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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future

Chariot

Member
WTF is going on. I got 4 elite soldiers (2 A+ and 2 A++) so I accepted them and wanted to see their stats, but..........! They were GONE!

How is this possibel guys? My MB was almost full but one would expect that higher ranks replace the lower ranks.

How does this work :(
Have you looked into the brig?
 

Ranma

Member
WTF is going on. I got 4 elite soldiers (2 A+ and 2 A++) so I accepted them and wanted to see their stats, but..........! They were GONE!

How is this possibel guys? My MB was almost full but one would expect that higher ranks replace the lower ranks.

How does this work :(

check the waiting room
 

Ranma

Member
Did it, they are completly gone. It seems if there is nog place on your MB they are not accepted :( Or could it be that you already have that soldier (same name, same stat?)

if the waiting room is full then i think you lost them.
get rid of some bad staff, you don't need b and c guys anymore
 

Cyborg

Member
if the waiting room is full then i think you lost them.
get rid of some bad staff, you don't need b and c guys anymore

My waiting room is empty, I fulton them, they arrive but when I check staff management they are gone. They arent there. I only had Malek in the waiting room.
 

Chariot

Member
Yup..not there :( When you get a new soldier they get a white dot in front of their name. I dont get it man, and it happens so often
Did you leave to ACC instead of calling the helicopter?

if the waiting room is full then i think you lost them.
get rid of some bad staff, you don't need b and c guys anymore
When it's full Miller is automatically firing the worst soldiers.
 

Ranma

Member
My waiting room is empty, I fulton them, they arrive but when I check staff management they are gone. They arent there. I only had Malek in the waiting room.

then it's weird... did you check the security team too? i noticed sometimes they are assigned to it automatically when i fulton them.

When it's full Miller is automatically firing the worst soldiers.

good to know. never had a full MB so i couldn't test that.
 

Cyborg

Member
Did you leave to ACC instead of calling the helicopter?

When it's full Miller is automatically firing the worst soldiers.

I always call the chopper!

then it's weird... did you check the security team too? i noticed sometimes they are assigned to it automatically when i fulton them.



good to know. never had a full MB so i couldn't test that.

I havent unlocked the security team yet.
 

Groof

Junior Member
i think it's in episode 9
the prisoner you can rescue during that mission should be the electrospinning specialist

Hmmm
i rescued like 3 or 4 prisoners in that one but not one of them was the electrospinning one. Do you know the location?
 

Future

Member
Tons of hours played, in chapter 2, still haven't gained the ability to customize a weapon. The tuning in this game man lol. The fact that it's possible to play this entire game and never even see the weapon crafting.... Unbelievable

Also didn't know about consecutive cqc until random load screen tip. I bet that's how you take the dudes out talking or walking together. Damn

Played my first substinence mission. Probably one of the most satisfying missions in the game. Intense with lots of close calls and I guarantee everyone does it differently
 
My waiting room is empty, I fulton them, they arrive but when I check staff management they are gone. They arent there. I only had Malek in the waiting room.
you may know this since you seem pretty aware of unit management if your waiting room is empty and first thing you did was check the white dots...

but have you tried sorting All Units by Recruitment Descending? i mean, every time you open your iDroid, it auto-manages your units... so, you checked the brig but what about, say, already being in maybe their 2nd best stat room (e.g. sometimes a RD:A Support: B will get put in Support because auto-manage is not perfect) or maybe the sick bay?

also, sometimes.... if you've been in the field a very very long time, and maybe you actually 'got' the soldiers a long time ago but you only just finally went back to the ACC after a few hours, you will only just get the 'Soldiers Recruited' window but they may no longer have the 'new soldier' white dot because it's been so long... so, just because no soldiers have no white dot, they could still be there

try sorting All Units by Recruitment Descending, and check the stats of the soldiers at the top
 

Caode

Member
here is my pattern for the key dispatch missions

first S rank mission: beat it first try

Second: two tries

Third: three tries

Fourth: Just started third attempt, I wonder if I will make it to 4.

This is unbelievably stupid.

I'm on the final one, failed it twice already. Kinda annoying waiting almost 3 hours or whatever it is just to be told you've failed it.
 
so the DDogs on the original MB platform... are those guys actually tied or representative of actual soldiers in your iDruid unit list?

it's always the same 4 guys, same faces and same stats... they're even in the cutscenes like this one

(just a small MB scene with Ocelot around Mission 12-16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2RMqmJU-Q

was thinking, maybe they are tied to the default DDogs? i wonder if every new game starts with the same default soldiers, same faces and code names... sort of like how certain missions always give you komodo dragon, jackal, silent harrier, etc


speaking of Mother Base and the Diamond Dogs.... does MGS V put anyone else in the mood for XCOM? :p I'm in such a mood for base and unit management thanks to Ocelot, Miller, and Big Boss now

They are definitely people you've extracted, I first noticed this when i bumped into my first female DD on the medical platform. After scanning her with the Scope it came up with the same name and has the same face as the picture in staff management.

My guess is that each platform maybe populated with the top 4-5 ranked DDs in that field, so maybe you've just not extracted anyone better that your original members.
 
Finished mission 29. Holy shit, first time I really see why there is D-Walker.

Also, a cutscene question in this mission

is it affected by who is your buddy? I remember seeing it in the trailers, and Snake was carrying Quiet. I didn't use her because I'm not so sure if the bug is really fixed, and went with D-Walker instead since there would be skulls and I don't want D-Dog to be hurt by them.

So if I'm with Quiet I will get Snake carrying her out of the chopper, or D-Dog in his case?

Yep, i finish that mission last night and it was a pain in the ass.
But once i got the timing down for counters and remember about resupply drops it wasn't to bad. They go down pretty quick after a few rockets to the face.
 
Tons of hours played, in chapter 2, still haven't gained the ability to customize a weapon. The tuning in this game man lol. The fact that it's possible to play this entire game and never even see the weapon crafting.... Unbelievable

Also didn't know about consecutive cqc until random load screen tip. I bet that's how you take the dudes out talking or walking together. Damn

Played my first substinence mission. Probably one of the most satisfying missions in the game. Intense with lots of close calls and I guarantee everyone does it differently

Follow the gunsmith side ops to the end in order to be able to customize weapons. And yeah the multi CQC is super useful.
 
It's a bit daft that the tech tree doesn't feature any guns with underbarrel launchers already attached, as far as I've seen.

Working on my smoke launcher so that will be a fun aytachment.
 

grimmiq

Member
100+ hours in, just had my first freeze..Listening to a tape while doing a side-op, audio stopped but I could still move and the subtitles were still there, then went to idroid and got stuck on a frozen load screen..tried to close the app and it just locked my console.
 
My waiting room is empty, I fulton them, they arrive but when I check staff management they are gone. They arent there. I only had Malek in the waiting room.

If you want to be totally sure, go to the all soldiers tab on the right, press r2 and sort them by recruitment order. None of my recruits are put in the waiting room, it's more of a departure lounge/retirement home.
 

Durden77

Member
The Phantom Marker


(I have it too)


Hm, well I hope we're not missing anything!

I'm around 60 hours in, and I just unlocked the FOB, opening up a whole new realm of shit.

Lawl. This game man. As long as the story fully delivers, which so far it's getting way more exciting, I just rescued (around mission 24 spoilers)
Eli
, then this game is my wet dream. And MGO isn't even fucking OUT yet. Good god.

Thank you Kojima. You glorious, glorious bastard.
 

MNC

Member
How the F should I interpret the colors for my cassette tapes? Are the ones in yellow listened to, or the white ones? What about the little spheres next to it? I'm confused.
 

Durden77

Member
How the F should I interpret the little icons for my cassette tapes? Are the ones in yellow listened to, or the white ones? What about the little spheres next to it? I'm confused.

Yellow sphered ones I guess are "important" ones and the white ones are not as much apparently, even though I've heard plenty of white dotted ones with very important info if you care about the story. So if you do, just listen to them all.

Once you listen to them they'll have no dots.
 
Hmm.

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And now AP tranq rounds with the integrated suppressor.

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Random questions, just completed Mission 16.

1. When can I access whatever is behind the door with the red light on top of the R&D Platform?

2. When do I unlock the Security team? Have some gear that I want to research that requires it.

Thanks
 
So I was doing a side op in Africa where I had to extract a master gunsmith. Evidently I misunderstood because I thought he was a prisoner, not one of them - Quiet and I ended up murdering everyone, and the side-op disappeared. Am I basically fucked now?
 
So I was doing a side op in Africa where I had to extract a master gunsmith. Evidently I misunderstood because I thought he was a prisoner, not one of them - Quiet and I ended up murdering everyone, and the side-op disappeared. Am I basically fucked now?
It should come back I think. One of the first things I did in the game was accidentallt killing the translator
 

Guru-Guru

Banned
Was having difficulty with mission 29 until I realized that I could
climb up on the roof of one of the close buildings. The 4 skull dudes would never come on the roof, but would just circle around it. I downed them pretty easy with RPGs and my sniper rifle. Only thing I had to worry about was that black stone that explodes, but it is pretty easy to get out of the way.
 
Hey I have a question and would really appreciate advice. Mission 25 spoilers:

I have quarantined all the people who speak Kikongo. However at a fairly frequent rate it seems like people are dying. Is there any way to stop the Kikongo speakers in quarantine from dying? At this point should I just speed through the story as fast as possible to prevent mass fatalities?
 
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