What is SOCOM Nation? Devoted players share their stories.
December 22, 2008 - Veteran SOCOM players don't refer to themselves as being
part of a nation, but it's an affectionate term used to designate the loyal
following the series has developed over the last seven years. The franchise
started out on the PlayStation 2 console (four installments) and eventually
branched out to the PlayStation Portable (three installments) before
arriving on the PlayStation 3 for the first time with the recently released
SOCOM: Confrontation.
With the help of PlayStation community managers, we tracked down three
longtime players for a glimpse into this world:
Eric from Poplar Grove, Illinois; John from Pueblo, Colorado; and Josh from Fayetteville, Arkansas.
They shouldn't have released Home before the
SOCOM 1.30 patch...
"Home" Video 1:
"Home" Video 2:
That's what happens
when RMD has too much time on their hands
Wednesday
November 26, 2008
1200
EST
SOCOM 1.30 Update
Hello,
A quick status update on the SOCOM: Confrontation 1.30 Update.
We are still working through all of the SOCOM Awards and Trophy issues. This
is a big addition to the game and takes a significant time to test, fix
issues and test again. The trophies take a long time to collect so the
iteration on bug fixes takes a while to verify. We are getting close and
hope to have a final master candidate to submit to Format QA soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to provide a glimpse of some of the new features
you will see in the 1.30 update. We'll be showing these over the next week,
so please stay tuned.
First up, the transparent scoreboard. We took feedback from the SOCOM
Community that you would like to see the scoreboard be transparent and to be
able to continue to move while it is displayed. We've added this
functionality so that if you hold down the select button the scoreboard will
be displayed on screen, it is transparent and you can continue to move. It
works in the same way as previous SOCOM games.
-Seth Luisi
Here are some of the
items planned for the update. Please note that some items listed may be
delayed to a following update if additional development is required beyond
what our schedule for the 1.30 update allows. This should not be considered
a guarantee that these items will be in the 1.30 update, but we did want to
give everyone a heads up as to what is on our plate currently.
New Features
SOCOM Awards and PSN
Trophies
DTS audio support
Add HUD and scoreboard opacity
Scoreboard invocation
improvements (tap select for persistent scoreboard, hold for temporary)
Spectator mode HUD
turns off after brief interval
Spectator camera look
now respects user invert on/off settings
Spectator camera pan
now consistent with in game camera
Add dive-to-prone
Add lean control to
d-pad
Gear items stackable
Extend post-round
period
Restrict RPGs and
grenade launchers in ranked rooms
Increase prone
movement speed
Adding support for
lefty control configuration (analog stick functions swapped)
Increase frag grenade
effectiveness
Prevent incorrect
reload interruptions
Bug Fixes
Fix animation issue
when prone rolling near certain objects.
Fix remaining issues
with statistics gathering and display
Fix bugs related to
equipping of C4 in breach mode
Fix occasional audio
drop outs
Fix last remaining
framerate hitch when other clients late join
Fix remaining
stability issues
Fix hostages being
affected by smoke
Of course there will
also be many additional smaller fixes included in the patch. Please watch
this spot for updates as the patch moves through development and into
QA/verification/deployment.
We are also hard at work on an additional patch which will include the
remaining community support features. The design and art teams are
also making great progress on new content-based on some of the posts in the
forums, many of you will be very happy with what is coming down the pipe.
Monday
October
13, 2008
1800
EDT
*NEW* SOCOM Confrontation Trailer
Thursday
October
9, 2008
1700
EDT
Confrontation's Desert Glory Flythrough
Wednesday
October
1, 2008
0800 EDT
Recognize My Disease Special
Operations is Full
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