Thursday 2 May 2013

Upping the difficulty setting

So... I have become a mom! I don't know quite how to describe it other than it feels like I won life at the easy setting and started over on the highest difficulty. Or maybe like I found some crazy bonus level where you have to change as many diapers as you can before your lackofsleepometer is full.

Let me say it like this. This new game resembles the old one, but the gameplay has been drastically changed. And I am not talking about a crappy update like SWG:NGE, I am talking about a full blown remake where the core of the game is the same, but a ton of new features has been added to increase complexity, but also the fun factor.

If life had patch notes the ones for "life with Baby" might look like this:

  • New Special Class: Dad - Players can now choose to play the Dad class. You will have to level your current character to at least 18 before unlocking this. When picking the Dad class your character will retain its former class, but be a Dad in addition. Note that any skills, abilities or debuffs pertaining to the Dad class will always overrule those of your other class. Can only be chosen by male players.
  • New Special Class: Mom - Players can now choose to play the Mom class. You will have to level your current character to at least 18 before unlocking this. When picking the Mom class your character will retain its former class, but be a Mom in addition. Note that any skills, abilities or debuffs pertaining to the Mom class will always overrule those of your other class. Can only be chosen by female players.
  • Sleep feature has been removed from the Mom and Dad classes and replaced with the ability to powernap whereever, whenever.
  • New Skill: Zombie Mode - When activated allows the user to function on 2 hours of interrupted rest.
  • New Skill: Diaper Changing - Gives the ability to change diapers. Raising this skill lowers the chance of ending up with the smelly debuff. 
  • Skill in one handed proficiency can now be raised to 500 instead of 100
  • Crafting: New recipe for milk has been added. It can only be obtained by female players.
  • Grouping for Parties now requires all members of the group to be level 18 plus.
  • New Group content has been added for groups with characters below level 18: Mothergroups, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Swimming. 
  • Known Bug: Some players have managed to choose the Dad/Mom class before level 18. This is being looked into by the Game Masters.  
  • New Daily Quests has been added - Change 8 diapers - Reward 1 hour of uninterrupted powernap. Feed the baby 10 times - Reward2 scoops of still warm food.
  • New Achievement: GugguGagga - Babble along with your baby.
  • New Achievement: Evil Genius - Get pooped on by your baby while changing diapers.
  • New Achievement: The Circle of Life - alter between diaper changing, feeding, soothing and dosing off for a week. 
While the new gameplay at the moment is hectic, a bit on the repetitative side and frankly quite frustrating at times, it is also incredibly rewarding and I would rate "Life with Baby" 10 out of 10.

Feel free to add your own ideas for patch notes in the comments below. :)

2 comments:

  1. Achievement: Giving Birth - simply that itself is an achievement!!

    I laughed a lot when reading this!!!

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  2. Heh true! Giving birth is only for the truly hardcore ;)

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