Alright, I have played the game myself for 5+ hours. Here are some things I have noticed.
IMPROVEMENTS
- No Roll & Jump
- Snipers Rifles 1 Shot Kill
- D.E. like in previous SOCOMs.
- Quick Select - Assign your weapons for quick select.
- Medium Scope is Awesome
- Reloading (No Interuptions)
- 60% G^ to launch. No waste of time.
- Gameplay is faster and smoother.
- No Black Fog
- Automatic Pop-Up Messages
- Game Details (Day or Night)
- Voting, People getting voted cant see the votes.
- Headsets are louder and through TV Speakers
- Frostfire, you can shoot through the netting.
- Footsteps can be heard if enemy is close.
- Ladder Climbing sound is low.
- Hostages Run/Follow smoothly.
- Hit Detection has improved, kinda S1 style.
- Planting Bomb in prone position.
- FAMAS dumbed down but it needs more tweeking.
- Glitchers die if they break into a glitch area.
- Claymores, Kill. You can plant them individually by switching to detonator with "O" Circle.
- Lag, There has been minimal lag if any. Impressive compared to amount of people on and downloadings.
- Prone and Plant, pretty usefull.
- Grenades follow the arc more.
- Grenades, while the arc is out you can push L1 and switch to Grenades.
PET PEEVES
- Loading into the game is long.
- Room dosn't start sometimes if the host dosn't leave.
- Quick Select is not permanent, you have to set it up for each map.
- Switching Sides has become difficult.
- Demolition has become useless.
- When you're dead, you cant push/hold select to view scoreboard. Its just push/push.
- Still cannot delete "ALL" messages at once.
NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS
- UCRR.
- No ODD Rounds.
- Prone is still slow.
- Cannot lean in prone.
- Cannot shoot over railings.
- Run button still gets stuck.
- Invisible fence in UW still there.
- Grenades still inconsistant.
- Join friends is broken.
- Mics go in and out, sometimes choppy.
- Quick Match still broken.
- Clan Ladders, need to be able to schedule instant wars. Also should not be limited by rank.
- Radar, simply put we don't want it. Take it completely off, hoggin up the screen for no reason.
- Complete Custom Controls (Including "X")
1.5 GLITCHES & ISSUES
- Satchel appears in mid air and cannot be picked up.
- Invisible Guns
- Heavy Machine Guns and F90, I've noticed lose sound if you hold onto R1 for the whole clip.
- Match Making system is still broken.
- Cannot switch teams in lobby without the annoying "SELECT" & "O"
- Run Button still gets stuck.
MAP CHANGES
- Quarantine (Escort) no water in the middle.
- Kasbah - Terrorist bomb plant window has been lowered you can shoot out and in.
DLC
Maps
Factions
Weapons
CONCLUSION
So far this patch has fixed a lot of things, but there are still few issues that need to be taken care of. I'm happy with the current state of the game. With more DLC this game will become HHUUUGGEE. Right now I just hope Sony & Slant Six keep supporting this game. They don't need to make a new SOCOM Game. All they need to do is stick to their word on fixing the rest of the issues and keep coming out with DLC every 3 months. This game NOW has huge potential.
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