'Metal Gear Solid 5' Online Multiplayer News - 'Phantom Pain' Gameplay Supports 16 Players On PS4, Xbox One, & PC

If you're looking forward to playing Metal Gear Online later this year, with the release of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, we have some great co-op multiplayer news for you. According to new reports from Konami's Japanese website, the upcoming release supports 16 players on PS4, Xbox One & PC, and 12 players on Xbox 360 & PS3. In other words, grab all of your friends to enjoy some amazing new gameplay!

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This news comes from a translated report over at Videogamer (via IGN), which also points out that the September 1 release of The Phantom Pain will also include access to this online multiplayer mode of the game.

What do you think of the 16-player capabilities of this upcoming release? Are you excited to play this game with a ton of other gamers? Let us know what you think of this news in the comments section below and check out a recent multilplayer gameplay trailer for Metal Gear Online right here:

"In the aftermath of the events of Ground Zeroes and the destruction of Militaires Sans Frontières, Big Boss falls into a coma. Nine years later, he awakes and forms a new mercenary group, the Diamond Dogs," the official synopsis of the game states. "Now under the guise of the codename 'Venom Snake,' he ventures into Afghanistan during the Soviet war to track down the men responsible for MSF's destruction. Along the way, he becomes reacquainted with his former rival Ocelot and encounters a unit of warriors robbed of their past, present and future. While he and Kazuhira 'Kaz' Miller are initially driven to exact revenge, Snake soon unearths a plot by the Cipher organization to develop a weapon with the potential to surpass even the Metal Gear system, and his mission quickly switches focus to ending this new threat."