Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Adjusts Difficulty Based on Player's Chosen Perspective
The developers of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater revealed that each of the remake's two gameplay styles will offer a different difficulty level.
Konami producers Noriaki Okamura and Yuji Korekado gave an interesting interview to Famitsu. During the interview, they described the different game modes featured in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and how they will affect the difficulty level.
- The game will offer two gameplay modes. The first one is Legacy Style, which resembles what the original offered, namely cinematic cameras with the ability to switch to FPP view when aiming.
- The second mode is New Style, offering a camera placed behind the character, in a style known from modern TPP shooters.
Players will be able to choose any of these styles at the beginning of the game, but they will not be able to change their choice during the gameplay (unless they start a new playthrough). The reason is that New Style improves the controls so much that the game becomes too easy. As a result, the devs had to significantly increase the game's difficulty level in this mode.
As Korekado explains:
New Style provides a wider field of view and enables you to shoot weapons while moving, which made the base difficulty level lower than we expected. However, if we were to adjust everything to this mode, then Legacy Style would become too difficult. That's why we decided to separate these two gameplay styles.
The inability to change the gameplay style without starting the game over may seem like a problem, but in practice, each variant will be almost like a separate game. Completing the campaign in Legacy Style and New Style should prove to be a completely different experience, thus providing us with more fun.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is coming to PC, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. For now, Konami company is not yet ready to announce the planned release date. Let's remind that recently some players waiting for MGS Delta encountered an unpleasant surprise - their language version disappeared from the game's card on Steam and was replaced by Russian localization.
