Konami recently released a patch for the PS4 and PC versions of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, but Xbox One gamers were left out.
Metal Gear Solid V players using Microsoft's console are still experiencing severe stuttering and frame rate issues, with dozens of reports piling up. Gamers are complaining that the Xbox One version of the game is basically unplayable due to these issues, and it remains unclear just when Konami plans to release a patch for Xbox.
The recent patch for the PlayStation 4 and PC versions of the game fixed a number of major issues that were deleting some gamers' saved games and preventing them from progressing. A similar patch for the Xbox One version of the game is reportedly still in development, but there's no word yet as to when it may finally be ready to roll out.
The glitch is so bad that some gamers can't even play the game anymore. One experience is particularly prevalent: players can no longer control Snake's action: instead of blending into the shadows, he goes straight into a searchlight.
For an espionage game such as Metal Gear Solid V, making those tight infiltrations and stealthily slipping by is of the utmost importance and a single mistake can mean the end of it. The gamer must be in control at all times – always alert and extremely precise – but the game's stuttering and glitches make that virtually impossible. Especially during intense graphic load — the game starts stuttering, locks up the control input and causes audio to drop as well.
For some players, the game won't last for even one minute without frame rate drops, audio glitches and stuttering, or other such issues. Some report that when this occurs, the game takes the last controller input into account, but ignores all new input. In most cases, it seems these issues occur for about two to four seconds every 30 to 60 minutes.
Some gamers managed to get rid of the issues by performing a hard reset on their Xbox One consoles, others installed the game on a USB flash stick or an external HDD, while still others suggested moving the game to the internal hard drive. All of these potential solutions, however, worked only for some, while for others the issues persist.
Neither Konami nor the Xbox division have issued any statements yet or provided a release date for the patch, but it shouldn't be too long. For now, the only information available in this regard is that Xbox 360 and Xbox One updates for Metal Gear Solid V are "arriving soon." In the meantime, gamers can report the issues they encounter on Konami's support pages.
