New patch for PC PES 2008 out now
Promises to fix "minor issues that occurred under rare conditions".
According to the patch notes it will deal with lag issues resulting from slow connections, make consistent the speed the power bar builds up, fix small mistakes in the in-game text and solve "minor issues that occurred under rare conditions".
Still no word however, on an update for the console versions of the game, which continue to provide horribly laggy online play a week after the game's release.
Many gamers have complained about the laggy online play across all versions of the game, as well as serious frame rate issues and slowdown, particularly associated with the PS3 version.
Last week Pro-G brought you the news that Konami was working on a patch that would deal with online and offline problems with PES 2008.
The Japanese publisher apologising for the quality of online play with an online notification displayed when gamers enter the PES 2008 lobby. It revealed that the publisher has uncovered "issues which can affect the online gameplay quality of PES 2008" and is working "full strength to find a solution as quickly as possible".
We will, of course, keep our ears close to the ground on any news of a console patch. In the mean time, lucky PES 2008 PC owners can download the patch from Konami's website.
User Comments
R1Santana
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However, reading the above comments really makes you wonder if a patch for the PS3 version will do any good, since the PC patch makes things worse.
pHatRon
Me and my friend tried it, he lives about 1 miles from me on roughly a 5mb connection. I'm running just over 6mb connection and the game, during gameplay online, would read pings of 3000+. Whenever there was a corner and the game stopped, it dropped dramatically to 30, which was good, but only for 3 seconds or so.
The patch came out and I was happy to see they had acted, but it's a rushed patch and done nothing but hinder and possibly make the game worse online. What seems to happen is, whatever your computer assumes would happen in situations, happens. This happens on both computers and can make the game impossible. Why? Because on my computer it assumed I won the ball from a certain situation (head for example) but on my friends computer, he won the header, so we're both attacking.. makes no sense.. then suddenly either one of us gets a hude spike of lag and the game chooses which player is really attacking.
It's a joke and I'm very tempted to go get fifa just to play online. I don't like fifa, never have, doubt I ever will. But they are ruining Pro Evo at the moment. 6 Was fantastic, 2008 is a disaster
KiLVaiDeN
I bought the PC version, and before the patch I already was experiencing a LOT of lag during games ( 2000 ping was frequent ). After the patch, it's the same, and it even looks like less stable.
I don't know why this happens, it's quite a shame to be honest. I hope they'll fix it for real, or buy new servers, because it's unplayable for now..
Cheers
K