Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Message Board  

After playing for just 10 hours there is a couple of things I wished I knew when I started out.

First one is actually doing a few missions before going free roam and fultoning everything, while gathering resources etc.

Because I did that for 5 hours early on, I didn't have companions and such, and thus wasted a chance to bond more with them, so here is my tip list and please share your playing tips without adding spoilers.

1: Diamond Dog companion spawns randomly, I got mine on mission 3, he spawned right at the drop-point basically in front of my face as I jumped off the chopper

2: The easiest way I've found to play quickly without alarming anyone is actually to play during daylight.
During daylight I can practically walk up to any enemy while crouched and sleep dart them without consequences.

3: Stay as far away as you can while still being able to sleep dart an enemy. tranq the enemy and then just wait for the others to notice their sleeping friend, they will walk over without alerting everyone, and stand next to their buddy for a little while before attempting to wake them up, giving you ample time to tranq that one as well.

With this trick, I've tranq-ed entire bases within minuttes, and without alerting anyone.

4: Tranq enemies, once the area is secure, go back and hit the CQC button to wake one at a time and then grab them to question them, then knock them out again and fulton if you want.

5: Always tranq rather than CQC if your not planning on fultoning your enemies away. This is due to CQC lasting a very short time, and tranq lasts several in-game hours.

6: When going somewhere, drop suppressor, and ammo outside the location your going to, so you can easily re-equipp what you need.

7: The primary weapons silencer refreshes its duration when I pick up an enemy weapon (to replace my primary) and then pick up my primary again.

8: Once you get D-Dog, visit MotherBase after each mission to make him grow up and be usable a bit quicker.

Do you have any good tips, feel free to share them.

NB: If any of my tips are bad, feel free to correct them as well

#4 All the way.

Rig either an antenna, a car, or a barrel with C4 and approach from the opposite direction. If you are close to being discovered, blow em up. You can put down several C4 and blow them.

Don't rely on the auto assignment of staff and extract, extract, extract. The mission targest and sometimes their bodyguards have amazing stats.

Get a MG:GZ 100% savegame and upload/download, you get incredibly good personal very early.

Don't waste too many recources on main weapons. Trank gun and silenced assault rifle will do for a very long time along with a third weapon of choice (sniper or rpg). Concentrate on equipment.

TRY THE DECOY! I ambushed a whole tank battalion with one decoy.

BACKUP your savegame files. Strangely, they are (at least on my machine) in the Ground Zeroes folder
Steam/userdata/#youraccount#/311340/remote
311340 is the GZ ID number, not the TPP ID number...



[Edited by madatcheats, 9/3/2015 3:10:04 AM]

8: Once you get D-Dog, visit MotherBase after each mission to make him grow up and be usable a bit quicker.

Its not like this. Puppy only grows when you complete 6 missions. including at least three from 07,08,09,10. You need to complete those mission in order to get him grow, nothing to do with time.

-you can use water pistol on radio transmitters , antenas , power systems. It will destroy them and the enemies will investigate but never go in alert status.

-you can perform quick dives or hide in a cardbox to extinguish flames more quickly

- you can throw stun grenade and hide in the cardbox to avoid effect when it detonates

- when you activate decoy , it will stun any soldier standing on it

-performing a headshot with water pistol blinds people for a moment

- you can throw magazine clip during reflex mode to stun enemies

- ghost´s and quiet hates water . if you spray water on them quitet wil wiggle due parasites in her body and skulls wil be stuned for a while

i got the guide and i got like 100+ tips but i cant write them all here.

Great tip on the MG:GZ, I did import my own, but it wasn't anywhere near 100%.

I'll go grab a 100% save and import

As for the decoy, I don't have it yet, as I've unfortunatly not been able to play as much yet, but great tip. I'll make sure to test that out