Developer Slant Six Games has announced th release of the next SOCOM Confrontation patch, an amalgamation of the 1.40 and the current patch.

Appropriately (if not creatively) called Patch 1.41, it focuses on various tweaks to gameplay as well as rememdies slowdown issues that have plagued the games since release.

Here are the issues addressed

·XMB presence - Medley Game information has been abbreviated, displaying all information required to identify the location of the player.
·Late Join 'Hitch' improvements - addresses the pause experienced by players when someone late joins a game.
·Navigating Screens With Large Clans - Slow down issue fixed.
·Increased speed of fade at the beginning of the round.
·Claymores can now be detonated when player is in the prone position.
·Increased countdown timer in Quick Match Pre Game lobby from 20 to 60 seconds.
·Enabled Quick Match team switching.
·Quick Match Ranked, Unranked and Unranked Respawn games, each contains 6 different playlists: 3 8vs8 and 3 16vs16 players.