Beta is over. Prepare yourself for next week.

Hope you all enjoyed the beta. The final game is a few days away.

In the meantime I will be enjoying Thanksgiving here in Canada while working on a pile of College projects.

And sometime the week of Oct 20th I will be recording a podcast with Hellman with each of our reviews of Confrontation, so look for that.

Desert Glory fly-through video on the PSN Store

And its looks incredible.

Go check it out.

Patch 1.60 is live

It's up! Go get it.

I'm busy this morning. I'll be back with my impressions as soon as I get some time with it.

EDIT:

So far so good for me. I hear some people are having issues with freezing, but I'm having no problems. At least not yet.

Patch 1.60 on the way

As per Abigale's post on the Playstation.com message boards:

Hi, Folks-

I want to first thank you again for helping us find the bugs in this Beta. It's impossible to know how things are going to go until we have a large number of people online and playing, no matter how much testing we do internally. I know these last couple of days have been difficult, but take heart in knowing that you all helped us find some issues that now will not be there when the game launches on the 14th!

I have already told you we are working to fix these issues. We are testing a new patch and hope it will be ready for release by tomorrow (Thursday) morning. We'll keep you informed and let you know more details about that soon, on SOCOM.com. But I also wanted to tell you that we will be extending the Beta just a little longer. Instead of ending on Thursday, it will be going on until Saturday night at midnight PDT. So you will have just a little while longer to help us test things out before release.

Thanks again for being willing to play our unfinished product in order to help us find what needed fixed. I hope you enjoy the full game when it is released! :)

And don't forget, the final game is only a week away.

Beta Patch 1.50 hits...and falls flat on it's face

The 1.50 patch for the beta hit this morning and I just had a chance to hop on and play with it myself. Anyone else getting constant error messages popping up in the lobby? I wasn't even able to get into a game because it wouldn't start, and then would kick me and a bunch of other people out to the briefing room lobby.

I try to be as optimistic as possible, but if this is the latest build of their netcode, then I can't hold out much hope for October 14th. And the match-making/party system is not even in the beta test. I'd be surprised if that works flawlessly without any prior, mass public beta, testing.

Cross your fingers.

PSN version hits 2 days late

According to a comment by Seth Luisi of Sony on the SOCOM.com blog,

Unfortunately, the PSN version will not be released until Thursday, October 16th...

This is unlike Warhawk which was released the same day on PSN as the retail version. So just a heads up for anyone that was going to download it, you'll have to wait a bit longer.

Beta extended to October 9th

All info here.

Weird to think the final game is only 11 days away.