Modder oct0xor has been engaged on a mod so as to add a third-person digital camera to Metallic Gear Strong 2, and now has lastly launched it in time for the twentieth anniversary of Metallic Gear Strong 2: Substance, the 2002 expanded re-release.
When the Metallic Gear collection went 3D with Metallic Gear Strong, it initially saved an overhead digital camera just like the earlier 2D video games. Although additions like first-person aiming mode modernized issues slightly, it wasn’t till Metallic Gear Strong 3’s expanded version, known as Subsistence, {that a} full 3D digital camera was added. It is this digital camera that oct0xor has modded into MGS2, which is why the mod’s known as The Substance Of Subsistence (S.O.S.) Mod (opens in new tab).
“The code to have a traditional third particular person digital camera was by no means current within the sport,” oct0xor writes, “and as a way to implement it, I needed to reverse engineer and rewrite many issues within the sport engine.” Apparently there are millions of traces of latest code added by the mod. If you wish to know extra in regards to the problem of its creation, try this dev diary video (opens in new tab).
To put in the mod, obtain launch.zip from github (opens in new tab) and unpack it to the bin folder in your Metallic Gear Strong 2 listing, then run solid_mods_loader.exe. You’ll allow and disable the third-person digital camera everytime you need as you play.
Sadly, Metallic Gear Strong 2 shouldn’t be at the moment accessible on the market on PC. Together with Metallic Gear Strong 3 it was delisted by Konami late in 2021 over points relating to the licenced footage in cutscenes, which included information footage of US president John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Disaster. Every so often of the Metallic Gear collection’ thirty fifth anniversary on July 13, Konami defined that it was working to get the video games relisted and stated, “We ask to your endurance as preparations are underway to make the quickly eliminated titles accessible once more.” Appropriately sufficient on the subject of Metallic Gear, they’ve saved us ready.
