.09 15:25 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

i still have no volume after the xmas update deleted everything and downloaded it again to no avail so if its not back after next update im sorry 2 say my pain days are numbered

Posted on 01.06.09 19:27 PM by olly

No ones really mentioned (much) that the 12 days thing didnt really work well. I only got 6 7 10 11 and then back to 6 and then stuck on 11 to the current date. Weird release schedule gang!

Also I think a cockatoo called Shirley and a prawn would make excellent launch characters.

Yes there is a story behind my choices...

Today was a big disappointment...Friday weekly update day and bugger all on PSN and especially no LBP content or Pain stuff. Frown

Hopefully this week will be HOOOOGE hey gang!

Posted on 01.07.09 03:52 AM by Olaus

@Terwallace

That was an awesome idea!! I would love to see Tom Servo and Crow in Pain. MST3K/Rifftrax crew would do an amazing job at the voices. I wouldn't mind launching Mike Nelson either, lol.

Posted on 01.07.09 05:54 AM by Jvoles

I'm new here and just purchased the game and Iove it. You mentioned about stuffing our faces with cookies well there is only one COOKIE I want to stuff my face with

Posted on 01.07.09 08:37 AM by tom

Shatner? Step backwards after the Hoff in my opinion. How about Manuel or Basil from Faulty Towers?
@Ron- Another midget? Got 2 already, how about a kid, same size, just correct proportions. Maybe the wench from the Exorcist. I've got a funny feeling yet another midget would be as popular as a tourettes sufferer in a bingo hall. I hope the avatars are decent too, I've been using the same sh!t ones since launch day.

Posted on 01.07.09 08:56 AM by mortal_sinner

i just downloaded the amusement park (i know....been out for awhile) and im definately enjoying it. Can't wait for more environments and more characters. keep it up y'all

Posted on 01.07.09 10:32 AM by Dain

@FoolKiller
Never even thought of the stig.
'the look' is a perfect description!
Every L2 pose exactly the same, lol..

What would his 'skill' be?

Got to be helmet ralated - but what?
(leaving that one open for suggestions)

Posted on 01.07.09 11:35 AM by FurrQue

shatner
cool idol minds
liking it , keep it up

Posted on 01.07.09 15:00 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@Mortal

You are AWESOME.
I never even thought of a KID!!! Now THAT needs to happen!

The only reason is cuz Hung Lo is my ninja....he's all I use, mainly being bcuz he's lite, tiny & obviously cuz he's Ooch master.
I own every character & use them ALL....but when play turns into serious, Hung Lo is the ONE, kinda like Neo.

For the kid....NEEDS TO HAPPEN!

Posted on 01.07.09 23:09 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Gary Coleman... "WHAT YOU TALKIN ABOUUUTT WILLLLLIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS???????"

Posted on 01.07.09 23:39 PM by TonyB

Looks like days 1-6 of the 12 days of Christmas are back up... would sure be nice to get day 12 tho.

Posted on 01.08.09 00:05 AM by deadhead19420

@Coke - Whateva. MS FWE plat club is fixed - NOT. Trigger shenanigans still present and still WEAK. That little bird that informs you should get plucked. Better still it should go pluck itself. Yes, I have gone to the dark side. Thank you very little.

@TonyB - Gary Coleman = Dope idea man! Judging by the recent commercials he's in he'd probably do it for free too. Shame he only has that one line, but he's highly launchable.

@Mortimer_Milhouse_Sinner(aka Mortal_Sinner) - Good to see your posts in here buddy!

Peace

Posted on 01.08.09 00:50 AM by obscured

@Obscured

Just curious, have you been able to break over 800 in MS PLAT????

Bcuz my field seems to completely deplete by 750-ish....
As I said b4, the trigger problem still exists but not as often as b4 the "fix".
My 1211 score was made the nite b4 I got the "fix" and since then my highest is 874...missing trigger seems to happen around 400, 600 & 750-800.

Not saying they don't happen between these #'s but that's when I notice they happen the most consistently.

Once I reach 650...they happen more frequently...ever other or every third one.
VERY frustrating to know I got the game by the cojones then BAM....it turns sour.

Posted on 01.08.09 02:56 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@EVERYONE EVER

THIS is what PAIN is all about...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm45760aKHk

This is why I play....you never know what will happen....

Posted on 01.08.09 05:01 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Hooray! Another Thursday without a new post!

Hooray! Another Thursday without any such existence of a "content push" talked about from November!

Hooray! Another Thursday without Darts! I always thought it was cute when they put it in the multiplayer area before it was even half way through it's year long delay.

Hooray! another month without Travis!

HOO FUCKING RAY!

Posted on 01.08.09 06:43 AM by KrimsonSky25

OKAY....don't mean to post ten million time but the above link doesn't work.

SO.....

http://www.youtube.com/user/AnonymousGOD420

Now this one SHOULD work.....

Posted on 01.08.09 07:19 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Anyone else still freezing up on painfull FWE? Cos I still am.

Posted on 01.08.09 14:39 PM by The_Probe

on the 6th day of pain labs the developers gave to me, 6 aliens abductin 5 weirdos spinning 4 helis breaking 3 mimes a shaking 2 turtles "making" and a pirate in a palm tree.

Posted on 01.08.09 16:03 PM by bigbadbarron

@Ron -

Easily the -luckiest- shot I've ever seen in PAIN Smile

nice vid

Posted on 01.08.09 17:04 PM by deadhead19420

@Nuclear-Poop aka Probe

I was hoping it wasn't true but yeah... I had a freeze-up last night.. and don't even get me started on FWE plat club in MS, EVERY time I'm anywhere NEAR the war set it goes nutty and freezes constantly, to where it's one frame every 4 or 5 seconds... Frown

Posted on 01.08.09 17:06 PM by deadhead19420

@FWE players
I think what coke meant when he said,, "FWE is fixed" was that its repaired & in testing, maybe?

Unless he meant 'fixed' as in a swindle!

@Ron
My best for MS FWE plat was my 1300+ score that got moved to DT FWE plat leaderboard - wait till its fixed, thats when the real fun begins.
No more daylight crate robbery!
Cant wait.
You'll bust a vessel playing FWE & trying to score big at the moment, come play COD4 with the dojo!

Posted on 01.08.09 17:18 PM by FurrQue

@Deadhead

Yea...I launched...getting my boxes and all the sudden my box count jumped up like 20....which NEVER happens b4 your first trigger....So I replayed and caught what happened and it amazed me how random things can be!

@Furry

I'm getting close to that..1211 aint too far off...

CoD4...aint got it yet...been planning on getting that and World @ War..
The only shooters I got are Warhawk and Resistance 1....I love to shoot ppl and I'm good at it....I'm just a broke b*tch!

Posted on 01.08.09 19:37 PM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

@Ron
I Think world at war is a con, should've been an PSN purchase/add on.
Still, great game, online rocks - hard.
Pick up COD4 for $20, go on treat yourself!
We need more DoJo clan members for private death matches..
Theres only two of us so far with cod4, not much of a clan lmao!

Got resistance 1 & 2, never went online with the 1st - not even played the 2nd (the shame)

Posted on 01.08.09 20:04 PM by FurrQue

I have a new pain easter eggs video, this time the Movie Studio.

www.youtube.com/watch

check out my page for more pain videos. (youtube.com/BlindMangoTV)

Posted on 01.08.09 20:06 PM by SomeDude

@TonyB

Sup Homie. I'd just like to second the Gary Coleman idea. That would be great!!!!

Posted on 01.09.09 00:20 AM by MutilatRJuggalo

shatner, fran dressher, hell get Gilbert Godfreid...his voice would be an interesting addition to the launch line-up. gary coleman would be funny too.

also got the movie studio as well...not that impressed....but it's still another level

Posted on 01.09.09 02:39 AM by Dain

@FurrQue
Hold on a second...your not saying you don't like Resistance 2 are ya?

Posted on 01.09.09 17:32 PM by George

@George
Loved resistance, not had chance to play res2 yet!
Im so hooked on COD4 at the moment, can't play anything else, pain has taken a back seat for now until its FIXED!

Did'nt get into the online side if res1, I suppose I had too many games to play at that time, but played the single player mode to death.
Looking forward to playing res2, had a quick look at it but chosen to wait until I can give it 100%.
Nothing worse than a shelf full of half played games..
Ashamed to admit I bought MGS4 on release day WITH the fookin guide book & they've both been sitting on the shelf since!
Im an avid MGS fan too...
weird.
Blame FWE for hogging my game-time, I do Laughing

I also blame it for my repetetive stress injury too - ha!

Posted on 01.09.09 20:30 PM by FurrQue

@FurrQue
Ah i see. Well i'm the complete opposite...i can't get enough of Resistance right now! And MGS4...well you've gotta play that. Definately one of the top games of all time.

Posted on 01.09.09 20:47 PM by George

@George
I played MGS 1, 2 & 3 to the death, every difficuly, every dog tag, camo etc - so it shocks me too that I have'nt played it yet..
We've been so hooked on pain any other game just did'nt scratch that itch, if you get me.

The pain bugs were getting so punishing we here at the DoJo kinda gave up with it out of frustration.
Did'nt realise just how much we/I played pain..
Feels like we've awoken from some kind of coma!
My inner gaming monster has awoken too..
Even my PSP is on charge right now, lol!

I can feel the chi flowing

Straight out my ear - Huh?...........NURSE!

Posted on 01.09.09 21:17 PM by FurrQue

@FurrQue
Haha I get ya. Is there something wrong with the FWE leaderboards? It seems that all the scores have been set back a few weeks, which means i've been knocked down to 12th or something. Do you think that this is jsut a bug or are these the scores we have to go by now?

Posted on 01.09.09 21:26 PM by George

pain team i just loaded up PAIN and it updated gav me labs 1-6 and changed the bkground bk 2 the original but still hav the jingle bell sounds n that wen i press x n stuff did u forget 2 put that bk 2 the original or has it not updated properly

Posted on 01.09.09 21:47 PM by Liam

@George
when the leaderboards were split they rolled 'em back a few weeks.
You gonna need to crunch some pain time.

personally?
I'd wait, you're flogging a dead horse until its fixed - well, with FWE anyway!

Posted on 01.09.09 22:40 PM by FurrQue

@Deadhead

Oh bugger... Good things come yo those who wait...I hope.

Posted on 01.09.09 23:06 PM by The_Probe

is FWE not fixed yet then?

Posted on 01.09.09 23:10 PM by NUFCRULE-Liam

@FurrQue
Ah ok so what your saying is that our original scores should come back soon?

Posted on 01.09.09 23:42 PM by George

@George
Not sure, probably not.
You'll no doubt toast your old scores anyway!

@Liam
I think its fixed 'in house', but they've not released it to us yet, maybe testing it?

I played it friday for a few hours to see what all the fuss was about, I did'nt notice anything different..

Posted on 01.09.09 23:54 PM by FurrQue

@FurrQue
I hope we get out old scores back...i was 8th or somin. Nowhere near your score though!

Posted on 01.10.09 00:35 AM by George

@George
once they fix FWE, everyone is gonna stuff my scores up my DoJo - I just got a head start is all!
Don't worry, you'll be knocking at the 100k door soon Wink

Posted on 01.10.09 01:20 AM by FurrQue

@FurrQue
Haha I look forward to it Smile

Posted on 01.10.09 01:58 AM by George

I've just thought...what with the release of Season 7 of 24 tonight, wouldn't it be great to have Jack Bauer on the launch pad?

Posted on 01.10.09 02:09 AM by George

FWE definately isnt fixed . I was 20 crates away from my highest , nice gentle shower going , nothing crazy , just coming down every where plenty of crates to hit place isnt all cluttered up . There is no doubt in my mind I would have gotten over 1k crates ( which would be great for me ), nice an relaxed , not stressin . Then it froze . So what I was thinkin before about to much load on the system cant be the reason . It was going nice and smoothly . I'm bummed . Damnit !! . On a good note , I finally got Plat in DT painful the other day . I hate DT FWE . To hard . That is where I really gotta hand it to you people with those scores .

Peace

Posted on 01.10.09 02:21 AM by john

@Ron - You may just be in a scoring rut atm. FWE certainly is still the same. I'll admit I was fooled, but fooled myself. Coke said 'fixed' and we all got excited. Not too cool in my book.
There's way too much frustration and disappointment regarding FWE bug's to just throw us a statement like that and not follow up with proper clarification. We've been baited so now we wait like eager dooshes.

@FurrQue - I am strangly confident that if they can make the proper tweaks and adjustments to FWE painful, then there is a possibility that painful can once again be relevant.
If this happens then it is my opinion (don't hate me bro!) that 100K scores will not be possible. I don't believe that it was ever intended for the player to just lay there for hours with explosions on auto pilot. In all of my highest scoring games I spent two thirds of the game or more just laying there waiting for it to stop or freeze.

If they are able to find the 'sweet spot' with minor tweaks and get it to run smoothly and significantly reduce the freeze ups, then the only fair thing to do would be wipe the scores and put everyone on the same level. The true stars will rise again, on their own skill and merit.But scores will be realistic - just like it was in DT FWE before the 1.67 update. I'm mostly just hoping they can salvage this mode somehow.

Peace my brother from an English mother.

@john - You raised a good point there about the load on the sytem during these chain events. Thinking from the pc standpoint, one would believe that having less clutter and more ram would improve performance. But a friend of mine (who actually purchased a PS3 just to play a $10 dollar game called PAIN [your welcome, Sony!]) had nothing but PAIN loaded on the sys and still had a freeze during a chain event

I also find it strange that the lockups have literally 0 warning symptoms. No slugging or hiccups or framerate issues are ever present prior to the freeze. It just happens when it happens.
When I start a chain I'll go so far as to purposly stall my dude around a quiet corner, turn off hud, and repeatedly pause and unpause during heavy movement around the area. I've also done the opposite and just kept moving with everything on. Nothing I've tried has proven to be effective. I am also curious as to the possible adverse effects these repeated lockups have on the systems longevity. I'm sure it can't help.

This subject gave me an idea for a new launchee. Ladies and gents , from the Batman and Robin comic series and major Hollywood motion picture release I present the incomparable MR FREEZE!!!
So slip into your best Arnold voice and utter this phrase: Why don't you just chill. There - now you are a popsicle!

Peace

I think, therefore I Haskell

Posted on 01.10.09 06:07 AM by obscured

bring on sackboy for pain. i want to kill sackboy for destroying my game save!

Posted on 01.10.09 06:18 AM by

Hmmmmmmm

Feels like there was something I was supposed to be doing........

Posted on 01.10.09 06:47 AM by MoltenKevlar

tell me when this damn game is fixed . I aint playin it anymore , some as earlier . This time 772 crates 14+ minutes on the damn clock nice and smooth . Froze . I quit , cant take the aggravation , games are supposed to be fun . Sorry for me posting bitching about this . It wont happen again . I'm done with this game . All of it .

Posted on 01.10.09 08:40 AM by john

ok , THIS is my last post about it . If it matters at all to anyone who might be looking into this the audio is still going when it freezes . Not the explosions , but the background noise . Otay , now I'm done . Bye
Peace

Posted on 01.10.09 08:45 AM by john

@obscured
agreed there my man, wipe the boards once its fixed.

Most of us will come back to replay it all again - some won't.
Will the tweaks be able to draw back players ready, willing & hungry to put some more miles on the Pain clock?

I fear some heroes will fall.
Their spirits obliterated.
New unfamiliar names will fill the leaderboards.
Mocking you all with scores of splendor.

Over time they will hear great tales of the high scoring legends from days of old.

Names now forgotten
Scores unfathomable

Knights of platinum
Regents of painful
Crushers of grapes

Shed no tear for these fallen warriors.
Drink to their honour - sing ye tales of....

"click"

3-2-1....... and im back in the room.
zoned out for a bit there.

(phew, don't think anyone noticed, hope they don't spot my red eyes, aww man that doughnut looks sweeet - why am I typing what im thinking?..)
Head down, keep walking!


Obsy, my friend - I hope they do a decent job fixing FWE.
Im going insane here trying to keep my gaming monster fed!!

Much Love.

Posted on 01.10.09 12:19 PM by FurrQue

I don't care what anyone says I still like you.

Posted on 01.10.09 23:32 PM by Olaus

kl

Posted on 01.11.09 05:33 AM by master man

@Anyone- Frank Drebin sound like a good Pain Character?
@ Obscured- Good to be back bud! 26 years old today I am & I still find the most immature things hilarious, hence I love Pain & the people brought here by it cause you're on my wave lenght. How could I stay away?

Posted on 01.11.09 06:10 AM by mortal_sinner

@mortal
The child in us never dies..
Im 40 this year, still gaming, still farting & still laughing!

welcome back!

Posted on 01.11.09 06:33 AM by FurrQue

@ everyone

Greetings fellow Painiacs! I haven't posted in a while because I've been enjoying all things Pain. My son asked me to post a few ideas that he's been thinking about for the future of Pain. I apologize if some (or all) of these have been listed before we just started yapping and this is what we thought:

1. Launch at the North Pole: Santa's village, smack a Yeti, break some glaciers, etc.
2. Launch underwater: destroy Atlantis, discover sunken ships, break a submarine, etc.
3. Destroy a haunted house: ooch around the graveyard, find the revolving bookcase, break the mad scientists lab, etc.
4. Pain at the zoo: Lots of animal casualties in this one
5. Pain on a plane: you can actually ooch your way out the door and plummet to the city below. Bonus points for hitting objects on the way down

@IdolMinds
How about 'Pain around the World'? You start in New York and you have to score a certain amount of damage to unlock Paris. Destroy the Eiffel Tower and the Arc De Triumph with enough points to unlock Egypt and so on. The final city to unlock could be a city on the Moon. It would be a great way to destroy national landmarks and be opening new levels all along the way. It could even be a seperate game like Cratetastic. Thanks for taking the time to read my long post. My son and I really love this game!

Posted on 01.11.09 06:45 AM by venkman1221

@venkman1221
Loving the idea about 'Pain around the World' Laughing

Posted on 01.11.09 06:49 AM by George

@venkman1221
Ah and liking the other ideas as well. How about an airport instead of just in a plane? You could fire around the airport, but then launch into a plane that takes off. That way launches will most likely last longer.

Posted on 01.11.09 06:50 AM by George

Deadhead – The FWE fix is in HERE. It hasn’t been released yet. That’s why I said I’M testing it. You’ll be seeing it with the fix on our next content push.

Everyone – Again – NO SHATNER! (it makes me sad to say it, though)

Olaus – The other six Days of PAIN are coming this week. Once we found out about the Amusement Park issue during the holidays, we had bigger fish to fry than day 12. Now you’ll get to see the last day of Idol Minds’ holiday madness.

Ron/Mortal – You guys are SICK! (Keep it up!)

TonyB/Juggs – While appreciate the Gary Coleman idea, please keep in mind that the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum. In fact, what might be right for you may not be right for some.

Obscured – See comment to Deadhead and quit hatin’ on my birds.

Krimson – ygolohcysP

Dain – Gilber Gottfried’s voice makes me bleed from the ears. Add that to Fran Drescher’s, and my head would quite possibly explode.

George – A few years ago (AKA “after season one”), I never thought I’d say this, but both 24 and Jack Bauer are dead to me. Jack apparently had the show in the sidecar of his motorcycle, and both were killed during a shark jumping incident. The good news is that apparently both can come back from the dead like Tony Almeida. Pardon my ire, but I truly hate that show now. I hear that Janeane Garofalo is on the current season, which, as much as I love her, still isn’t enough to bring me back. Hate, hate, hate.

Coke

Posted on 01.11.09 06:59 AM by Jason Coker

@Coke
Ah well I'm sorry to say that I love it Smile But I do feel that bringing Tony back from the dead is a big big mistake. I mean...he DIED for gods sake. Anyways, surely if you hate him, it would be an even better reason to be able to launch him...to cause him endless amounts of pain? Laughing

Posted on 01.11.09 08:40 AM by George

I'm back too. Had some much needed time off from EVERYTHING. So feel free to taunt me a second time. Travis is back in the office.

Posted on 01.11.09 08:40 AM by travis williams

@ Travis n Coke
come on guys we are all screaming for a release date for online pain,
give us a clue

Posted on 01.11.09 08:45 AM by Slaminthelamb

oh and Happy new Year

Posted on 01.11.09 08:52 AM by Slaminthelamb

@Travis
Nice to see ya back Laughing

Posted on 01.11.09 08:52 AM by George

I just noticed something strange with Plat FWE:-

5 mins in - I was ooching around and needed just 1 more crate to get my 15th and so another trigger. I had a decent slide up to this 15th crate so decided to watch the overhead map to make sure I could see where the trigger crate would arrive. I hit the crate and the trigger appeared, which looked like it was directly overhead the entrance gates. Luckily I was being bounced right back that way from the explosion, I let go of R2 to get myself aimed in the right place, but there was no trigger, pressing R2 showed no trigger either. The crate had'nt been hit either as I had no bonus crates.
Do trigger crates drop from the sky or are existing crates used?. If they drop from the sky maybe they fall outside of the MS and get 'erased'? Or if they use existing crates there might be a 'buggy' crate outside of the MS which the PS3 doesn't recognise and so we get these invisible ones?
Obviously I have no idea and even less computing knowledge, so this theory might hold no water at all. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this or anything similar.

Posted on 01.11.09 09:39 AM by The_Probe

@Travis
Welcome back big guy.
Feeling refreshed?

@Turd'y
Triggers (im sure, kinda) are crates already in the game that just switch green.
Falling ones may hit high buildings etc on the way down & possibly fall out of play.
There are only a couple of places this can happen though, but could contribute to the missing trigger issue somehow..?

Still, fixes are due..

Posted on 01.11.09 10:31 AM by FurrQue

@Travis

welcome back...now that I have your attention...

AVATARS AVATARS AVATARS Smile

looks like I will have to launch myself to SCEJ HQ and press that release button

Posted on 01.11.09 10:41 AM by Captain_Fury

@Furrque

I see...might be something in it then?. Can't wait for the fix though.

Posted on 01.11.09 11:16 AM by The_Probe

@Coke - Nice!

@Travis - I ain't jokin... Gimmie some more moving pieces in MS HORSE... The carts crash and block up traffic a little too easy... Throw in a way to get some air, like a catapult you can get to from the ground or something "vent style"... How bout it killa????

Posted on 01.11.09 13:44 PM by TonyB

Hey, Coke,

Completely aside from PAIN, I saw you're a Garofalo fan. Why? She's a lib America-hating bitch and that's just not cool where I come from. Maybe I'm not cool, but I wouldn't give a bucket of piss to see anything she's in. She was funny, until SHE brought politics into the mix. All those "entertainers" should do their act, accept my money for services rendered, and shut the hell up. Just a thought. Happy New Year!

Posted on 01.11.09 16:01 PM by MarlyT35

@Coke - I'm no bird hater. That wasn't me. You see, I fell asleep at the keyboard and started having a wierd dream.

I was at your office downtown for an FWE summit.It was to discuss the game issues, pick brain and possibly show you first hand exactly what we've been on about.

I had a strange, uneasy feeling as I waited in the lobby - almost as if danger was afoot. No one was around, but I could hear voices - deep and hushed, coming from the other side of an unusually large and meticulously carved burgundy brown door. It looked very dated and quite heavy.
Another detail that struck me funny was the presense of a gravel type grey rock debris on the carpet pathway leading to the door. Perhaps they were remodeling some granite counter tops.

My attention was then diverted back to the voices, which were getting a bit louder but maintaining the hushed urgency. I happened to make out some words and swore I could hear someone saying 'just take him down. shut m' up for good'. Seonds later the big door burst open. A cloud of dust and pea gravel blew outward, peppering my face and arms with welts.

When the dust settled I sat up and brushed off the debris. The next thing I saw was Jason Coker and Travis Williams - sort of. I know you guys work for Sony, but this is a dream and in this dream you both had huge Idol Minds stone heads - each with a nice, tightly manicured fro. Coke's pick fell out during the commotion, but I don't think that's what you were pissed about. As you guys were about to rain punishing headbuts I turned to run, then the dreaded 'slo mo anti escape dream horror' kicked in.

That's when I woke up. I went into the bathroom to splash cold water on my face and noticed the keyboard left letter imprints across my forehead. I shook my head and chuckled, then returned to my pc.

I continued reading the message board and noticed that a sh*ttalker had posted something about FWE not fixed yet and also something about a bird 'plucking itself'.
I was thinking 'who's the doosh who thought the fix was released?' I scrolled to the messages author and to my horror it read 'posted by obscured'.

Confused and scared, I curled into the fetal position and rolled myself into the bathroom for another cold splash. I dabbed my face dry and looked at my forehead once again at the letter indentations left from the keyboard. Then at closer glance it struck me that the letters spelled the name of my dark alter ego and costant nemesis 'obscuredbyLIES!'

So Coke, now you see it was he, not I who channeled his hatred through my forehead and onto the keyboard as my deep slumber lowered my subconcious guard. He's now back under my full control - tell your birds they are free to chirp at will.

For added measure - and this part is true - I jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet today with my son for his 18th. My alter ego was there as well. Sadly ,his chute didn't open. And the birds are safe.

Peace

Posted on 01.11.09 17:26 PM by obscured

@ (no name) re: Sack Boy. Are you losing LBP data too? The last couple of days when I played LBP, I lost anything I did the day before. Its pissing me off, I'm fed up with LBP. I was working on a Pain level for all you Pain/LBP lovers out there and it was turning out pretty good too. Sorry guys, it doesn't look like its going to happen anytime soon. Not until I can figure out how to fix the problem.

Posted on 01.11.09 20:30 PM by qb2bTheReaper

OT:

I've been way a while, so Hi all Smile

I just want some place where I can vent my hatred and frustration with Sony, particularly Sony Europe.

Why is it that they don't want my money? Why the fuck don't they release even HALF of the shit the US store has in Europe? I mean, give me a break! I have money, Sony wants money, what is the big problem?

In this case it's the ever late HVB update for Europe that STILL isn't there. If the developers don't have the resources for localization, then don't give the freaking system the option. Who gives a shit that the ps3 can show it's menus in Danish, swedish and polish if all you can do is wait for awesome games to pass you by?

I recently found my PSP and thought I would by some games online and started to look at games list online and found the ultimate game: Puzzle Quest. PSN Download, sure. Europe, fuck no, why would they want my money!

And movies and music. Sure, I know that there's a million different studios and labels and they have to negotiate. But then why not release SONY movies and SONY music, I mean, those guys should be easy to negotiate with, you eat lunch with them ffs!

It's pretty simple: SONY PLEASE LET ME PAY YOU FOR SERVICES!

/rant

@qb2b: Delete all community content, go to create mode and delete all the shit people have given you. I had this problem for a freaking week before figuring this out.

Posted on 01.11.09 22:50 PM by KnizzleHizzle

Also, Welcome back from you vacation Travis and Coker Smile

Posted on 01.11.09 23:21 PM by KnizzleHizzle

@Travis
Sorry to keep asking big guy, but did you ever get to see monkey target from GC monkeyball 1?
Really like to know what you thought of it..


@obscured
obscuredbyLIES?
No relation to obscuredbyPIES by any chance?
He's the 'larger' NY cousin..

Dude, one weird post/dream.
Thought I was 'out there' with some of my posts - but you got me with that one, ya loony!

I comming over, I gotta try what you're using in that big black untensile of yours!
Happy b'day to young obscured (if that was'nt al LIES too!)

@Knizz
Yeah, whats up with the cold shoulder for europe? - we have money too!
I know we still use precious stones/golden dabloons & livestock for currency, but hey chickens have financial worth.
Especially with this global recession looming over us all - you'd think Sony would'nt mind a few extra cows & goats..


@Turd'y
MS Plat FWE is the only fix Im hungry for too..
Yum Yum Yum!

Posted on 01.12.09 02:10 AM by FurrQue

@Furrque: It really bugs me, I mean, games are region free, half my PS3 disc is some I've bought when I've been over there, why can't a waive my right to have localized versions and just get the US version in the PSN store, they could even put a big ass disclaimer on the shit, I just want to be able to purchase the games and get the updates. Hell, my PS3 is set to US english anyways, as I hate shit like local language in LBP and Buzz.

Posted on 01.12.09 03:08 AM by KnizzleHizzle

@THE REAPER
i had this problem too, only thing to do is to erase your LBP savefile. lost everything, it sux i had every aces. anyway , now i erase every comunity stuff i get. not enough save space. hope theyll fix that soon!

Posted on 01.12.09 13:38 PM by flagada28

@Knizz
I understand your frustrations, but do understand it works both ways in some cases. I would have preferred PlayTv over the video store's DRM hell. I mean, I saw an 8 minute cartoon on there for $1.99. But I can also get 1 hour shows for $1.99. And no download list like the games have, so if you lose your data you have to fight with customer support to get it again. Trust me, outside of a rental to put on your PSP for a road trip, it is not that great.

Also, I want GTI Club, Savage Moon, and the GPS for my PSP. I mean, honestly, I saw that the EU store now has maps for North America. So now they can't even use the software/regionalization excuse.

And every region has more PS1 games than the US.

And I agree about Europe not having the HVB patch. That needs to be done soon and it needs to allow cross-regional play. I have friends in Europe, Australia, and Canada and online is kind of pontless if you can't play with everyone.

Maybe Travis and/or Coke can pop their head around the corner and ask the HVB guys whwat the hold up is. At a minimum let us know it hasn't been dropped.

I agree Europe gets more delays and even some lesser content than the US, but in comparison it isn't that bad. Just find someone from Mexico and ask them how they like their PlayStation Store. They will answer, "What PlayStation Store?"

Posted on 01.12.09 15:26 PM by FoolKiller79

@Foolkiller: I'll just never get the regional thing on things they own themselves. And it really isn't just Europe, I don't even think Canada can get movies or music. They have the perfect platform to make the ps3 the greatest media machine out there and then just fuck it up. Regarding the HVB patch, they just keep saying soon. And it's not just the patch, there's almost NO HVB content in Europe, and I would buy all of it. I just really don't want to buy stuff on a US account. You guys don't have the GPS thing? I don't have it either but at least I can. See, it's stuff like that, why wouldn't they offer it to you guys, it's like free money, they already have the product, it's no work at all!

Posted on 01.12.09 16:22 PM by KnizzleHizzle

Obscured - I love you, man!

Posted on 01.12.09 21:41 PM by Jason Coker

Marly - I've dug Janeane Garofalo since WAAAAYYY back in the day when I used to watch her on Evening At The Improv on A&E. As for her being a "lib America-hating so-and-so", I don't even go there. That's kind of red flag dangerous talk to me. With all due respect, I see too many people slap labels like that people who say something they don't like. Probably the simplest case in point: CNN VS FOX. "Lefties" hate FOX, and "Righties" hate CNN, while I just wanna see the news and can filter out people's personal BS spins they put on what they're "reporting".
When it comes to comedy, I just like "funny". I don't smoke weed, but "Half Baked" and Cheech and Chong flicks are hilarious. My Mom died in 2006, but "Yo Mama" jokes crack me up. I guess I'm I'm just not very easily offended, and if somebody's comedy material is funny, it's funny, be it Baseball-and-apple-pie-God-bless-America stuff or something that's politically critical. On the other hand, if it sucks, it sucks. Now, admittedly, I'm not as familiar with her material in recent years as was before, but if she's still funny, I'm still a fan.

Peace,
Coke

P.S.
One of my favorite Yo Mama jokes is "Your mama's so stupid, she put a yardstick by her bed to see how long she slept." Simple, but brilliant.

Posted on 01.12.09 22:08 PM by Jason Coker

@Knizz & Flag - Hey, thanks guys! I'll give that a try. Thats not cool though, I don't feel like I have an abnormal amount of community objects. They should've alowed more room for stuff like that. Or at least inform me that I'm running out of room so I can delete any of the stupid shit and keep my own creations.

Posted on 01.12.09 22:39 PM by qb2bTheReaper

Yo Mama's so stupid, she got locked inside an Ikea one night and slept on the floor!

Posted on 01.12.09 23:10 PM by qb2bTheReaper

Yo mama's so ugly, she walked into a haunted house and walked out with an application!

Posted on 01.12.09 23:13 PM by qb2bTheReaper

Yo mama's like a racecar, the bitch burned four rubbers in one night!

Posted on 01.12.09 23:14 PM by qb2bTheReaper

@qb2b: Or give my a lbp option of not to get peoples crap. Seriously, you have to delete them INDIVIDUALLY!

Posted on 01.13.09 05:27 AM by KnizzleHizzle

@Knizz
Yeah man, no GPS for me. Or the digital camera attachment. Funny thing though, the US version of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops did have the GPS functionality built-in for adding new guys to your team if you went to certain places. So, it was expected a long time ago.

Sony has said that they intend to work out a wordlwide QA thing that will prevent this stuff in the future, but it still isn't showing. Until then I will continue to just play the demo for GTI Club+.

I understand how this happens. SCEA, SCEE, and SCEJ are all technically separate entities. And that worked fine until they handed us a console with online capabilities and an online store. All of the SCE groups need to get together and organize better to avoid these kinds of things.

I will giev credit to Idol Minds and the Sony Pain Crew though. They have done a great job at getting the worldwide update thing down.

And playing High Velocity Bowling recently I noticed something: the gangstah type characters in both PAIN and HVB are some form of little people. Do you all have a midget gang that terrorizes the office or something?

Posted on 01.13.09 12:56 PM by FoolKiller79

@Foolkiller: Yeah, but they've now had a couple of years to figure out that online means worldwide and so far only Idolminds and the PAIN crew gets. But hey, they REALLY get it, so yeah, YAY PAIN!

I'm kinda sad about it too because it really drops my gaming experience, I was all psyched for the HVB update coming "soon" back when and I haven't touched the game since.

I'm not saying it ain't tough for the HVB guys and I'm not saying it isn't tough for the PAIN crew but to me, if you can do it with PAIN, a sandbox game that is tough as shit to test, then you sure as hell can do it to a bowling game, I mean come the fuck on.

And while I feel for the devs and all it shouldn't really be our problem that Sony can't get their act together and make a global Q&A. And I'm not even talking about releasing the same day, these people can't even do it in months. All the UMD games you have on the US store has been released in Europe on UMD, so it's not like they haven't been localized. They just can't seem to stop crying over their lack of profit on LCD TV's and start working on how to get my money.

Anyway, it just amazes me, issall, I want to buy PSP and PS3 games and they won't let me. It's just stupid.

Just think about it, this isn't even officially an international site, this is a US playstation site, we don't even HAVE a site.

Why not come to terms with the fact that when it comes to their gaming industry there can be only one and make it global for real?

Posted on 01.13.09 14:49 PM by KnizzleHizzle

1804

Posted on 01.14.09 10:50 AM by Ron_Is_GOD_420

Coke,

Yo bro. I had a bad day when I posted that and I have no excuse for not filtering myself cuz I don't drink or use anymore(2 yrs, 1 month, and 1 day sober today...yes, still counting) so I 'pologize for my tone. I loved Ms. Garafalo on the "Ben Stiller Show" and her old stand up acts are hilarious. We agree there so I'll leave it as is. Foe the record, if a infamous character/celebrity besides The Hoff were to get in the launcher (I know its NOT happening) I vote for someone whose name rhymes with Gaydolf Shitler...Oh the damage and fun we could have...

Take care and have a blessed 2009.

Charles

Posted on 01.14.09 11:22 AM by MarlyT35

PS

Sorry about your Mom's passing. I live across town from my Mom and Pop and have my own family, but I'd be shattered to lose either of them. By the way, Your mama's so hairy, Big Foot takes pictures of Her! Tee Hee.

Posted on 01.14.09 11:28 AM by MarlyT35

Yo momma's so fat, she makes Free Willy look like a tic tac.



Word up Trav & Coke, hope all is well.
Happy new year to all!

Posted on 01.14.09 18:31 PM by Uganja

help, how do i go bak to TheTinselTot ?

Posted on 01.14.09 19:58 PM by

ok , yeah , so , um , still playin PAIN even tho I swore i wasnt gonna till it is fixed . So , played this mornin , got a shower goin right away ,said to my self "cool" . So I put the controller down to let it do its thing seein how I was stuck between a building and a lampost to get some coffee . Can hear it going in the background , come back still going . Cool , again I says . Look to see how many crates I have and its stuck at 600 somethin . The game is still going ,still getting time and crates , but it isnt adding the crates to my score . I relaunched , got it going again and it did the same thing . Quit that game , played some more and it did it again .

I dont suppose this happened to anyone else huh ?

Peace

Posted on 01.14.09 20:39 PM by john

W00t! HVB finally updated for Europe, guess they must have felt my hate!

Posted on 01.15.09 13:16 PM by KnizzleHizzle

Wheres all the posts gone?

Posted on 01.30.09 20:23 PM by FurrQue

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