SOCOM HQ

[Yaster]

I ask this out of curisoity.

I know a lot of people are keen for an HD remake of SOCOM 1 and 2, I presume with online multiplayer intact (becareful what you wish for, online features were cut from Splinter Cell), but think about the wider audience and how a game based on SOCOMs ideals can appeal to the modern gamer.

Even if it's just returning maps and modes, what would you like to see from the franchise?

[WESTIE_UK]

Well I would say a game mainly designed for clans and team work. A game rewards players for working as a team....

Things that i would love to see:

• Weapons that are only temporarily unlocked, for example say that Westie achieves completing objective X, which unlocks a weapon for a pre defined period of time.... if the objective X has not been achieved in that period of time the weapon will be locked until objective X has been achieved again. A system like this can be used as an incentive to promote playing of the objectives.
• The abiility to truely choose the appearance of your soldier, similar to confrontations system.
• Properly regulated clan battles.
• Keeping the game as a no respawn for ranked games.
• A wide variety of maps, game modes etc.
• Dynamic objectives, for example on extraction the vips are not all located in the same place on each mad anf the extraction points are also in different locations.

A game primarilly designed for team based gaming, a dynamic objective system, a wide variety of maps!

*** I will post more thoughts as they come to me *** 

[II_DeL_II]

bin respwans across the board because lets be fair if you want cod youd buy cod and if you like respawns socom might not be your game anyway ;o)

private match option/lobbies for true clan support

really tight netcode even if it only means 5 vs 5 

get rid of xp and all that crap 

all guns should be unlocked for EVERYONE from day 1 

only unlockables should be customizations which DO NOT affect gameplay i.e. color of gun, diff uniforms e.t.c.

lobbies should be searchable a la rainbow six black arrow

NO party chat! party chat is slowly killing the experience of meeting new people/possible friends

Fast mute option

No communication possible if youre dead 

the list goes on but im sure you get the picture ;o)

[SlickShoes]

SOCOM 2 with 2012 graphics and less frame rate issues on the more demanding old PS2 maps.

[bazer24773]

Socom 2 with cross play feature so you could play on both ps vita/ps3

[born2destroy]

Where do i start.

Lets just think socom 2 updated.

Why do you need to appeal to the modern gamer when socom had a huge fan base already?

Anyways:

- UCRR, these are a must socom has always had a great community and you could meet up with your freinds/ clans or random socomers you always bump into. When they removed this the community basically broke up

- 3rd person classic camera not this stupid ots

- Old socom crosshairs with better hit detection & keep the recoil

- Old maps return such as desert flory, fish hook, ruins etc keep them specific one map per game mode

- Game modes: demo, extract, escort, control, breach, sup, elim & bomb squad (bomb squad would have been better on socom II XD )

- Dpad lean the cover system just encouraged camping and so hard to kill someone in cover

- Return of the old fps mode and scope view NOT COD STYLE zooming

- Remote claymores

- All weapons & attachments unlocked

- no xp

- no run button, fast strafe ONLY

-Push to talk (NOT TAP TO TALK)

and everything else

This game needs to be fast paced, require skill & team work and then it may be classed as a Socom

[Leeoc91]

A proper clan ladder system that works - like a built in gamebattles ladder.

Fix hit detection.

KEEP the same online structure - browsing servers and dedicated servers are a must for any SOCOM. No COD style P2P where you can't choose the maps.

No lag.

Regular updates to fix bugs.

Trophies.

Custom button mapping.

[Noxage]

Cant describe the perfect SOCOM in a post, its a feeling and experience, not a dictatable list of features!

For me personally, Its defined by tense gameplay and the people you play it with. If I had to say one game I would say SOCOM:2 was the greatest, not just of the SOCOM series but of all online games in general. Hardly anything changed between SOCOM 1 and 2 except some new weapons and maps, the fact they kept old maps in 2 was great aswell. Sadly It went from a case of "Why change what isn't broken?" to "Oh, lets copy that feature.....and that...and that..."

For me SOCOM:3 started to deviate from the winning formula, it was good enough to play but not as good as its predecessor, and SOCOM:4, although a fun game in it's own rights, barely resembled the original formula at all. A series of tense battles and class tactics boiled down to homogenized weaponry/Damage and a dedicated grenade button....

The lack of a party system for several months didn't help either, since you know, they removed lobbies for the SOLE REASON that their new party system and matchmaking was "better"

Bah now I miss PS2 days after reciting this

[I_SCAR_I]

Not that it's ever likely to happen, but my ultimate SOCOM would be a SOCOM MMO.

Not much would change from the core game play now, but there would be a serious and robust match making and tournament feature, as well as an adequate introduction to to the game.

Updates and content would be more regular and not cease after a measly 6-12 month.

That's my ultimate SOCOM.

[SmIff-_-14]

Super jump. Unlimited anmo and 1hit kill. Leave out god mode though. That defeats the object of cheating lol. Wait did i say cheating? I meant playing pffft lool