A new patch for Slant Six's tactical shooter SOCOM: Confrontation is now available for download. The update brings fixes for spawning and kicking issues, along with bandwidth optimizations to improve online play.
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Socom patch 1.41 is released with a 529MB download. From stability, adjusting frags, and helping with quick matches. I just downloaded and played through a few rounds. Seems everything is running a-ok. A good thing that I really like is you can find your friends a whole lot better on the XMB. Now shows what Medley (1,2, or 3). You can now switch sides in quick matches. Hurray! See Socom.com for more details. Now available to download, after starting the game.
Earlier this week we performed a server update. This was the final step in fixing the latency (lag) issue some players were experiencing (Medley games being created on non native servers) - We have verified that this issue is now fixed.
We've identified a server side issue which is causing some default games (Medley games) to be created on the Japanese and Asian servers for North American players and vice versa. When this happens, players experience higher than normal latency as they are playing on servers which are not located locally. This issue was recently made worse when the number of North American hosted servers was reduced.
Socom.com writes: "This is a quick view into some of our plans for SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, answers to some of your questions and confirmation of our commitment and continued support of the title.
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GamersDigest have received confirmation from the European Producer that SOCOM: Confrontation has been approved for release in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.
From source: Hello SOCOM fans!
From article: An inside source (and very credible one) has filled us in with some great news for SOCOM: Confrontation players. There's suppose to be new downloadable content coming out for Confrontation which includes five new maps, three of which are new to Confrontation and two that are totally new to the SOCOM series. And that's not all.
Fans eagerly awaiting for SOCOM: Confrontation's already-delayed-as-it-is release in Europe next month may get burned even more. Now, reports are coming in that UK retailer GAME is sending out emails about a delay.
GamersDigest writes;
Eurogamer writes: "Sony has told Eurogamer that SOCOM Confrontation has still to be given a European date, despite the US version launching as long ago as October.
The official SOCOM site has revealed that the 1.30 update has been approved and should have gone live at around 10am this morning.
Seth Luisi writes "The news you have all been waiting for. The SOCOM: Confrontation 1.30 update has been approved and will be released tomorrow, January 9th, at about 5am EST (2am PST, 1000 UTC/GMT, 1900 JST/KST). The SOCOM: Confrontation server will be down for 1 to 2 hours at that time in order to update the server for the new update. Everything should be back up and running at about 7am EST (4am PST, 1200 UTC/GMT, 2100 JST/KST).
According to a Sony Europe PSN release schedule obtained by videogaming247.com, SOCOM Confrontation will be available to download from PlayStation Network on the 5th of February.