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

Timeaisis

Member
How detailed is the Official Strategy Guide for MGSV? Doesn't it have all the secret info which people are spoiler tagging?

I'm thinking of picking it up because the cover art looks fucking cool.

I like it a lot. It's not very spoilery, but it definitely tells you most of the secrets I already knew about here. I avoid it for my first mission playthrough, always always. It's a good quick resource for looking up like weapon trees and when you unlock x,y and z with side ops or whatever.

EDIT: If your talking about story secrets, I don't know. I don't venture into that part of the book. :p
 

Fotos

Member
Am I the only one who can't connect to online still? I'm on Xbox One in the U.S. And I keep getting error 10003...
 

Chariot

Member
it doesn't have that. It has clues. But all the details are pretty much absent. Even tho they discuss some clues.

as far as the guide itself. its very thorough.
Eh, people got almost the whole story with the leaked guide, the trailers and some thinking before the games itself was leaked. So be careful with that book.
 

ultracal31

You don't get to bring friends.
So I finished mission 16:

I wasn't too sure what to expect as I know that there were a lot of complaints from here and I chose to look away from the opening credits text. I started out the mission with DD and we got the intel from the first guard post. Realizing I had a lot more ground to cover I switched DD out for Quiet. I reasoned she could cover a lot more ground than I could with just DD so I sent her off to find the truck while I head towards the air base.

She quickly found the truck a few posts down near a guard post so off I go. Decided to use her to lay down some distraction fire so I can just fulton out the tanks and the truck. I slowly approach one tank to send back to MB because I want a tank. Tank is successfully fulton and while Quiet still had everyone attention I approach the truck.

JESUS, ROCK MONSTER SKULLS JUMP OUT D:

Immediately crawled down and whew, the skulls haven't seen me yet. Truck still needs to be dealt with and thinking about my options I decided to lame it out. Told Quiet to shoot at the skulls as I slowly crawl towards the truck. Jesus, her shots are no good at the skulls but she has got their attention. Slowly, slowly crawling towards the truck and fulton that out.

Oh no skulls are still around but the mission is done. I just need to leave the hot zone so I resumed crawling out of their field of vision before running to a hot zone for a mission complete.

Rank B at the end of this mission.

Guys this game just...god damn
 

brau

Member
Eh, people got almost the whole story with the leaked guide, the trailers and some thinking before the games itself was leaked. So be careful with that book.

The guide does a good job at compartmentalizing the information. So you can look at info and know what to get out of from the index. Of course, if you are looking for spoilers, you'll find them in the sections that talk spoilers and what not.

Weapon tree, skills, buddy system and all that jazz, is well layed out.

But of course. The guide is a spoiler since its talking about the game anyways haha.
 
This game is the definition of a sandbox game. There's no other game that gives you this many options to tackle missions. Developers usually over promise on this, but this fucking game delivers.
 
Which ones are those, btw?

There's one for each category of weapons. Here's a few examples:
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Window

Member
You mean like the music cassettes? That can't be right. Right? I don't know with this game anymore.

No not the music ones. He's referring to the sound clips such as the lullaby or the enemy cleared one etc.

With the exception of mission 16 and 29
involving the skulls where the game pretty much forces you to adopt a particular play style which is not fun but still made easy by using the right strategy (which shouldn't have to be the case)
I really don't understand the grief people are having in completing missions. This is probably the easiest MGS game that I've played (besides maybe MGS4).
 

EvB

Member
Send in quiet to scout base (tranq sniper)

Ask to cover fire.

Go make a sandwich.

Extract prisoner/skilled soldier/blue print

Fin!

Don't forget to click return to ACC as soon as you've done what you wanted to do! Thanks instant checkpoint when I complete side op!
 

Nose Master

Member
Pretty gooood. Was just flooring it in a jeep in
Africa
and my controller ran out of battery. Just kept my momentum and bowled over a bunch of smaller trees until I came to a stop by hitting a big one. <3
 

Salsa

Member
Which mission?

29

absolute garbage

not only that but im forced to research strong rocket launchers for the first time

and guess what? gotta wait 18 minutes for no reason

this game just did a 180 cocktail of absolute fucking bullshit oh my god

the mission before this was probably the best in the game

who tested this
 

Kama_1082

Banned
Just finished CH 31

god damn, snake was vicious in blowing off skull face's limbs. That metal gear fight was one of my favorites in the entire series. Good stuff
 

MrS

Banned
29

absolute garbage

not only that but im forced to research strong rocket launchers for the first time

and guess what? gotta wait 18 minutes for no reason

this game just did a 180 cocktail of absolute fucking bullshit oh my god

the mission before this was probably the best in the game

who tested this
The Best Is Yet To Come
 

Window

Member
29

absolute garbage

Use the D-Walker with the gattling gun. It will be over before you know it. I know it sucks to be forced to completely change up the way you've been playing so far but if you want to get it over with quickly, it's the best option.
 

J-Skee

Member
Catching up on tapes, and Code Talker's voice is so boring that II have trouble paying attention to what he's saying. Barf.

This is without a doubt the worst voice acted MGS game to date.

I hate Huey. Which is weird because I'm okay with Otacon, but Huey has to be one of the worst characters created for this universe. Didn't need to know anything about by him outside of what we learned in Sons of Liberty. Also, I can't stand Ocelot's voice. No disrespect to Troy Baker, but that is not how I expected a middle aged Ocelot to sound like. And as far as Big Boss, I didn't mind him at all, but I feel like there was a lot more for him to say & Keifer was like "I'm not saying this silly shit."
 

Lakitu

st5fu
I'm at mission 16, done a shit ton of side ops and I've put in around 40 hours so far, yet I still don't know what a FOB is.
 

Salsa

Member
I didnt upgrade the D walker at all cause that's not how I was playing this game and it is not how this game is fun

garbage design

GARBAGE

im mad. not reaction mad but mad at a game taking such a big dump on itself. "hey this is great and fun, lets just ruin it"
 
spoiler for a motherbase scene that takes place at the beginning of chapter 2, after mission 31.

I was called back to motherbase because a kid got crushed by some pipes. Am I supposed to do something here? I dont understand what the point of taking me back to motherbase was...could have just told me over the radio
 

Setsuna

Member
Outfit spoilers The
Parasite
suit with
Parasite armor
is amazing

Running through machine guns punching people in the face
 

Salsa

Member
this shit will seriously go down as one of my most hated changes of pace in a game i've ever played. what a god damn nose dive, even if it ends up being just this mission

16 had alternatives. I figured those were intentional ie the game giving you the chance to play like you wanted

this crap is just inexcusable. it's not hard; it's a dread. it's the ultimate "I give up on this crap" moments that just get you pissed at what went wrong during development
 
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