Posted on 30 March by Jem Alexander – Marketing Manager, Square Enix

Everything You Need to Know to Play MAG

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Everything you need to know to play MAG straight from the developers! The guys over at SCEA have gotten the inside track and I wanted to share it with you to become a better MAG player.

MAG Developer Tips On –

Suppression — Kicking off almost three weeks of MAG developer videos with Suppression mode! Get tips straight from Zipper in this great series of vids.
Sabotage — Producer Alan Van Slyke describes the first mode to that puts you against another PMC.
Acquisition — Designer Joe Maris talks about the design of the character advancement system and more.
Domination — Number four and a lot more to go. Today it’s Domination from Zipper’s Chief Software Architect and Ultimate Frisbee lover, Nate Klee.
The Skill Tree — Our resident “designer in rock,” Jason Olander, drops knowledge on how to build a better character.
Commando – Artist Keith Bachman shares his knowledge on all things “close range.”
Direct Action – Lead Tester Jay Embry walks us through the popular combination of HMGs and explosives.
Field Support – Zipper Technical Art Director Steve Suhy tells us how to fix people and things.
Rapid Assault – Level designer Christopher Burns teaches us how to storm the hi-tech castles.
Sniper – Love ‘em or hate ‘em, snipers are a key part of MAG.
Leadership Roles – Are you a born leader? Can you take that leadership in to the Shadow War?
Squad Leader – Zipper Audio Manager, Mary Olson talks Squad Leader strategies.
Platoon Leader – Software Manager Mike Nicolino and Designer Marc Janas drop in to give you Platoon Leaders some great tips.
OIC – The very last in our three-week tips series from Zipper is on the OIC, Officer in Charge.

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Filed: Developer Corner, PS3 Games

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Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 4:55 pm by Envisager

This will be very handy thanks for posting this up Jem!

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 7:51 pm by Jem Alexander

No problem! You’re very welcome.

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 5:17 pm by almighty-slayer

A summary of posts that have been on the US blog for more than a month?

Uhm, thankss…?

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 6:42 pm by fleinn

Here’s how to play mag well, in full, painstaking detail:

Step 1: choose the light machine-gun from the loadout screen.

Enjoy.

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 7:11 pm by BalramRules

Undebatedly, this game has gotta be a nominee for GOTY 2010, although the winner HAS TO BE God of War 3/Gran Turismo 5.
But ModNation Racers, DC Universe Online and The Agency, will be GREAT! XD

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 7:12 pm by MobileTone

shame i won’t be playing it after April 1st.
the day online gaming died, thank grud for LAN gaming.

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 7:17 pm by S-E-G

i have learned a lot from the PlayStation blogs, games that are constantly being pushed in our faces on the blogs probably means it’s not doing so well in sales, gow3 was released and i really haven’t seen much pushing on the blog for that game, i wonder why?

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 8:58 pm by THC_PRITCHARD

i see a lot of girls playing mag yes i am shocked
on the ps3 forum this week one asked if they will be girl soldiers

mag is by far my fav fps game

Will we be seeing a new pmc,maps?

thanks for the flash bang add-on
But please please add a riot shield so we can get past some of the turrets

also please do something about them choppers they are pointless stuck in one place

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 9:39 pm by dayer2910

“Everything You Need to Know to Play MAG”

all you need to know is that this game has the worst connection status on PSN and to be honest is yesterdays news…..go buy BFBC2 for a true FPS online experiance plus a whole lot better looking too!

for them to be pushing this, the sales and player numbers must be shocking……….

Posted on 30 March, 2010 at 9:53 pm by Gamester101

@dayer2910

Well logging on myself, I can confirm the player count exceeds 20000 easily.

And as for your other point – first week sales were more than 500000 alone.

What were you saying again? Oh thats right – GTFO.

Posted on 31 March, 2010 at 12:09 pm by krioto

Seems to be a few gremlins about – the sony ostrich is deleting posts regarding the illegal removal of the other OS option.

Posted on 31 March, 2010 at 4:49 pm by ZhePrime

I can kill people faster with the handgun than people with LMGs since they can’t and don’t even aim. If you aim for the head with more accurate weapons you take down LMG users fast.

@7 Use smoke, gas, rocket launchers (preferably the one with lock-on) and the best sniper to deal with bunkers. A riot shield shouldn’t even be able to deal with a gun of that caliber that’s mounted on a bunker.

@8 Not everyone likes BF games, I don’t. All of them suffer from the same problems and BC2 also suffered from a range of other issues, so don’t come in saying MAG does something bad and then tout BC2 as amazing when BC2 is way more unpolished and has had way more problems. MAG is a very polished game, even at launch.

And no, MAG sold very well for a new IP that’s exclusive to one console.