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Now that you have gotten a chance to download Patch 1.41 for SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, I wanted to give you some updates and answer a couple of questions. I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of our producers and I wanted to share with you some of the things I learned.
First of all, thank you for all of your feedback. The team continues to listen and tries to make improvements based on what you are telling us.
Lag/Latency Improvements
Hopefully, you can see their response in things like getting rid of the late-join hiccups with this patch. In future patches, they will continue to optimize bandwidth usage in the game to improve any further lag/latency problems some of you might be having. We will continue to monitor your feedback on these issues.
It’s also important to remember that your choice of servers in Medley games can make a difference in your lag issues. Playing on foreign servers can increase your lag greatly. It’s important to stick to the servers for your own area. For example, if you are in North America and you play on a Japanese server, you will likely experience more lag. I’m sure many of you know that already, but there may be a few out there who still aren’t aware of it.
Confrontation and Clan Rating
One question that keeps coming up is what happens to your SOCOM: Confrontation rating when you leave a clan? Well, clan rank is separate and unrelated to your Confrontation rating. Your Confrontation rating is skill based and that doesn’t change. Your Confrontation rating is what is used for match making and the leader boards. Only your clan rating changes if you leave a clan. This was a design decision to encourage people to find and stick with their clans. Again, this may be something a lot of you know already. But I am getting a lot of questions about it so I hope that clears things up a little bit.
Spawning Issue
It has been reported that there are now some problems with spawning in random places since the patch. I wanted to assure you that I have reported that and they are investigating the problem. They will try to get you a fix for that as soon as possible
Patch 1.5
I am hearing a lot of you wondering what is next, now that Patch 1.41 is out. Well the team is working on Patch 1.5 already. There have been a lot of changes and additions that you have requested and they are looking to see how much can be done for this patch. So you will see some community requested items. They are also planning for that patch to include the clan ladder and tournament calendar. We will have more information on that as we get closer to release of the patch.
There are more updates coming. Although we can’t release any information on it yet, they are working on new content.
Different Teams
And finally, I wanted to stress to you again that Slant Six is totally focused on Confrontation. They do not run this website. This site is hosted by SCEA, who has contracted with some outside sources to run it. That includes David “Point Man” Brothers. He is a writer that has been hired to give us content for this site. He is not part of the Dev team. I know there has been some confusion about that so I wanted to make sure it was explained now.
It's also already been announced that there will soon be a SOCOM space in Home. I just want you to know that will also be handled by SCEA and will not take resources from Slant Six either.
Once again, thank you all for your feedback. I do read what you have to say and send it on to the team. I will keep sending your thoughts and ideas to them and together, we can keep improving and adding to SOCOM: Confrontation!
First of all, thank you for all of your feedback. The team continues to listen and tries to make improvements based on what you are telling us.
Lag/Latency Improvements
Hopefully, you can see their response in things like getting rid of the late-join hiccups with this patch. In future patches, they will continue to optimize bandwidth usage in the game to improve any further lag/latency problems some of you might be having. We will continue to monitor your feedback on these issues.
It’s also important to remember that your choice of servers in Medley games can make a difference in your lag issues. Playing on foreign servers can increase your lag greatly. It’s important to stick to the servers for your own area. For example, if you are in North America and you play on a Japanese server, you will likely experience more lag. I’m sure many of you know that already, but there may be a few out there who still aren’t aware of it.
Confrontation and Clan Rating
One question that keeps coming up is what happens to your SOCOM: Confrontation rating when you leave a clan? Well, clan rank is separate and unrelated to your Confrontation rating. Your Confrontation rating is skill based and that doesn’t change. Your Confrontation rating is what is used for match making and the leader boards. Only your clan rating changes if you leave a clan. This was a design decision to encourage people to find and stick with their clans. Again, this may be something a lot of you know already. But I am getting a lot of questions about it so I hope that clears things up a little bit.
Spawning Issue
It has been reported that there are now some problems with spawning in random places since the patch. I wanted to assure you that I have reported that and they are investigating the problem. They will try to get you a fix for that as soon as possible
Patch 1.5
I am hearing a lot of you wondering what is next, now that Patch 1.41 is out. Well the team is working on Patch 1.5 already. There have been a lot of changes and additions that you have requested and they are looking to see how much can be done for this patch. So you will see some community requested items. They are also planning for that patch to include the clan ladder and tournament calendar. We will have more information on that as we get closer to release of the patch.
There are more updates coming. Although we can’t release any information on it yet, they are working on new content.
Different Teams
And finally, I wanted to stress to you again that Slant Six is totally focused on Confrontation. They do not run this website. This site is hosted by SCEA, who has contracted with some outside sources to run it. That includes David “Point Man” Brothers. He is a writer that has been hired to give us content for this site. He is not part of the Dev team. I know there has been some confusion about that so I wanted to make sure it was explained now.
It's also already been announced that there will soon be a SOCOM space in Home. I just want you to know that will also be handled by SCEA and will not take resources from Slant Six either.
Once again, thank you all for your feedback. I do read what you have to say and send it on to the team. I will keep sending your thoughts and ideas to them and together, we can keep improving and adding to SOCOM: Confrontation!
