Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater's multiplayer mode will be available at launch, but it shouldn't be too much later

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Now it's only a few weeks, although fans will have to wait longer to play the game's online multiplayer mode.

While Snake Eater's main single player game will be launched on August 28 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, Fox Hunt will arrive sometime in this “Autumn” with a post-release update. Yes, it's as specific as publisher Konami is currently willing to get.

Announce Back to JuneFox Hunt is a brand new multiplayer game that has nothing to do with online metal gear, the product is tied to Metal Gear Solid 4: Patriot's guns in 2008. MGO lasted for four years, and then its servers shut down in 2012.

“Fox Hunt is a completely original online multiplayer mode,” said senior metal gear solids developer Yu Sahara, who now directs the mode in June. “Although it shares the same world with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, the gameplay is completely different.

“When we say Metal Gear multiplayer, many fans may think of Metal Gear online, but Fox Hunt will be its own new model. We are very grateful to all the long-time fans of MGO who have always wanted to see it make a comeback, but the landscape of multiplayer has changed a lot since MGO. There have been a lot of cautious considerations in mind since MGO. Some new online modes have been considered.

Sahara continues that Fox Hunt will focus on the stealth and survival elements of the Metal Gear series and “camouflage, hide and seek new levels” to ensure the mode provided is “more than just gunfights.”

Outside of Fox Hunt, Delta is a remake of the 2004 Classic Metal Gear Solid 3: The Snake Eater. Original metal equipment creator hideo kojima says he can't playHowever.

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