Resistance: Map Pack #2 Unveiled

A good thing about the first party PLAYSTATION 3 games is that they keep the downloadable content coming. Whether it's Motorstorm or Resistance: Fall of Man, your always in for a treat.

Speaking of Resistance: Fall of Man, a new map pack is coming to the PLAYSTATION Network to enhance your playing experience. This map pack, titled Resistance: Map Pack #2, contains two new maps for online play.

The first of the map is Bracknell, a foreboding Chimeran node and Widowmaker breeding ground serve as eerie backdrops to this dark, all-interior environment loosely based on the Resistance single-player level. Players will fight in huge, cavernous spaces, where Chimeran architecture has overtaken an abandoned railway system. Bracknell is designed for both vertical and close-quarters combat, so polish those shotguns and Augers.

Next up on the map list is Axbridge. Axbridge has the perfect blend of frantic close quarters combat and concealed sniping perches. This map was created specifically for online multiplayer gameplay and not based on any Resistance single-player environment. It features a narrow corridor stretching under and above ground leading to two human bases on either side. The bases are large structures in their own right. Each contains several rooms and expansive fighting spaces.

Connecting the two bases is a large valley with a mix of organic and Chimeran architecture that provides excellent cover. But two large walls in the valley's middle create a heavily contested combat theater. Only the strong will survive!

IGN was able to do a little questionnaire with Ted Price, the president and CEO of Insomniac Games, about the upcoming content.

To sum up the questionnaire, Price stated they are going to release the new map pack at the end of November, 2007 with two maps in the package. The maps will work on all game modes and all sizes of games from 8 - 40 players. The size of the map changes depending on the amount of players.

Finally, Price mentioned a few tweaks made with the map pack:
We made several balance tweaks with the just-released Patch 6. Here they are:

Tweaks

• Range and damage on the Rossmore 236 has been decreased for both primary and secondary fire modes.
• Reload time of the LAARK L209 has been increased.
  
• Projectile speed of the LAARK L209 has been decreased.
  
• Splash damage radius of the LAARK L209 has been decreased.
  
• Hedgehog grenade splash damage has been generally increased, although the radius in which it will kill a player in 1 hit has been decreased.
  
• Frag grenade splash damage radius has been decreased.
  
• Arc charger fire rate has been increased.
  
• Arc charger clip size has been reduced.
  
• Arc charger damage has been decreased for the primary fire and increased for the secondary fire.
  
• Rate of fire the Bullseye tag (secondary fire) has been decreased.

Thats just about everything. Look for this new map pack around the end of the month.

[Via IGN]