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Sony Finally Commenting on SOCOM Fix Status

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Sony has finally updated the status of the SOCOM: Confrontation patches many are eagerly waiting for. They comment on both server and client-side program fixes and where they are at the moment.
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Beast_Master - 427 days 2 hours ago
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1 - Hopefully
This is a blessing in disguise, when you consider Sony is planing to release MAG and two MMOs next year they need to learn how to get servers to support their future plans.
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chaosatom - 426 days 23 hours ago
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1.1 - "We have a team of close to 100 people working to get the issues resolved."
Wow. Sony is really dedicated to solving the Problem. That's 4 times the team of LittlebigPlanet.

btw, The servers for Resistance 2, 60 player match or any other kind of match ran fantastically.

But I was having trouble doing the rank matches sometimes in competitive.
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Some_One_Plays - 426 days 23 hours ago
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1.2 - Beast_Master
All persistent online games have some sort of traffic with their initial launch. World of Warcraft had to stop selling the game because it was getting too crowed 40+ servers filled.
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walker01 - 426 days 23 hours ago
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1.3 - it must be
something to do with the game, the servers cant be this hard to fix, especcially with 100 PEOPLE!!
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BattleAxe - 426 days 21 hours ago
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It will be nice to get this stuff fixed, then we might see some great reviews come out for this game. It seems like its only been the clown sites that have released reviews for this game so far.
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ryuzu - 427 days 2 hours ago
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2 - Welll.....
Just like counterstrike, yes, SOCOM can turn into a campfest if the team is broken - just needs one or two lone wolves, the team starts to fail, and everyone starts to sit back and not try to achieve the objective and then they lose.

Either way, the team that functions better wins (for the most part) in this game and a big part of that is the excellent sound/chat modelling that is unique to SOCOM.

As it is, while there are known problems, personally I play every day - I get into a game quickly (always the first game I go to - maybe I'm just lucky), play for as long as I like, have fun, lolz, win, lose blah blah and it's all good. Why do other people get their problems - I don't know but I don't and it seems neither have all the people I've played with (at random) over the last few weeks.

Meanwhile the missing features are indeed missing and everyone would prefer they were there (I'm talking about better friend support for example), but I don't think that stops SOCOM being at its core a good game. If it can be patched to better level then great, as it stands I think anyone interested in team oriented shooters should take a look.

And if you've never played Counterstrike - then SOCOM is a no brainer if for no other reason than to get an idea of why CS is/was so popular.

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socalr6 - 427 days 1 hour ago
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3 - 3rd person too?
I never played CS. Was it 3rd person or 1st?
I wish SONY gave you the option of using L1 for ADS (scope zoom in). And what's with the optics taking up the whole screen? Makes the AIMPOINT, EOTECH and ACOG useless. In real life the ACOG and obviously the other two use the BIDON aiming method (both eyes open) so you should still be able to see around the optics. This is annoying. Do good players just avoid using the optics all together and stay in 3rd person view all the time? (except snipers)
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Panthers - 426 days 23 hours ago
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All Socom was 3rd person. That is the main reason it is so popular (also the no respawn) The reason scoping in is not L1 is because you have different zoom options including Over The Shoulder view. Once you get used to it, it becomes really easy.

You have to remember that this isnt like COD4. You dont have to scope in to have good accuracy. In fact, it is easier not to most of the time.

Good players use the optics only to hit distant targets, usually snipers. In gun fights, you should never use the scopes because you can shoot accurate without them.

EDIT: I read your first question wrong. Counter Srike was 1st person.
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OOG - 426 days 21 hours ago
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Counterstrike is like a pc fps gamers crack.....and its still good after many years
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omimasum - 426 days 23 hours ago
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this game is underrated
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Danja - 426 days 22 hours ago
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I agree but you know how it goes on the net once sumthing bad is said about an exclsuive game in general the problem is exaggerrated 1 millions times bigger than it is which makes the game seem like it sucks..

But when the servers work the game is phenomenal dats all I can say
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Panthers - 426 days 23 hours ago
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I am loving it when I am playing. I hope they fix the servers soon.
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ElementX - 426 days 21 hours ago
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Too late. I canceled my preorder and I'm not going to buy this game.
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