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DevsBro posted...

So I set my helicopter music to You Spin Me Round.

Ride of the Valkyries was the best so far but it got old after a while. Most of the others don't work at all because of the intro but You Spin Me starts fast pretty much immediately.

I love the idea of Rebel Yell and Final Countdown but it takes so long to get to the good part on both of those that I'm either leaving or gone by the time they even kick in. I didn't realize Final Countdown's iconic intro was so far into the track.

That said, if Heavens Divide is in this game, there better be a mission like the helicopter one in Ground Zeroes so I can get to the dramatic part while firing the minigun lol.

The helicopter will also play the music while backing you up. Sound an alarm and the enemy swarm is too much for you? Call in the chopper to plow through the enemies while blasting music.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

DevsBro posted...

So I set my helicopter music to You Spin Me Round.

Ride of the Valkyries was the best so far but it got old after a while. Most of the others don't work at all because of the intro but You Spin Me starts fast pretty much immediately.

I love the idea of Rebel Yell and Final Countdown but it takes so long to get to the good part on both of those that I'm either leaving or gone by the time they even kick in. I didn't realize Final Countdown's iconic intro was so far into the track.

That said, if Heavens Divide is in this game, there better be a mission like the helicopter one in Ground Zeroes so I can get to the dramatic part while firing the minigun lol.

The helicopter will also play the music while backing you up. Sound an alarm and the enemy swarm is too much for you? Call in the chopper to plow through the enemies while blasting music.

Yeah but for several of the tracks and several of the locations, they still don't get to the part that's actually fitting until everything is dead. They'll certainly be dead long before the dramatic part of Heavens Divide.

I imagine it would work well for Final Countdown though, now that you mentiom it.
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I... Just... punched a kid in the face.

I need to go back to Mother Base and rethink my life choices.

*sits in corner and pulls knees up to chest*
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Wait this White Mamba kid is Liquid? That's so stupid. I was assuming he was Fox. Thst would actually make sense.

Let me guess, Cipher or whoever we're after these days put him there knowing BB would find him or something stupid.
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Though I di have to say, I love watching Liquid get owned over and over lol.
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DevsBro posted...

Wait this White Mamba kid is Liquid? That's so stupid. I was assuming he was Fox. Thst would actually make sense.

Let me guess, Cipher or whoever we're after these days put him there knowing BB would find him or something stupid.

They already did Fox in Portable Ops, he was born over 30 years before Phantom Pain
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This infection subplot is pretty brilliant.

I mean, not for story reasons, but because it puts the player's personal investment into the game at stake, appears super urgent and encourages the player make bad guy decisions for sake of practicality, in a game where you play as the bad guy (who just happens to be fighting a bedder guy).

And the best part is that the presentation makes it unclear whether it's best to contunue the story or do detective work first. For the first time in the whole game, I legitimately don't know how to proceed. And it deals with a topic as touchy from a narrative standpoint as the gameplay is. Loving it. Whoever at KP had this idea deserves a raise.

The story so far has varied from WTF to stupid but this was one great decision.
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DevsBro posted...

This infection subplot is pretty brilliant.

I mean, not for story reasons, but because it puts the player's personal investment into the game at stake, appears super urgent and encourages the player make bad guy decisions for sake of practicality, in a game where you play as the bad guy (who just happens to be fighting a badder guy).

And the best part is that the presentation makes it unclear whether it's best to contunue the story or do detective work first. For the first time in the whole game, I legitimately don't know how to proceed. And it deals with a topic as touchy from a narrative standpoint as the gameplay is. Loving it. Whoever at KP had this idea deserves a raise.

The story so far has varied from WTF to stupid but this was one great decision.

Yeah, I liked that part of the story and it comes to a head rather poignantly.
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DevsBro posted...

This infection subplot is pretty brilliant.

I mean, not for story reasons, but because it puts the player's personal investment into the game at stake, appears super urgent and encourages the player make bad guy decisions for sake of practicality, in a game where you play as the bad guy (who just happens to be fighting a badder guy).

And the best part is that the presentation makes it unclear whether it's best to contunue the story or do detective work first. For the first time in the whole game, I legitimately don't know how to proceed. And it deals with a topic as touchy from a narrative standpoint as the gameplay is. Loving it. Whoever at KP had this idea deserves a raise.

The story so far has varied from WTF to stupid but this was one great decision.

I actually felt invested in stopping it since some of my top dudes were dying, I was impressed how well they managed to integrate those two elements (although still a lil annoyed that all my shit got leveled down)

if you're talking about mission 43, it's one of the best moments in the series, IMO.
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boxington posted...

if you're talking about mission 43, it's one of the best moments in the series, IMO.

The last one I did was 24, I think. The kid and the scientist extraction. Then Ocelot calls you to explain the situation.

Also lol at Miller being his usual derpy self and blaming the whole thing of Quiet even though it makes no sense whatsoever just because he hates her.
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DevsBro posted...

I... Just... punched a kid in the face.

I need to go back to Mother Base and rethink my life choices.

*sits in corner and pulls knees up to chest*

I did a mission at night once and ran over a kid I had tranqed. Instant game over pissed me off lol. But do a running punch on a kid if you really want to feel bad. I mean getting hit with a running start punch from snakes metal hand has to dislocate a kids jaw.

On the eli thing people would have been pissed if foxes backstory was retconned yet again.

Also tc have you completed the pazquest yet? I cant recall how early you can but I remember you talking about it earlier in the thread
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mooreandrew58 posted...

Also tc have you completed the paz quest yet? I cant recall how early you can but I remember you talking about it earlier in the thread

No, you have to unlock the wandering soldier missions in the main missions. I have gotten through wandering soldier 5. I think I'm roughly halfway through the main missions, based on how many S Ranks I have and which challenges I have completed that reward you for a certain percentage of S-Ranks. If my guess is correct, there shoupd be about 50 main missions, and IIRC I just finished 24 or 25.
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DevsBro posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

Also tc have you completed the paz quest yet? I cant recall how early you can but I remember you talking about it earlier in the thread

No, you have to unlock the wandering soldier missions in the main missions. I have gotten through wandering soldier 5. I think I'm roughly halfway through the main missions, based on how many S Ranks I have and which challenges I have completed that reward you for a certain percentage of S-Ranks. If my guess is correct, there shoupd be about 50 main missions, and IIRC I just finished 24 or 25.

Ah ok. The final picture to give her can be confusing. If you need help im sure someone on here like myself or better yet to mgs v board itself will help

I had some of the same feelings you had about retcons when first seeing her but the ending makes the journey worth it imo.
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Also I like that tape where Huey is going on about cloning and Ahab is like "Durr dass imposserble" even though he literally already knows about Les Infantes Terribles.
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DevsBro posted...

Also I like that tape where Huey is going on about cloning and Ahab is like "Durr dass imposserble" even though he literally already knows about Les Infantes Terribles.

I think its a case of denile as he just really dislikes the idea of cloning. Its been awhile though
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I literally just realized that the entire purpose of Sahelanthropus is just to have a convenient reason for Huey to be with Skull Face 9 years later.

Why the fuck wouldn't they just collect Zeke from under Mother Base? And if they couldn't do that, why not just build another Zeke if you need a Metal Gear. Why, specifically, did Skull Face need a Metal Gear only a child could pilot? And if he *didn't* need that, why didn't he just execute Huey as soon as he presented him with such a stupid fucking machine?
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Just got to the parasite plot twist.

In fairness, the scene was more or less what you would hope to have seen in MGS1 or 3 if it took place in Africa.

But yeah, the twist itself, like, what.
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DevsBro posted...

Just got to the parasite plot twist.

In fairness, the scene was more or less what you would hope to have seen in MGS1 or 3 if it took place in Africa.

But yeah, the twist itself, like, what.

Parasites are 1900s nanomachines
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I don't get this kill the Skulls at the airport mission.

Is it just supposed to take an eternity waiting for them to attack so you can counter-attack, or is there some special method of dealing damage that doesn't take so long thst they regenerate all their health?
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DevsBro posted...

I don't get this kill the Skulls at the airport mission.

Is it just supposed to take an eternity waiting for them to attack so you can counter-attack, or is there some special method of dealing damage that doesn't take so long thst they regenerate all their health?

D walker with gatling gun but dont get close enough or they will pretty much destroy it with ease. (That rusting metal thing they did to your chopper) There is a tactic involving decoys and and a anti air gun. Some people use quiet. Or grind for OP machine guns
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All the bullets bounce off

But I guess I could try a bigger gun.
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DevsBro posted...

All the bullets bounce off

But I guess I could try a bigger gun.

As said dwalker gatling gun. I think these skulls have two bars one is their health the other is armor. Their armor can regenrate so you have to rain some heavy lead into them to beat one fairly quickly. I anymore use the serval sniper rifle plus those pills that force reflex mode so I can land 2-3 headshots. But im fairly sure you dont have the serval or even Brennan yet. Both are fairly high level guns
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Well there are three DW settings and all of them are just a tranq.

Do I have to adjust this from ACC? I know I've bought some stuff for it.
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DevsBro posted...

Well there are three DW settings and all of them are just a tranq.

Do I have to adjust this from ACC? I know I've bought some stuff for it.

I think the gat came standard. You have the regular guns like you are talking about then a bigger gun on the side. There is gatling gun. Flamethrower (super op but killing enemies with fire gives more demon points. Never tried on a skull though. Easily kills armored guards though making those side ops a joke.) and rocket launcher

Go into the setup thing from the acc though. You can set up 3 custom d walkers to select from before a mission.
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Oh I see.

Bullets do bounce off but after enough of them they work anyway.

That doesn't make sense but at least I got past the mission.
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DevsBro posted...

Oh I see.

Bullets do bounce off but after enough of them they work anyway.

That doesn't make sense but at least I got past the mission.

Yeah you gotta break their armor and as said i believe it regenerates if you dont keep the pressure on them. Basically have to single one out and focus on them to make it easier.
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I usually just order quiet to fire on them, throw out some decoys then go crazy with the anti air/gun emplacements and explosives
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This "don't let the MoF attsck after meeting with Ocelot" task is kinda weird too.

I'm pretty sure the "have you lost your mind" damage is unavoidable, but I'm not positive.

Also, it's not clear whether reloading checkpoint resets it. Probably doesn't if I had to guess.

It's really dumb to do a task like this on a mission that's so dang tedious to repeat.
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DevsBro posted...

This "don't let the MoF attsck after meeting with Ocelot" task is kinda weird too.

I'm pretty sure the "have you lost your mind" damage is unavoidable, but I'm not positive.

Also, it's not clear whether reloading checkpoint resets it. Probably doesn't if I had to guess.

It's really dumb to do a task like this on a mission that's so dang tedious to repeat.

Im not quite sure what task you are referring to. Is this the voices mission?

Edit. Nevermind it clicked with me what mission. Yeah that task is annoying
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Well I now have all the mission tasks for missions 1 through 4, 8 and 22 (because you can't not).

48% completion.
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DevsBro posted...

Well I now have all the mission tasks for missions 1 through 4, 8 and 22 (because you can't not).

48% completion.

The conversation tasks are the hardest but later you get some items that are practically cheating so if you dont mind waiting grinding for it.
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lol I literally just realized the Metal Whatchamawhosit stuff that corrodes the chopper and transforms the skulls is the precursor to nanomachines.
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That Sahelanthropas vs XOF scene couldn't have been dumber if it tried lmao.

I started laughing when it pulled out the sword thing, then it uses it to throw a helicopter, which was also funny, but the part that killed me was when it kicked the tank at Snake.

Fight was kinda fun though. It was a pretty creative way to do an open world boss fight.

But uh

What happened to, like, pretty much everything?

Is Zeke still on the ocean floor? Is Liquid getting the leftover parasite a plug for a nonexistent sequel? Was the parasite the "weapon to surpass Metal Gear? Why did it even matter if Skull Face's real goal was to use Sahel in combat? How was this a secret? Did DD think he was just going to build the thing and keep it underground forever? Why did Huey hide SF's real plan? Why didn't they just keep shooting Sahel in mission 12?

I guess I should have seen the retrieval of Sahel coming, since Snake got literally everything except for Ocelot and D Horse by extracting it, lol.

Hopefully some of this is addressed in the aftergame, which according to my calculations, should be roughly 20 missions.
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Oh, Coming in Chapter 2.

I posted that durimg the credits.

At least the trailer looks good.
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Aaaaaaahahahah Big Boss is Watching You

If I'm not mistaken, the game even takes place in 1984, which is perfect lmao.
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I will warn you one plot thread never gets finished. When done with the game youtibe mission 51. It's cut content and apparently (the cut scenes for it but the gameplay portion was never finished) was included in the collecters edition so I consider it canon since it does tie up that loose thread.

I think sfs plan with revealing Sally bte was to spread fear as a metal gear had never been made public knowledge before but its been awhile
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At this point there's only one good mission left.
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Woo 51%

I really like how petty and dumb Liquid is.

Like I'm betting he eventually overhears Ahab say something to Miller like "His brother wasn't this much trouble" and that was what sparked MGS1 lol.
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You have to be kidding me

How many freaking highly skilled soldiers are there?
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Well that must have been the last skilled soldier mission, since the next mission number is something else.

Freaking finally.

For whatever reason I can't get to Paz. Did they move her at some point?
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No. How many pictures have you gotten? If 9 I can help you find the final one.
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I love doing skilled soldier extraction ops, only to find out those soldiers are hot garbage, like B-rank diplomats or something, lol. Might as well dump those noobs in the Indian Ocean on the way home.
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mooreandrew58 posted...

No. How many pictures have you gotten? If 9 I can help you find the final one.

7. The last one she looked at was #5.

In fairness, I could just be lost. It always takes me forever to find her. But I'm assuming the door that makes the "nope" sound is the one she's behind.
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DevsBro posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

No. How many pictures have you gotten? If 9 I can help you find the final one.

7. The last one she looked at was #5.

In fairness, I could just be lost. It always takes me forever to find her. But I'm assuming the door that makes the "nope" sound is the one she's behind.

I know its the medical platform 2 stories up and on the side closest to the detainment cell quiet and inside the middle are. I cant recall if it only lets you in if you have a picture or not.

Btw on the missions where you locate former mother base soliders. Normally I wouldnt give advice but this is worth seeing at least once. Use a carboard box and approach one of them.i say this because those missions cant be replayed aside from starting a completely new game. One of my complaints about the game as their is a handful of side missions like that
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Yeah, if you use the cardboard box or play love deterrence on the tape recorder the soldiers walk right up to you and salute
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

Yeah, if you use the cardboard box or play love deterrence on the tape recorder the soldiers walk right up to you and salute

They say stuff like "is that you boss? Has it really been 9 years?" Hit me right in the feels
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Holy moley did they literally just give me a mission I've already done, just without any initial equipment?

Whatever, I got the S rank lol.
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DevsBro posted...

Holy moley did they literally just give me a mission I've already done, just without any initial equipment?

Whatever, I got the S rank lol.

Yeah, expect a lot of the main missions in Chapter 2 to be retreads for the sake of making some previous missions harder. There's not even a legit story reason either IIRC.
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