MGS4 online beta thread

Im mostly looking forward to hiding in a barrel looking at the girly mags:D Some on here are possibly more looking forward to playing with the man cannons though ;)
 
LOL good one smalls

Btw
I figured out a work-around that seems to work, but you have to be fast and have a bit of patience.

Getting past the first couple of screens very quickly got to be easier (with lots of practice)... but the long registration form is what killed me each time.

So, here is what seems to work:

1) Get to the long registration form as quickly as possible... then RELAX. Fill out this form very carefully and slowly. Remember that the KONAMI ID NAME must be all lower case and the password must have at least some letters in it and be at least 8 characters long... whereas the GAME ID NAME must be different and the password must be ALL NUMERIC.

2) DON'T submit this (you'll get a timeout)... just make sure it is fully filled out and ready... keep the screen near the submit button. Then, open a new tab in your browser.

3) In the new tab, visit the Konami ID site again. Go through the first set of screens very quickly and if you manage to get to the long registration form and it loads completely (and quickly,) switch back to the tab that was fully filled out and quickly hit submit.

4) Be prepared for the confirmation page. As SOON as it loads, quickly scroll down and click REGISTER. Don't bother looking over your information, because it will time-out.

After many tries, this seemed to work for me. FINALLY. It seems the system gives you a session ID that times out WAY TOO SOON for EVERY STEP. Don't they actually want anyone to read at least two words of their agreement on the second page? Apparently not.

Oh, and if you get the generic "Our servers are down" type of message instead of the usual "we deleted your session" message... you can recover from this by entering this into your browser's address bar and hitting enter:

javascript&colonalert(document.coo kie='');

If a blank alert box pops up, your browser supports this and just nuked the cookie for the site you were visiting. This should let Konami's servers to let you try again sooner, rather than giving you this generic message for a while.

Hope this helps. I kept at this for a while until I discovered exactly how Konami's servers were trying to handle this situation, then came up with this solution to circumvent their silliness. It would be much better if they didn't have this problem to begin with.
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Also someone else commented that you should wait for all pages to fully load before going to the next screen.
 
Inazuma said:
Thanks KNiVES. Seems like they've covered quite a few areas :) I wonder if there will be custom music selection though.

Soulja - Yes there is a mode where one person control Snake and another controls MkII, and everyone else has to hunt them :cool:
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Not mentioned at all in the online manual, oddly. I hope it's just an error on Konami's part.
 
Inazuma said:
Thanks KNiVES. Seems like they've covered quite a few areas :) I wonder if there will be custom music selection though.

Soulja - Yes there is a mode where one person control Snake and another controls MkII, and everyone else has to hunt them :cool:
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Sweet :D i really can't wait for MGS4/MGS online :cool:
 
Stupid patch is killing my net, i enabled limit upload and it is still uploading at 85KB/s and only downloading at 150KB/s, if it just stopped uploading 5/10KB/s the download could be 10 times that
 
Still a helluva lot faster than a lot of us did ours :eek: I had to get the patch going at 60KB/s. Your biggest obstacle will be the signup process, unless you have already done so.
 
KNiVES said:
Still a helluva lot faster than a lot of us did ours :eek: I had to get the patch going at 60KB/s. Your biggest obstacle will be the signup process, unless you have already done so.
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The patch has finished now, took around an hour and a half overall,

I already have a game ID thanks to needles :)
 
Downloaded the patch, just need to get a Konami ID, but its very painful at this time, after entering my country and DOB i get to the T&C section, after clicking next its "error has occured" "Due to a period of inactivity, the page has been deleted"
:mad:
 
pyroboy ...... speed is the key ....as soon as the page loads, scroll down the page as fast as possible and hit next.

Using autoformer & firefox if you can get to the details page, take your time, fill it in and use autoformer to save the details you have filled in.

Hit next and it will fail, go back to the front page and start again ...only this time you don't need to fill in the details again just scroll down each page as fast as you can and hit next.

This should get through to the end of the process ....good luck.

This method has worked for me over ten times.
 
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