Electronic Arts has officially announced that PC gamers worldwide can now participate in the second open multiplayer beta testing phase for Medal of Honor. According to the official EA press statement, the test phase will be open until 8 October, 9am GMT (11am CAT).
The Medal of Honor beta will give thousands of players worldwide a taste of the promised ‘authentic action set in the unforgiving Afghanistan terrain using real-world weapons.’ The Open Beta also allows the development team to load-test the multiplayer servers to ensure easy connectivity and a smooth play experience when the game launches on 15 October.
Gamers can download the beta today from the official MoH beta website. South Africans concerned about bandwidth and latency can visit the SGS, iGame, or WAGE websites to obtain their beta client, and find information on local servers.
The Medal of Honor PC Multiplayer Open Beta features two new maps inspired by real world locations: Kunar Base and Shahikot Mountains. Kunar Base is played in the Sector Control multiplayer mode where two sides fight to control tactical sectors of the map. Shahikot Mountains is played in the objective-based Combat Mission multiplayer mode where gamers battle through a series of objectives to defeat the opposing team.
Both modes pit teams of 12 players (total 24 players) against one another with realistic destruction, tactical support actions and a weapon customization system that generates hundreds of combinations.
The PC Multiplayer Open Beta went live just days after EA announced that the opposing team in Medal of Honor multiplayer has been renamed from the Taliban to Opposing Force (OPFOR). The change applies only to the name of the opposing team in multiplayer. The gameplay, environments, character models and weapons have not changed. No changes have been made to the single-player game.
The team name ‘Taliban’ was removed out of respect for the families of serving, veteran and fallen U.S. Soldiers. To further honor the troops, EA is giving back to several charities including Give Back 10, The Mission Continues and Adopt-a-Soldier. The list of organizations EA supports continues to grow.
“The heartbeat of Medal of Honor has always resided in the reverence for American and Allied soldiers. The decision to remove the Taliban team name was out of respect for the families of these men and women,” said Greg Goodrich, Executive Producer, Medal of Honor.
“All elements beyond the substitution of the Taliban team name in the multiplayer portion of the game will remain unchanged. We have released this PC Multiplayer Open Beta to let players see for themselves,” concluded Goodrich.
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