Dunno about everyone else but the servers are down for me. So if they're up later, I'd be in it for a game tonight. I need some of the team objects from other stages anyway. Already have the 4x player objects from the collectors level and I might have or might not have gotten the dragon head from there. I just saw it while randomly going through my list of items.

I'm down for later tonight as well. I'll probably be online sometime around 8PM Central Time, so anytime after that is good for me.

OK, I'm getting fed up with finding 2x areas and not being able to do them. Anyone fancy doing some multiplayer at some point over the next week or so?

Sure, let me know what times work for you, English.

I should be about most evenings (of course plans can change last minute), so that's going to be about 6pm - midnight my time.

Aight. I'll keep my eyes open on PSN for you.

I've been playing the game with my sister, and right when we're close to the end they start adding in some 4x areas. We've managed to get all the items in every stage so far, so coming across these was a massive disappointment.

I was able to get the 4x ones by luckily getting into a good team.
I thought I had Omagnus on my psn list but I guess not. I'll add ya so we can get some of those things whenever I see ya online since I'm missing a majority of them anyway.

Just a heads up. Do not jump on super-fast spinning wheels of death:

Wheel of Death Game-Breaking Glitch

Apparently online jackasses are hosting games and trying to sucker people into corrupting their data with this glitch.

This is sadly unsurprising (why the fuck do so many arseholes play games, grrr). This is going to make me somewhat cautious about playing custom levels, since someone could drop you straight onto one of these wheels and fuck up your game. I think I might need to start making more regular backups of my game save data.

I've almost finished work on my first level creation, which is a little minigame I've made. I just need to finish off the level decoration and what-not and then I can see about publishing it.

Just don't hold r1. No grabby, no fouly.

Jesus. I've been without internet ever since I moved into my new place in Minneapolis 3 weeks ago - I'm going fucking insane here.

Have they released the patch that allows creating levels online with a friend? Also, have the servers been improved at all? Last time I logged in, everything lagged pretty significantly when launching a game...

I don't think the patch that allows for online co-op level creation is coming until December. As for the servers, they still aren't perfect, but they were much better the last few times I played than from when I first played.

From what I've heard, it's generally a case of a game host taking people to their moon to show them unpublished levels. You shouldn't have to worry about published levels, because they should be tagged and moderated in no time if they have a wheel of death in them.

Also, I haven't quite beaten the game yet, but I decided to start messing around in the creation mode. It's pretty amazing how deep it goes. I have an idea for a battleship-themed level, so I spent some time last night making an AA gun that I'll probably incorporate into the final level. It was neat figuring out what all I could add to it, until eventually I got both barrels to recoil in an alternating pattern that matched the fire, with accompanying "boom" noises. I synced the motor up with a sound emitter to make a large servo motor noise as it rotates to aim too. Fun stuff.

I'll be receiving my copy later, cant wait to try it on with you all :D

Just in case people missed it, Street Fighter LBP costumes are coming.

While these look freaking nice, I can't bring myself to pay $6 just to get all of them. I don't know why they have to charge so much money for something that essentially does nothing. God, the DLC for this game is worse than Pain, which charges you a $1 just to get additional characters. If they're gonna charge this much for these things, they should give you some additional content, like objects you can use in your own levels (the only thing that's done that so far is the God of War pre-order bonus DLC, and it was free).

And in other news, I keep hearing mid-December for the online co-op level creation patch, so hopefully it's up by next week at the latest. I still haven't really tried my hand at the level creation though (been too busy with school and stuff), so maybe this will motivate me.

Yeah, I dig the costumes and the Street Fighter ones are pretty awesome, but there's no way I'm paying for those, certainly not the kind of money they're asking for. If it was like £1 for all of them, sure why not, even though they do nothing, but when you're getting into the £4-6 range, fuck that.

Some pretty big updates today, MGS Costume Pack and Premium Level Pack coming next week, and a couple of patches have been released.

In regards to the MGS stuff, I have to say THANK GOD they finally made some DLC worth buying. Not the costume pack, of course (still not paying $6 for a bunch of costumes, Metal Gear or not), but the premium level pack. You actually get a costume (Gurlokovich Soldier, which actually looks more awesome to me than all of the stuff in the MGS costume pack except maybe Meryl), a bunch of level creation stuff (including some music tracks and some kind of paintball gun thingy that looks pretty cool), and probably best of all, 5 new story mode levels (and one challenge level). All this comes complete with 12 new trophies, all for just $6, which is a way better way of spending $6 on this game than the costume packs have been. Definitely buying this shit day one.

The patches, on the other hand, seemed to be more on the technical side, fixing things such as moderation issues, the 'Wheel of Death' glitch, and improving the search feature and peripheral support. The only real change most people are gonna see is the new in-game store, which lets you buy things from inside the store instead of having to exit out to the PS Store. Pretty good stuff, but since nothing was mentioned about the online co-op level creation, I guess that ain't happening until next year now (a shame, but with all this other new stuff they're adding I'll give them a pass for now).

The paintball stuff is fairly interesting, will be cool to see how that plays out and how people will be able to utilise it in their own level creations. I know I've seen quite a few requests for some way of shooting, and a paintball gun seems like the perfect solution of adding a 'weapon' to the world of LBP without making it all about violence and what-not.

And yeah, one thing I'm not liking is how expensive the costume packs are. I really dig the Street Fighter costumes, but £5 for them is a fucking joke. If it was £1 for the pack, then sure, why not, but £5, fuck off.

I agree with the price of costumes. I've not bought a costume and will refuse to, unless it is completely un-avoidable awesome (Sephiroth). That t-shirt you could buy in the first week? Hah...

The MGS pack is very cool, though. I hope that publishers will get the idea of promoting future games with some new levels and stuff for LBP. Uncharted 2 and Killzone 2 seems like obvious additions.
And though I can't make an interesting level, even if my life depended on it, I'll still have fun messing with the gun and stuff.

(Hopefully the music tracks include Crying to the Night. CRYYYYING TO THE NIIIIIGHT!)

For me, it depends on the costume set. I simply could not resist the premise of a wrapping paper sackboy along with Christmas themed creation components. On the other hand, Loco Roco costumes and $3 for stuff like the penguin costume are easy passes.

I was also just wondering if levels can give costume parts as prizes, seeing as how I saw this one level that gave you a tank after you completed it as a community item or something. I missed the turkey head, so I made sure to get both halves of the Santa Costume before they expire on the PSN store.

If you haven't yet, I strongly suggest checking out the trailer for the LBP MGS Pack: Gametrailers.com - LittleBigPlanet - Metal Gear Solid 4 Content Pack Trailer HD

Looks likes some cool additions. I'll definitely be picking that pack up me thinks.

If they released more packs like mgs then I would be tempted to buy them all. Unlike the costume packs which are nothing but show.
I just hope they're not like 15 dollars or something like that

Well the MGS pack is only $6, so I imagine that's gonna be the standard now. I guess they could vary based on how much content is actually in the pack, but I can't really see anything going as high as $15 (though maybe if they had a bundle like the MGS costume pack and level pack together for $10, I could see that being doable).

Wait. Is there a release date for the MGS pack or is that still up in the air?

Nevermind, apparently it's out now. Time to go spend even more money in the PSN Store after buying Lumines.