New features seen in MM video!

From over at at http://www.littlebigplanetoid.com/news

• Radius setting added to magnetic keys

Very handy! This is going to expand the usefulness of magnetic keys quite a bit.

• Current track bubble added to audio objects

A small but nice touch. Bring on more music!

• A new special object

This item first arrived in the MGS4 Story mode levels, and we reported back then that it was not yet available in create mode. We’re pretty certain that this controls lighting levels, allowing for much more atmosphere throughout a level. If you’ve played the MGS Level Pack levels, you’ll have noticed this little tool on screen whenever you enter a section which changes atmosphere using light.

• Infinite lives checkpoint

Nice! This could come in handy for survival challenge levels infact. You could provide infinite lives during a timed ‘training mode’ section, for example.

• Character enhancement system changes

From left to right: Jetpack, unknown item, Jetpack again?, Paintinator. Number 2 appears to be a ‘removal’ tool, walk past it to remove any power ups? Not sure what number 3 is though, perhaps a brand new powerup? We can only speculate, but it looks that way to us.


Media Molecule yesterday announced patch details, with the next patch (Edam) being a bug fixing patch. So that means these features are most likely going to be with us after that, in Cornish Yarg, which is just entering the testing phase. With Mm saying it will have a 6-8 week testing cycle, these features could be with us between March 1st and 16th.

I'd speculate the other power up that looks like a jetpack is perhaps a jetpack without a tether. That way if you want to make a level (like Azure Palace for example) where sackboy is always flying, you could just give him this at the beginning and he would never have to switch jetpacks along the way. Just an assumption here :p

Good eye by the way spotting all that!

Nice! I'm looking forward to all of these things. Nice spotting mate :3.

Cool! Love that they are constantly improving the game. I'm really looking forward to the ability to change the lighting.

Lol I was about to ask a stupid question like why would the second one be a powerup removal when you can get rid of it by pressing circle and I guess the answer would be if you wanted to force them to get rid of it during the level.

The X power up might be an invisibility power up? (ennemis can't see you and or you can't influence proximity switches?)

Maybe cloaking ala predator? (would let you pass through certain materials???)

**** I can't wait for those updates!!

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Originally Posted by LordCanti07

Lol I was about to ask a stupid question like why would the second one be a powerup removal when you can get rid of it by pressing circle and I guess the answer would be if you wanted to force them to get rid of it during the level.

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I'm not sure about this one, if you have the paint gun it is possible to force a player to get rid by forcing them to use a grab switch or jump over a big gap using a sponge swing.

With the jet pack you can force them to get rid of it using a fixed length tether (hmm, maybe it's because they're introducing a tether free jetpack - otherwise a level could be ruined) My only problem with this theory is the powerup looks like the player has to walk over it, if they have a jetpack they could just fly past it.

Maybe it has a trigger radius?

My bro says it could be double jump boots.

Why my bro doesn't just come here and say it himself is beyond me. Probably because he's watching cartoons or something.

Looking at it, a tetherless jetpack is probably my guess too.

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Originally Posted by KAPBAM

I'd speculate the other power up that looks like a jetpack is perhaps a jetpack without a tether. That way if you want to make a level (like Azure Palace for example) where sackboy is always flying, you could just give him this at the beginning and he would never have to switch jetpacks along the way. Just an assumption here :p

Good eye by the way spotting all that!

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I think this sounds like the most probably answer :)
I also would say it would be a jet pack that you can't take off until you fly past
the X one VVVVVVVV

Because I think the other X one is to get rid of the jet pack.

This would be good as I'm making a mini game at the moment and it uses the jet pack and I would have to have jet packs all over the place, encase people accidentally took the jet pack off.
So I just decided to only just on at the entrance and trust the player.
This version of the jet pack (if I'm right) would be much better for those sort of things too :)

Yay! I don't have to worry about making infinite checkpoint generators anymore!

Double jump boots or Sticky boots would be AWESOME.


Double Jump boots : You could double jump whenever you're wearing them.

Sticky : Would be able to walk on vertical surfaces and upside down in a certain zone or tagged material.
(would need an option windows for materials though)

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I think I might freaking cry. I want to marry all of Media Molecule.

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Originally Posted by RangerZero

Sticky : Would be able to walk on vertical surfaces and upside down in a certain zone or tagged material.
(would need an option windows for materials though)

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Tagged materials only defo. It would be kinda aimless losing all sense of gravity in a level when they spent so long making a gravity engine...
Or maybe magnet boots? and you make panels using the new "magnetic panel" material?
Who knows ;)

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Originally Posted by Pinchanzee

Tagged materials only defo. It would be kinda aimless losing all sense of gravity in a level when they spent so long making a gravity engine...
Or maybe magnet boots? and you make panels using the new "magnetic panel" material?
Who knows ;)

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That's exactly what he meant.

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Originally Posted by Pinchanzee

Tagged materials only defo. It would be kinda aimless losing all sense of gravity in a level when they spent so long making a gravity engine...
Or maybe magnet boots? and you make panels using the new "magnetic panel" material?
Who knows ;)

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Or just use metal! (Although I doubt any sort of boots upgrade is coming :p)

Infinity lives checkpoints will save a lot of space on the thermometer if this is to be implemented.:cool:

Yeah I just saw this over on LBL too... the new weather switch :D~... :D~~ @ deactivation switches, angular radiuses will make things so much more precise, and a more aesthetically pleasing and functional jetpack is great - it started looking so ugly and clunky just slapped onto the floor like that...

:D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @ infinite checkpoint

I can't wait to go in and make some replacements. Maybe now I can actually get some people finishing False Idols II.

I would theorize that the new jetpack might also be a combination of paintinator and jetpack in one... hmm? I hope so, as I could make a 1-4 player version of SEMINAL GEMINI, but I also hope not at the same time because it defeats the ingenious quality of the co-op level and means I'd have to restructure allmost all of it from the ground up ugh

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Yay! I don't have to worry about making infinite checkpoint generators anymore!

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Haha, I was thinking that when I saw it, too.

Love the radius thing on mag switches (although I don't understand why they can't be used for all switches) and the inifinite checkpoint in particular. Thanks for the info :)

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Originally Posted by donkey show

Yay! I don't have to worry about making infinite checkpoint generators anymore!

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mine don't even work right in my level :( *sob*

and they're needed, cause most people can't do the level without them D: