MAG 1.02 patch cleared for duty, to deploy tonight

Medics, it's been a long, hard road in MAG -- hopefully until now. The PlayStation Blog reports that a new patch -- version 1.02, the first of many coming down the pipe -- will be available for download on your console war station tonight at 1 a.m. PST / 4 a.m. EST. The central theme is medical improvements -- specifically, the elimination of the onscreen medic icon from anyone who has a Medical Kit. Now, only those who have the Resuscitation Kit will have the cross.

Also, the only soldiers who will see icons over downed players waiting for a resuscitation are those that can actually resuscitate them, which should help get some of that clutter off the screen. Finally, Zipper has added distance counters for those fallen comrades, giving medics a better idea of how far away those in need are.

If you're looking for more intel on starting out (or just some general tips on being a badass), hit up the PS Blog.

Reader Comments (13)

Not the patch that I have been waiting for but it has some good stuff.

I'll take it. Maybe now I'll only get killed running to the people I might have had a chance to help instead of those on the other side of the map.

This is good. The tutorial doesn't teach you anything about the game and neither does the manual, and so many people don't understand why they can't heal people after getting the medical gun that says it can heal others. It's annoying to see teammates waste time trying to revive me, not understanding why they can't, and then getting shot themselves.

They should really add a video explaining the game.

Yeah that is something I had hoped would have been fixed or added from the beta. A lot more instruction is needed in this game. :/

Sony hasn't had any good luck with tutorials for online only games. Warhawk, Socom, and MAG have all completely sucked in that department.

They should add more training levels, the one they have in the game only teaches very basic things.

sweet. I honestly thought that the med kit icon was for those that can raise people. This will avoid lots of me getting pissed off at people for not raising me. It will also avoidme running halfway accross the map before I realize that the person I'm chasing spawned where he wasn't supposed to then ran behind enemy lines before he was killed.

Agreed... That's the worst when you think a fallen comrade is just around the corner, but really he's on the other side of the map... This def a step in the right direction!!

I take back all the good things I said about this game. DON"T BUY IT, IT'S BROKEN. Unless you want to play SVER. get used to losing in domination, emptying an entire clip into someone's back before they go down, and watch the SVER guys with MG's run around and one shot kill you. Do you like the civil war? Cause that's the kind of charge you have to make to get to the SVER bunkers. Valor and Raven? Oh plenty of cover there, don't worry.

The game is broken. They have until March 3 when BFBC II comes out to fix it, otherwise they are dead. And they deserve every bad thing that happens to them.

Bailers77 ... Maybe you should learn to aim ??

Its not balancing issues from what i've seen its the fact that none of you people in raven / valour know how to aim and know what a headshot is, you kill people very quickly if you shoot them in the head.. Learn to aim first..

Have you played the game? lol

A medical kit IS the Resuscitation Kit.

A First AID kit only heals yourself.

This copypastas on everysite and they are all incorrect lol.

It IS possible to get the Medical Kit without Resuscitation. Improved Healing gives you the Medical Kit but if you skip Resuscitation, you can't use the Medical Kit on your buddies, only yourself. Someone posted you could save some skill points by skipping Resuscitation and going striaght to Improved Healing which I personally tried when respecing. It was bad advice, I ticked ,ore than a few teammates off when I couldn't heal them and eventually stopped trying. It was a long string of games (and teammate explitives) before I earned the two skill points needed for Resuscitation.

The distance counter is what I most wanted, for medics.

MAG 1.02 patch cleared for duty, to deploy tonight

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