In case you’re waiting for the Metal Gear Online beta to begin (it’s supposed to start sometime tomorrow), you might want to connect up and start downloading the 1.01 and 1.02 patches that are now available. Maybe you’ll have better luck with the download speeds than I have… I’m a couple of hours in on the 1.01 patch and I’m only at 35 percent completion.
Maybe the direct download is a faster option?
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i want beta now!
Man oh man, Id pull my hair out with speeds like that … and yes string cheese truly is delicious.
String cheese is indeed delicious.
The first patch which I assume your downloading, takes a HELL of a long time to download.
HTTP is not better, stick with the BT.
The second patch though is extremely generous. Took 2 minutes to download and install.
More videos like this please. Short, focused, about games.
I found that incredibly trippy, that i was downloading the 1.02 patch while watching this video and hearing the eerie music overlapping. waiting.. still waiting.. but 1.02 is much faster, MUCH. Thank god. Will we be playing tomorrow?
Last week p2p was definetly better, but 2 hours ago for 1.02 the direct link only took a few minutes.
Either 1.02 is much smaller, 1.01 is 870 odd mb, or it’s faster now everyone has given up and gone off to cry.
Any of us get to play with the Bomb?
Like it was mentioned already, 1.02 downloads incredibly fast. I did get 1.01 in about 2 hours. I was lucky I suppose.
string cheese sure is delicious isnt it!
and anyone doing the bittorrent way, help out your fellow gmaer and DONT limit your upload speed!
uncheck that box and help out every1 else trying down load the patch
and if every1 doesnt limit there upload every1 will be able to play sooner!
Awesome. And yes more short videos like that.
Your awesome Jeff. Bay Area Out!
This whole process is ridiculous and unnecessary. There is no good reason for bypassing the PlayStation Network’s universal ID and updating system in favor of Konami’s convoluted, broken alternatives.
Going through all of this has significantly lowered my interest in Metal Gear Online.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Konami’s redundant IDs and download system were good, but it still wouldn’t be good.
Yeah, my friend said it was taken a real long time to download.
At that rate, it will be somewhere around time for MGS5’s launch before your download is complete.
Open the port at your router. It’ll go a lot faster than that.( Mine hover around 80kb/s)
If any bombers intend to try and play MGO properly, bit of stealth and no rambo tactics, send a PSN invite to nailerr. I’d like to avoid games with people looking for Halo or Resistance in this one..
I’ve been downloading it for many hours and am still at 44 percent
its downloading at 8K or something, man, this thing is soooo ___ luckily the second patch is smaller :S
THe HTTP download works fast but it gets errored and disconnected automatically after sometime for some strange reason :S
LOVE the music. That connection speed ROCKS!!! LOL…and YES…string cheese is amazing….love how you can eat it and not actually touch it….
String Cheese > Metal Gear Online beta
Ok, maybe not. But still they are pretty close.
But, yeah, more videos like this please. Text is overrated.
this was awesome. more videos like this. maybe with a better camera though? lol
Haha, so pimp status.
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Yep, like everyone said, the first update is longer than the second.
BTW Jeff, do you want to throw down on some MGO beta action when you do get it going? Haha. I think I may be already on your list.
String Cheese?! Those things are nasty as all hell! More vile drinks please
Well you are going to have fun making the GAME ID. MGO is just so crazy to get working.
My son’s love string cheese. Is this something to be encouraged?
DONE! After downloading the game…then the patch… Oh and then the other patch!…and then making the game ID and then konami ID…I am finally though! I know this beta was free but man I feel like I just got off work. Sadly I have no string cheese to mark the occasion.
Personally I am just waiting for the Metal Gear Solid 4 single player game’s release.
The online semi-tactical first person shooter may or may not be great, but I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
I think that everyone around here suspects this game is going to flop, kojima was kinda corrupted by the fact mgs4 took so much time and money to be developed, they just want to use the same engine and charged for it twice. I don’t know, hope i am wrong i am such a kojima fun.
Espionage!!!
Cheese String - it’s real a-peelable cheese!
I tried the HTTP download last weekend and it would keep failing. Usually bit torrent actually went pretty smooth.
I did the 1.02 update last night. That update is much smaller as it only took a minute or two to download.
argh, that looks so painfull. Keep up the impromtu videos guys. Well done.
String cheese is delicious. I got the same speeds though. It’s awful. Konami really haven’t had a clue with this Beta have they?
Yeah, I think I’m gonna go pre-order it today and get access to the beta. I need to play some MG on the PS3.
One day Japan will understand internet, so its ok.
Putting the fact that this whole beta update is terrible aside, what is this business about having a konami user name? Won’t my PSN user name be all I need? And oh yeah, this beta update is whack. Why is the update taking so much longer than the original download?
The direct download option isn’t reliable. Just stick to the peer to peer option, it will be fine.
I’ve heard that the wait is WELL worth it. So hang in there Jeff!
HTTP=alot faster
STRING CHEESE IS DELICIOUS! -takes a bite of string cheese-
DELICIOUS I SAY!
For the love of everything good and sacred, TAKE THOSE STICKERS OFF YOUR TV!
my speed was somewhere between 90 and 120 kbps and it took me about 1.5 hours to download the patch…
HTTP was waaaaaaaaaaaay slower for me when I tried it, I just put it on BitTorrent and went to sleep for the night and it was done when I woke up
I’ve heard that in the US some ISP’s limit bandwidth for bit torrent downloads, I wonder if that’s what’s creating the low download speeds.
String cheese = awesome. and i was getting speeds of around 150kb/s and it still took me 2 hours to download
North American servers for the Metal Gear Online are up.
Havent played yet, but I will soon
And yep they’re up and running now….about fuckin time too,everyone check it out while you can,no telling how long they’ll stay up given how crazy this process has been thus far.
Haha, nice … more of these, Jeff r teh AweSomeNeSS .
So, is it more delicious to pull out the strings of cheese, or just bite it straight?
I tried downloading the Metal Gear patch and got a video of Kim Kardashian getting repeatedly jumped on by some guy instead. Weird.
for anyone who has yet to get in it,or is still in dl’ing phase,here’s a quick sight into what i’ve seen in it so far-There’s is a decent little training place,that puts you alone not in a server,and lets you go through all the actions and what not,nothing special but its cool it sthere for starting out I guess.-a system similar to call of duty with “perks” you choose up to 4(i believe?) or 5 different skills,and it seems like these can level up individually,they all say (lv1) by them atm,some pretty cool looking stuff,movement seems fine.Keep in mind this isn’t a run and gun game,and you can tell that as soon as you start moving.Have yet to get into a server and play yet but it seems at least interesting so far,very easy controls too.
String cheese is only delicious when you PEEL THE CHEESE into STRINGS.
i had the same problem downloading the first patch when it was suppose to start. i left the house and hours later it was done.
I’ve played a few games and I think most will continue on playing CoD4/Warhawk.
I definitely want more videos like this instead of long text that i read trying not to fall asleep. This is much more fun!!! AND THERE IS STRING CHEESE!!!
Who just takes bites out of string cheese? Jeff Gerstmann, you sir do not know the proper technique for consuming string cheese.
haha, that was great, more like this please, reminded me of “POINTS!”, but shorter.
For the technically impaired:
At that speed it would take you over 10 hours to download the short video you just watched.
STRING CHEESE FTW!
yeah for the most part everyone should of expected,you aren’t going to play Metal Gear for a multiplayer game,its not bad or anything and can be at least entertaining and kinda fun,but it isn’t going to pull you away from your cod4.If nothing else its a good way to check out the controls and just get a feel for how some things should feel in te SP game,the controls are much much more easily accessable then past metal gears where you had to hold like 5 buttons together just to aim in first person and move around,its still worth your time to check out though by far,just not the best thing.
how true
First patch took me 1 hour and a half, second was less than 4 minutes. The direct download for 1.01 is broken, don’t try it! Also, cancelling will still allow you to continue next time you download again
I just want to second all the people who are saying that you have too peel the cheese into strings. Jeff please tell us that you will start eating your cheese properly.
Agreed, string cheese IS delicious.
For a more detailed description of how to properly eact string cheese go to thise blog:
http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2007/10/24/lizas-tips-to-eating-2-string-cheese/
I don’t think it would be worth the trouble, need bandwith for COD 4
oh HELL yeah (string cheese)
String cheese hell yeah!
Damn. I thought that method was supposed to be a much better way of getting stuff downloaded. Guess not, in that case.
Hmmmm, The only thing I want to play on PS3 is MGS. I think it may be some time before I do.
Always bet on string cheese to satisfy your hunger for mediocre snack foods.
i am going to the 2nd patch,it will take a while since i went trough the first patch lo lcan’t wait!
Hours to download a patch?? Jeez…
Second one was fine, but the first one was about 2 hours. Got up to about 140 on the download speed at one point, so about 10x what you had there.
Worth it though, the game is so so so much fun.
Finally got it downloaded, Jeff I was getting 7Kb/s so dont complain. *Sad face*
Ok, Online beta - the jewel in the crown of why companies need to learn how to do business in a more dynamic fashion.
You do the download - every bugger wants it, so that keels over somewhere around the mid point. Eventually leave it going overnight. I install that and excitely boot it up - trailer looks good. I’m all like ‘Yes! How cool is the future of video games?’. Not cool. Click the button v1.01. Why release an update WITHIN 24hrs of releasing the original download? Surely that’s like e-mailing someone, then e-mailing back two minutes later going “oh, here’s that spreadsheet I meant to attach last time - my bad”.
Attempt to start update, while it attempts to reconfigure my router for p2p, it actually just kills it outright.
Reset the router, reset the ps3. Have another go the next day. set it going at 6:30-7pm. Head up to bed at around 11:30, it’s still at something like 35%. Leave the ps3 on overnight again.
Get the patch, try to log on. Konami Id - I’ve heard your rants and beleive you me it makes my tits bleed also. Konami, apparently hadn’t reallised that if you release a ‘first for the console’ metal gear title simultaneously worldwide, your website is going to get a few hits.
2 day’s later, manage to get a Friend Id or Game Code or whatever out of the godawful system they’ve put in place on the site (be careful which country you say you live in, because if it’s wrong YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE IT AND YOUR GAME MAY NOT WORK ON LINE! - what way is that to welcome your new customer in the door? “Welcome Mr. Jones to the Temple of Doom. Mind your step.”
Anyway, I jumped through all those hoops like the sucker I am, so I boot the game again. Can’t access Server. Try later, same. Try the next day, and it’s been taken down. Except over here the way they worded it was that due to ‘unexpected global demand’ Europe only was being taken out of the beta trial to ease the load on the servers - nice, way to go guys.
As it happens it got killed everywhere didn’t it?
Heard it got back up and running so booted it again (some people I know just deleted the demo after the initial debacle - genuinses).
Haven’t even bothered trying with 1.02 (discounting an attempt to set it away after a stupid late night on CoD4 friday, when it’s excuse was that the servers go down for maintenance 3am-5am).
I have lost not only any will to actively pursue playing this game, but a little of my lust for life. I’ll be mostly the same, but the small thigs will slip. I’ll miss my train. Not wear a tie. Let those doors swing closed.
Thanks a bunch Konami.
String cheese is the best!
yes, string cheese is delicious. and you sir are very very drunk!
The first one went terrible for me. Like I went to play it like Friday night or something and the freaking thing took more than like 15 minutes to download so I just went to bed… so I can really not tell you how long it took. The 2nd patch only took like 2-3 minutes though, so was not so bad. But still, its pretty damn crappy in terms to making this a cohesive experience!
As for string cheese, not a big fan.
I left my PS3 on all night, waking up periodically to check on it, downloading the first patch. What a mess that one is. The second was fine. I’m finally happy to be playing the game. The best way to download the first patch is move the port one or to numbers up and download P2P. Its going to take awhile so don’t expect it to move much until a few hours later.
I’ve literally spent more time downloading patches than actually playing this game. It seems like every time I try to play it, there’s an update of some kind. I’m losing interest pretty quick.