Hey folks,
Patch 1.02 for Resistance 3 is now available worldwide. We apologize for having two large patches this close to launch, but as you know, we’ve had a lot of issues to address from the Public Beta, and this has created the need for large patches. If you just want to play SP, you can ignore the patches (though there are some small fixes to the campaign) – but to go online, you will need to download them.
We wanted to detail some of the fixes in 1.02 for you. There are A LOT of fixes in this patch, some of which some players may not notice and are not worth detailing, but here are the big ones:
-Players should no longer get into “dead” games that don’t operate correctly
-Improvement in framerate/lag
-Matchmaking fixes
-Fewer players floating / clipping through environment
-Fix for freezing/crashing issues if you join a game as it is ending
-Can no longer leave party while in a co-op game (was causing a crash)
-Party fixes dealing with multiple invites, co-op
-Some SFX in St. Louis have been cleaned up
-Broadway map now loads games correctly
-Fixed issues when late-joining a campaign co-op game
-Multiple fixed issues on Chapter 13 in co-op
-Female voice over will now play for female skins in MP
-Player using Hazmat ability will no longer appear to catch fire or freeze
-Other various lobby, menu, co-op and multiplayer fixes
We are still working hard here to reduce lag / framerate issues that you see in the game. We have another patch already in the works to continue addressing new issues we’ve seen since launch, though many of these issues may be improved by the fixes in patch 1.02. Those issues include:
-Lag/Server sync issues
-Framerate drops and hitches
-Games where players cannot capture the flag/destroy a Node/etc.
We know this patch should resolve many issues, but please know we are continuing to monitor your feedback via Twitter, Facebook, the Insomniac Games Forums and MyResistance.net as we develop patch 1.03. We’ve already gotten a lot of good data from the first couple of days, and are continuing to develop more fixes to give you a world-class online experience. If you spot other issues, please report them as quickly and in as detailed a way as possible.
Thanks for your support of Resistance 3,
-IG
Nice work!! Can’t wait!
Good update. Thanks for your continuous hard work.
Thank You for the Patch will be updating when I get on and finish up the Campaign on Chapter 20 and have enjoyed every minute of the game. Been lots of twists in the game that throw me off guard
Good stuff guy’s!
In all honesty, this patch didnot work AT ALL. The first match I tried getting into got me into a “dead game” and the second got e an “game has already ended” error.
You don’t see games like Uncharted or Killzone needing this many updates, (over 1GB!) on the first week of launch.. Single player is amazing so far but what went wrong on the MP side of things? This is what you get for having a “beta” this late in development.
Naughty Dog had their UC beta over a month ago, and the game isn’t even out until November!
BiosNova – our original beta was scheduled for April/May – then the PSN hack happened. So we realize it’s not ideal.
Your patches doesn’t work , freeze are always in this game , it’s boring to play with a freezing game -_-
Ok, that’s fair enough since a big event like that can really set things back. I take back what I said.
Although there are still issues but from what you have said you are aware of these. It’s just a little disappointing to have this after the multiplayer in Resistance 2 was so good from the get go.
Kudos for replying to my post too.
Over 1 gig in patches? Im on a 384kb/s internet line, now how long do you suppose it takes me to download over 1000mb of data? Close to 9 hours thats how long and since its a patch it cant even be downloaded in the backround… Magical
Thanks Insomniac. Now pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease get to work on a fix for the sharpshooter issues!
I am glad that you are aware of the multiplayer framerate/lag issues however the new patch does nothing to improve this very significant issue. The beta had smoother frame rates than the final game even after two enormous patches. I like the design of the multiplayer and the game however the current frame rates are worse than any online shooter I have played in many years! Even mediocre FPS games have better framerates and top tier multiplayer games such as COD, Battlefield, Halo, Gears of War, and Crysis 2 ran like glass right after release in comparison. I hope you can address these issues soon so the multiplayer community will stay strong as framerates this consistently poor significantly degrade an otherwise top notch product.
Just letting you all know that the lag is still a major issue. It’s going to be an even bigger problem for you guys if you don’t fix it. This is multiplayer 101, and you can’t afford to get it wrong, your player base will suffer for it.
Congrats on a very good Single player game but man does your multiplayer need some fundamental work.
It pains me to know that we are nearly 1 week into this game and yet there is still major issues.
Why?
Because I know what’s going to happen. People will simply stop playing it and then il be stuck with another excellent AAA title with hardly anyone online (Killzone3,resistance 2,RFOM)
This really sucks, And I was hoping to see this title succeed into becoming one of the ps3′s major title..
Anyway, il will still be playing this game, but I just hope that you can keep the community together.
Good luck IG
Magekyou – the game has been out for two days, and we have two patches out. We are on it.
Yes I realize but I don’t think we will be seeing the next patch tomorow? And tomorow is the fourth day already (we are currently at the third day) So we are getting closer to 1 week.
I do undertand that it is no easy job to debug, and I am in no way blaming IG, far from it.
I just think it kind of sucks because as I said, im hoping that this game will have a major community.
But not every customer can understand this, so those who buy the game, have to install over 1 gb in patch before playing, then install the game on the HD, only to find a game that still has some issues will probably resell it, and this is exactly what I don’t want for this title.
Keep up the good work
Have some faith guys! I’m sure they’re doing everything they can.. All you have to do is to have some patience.
Wow, played this game for the first time online tonight and I have to say that I am REALLY disappointed. I would not say that the game is horrendous online, but it is definitely not up to the standards of a AAA title in 2011, and this is after more than a 1 gb worth of patches designed to resolve these issues.
Its too bad because if the game played smoothly online, I can tell it would be a total blast to play. This is really strange because the first 2 games in this series played fine online. I don’t know what went wrong, but maybe focus on the basics before worrying about 3-D support and move support (which from reviews is not well implemented anyway).
Smooth online play is not a “new thing” nowdays, it is expected from the consumer who purchases a full price game.
BTW I am on a premium Comcast cable connection happy to post my U/D stats, this is inexcusable.
Nothing new. Pretty much what anyone said.
Beta 2.05 still the best.
There has been an improvement. Before it was unplayable, now its playable.
Could you implement more visual and audible cues too when your getting shot at. Combined with the lag its confusing.
please if you can make 1.03 smaller I have no CAP left after 2 big patches
it annoys me because i was in the middle of fighting Satan then this update comes out and makes me quit then
it won’t even download just brings out some error 80 something and says its some sort of network issue but i dont have it for any other game.
hey i haven’t seemed to find out how to connect resistance3 with global resistance please help.
Lag / frame rate issues in multi still. Its almost unplayable at times.
the prison level seemed to be the worse and mainly the frame rate drops when other players approche you or grenades come past you.
If it matters, I am in New Zealand
owww cmon give these guys a break,
at least they’re putting a lot of work in it
i’m loving the campaign and i understand the multiplayer issues can be annoying and i know big patches can be issues but making 2 600mb updates on 2,3 days… that’s a crazy ass lot of work
i hope it gets better and i’m not really concerned cuz i trust IG
by the way nobody should whine that the beta had a bad timing… it’s the fault of those lame-ass hackers
so IG great work, even though i don’t know if a resistance 4 is possible because i didn’t finish the campaign yet.
don’t let it slip to another developer who messes it up…
I wish I could say the game is great (I know it probably will be as I loved the other 2 titles) but I haven’t even been able to play the game. Yesterday, I downloaded the 2 huge patches to the game and when I tried installing the trophies and whatnot, my game froze. I turn my PS3 off and tried again and now the game just freezes after the Playstation Move thing. Is the freezing a result of the patches or is my game defective?
Ok, while the original purpose of coming onto this site and this article was to recommend this game and to provide my support. After playing the game, I should say the online multiplayer component, I was left rather disappointed and resulted in giving up soon after.
While I fully understands that you guys are working on the issues and everything, I must say that it is still very poor coming from IG. After the success of the two predecessors, I really was expecting a full fledging AAA that was promised to be with the 3 years development time (R1 and R2 only had 2 years).
As a long time supporter and fan of Insomniac (Played R2 every week upto last week), I feel quite let down. Mostly due to the fact that I really thought R3 would become this flagship PS3 exclusive it should be. However, I will be sticking around and finger crossed things will be sorted in the near future.
Finally, I would like to thankyou for bring us Resistance 2, which kept me entertained for over 2 years. Good luck.
i bought the game 9-6-2011 and it was playing and now it’s not, i guess i am going to have to return it my other games work ecpect this one.
Good that fixes come quickly (but bad that bugs were not found earlier…)
But just do not forget single-player campaign. It doesn’t seam bugfree either
E.g. in middle of chapter 4, when retreating to city…
(
I was not able to enter to city, because door was not opening…guys just looked at sky, waiting for something…
I might have been too triggerhappy, and killed those bastards too early, so no one attacked us any more –> door could not bee opened. Only thing that helpped was to restart the chapter
Otherwise OK so far…
great work but could ask one thing, the move gameplay is great for single player, and the zoom works well with this game, and the design of the normal crosshair is perfect but please make the normal crosshair more compact as playing multiplayer I feel at such a disadvantage you can only hit someone when they in the dot and you can’t see the dot very well but if the crosshairs were more compact it would be a lot easier to tell if your hitting the target, apart from this to game is perfect.
the lag/framerate issues are still pretty bad. i hope u will fix it soon, cos this game is really good online.
this SH*& is CRAZY. 1 1/2 hours, so far, and i STILL HAVE NOT PLAYED THE GAME, im SO SICK OF DEVELOPERS RELEASING PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT READY FOR RETAIL MARKETPLACE.
HEY GUYS, DELAY THE GAME ANOTHER MONTH, and make sure your product is AAA..
dissappointing. I should turn on the ps3, put the game in, install, then play, not
Put game in
Update 700mb
install update
install game
sigh. AND to all the users that have updated 2 times already, i feel for ya guys.
EMP grenades don’t seem to Disable bubble shields..
Someone says that it does but the bubbleshield doesn’t disappear.
Please fix this, otherwise the EMP grenade is next to worthless.
As you can tell by my screen name you can tell my feelings about this game. I bought the last 2 games for the single player and enjoyed them both. This game is by far a huge F-ing disapointment. I played the beta and loved it. I did not have one issue. I really bought it for the multiplayer because it played so well, but the retail version is F-ing unplayable. There is people floating in and through things, clipping, guns that dont work, grenades that dont explode or go where you throw them. Invisibility and shields that last the whole game. Games that start with 5-8 people only on one team. And the lag is by far the worst I have ever experienced. And lets not forget the single player, more floating people, useless npc’s, I am stuck and have to delete my data to hopefully be able to play again. I have called sony and was told to basically deal with it…WTF.. I know a few people that have exchanged for new copies and it is not the disc thats the issue. I will be returning mine tonight, which is sad because like I said I really enjoyed the beta. Insomniac I appreciate the patches to resolve issues, but it seems to be worse after the 5 hour wait for patch and play. I was a huge resistance fan until this. I registered with my real email address if anyone at Insomniac would like to respond to me and sent me a playable game, if and when it actually gets fixed. I will probably get flamed for my comments, but I really dont care. I am a full time med student with very little down time and look forward to taking brief breaks from hours of studying to frag some people for the few minutes I have to relax. Thank you for taking that away and making playing a game extremely stressfull and tedious. I eagerly await a response, if any.
This has nothing to do with the patch, but I find that way too many people use the shotgun. It’s a weapon, yes, but everyone uses the shotgun over other weapons. Slight nerf please?
Just wanted to let you guys know that since Patch 1.02 the game won’t load. It goes to the screen with the flashing skull, and goes for hours until the main screen finally pops up. Then when I click single player that never loads. I tried deleting the Game Data Utility, and playing offline, but that didn’t fix anything. Anyway, I really like the story and can’t wait to play multiplayer, so I hope it all gets worked out soon!
THE HEALTH BAR WAS A GOOD MOVE IN CAMPAIGN ,IT REALY INHANCES THE FEELING OF STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE ESPECIALY ON DIFFICULT AND SUPERHUMAN.
WHEN IS THERE GOING TO BE DLC AND IS IT GOING TO BE A GAMEMODE?
Its almost week after release and game still freezing/lagging and is unplayable. Its a scandal.
i have downloaded this “patch” twice and deleted it twice because after i download it the game will not load…just get that damn skull in the bottom right hand corner of the screen flashing… when i try to exit game it retars my ps3…i like the game a lot but havent been able to play it since the update came out! can anyone help me or am i just fucked?
I haven’t been able to play this game at all. You either need to send me a disc that works (if that’s the problem), or give me my money back. I have deleted and reinstalled everything 4 times now. Still will not work for MP or SP. I don’t know what you guys are doing, but I am certainly not paying 60 bucks for a game that doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the Resistance 1 and 2 but this is horrible. Why would you release a game that doesn’t work? Have you guys thought of taking random samples of the production line and just putting it into a playstation and seeing if it works????? I am having flashbacks of Socom Confrontation and how bad that was…….
And by the way, this is attempt number 4 at trying to make this work. It took 3 hrs. to delete and install everything this last time. After 3 hrs. I get a load screen that doesn’t load anything. If I can’t play this by tomorrow I will be sending you the disc and I will have my money back.
UGK_Bigdaddy – sorry to hear you are having issues. If you are still having problems even getting anything to work, it is either the disc being faulty, or something with your blu-ray drive or hard-drive. If swapping the disc out at your retailer doesn’t work, it is likely a hardware issue. In either case, at that point you should contact the publisher of the game, Sony, for further support.
Is impossible to play in split screen online. There is poor.
The duration of the matchgame is ridicolous.
And please, Insomniac, if you have a bloq, is for the people. The people have been buy your game. Don´t remove my text. If don´t like that i´m writing, made a good game, finished, and the people will be happy.
Insomiac must pay us something for the work performed by all us : We are their quality control. AND FREE !!!!
Same here! I´m trying to play the game for 2 days now! First the download of the patch (took over an hour) and then the game just stopped installing! After hours of waiting!!!! Now – I´m waiting hours for the de- installation
What ´s wrong here, folks! I´m running it with PS3 OS 4.0 and own the original (very first) PS3 – I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH ANY PS3 title!
Man and I´m a die hard Resistance fan – this suckssssssssssssssss!
I had problems installing this game from the start, like many other people. It would install as far as the trophies, then lock up. It then took over an hour to delete the data that was installed.
Well, I finished playing the game, and went to delete Resistance 3 from my PS3 HD.
It has been deleting for over 45 minutes now, just like the screwed up install delete I had to do.
How can you screw a game up so badly that MANY people are having the same install/delete issues, and even with all the patches you make, you STILL can’t get it right?
Sure, take a long holiday break, who cares about quality, right?