Socom 4 online?

[.-Stewie-.]

ok now i am sorry if this has alredy been discussed but i searched and couldnt find anything. If some of you think back to pre socom3, there was alot of greif over wether or not socom3 would cost to pay online. I have read that socom4 (aka Confrontation since CA was supposedly 4, though it was more of an x-pac) will be strictly online only, so my question is simply, has any one heard anything of socom4 being pay to play online?

[Bman900]

No, and I don't think they are going to change that.

[.-Stewie-.]

awsome, thanks for the quick reply haha great news, though i assume you will have to pay for maps other than the five supplied... any one have any idea if it will work on a verifacation method and charge the cc, or something like that?

[RickTheRipper]

No one knows anything about the setup of the game, so no one can answer that (unless some of the dev's come in here and spill the beans). But if they do need us to verify, I won't care. Because by then I'll have my own personal CC I can use.

[Chimaira]

If its pay to play, they can kiss my *ss unless they plan to ban every damn glitcher and cheater in the game...one word: impossible.

[RickTheRipper]

If it was actually pay to play (not just verify for free), then almost half of the Socom-ers wouldn't play. But Sony isn't dumb and won't make it pay to play.

The only games allowed to do that are MMO's and EA (nickel and diming FTL).

[SOCOMking]

SOCOM will not be pay to play because Sony is dedicated to not charging anything for online play, thats what makes them better. Plus whoever said there will be 5 maps, state your source, if you cant you are an *******... this thing is on blue-ray so I doubt that 5 maps is ALL they can fit. Finally, I think this game will have a single player.. just not single player... I think it will be co-op online just liek in CA, but you cant play it by yourself.

[RickTheRipper]

How's this for a source? SOCOM Confrontation PS3 Preview, SOCOM Confrontation Playstation 3 Preview

Hey SOCOM fans: You might want to sit down for this one. You know how you've been disappointed by how the series has drifted further and further from its roots? You know how the addition of vehicles, enormous maps, and Battlefield-style play modes have seemed to dilute the pure, tense tactical experience of the original game? You know how you've complained to Sony and Zipper about the perils of trying to make the series too accessible, too mainstream?

They were listening.

When franchise head Seth Luisi took the stage at a Sony press event earlier this week to show SOCOM Confrontation, he made it clear that this SOCOM is for you -- the fans of the original SOCOM experience. "The gameplay in SOCOM Confrontation," says Luisi, "is what we like to call 'intimate 32-player team-based combat.'" You may deduce from this statement that Confrontation will be online multiplayer only. You would be correct -- and what's more, the game will initially be available as a download from the PlayStation Store (with a retail release hitting as well, potentially in a collector's-style package or Bluetooth headset bundle similar to what we're expecting from Warhawk).

But the key word in Luisi's statement is "intimate." Gone are the vast levels that made hunting down enemies so difficult and draws so common. Instead, Luisi promises "more dense, highly detailed environments that also have a lot of interactive elements." In a brief video, he showed a seriously revamped version of fan favorite map Crossroads. The market area appeared much more detailed, with what seemed to be destructible elements. It seemed to indicate the possibility of destructible -- or at least degradable -- cover, an addition that should strike fear into the hearts of anyone familiar with the already sky-high tension levels in a good SOCOM match.

But perhaps the most welcome feature of Confrontation isn't an addition at all, but rather a subtraction: "For the initial release, vehicles are out," says Luisi, to the nearly audible cheers of old-school SOCOM fans everywhere. "We are looking at possibly bringing them back later on in a downloadable update to the game. But initially, we want to focus on the combat, and making that as visceral as possible." Without the need to plan for vehicles, the designers are free to recreate the close-quarters, claustrophobic feel of the best of SOCOM's original multiplayer maps, with the kind of detail this generation of hardware can bring. This is a very good thing.

This increased level of detail extends to your own character: You'll be able to customize your appearance more than in any previous SOCOM. It's not just for vanity's sake, though -- it's also for identity. "We allow clans to set up different uniforms," said Luisi. "The clan leader can design a look for their clan, change some of the camo patterns, some of the equipment options, and then users can still go in and customize their look individually, so they don't all look exactly the same."

The community support will extend throughout the life of the game. "We plan on having a lot of online events," Luisi says, "such as regularly scheduled team tournaments, clan ladders, and clan challenges and battles. But the game doesn't really end with the initial release. We'll be releasing regularly scheduled theme packs through the PlayStation Store. You'll be able to download content packs, which will have a combination of new game modes, new special forces, character cutomization options, weapons, and more." You can also plan on new maps coming down that fat pipe -- counting the expanded 32-player version of Crossroads, the initial release will ship with just five maps, all based in North Africa (future updates will offer new maps in new areas of operation).
While original designer Zipper has handed development of the game off to Vancouver studio Slant Six, from the tiny bit we've seen, it looks like the newcomers are up to the task. We can't wait to see more.

Read the bolded part, it says right there that there will be five maps (including a 32-player version of Crossroads), but they'll have map packsa available after release (hopefully on time!).

[pok it is me]

well it would appear that the reason for no mp#2 would be that they've been working on socom 4 now knowing how the socom system works well never get to see our crossroads on s3 i mean dosent any body find it strange that on mp2 thier was supposed to be a crossroads and now the first supposed map that we see for socom 4 just happens to be cross roadsits like thier saying"hey we've got a cool system and guess what now we've got socom 4 and it has CROSSROADS so go out now and buy ur ps3 and get SOCOM 4 with it and you'll be the coolest dude in your city" now i think i read somewhere that zipper did not make this i could be wrong but knowing zipper they'll release some kind of downloadable pack with guns or something just to make a few bucks and this dl content will arrive just days before they shut down the server
in essence im not getting a ps3 until they drop the price or i can find 1 at a pawn store i mean the socom 4 vid looks cool and ps3 online is free but 600$ and another fifty dont make me want to get it and remember a ps3 costs as much as a real m4 --- DPMS 16" A1 Light Weight Rifle ---soon to be mine

[oxfordfreestyl]

Crossroads was never apart of map pack 2.