* Resistance: Fall of Man Map Pack 1 now available for download! This map pack contains both Westmorland, England and Camborne, England. Both are additional multiplayer maps designed to be played with Resistance: Fall of Man. Westmorland features snowy hills and Chimeran architecture. Great for snipers! Camborne features both above ground and underground fighting introducing a new twist on team battles. Both maps support all Resistance multiplayer game types. You must own Resistance: Fall of Man to play either map. To make purchasing and downloading the map pack quick and easy, there is now a Purchase button on the main online menu. Going to the Purchase menu will allow you to select, purchase, and download the map pack from within Resistance.
* Worldwide Servers! Now you can play with your friends anywhere in the world since all Resistance servers are now connected to allow for worldwide play. There is a new option in the Multiplayer Options menu called Worldwide Player. Setting this to Worldwide will allow you to play games against other players all over the world. Setting it to your local region (North America, Europe, etc) will restrict your games to only allow other players from your region to join, and will guarantee that any players you are matched against when playing ranked games are from the same region as you. If you create a party, your party will use the Worldwide Play setting from your multiplayer options (ie, if you are set to North America, only north American players will be allowed to join your party, but if you are set to Worldwide, anyone can join). Players who are set to Worldwide may still join games created by players who are set to their local region only as long as both players are from the same region.
* The XMB Friends list is now accessible from the R:FoM Lobby. To access it, go to Community and select Friends.
* The Map Vote option has changed. There are now three settings: No, Free Maps Only, and All Maps (Map Pack Required). Setting Map Vote to No will allow anyone to join who has the map that the game is being played on, setting it to Free Maps Only (not available if you begin the game on a map from the Map Pack) will allow players to vote for any of the free maps and allow anyone to join the game, and All Maps (Map Pack Required) will allow players to vote for any maps, including map pack maps, but will require anyone attempting to join the game to have the map pack. Map Vote will default to Free Maps Only for any of the free maps and All Maps (Map Pack Required) for any of the map pack maps.
* There is a new filter on the Find Games screen for custom games: Map Packs. It has two settings, Free Maps Only and All Maps. Free Maps Only will show only games that do not require the map pack, and All Maps will show all games.
* The MUTE menu from the in-game start menu is now the MUTE/REPORT menu. Selecting a player from this menu will allow you to select either Mute, to mute all voice chat from that player, or Report for abuse, which will notify an in-game moderator that the player is being abusive by cheating, glitching, or otherwise violating the EULA. In-game moderators will then be alerted, and may observe the player to verify that he/she is being abusive. We reserve the right to kick players we have observed being abusive out of the game and/or ban them from playing Resistance: Fall of Man, as per our anti-abuse policy outlined in the forums on
www.myresistance.net
* Voice chat from other players will now play through your television speakers by default unless you have a headset plugged in. There is a new option in the Multiplayer Options menu from the lobby called Mute Voice Chat. Setting this to on will start all players muted when you join a game. Players may then be selectively unmuted from the MUTE/REPORT menu if you so choose. The Mute Voice Chat option only has an effect if you do not have a headset plugged in.
* Repeatedly failing to finish ranked games (either by quitting or disconnecting) will now incur a time penalty wherein you will not be allowed to join another ranked game immediately after failing to finish one. The time penalty begins at 0 minutes, and will build up to a maximum of 15 minutes if you fail to finish a high percentage (30%+) of your ranked games.
* Clan leaders now have the option to transfer clan leadership to another player from the clan menu
* Human player models will lip sync with incoming voice chat from that player
* If you have a USB keyboard attached to your PS3, holding down the buttons 1 through 0 will change your characters facial expression (human models only)
* Ranked games that become too unbalanced in the staging screen will be canceled by the server rather than launching with unbalanced teams
* In the lobby, L3 is now always the push-to-talk button so that remapping the push-to-talk button does not prevent you from being able to chat in the staging, party, or results screens.
* Player names drawn over friendly players will no longer be blocked by low cover to make it easier to distinguish friendlies from enemies.
* Players may now switch the virtual keyboard over to the full QWERTY style keyboard rather than the standard virtual keyboard if they so choose
* The staging screen in a deathmatch game now has a header to show you what race everyone will be when the game starts. Additionally, the loading screen will now also reflect what race you will spawn as.
* For Chimera vs Chimera team games, the skins used by each team have been changed to be more distinct
* For games with limited lives (such as conversion), the QUIT option on the in-game start menu will change to say LEAVE after you have been eliminated to indicate to you that you will not receive a Quit on your stats for leaving after being eliminated.
* Fixed an issue where you would hear splashing sounds on levels without water
* Fixed a problem that caused bullseye tags to sometimes remain active after the player they were attached to has died
* Fixed a number of potential collision exploits
* Fixed a problem that caused the rocket launcher reticule crosshairs to disappear when meleeing while a rocket is being held stationary.
* The per-team Time Alive column for team conversion now displays the correct stat rather than the total team score.
