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As I turn suddenly at the sound of news, exclamation point appearing over my head in a shocked tone, I discover Metal Gear Online's long-delayed PC version hiding behind a crate. Yes indeed, Konami have announced that MGO, the multiplayer portion of MGS5, will soon be in a playable state on PC, with an opt-in beta distributed via Steam in just a few hours. It comes months after the console version went live in October, but on the plus side, does look rather fun.

The announcement was made via a quick Twitch stream last night, where information on some upcoming DLC was also announced. There's a new map on the way based around Mother Base, plus some new costumes, but for PC players what's important is we'll finally get to play it.

If you've got The Phantom Pain but aren't familiar with the promised multiplayer, it's fairly similar to the single-player's missions, but with a lot more Snake-likes wandering around. You shoot each other, go for objectives, attach fulton balloons and generally have a smashing time

The archive of the stream is available on Twitch with the PC-relevant stuff about 14 minutes in or you can read the announcement over on Steam. If you want to get in on the action, you'll need to use Steam's beta opt-in service through the properties menu - but there's no invite process: if you have the game, you can play MGO. It's meant to go live at 10PM Pacific time today, January 12th, which is around 1am EST and 6am GMT on the 13th. Konami have advised that there could be a short delay in setting things up, but for Europeans, it should basically be available by the time you wake up tomorrow.
 

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The Metal Gear Online beta has been temporarily suspended andy chalk pcgamer

The Metal Gear Online PC beta that kicked off yesterday has already been suspended because of “a possible exploit” that, according to Kotaku, allowed players to acquire MB coins, the in-game currency that's normally purchased with real money, without paying for it.

Konami itself has said nothing about the nature of the exploit in the suspension announcement, nor when the beta will be restored. “Due to a possible exploit, we've removed access to the Beta temporarily while a hotfix is being prepared,” it states. “Once the issue is addressed we'll provide access to the Beta once again.”
Metal Gear Online has been live for consoles for a few months now, but different platforms, different problems, as they say—and getting these wrinkles ironed out is what a beta is for, after all. We'll keep an eye on things and let you know when Metal Gear Online is actually online.
 
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