Though we’re still several weeks away from its release, we thought it prudent to give everyone a head’s up on what we’re working towards for our next MAG patch – and it’s a big one!
Slated for sometime next month, MAG v1.06 will add a number of requested new features to the game that should please fans regardless of their play style. Not only have we made it much harder to accidentally kill fellow teammates, for example, we’ve also expanded the Medical Kit’s functionality to give users total control over who they heal (allies or themselves), while updating the experience system that surrounds it. Other new goodies include improved vehicle handling and physics, new gun ports for APCs, weapon efficiency adjustments, credit cost changes, and updated medal and ribbon requirements.
Another nice addition is that we’re also giving users who are currently without access to PlayStation Stores the ability to get all previously-available DLC immediately in-game.
We’ve listed a number of planned fixes on our index below, but this by no means the complete list of changes coming with v1.06 next month. We’ll have additional details on the full list of updates in the coming weeks in addition to the awaited news regarding our next bit of DLC (which is our biggest yet!). In the meantime, enjoy what we have for you so far and stay tuned for more specifics as we get closer to the patch’s release.
MAG Patch v1.06
Available June 2010 | Size: TBD
Gameplay
- Player knife attacks no longer deal damage to members of own PMC.
- Headshot damage bonuses no longer apply to friendly fire.
- Changed rewards for the resuscitation of an incapacitated ally to 5XP for partial health revive, and 10XP for full heath revive.
- Added functionality to Medical Kit so that players can now heal themselves with L1 in addition to using R1 to heal or revive a teammate.
- All vehicle handling has been improved and been given more realistic physics.
- Added three gun ports to APCs of all factions.
- Slowed down the rate of fire for the APC’s primary gun, but increased bullet damage.
- Primary APC gun can now damage enemy APCs.
Weapons
- Adjusted damage for the AM50, Rollins LRRS, and AGVK sniper rifles vs. vehicles and emplaced turrets.
- Increased rate of fire for all pistols (Raven’s F57, SVER’s IZ-443, and Valor’s M9).
- Improved close-range effectiveness and decreased long-range effectiveness for all Pistols, Machine Pistols, SMGs and Shotguns.
- Made all LMG foregrips less effective at stabilizing fire.
- Made improved stability skills less effective at stabilizing fire for machine guns.
- Credit cost for Pistols has been changed to 0c from 100c.
- Credit cost for Machine Pistols has been changed to 200c from 300c.
- Credit cost for SMGs has been changed to 300c from 400c.
- Credit cost for Shotguns has been changed to 400c from 600c.
- Credit cost for Improved Rocket Launchers has been changed to 800c from 1000c.
- Credit cost for Smoke Grenades has been changed to 200c from 300c.
- Credit cost for Poison Gas Grenades has been changed to 500c from 600c.
- Credit cost for Explosives Detector has been changed to 300c from 600c.
Interface
- Adjusted requirements for most Medal Awards.
- Added progress bars to all Medal Awards.
- Changed vehicle icon visibility on the map to reflect its current status of visibility instead of its previous map state of “always seen.”
- Repaired display problem in the “Community” tab’s “Player Search” screen that improperly presented names with multiple non-alphabet characters.
- Statistics for “Enemy Vehicles Destroyed Assists” and “Enemy Turrets Destroyed Assists” are now correctly listed in proper category “Objectives.”
Graphics
- Fixed display problem with player’s left hand placement when using foregrip and bipod on the Raven Apex 100 light machine gun.
- Fixed issue that prevented repaired roadblocks from “shining” to indicate that they can be interacted with.
Technical
- Previously-released downloadable content (Fast Attack Gear Pack, Trooper Gear Pack, Raven’s Spyder Body Apparel, SVER’s Hazard Body Apparel, and Valor’s Bulldog Body Apparel) is now accessible to all users without PlayStation Store access.
- Patched problem that prevented users to save loadout with DLC weapons following a “Respec” action.
- Repaired issue that caused renamed PSN IDs to be incorrectly identified as its previous name when logging in.
Server
- Updated patching system to allow for faster download speeds when retrieving in-game updates.
19 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 6:07 pm by KC-alpha-14
Win!
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 6:42 pm by fords30
“Adjusted requirements for most Medal Awards.”
I presume that you guys have reduced the amount of things you have to do to earn the medals?
As opposed to increasing the requirements..
If so, is the reduction quite significant or..?
I mean, things like destroying/repairing 200 gates aren’t too bad at all because there’s a lot of them, but when it’s 200x AA batteries and such, it’s definitely somewhat more difficult/time consuming.
Regardless, really enjoying the game and the patch sounds great.
Look forward to checking it out when it’s released.
Thanks!
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 7:33 pm by seany1
has there been any new maps for mag yet as its been months since it came out and if it still only has the same very few maps its kinda bad considering bfbc2 was out 2 months later and has had a map pack
Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 10:04 am by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Look for another announcement coming soon (in the next couple of weeks or so I reckon).
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 7:34 pm by MoeRonimoe
Nice update! Have you ever thought of adding a new mercenary pmc that puts you in whatever match and pmc people are needed in? For those who have been in every pmc …
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 7:56 pm by Jusnama
The new credit costs are good!
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 8:22 pm by da-wolfdude
Add some maps and ill get this game, since i was in beta ive playd the majorety of maps..
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 9:16 pm by fatboyron
sweet can’t wait but please release it after the 6th i’m on holiday till then
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 9:37 pm by TheHappyTurtle
Awesome,
I just bought this today along with a PS3 headset (special offer got them both for £25)
Glad to see this is still being supported so well. BTW how does the community treat newbies? I’ll probably start playing tomorrow and will get my ass kicked a lot for the first few matches.
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 9:59 pm by stuarth51
@ TheHappyTurrtle
You tend to find that if you know the basics of general FPS gameplay, then you’ll be fine, and now they’ve taken the ability to knife allies away, it’ll be harder to be hated!
But people very rarely do anything more than moan if things aren’t going the team’s way, basically, it’s all in the “heat of battle”
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 10:05 pm by FatScarf
Although the Zipper/Sony combination is a lot less flashy than the EA and Activision publicity wars, I find it amusing that through all that boasting [DELETED] of the other two, Zipper and Sony provide free DLC, plenty of updating and balancing of features and, best of all, full changelogs with every update. If you ask me, these guys are the unsung heroes. EA, Activision, IW and Dice need to take some lessons from these guys.
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 10:22 pm by niked
Great to see a fantastic update fro MAG. It is really a fantastic game! Feels almost like an MMO and it could be cool if MAG became one.
IM also glad that the DLC now will work for me. I have an US account that I play on (yeah it is weird but it is a long story) and now it will work for me
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 10:35 pm by whoismilan
“Repaired issue that caused renamed PSN IDs to be incorrectly identified as its previous name when logging in.”
What? It’s possible to rename your PSN ID? How?
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Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 12:58 am by LiLDropDead
y should they make a game tht just like the movie and not have a twist in the game??? i think makeing a this games from a movei it should have a rpg thing to it so u get more a feel to to it…but it still a good game
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Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 1:42 am by Kenshin71
How about some new maps? Already played through Lv60 on SVER and moved to Raven but frankly playing the same maps over and over again just got boring.
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Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 11:05 am by GTR34mh
Will Sver’s somewhat onesided maps ever get a nerf? They have the strongest maps to defend on in every mode, so why can’t they experience the harsh reality like the rest of the factions?
Although this patch is good. Really good. No cost pistols is awesome! Just hope you have shot those spam guns in the foot enough to tone down the annoyingness of them.
Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 3:08 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Zipper continue to make tweaks and changes to balance the game where necessary. Wholesale changes to maps are a much bigger proposition than changing weapon balance, for example, so I cannot confirm anything definite at this time. They are aware of the community’s frustration in this regard though.
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Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 11:42 am by Icematt12
Making you invincible to your allies knives is a good thing, it was getting ridiculous the number of times I was getting backstabbed planting a C4. Will I just be getting ammo shot at me now instead?
Will all future free DLC be able to be used by people that don’t use the Store when it is first available as well?
Glad to see tweeks on medals and ribbons, those are my main priority now. Although I can’t ever see me getting the ribbons for sniper and sidearm kills in a game.
Bing on June, if I’m not too busy watching South Africa.
Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 3:07 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
I cannot say at this time if future free DLC will be available to people who cannot access a Store, sorry. However, there’s no technical reason as to why it shouldn’t be possible (something that wasn’t the case for previous DLC).
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Posted on 8 June, 2010 at 9:31 am by alexcu1
Patch has come out in Aus, when i get into the game it loads as normal and says cannot connect to the server blah blah, please update to connect, and then keeps bringing up that message over and over, at no point will it offer to update or anything, ive tryed reloading and rebooting alot of times.
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Posted on 8 June, 2010 at 8:46 pm by dynastylegen
this is me dynasty from the uk, tried to log on to the game only to find that my charactor has disapeared and is replaced with the message ‘the server is currently unavailable’ and where the news usually apear,(to the left) is replaced with the message ‘please visit the playstation
(R)store to purchase this charactor slot’. Is this some problem with: my ps3, the server or the patch, as i only had this problem ever since the v1.06 patch was released? also when i visit the psn store there is no charactor slot to purchese, i mean [DELETED] is going on? do i have to purchese the new dlc coming out on the 22nd june? and ALEXCU1 i know your problem is most likely world wide, but i can comform that the problem has hit the uk!! what is going on Zipper??? please reply to this problem and i will update if it improves!!
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Posted on 8 June, 2010 at 10:17 pm by dynastylegen
the server has been fixed
but for some reason i have just urned the bronze and silver trophy ‘king of the hills’ and ‘red ball express’ almost as soon as i started the game.
is this a glitch???
please write down if you got this as well..
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