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MeisaMcCaffrey
It's entirely up to you. Sometimes you will get some important Side Ops (yellow ones) and you need to do that to advance the story.
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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Shifty Capone1
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I S ranked
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Sunset Samurai
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I'm in mission 17 and heard there was a true ending to the game. (I hate it when developers do that in a game) can someone tell me or pm what to do without spoiling the entire game?
Yeah I did. I guess I will just have to play a little further. I'm on mission 18.
TheStruggler
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not quite done the game yet however I am getting there, Ill leave my full impressions later but for now it is a great game, but it does not feel like a great metal gear game. Do I love tackling objectives my way and adjust my style of play to whatever I want, absolutely. But metal gear seems like a franchise that needs to be confined just a little bit, especially the story. I miss the cutscenes, not mgs4 long however I am tired of doing mission after mission saving pow etc and getting barely any substance to it. great game but not a great metal gear game, miss the cut scenes, dislike the tapes, and so far the story seems really weak. Maybe it is because the lack of the cutscenes however.
It's the first screen that they show that.
Attleborotaco
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25 hours in and at 20%. Can someone tell me exactly how many missions are in this game. Im on 17.
Woodchipper
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Can I beat mission
using D-walker, or is there a better way?
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Shifty Capone1
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I think that
Quiet
I got her around mission 15ish. I did every single side op you can (A lot of times even the ones where it shows a check but you can redo them). She was at full bond level by episode 18 for me.
50 main mission, 157 Side ops.
That's what I did. Just using the gatling gun and keep moving.
If you shot her, then she's dead.
you don't shoot, just wait a few seconds and Big Boss will put the gun down.
so for some reason i haven't been able to equip an Item to the right-most slot (like, pressing right on the radial menu) all game. is there a particular reason for that? it's getting kind of annoying having to put shit on diagonals when there's a perfectly good slot that just has a lock icon over it for no discernible reason
Kwansu Dudes
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Zomba13
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SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
HUGE SPOILERS! Episode
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That's the end. Also make sure you unlock and do Mission
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Well if you want her as a buddy, you kind of need to not execute her
Well...
tranqing didn't seem like it was doing anything. What mission is it that I need to replay?
Fix The Scientist
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I just learnt you can shrink that ugly shrapnel horn back down and that there is a hidden
demon meter.
You can do the fight doing damage to her normally, but after the fight when you stand over her, dont pull the trigger. I believe its mission 11.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
I just kept doing the main missions but that's good to know.
brickarts295
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Damn Mission
was brutal, that was TLOU levels of feels.
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mission 11 actually.
>_>
Welp, for repeating my bloodborne OT thing where all I did was sit around in the OT for days on end answering every question I see, I finally screwed up. RIPRIP.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Some of the names of the soldiers you recruit in MGSV sound like rejected bosses from Mega Man X.
I never approached her after the fight. I though she disappeared or something
SandMan2233
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I used D-Walker, equipped with a Gatling Gun. I ended up with an "S" Rank on my first try, so I'd recommend it.
Mission
was a freaking mess. I got spotted like a thousand times and had to use checkpoints like crazy. Fuck escort missions.
I have no idea how I even managed to get an S. The game was either feeling way too generous or it just pitied my plight and decided to give me a pat on the back.
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I have no idea how I even managed to get an S. The game was either feeling way too generous or it just pitied my plight and decided to give me a pat on the back.
wait you can ignore her post fight?
Reckless Onion
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I experienced the same thing,also even for the s rank
NumberThree
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Had the FOB tutorial get stuck multiple times so from now on I'm just going to play the rest of the game in offline mode. Sounds like a dodged a bullet there to be honest, not having any interest in doing attacks myself and how it just drains your resources due to other people attacking.
(Spoilers for story around mission 25)
(Spoilers for story around mission 25)
The quarantine stuff was just the most tedious shit, I have like 400 soldiers and I need to go through all of them and check if they speak a specific language? And then I of course have people on combat deployment/in the brig/wherever and they pop back into the general population and once again I need to go through and find them. Fuck off.
Impulsor
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I can't for the love of me get into this game. I love the lore, the characters, I love how smooth it plays, I hate how much distance I have to travel from point to point in a mission, I hate how when you are discovered sometimes you have to repeat huge chunks.
I really want to like this game but I just can't. I've just finished Mad Max and I enjoyed that thoroughly, returning to MGSV feels awesome because of the 60 fps, but I don't know, I'm not feeling it.
Any advice, maybe I'm not doing something that would make me enjoy this more?
Currently on mission 12, done all the subquests that were available to me.
I really want to like this game but I just can't. I've just finished Mad Max and I enjoyed that thoroughly, returning to MGSV feels awesome because of the 60 fps, but I don't know, I'm not feeling it.
Any advice, maybe I'm not doing something that would make me enjoy this more?
Currently on mission 12, done all the subquests that were available to me.
Ranks mean nothing. I did the harder version of the "take out vehicles for the rebels" mission by taking one out, laying down, then making stuff for 20m, came back to my game, ran out of the hot zone, B rank.
That is not a B rank game, that should be the lowest for pitiful effort.
When you are discovered don't just give up and then repeat everything. Just go crazy and murder everyone when that happens, that's a legitimate way to play this game.
I'm pretty much done at 57 hours in, and I want more. The gameplay is so, so wonderful but the story was completely lacking for a numbered Metal Gear Solid. Kojima was definitely cut off. He bit off more than he could chew, and Konami grew tried of delays and having to keep writing checks. Nonetheless it was a great swansong for a series I just can't get enough of.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I was rescuing everyone, and then I heard over the comms that they were about to execute the interpreter. DD immediately tagged the soldier and the interpreter. I run like a bat out of hell across camp with DD in tow. I run into the room, and right as the soldier is about to point the gun, I grab him, choke him out, and fulton him out of the area.
「待たせたな？」/"Kept you waiting, huh?"
Dammit, my emblem is Naked Chick too! No fair.
Alpha Centauri
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Sounds like your playstyle is very much stealth all the time, or atleast slow and methodical. I'd utilize d-horse just to get to places quicker and speed up the missions. You can take your time, but you are rewarded if you complete missions efficiently.
I was looking through some of the weapons you can make and some of them have level 60 requirements. This seems utterly ridiculous. I'm around level 40 for most of different divisions and that's with about 50% A+ rank staff members. Do S Rank soldiers start popping up once you achieve Hero rank or something? Otherwise those weapons seems impossible to get.
KyanMehwulfe
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last night I did the (spoilers for event during Mission 7-10 'range' or so)
event, and
mission was a lot of fun too haha my very first S rank I think.
I'm enjoying the 'living world' even more now that I'm done the first 10 missions and just headed to that first important side-op. It was kinda cool that when the "Russians are now reinforcing their troops, sending in better skilled soldiers/better equipment", they also rebuilt a lot of the comms equipement.... was that story related? or just coincidence, and that happens over time?
that one village in the south-west had all its comms dishes, aa sat, etc rebuilt, at the same time the guards started using night vision, etc, and I started to get Dispatch missions to stop their supplies of night vision, flashlights, etc.
pretty cool little detail, very Snake Eater: demolishing ammo or food supply sheds to change the equipment of soldiers.
I got into a pretty big firefight with about 6-9 of them (not sure because I play with Markers off), and between more accurate shooting, more accurate mortars, and night vision, they almost killed me even though I was a solid 150m away light cover at an elevation advantage. a pretty fun shootout.
i'm really enjoying just general free roam, and trying or experimenting as unique or creative approaches as possible. i set up a pretty cool C4 trap where I placed mines every 15 feet or so along the bridge (the relay station), with C4 at the comms dish about 50 feet past the bridge, and then climbed up on the mountainside directly across from the bridge... set the C4 off from cover and it alerted all the guards on the other side by the tent and fire (where that prisoner for Honey Bee or whatever first was) and when they went to check out the comms dish explosion, the mines hiding at the base corners of the base killed a bunch haha had a few more mines placed along the only cover to flank my cover too
i haven't tried much with vehicles yet... really need to try that 'distract the driver with sheep/hop in the back' trojan horse approach to a mission
Quiet
gotta admit.... I really never liked her as a character... not really a fan of most of Kojima's female characters, really, other than Boss, but Quiet seemed even more.... gratuitous by even his standards. But I gotta admit, the cutscene in in the helicopter with the jet was pretty awesome and I felt a surprising about of empathy or compassion between Snake and Quiet.... totally didn't expect that.
I'm enjoying the 'living world' even more now that I'm done the first 10 missions and just headed to that first important side-op. It was kinda cool that when the "Russians are now reinforcing their troops, sending in better skilled soldiers/better equipment", they also rebuilt a lot of the comms equipement.... was that story related? or just coincidence, and that happens over time?
that one village in the south-west had all its comms dishes, aa sat, etc rebuilt, at the same time the guards started using night vision, etc, and I started to get Dispatch missions to stop their supplies of night vision, flashlights, etc.
pretty cool little detail, very Snake Eater: demolishing ammo or food supply sheds to change the equipment of soldiers.
I got into a pretty big firefight with about 6-9 of them (not sure because I play with Markers off), and between more accurate shooting, more accurate mortars, and night vision, they almost killed me even though I was a solid 150m away light cover at an elevation advantage. a pretty fun shootout.
i'm really enjoying just general free roam, and trying or experimenting as unique or creative approaches as possible. i set up a pretty cool C4 trap where I placed mines every 15 feet or so along the bridge (the relay station), with C4 at the comms dish about 50 feet past the bridge, and then climbed up on the mountainside directly across from the bridge... set the C4 off from cover and it alerted all the guards on the other side by the tent and fire (where that prisoner for Honey Bee or whatever first was) and when they went to check out the comms dish explosion, the mines hiding at the base corners of the base killed a bunch haha had a few more mines placed along the only cover to flank my cover too
i haven't tried much with vehicles yet... really need to try that 'distract the driver with sheep/hop in the back' trojan horse approach to a mission
Impulsor
Member
I do that, But it feels cumbersome. IT feels like its more work to kill everyone and then rune and hide than it is to just not get caught.
I try to at least be as stealthy as I can because of what I mention right above.
You feel it too, dont you?
Thinking and mulling about that mission - I think its very brilliant.
I was shaking and sweating like a madman when I knew I'd have to take the kids to the helicopter, and fulton wouldn't cut it.
Bring in an enemy chopper, and my chopper that was blaring 'DANNNNNCINNG WITH TEARRRRS IN MY EYESSSS' in the distance. Even when I took out the soldier around me, my hands were literally SHAKING when I was loading the kids into the helicopter. I've never felt so tense in a video game.
The highs in the game are soooooo good.
Any tips for the extreme version of the Code Talker mission? I can't get past
I don't get why you can't modifiy every mission with Extreme, Total Stealth or Subsistence rules. I guess Total Stealth and Subsistence can be done manually but including the option seems like such an easy thing to do.
the Skulls, but maybe it's just my tranq sniper not cutting it. Should I get a lethal sniper rifle for them or try to sneak past them?
I don't get why you can't modifiy every mission with Extreme, Total Stealth or Subsistence rules. I guess Total Stealth and Subsistence can be done manually but including the option seems like such an easy thing to do.
Kwansu Dudes
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matrix-cat
Member
Yep, same here. In general, I feel that this game is at its best when it stays open-plan. When you're given the option to play however you like it's sublime, but any time it tries to force you down a certain path I start getting frustrated.
Quiet and I had already cleared out the whole area around the mine, and I could easily just have had the chopper land right in the middle and loaded everyone straight on. Instead the game insists I travel down a shooting gallery and spawns dudes behind me. I ended up dying about four times and just hating life by the end, but of course the game's dopey ranking system gives me the S-rank for it