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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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Phoenix944
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Same here. I like to try some weapons/buddy in side ops. I always use the same weapon when I'm on mission so it's kinda refreshing
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Listening to
tapes and this popped up:
Code Talker
Very silly yet sincerely delivered. I love this game sometimes.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
Marty-esque
Member
DLC?
Oldest Snake
Member
No idea, I think it's a glitch showing the R&D platform target practice as a new mission, and because the mission 'circle' on the map is above Huey's lab it gets the two confused and lists them together.
BattleMonkey
Member
eh even if you want to avoid doing the grindy extra stuff to do the story, you are limited and forced to do lot of mother base stuff still otherwise you are extremely under equipped for doing the missions. Lot of important gear is locked behind high levels of base personnel so while you can skip some of it, you are still forced to do tedious mother base management, resource gathering, and personnel gathering.
But the campaign is pretty much linear? The only real choice is whether you have Quiet or not. Having filler missions between the important ones isn't going to change that. Everyone is going to play the same main missions to get to the end and nothing's going to change, this isn't The Witcher or anything.
Radical is an overstatement, especially in regards to the eliminate vehicles side ops. There are a few that let you have a red deployment, but all it means is you cough up 150,000 gmp for you destroyed helicopter if you even make it to the ground. Furthermore experimentation is hindered by by deployment costs, which seem to correlate with how much fun something is. Like hell I'm coughing up 200 Precious Metal for each deployment for the Hand of Jehuty. I think boring side ops mission design is a fair criticism when the previous two games did it better. Even the combat deployments are half assed compared to Peace Walker where you could choose your unit composition and armament.
I recently realised I have female soldiers in my employ, so I took one off R&D and into the field. She takes forever to reload, aims like poop at long ranges and gets out of breath from running 5 feet. Maybe not to best choice for solo infiltrations
lol
I just starting using a S-Rank (now S+) female soldier one I got after beating
Mission 31
She's pretty awesome aside from sounding like she's about to die after sprinting.
Funny enough, I just did one of these a little while ago and while the LZ was supposed to be safe (it was in the middle of where the Vehicle unit was supposed to be), my helicopter got shot down shortly after I got off of it. :\
Needless to say, I took care of them in short order (and got a new tank).
Hobbestetrician
Member
Is there a way to unlock the Mine Clearing side ops or is it random? I have completed 1, 3 & 5.
Yeah I'm kind of at an impasse as to how to level her up since I'm strictly non lethal.
Darkness Unleashed
Member
same question here, it happens with the "extract the skilled soldier" side ops, even after completing them more than once.
lol, same here
I don't "get" mission 29.
Obviously I can quick time counter their attacks, which seems to leave them open, but not really..? If I whale on them I just hear "ping ping" noises still... On the other hand if I struggle through the menu enough to tell Quiet to fucking attack the area then I see that she seems to be scoring hits against them and health is dropping.
The game is doing a REALLY bad job of telling them what is effective or not.
Also I'm basically just running around getting hit by gunfire the entire time so. It feels like luck if I can get the guys into their CQC counterable blade attack. Sometimes they just hang back and pepper at me with shots even if I run at them.
I'm hating this mission right now because it doesn't do a good job of telling you whether what the hell you're supposed to do.
The game is doing a REALLY bad job of telling them what is effective or not.
Also I'm basically just running around getting hit by gunfire the entire time so. It feels like luck if I can get the guys into their CQC counterable blade attack. Sometimes they just hang back and pepper at me with shots even if I run at them.
I'm hating this mission right now because it doesn't do a good job of telling you whether what the hell you're supposed to do.
Just bring her along and do side-ops. Don't have her shoot anything, just scout. I used her plenty before she got her tranq rifle (which didn't take that long) and even then I rarely let her open fire until she got the suppressor. It really isn't bad.
You aren't alone. I went all through the base and checked all the rooms on both sides of the main part and eventually thought it might be bugged. So I looked it up online and felt really dumb.
GreyOcelot
Member
so you can replay them. the gray'd out ones cannot be replayed
SolidusDave
Member
Finished Chapter 1. (105 hours in, lol I'm taking my time... still just at 51% though)
Game mechanic questions:
Also, after finishing chapter 1 I got a bunch of volunteers with a few S-ranked female soldiers among them. Basically the top person in each unit is a woman now. Was that intentional?
One of them is Asian which seems to be rare even for men.
Game mechanic questions:
Should I start developing the nuke immediately considering it takes so long to develop? It might finish while I'm still playing chapter 2 that way. Or is the impact on Heroism too high (I'm currently at 140k) that I should wait. Don't wanna lose seeing all those A++ soldiers in the field...
Also, do the subsistence/extreme versions of missions count for the total percentage/platinum?
Also, do the subsistence/extreme versions of missions count for the total percentage/platinum?
Also, after finishing chapter 1 I got a bunch of volunteers with a few S-ranked female soldiers among them. Basically the top person in each unit is a woman now. Was that intentional?
One of them is Asian which seems to be rare even for men.
KittenMaster
Member
Yeah. The communication is really bad. Even Miller tells you that you need serious firepower which is wrong. What you're supposed to do is CQC them until their armor disappears and then unload into their head with (preferably) a high powered automatic- that was literally the only way I figured out how to kill them.
Plague Doctor
Member
I feel like i should get a bronze trophy just for finally S ranking and finishing all the tasks for
Backup, Back Down, Lingua Franca, and Traitors' Caravan. Scripted dialogue and alerts don't mix in this game.
It's either DLC or part of MGO, it's pictured a few pages back but not sure how we'll be getting it.
Oh. That doesn't sound too bad. Thankfully I saw your post before having her go to the airport to murder everyone.
GreyOcelot
Member
it's grindy, but you can kill them with rockets and grenade launchers
Plague Doctor
Member
KittenMaster
Member
Tried that. Died to my own splash damage. Might still be a better option of it's faster though.
buy teh haloz
Banned
This mission also REALLY underlines how bad the UI is in this game. Quiet seemingly hangs out and does nothing unless I set Quiet to attack, but I have to go through like 3-4 UI screens to do this, and I'll get attacked while I do it. Terrible.
O.v.e.rlord
Banned
Is there a way to bring back Quiet after mission 45?
Plague Doctor
Member
Run down, a little south of the starting point. There is parked plane that you can run around while blasting them. Make sure they are in Quiet Field of Vision.
RevolverRoden
Member
Hey guys I'm not sure if this is a glitch or not but
I got the cutscene where Paz acts weird cuz Kaz tells her skullface is dead. I exit the room and go back and she's still acting that way (not cheery anymore and I don't get the option to give her one of the photos from the wandering MB soldier side ops). Okay. Makes sense I guess. Then my FOB is invaded and I go defend it. When I get back to MB and go back to her room she's back to "normal" and is all cheery again and I can give her the photo. Is this supposed to happen? I know weird stuff happens with the autosaving (if you don't go back to the ACC it wont save) so I'm worried if I ruined my save by doing the FOB mission.
TL;DR
Is Paz supposed to go back to being cheery after the cutscene where she learns about skullface's death or Is this a glitch?
TL;DR
Is Paz supposed to go back to being cheery after the cutscene where she learns about skullface's death or Is this a glitch?
No. Unfortunately.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
I deployed with D-Walker and circle strafed them with the Gatling gun. S rank too.
Climb on top of the hanger, it'll keep you safe from most of their attacks. Bring your best LMG, it's the cheapest and most effective option and just unload. If you have Quiet with the anti matieriel rifle, she'll help immensely.
SolidusDave
Member
I went in first with my normal stealth/non-lethal setup + a homing rocket launcher.
Struggled a lot. Then I said fuck it and restarted with my pink shotgun, a stronger non-homing rocket launcher, the shotgun-shell revolver and some upgraded C4 (though I spend most of that on one guy).
S rank on the first try.
I did only a few of those CQC prompts, mostly it was me shooting off their armor and then finishing them with rockets or the other shotgun. You see and hear the armor breaking. There is also a little transparent bar over their health bar that represents that armor. The can't regenerate their actual health and for me only the last remaining Skull was very quick in rebuilding that armor bar (which only seems to regenerate once it's fully depleted so you can time it).
The area in the back of the airfield in between the bunch of resource containers is a good place to fight them imo.
Struggled a lot. Then I said fuck it and restarted with my pink shotgun, a stronger non-homing rocket launcher, the shotgun-shell revolver and some upgraded C4 (though I spend most of that on one guy).
S rank on the first try.
I did only a few of those CQC prompts, mostly it was me shooting off their armor and then finishing them with rockets or the other shotgun. You see and hear the armor breaking. There is also a little transparent bar over their health bar that represents that armor. The can't regenerate their actual health and for me only the last remaining Skull was very quick in rebuilding that armor bar (which only seems to regenerate once it's fully depleted so you can time it).
The area in the back of the airfield in between the bunch of resource containers is a good place to fight them imo.
GodzillaDB
Member
Some of the side missions are made available again so that you'd always have a something to tackle post-completion, like the target practice stuff on Mother Base as well.
Plague Doctor
Member
That worked for me also and was the quickest. I just had to back up and they seemed to stand to there just blasting me with their guns. I also had a Rocket Launcher as a back up plan.
I died a lot in this mission, but it wasn't that bad. It forces you to figure things out while under constant threat of being ass-whooped. The Skulls have armor, which you need to whittle down with heavy weaponry (high penetration?). Rockets do good damage but tend to be inaccurate and dangerous to use because of how close the enemy can get to you. And missing shots means running out of what little ammo you're allowed, which causes you to have to wait for a supply drop. Which is bad if you've already stripped a Skull of it's armor since it can use the time to regenerate it.
The shotgun, light machine gun, and supply drops were what beat them for me. Run around or find a good position to take them down until there's two or so left, then you can go toe-to-toe, and triggering the CQC knife thing when one gets close.
The shotgun, light machine gun, and supply drops were what beat them for me. Run around or find a good position to take them down until there's two or so left, then you can go toe-to-toe, and triggering the CQC knife thing when one gets close.
O.v.e.rlord
Banned
Sigh! Thank you though!
KittenMaster
Member
I'll probably use this strat whenever I need to S rank the mission. Love the little robot shopping cart.
MegaSackman
Member
Finished true ending. 98hs. I liked how it ended, there are some interesting topics in the game but the narrative is horrible, and some characters are terrible too...
Better than the worst Metal Gear, worst than the better.
Mission 45 went full Destiny.
Better than the worst Metal Gear, worst than the better.
Mission 45 went full Destiny.
Hank Scorpio
Member
Only found out yesterday after 80+ hours and having already completed the main story. It looks pretty cool when your torso is covered in blood.
Kevin Shields
Member
How do you get this????
