Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT| The Man Who Sold The World

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I'm around mission 10 and I'm getting a little better. I still kinda suck at going in completely stealthy and non-lethally.

Usually I can get in, but getting out is the hard part and I run off while everyone is shooting at me.

Also guards are starting to wear more helmets and gasmasks, so my preferred way of doing things is getting to be more difficult.
Can you do dispatch missions yet? I forget when that unlocks. The bottom lot of those missions reduce things like helmets.
 
I was crying tears of joy watching the opening cutscene in Afghanistan knowing right after that i'll finally be able to control and play the game of the E3 2014 gameplay demonstration God only knows how many times i have watched since. It was so fulfilling. lol
 
You can get female recruits. For the longest time I just assumed there were none, but here we are.
My first female recruit have very bad stats like almost all E with just one D, but since female recruit is rare, everytime I dispatch a team, I sometimes look at the team and remove the female soldier since I fear her dying. At some point I kinda forgot to do this everytime and I just realized my female recruit had gotten medal and her stats are now all C. Pretty cool. I let her go out on mission now. Hopefully she's not gonna die. I also like her portrait pic.
 
When I started the game, I Fultoned everyone. Now I realize that I have too many soldiers w/ all E rankings in every category. Should I just boot out every one of these?
 
When I started the game, I Fultoned everyone. Now I realize that I have too many soldiers w/ all E rankings in every category. Should I just boot out every one of these?
Personally I'd say upgrade your Base a lot first. E rank soldiers are better than empty spaces.
I've also been dumping all my E rank guys into the Security team as fodder.


Having completed the game now, I'm really glad the FOBs really were completely inessential to upgrading your motherbase and completing the game.
 
Personally I'd say upgrade your Base a lot first. E rank soldiers are better than empty spaces.
I've also been dumping all my E rank guys into the Security team as fodder.

How do I upgrade the base? Do I have to reach a certain mission? All I can develop right now are weapons, items, and buddy/helicopter.
 
When I started the game, I Fultoned everyone. Now I realize that I have too many soldiers w/ all E rankings in every category. Should I just boot out every one of these?
I advise you that hold onto them. They'll get replaced by better soldiers and just end up in the waiting room anyway. I'm 100 hours in and have a staff shortage, despite fultoning everything.
 
Spoilers

I thought
you have to wait until mission complete with code talker to start development of the parasite suit? I killed all of them but still had the red bar icon over Fulton.

You can only fulton if you use non lethal though, if you've killed then you obviously won't be able to fulton
 
How necessary would you guys say it is for me to play the old games before buying this one? I've never had much interest in the series before but I saw a friend play V last night and the gameplay looked so good.
 
I used Quiet but she wasn't much help. I
called an air strike on the Skulls but 1 lived. Quiet took a shot, the Skull disappeared and I think he ran to her and knocked her out bc all of her actions were grayed out for the rest of the mission.
An easy method is to stop the convoy with a vehicle once it has left the airport. Then crawl under the first armoured tank so you aren't detected by the skulls and launch sleeping gas strikes. Two should knock them all out. Then you can also Fulton the driver out too to complete the optional task.
 
How necessary would you guys say it is for me to play the old games before buying this one? I've never had much interest in the series before but I saw a friend play V last night and the gameplay looked so good.

just play v now man, live in the moment

you should check out 1-4 eventually though. those games are classic
 
How necessary would you guys say it is for me to play the old games before buying this one? I've never had much interest in the series before but I saw a friend play V last night and the gameplay looked so good.

Not much at all but at least try to play GZ and a small synopsis of Peace Walker for the cutscenes
 
Now that the servers seem to be working fine, I hate that there's no option to not have it auto sign in every time the game starts, and I really hate having to click through all those status notices every single time.
 

Got an S++ legendary combat female for mission 30,
who was sadly permanently killed invading a FOB.

yeah, I just found out I can deploy as her. hah. pleasant surprise after the last 25 hours of sausage fest.

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Just saw the scene with Quiet
in the rain.
Everytime that theme plays, tears.

Well the theme is amazingly well made, but it was completely wasted on Quiet since all the scenes with her are so stupid they're verging on parody imo. With 7 missions left to go and little change on that front I can't see much room to change that either. I actually wish we had a different buddy tbh, not even just because of the scenes but because she's so useless. I stopped bringing her on missions since she's never at the same outpost I'm at.
 
Holy shit. That's genius.

There's a mission which has you up against a convoy of tanks and armoured vehicles. Throw a decoy in the middle of the road, and then run up behind the vehicles and Fulton each of them in a row while they're distracted. Easy S rank.

Decoy is the super magazine.

Well the theme is amazingly well made, but it was completely wasted on Quiet since all the scenes with her are so stupid they're verging on parody imo. With 7 missions left to go and little change on that front I can't see much room to change that either. I actually wish we had a different buddy tbh, not even just because of the scenes but because she's so useless. I stopped bringing her on missions since she's never at the same outpost I'm at.

You tell her what outpost to go to in the iDroid... She's not useless at all, at high affinity levels she can clear out entire bases without you doing a thing.
 
About an hour in and loving it but my God, the horse animations are just jarringly bad. It also doesn't help that when you go up elevation changes his legs just go right through the ground.
 
If there is anyone who has trouble finishing the legendary gunsmith side ops despite doing side ops 107 about legendary gunsmith (anyone who has trouble with it is probably halfway through the game by now) here's what you have to do:

In order to get the second legendary gunsmith mission which is side ops 108 you need to have finished side ops 143 and side ops 10 (Secure the UA-Drone Blueprint). If side ops 10 is not available for you then you need to do side ops 06 (Stun arm) first for it to appear.

If you finish side ops 108 but 109 doesn't show up then you need to have finished side ops 144 before doing 109.


These issues exist when there are multiple side ops in the same location, the game won't give you the other side ops unless you have finished the one the game gave to you that is set in that area.
 
You tell her what outpost to go to in the iDroid... She's not useless at all, at high affinity levels she can clear out entire based without you doing a thing.

Huh, did not know that. Her affinity is almost maxed for me but of course it relies on me being caught. My main disappointment was her inability to scout compared to how good at it DD is when maxed out.
 
If there is anyone who has trouble finishing the legendary gunsmith side ops despite doing side ops 107 about legendary gunsmith (anyone who has trouble with it is probably halfway through the game by now) here's what you have to do:

In order to get the second legendary gunsmith mission which is side ops 108 you need to have finished side ops 143 and side ops 10 (Secure the UA-Drone Blueprint). If side ops 10 is not available for you then you need to do side ops 06 (Stun arm) first for it to appear.

If you finish side ops 108 but 109 doesn't show up then you need to have finished side ops 144 before doing 109.


These issues exist when there are multiple side ops in the same location, the game won't give you the other side ops unless you have finished the one the game gave to you that is set in that area.

Took me FOREVER to figure this out. Now I can put silencers on my high level machine guns/snipers
 
If there is anyone who has trouble finishing the legendary gunsmith side ops despite doing side ops 107 about legendary gunsmith (anyone who has trouble with it is probably halfway through the game by now) here's what you have to do:

In order to get the second legendary gunsmith mission which is side ops 108 you need to have finished side ops 143 and side ops 10 (Secure the UA-Drone Blueprint). If side ops 10 is not available for you then you need to do side ops 06 (Stun arm) first for it to appear.

If you finish side ops 108 but 109 doesn't show up then you need to have finished side ops 144 before doing 109.


These issues exist when there are multiple side ops in the same location, the game won't give you the other side ops unless you have finished the one the game gave to you that is set in that area.

This had me stuck for ages. Get these side missions done ASAP people, silenced tranq sniper is so good.

Huh, did not know that. Her affinity is almost maxed for me but of course it relies on me being caught. My main disappointment was her inability to scout compared to how good at it DD is when maxed out.

iDroid, send her to scout a base. She'll automatically get into firing position after finishing. Enter the base and use Cover Me. She'll just fire away and distract them until they're all down.
 
Traitor's Caravan was a weird mission for me, took 18 minutes to complete, killed a bunch of people and the skulls and still managed to get an S rank.

Also the decoy is freaking amazing. Outpost full of 10+ guards all close together, used 2 of them to distract all the guards and just ran in and captured the commander and ran straight out.
 
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