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Resistance 2 will be patched to version 1.60 on the 14th of May 2009. The following will happen after you’ve installed this update.

• Access to Allies menu has been fixed
• You can now launch Resistance 2 from Home
• Added “Send Message” to the player interaction menu
• “Ring of Life” Berserk energy is depleted upon activation
• The DLC multiplayer map “Outpost” is now listed under “Northern Orick” instead of “Southern Orick”
• Added coop Superhuman mode text to the “Create Game” screen
• Added re-game time to the ticker
• Meltdown leaderboard has been fixed
• You can now earn a “Field Medic” ribbon” by healing the other split-screen player
• Players will no longer be awarded the “Collector” ribbon while dead
• Any XP and Gray Tech earned in offline cooperative games will be retained when the player goes online (this will help address any stats issues some of you experienced after the release of the previous patch)

The laucnhing from Home will not make it into this patch.

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For those of you that havent downloaded the Aftermath Map Pack for Resistance 2 might want to check out this video. Its a gameplay video of the DLC for the game… so yes, check the video out.

The Resistance 2 1.50 is/will be out today, also a new ‘Aftermath Map Pack’ will be available for $5.99 from the Playstation Store. Yesterday we mentioned three things that will make it into the 1.50 patch, there is alot more than that. See below.

• XP balance adjustments for competitive mode
• Announcements screen
• Failsafe save support
• Password protected custom games
• Added ability to “Report” player
• Teams switch sides between Core Control rounds
• Players now automatically go to staging after every competitive or cooperative game (regame)
• Localization updates
• Various stat fixes
• Collision fixes on Bryce Canyon and Holar Tower cooperative levels
• New leaderboards
• Map fixes for competitive Chicago level
• Games with Friends and Clan members in them are now highlighted in the “Find Game” screen
• Limited late joining has been added to ranked games
• Deathmatch spawning has been improved
• Players can’t earn progress towards Berserks when they are dead
• Reduced sprint speed of core carrier in Core Control games
• Cooperative XP bonuses have been increased by 30%
• Cooperative games respawn time is now 20 seconds
• Players keep their grenades if they get revived in a cooperative game
• Players now have a “Join Game” option for players on their friends list
• A player’s own name is now in white in the obituary text

New Medals:

• Savant – Come in first place 30 times in ranked matches (Comp)
• Hero – Come in first place 60 times in ranked matches (Comp)
• Legend – Come in first place 100 times in ranked matches (Comp)
• Tools of Destruction – Score 100 kills with every single weapon (Comp)
• Master Strategist – Score 100 kills with full health (Comp)
• Arch Rival – Kill 500 rival squad members (Comp)
• Full Honors – Take each class to max level (Coop)
• Prophet – Revive 500 players (Coop)
• Secret Agent – Obtain all spec ops upgrades (Coop)
• Surgeon General – Obtain all medic upgrades (Coop)
• Specter Elite – Obtain all soldier upgrades (Coop)
• Like a Surgeon – 100 Splicer Kills (Comp)
• Shake N’ Bake – 100 Pulse Cannon Kills (Comp)

New Ribbons:

• Quickdraw – Get the first kill of the round (Comp)
• Manic Medic – Heal for 1000 points within 3 seconds (Coop)
• Solid Solider – Absorb 500 points of damage within a few seconds with your force barrier (Global)
• Specter Survivor – Survive an objective without dying (Coop)
• Specter Medic – Revive 2 or more allies within a few seconds (Coop)
• Hail Mary – Throw ammo and hit your target from at least 10 meters away (Coop)
• Quick and Painless – Score 3 headshots kills in a row (Global)

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Resistance 2 is due a patch that will take the game version to 1.50. It’s nice to see Insomniac caring about their games, below are some details about the patch.

• Meltdown Mode added – Apparently, we will be getting to play in a remake of the classic Resistance 1 multiplayer mode.
• New co-op difficulty – Superhuman has been added as a mega, ultra-hard mode for the co-operative campaigns.
• Second player PSN login – The split-screen second player can now login to their own PSN profile and their information, gaming XP, etc. from that session will be saved.

We’ll post more information as we get it.

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Insomniac Games have confirmed that downloadable content and a patch is on it’s way for their hit title, Resistance 2. According to an official announcement on the MyReistance.net forums, EGMBrian has confirmed that the rumours surrounding such DLC and patch are true. When will we get any details about this? On March the 25th, Insomniac will reveal all the details you will want to know via the Playstation Lounge.

Expect new maps and modes and possibly new weapons.

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When PlayStation offered people to vote on which cover would appear on the box art of Resistence 2, some saw their favourite not win it.

A months late(r) but still a good initiative they are now offering you to put in your own Boxart.
On the Official PlayStation Blog, Bryan Intihar Community Manager for Insomniac Games made 3 box arts available.

Just make sure you use a High Quality printer.

Here is a preview of the covers which link directly to the ‘print out’ resolution.

Bit late for this, but here’s a small not to say that the Resistance 2 1.40 patch is now available. When you launch the game you will be prompted to download the update. It weighs in at around 26MB.

Enjoy!

Sony Bend the studio responsible for the upcoming title Resistance: Retribution seems the be the only studio who has a hold on the technology of using a Sixaxis. Developing PSP Plus to be able to use your existing Sixaxis controller and sync it with your PSP via Resistance 2 makes them one of a kind in the Sony game studios.

Sony said they weren’t sure yet if the tech would be passed on to other studios let alone having considering it.

We have a hunch Sony will look how the reception is with the game and how PSP Plus will affect gamers. And it’s success depends mostly on the place people will play it. At home or on the road.

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CVG posted some video’s of the highly anticipated title Resistance Retribution. While most of you have probably already finished Resistance 2 and are preparing yourself for this next instalment on the PlayStation Portable, we have some videos to keep you sweat.

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Resistance 2 is expected to be updated just like Fall of Man was to improve the online experience. From Monday 26 Jan 09, patch 1.40 will be available for download. The patch will address the following:

Multiplayer Progression

Some people have seen their competitive and/or cooperative characters reset to level 1. For several of those cases, this patch will not only bring back all the XP, stats, and attributes that you’ve lost, but it will also add to your character profile the XP/stats/attributes that you’ve earned since those levels were reset. For example, say you were a level 20 medic and after being reset to level 1, and you earned 5,000 XP. Thanks to the patch, you’ll return a level 20 medic and that 5,000 XP will be added to your profile.

This patch will also correct some medal and trophy issues, including the “Killing Machine” trophy (if you’ve already accumulated 10,000 kills but haven’t received this trophy, it’ll pop up as soon as you download the patch).

And here are additional 1.40 details:

• “Salute Me” trophy is not awarded until player reaches level 31 (Lieutenant)
• “Berserker” trophy can be collected during non-ranked games
• “Survivor” medal can be collected in cooperative games
• “Sure Shot” ribbon is awarded if player has accuracy of exactly 50%
• Added clan support for viewing members, sending invites, and setting up clan tags
• Default clan region is now USA
• Unbalanced ranked games are cancelled in staging before the game is started
• Parties are prevented from matchmaking into free-for-all Deathmatch games
• Loadouts can be disabled in the “Create Game” screen in competitive games
• Balanced the chance of dropping large ammo pickups in competitive games
• Core Control scoreboard displays “Kills”
• Improved scoreboard formatting
• Balanced the amount of XP gained by the Medic class in cooperative games
• Stalker movement enabled in cooperative games
• Small ammo pickups don’t give LAARK ammo in cooperative games
• Splash damage on Pulse Cannon can damage the player firing it
• Rossmore reticule better reflects its accuracy
• Fire is easier to shake off
• Players cannot swap weapons in the middle of a melee attack
• Localized text updates
• Network message optimizations
• EULA displays the correct language text for Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Danish

There you have it, the nice big list of fixes/additions.

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Before we get to the MGS4 topic, Gamasutra gained some exclusive sales data on a couple of PlayStation 3 titles. 

Sony has been promoting LittleBigPlanet, hoping it would be a system seller. When first launched the game hardly made a dent on sales. It continued to descend into the month of November. But sales had picked up in December. Bringing the total sales of LittleBigPlanet to 611,000. 

The sequel to Resistance which was a launch system seller had fell in the month of December. Resistance 2 had some strong sales in November, but lost the steam into December tallying the total of sales to 598,000. 

Metal Gear Solid 4 is a great game, which was emotional and fascinating in quality. From the action to the cutscenes. Game winning Game of the Year from a few sites out there. It’s a great feat that this title has already sold 1,000,000 units. When originally launched back in June, it sold a whopping number of 775,000 units. Between July-December the game only managed to sell 301,000 units, bringing it to one million. Now the sales are only of the boxed versions, it doesn’t include games bundled with PlayStation 3’s. 

Resistance 2’s next patch is coming very soon, but no exact date has been confirmed. According to EGMBryan over on the MyResistance forums, said:

I know that several people are wondering about the status of our next patch for Resistance 2. The patch is indeed coming very soon, but that’s all I can say right now. As soon as I can deliver more details (like the date of its release and what the patch will include), I’ll let you know.

–Bryan

I guess we will all have to stay tuned, so you stay tuned into Talk Playstation and we’ll deliver the information as we get it.

Do you think your the best at R2? So go over and join the Resistance 2 Tournament you could win over$50.000 in prizes. From December 22th to February 28th. A 4 Players team will go a ladder style competition and the top 64 teams will battle it out from March 1st to March 31th the top team will win $9.000 and Prizes.

Sign up now at http://gamebattles.com/resistance2/

Starting next week, GameBattles and Sony Computer Entertainment America have teamed up to make a Resistance 2 Tournament. There will be more than $50,000 in prizes. While first place gets $9,000. This is a United States only tournament. 

The tournament begins on December 22nd, and ends in February 28th. 

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Dan Hill believes that Playstation Home can become a system seller in the future. Home offers new possibilities for companies to create revenue through advertisements.

In time I would say that Home will definitely become a reason to purchase [PS3]. Today, we are at the beginning of a long journey – now is the time to start its evolution

The PlayStation Network is getting better all the time, and Home is integral to our online offering. If you buy a PS3 and you grow with us, as Home evolves, you are going to become part of something very special, something unlike you can experience anywhere else.

He may be right on the PS3 giving you a certain experience you can’t find anywhere else, but Home becoming a system seller will be out of the question. Home still lacks a certain amount of features which were promised in the beginning. Of course things change to get a quicker release date, but with 2 big delays, a server problem in Europe and a much heated discussion about the micro transaction fees in certain regions that dream will not happen in the next year.

Home is not for everybody and there are different types of users that own a Playstation 3. You have the ones that just want to play a game, the online gamers, the multimedia freaks, the trophy whores collectors and many more types. The experience on the PS3 is different for everybody. And by believing that a majority of those people are willing to pay for stuff that they don’t actually own (read virtual stuff) is pushing it too far to be a system seller.
Major titles like Metal Gear Solid 4, Grand Theft Auto 4 and Resistence 2 those are system seller. It is because these games have history and a solid fan base which are two pillars for a system seller.

(the opinion written here does not reflect on that of Talk Playstation or/and it’s other authors)

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