WhiskerFrisker
Member
Well I don't have a lot of Kills so far. Only 70 compared to 586 non-lethal tranquilizer shots.
I don't kill often so hopefully I can get a lot of heroism points. Those S rank soldiers will be mine!
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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it doesnt matter because you will never use it
I failed one this weekend and didn't lose it.
You can, but it's only temporary.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Even the ones that aren't marked yellow?
They are still full of information.
StopMakingSense
Member
Oh yes.
SolidusDave
Member
Man I had the most amazing Mission 9 ever, where you are tasked to take out 3 Soviet commanders. Ocelot gave me their route. So I galloped my way to their meeting place and on my way, there was a security outpost. Suddenly a dust storm came roaring. I quickly went in ans got intel out of one of the guards there, subduing a few other. Got more pinpoint info from the info.
1st commander. I run ahead of his route and plant a C4 in the road. Boom.
2nd commander. I galloped to his route, then hid and waited for him to drive towards me. I immediately open fire killing him and his guard. The driver surrenders. Fultoned.
3rd commander. I do a perfect sneak in the base where he is staying. Make it all the way into the building, suddenly get spotted by him! Hell breaks lose. Tranqed him and started running, suddenly realized that I need to go back and kill him. So I go back again, get to his body and fulton his ass. Scram out of the base and I'm done.
Now, this is my very first crack at this mission and I just aced it. Felt like Big Boss indeed. I have the video saved too, I might upload it. B ranking tho
Mine was kinda immersion breaking because I grabbed each of the first two commanders in a dark alleyway soon after they arrived because their guards sprint ahead of them.
But no one was wondering what took them so long
I kinda was more creative in the first missions because currently it's always just Quiet and me putting everyone in a base to sleep with our silencer tranq snipers...
OrochiJR
Member
I maxed the bond out today by doing side ops and Mission 3 (just drop bombardment on the objective's stronghold, mission accomplished) in a ride-by-shooting kind of way. I just sat on him most of the time, dropping guys from afar with the sniper rifle or air support/ bombardement.
RedlineRonin
Member
You just build another one or....?
I think it´s tied to your heroism rating. The higher it the higher the enemies levels are at. A+ is normal right now but S and above is still pretty rare.
I haven't had it happen to me but someone else said if you lose it, it comes back in a few hours. So they either build another one or fix the broken one. Either way, it's essentially another timer on top of the timer for the mission itself.
SoraanTribal
Member
About to start the game finally... For Reflex mode, does just having it turned on at all lower your ranking or only if you actually activate it in a mission? Is it still possible to get S Ranks WITH Reflex mode or nah? Trying to decide if I want to use it or not.
Graphics Horse
Member
You get a points bonus if reflex mode never activates in a mission. So with it disabled you always get the bonus. You can still get S ranks with it going off. Try with it on and see how you go.
Getting S-Ranks are more dependent on time and some side objectives giving bonus points. It's very lenient, the minimum for an S rank is 130 000 points, I sometimes got over 3 times that in some missions, even without the bonus 10k from not using Reflex Mode. At the same time, the recorded time for points doesn't seem to include previous attempts from restarting from a checkpoint. You'll lose the no retry bonus but sometimes it's worth it if you say, end up dying.
Don't worry too much about making a small mistake and thinking you need to restart to get an S-rank. Just roll with whatever happens, especially since many missions have mutually exclusive side objectives so if you care that much, you'll be playing it again anyways.
SoraanTribal
Member
Gotcha. Hmm, I don't know if I wanna use it or not. Definitely makes the game easier (or it did in Ground Zeroes), but I kind of feel bad using it, lol.
Oh okay, that's good to hear about it being lenient and stuff.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
I like the thunderstorms in Africa.
It can get pretty epic in the downpour.
It can get pretty epic in the downpour.
-Plasma Reus-
Service guarantees member status
Real talk. I've enabled the butterfly emblem and am not playing mission 43.
I'd rather not finish the game
I'd rather not finish the game
than lose quiet
Graphics Horse
Member
I got struck by lightning once. But I need to experiment with why that happened...
The oil field place looks really cool in the rain at night like Camp Omega.
Does that include the reflex medicine stuff? Acceleramin?
Graphics Horse
Member
Hmm never tried that. But if it stops an S rank the description of the item will tell you.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
woah! really?
did it kill you?
Graphics Horse
Member
No it just knocked me out. You have to wiggle L and press action like when you accidentally gas yourself with a sleep grenade or get cqc'd in FOB mode.
Spazznid
Member
Are you sure you didn't ride into a power line pole? If you knock them down in the rain, and the wires touch you or your vehicle, you get electrocuted.
â Narayan
Member
At some point I will. I hear she is really overpowered, which makes me hesitant. I generally like to play games, not just walk right through them.
∀ Narayan;178751984 said:
There's a certain extreme mission I was struggling with. I brought her along with a specific sniper rifle and she obliterated everything due to her ability to constantly head shot.
There's more missions - keep playing.
Ghostmaster
Member
Mission 43 isn't the mission in which you
lose Quiet
mission 45
Mission 43 is probably the best story mission in the game so you should definitely play it.
Graphics Horse
Member
No I was on foot but I suspect it's because I kept
calling in Support for rain storms
Has anyone tried using the shock arm against metal objects and puddles to see if it affects guards who are touching them? It was a thing in Peace Walker so should be there.
Summer Haze
Banned
I spend way too much time on missions to get an S rank. The last mission I did took 2 hours 20 minutes. XD
But I like to play that way, so fuck it.
But I like to play that way, so fuck it.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Listened to the tapes, did some side op missions, still nothing... and no one seems to know what triggers the rest of the missions after
Bleh
finishing the man on fire mission
Bleh
Alebrije
Member
So time does not affects mission rank?
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
I like how the AI troops move to stand under cover when the rain closes in.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
Question regarding Quiet for people who have finished the game:
I know that at some point in the game you lose Quiet for good. Do the items you develop for her count towards the completion percentage? I'm wondering if I should develop her equipment despite eventually losing it all or if I should just stop now to save GMP.
No plot spoilers please.
No plot spoilers please.
Oldest Snake
Member
Time is the best way to get an S-Rank, but not the only way. You need to get a certain number of points (130,000 I think) and completing a mission in less than 10 minutes nets you 120,000, so you're pretty much sorted if you do a couple of optional objectives.
It effects it greatly. Time is the key to getting S Ranks in a lot of cases.
It's one major factor in fact. I think what he meant to say is he is trying to score an S-Rank and it took 2h to complete his last mission on this rank (restarting, resetting checkpoints etc)