Metal Gear Online 1.20 - Meme Expansion out NOW!

[LaLiLuLeLo]

I know. And then I have to wait another 30 days to get any metal gear ps3 fix.

[Jay Gee]

Oooh, all the way to next Sunday? That's more than enough time for me. I'll get on this something fierce today and try to level up my stats. I definitely need to stun knife people more. Though I won't be a douche and let ppl waggle their way to 99% before I kill them. I'll just ice them as soon as they're out.

[Bsack]

how do you stun people with the knife? Do I need to have the CQC mastery attached to my guy or what?

[Coded-Dude]

target(L1) the person and hit R2(to stun)

[Jay Gee]

How in the HELL do you level up in this game? I mean, I see that I'm close to getting lvl2 for my skills, but how do I do it exactly? And can I speed up the process somehow?

[LiquidEagle]

Use that skill effectively, I guess. Fast Movement & Assault Mastery were definitely the first to level up for me.

[Raitei]

Played again yesterday. something like 7 kills to one death in sneaking, even killed snake.
Started the next round with something like 8000 drebin points. (i think thats a good amount)
still lv1 all around though.

I did have a few control problems, like the autoaiming, while i was looking at a player (snake of all players) , tapping l1 just span me around to face a wall. Had to readjust my pos a lot of times

[supagohan]

Hey.
More people need to add me on the Beta's Friend List.
Gameid:Killthem
Im game for any type.

[Coded-Dude]

is that your game ID or your character's name?

Your Character's name is the one needed to add friends
(your GID is only used to login to their online servers)

I am Coded-Dude, but i think you can only add when said user is online.
(otherwise you'll get the error: PC could not be found) or some BS like that.

[supagohan]

Thats my Characters Name but arent they the same?
I could've swore they were.

[Sephiroth_VII]

Jesus...

[Coded-Dude]

Ok.........You have your Konami ID, which you should have created when you visited the website. Then, you have the Game ID which you created after you made the KID. From there you login to the Konami servers(metal gear online) and create a character and give him a name. The character name is the one that you use to communicate(add/remove/invite/message/etc.) Its the one displayed in rounds above your head, and on the stats/rank page.

[Jay Gee]

Use that skill effectively, I guess. Fast Movement & Assault Mastery were definitely the first to level up for me.
Guess that means more headshots with the rifles, or just higher hit percentages. As far as Fast Mov goes, whenever I'm not in contact with the enemy, I switch to my grenade and speed around that way. Hopefully, that's what levels that skill up.

[cliffbo]

MGS4 bundle is deploying in Europe

Posted May 6th 2008 6:30PM by Majed Athab
Filed under: Hardware, News
Well, guess it turns out that Europe is getting a Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle after all. The only drawback is that this bundle doesn't include a DualShock 3 (SIXAXIS only) unlike the recently revealed Japanese "welcome boxes" and North America's own bundle. The new Snake-tastic bundle is another 40 GB system which will be available by the international release date of June 12. The bundle is currently set at €439.99.

http://www.gametab.com/news/2587699/

[solidsnakejej]

Since we're a week away from getting MGS4 we need to start thinking of clan names. From the beta it looks like we can't use any of the Metal gear names like Fox-Hound or Outer Heaven/Haven so we need to think of a new one to go by.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

Why the fuck wouldn't they put DS3s in the Euro bundle? That's just retarded!

[Matt]

So when are they supposed to be releasing the DS3 over here anyway?

[Segitz]

Don't know, don't care... I imported and paid less than what I would have to pay here anyways!

[Passive]

interesting.

Metal Gear Online to be region locked

"The server connected MGO notice"
The game itself is a server in Japan. Whether in English or Japanese.

However, the purchase of the licensed importer of the same players, the Japanese version of the English players and players can not Versus.

If you need to play games with your friends, you must purchase the same language version.

Not a licensed importer of commodities, have the opportunity to be well connected.

Moreover, we will not provide any assurance and have the opportunity unable to provide any services.

Source if you can read it :P (http://www.konami-asia.com/cn-t/gs/mgo/notice/index.html)

Looks like i wont be playing along side you guys =[

[masteratt]

Don't know, don't care... I imported and paid less than what I would have to pay here anyways!
^Werd.

Matt, I imported one through yesasia for £30 mate, including shipping.

That's less than what's Sony is going to charge us for sure and I got mine in I can't remember exactly but it didn't take ages and it arrived in perfect condition.

So if you want one, go to yesasia (http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-w/section-index/pid-1010901318/) and get yourself one for £30.

[Raitei]

interesting.



Source if you can read it :P (http://www.konami-asia.com/cn-t/gs/mgo/notice/index.html)

Looks like i wont be playing along side you guys =[

WHUT TEH FECK?

seriously? in this age of gaming, a region locked online game?

So i wont even be able to play with my friends since i have the us version on pre-order

[Passive]

and i wont be able to play with any of you =[ as im in AU. damn bullshit.

[masteratt]

Better than spending 4hours trying to login to a game lol

Konami + NextGen online = Epic fail.

I personally won't even touch MGS4 online (well, maybe give it a quick go) so yeah, it doesn't concern me but I'm just saying, the stability will be improved greatly due to this.

[Passive]

well i dont really intend to spend much time on MGO. But region free is sort of a standard these days tbh.

[³¹¹]

This is really dumb.

Are patches able to solve this? Maybe they are currently getting the architecture in place and we will be able to one day?

Again, dumb move.


I'll be making Filanthropy again.

[Z]

okay, I haven't been following up on this and I have a question:

I have a US PS3 and a US MGS4 but I live in Australia. can I play MGO? if so, do i log-on to American or Australian servers?

thanks.

[Passive]

Um, it should depend on where your PSN account is regestered to. But it if its ISP/server based you would log onto aus servers.

[Z]

I just remembered; when creating my stupid Konami ID, I could only register as an Australian. when trying to log-in now from my PS3, I keep getting an error message that tells me the servers are either down or I am not logged in to PSN properly.

I'll try logging into my Australian PSN then give it another go.

sorry, it's been a while and the registration process was too idiotic.

[Jay Gee]

Japan updates (but soon to be worldwide, I'm guessing)

July 4th:

New modes - Team Sneaking (Que?), Headshot Kills Only (I wonder if this will even make it to the states considering it's basically HKO already)

July 17th:

Bonus Pack (1200yen) - Johnny and Meryl playable, Female PMCs can be created (can I grope them?), 3 new maps (I'd club a seal to DEATH if one of those maps is Shadow Moses), Official Survival Battle can be played

Sweet. This should hit the states soon. And what's really sad is that it'll beat out Warhawk's next update, and that game's had a 4+ month head start.

[Jay Gee]

Team Sneaking is already up apparently and it's FUN. Thank God for the box, though, cuz if you have a numbnuts on your team that gets spotted too quickly, you can always switch to it when your stealth fails. This mode is going to push me to step my knife, pistol, and CQC game up.

[LiquidEagle]

Good to hear, I haven't gone online proper yet, still having too much goddamn fun with MGS4! :-D

[LaLiLuLeLo]

I'm playing online and single player... and somehow was dominating the first time I hopped on (haven't played since the beta). Top of the game after every match w/ the most points. Ridiculous.

[masteratt]

Meh I got bored of online after a few matches.

The battles are boring:

*see someone*
*shoot*
*he sees you and shoots back*
*you start shooting and hitting each other*....

*yawn, check watch, still trying to kill each other*
*finally he dies*
*damn, you have low health*

*go around the corner, get shot once, low health gone, you are dead*

*what a waste of a 40 seconds*


Catch the Snake mode (as I call it) is a bit more interesting....
Except it isn't ¬_¬
So yeah MGO really isn't for me I guess.

[Hisham]

I do fine MGO sorta boring online, but that is mainly to do with the fact that TDM (the game I play the most) is ususally filled with people who don't have mics. If you can't talk with other people, it just feels like playing bots IMO. That is why I hated Resistance online too, and that is why I probably loved Gears online...

[Gegenki]

I like online battles. It became awesome today when I played a team sneaking mission and it was 2 on 3. My team mate went off somewhere and i never saw him for the rest of the game. I went and stood by the point the enemy has to return to idol to. Managed to take em down right before they managed to get in the square.
At the end i said gg to my team mate at which point he told me he was asleep the whole time. Which is alright cause for 2 minutes i thought he was dead - after a while i saw him using SOP.
I had an awesome firefight where I saw someone waiting for me to step out. I stood behind a rock. Took aim, stepped out - fired - stepped back in. Repeated several times - managed to take him down whilst dodging all his shots.
Its all about getting those streaks. Once I start getting multiple kills I'm happy

[curryking1]

Ratt what are you talking about man?

The battles I've been in were mad intense. You seem to just be playing with really terrible opponents.

My online experience has been great. Fast, intense, very competitive, and I enjoy being one of the better players (no one break my balls here! lol).

All I need is the mic so if I play with Hisham again I can actually communicate with him in more ways than taking a minute to tell him something through typing lol.

[Z]

it is amazing that a game can have an SP that is so good you don't even feel like playing MP.

[solidsnakejej]

IGN has new shots. new maps?
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/950/950626/imgs_1.html

[D3adcell]

Is it even possible to play this game online? After all the trouble I just went through to download the patch and set up my konami ID and Game ID, every game I join the host leaves or I lose connection or get signed out of PSN. This is just horrible, don't think I even want to ever try again.

[Hisham]

Works fine for me...

[D3adcell]

Ok everytime I join a match it says "Connection unstable". I don't know what to do, guess i'm going to have to get a cable instead of going wireless, though I never had any trouble with warhawk.

[Jay Gee]

Either you have the worst luck with hosts, or it's your connection (latter is most likely). You'll more than likely have to switch to a wired connection just to see whether or not wireless is the problem. Before you do that, I'd try hosting a match first. That should really tell you whether or not it's you or the servers.

[Coded-Dude]

no kojima admitted and apologized for the server issues, they are working on it......

[D3adcell]

Thanks for the info coded. I had no idea what it could have been because I had no trouble with any other online games.

[Coded-Dude]

If you've experienced major issues with Metal Gear Online recently, you're not the only one. And worse, it seems a solution to the problem is nowhere in sight.

According to CVG, Konami has certainly acknowledged the string of issues that have plagued MGO ever since the new expansion went live on July 17, but they also say they don't know what to do about it. Reported problems have ranged from log-in failures to the on-and-off status of the community support page and MGO reward shop, and most users are pretty unhappy about the current situation. Even worse, it seems that some payments made through the site haven't gone through properly, and Konami has had to refund lost money to some accounts. And here's the official response to all this:

"We have been taking numerous corrective measures since the problems initially started, but unfortunately there are no permanent solutions we can announce at this present moment."

Well, at least that "at this present moment" will give avid MGO players some hope. We do expect Konami to fix this mess at some point, and we'll keep you updated on their progress. In the meantime, you may have to play something else until the widespread server issues have been fully repaired.

[GTAce]

Metal Gear Online is a dedicated online title released with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, an exclusive title for PS3, which took the market by storm on its release in June. Featuring characters, weaponry and levels taken from and inspired by Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Online allows up to 16 people to play simultaneously. The online game retains the famed stealth combat gameplay of the Metal Gear series, players are dropped in a series of war zones wherein different challenges await.

v1.12

Fixes the following problems:

* When a host leaves a game, the position of host is automatically forwarded to someone else. When someone else filled the free 16th slot, the player would be invisible to the new host.
* The game would sometimes freeze if a player would invite a Clan Member while in Survival mode.
* The day of the week of "Match Time" was not correctly displayed when viewing the rules in the Survival Lobby.

The following game specifications have been changed:

* The motion of reloading the shotgun cannot be canceled by equipping a box or changing weapons.
* Change of weapon specification:
o Saiga 12's cost changed from 8000DP to 5000DP.
o G3A3's cost changed from 5000DP to 4000DP.
* Change of skill specification:
o "NARC" Lv2's cost from 1 to 2
o "NARC" Lv3's cost from 1 to 3

With this change, all skills will be temporarily removed, but players will be able to put them on again with the existing skill points


http://worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=55576

[gnznroses]

i've played a few matches on the MG4 online and they were all 5 mins. wtf?

[VG Aficionado]

Filler, sorry.

[VG Aficionado]

Filler, sorry.

[VG Aficionado]

Some reposting and more at the turn of the page.

[VG Aficionado]

Metal Gear Online 1.20 update + Meme Expansion details (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13763968&postcount=24087)

MGO Ver.1.20 Update information
The Client has been updated following the release of "MEME EXPANSION".

Updates include:

All alterations
1) New skills
2) Change of skill specification
3) New rules:
- Interval
- Stealth Deathmatch
4) New BGMs
5) Change of weapon specification
6) New explanation of weapon
7) New functions "Skill Set" and "Gear Set"
8) Briefing Screen appears changed
9) The Game Screen appears changed
10) New Gears

Lobby
1) The icon was added to the lobby name in "Lobby Select" menu.
2) The time which can enter the survival lobby was restricted.
3) Automatching lobby was divided.
4) Survival lobby was divided.
5) The headshots invalid lobby was added.

Ranking
1) The figure of the displayed ranking was increased.
2) The quantity of the ranking which moves by the left button or the right button was changed.
3) When viewing personal details, the page of a corresponding rule will be opened by the default.
4) The GRADE display of the player details was unified with "Community Support Page".

SURVIVAL
1) The total number of the Teams currently in battle is added to "Survival match List".
2) "Clan Members Only" is added to the stance of "Creat Team".
3) "Clan Members Only" is added to the condition of the filtering stance.
4) The icon of "Spanner" is displayed next to the character name who exists in "Personal" menu etc.

Others
1) "Radar orientation" added in "Gameplay Options".
2) "Appearance Settings" was changed.
3) The icon of EXPANSION which shows the owned pack was added to "Personal Stats".
4) The icon of "Beginner" added to the "Personal Stats" of biginners.
5) The E-mail Address was changed from "GM" to "CS"(Customer Support).
6) The new functions "Delete all read messages", "Delete all messages from a particular sender" and "Delete all messages" added to inbox of Mail.
7) Decision method of the "Beginner" was changed.
8) "EXPANSION PACK" is added to the condition of the filtering stance of "Free Battle".
9) The display was added to appear when Riward Points was earned at the time of login and the Automatching play.
10) The display of the current Riward was changed on the Personal menu.
11) Warning is displayed when playing for a long time.
12) The score came to be added through assistance action.
13) Change in the specification of the level up.
14) If you Quit the game before finish, the record will be added to your profile.
15) The icon of "Friendly Fire" and "Voice Chat" and "Lock on" were added to "COMMON SETTINGS" of Free Battle and Survival.
16) The camera was added to the equipment of Mk.II.
17) The function which turns OFF a text chat was added to the "MUTE" menu of "BRIEFING"
18) When one of the team disappeared from the Free Battle, the game becomes invalid match.


For MEME EXPANSION only

1) New Maps:
- Forest Firefight (F.F.)
- Silo Sunset(S.S.)
- Winter Warehouse (W.W.)

2) New unique characters:
- LIQUID OCELOT
- MEI LING

3) New game mode:
- Tournament

This thread has quite a few posts, but it doesn't seem to be popular. Would you like this to be merged with the main MGS4 thread? Even though we shouldn't.

[Z]

no. I say keep the trash out. MGS4 is for awesome MGS news. this? I don't know what this is, but keep it confined to its own thread, please.

[Jay Gee]

I need to find a way for Konami to accept my debit card, cuz I don't have a fucking credit card to make purchases.