MGSV thread of there's a game coming out.

[OnlyRegret]

Lel
Somehow I got QTE prompts for those fucks and you subsequently do a one shot counter attack on them.

Really made them a lot more silly.

[benjipwns]

No idea if these have any real spoilers, but apparently the speaker upgrade for the chopper is essential according to people I know who have been playing the game:

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[toku]

one of the first things i did

[AdmiralViscen]

First Africa mission I went through super stealthy, felt like a badass, then a guy saw me through the floor of a grating like an amateur and the thing I was hiding behind blew up.

Second time through I carpet bombed the place with air strikes and my rocket launcher and had a great time, still got a B rank.

This game rocks.

[demi]

Game is back in stock on Amazon I guess, ordered one.

[thisismyusername]

First Africa mission I went through super stealthy, felt like a badass, then a guy saw me through the floor of a grating like an amateur and the thing I was hiding behind blew up.

Second time through I carpet bombed the place with air strikes and my rocket launcher and had a great time, still got a B rank.

This game rocks.

Do the sidemissions with no fucks given. Smoke the enemy, they get stunned. Proceed to freight train sprint up and CQC slam all of them in a chain.

[mormapope]

The twin barrel hunting shotgun has versions/upgrades that give it the same effective range as assault rifles 



Gun customization can change how a gun can be used entirely. I got the Bambetov sniper rifle, which is a semi automatic sniper rifle that took .308 ammo. .308 magazines only hold 8 rounds and you get a total of 42 rounds of ammo.

I switched out .308 ammo with 7.62mm ammo, which means I now have 20 round magazines and a total of 210 rounds of ammo. The only setback is I have less penetration power, but the penetration is still way better than any assault rifle, along with having triple the damage and a lot more range.

Mission 18 is pretty rad.

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Escorting a group of African child soldiers through combat was pretty tense 

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[thisismyusername]

WAT @ Quiet's backstory. Oh, Kojima... this is too out there even for you.

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I'll allow it for that sweet sweet tranq sniper long-range support.

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[Rahxephon91]

Is there any real point to playing this game stealthy? It seems like it's much easier to go guns blazing since the controls work, enemies won't get back up, and all together they aren't hard to kill.

[archie4208]

S ranks

[toku]

Is there any real point to playing this game stealthy? It seems like it's much easier to go guns blazing since the controls work, enemies won't get back up, and all together they aren't hard to kill.

maybe some ppl like playing it stealthy

[toku]

http://warisboring.com/articles/the-true-story-of-metal-gear-solids-fulton-recovery-system/

[thisismyusername]

Going through Mission 21 in a Rush. Dolphin Diving errywhere to avoid the sniper. Only fuck up was against the VIP's where I had to clear a few army dudes around them to extract them but once done BAM. Easy.

Mission 22 pretty much an offline Dark Souls.

[Mods Help]

MGSV intro is everything wrong about modern experience gaming. Lots of bloat, lots of action without saying one damned thing important after an hour of clock time, that could have literally been handled with a five minute cutscene. "But it lets you EXPERIENCE it!" No. Hanging on to dear life and crawling on the floor and being interrupted with something every few seconds is not fun nor is it an enlightening game experience. The superpower and supernatural stuff in the intro, too, are fucking awful and come off like a bad anime. Replay any MGS 1-3 intro, and aside from MGS2 Ocelot hand thing, they are all understated "this is a sneaking mission" thin that gives you a reason to sneak. Going from Ground Zeroes' straight forward storytelling and complete lack of hokey pretension and going to TPP's intro is like night and day. Like what the fuck.

[Rahxephon91]

S ranks

Do those unlock anything? Do the "bossess" drop special stuff if you don't kill them? Are there any special things you get for not killing anyone? Is it just scores? Because at this point I might as well just go loud and speed this game up. Though I guess I still have to capture people in order to avoid grinding and to have stuff. So much for options.

[Mods Help]

complaining about this shit when the only glaring flaw the game has is that you can't fucking manual save.

[Rahxephon91]

Lol what the fuck kind of open world design is this game?

So most of Afghan is rock mountain which means traversing is extra annoying because you constantly run into literal walls. So you have to run around making traversal even more tedious since this games fast travel involves awesome waiting and loading.

But you don't even have D Hoarse if you decide to use any other buddy, making travel even more of a pain. Of coarse while just walking your bound to run in the Far Cry 2 esque respwaning bases. Which means you either have to fight them, stealth through them, or just run and pray.

Great open world here.

[Mods Help]

Fultons and mother base and resources are great. Mother base is empty, but who cares? The real meat is collecting soldiers and unlocking new r&d. Futons are in all practical sense the new dog tag.

Went through Phantom Limbs again and got that S. No achievement?

[Mods Help]

Ranking Metal Gear? I missed it.

1. MGS2 Substance - until MGSV, had the best gameplay flow and gameplay period. VR missions, Snakes Tales, Euro Extreme, dog tags, scissors 61.
2. MGS: Ghost Babel - nails everything from story to gameplay.
3. VR MISSIONS - holy fuck
4. MGS3 Subsistence - best story in the series, The End is the best boss fight in a 3d game. Game would be the best in the series of it did not have camo index and injury healing, which hamper the game and slow things to a stupid crawl and isn't fun to replay.
5. Regular Mgs2
6. Regular mgs3
7. Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake - is essentially MGS1 in 2d. The direction and cinematic feeling is ahead of its time. Has excellent design and builds upon everything MG1 laid out. The perfect sequel.
8. MGS1 - the most special MG in my heart. Has the best cast, the best script, VR missions are basic but good, memorable boss battles, best location in the series but the shooting and stuff haven't aged too well and it feels primitive compared to later stealth games. While it may not be the best MG, it's still my favorite due to the memories and for changing my ideas on what a game could be in 1998.
9. MG1 - not much to say, but it feels ancient now.
10. Twin Snakes - not terrible as people say but still not as optimal as the original MGS. Still good if you're an MGS1 fan for the harder modes and dogtags.

MGS4 does not exist. I did not play Peace Walker beyond the awful demo (lol aiming with face buttons) on psp because my faith in Metal Gear, a series I played the shit out of (see above) betrayed me.

[thisismyusername]

Went through Phantom Limbs again and got that S. No achievement?

There's an achievement for that? There's only an achievement if you do ALL the side-objectives for the main missions. I haven't done that yet since I'm trying to get the Sleep Gas grenades but given how advanced the enemy is now that I've done like 50% of the Side Ops, that's probably not a worthy goal anymore.  :'(

[Positive Touch]

you can tell how young an mgs fan is by how high they place 2

[Mods Help]

Went through Phantom Limbs again and got that S. No achievement?

There's an achievement for that? There's only an achievement if you do ALL the side-objectives for the main missions. I haven't done that yet since I'm trying to get the Sleep Gas grenades but given how advanced the enemy is now that I've done like 50% of the Side Ops, that's probably not a worthy goal anymore.  :'(

Thought there would be a achievement for getting an S period.

[thisismyusername]

Nah, it's for all main-ops.

• Accomplished - Complete all missions.
• Executed - Complete all mission tasks.
  
• Elite - Complete all missions with an S rank.

[mormapope]

MGS V on last gen consoles is one of the most inconsistent open world games I've played, when it comes to visuals and performance. Some areas literally look like something out of a PS1/PS2 game, mainly if you zoom in a horizon. Other areas look really detailed and some of the best stuff a 360/ps3 could accomplish. Framerate in some areas is stuttery as fuck, while in others it seems to run at a consistent 30 FPS.

As of now, MGS V and Street Fighter V are the only games I really want a current gen console for. Can't wait to play this in 60 FPS somewhere down the line. The leap will be like MGS3 on PS2 to MGS3 HD running at 60 FPS.

[Barry Egan]

lol Rahx throw a toilet tantrum over this game is hilarious.

[Mods Help]

How do I manage my staff and make sure morale is high? Also, how do I get lots of resources?

[mormapope]

If you click in the right analog stick while in staff management you get the option of the game automatically placing people in that unit or for all units. Early on getting everybody you bump into matters. Let the game sort everybody for you or sort people right as you get them. Eventually you upgrade your binoculars so they scan the rankings and skills soldiers have.

The more you play/the more groups get upgraded the talent pool of soldiers changes, eventually you don't want to extract people that have E or D ranks. I've done a shitload of side ops so all my units are in mid 20's or mid 30's when it comes to unit level, so now I fulton soldiers that have B or A ranks instead of fultoning random dudes.

Its also worth noting that I heard if your unit is full, fultoning a solider that has a better rank for that unit will automatically cause the lowest ranked soldier to be dismissed and the higher rank solider replaces them. This is seemingly true, at least in my experience. 

For resources, pick up everything you see when you go into outposts or bases. Eventually you upgrade the fulton so you can extract those huge shipping containers. Once you reach that point, periodically go to a big base somewhere on the map that has tons of those containers and extract all of them. Make sure you have at least 200,000 or 300,000 GMP when you do this though, as fultoning one container costs 10,000 GMP. 

[toku]

How do I manage my staff and make sure morale is high? Also, how do I get lots of resources?

go to your base and run past the dudes to increase morale

[Mods Help]

If I Fulton a lot of people and then go to abort mission do I keep the people I sent up? 

[mormapope]

Its 50/50 on that. Until you see the message about what was recovered at motherbase, the extraction won't count until you trigger a checkpoint of any kind. Also if you go into iDroid, it'll say fulton in progress on the bottom right of the screen if they haven't reached motherbase yet. So you have to either wait or trigger some sort of checkpoint for it to count for sure.

When it comes to aborting the mission and it counting, if you get the message about them getting there or reach a checkpoint, it should count. Not sure though, you'd have to test it.

[Mods Help]

So if you go on a Fulton run or whatever you can't just do that and then abort and have your shit? You have to actually successfully complete the mission? Big oversight on a game stressing replaying missions as much as this. Chalk that up as another flaw. More of a nitpick, but a big one.

[thisismyusername]

So if you go on a Fulton run or whatever you can't just do that and then abort and have your shit? You have to actually successfully complete the mission? Big oversight on a game stressing replaying missions as much as this. Chalk that up as another flaw. More of a nitpick, but a big one.

No, you don't have to complete the mission. If you go on a fulton run, like he said: It's 50/50 if you quit before the "fulton recovery" happens. You either 1) wait around or 2) chance it. Most of the time the guards will count. But now and then they won't. It's better to wait until the "fulton recovery" in the iDroid is done before quitting.

[thisismyusername]

Also while I was running around in the sandbox between missions and traveling on the ground instead of ACC'ing to the next side-op...

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  Two Hyena's came in and killed the two guards that were about to notice me. The guards shot one of them (while the one killed a guard) and I killed the remaining after the Hyena that was still standing was about to notice me.  This game at times. I think I only saw that once in Assassin's Creed 3 where there was an achievement for it. I hope I can trick the guards into running into Wolves and a Bear later on.

[Mods Help]

Did A Heroes Way. Time was ASAP I think. It was night time and then a sandstorm started. Using this to take a chance I went straight for the radio tower to get a vantage point. Shot the light out because sandstorms cause deafness. He heard it and called in. They sent a patrol of four guys to my location to see wtf was up. So I knocked him out, fultoned him, then when the four went in looking for him I threw a smoke nade, they fell for it, and I knocked them all out one after the other before the smoke cleared. Then I fultoned THEM. At this point, the sun started to rise and I still hasn't accomplished my mission, so I went in, scouted, knocked out everyone, then fultoned my target in broad daylight. Then I rode out with the sun rising while on horseback.

GOTY.

Didn't get an S because of time (18 minutes) but I got pure stealth, no kills A rank on my first time.

[mormapope]

I did a "rescue the prisoner" side op in Africa and hyenas/something attacked and killed the few guards that were there.

[Mods Help]

I did the extract the Russian interpreter side op and when he got there it said the landing killed him...

[Mods Help]

http://gfycat.com/PleasingClassicCow



You don't deserve this game, Rah.

[Rahxephon91]

lol Rahx throw a toilet tantrum over this game is hilarious.

I don't see what the problem is. I just think the game has a lot of problems and elements that I dislike. And seeing as how this is my favorite series....

[OnlyRegret]

Eh, Wahx is right about a few things.
Terrain being one of them.

How do I manage my staff and make sure morale is high? Also, how do I get lots of resources?

Alternatively. Smoke a Phantom Cigar on the deck to raise morale without running around.

[Mods Help]

I'm not sure what people expect with the terrain. Were you expecting bustling cities?

[OnlyRegret]

Getting around can be annoying as your character won't climb.

With regards to a lively open world, there really wasn't a point since there doesn't seem to be anything to explore. Just locations to tackle for various missions.

[mormapope]

You need to navigate via roads in Afghanistan. Africa is completely different, its essentially a gigantic field with hills and mounds.

[VomKriege]

Getting around can be annoying as your character won't climb.

With regards to a lively open world, there really wasn't a point since there doesn't seem to be anything to explore. Just locations to tackle for various missions.

There's nothing to explore but you have to traverse it though. It creates more possibilities for emegent situations.

[toku]

Just built my sneaking suit 

Just went back to mother base and caught Ocelot training soldiers and giving the same speech Boss did in MGS3 about engravings giviing no tactical advantage and forgetting what hollywood taught you

[Mods Help]

I need MGSV gifs.

[Rahxephon91]

Just built my sneaking suit 

Just went back to mother base and caught Ocelot training soldiers and giving the same speech Boss did in MGS3 about engravings giviing no tactical advantage and forgetting what hollywood taught you

Yeah that was an awesome scene. Then I listened to the tape about Quiet where he said that Quiet deserves to be treated with respect because shes a human. All in his strange texas sheriff voice. I was like is this the same torture master?

Ocelot really sucks in this game. His character makes no sense and he just feels boring with none of the little quirks he had in the previous games.

[Mods Help]

Ocelot has sucked since 2. He was good in 3 but that was whatever. Not sure why anyone would have any expectations for the characters or story after mgs4.

[OnlyRegret]

You need to navigate via roads in Afghanistan. Africa is completely different, its essentially a gigantic field with hills and mounds.

Yeah, which makes it an annoyance to get anywhere without lengthy chokepoint paths. Loop de loop around the map to get where you want.
Got to Africa, much better. I can approach from way more directions that just a narrow road.

[toku]

eh there's usually at least one path in afghanistan to each base that isn't immediately clear to you because you have to climb or go through some tiny pass to get to an overlook

[Mods Help]

Reading the map really well reveals hidden off the main paths that you can reach.

These paths are hard to find and that's the way they should be. It should take effort to find better vantage points.

[thisismyusername]

https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/3jwy5z/why_are_there_so_many_white_soldiers_in_africa/

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Mission 6 is better than the entirety of MGS4; no hyperbole.

[toku]

Mission 6 is better than the entirety of MGS4; no hyperbole.

Haha took forever to do, just dragged my ass the whole time then I ended up resupplying at the worst possible moment. Ended up going loud for the last third of it but still came out with a B rank and a new animal rating of Fox.

Got 22 headshots that mission
 


You became a demon for such little weapons as that?

[OnlyRegret]

Mission 6 is better than the entirety of MGS4; no hyperbole.

Haha took forever to do, just dragged my ass the whole time then I ended up resupplying at the worst possible moment. Ended up going loud for the last third of it but still came out with a B rank and a new animal rating of Fox.

Got 22 headshots that mission
 


You became a demon for such little weapons as that?

"Guest starring"
Brings every mission down because you're never surprised by mission enemies.
Definitely for 6. Would have been great if you weren't expecting the special folks.

[Mods Help]

How come each mission has a dumb credit roll and tells you the cast anyways?

Also how do I resupply? I nearly ran out of tranquilizer bullets.

[OnlyRegret]

Cause Kojima is an egomaniac who wants to make movies.
Hence why in the credit the name you see for longest and that has its own page is Kojima.

Either throw resupply frags or use your Ipod and look over the options in the tab where you call in helicopters. Should be support options.

[Mods Help]

Resupply frag?

[OnlyRegret]

Look in the development tree.

I think it is actually a flare. It is equipment you can equip to replenish equippables. Make sure to equip it in the equipment slots.

[tiesto]

If you complete a side-ops mission, i.e. extract a prisoner... but then die before getting back to a safe point, do you still get the rescued prisoner in your base?

[toku]

If you complete a side-ops mission, i.e. extract a prisoner... but then die before getting back to a safe point, do you still get the rescued prisoner in your base?

I believe as long as you get that text update on the left side of the screen you got them.