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:
  • Saiga 12's cost changed from 8000DP to 5000DP.
  • G3A3's cost changed from 5000DP to 4000DP.
• Change of skill specification:
  • "NARC" Lv2's cost from 1 to 2
  • "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