Who's Playing SOCOM Confrontation? - Overclock.net

ElMikeTheMike · 10-18-08

SOCOM Confrontation Players and Future Clan Organizing Thread (SCP&FCOT)

Discuss SOCOM, post your user name, and etc.

OCNers playing:
Rolandooor1
RoddimusPrime
cukiesmonster
dillard13
elmikethemike
stanrc
Sikkamore
Majerek
Sikkamore
Snoozey
Assassin48
jskeezy84
DominAzn

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SOCOM: Confrontation Update October 20th, 2008
Posted by Seth Luisi
Hello,

I wanted to keep everyone up to date on where we are and what we are doing.

The consumer response to SOCOM: Confrontation has been huge. We are consistently seeing almost 100,000 people log in everyday with peaks of 25,000 simultaneous users. On average, you are playing about 3.1 hours per person with a total of 300,000 player hours everyday. I would like to thank all of you for helping to make SOCOM: Confrontation such a great success.

As I'm sure many of you are aware, the launch has not gone without its share of problems. Unfortunately, the server environment is not holding up during peak loads. We've made many changes and improvements to the server to improve the issues (the first few days were really rocky) but we are still seeing server issues when we get up to around 25,000 simultaneous players during peak hours. Our primary focus at this time is to resolve these server issues. We have all available resources looking into the issues and we are trying to resolve them as quickly as possible. It is not as easy as adding more servers, we have to identify and fix the bottlenecks in the system which are preventing the servers from scaling properly. The servers should continue to get progressively better as we roll out server side updates.

As a reminder, our scheduled daily server maintenance is between 5am and 8am PDT (8am to 11am EDT). We bring the servers down during this time to roll out updates. The servers will usually only be down for about 20-30 minutes but some updates may take longer.

In parallel to the server updates, we are also working on a new client patch which resolves some client side stability issues. These issues include getting booted to the XMB, large number of players getting disconnected from a specific game and other issues. We've been working on and testing this since the game launched and we should have a final version ready for release in the next week or so. It is hard to provide an exact date or timeframe as we need to make sure the patch is thoroughly tested and does not introduce any new issues.

We are also working on a patch to enable trophies and address various user feedback but this will be after the stability patch. Our top priority is getting both the servers and client as stable as possible before making any changes which could possibly cause other issues. Please continue to provide feedback in the SOCOM: Confrontation PlayStation.com forum. We do read it and use the feedback to make further changes and tweaks in future updates.

Regards,

Seth Luisi
Director of Development
Sony Computer Entertainment America
www.socom.com

NCspecV81 · 10-18-08

is this the new socom for ps3? I wouldn't mind trying it out.

ElMikeTheMike · 10-18-08

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Originally Posted by NCspecV81

is this the new socom for ps3?

Yep.

Cukies · 10-18-08

ill play.

Dillard13 · 10-18-08

I've got it.

It's awesome.

Been playing with one friend for the past few days.

Need someone else to play with during the day, he gets off of work really late.

As for the game. I love it personally. It's only online, no campaign, which is a real downer for me. I always loved the campaigns. The game is very smooth, not too much lag, except for when you're navigating the menus very quickly for customizing your guy.

Actual gameplay, one thing I love: a headshot is a headshot, period end of story. Silencers come in handy more than you think. The weapon selection could be better. I find that more people = more fun, unless it's organized with a bunch of people you know. The knife can be iffy a lot of times as to whether it will kill the person, maybe it takes more than one hit to kill? I don't know, I haven't been knifed yet. No hold breath button when sniping, the scope can be very shaky. There are a lot of gun and character customization options, and there are a lot of maps, so far I haven't played the same map twice.

That's what I can think of right now. Any specific questions.

NCspecV81 · 10-18-08

when did this come out? if it's good I'll go and buy it at wally world!

To gametrialers.com I go! let's check this out. I loved the older socoms, especially the fireteam bravo on psp. I used to play that in my bed ******* to...I mean going to sleep! and on the pooper!

Cukies · 10-18-08

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Originally Posted by NCspecV81

when did this come out? if it's good I'll go and buy it at wally world!

It came out on the 15. You can buy it on the PSN store

ElMikeTheMike · 10-18-08

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Originally Posted by Dillard13

I've got it.

It's awesome.

Been playing with one friend for the past few days.

Need someone else to play with during the day, he gets off of work really late.

As for the game. I love it personally. It's only online, no campaign, which is a real downer for me. I always loved the campaigns. The game is very smooth, not too much lag, except for when you're navigating the menus very quickly for customizing your guy.

Actual gameplay, one thing I love: a headshot is a headshot, period end of story. Silencers come in handy more than you think. The weapon selection could be better. I find that more people = more fun, unless it's organized with a bunch of people you know. The knife can be iffy a lot of times as to whether it will kill the person, maybe it takes more than one hit to kill? I don't know, I haven't been knifed yet. No hold breath button when sniping, the scope can be very shaky. There are a lot of gun and character customization options, and there are a lot of maps, so far I haven't played the same map twice.

That's what I can think of right now. Any specific questions.

Sweet, I'm installing it now and I need to update the firmware and I'll be on there.

What classic maps did they keep from like SOCOM 2?

NCspecV81 · 10-18-08

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Originally Posted by Cukies

It came out on the 15. You can buy it on the PSN store

oh just download it? sweet I may do that since I'm kinda lazy today! gonna check out the reviews and gameplay first.

Dillard13 · 10-18-08

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Originally Posted by ElMikeTheMike

Sweet, I'm installing it now and I need to update the firmware and I'll be on there.

What classic maps did they keep from like SOCOM 2?

Couldn't tell you exactly which maps.

I never really got into SOCOM 2 that much online.

One that seemed familiar was the Oil Rig though, at night.

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NCspecV81 DO NOT GIVE ME REP!!!!!!! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 5,952 Rep: 477 Unique Rep: 303 Trader Rating: 33	when did this come out? if it's good I'll go and buy it at wally world! To gametrialers.com I go! let's check this out. I loved the older socoms, especially the fireteam bravo on psp. I used to play that in my bed ******* to...I mean going to sleep! and on the pooper! __________________ want to play l4d1 maps on your shiny new l4d2 game? PM me for details! Last edited by NCspecV81 : 10-18-08 at 05:00 PM

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