Comments on: A Hollow Victory In MGS V

By: Kaiei

Kaiei — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:04:52 +0000

At this point I only have two missions finished with a S-rank. The funny thing is that I did something I would count as stupid. I took my buddy D-D with me and took my sneaking gear but decided too take a rocketlauncher with me. After that I sneaked beside the mission points and scanned all people, ran away and took them out with explosives from afar. Then I just ran around the base and continued dooing this without getting detected, thus easily getting a S-rank at first try. And if someone wants to know: no I did not use the chicken head, at some range they dont really see where rockets come from.

By: AP

AP — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:30:30 +0000

I had almost the exact same experience. A friend was watching me play, and when I finally finished, I threw my hands up in the air – “Yes!” And then that big C appeared on the screen . . .

By: Alex Straughan

Alex Straughan — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:47:21 +0000

After the fort, arround the bend. Ambush site.

The first run through i had dhorse. Park him in the street a bit ahead. And hid behind a rock. The stop to honk and you fulton them. Rinse and repeat.

When you get em mines. Well. Thats pretty self explanitory. It basically becomes tank shopping for you combat deployment team

I finished it perfect stealth no kills thanks to the em mines, but i didnt bother with the gunship or tanks that are hunting you.

Also, EM mines stun soldiers in the truck and jeep. So easy to fulton them and the prisoner as well.

By: Leilanz

Leilanz — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 06:45:26 +0000

Backup, Back Down is extremely easy to complete stealthily. All of the main objective tanks will follow in the end the same route and go through a bend in the road that screams ‘AMBUSH WAITING!’ to get out of the area and do so within the time limit. With enough resources prepared, such as mines and a truckload of ammo (and the FGM-50 launcher that they report is moving into the area from the ‘exit’ a few minutes after a jeep with a prisoner comes from the same direction), the main objective ends up being easy.

Now, if you want ALL objectives and rescue a female prisoner or two as well, stay after the main mission is over, then three tanks and a gunship will appear from each direction. One tank and the gunship from the exit and one tank from each entrance into the hot zone.

The first tank can be tricky because it drives through the terrain to the same ambush point I spoke about earlier and the gunship can be a bitch to down without ammo (though if you manage to clear enough of the fort, the AA turrets come in handy). The other two tanks, though, those are another thing. They seem to be driving towards the fort, but then they being running in circles, making you drive (or ride if you went with D-Horse) to them… and they use the terrain to their advantage (nothing like seeing your last missile, the one that was going to blast it to scrap, hitting a rock…).

As for the prisoner, Wahk Sind barracks lies within the hot zone and the prisoner is where the bionics engineer was and in all attempts, the prisoner was a woman. Also, inside the fort, there are another two prisoners, men I think (last attempt I managed almost a perfect score except for the fact that I pressed E instead of R when rescuing the first of those two prisoners… the chopper lifted off without waiting for me to get out to get the other >_<)

Anyway, as repetitive as the game is (and as cheating as it is whenever those damned skulls appear), I am enjoying it greatly, living stories with my FemSnake xD

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By: Qazi

Qazi — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 06:34:06 +0000

Go bananas anyway, Gustav.
Unlike previous MGS, you only lose out for your first kill – this switches off the No Kill and Perfect Stealth, No Kills bonuses.
Time is the huge score factor.

My version of Backup, Back Down only got a C because I took the entire fifteen minutes to complete it. It ran with perfect stealth, no kills with careful peaking from behind rocks with the GROM-11 at max range. Even with all the side bonuses, taking that much time really hit hard.

By: Marc Forrester

Marc Forrester — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:19:32 +0000

I love how the steady march of graphical fidelity makes things look weirder every year. Covered in a high definition sheen of fresh sprayed arterial blood, completely clean hair straight from the stylists.

Could be a still from a dystopian future L’Oreal ad?

By: Gustav

Gustav — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:50:29 +0000

BTW, Side Ops missions are not rated, so feel free to go bananas with all your gear and equipment :P

By: Sean Payne

Sean Payne — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 17:50:35 +0000

Some of the rating evaluations are pretty wacky in this game, I’ve just done a few missions where I’ve mowed through the enemy with a sniper rifle and came out with A or S ranks despite the mission area being filled with bodies by the end.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:42:36 +0000

Yeah, I would *like* to not care about the rating, but it turns out I do. I think what particularly stung was that I usually like to be stealthy, but this mission’s parameters were specifically “Destroy as many tanks as possible in a time limit”, so I compromised my preferred play style to maximise the thing it told me to (destructive output per minute) and then got severely penalised for it. I haven’t retried, but I suspect I would have got a better rank if I’d just carefully taken out one tank with C4 then headshotted a bunch of guys who had nothing to do with the mission.

All that said, if I do retry, I think I would just try to replicate this amazing experience to get it on video, it really was a hell of a thing to see. So perhaps I don’t care about rating *that* much.

By: Gustav

Gustav — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 07:55:29 +0000

I don’t really care how the game evaluates my performance (never cared about grades in MGS games). To me, my own personal goals are more important, whether it’s a total stealth approach or a cool you-got-my-back-and-I-got-your-back with the sniper Quiet.

The Phantom Pain has so many awesome non-scriptes moments (similar to “Battlefield moments”). The open world structure works really well!