SOCOM Confrontation Marching Out on September 16

[M.TYSON]

We've brought you several big stories on SOCOM Confrontation in the past month, but today Sony passed on one more important piece of information: a release date. The latest iteration of the popular online shooter franchise will be arriving on September 16.

To celebrate this news, tomorrow Sony will be launching SOCOM.com, an online community site devoted to the game. Pre-release, the site will provide regular news updates as well as a place for fans to get together. Once the game has launched, gamers will discover full integration with the website, including near real-time stat tracking, clan management tools, and more.

You can check out 1UP's most recent online preview of SOCOM from the beginning of the year, but if you want a more up-to-date and in-depth look at the game, you'll want to pick up the May issue of EGM -- the one with the colorful SOCOM cover below. Check it out on newsstands next week or in your mailbox any day now if you're a subscriber.

[MR>ORANGE]

awesome thanks for the info Tyson!!

You still getting GT? so i can woop your ass at that?

[Rob4x4]

Pretty gay!!!!!!!!!

[M.TYSON]

yessir bring it on bitch!!!!!!!!

[MR>ORANGE]

heres some info from the EGM article

"you can no longer set up a match exactly defined to your teams exact strenghts and creat a honeypot to raise your clan ranking. for you clan to have a global ranking you now have to be a rounded team with good strategies for dealing with all the maps. Now , you can build all the custom games you want - the room system is still there, which i know is really important to socom fans. you can do all your clan tryouts and training in those rooms. and even playing within those games aggregates differet stats, because we track a lot of information about the player. but it doesn't directly go into the global clan ladder" (NO RANK UP)

crossroads (ps3) has an extra outer ring that the ps2 didn't have. There are two towers now.
Confrontation is 32 players but you can make smaller maps for 16 players total.
Tilt with the sixaxis can be tweaked for sensitivity
there will be 7 maps total at launch. All maps will be based in North Africa
there are exploding barrels and cars.
there is an underground map that has a collapse part triggered by the enemy
View distance is big, so no more fog like socom2
Clan support will be available on socom.com where the leader can change their clan, add players etc.

Audio has changed. Sounds around a corner sound muffled.
oh! there is now a run/sprint mode. You can run/sprint but you cant shoot and your gun will not be accurate after running. so basically just use this too avoid snipers.
ranked matches are automated. if you wanna set up your own room with specifics (no grenades, etc) it wont be ranked. this stops cheaters and rank ups.

your clan can talk via open chat, but you can L2 to chat to everyone on your team. Or if you have proximity chat then you chat with who ever is around you. They are planning on having a new headset for socom. The printing of EGM sucks so screenshots dont look sharp or nice colors. i would wait for screenshots on your computer to judge. They are bringing back a new game mode. "elimination " its like socom 2. kill the whole other team or take a draw

[FOURTYoz2FREEDOM]

good job orange and tyson. Nerds!

[MR>ORANGE]

np 40 haha...


yeah i guess sony's making their own ingame clan ladder.. im wonder how thats going to work out in the long run.

[ExXz]

i dont even give a shit about all this bullshit with socom. I know its all cool new stuff for socom. But going back to socom 1. All i ever wanted was just maybe some new weapons, fix the cheating and glitching and maybe a new map once in a while. instead they came out with socom 2 and shitty hit detection and then these huge maps and vehicles and too much camping in 3 and ca. I still fell the same way. Just give us 1 or 2 with the right hit detection some new weapons and a new map once in a while. Fuck all this dumb shit that we dont need or care about. Fuckin proximity chat? fuck that. dumb as hell

and this other shit i was also worried about. the run sprint shit. just like cod and everything else. if you sprint your gun wont be as accurate and blah blah blah. i know ppl want realism but socom was about just killin dudes and not having to worry about that shit. Its gonna be just like COD4 but in third person. Which cod is great but its no socom and the graphics make that game ten times better.

[M.TYSON]

shiit cod4 in 3rd person sounds good to me..lol nah i hear u about the realism shit and i think thats where they fucked s3 up at. I dont mind the wait at all, atleast now i can enjoy my summer more and not be worryin about playin socom..lol

[AgentFox]

i was hoping it would come out this summer =/

[MR>ORANGE]

same here but now I can sorta enjoy my summer alittle more lol

[iNSaNeHuNTeR]

s2 >....