Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta 1.02 patch was made available at 10:30 PM PDT for the North America PlayStation Store and will roll out across all the regions participating in the Beta over the next few hours. The full patch notes to update 1.02 are listed below. In addition, we have updated the available gametypes to bring back Plunder! As a result, Free for All has been removed from this week’s available gametypes. Available: July 5, 2011 General Last place team in Three Team Deathmatch now gets placed into Observer Mode in Sudden Death Gameplay Disabled the accumulation of medals to stack Medal Kickback activations. Now, if your Medal Kickback is waiting to be activated, you cannot earn more medals that count towards your Medal Kickback counter until you have activated your current Medal Kickback. Players will still be awarded medals Disabled the activation of a Power Play after 40 kills have been reached in Team Deathmatch Increase the minimum time between Power Plays

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We’re just one day away from the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta going public tomorrow, Tuesday, July 5 – if you haven’t been able to find a voucher code from the multitude of sources to play the Beta, it won’t matter tomorrow as anyone and everyone who can access the PlayStation Store will be able to join in.  You’ll find the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta as a regular download on the PS Store sometime tomorrow! Today also marks the beginning of the second week of the Beta and that means our scheduled updates to the available gametypes have been pushed – we’ve added in Team Objective and Co-op Hunters to the mix for this week. Once you’ve logged in, the version number on the top right should read 1.00.647. On tap for this week are the following gametypes and modes: July 4 to July 9 Gametypes: Team Deathmatch, Free For All, Team Objective, Hardcore, Co-op Hunter Maps: Airstrip, Chateau In addition, the video playlist for

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The first weekend during the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta also happens to be a long holiday weekend. We’re expecting a higher number of players than during the week – as is typical in our experience – so we wanted to make sure that everyone knows where to leave us feedback. We can’t stress this point enough – we want to hear from you about anything and everything you like, dislike or any issues you encounter while playing the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta. The best place to do that, and make sure that we get it, it to post it on the Multiplayer Beta discussion forum on NaughtyDog.com here. Many of us have been playing in the Beta with you during the week and we’ll be on this weekend as well – see you online!

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Much, much earlier today, Wednesday, June 29, we pushed out the 1.01 update to the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta. Full patch notes to the update are listed below. Available: June 29, 2011 Relevant minor updates prior to 1.01 Temporarily removed Plunder gametype from matchmaking Added in Free For All to replace Plunder Temporarily disabled Facebook integration Gameplay Removed Yemen from map rotation in Free For All. Yemen will return during its regularly scheduled week. Temporarily removed Cursed from Power Play rotation Technical Fixed issue where a crash would occur when backing out of multiplayer Fixed frequent slowing of framerate that could lead to the Beta freezing Fixed a crash involving Emblems  

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