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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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I don't think you have to use nonlethal weapons to get parasites. Actually, I don't think you can even break their armour with nonlethal weapons. Their bodies remain to be extracted for a while after going for a lethal kill -- I recommend running over to them as soon as you take them down. Remember to bring Quiet as well, especially if she has the Sinful Butterfly. And use the Brennan sniper if you can. Even on Extreme, it takes out their armour in one shot. And extracting Skulls gives you a huge score bonus if you're going for an S Rank.
Cheers. I was really worried there for a second.
The exact same thing happened to me; was riding on my horse and then it froze.
Weirdly enough I was able to enter the menu and tried to restart the mission, but then I got stuck at the loading screen. Then I tried to close the game in the PS4 OS but even that didn't work. Then I was trying to shutdown the PS4 completely and after the 'Don't turn your system off when the PS4 blinks' screen it showed the loading screen (!) again. I was baffled and then nothing helped: the controller didn't work, I couldn't turn my PS4 off so the last option was to pull the plug and thankfully that worked. Worst crash I ever had on any console.
This game seems kinda unstable tbh.
That's useful to know. I might just upload a save to a USB stick before the cut off point just in case.
Once the emblem is removed, it'll pop the required missions later. And yes, you do have to lose Quiet to get a side-op and a mission to S rank for trophies
Ah, good to know. But you can use non-lethal means. I ended up doing it on the sniper battle Skull mission because Quiet got killed and it's all I had
thequickandthedead
Member
how exactly do you gain each point in your bond with quiet?
FriedCalamari
Member
If the Battle Gear is destroyed during a dispatch mission is there no way I can replace it? Don't really want to attempt these late-game missions with only a 58% chance of success and lose out on even being able to retry them later.
Graphics Horse
Member
Won't work for interrogating
BudokaiMR2
Member
Oh not saying I don't understand why it is like that. However, with the lack of mini-map there is no way to know how close I am to the edge of a zone without checking my idroid which isn't a good risk to take when
you have a 4 story metal gear stomping towards you and are trying to aim a tank cannon. They should have just had you fight it in some closed off area or something. Hell it's kinda weak that you are even able to escape. Shouldn't even be a possibility IMO.
That sucks that it won't just work. That'd be come cool next-level meta stuff right there.
Winter John
Member
Enjoying the game. My only gripe is D Dog can be a real pain in the ass and frequently gets in the way. I just lost a mission and died while trying to climb over a wall because the climb action is on the same button as the pet dog action.
Without an interpreter interrogated guards just say they don't speak English, sorry.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Holy shit, this game actually has D and E ratings (Dan Ryckert got one in the blew up
. I thought the lowest was C.
as many tanks as you can mission, I got a C there)
Just did mission 29 and managed to get an S rank along with Foxhound rank.
IMHO this mission wasn't anywhere near as bad people made it out to be. Hell, I actually thought it was
All I did was
IMHO this mission wasn't anywhere near as bad people made it out to be. Hell, I actually thought it was
a nice change of pace from all the sneaking.
All I did was
get an LMG, moved away from Code Talker and just started taking down the Skulls 1 by 1. Only died twice because the exploding ground spike and floating rock attacks surprised me.
I can normally, I couldn't here for whatever reason. I blame mist/parasites/nanomachines/Kojima
Lanrutcon
Member
I actually managed to call her back in that mission, she was completely useless on the first part, but when I called her back she took out 2 Skulls by herself.
I got an E in that mission too. I think I only missed one, and extracted the prisoner. My only E and it's mocking me.
revolverjgw
Member
Any way to farm tons of fuel? Never have enough of that, but I have tons of everything else.
Don't bother looking for an interpreter, the game automatically gives you one to Fulton in one of the sideops.
Freeman76
Member
Very odd, d-dog hasn't got in my way once in over 50 hours of playing, the problem is I'm so reliant on his support that I don't use any other buddie lol
Dammit! She didn't get out of the sick bay until I killed the last one, then I got the notification she was out. Was fun to do alone though, a tense 20 minute battle with my sleeper sniper against all of them
Just need to bear in mind that these are unprocessed, so still need to play the waiting game with it.
Graphics Horse
Member
I think it's a main op in Africa.
Mission 12, right at the start of the mission there are 2 fuel containers.
Graphics Horse
Member
Ddog only gets in my way when I'm trying to look through a scope to my left, and instead of a distant guard I get a face full of dog. Although... he doesn't really look like a dog in my setup, but that's a spoiler.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
I got a lot of Ds.....
show how much I suck at this game
I think time is the most essential thing to get a high rank. So if you take your time, you will get a lower rank :/
Graphics Horse
Member
I'm not sure what my worst rank is but it must have been for mission 12, took me 4 hours (
took a long time to find a way in.
(took a long time to find a way in.
Yup time is pretty much the only stat that matters. Still, on mission 28, I managed an A despite taking an hour. Took me ages to find the prisoner, but I had zero alerts, zero reflex modes and like 100 tactical take downs.
Graphics Horse
Member
It just kind of ends in the wilderness with a ' you are out of the mission area' even when you're freeroaming. I don't think there's any other area in the game like that, but haven't tried along the west river.
Lanrutcon
Member
Africa is huge, man. All dem lions.
KittenMaster
Member
I think it depends on the mission though. I'm only at mission 13 or so but I've gotten surprising S-Ranks on missions where I took a very safe route fultoning guards and even retrying checkpoints a few times.
GreyOcelot
Member
africa is a cool map, a nice change of pace after a bunch of time in the desert, but i was really hoping it would have more jungle and less plains. seems totally different from the old gameplay demo i remember
You can do them later with better equipment.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
I like afghanistan more, but maybe it's because you play first there and it feels more familiar than africa.
Pfft. No fun in that!
Spoiler about something for dispatch missions that really isn't a big deal but just in case.
Some people have said that they ended up losing the Battle Gear on dispatch missions with no way of getting it back. It's frankly made me hesitant to even try the later key dispatch missions because I'm only at a 51% winning chance with a 20% predicted loss. The Battle Gear effectively adds 6 times the fighting strength of my best soldiers so without it, those missions are basically impossible and they take over 2 hours to even attempt. Surely this can't be intended design right, making it so you need to essentially restart the game completely to complete all the dispatch missions?
I wouldn't call letting DD Fulton soldiers or using a cardboard box with a hilarious poster "not fun".
Yeah, I mean I am going back to S them for the trophy, but first time thorough if shit went wrong, I just dealt with it. I can't imagine restarting because you fucked up when the game is so damn fun when you have to adapt.
MrS
Banned
I've got all S ranks so I have the longest dick, obviously.
That's exactly my plan. When shit hits the fan, reacting to it is like half the fun.
Quiet covered in blood like Brian De Palma's Carrie and Mother Base tinted in C64's cream:
http://i.imgur.com/tDU4cYA.jpg
= so much vintage style goodness
http://i.imgur.com/tDU4cYA.jpg
= so much vintage style goodness