Facts first: on February 26, 2018, a few days after Metal Gear Survive launched, Konami announced a new type of cooperative mission for the following month, Rescue Missions. In a loose translation of the statement, the missions would ask players to be able to “cooperate and coordinate with your squad to save soldiers seeking help,” with “a new level of cooperation and team spirit.”
An important clarification: the co-op mode itself already existed since launch, with matches for up to four players in the so-called Salvage Missions, in which the team defends an excavation against hordes. The novelty was the objective. In Rescue Missions, the team had to extract Charon Corps survivors who had gotten lost after failing a salvage mission, using the terrain and defenses to open a safe escape route among the creatures.
Translating the jargon for those who did not follow along: Metal Gear Survive is a survival spin-off of the series, released on February 20, 2018 in North America and on February 22 in Europe, for PS4, Xbox One and PC. The story takes place between Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain and takes soldiers to Dite, a parallel dimension overrun by crystalline creatures called Wanderers. In practice, the game mixes resource gathering, base building and tower defense, with stealth as an option.
What came next
Reception was lukewarm: Metacritic scores came in at 54 on PC, 60 on PS4 and 62 on Xbox One, and the game had been criticized since before launch for reusing material from Metal Gear Solid V, for its microtransactions and for the constant connection requirement. Sales also fell well below the series’ earlier games. The numbers do not lie, sadly.
Source: Konami.
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