It's stunning that Zipper Interactive finds the time to support MAG while it develops a full SOCOM retail release. But it does, and surprisingly, it looks like the biggest patch to date for MAG is coming down the pipe. Next month the studio is poised to deliver "MAG 2.0" to its fans, a meaty patch that will add PlayStation Move support, bump the level cap up to 70, and revamp the game's skill tree to allow "the deepest character customization and specialization ever found in a first-person shooter," according to the game's official blog.

MAG 2.0 will also usher in a fresh in-game economy that will allow digital soldiers to purchase weapons and items from a new "Supply Depot" after earning credits in battle. And if that wasn't enough, users will see multitudes of core game refinements and bug fixes in the forthcoming patch, as well as a new "Clan Deploy" option that will allow clan leaders and officers to queue 128 of their clan members into a game. 
 

It's stunning that Zipper Interactive finds the time to support MAG while it develops a full SOCOM retail release. But it does, and surprisingly, it looks like the biggest patch to date for MAG is coming down the pipe. Next month the studio is poised to deliver "MAG 2.0" to its fans, a meaty patch that will add PlayStation Move support, bump the level cap up to 70, and revamp the game's skill tree to allow "the deepest character customization and specialization ever found in a first-person shooter," according to the game's official blog.

MAG 2.0 will also usher in a fresh in-game economy that will allow digital soldiers to purchase weapons and items from a new "Supply Depot" after earning credits in battle. And if that wasn't enough, users will see multitudes of core game refinements and bug fixes in the forthcoming patch, as well as a new "Clan Deploy" option that will allow clan leaders and officers to queue 128 of their clan members into a game. 
 

Good to hear. I stopped playing MAG a while ago, but maybe I should start playing again.

Good on them for supporting the game long after it has launched.

This is seems like a very impressive update, even if I have never played the game before.

Will never understand the appeal of move/wiimote use in an fps but the other stuff looks good for whoever still plays.

I might actually pick it up now :P

Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?
 
Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible.

" Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?  Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible. "

I played MAG a bit, I liked it, not a bad game. I had my fun. Move support isn't something that is going to pull me back in. It seems to me to be a very poor way to control a twitch reflex type of game. Makes you an easy target, no?

Brad Nicholson sure does love the word "waggle".

Has there already been patches with new maps, new game types and game types that do not take 55 minutes to finish? If not, they should've looked at those problems first...

Did MAG do well?

I had quite a bit of fun playing MAG with some internet friends, but I've totally fallen off since about a month after release. Maybe this'll bring me back.

Additional supply depots required.

The Move support isn't really all that exciting, but interesting. Impressed that the game developer is still supporting the game, most developers wouldn't bother supporting their games a few months after launch.

" Maybe they can make the game good while they are adding those features. "

" @Simmse said:

" Maybe they can make the game good while they are adding those features. "

Don't forget about the fun.  Make sure they patch in the fun.  I never got any. "

" Has there already been patches with new maps, new game types and game types that do not take 55 minutes to finish? If not, they should've looked at those problems first... "

Move suport LOL. What a waste of development time.

Son, ya gotta feed yo MAG.

" Move suport LOL. What a waste of development time. "

lolumag?

makes me want to play some more Killzone 2.. I'm weird like that :-)

" @DigitalNinja said:

" Move suport LOL. What a waste of development time. "

I know right? Why would I want precise aiming controls in a first-person shooter? "

" @TwoOneFive: People who don't like MAG are usually people who can't get over that it plays nothing like CoD. "

i love the constant support  that zipper is doing to MAG, i may end buying socon 4 just for that (and to play it with my recently purchased ps move)

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?  Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible. "

Is it really that bad?  Got it through gamefly played a couple hours got bored sent it back.  Doesn't seem to be much better or worse than the typical modern shooter clone. "

" Massive Ass Gay.  I'm so smart. "

This game was GREAT I'm re-buying it because of this.
 
I don't play any PS3 games online but I made an exception for MAG. That game rocked.

" @DigitalNinja said:

" Move suport LOL. What a waste of development time. "

I know right? Why would I want precise aiming controls in a first-person shooter? "

" @bhhawks78 said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?  Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible. "

Is it really that bad?  Got it through gamefly played a couple hours got bored sent it back.  Doesn't seem to be much better or worse than the typical modern shooter clone. "

By virtue of you getting bored i would say yeah, but the problem i have, is it feels like, and often looks like...and sounds like, a high budget total conversion mod, harsh, but im being so so honest. Funny thing is...i had fun now and then, i think the game modes themselves are excellent, if they can make the game feel better i'll defo go back. "

Damn, if I hadn't such a short attention span with on-line games, I'd definitely check out MAG.

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @bhhawks78 said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?  Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible. "

Is it really that bad?  Got it through gamefly played a couple hours got bored sent it back.  Doesn't seem to be much better or worse than the typical modern shooter clone. "

By virtue of you getting bored i would say yeah, but the problem i have, is it feels like, and often looks like...and sounds like, a high budget total conversion mod, harsh, but im being so so honest. Funny thing is...i had fun now and then, i think the game modes themselves are excellent, if they can make the game feel better i'll defo go back. "

Eh a big difference between mediocre/generic and bad. "

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @bhhawks78 said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" Will it be adding the part where, the game isnt bad?  Ah whatever, the curreny system sounds miles better than the slooow ass unlocks. The player count has dwindled badly and i feel too partly responsible. "

Is it really that bad?  Got it through gamefly played a couple hours got bored sent it back.  Doesn't seem to be much better or worse than the typical modern shooter clone. "

By virtue of you getting bored i would say yeah, but the problem i have, is it feels like, and often looks like...and sounds like, a high budget total conversion mod, harsh, but im being so so honest. Funny thing is...i had fun now and then, i think the game modes themselves are excellent, if they can make the game feel better i'll defo go back. "

Eh a big difference between mediocre/generic and bad. "

Didn't really get into it first time round. Maybe I'll give it another go.

People still play this game? Well @ least it lasted longer than ABP...

I probably spent 15-20 hours in MAG and tried to give it a chance but it always felt like it was missing the thing that makes a game fun. I could never put my finger on the specific problem...

" @TwoOneFive: People who don't like MAG are usually people who can't get over that it plays nothing like CoD. "

" @Maniac said:

" @TwoOneFive: People who don't like MAG are usually people who can't get over that it plays nothing like CoD. "

or that the game completely sucked in retail release with the odd 4 months of beta time if not longer doing next to nothing in the deparment of fixing the games multitude of problems which took them months after release to actually fix just a few of those. MAG lost me when I spent 4 months + in the beta and then when I picked the game up at launch every single bug report I had submitted wasn't even taken care of in the final product. *as for that MAG should never have been a 60 dollar game in the first place* "

I recently traded MAG in, but I have just picked up a move controller so I may pick it up again if I can find it cheap.

If Move support gets added to online shooters, Move will be a mandatory piece of hardware. From what I've seen of games using move as a "zapper" type device, it's just vastly superior to the clunky-ass-joypad controls for FPS games. So if you're too lazy to stand upright while playing, or you don't have the space to use a Move, guess you're fucked.

Might give this a try when 2.0 hits. I stopped playing due to all the dill holes that were not going for the objectives and just being asshats.

i'm so over this game....mag 2.0 would have been nice 3 months ago, now it's played out.  
 
you go on there for 2 minutes and guys are trying to kick you out for who knows what reason, they don't tell you you just keep seeing the message popup, "2 out of 5 votes -- you have NOT been kicked from the squad" 
 
lame

I had a ton of fun with MAG, the only reason I quit was because Bad Company 2 came out. I'm hoping MAG 2.0 will bring me back in.