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

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I really think I'm in danger of Witcher 3-ing this by swallowing every god damn side op and piece of content whole until I get sick of the game after 90 hours. D:
 
So apparently people with Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs are having the game crash on startup. There's a patch due to fix this....it was due 9 hours ago. There is a beta patch you can use if you select it in the game properties in the steam client.
 
Darryl M R said:
I'm new to the franchise are people known to have
super powers? How did they get them? Is there a backstory I should know before playing?
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Since the series inception in Metal Gear 1 on the MSX, yes.
A lot of them just have them, no explanation. It's really about how characters with the codename Snake can do the impossible like beat these super soldiers with these powers. MGS4 tried to explain how some of them have powers, but largely, it's just the way things are in this universe.
 
Darryl M R said:
I'm new to the franchise are people known to have
super powers? How did they get them? Is there a backstory I should know before playing?
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Yeah it's pretty common in Metal Gear, it's all part of the fun.

The reasons why they have them are all down to the rules of nature.
 
Alright, so I wasn't that keen on the opening, outside of the very beginning bit.

It's your standard scripted opening sequence almost every AAA game in the past 5 or 6 years has had. Easily my least favorite MGS opening sequence. Tanker, Virtuous Mission, Shadow Moses, even MGS4 are all better, because they aren't forcing you to move at a snail-like pace.

Now, when you get to Afghanistan... That's some good stuff. This is what I'm playing the game for.
 
I have no idea how any of you are able to download GZ saves. I must have tried connecting over a hundred times now.
 
Squishy3 said:
Alright, so I wasn't that keen on the opening, outside of the very beginning bit.

It's your standard scripted opening sequence almost every AAA game in the past 5 or 6 years has had. Easily my least favorite MGS opening sequence. Tanker, Virtuous Mission, Shadow Moses, even MGS4 are all better, because they aren't forcing you to move at a snail-like pace.

Now, when you get to Afghanistan... That's some good stuff. This is what I'm playing the game for.
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To be fair, the Tanker/Virtuous Mission in this game is Ground Zeroes, they just cut it out for those sweet dollar bills. The hospital intro, in my mind, takes the place of the loooooong cutscenes/codec sequences at the start of the Big Shell/Operation Snake Eater.
 
H1PSTER said:
I seem to have a side mission bug where it has the tick for the mission but then allows me to do it again?

Wut.
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I got the exact same thing on an extract a soldier mission.

Hypothesis 1 : game is glitched
Hypothesis 2 : I fultoned a special soldier bit not the one the game expected me to
 
Death Metalist said:
1)
Quiet is actually told to you randomly by Ocelot in a mission, after you finish the mission you should unlock a tape about Quiet as well as side op 06. Once you unlock it, just go and do side op 06.

2)
It will take time much like anything else in life. Just keep on doing your main missions/side op while visiting the MB every now and then, you'll trigger a random cutscene and you'll see him fully grown.

3)
I'm no awesome. Never was, never will be. I'm just an old helper, hired to answer my fellow gamers.
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Mahalo.
 
A little bit surprised/disappointed that at about 12 hours in and 9 missions completed
there hasn't been any boss battles. Hoping it's just a long ass game but I'm kind of getting worried that there won't be that many

I really am loving the game though. Mission 8 was fucking crazy tough for me lol
 
Alienous said:
I've got half of them done and they are so Ubisoft-ian in their design.

Turns out that the Side Ops in Ground Zeroes are actually what most of the Main Missions are in The Phantom Pain, and the Side Ops in The Phantom Pain are missions that feel like they could have been randomly generated.
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its true

but im still at the point where im enjoying the game's mechanics for what they are and messing with the systems so so far its fun

also tranqing a bear was intense
 
Putting credits before every mission, that say "guest starring" and effectively spoil who is actually in the mission is the dumbest idea ever, holy shit.
 
Ein Bear said:
To be fair, the Tanker/Virtuous Mission in this game is Ground Zeroes, they just cut it out for those sweet dollar bills. The hospital intro, in my mind, takes the place of the loooooong cutscenes/codec sequences at the start of the Big Shell/Operation Snake Eater.
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Pretty much. Ground Zeroes is a part of MGSV too. Sadly some haven't played it. They should have done a combo pack for people who wanted both to buy at the same time.
 
SalsaShark said:
its true

but im still at the point where im enjoying the game's mechanics for what they are and messing with the systems so so far its fun

also tranqing a bear was intense
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It was at first, then I adopted the Far Cry trick of standing on a rock. Hopefully the bears will learn from this experience and arm themselves with guns in the future using the AI potential of the Fox Engine.
 
Aerobatics said:
Putting credits before every mission, that say "guest starring" and effectively spoil who is actually in the mission is the dumbest idea ever, holy shit.
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Similar, the opening credits at the start of the game listed a few voice actors that I would have preferred being left as surprises. Not sure what they were thinking with that stuff.
 
So I've stumbled apon a certain boss fight:
I'm facing Quiet in the ruins. I want to recruit her into DD. Am I free to go all out or should I try to tranq her?
 
God, now steam servers are down for maintenance? What is with Konami/Steam doing maintenance at prime time???

Why don't they do that like at 5-6am when most people are either sleeping or going to work for the day.
 
SalsaShark said:
its true

but im still at the point where im enjoying the game's mechanics for what they are and messing with the systems so so far its fun

also tranqing a bear was intense
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Alienous said:
It was at first, then I adopted the Far Cry trick of standing on a rock. Hopefully the bears will learn from this experience and arm themselves with guns in the future using the AI potential of the Fox Engine.
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Just wait until the bears start wearing helmets. A weapon to surpass metal gear.
 
So it keeps saying im logged on to the server (ps4) when it's trying to login but after the konami screen it gives an error message every time. Im assuming Im not getting the 5k biological materials today since I wont be able to play anymore?
 
Around the 50 hour mark at story and in need of more help. Spoiler tagged, obviously.

So Eli has just stolen Metal Gear from Mother Base and the game doesn't offer me any more missions to do that progress the story or even side ops to progress the story AFAIK, just main missions from earlier in the game on a higher, more extreme difficulty. What do I do to push the story onwards? Cheers!
 
It's kind of dumb that you still have to send supply drops to yourself on Mother Base. I don't want a free reload of supplies or anything, but at least let me go to a supply cargo or have a soldier bring them to me.
 
A-One said:
Regarding Quiet / Mission 11.

So...after you beat her there is the opportunity to kill her or take her in...question is if you do kill her, she just kinda melts/vanishes...does this prevent her from joining you for good?
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I think so but you can replay the mission and get her back I believe
 
BillGaitas said:
12 hours and only 4% completion...

I guess I won't need to play anything else for some time lol
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You guys really need to stop mentioning the completion percentage as if it actually means something. Isn't confirmed that it's basically the same as GZ, meaning it includes filler stuff like getting all the S ranks, all upgrades, etc...?
 
JehutyRunner said:
Around the 50 hour mark at story and in need of more help. Spoiler tagged, obviously.

So Eli has just stolen Metal Gear from Mother Base and the game doesn't offer me any more missions to do that progress the story or even side ops to progress the story AFAIK, just main missions from earlier in the game on a higher, more extreme difficulty. What do I do to push the story onwards? Cheers!
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I've got some ... bad news.

Link to spoiler thread
Do not click if you haven't completed the game.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=177246137&postcount=8494
 
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