Metal Gear Solid Master Collection will work with keyboards, kind of

Information that the primary quantity of the upcoming Steel Gear Strong Grasp Assortment wouldn’t help gaming keyboard and mouse inputs understandably dampened hopes of a correct PC port of the Kojima classics. Fortunately, nonetheless, suggestions from followers in regards to the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection has prompted Konami to partially rethink its peripheral plans.

Throughout a latest Konami press occasion, we obtained to play the Swap model of the complete assortment and communicate to Céline Combelles, senior model supervisor for Steel Gear Strong at Konami, in regards to the PC model particularly. Throughout our dialog, she talked about that as a result of fan requests following the earlier announcement of no MGS keyboard help, the workforce is now attempting to combine mouse and keyboard controls ultimately for all video games within the assortment.

PCGamesN reached out to Konami for an official assertion on the problem, which expands on these feedback with specifics we will now share with you. Nevertheless, it stresses that this can be a work in progress and that we’ll hopefully obtain an replace nearer to launch.

Steel Gear Strong, in addition to the MSX and NES video games, will solely obtain keyboard help, as these are both 2D video games or barely use a first-person mode. Steel Gear Strong 2 will primarily get keyboard controls however with some mouse help. Steel Gear Strong 3 is the one sport within the assortment that may have keyboard and mouse help.

That is excellent news for these wishing to play the bundle with a keyboard and mouse because it means they don’t must splash out on a suitable PC controller to get pleasure from these basic video games. Steel Gear Strong Grasp Assortment Vol.1 will launch on October 24, 2023, however in the event you can’t wait that lengthy, here’s a choice of the best PC games of this yr.