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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain |OT2| A Franchise Robbed Of Its Future
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Captain Zyrain
Member
Took me a few tries, ended up running around with rockets and kiting for Quiet.
Apparently if you get on a roof its easier?
I think I hit the 60 hour mark around Mission 19. 120 hours to finish the main story. 214 hours to 100% it.
KOMANI
KOMANI
The check points are horrendous .
I raised morale for my whole base, just to fall off a glitched platform with no floor, and I started back at the LZ. Had to go raise morale again.
65% complete. I've already finished the story and have done 77% of side missions. I'm just going through and clearing up optional objectives now. At least I was.
Frank the Great
Banned
Just beat chapter one. That was awesome.
I used the fully developed
stealth
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
I love it when it's a woman prisoner I've rescued who I stick the fulton to. "Wooooooo Hoooooooo!"
With the guys, it's just sheer panic.
With the guys, it's just sheer panic.
They don't rear their head very often because the mission design is 95% extremely good and the amount of options at your disposal at all times keeps you moving, but when they do, they're fucking ugly. I had next to no problems with them just playing through normally, but they're becoming more noticeable on the optional objectives. Yesterday after listening to a 5 minute long conversation between some generals which was an optional objective, I died and have to do that again. Feck that.
What item exactly are you referring to when you say
stealth
Graphics Horse
Member
I guess it's frustrating because you're equipped for non lethal play. You get to redeploy in the middle of a storm (wtf) and then you're basically forced to go lethal. If you don't ready up to kill you're practically dead. I've qte them a bunch of times, but no matter the non lethal gun it does shit, my mines did shit too.
One time I managed to get their health down, they either brought their armor back up, or stopped attacking me.
One time I managed to get their health down, they either brought their armor back up, or stopped attacking me.
RichiRamjag
Member
Did that shit perfectly. Died on the last. Turned my ps4 off before I chucked it out of the window.
KOMANI
KOMANI
That exactly happened to me, but it still saved the objective so I never had to complete the mission.
I've never been very great at MGS games. I've always enjoyed them but I hope I don't have to S tehse Subsistence and Extreme missions, I'm so bad at them
edit: Tried my first C2W a few times and just get spotted so often. How do you get better at this?
You don't have to S rank Subsistence or Extreme mission or even do them unless you want 100%.
Here's an easy way to get through the C2W one if you're interested though...
Make your landing point the base itself. Use the chopper's gatling gun to take out the three antennas. Profit.
The
stealth camo, (under items in the development menu), you'll be able to develop it fully having finished the main story and witnessed hueys exile. Makes fultoning those tanks a charm when no one can see you 
Chapter 2 spoilers: Just completed the
side op and...huh.
secure the Man on Fire's remains
So Man on Fire being a vengeful Volgin is a cool idea, but what the hell just happened? He and BB wrestle for a couple seconds, suddenly Boss has a hand full of bullets, and Volgin falls to the ground dead? And why is Kojima revealing it now, at the same time he's killing him off? Seems like a wasted opportunity to not have Volgin -- or the Man on Fire revealed as Volgin -- not play a more active part in the story.
Also, maybe my game glitched, but going into the mission Ocelot was saying blah blah blah, "and the man on fire just may be our friend Volgin." Wait, what?! Where did that come from? Were the some obvious hints or conversations I missed earlier about Man on Fire = Volgin? Because that suggestion seemed completely out of nowhere, and kinda undermined the impact of seeing Volgin once you get to his body. The exact same lines are used in a post-mission cassette, which leads me to think my game just glitched and played some of that audio too early -- that happen to anyone else?
Also, maybe my game glitched, but going into the mission Ocelot was saying blah blah blah, "and the man on fire just may be our friend Volgin." Wait, what?! Where did that come from? Were the some obvious hints or conversations I missed earlier about Man on Fire = Volgin? Because that suggestion seemed completely out of nowhere, and kinda undermined the impact of seeing Volgin once you get to his body. The exact same lines are used in a post-mission cassette, which leads me to think my game just glitched and played some of that audio too early -- that happen to anyone else?
Caffeine
Member
probably because he is wearing the same suit, ocelot would know he worked along side him.
That was the worst part was I did it perfectly too. But I had one shot to fulton the last tank and I had to go for it. Sure enough that was the time 6 dudes on a dune saw me and lit me up after extracting it. Punishment for death is cool, but that's just fucked up.
Thestealth camo, (under items in the development menu), you'll be able to develop it fully having finished the main story and witnessed hueys exile. Makes fultoning those tanks a charm when no one can see you
The
stealth camo PP
This game's checkpoints are just one sign this is still a Japanese developer trying for the firs time to make a systemic open-world game -- usually the domain of western PC-oriented developers. Any western developer making this game would probably have just given it a quicksave, at least for the PC version.
Just do whatever works. Maybe try stealth but if you get caught, roll with it. The game is pretty lenient for the most part.
Still dumb considering Ocelot never mentions it before and not even in any of the early cassette tapes you get about The Man on Fire. Ocelot does say it out of nowhere right at the end of his story. Would of been much better if Ocelot would of said something like "Could he be who we think it is? How is it possible? He should be dead!" in one of the early cassettes.
Thanks but what affects your ranking? If I don't use stealth and kill allot if soldiers does my rank go down?
Yeah the
PP version is fairly useless but since you've finished the game, you'll have 'emmerich's research notes' which gives you the option to develop the final version of the stealth camo, you do have to develop the PP versions first of course - it's not unlimited it but it recharges really fast and lasts for a decent amount of time when equipped - so in that mission with it equipped I just ran towards every vehicle and planted mines on the road, you're done with it in a matter of minutes then you can extract the tanks without the worry of being caught and dying and having to restart the whole mission
Sleep gas grenade launcher does the job very well, if you have it unlocked/developed. If you can work your way over to underneath her sniping point where she is at the start of the mission and just open fire on it, should do the trick. There's plenty of good strategies online but alternatively, use a tank.
You do lose potential bonus points for breaking stealth among other things like killing someone but that is a one time thing. The only thing that gives you negative points are the number of combat alerts and how many hits you take. Again, the game is very lenient, things like headshots will give you points and time is the most important factor for you rank. More importantly, rank per mission doesn't mean much especially your first time through.
There is a mostly comestic thing related to if you're killing a bunch of people but it's not a big deal. Just don't over think it and just play. I'm sure you'll find something that works for you since the game is so open to multiple playstyles.
That's what I've been doing, but with those guys it's different, take heavy equipment and "kill" them
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Just develop a rocket launcher for them.
Or just take a regular rife, do the CQC stuff(press the button just as you're getting attacked) and then attack non-stop.
Or just take a regular rife, do the CQC stuff(press the button just as you're getting attacked) and then attack non-stop.
KiefbladeMaster
Member
I hate the morale system on Mother Base. Otherwise I've been having a great time with it, just getting to Africa.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
IF YOU FALL I WILL CATCH YOU I'LL BE WAITING!
Good to know. I'll get to work on developing that stuff right away. S ranks can wait.
Augemitbutter
Member
just here to say i hate that mission. trying to run all over for the tasks, ugh. i think it's the worst in the whole game.
It's very handy for just breezing through mission tasks, will lock you out of S ranks though. I had S ranked most missions when I was at that stage of clearing up all mission tasks so it was convenient for me in that sense.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I....I already am....gotta develop stuff....*sigh*...
I'm not gonna fuck with that mission again for a while though.
Yeah you can burn yourself out with certain missions (I'm looking at you Lingua Franca - had the worst fucking 'listen to' mission task that hardly worked) - I would go over and back between missions to keep it fresh in between doing mission tasks, took some serious will power to go back to that one though, felt like a chore in the end up.
kriskrosbbk
Member
Guys how many of you managed to do an S rank on the furst mission run ? Is this even possible if not just lucky? I mean objectives are locked at first.
Happened to me a fair few times. Usually extracting bonus prisoners is a huge score bonus.
THIS. This is my masterpiece. Out of all videos I've done today, this is my favorite.
lmao. That was great.
Objectives aren't locked, they're just hidden, you can stumble upon them. Like the above poster said, you get massive points for extracting prisoners, so I've gotten lucky with a few. But S rank shouldn't be your priority on your first run.