Socom: Confrontation Beta

[Jules]

Anyone playing? Just started last night and its pretty good.

 

[dwell]

Downloaded. Have yet to play.

 

[purbeast0]

well i can't really comment much on the gameplay, but so far the beta is awful.

first time i tried, i tried for like 25 minutes to get into a game. the menu interface is terrible. it's way too sensitive. if you press LEFT on the dpad, the cursor goes LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT.

then when you make changes in the options and save, it keeps you in that options screen, then you have to press circle to back out. it's just so stupidly thought out.

then once i finally DID get into a game, i saw a spinning yellow circle for like 25 mins then it said "cannot connect to server" so i just turned it off and almost deleted it.

then last night i finally got in a game but it was just my friend and i 1 on 1, we just wanted to see what it looked like. graphics are preetty ugly and i thought i saw my friend like 10 times cause of the aliasing in the distance, but it was nothing. it almost felt like a third person cod4, but it was missing everything that made cod4 fun.

after that pointless 1v1 we tried to get into a big match w/24 people. after seeing the spinning yellow circle for 15 minutes, i just gave up and shut it down.

im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

LOL...it's a Beta. They've already released a patch to address server load issues and have more patches planned to address the other issues.

Now if the game sucked at the end of the beta, I could see making a decision like that. But not after the first week.

 

[mugs]

Anyone have an extra beta invite? They let you invite a couple of friends, right? I've been looking forward to SOCOM, but I didn't even bother trying to get into the beta because I haven't played enough games on PSN to have a shot at getting in.

 

[blurredvision]

I've always hated the SOCOM series and never understood it's appeal. Hope everyone enjoys it, though.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I've always hated the SOCOM series and never understood it's appeal. Hope everyone enjoys it, though.

I liked the first one enough. But it was probably the gimmick of using voice commands that got me when I was young.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: purbeast0
im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

LOL...it's a Beta. They've already released a patch to address server load issues and have more patches planned to address the other issues.

Now if the game sucked at the end of the beta, I could see making a decision like that. But not after the first week.

Yeah, seriously. I don't see what else you expect out of a freshly released beta. You're being silly.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: purbeast0
im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

LOL...it's a Beta. They've already released a patch to address server load issues and have more patches planned to address the other issues.

Now if the game sucked at the end of the beta, I could see making a decision like that. But not after the first week.

well i've had the beta since day 1, and i've played it AFTER the patch, and if I hadn't known any better, I woulda had no clue there was a patch.

the whackest thing is that playing this after the cod4 beta is just laughable.

 

[dwell]

Totally sucks. Had to go through about six menus to get to a match and then my PS3 rebooted. This beta just does not work. CoD4 I go from booting up to playing a match in 30 seconds. This takes SOOOO long. Terrible. To think I bought Qore for this POS.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: purbeast0
im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

LOL...it's a Beta. They've already released a patch to address server load issues and have more patches planned to address the other issues.

Now if the game sucked at the end of the beta, I could see making a decision like that. But not after the first week.

Yeah, seriously. I don't see what else you expect out of a freshly released beta. You're being silly.

Apparently he expected a beta quality product, and he got an alpha quality product.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: purbeast0
im definitely not getting this game when it comes out.

LOL...it's a Beta. They've already released a patch to address server load issues and have more patches planned to address the other issues.

Now if the game sucked at the end of the beta, I could see making a decision like that. But not after the first week.

Yeah, seriously. I don't see what else you expect out of a freshly released beta. You're being silly.

Apparently he expected a beta quality product, and he got an alpha quality product.

Ok, well he did mention that he played post-patched, but based on Queasy's post, I assumed he hadn't.

In that case, that is retarded. Hopefully they can get it sorted out before release. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: mugs
Apparently he expected a beta quality product, and he got an alpha quality product.

Ok, well he did mention that he played post-patched, but based on Queasy's post, I assumed he hadn't.

In that case, that is retarded. Hopefully they can get it sorted out before release. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

The patch that has come out was a patch for the server-side of things. The dev team has said that an upcoming patch will update the client-side.

I know it's disappointing, especially compared to the Halo 3 and COD4 betas, but it is still a beta. I've played betas that were basically unplayable at release. Some improved and ended up being good games and I remember one where the final game was so bad it was recalled a couple of weeks after release and another version of the game was never released again.

I think the biggest concern is that they don't have much time before the expected release date of 10/14. They've obviously got a lot of stuff to fix in a short period of time or else they are going to have to push the date back (or release it with a patch).

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I know there might be no point, but anyone have a spare Beta Code?