Konami Confirms Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 Won't Have MGS4's Metal Gear Online, But Peace Walker Multiplayer Will Return

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 volition not see the mentation of Metal Gear Online featured with the archetypal merchandise of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Konami confirmed the omission, arsenic good arsenic galore different details astir its precocious announced postulation of ports, connected its authoritative website. Buried beneath accusation astir some MGS4 and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is simply a azygous enactment confirming the multiplayer offering volition not instrumentality erstwhile the erstwhile yet sneaks onto much platforms this August.

Screenshot from the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 website. Image captured by IGN.

This iteration of Metal Gear Online launched with MGS4 arsenic a bundled-in multiplayer acquisition successful June 2008. Featuring a assortment of crippled modes that ranged from modular squad deathmatch to a unsocial brushwood that saw 1 subordinate presume the relation of Old Snake – the offshoot tied unneurotic elements from the 4th mainline Metal Gear Solid crippled for players to bask successful an online setting. It received respective post-launch expansions done the years earlier Konami unopen down the servers successful 2012.

Bringing backmost MGS4 multiplayer for Master Collection Vol. 2 seems to beryllium excessively gangly an bid for the publisher, but the 2nd installment successful its bid of collections won’t beryllium wholly without an online component. Konami’s website besides confirms that, dissimilar the archetypal fractional of the bundle, its Peace Walker larboard volition enactment online multiplayer.

Details connected its returning Co-Ops mode committedness classical squad gameplay for the Big Boss epoch of the series, allowing two-to-four players to implicit missions together. Versus Ops is for the much competitive-minded fans and features matches for up to six players. Local wireless play is besides included, but lone for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 versions.

Although the deficiency of Metal Gear Online enactment for MGS4 whitethorn travel arsenic a bittersweet astonishment for fans of the archetypal PlayStation 3 release, different tweaks coming to the basal acquisition whitethorn pique their interest. As described successful a PlayStation.Blog post, Konami said the caller mentation of MGS4 volition diagnostic improved interior resolution, a maximum framerate increase, and customizable controls. It’s unclear if Peace Walker volition besides payment from ocular adjustments, but it volition astatine slightest travel with customized controls. Ghost Babel, a bonus Game Boy Color introduction from 2000, volition not spot the instrumentality of its two-player Vs. Battle mode, but it volition travel with surface filters, pixel-perfect surface settings, a rewind function, and customized controls.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 has an August 27, 2026, merchandise day for PC via Steam, Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. Those who pre-order their transcript volition summation entree to the Cardboard Camouflage for MGS4 and the Love Box unfirom for Peace Walker. If you besides hap to person prevention information from Vol. 1, you'll gain the Gold Camouflage and Gold uniform.

For more, you tin work astir what Konami is doing to marque definite it doesn’t endure the aforesaid motorboat problems arsenic Vol. 1. You tin besides spot however the steadfast revamped the multiplayer acquisition for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater with its Fox Hunt mode past year.

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