Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's Multiplayer Mode Won't Be Available at Launch, But Shouldn't Come Too Much Later

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is present conscionable weeks from launch, though fans volition person to hold a small longer to play Fox Hunt, the game's online multiplayer mode.

While the main, single-player information of Snake Eater volition motorboat for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S connected August 28, Fox Hunt volition get via a post-launch update sometime this "fall". And yes, that's arsenic circumstantial arsenic steadfast Konami is presently consenting to get.

Announced backmost successful June, Fox Hunt is an wholly caller multiplayer offering unrelated to Metal Gear Online, which came bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots backmost successful 2008. MGO lasted 4 years, earlier its servers were switched disconnected successful 2012.

"Fox Hunt is simply a wholly archetypal online multiplayer mode," said seasoned Metal Gear Solid developer Yu Sahara, who present acts arsenic the mode's director, backmost successful June. "Although it shares the aforesaid satellite with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the gameplay is wholly different.

"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. 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."

Sahara continued by saying that Fox Hunt would absorption connected Metal Gear series' stealth and endurance elements, and instrumentality "camouflage and fell and spell question to the adjacent level" successful bid to guarantee the mode offered "more than conscionable a shootout."

Outside of Fox Hunt, Delta is simply a remake of the 2004 classical Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Original Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has said helium won't beryllium playing, however.

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