Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes/The Phantom Pain
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A friend of mine played it and said it was just "OK" but not great. He said I'd wont care for it, like I didn't care at all for MGO3.
Still, I would like to try it and see for myself.
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The ones that aren't on my home base are greyed out and can't be sold. I don't see how a dozen trucks and 4wds are going to help me defend my FOBs.
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So MGS V got an update that added grade 7 weapons (nothing new as far as I've seen on the Konami site, just upgrades), FOB insurance, some other bits and an increased resource cap. Shame I still don't have a desk otherwise I'd head home to get my PC tonight...
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I'm pretty sure it isn't. The grey numbers are for items and resources that are stored "online". resources mined by the FOBs fall under this category online+offline resources are added together when you build things like new platforms. You can however not sell the online resources, and seeing as FOBs can't create vehicles, these must have come from my main base.
edit: they're actually not grey, that's just when you've sold all the items on mother base and only have online items left. Regardless, they're still not available for me to sell even though i spent gmp and time on extracting them.
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I'm still at 9% of the game because IRL stuff. My question is, do I really have to go to Mother Base every Mission/Sideops (though its automatic after doing main story missions) and greet soldiers or explore the base? I found that a bit tedious. But still I'm doing that because I might miss some secret events in the base. No spoilers please. Thank you.
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No, you don't have to.
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@prisonermonkeys Thank you. The idea of exploring the base often kinda turned me off to play the game. Now I will just enjoy it.
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You will have to go back a couple of times for story events and the like, and it always pays to explore - there are collectibles to be found, time trials that are always good for a GMP boost, and it helps to acquaint yourself with the layout for FOB raids - but you can stay out in the field for as long as you like. To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing missable at Mother Base.
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It's not always automatic, you can leave mission areas (which are marked on the map) on foot, horseback or in a vehicle and the game will just show you the scorecard and you'll resume in the field. Then you can start missions from the iDroid which places start points in the world for you to visit then accept the mission.
That said, there are quite a few ops that force you to go back to MB. That's what I want to try out in my next playthrough, only returning when I'm forced to.
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And going to the helicopter won't take you back to Mother Base by default unless it's scripted. As you're only at 9% completion, you're probably still going through the tutorial phase. You'll usually go back to the Aerial Command Centre and can re-deploy from there. Calling the helicopter can be expensive, and sometimes exfiltrating via land is an additional objective (check the iDroid after the mission is complete to check them all - sometimes they make missions play very differently).
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Nope, unless you don't complete your mission, then yes.
When done, ride out of the "hot zone" which is that red line on your map. Once done with the mission, you're now in free-roam mode, which you can always go into at any time from the droid.
If you don't want to free-roam around, just push select and "return to ACC" to avoid costly helicopter pick ups. Also, when leaving the hot zone with a prisoner or vehicle, it/they too will extracted out of there at no cost to you.
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Another speedy getaway after-mission is to climb on top of a container and fulton it with you on top.
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Yep, do that all the time.
OK, done a few missions/episodes and now at 410 hours of game play, 36% complete, 530k heroism, 5m+++ GMP, Levels in the high-mid 40s, and faced the dreaded "illness." Most of my combat team got sick, but since all have recovered and all is good once again.
Finally got to make my Security Team, and that's going OK. Sucks I have to share my combat soldiers now, but it's OK. I can manage. I have no idea how to make a FOB, now I have that option. The game told me where to go to make it, but didn't see anything. I went online, but was running so slow, I logged off and got the usual message. "Failure to connect to server..." So, I don't think I was logged in at all, though I got my Reward for logging in. Haven't got one of those in four days, or so. Got a lot more items researched, too. Still have tons of GMP and my Rewards page is still loaded with about 2.5m in GMP, alone. Plus resources!
One great bit of news, I finally can collect and keep S rank soldiers! I saw an S+ rank soldier, but he was a boaster, so it was just an S. But, I'll take an S rank soldier at this point! New reason to hunt for soldiers again. Episode 16, here I come!
Episode 20: Voices was horrible for me.
Fire Man closed down the tunnel despite "freezing" him in the pool. I ran that som' bitch down with the jeep. 
But, the battle was horrible. Venom Snake kept walking into the fire, though I was trying to move him around it. Got killed twice because he just wouldn't move were I wanted him too. Sometimes, the controls in this game are just horrible. I've seen it numerous times with the horse and D-walker. It destroyed my "no traces" run I was working on. I had one going, up until I had to blow a water tank to stop him. Really pissed me off. Still got an S rank, so screw it.
But, the battle was horrible. Venom Snake kept walking into the fire, though I was trying to move him around it. Got killed twice because he just wouldn't move were I wanted him too. Sometimes, the controls in this game are just horrible. I've seen it numerous times with the horse and D-walker. It destroyed my "no traces" run I was working on. I had one going, up until I had to blow a water tank to stop him. Really pissed me off. Still got an S rank, so screw it.The other episodes I did, 21, 22 and 23 all went a lot better. Though, did you guys get a letter rank for 22 Retake The Platform? I didn't. Another C2W for me that's going to screw me? Need to redo some of them for the Hail blueprint, Medical Book, Musical Tape Gloria and one specialist. I'll do that later tonight.
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@Solid Lifters - There is no rank awarded for missions that take place on Mother Base.
As for FOBs, you build them the same way that you do Mother Base. It has the added feature of fine-tuning security settings, so make sure you set them to maximum and retrieve all of the blueprints for security devices and develop them as soon as possible. You should also expand each platform to two decks as soon as possible because that will make it harder for people to infiltrate. Given the heavy bias in favour of defenders, people scour the lists of available FOBs, looking for under-developed and under-defended bases for easy raids.
As for FOBs, you build them the same way that you do Mother Base. It has the added feature of fine-tuning security settings, so make sure you set them to maximum and retrieve all of the blueprints for security devices and develop them as soon as possible. You should also expand each platform to two decks as soon as possible because that will make it harder for people to infiltrate. Given the heavy bias in favour of defenders, people scour the lists of available FOBs, looking for under-developed and under-defended bases for easy raids.
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I wish there was a way to build it offline and use my resources I have offline. I understand, I cannot use my resources offline to build it, which pretty much means I'm not going to bother at this time, or at all.
I can rollback the current update and do so, if I'm correct? I hate having so much resources and not be able to use them.
So, is there any point to have a high ranking Base Development Platform when you have everything at 4/4 and don't need the resources? I might as well dismantle it and send the high ranking soldiers elsewhere.
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@Solid Lifters - I honestly have no idea. I haven't downloaded the latest update yet because I'm out of data for the month.
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No, there is not. Keep in mind though that a future update might introduce some use for it. (Though probably not an issue if you have everything maxxed out).
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Gah, trying to get all of the objectives for "Voices", and it's proving IMPOSSIBLE! To hit the floating boy with an attack, you have to destroy a water tower to stun the Man on Fire, and then call in a supply drop or vehicle and hope that it hits the floating boy. That's right - hope.
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So S-rank soldiers have finally started to appear in my game. I've fultoned two now, and on both occasions, the game decided that none of them were S-ranks when they arrived at Mother Base. 🤬 this 🤬. I can't tell if this is poor game design, or if it's the game intentionally trying to piss me off. Wouldn't be the first time I suppose...
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So does anyone know which weapons have grade 7 upgrades now? The D114 carbine, maybe?
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