Socom's Special Forces

[OME6A]

1up.com/EGM has spilled some beans on a chunk of Socom's multiplayer before they cover it all in the May issue of EGM.

Apparently players choose a special force to be a member of, which includes:
- USA's SEALs
- UK's SAS/Special Air Service
- Germany's KSK/Kommando Spezialkräfte
- Spain's UOE/Unidad de Operaciones Especiales
- France's 1er RPMIa/1er Régiment de Parachutistes d'Infanterie de Marine

Being a member of one of these forces, players will have access to the uniforms, gear and weapons that that force uses. The catch is that you can only join a special force by being in a clan. Clanless players will either be commandos or mercenaries.

It's not clear if your clan leader picks the special force that the clan is for, or if each individual member can associate themselves with a different force, but it sounds like a nice touch.

People that don't get into clans shouldn't worry too much about being left out. You can always start your own one man clan in order to get access to the items of your choice.

Personally, I might be going with the SAS if they still come with those sweet ninja get-ups.

[Cylon]

That sounds great, but I think there is one obvious question. How exactly is this going to work?

I mean if all players in a clan have access to these 5 different forces, does that mean we will be fighting the multiple forces in a public room (Having a team of US, UK, Spain, Germany, commandos,and mercenaries vs. another team of US, UK, Spain, Germany, commandos,and mercenaries in the same game) rather than having two distinct sides like in previous installments of the series?

It will be very interesting to see how they implement this.

[INKSLNGR]

I'm guessing that the clan leader picks which force you will be and everyone is stuck with those

[OME6A]

Originally Posted by Cylon

It will be very interesting to see how they implement this.

Agreed. From everything I've read and know to this point, the days of "Seals vs Terrorists" are long gone.

So maybe it'll be like GRAW does it with an Alpha vs Bravo? Who knows. I like having as many options as possible.

[Cylon]

Originally Posted by INKSLNGR

I'm guessing that the clan leader picks which force you will be and everyone is stuck with those

That would work for private clan wars, but not in a public room when you have a mix of several clans.

[-Irish.Kin-]

Perhaps different colored uniforms. Maybe like UT3 where everybody could be running around in the exact same armor, but there is always red team and blue team. Plus you can see your teammates name from across the map.

But since it is Socom, I don't see it being red vs. blue all the time.

[INKSLNGR]

that's true i didn't think about that, maybe you will get to pick one of the four basics to start with and customize from there. Sort of like R6V. Hopefully this will not be one of the downfalls to the game....

[Jimdalf]

lmao at the Spaniards and Frogs entrants. They aren't bad units, but not really on a par with UK and US forces.

I wonder which weapons will be available to each? I'll bet S6 are just cheating, as the Spanish and Germans should both be on the G36, and the SAS have preferred use of American weapons for decades (generally licensed copies), so they should be kitted out with roughly the same stuff as the SEALs (M4's and the like). The reason is that the SA 80 was a piece of **** for a long time until Jerry fixed it for us, quite embarrasing really, and the senior chaps in the SAS haven't gone back yet.

[Magnum Force]

Aww we can't pick girl scouts?

[EAsTon]

Originally Posted by Magnum Force

Aww we can't pick girl scouts?

Or the red hat foundation.