If you consider yourself the type of person who likes getting new video game features for free, then our next MAG patch – version 1.07, due in early August – is definitely something for you.
Yes friends, in just over a week from now, players will be treated to a number of features that you’ve been asking us for all summer in addition to a few surprises. Like what, you ask? Like these:
- A new “Happy Hour” Double XP bonus that’s applied to the first hour of any player’s gameplay session in a 24-hour period.
- Suppression will join Sabotage as a “Faction Neutral” gameplay mode, allowing any PMC to battle each other on any Suppression map.
- Faster download and patching code that allows us to update MAG with more content and bigger file sizes in a speedier way.
- Redesigned versions of the Flores Basin (Raven) and Alyeska Terminus (Valor) Domination maps that include new obstacles and repaired exploits.
- New lighting effects for more attractive and realistic environments.
- Various fixes to address bugs or glitches to improve MAG’s overall performance.
Of course, there are a number of other additions and fixes coming with MAG v1.07, but the points listed above should whet your appetites while you wait for the full list of changes closer to the update.
Watch this space for patch details next week and, as always, let us know what you think of these modifications on our official forums.












35 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:04 pm by robgroove
Sounds good. i interested in the lighting effects. last time i played MAG i thought it could do with a touch up.
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:04 pm by Psycopas
When will it start raining?
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:04 pm by AstroZombie1
Awesome!
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:05 pm by robgroove
However im looking fwd to some new trophies. Hey Zipper can you make the extra trophies a little more of a challenge this time please. I aced the last 3 DLC trophies in just a few hours of play.
MAG platinum = DONE
MAG DLC trophies = DONE
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:37 pm by The_Shuffle
It took 6 months but domination might just be worth playing now for any faction other than SVER. Shame the playerbase died whilst we waited half a year.
Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 3:11 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Zipper have some good ideas planned for the coming months that will hopefully attract some of those players back. MAG will continue to be supported for a while yet.
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 6:57 pm by Do-_One
fair play zipper u done quite a few realeses like this i hope socom gets this much looking after
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 8:41 pm by evelan_pl
YEAH
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 8:49 pm by indyano
I’ll start playing it again
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 10:45 pm by Paulus-NL
more people problems downloading the 3.41 firmware update? i can’t download it on my ps3. and also not from the ps site :S http://nl.playstation.com/ps3/support/system-software/detail/item29550 8/Update-features-%28ver-3-41%29/
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 11:07 pm by geddesmond2
Just fix the lag and connection issues and make domination maps neutral and ill come back playing it.
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Posted on 27 July, 2010 at 11:10 pm by jfontyman
Love the double xp happy hour, I’m on my 3rd PMC and want to vet out of SVER as quick as possible, too many SL setting their own personal fragos, SL gets 1500-2500 xp and the rest of the squad gets 100-400xp at most.
Glad to see Zipper are taking time to try an improve upon a product, on a separate note….most people want SOCOM 2 in HD huh???? wt…I want SOCOM 4.
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 12:09 am by BalramRules
SVER!! FTW! MWUAHAHAHHAHAHAH lool =P
Why did you have to make SVER Locations UN-exclusive =(
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 10:10 am by Prem-aka-Prince
This may not be the first time you’ve announced this “happy hour” plan, but I’d just like to say that I think it’s a good idea. Give people a bonus to play for an hour a day? Sounds like a very positive thing to me. It encourages people to play day after day rather than all at once, and I’m sure people with busy work/school lives will benefit greatly.
Hopefully MAG is well and truly on its feet now, with everything running as you expect it to. That’s all from me, good luck with the continued success of the game.^^
Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 3:13 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Thanks Prem-aka-Prince. As I’ve said, MAG may be well and truly on its feet but there is still a whole lot more to come!
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 11:12 am by KC-alpha-14
If you don’t own this game, you really need to
Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 3:13 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Plain and simple. I like it KC-alpha-14, thanks!
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 1:56 pm by whoismilan
I really like the “happy hour” idea, as well as the faction neutral maps.
One of the reasons why I stopped playing MAG a few months ago was because I didn’t want to play only the same maps all the time, and I felt like making progress with my character got really slow, so hopefully happy hour and neutral sabotage maps will help.
Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 3:14 pm by Elliott "Shijima" Martin
Watch this space for more map announcements in due course…
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 2:12 pm by djreplay
I think i might give it a whirl tonight, cracking update.
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 4:39 pm by danielmccue
i was in game the other day with a copy of MAG in my hand but i didnt have enough money on me to get it new. judging from these updates you are bringing out it looks like i will be buying this in the near future.
keep up the good work and i look forward to jumping back into the game (i played the closed beta)
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 4:48 pm by Stonesthrow
good to see, been trying to go back to this game (since im currently playing mw2 again since the mappack) but graphically its a big step down compared to mw2 obviously, and the controlls are completely different so i dont like playing 2 shooters at the same time.. ill try to get back to this once the update arrives, but id prefer seeing a normal regular double xp weekend, i dont even understand this, the first hour of a 24 hour playthrough? [DELETED] is that? :d
anyway, keep up those updates
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Posted on 28 July, 2010 at 8:40 pm by EL1T3-N1GHT
damn thank u zipper thats awesome! i was a bit annoyed when the sabotage changed instead of domination cause i didnt play that anyway due to the map setup and loyalty to my faction.. also the supression is a fantastic idea! after playing bout 3 to 4 hours a day since the update i’m getting used to the faction neutral sabotage ( although i still liked it better the way it was :p ) all the ideas in this patch are great and i am really glad you took the players comments to heart and reviewed the domination map setups and realised that u had overpowered SVER ( or knew it before and purposely joined it thats why u got the sver avatar :p lol JK ) anyway great work and thanks Zipper!!
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Posted on 31 July, 2010 at 7:13 pm by v6probe
i never got rid of MAG it just sat on the shelf for a while as i played some other stuff.but i can see i will be dusting MAG off again and getting back into the thick of it.
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Posted on 2 August, 2010 at 5:28 am by pandarain
instead of these maps and other bit’s n bob’s,fix that dreaded FREEZING PROBLEM!!!!
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Posted on 2 August, 2010 at 11:31 pm by EpicDude
I just got MAG recently and I am viciously addicted to it but I was already starting to feel like I’ve been playing in the same maps again and again but this update is great news ! You guys are awesome!
Also I agree with pandarain, you guys have to fix the freezing problem.
Once I took like a whole 5 minutes to realize that the loading screen wasn’t loading at all…
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Posted on 7 August, 2010 at 11:50 pm by SHADYTOM88
Is mag gonna be supporting PS move, because that would be epic!!
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 12:04 pm by JHips
Hi, I upgraded to patch 1.07 just now, I am getting the error message “cannot communicate with server. Please update to the latest version” and it’s not letting me get into the game, please fix this bug…
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 1:05 pm by Danny_789
Same, just downloaded 1.07, and I can’t get on anymore. Can someone help please?
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 1:36 pm by DeejayStreet
I got same message! F***! this is not funny anymore… now we need someone to tell us what the hell we can do?
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 1:45 pm by TheNOFFinator
seriously, 3 hours ive been trying and no sign of anything from MAG?!
plus i think there should be a server status ?
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 1:51 pm by HaUlZaKh
i got the same error after updating . [DELETED] is going
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 2:58 pm by PaddyOBrisk
same here, 1.07 installed and I cannot communicate with server.
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 3:06 pm by weejinky1888
I done the same and still no joy [DELETED] is going on
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 3:08 pm by jmwinparis
I’v been trying desperately to connect too. Nothing. If any of the MAG designers or employees are reading this, please do something about it soon. (Or just aboard the update)
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 3:14 pm by weejinky1888
still no joy,i reset my system thinking it was something to do with that cant belive they have done this.
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 4:56 pm by weejinky1888
this aint funny no more, so they going to fix it or refund us all our money back for their problem, whats the point of us all having a game we cant play, all because the put an update in that dont work, any idea how long it going to take before we can get online again……????????
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 5:50 pm by tynesp14
I’m having the same problem.. hope someone learns how to fix it
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Posted on 12 August, 2010 at 7:19 pm by Morpheus_nl
It s@$ks !!!
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