Delta impressions thread

[Dirty Duck]

I’ve just played up until the area with the building Sokolov is inside of. I’m doing non-lethal and collecting the Kerotan and GA-KO which isn’t something I’ve done before and is actually quite hard searching for them while keeping the guards out of your way so just getting that short distance has taken me quite a while. I’ve also been calling Paramedic multiple times a screen to talk about animals. The codec really is such a big part of what makes MGS great.

As for specifically Delta rather than just Snake Eater: I’ve had some choppiness when entering some areas already which doesn’t seem great when I’m in performance mode, but it didn’t last for long. I still don’t really know about the engine. It kind of feels very high fidelity but also almost not as detailed as I’d expect given all the UE5 hype for realistic graphics? The Raiden mask looked kind of wrong, and I get that it’s meant to be a mask and they’ve maybe gone further with that this time but the hair on it in the opening cutscene just felt like something was wrong with it. Small nitpick but I don’t like that they made Snake in the background of the codec screen a totally visible model.
Gameplay wise I’ve had a few muscle memory hiccups when trying to hold up or CQC guards but that’s to be expected. So far I find I…don’t especially care for the over the shoulder MGSV style aiming in this. I keep using the classic down the sights aiming instead so really it’s just added an extra button press. I suppose I could switch the control style but I feel like I should give it more of a chance.

I like some of the new flourishes. The skeuomorphic design approach for the fast tuning of the codec is nice (though it is something we saw in MGS4 with the iPod). I like that the camo quick change will flood the screen with the camo pattern you’re changing to (though I do feel like the quick change is maybe too streamlined? Feels like it almost trivialises camo at all given it just shows you the one to be wearing. The argument could be made that MGS3’s original camo changing was already trivial given it tells you which is best but I feel like part of it was going to the one you think might be best to check the index score. This is so close to having no player input part of it is like well damn why even have to press up and X? Why not just ditch the index altogether. May change my tune on this too though, we’ll see).