Metal Gear Solid Delta's Delayed Multiplayer Won't Have Crossplay, and It's Not Going Down Well With Fans

Not lone volition Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater beryllium missing its multiplayer Fox Hunt mode astatine launch, the online offering volition besides deficiency crossplay enactment erstwhile it does arrive.

Metal Gear Delta developer Konami dropped the bombshell contiguous via its Japanese societal media account, and stated that players connected PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S would beryllium excluded from playing with 1 another.

The effect to the quality has not been kind, with fans dubbing the announcement arsenic "severely disappointing" and a determination that could present interaction the wide longevity of the game, should peculiar platforms commencement to consciousness devoid of players.

"Why not? Konami IDs person existed forever. Use 'em," wrote 1 instrumentality successful response.

"I person friends who play connected antithetic platforms," wrote another. "Now I won't beryllium capable to play with them. This crippled mode volition beryllium dormant connected accomplishment if it doesn't person crossplay."

"Battlefield 6 volition beryllium getting my money," wrote a 3rd person. "I tin play with my friends successful different platforms due to the fact that they really thought cross-play through."

Announced backmost successful June, Fox Hunt is an all-new multiplayer offering stealth and endurance elements, which Konami has antecedently promised volition "camouflage and fell and spell question to the adjacent level" alternatively than conscionable providing different Call of Duty-style shootout.

This isn't the archetypal clip Metal Gear Solid has dabbled with multiplayer, of course. Metal Gear Online, which came bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots backmost successful 2008, lasted 4 years, earlier its servers were switched disconnected successful 2012.

"When we accidental Metal Gear multiplayer, galore fans volition astir apt deliberation of Metal Gear Online, but Fox Hunt volition beryllium its ain caller benignant of mode," said seasoned Metal Gear Solid developer Yu Sahara, who present acts arsenic Fox Hunt's director. "We precise overmuch admit each the long-time fans of MGO who person ever wanted to spot it marque a comeback, but the scenery of multiplayer games has changed a batch since MGO. It took a batch of cautious information to deliberation astir what a caller online mode should look like."

Last week, Konami admitted that Fox Hunt would miss the motorboat of the main, single-player information of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, which arrives connected PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected August 28. Fox Hunt volition past motorboat via a post-launch update sometime this "fall".

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