Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is out now, and while it’s a lot prettier or at least, more Unreal than the original Metal Gear Solid 3, it’s got its fair share of technical problems. Curiously, two of the major crashing issues involve crocodiles. If you want a smooth opening bout of Snake Eater, I would avoid either pretending to be a crocodile or having lunch in the presence of a hungry one. Did a crocodile work on this game? There seems to be some underlying reptilian resentment at work, which I guess is to be expected from a game called Snake Eater.
Konami, of course, are well aware of these issues, and are working on a patch. They’ll roll the fixes out in stages, with exact release timing to follow. Here’s their shortlist of the known issues, plucked from the Steam page.
- Performing an additional survival knife attack after completing a series of consecutive attacks to secure food may cause the game to crash under certain conditions.
- Removing the Crocodile Cap from the Survival Viewer while it is equipped may cause the game to crash under certain conditions.
- Collecting food when a hungry crocodile is nearby may cause the game to crash under certain conditions.
- Transitioning from a roll into a crawl may result in the character model floating in mid-air under certain conditions.
- In areas where the camera switches to Intrusion View, character movement may become restricted under certain conditions.
- Opening the Radio Window under certain conditions may cause the game to crash.
Who amongst us has not rolled into a crawl and ended up drifting across the scenery? I think it’s got something to do with eating parsnips after their sell-by-date. Konami are mum as to what might happen if you roll into a crawl while wearing a crocodile hat. Presumably, your keyboard will grow teeth and clamp shut around your hands.
Sulky swamp lizards aside, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is notable for having a whole Platinum game inside it that is secretly a cancelled Zone Of The Enders 3 prototype.
