JoeyN Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 For those who still play , A couple of sites have posted that new Socom 2 maps are coming, but to recieve them you need to get the disc in the next PS magazine. capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calvin Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Probably not by DL because the newly redesigned PS2 doesn't support the HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 It is Calvin.(yes I have the same look on my face as you do right now. ) You can read the story on 1up.com: http://appsrv-2.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3134783 All three maps will not be available in one issue. It will spread out to three issues with the last one possibly being distributed differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted September 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 It would also be too easy just to allow people to Dl them. Not to mention people buying the new Ps2 couldnt even use the new maps anyway as they will have to be ripped to the HD capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 So will you NEED a HDD to rip the maps to from the disc or are they playable directly from the disc. With a $100 price tag on the HDD and a new PS2 that doesn't support it I have no intention of getting one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Yes James, the HDD is apparently required to play the new maps. Now, Sony's giving back to its die-hard fans. Three new online game maps, which players can download to their HDD hard drives, are on their way to gamers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Monkey Posted September 23, 2004 Report Share Posted September 23, 2004 Way to promote the shortcomings of the PSTwo. Bizarre... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 eseals sent an email out with the following info: Will the levels, in fact, require the HDD? Yes. The levels currently require the HDD to play. (HDD MSRP $99.00.) Is the OPM disc going to be the only channel through which the levels are made available? The OPM disc will be a method of distribution for the first two levels. We will announce at a later date how the third map will be distributed. Regardless of the delivery method, how big (in terms of file size) will these levels be? The individual map files are about 15-20MB in memory, but we compress them for storage on the HDD. They are only about 5-6MB on the HDD. However, when you enable the HDD option in SOCOM II it will create a 256MB section for all SOCOM II downloadable data to be stored in. How big are the new levels in relation to the older ones? It varies, but some of them are about double the size of the average SOCOM II maps that shipped on the disc. We wanted to create some levels with a different feel and we noticed that we did not have as many large levels in SOCOM II as we would have liked, so all of the HDD levels are on the larger size. Should clear up whether or not you do in fact need the HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted September 24, 2004 Report Share Posted September 24, 2004 15-20MB compressed to 5-6MB. Thats it? Would it be possible for Sony to release larger memory cards to maybe store them on. 8MB is nothing these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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