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[Ozyton]

I do like the way that as the camera/Snake moves around you hear the air flowing past you, a lot of games neglect that.

[Zangi]

Bubby...

Bubby...

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You think it's starting there but you don't even know.

Also mission 22.  What the fuck?  I get blindsided by a random mission then find out after I fuck it up that you can't try again.  So now I lost dudes.

Huh, you might need to do other stuff first before it triggers again.

[SOLDIER First]

If he can run six miles nonstop he can consistently sprint at full speed for hundreds of meters. Gosh, Taz, don't you remember?

And...

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Eli's voice was extremely unexpected. Gosh, the only British accent in the game...
Also, poor Ralph. Dammit, Kaz, you're supposed to make sure everything is put together correctly!

[Rolan7]

Holy crap I actually got it to launch, I think I can play again!!
I love that the main menu has a "Delete Save Data" option.  Yaknow... that thing they kept telling me to do ):<

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Tried downloading the game on my laptop.  Laptop is isn't nearly strong enough to play it, but I figured I'd grab the fresh save files.
But despite Steam cloud sync being disabled of course, (and having 0bytes on the cloud due to syncing a cleared folder)...
SAME ERROR
KOJIMA

It had to be downloading my saves from the fucking KONAMI CLOUD!  No indication or option about this, just oop hello have some corrupt data U:  Ooops it's corrupt, quit (ONLY alt-F4 works, NO interface) and "delete your save data".  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

But there is a solution!!  Restarting Steam in OFFLINE MODE prevents that callout.  Hell.  Yes.

I am way more happy than frustrated.  I'll be making regular save backups... despite being unable to alt-tab.  I'll just have to file-share the directory and backup via my laptop.  And hope that eventually my support ticket with Konami results in my corrupt data getting wiped from their cloud.

Time to replay the prologue... 

[Zangi]

Enemy headshot response has been pretty high, forever.  Hats are a pain, heavy infantry are even more of a pain.
Maybe if I use more suppressed shotgun justice to deal with things, specifically making sure I don't hit the head.  Or when I snipe, I just hit the foot or something instead. But I feel that those types of tranqs tend to be awoken from faster.

Fun Tip: The max amount of each type of herb is 3000.  No indication either way if excess are auto-sold or not... actually, I could test that out later.  My reward box is full.

[Cthulhu]

i like the way snake runs at full speed infinitely like some kind of fucking cyborg

i mean

you know what i mean

Humans are probably the best species in the world at running for long distances, a 25 mile marathon would kill most animals we think of as fast and we do them for fun.  I'd prefer running forever to the other style of letting a trained human soldier run for ten seconds before he has an asthma attack.

Also it just occurred to me.  Has anyone ever actually gotten a serious injury?

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, the high-tier FOBs get kinda crazy. My security team is all A rank or greater now, so they're equipped with full ceramic armor and bullet-proof helmets. When I 'train' on my own FOB I can't even get past the first platform without either getting spotted by my drones or my veteran soldiers. You need to go full nuclear, maximum lethal to steal anything at all -- and even then, there are something like 50 soldiers (and I think they get reinforced too) in full gear, all crack shots.

It's also pretty fun invading other people's bases; my go-to loadout is a grenade launcher (for the enemy player) and an LMG (for everything else). Stealth ceased to be an option once the helmets came into play. I almost felt bad robbing one guy blind, killing him with grenades every time he respawned -- but then I remember he attacked me first, so really he deserves every bit of it. I swiped over 80,000 resources from the poor bloke, and must've killed 20 of his men.

I'm actually having a lot more fun with the FOBs than I thought I would.

That actually sounds like the opposite of fun.  I didn't buy a metal gear solid game to go ham.  I was expecting this to be sneak pvp.

The interrupt mission I mentioned seems intent on making me hate it.  First time I was almost there with no alerts when suddenly the game decided Snake couldn't climb and he fell off two railings to his death.  Second time I got the walk forever in one direction bug in the middle of a fight.

Just got into FOB.  Yeah, dunno how much I'm gonna like it.  The levels are all super cramped and mazelike and everybody's so kitted out stealth is almost impossible.

[Rolan7]

i like the way snake runs at full speed infinitely like some kind of fucking cyborg

i mean

you know what i mean

Humans are probably the best species in the world at running for long distances, a 25 mile marathon would kill most animals we think of as fast and we do them for fun.  I'd prefer running forever to the other style of letting a trained human soldier run for ten seconds before he has an asthma attack.

Also it just occurred to me.  Has anyone ever actually gotten a serious injury?

Just twice so far, when I got really sloppy and engaged in lengthy shootouts.  At fairly short range, since I only use the tranq pistol...  So far... and charge into CQC a lot.  Basically I had to find a safe place and press E to apply some medispray (not an item).  Getting shot interrupted the action but it was fairly short, just had to get behind decent cover.

[Cthulhu]

Ugh.  I don't think I like FOB.  They're either impossible or they're so easy they're not fun.

And it seems like that's a common consensus.  Wall to wall grenade launchers, no balance, everybody just immediately going ham, macros and possible cheating on PC, everything I knew was gonna happen when I was debating buying the game.

It's a good thing the single-player is really good because this is to the letter exactly why I was reticent about buying.

[SOLDIER First]

I've gotten multiple serious injuries. They're not fun.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Mind you, the typical silenced rifle/tranq pistol loadout is definitely sub-optimal for FOB on either side.

[Cthulhu]

Looks like the best way to play FOB is to support a billion randoms and just do their missions when they come up.  Zero risk aside from potentially losing your player character, massive rewards.  I just got like 20 volunteers and 160,000 GMP

[SOLDIER First]

Apparently sneaking onto an FOB and tranqing everyone so there's no alert doesn't work. I still got detected.
I stole a bunch of precious metals, so it was sort of worth it, but eh.

[Zangi]

Hmm... someone actually claimed a victory on my FOB, the Intel section in the small hours of the morning.  Hopefully they ain't gonna be blockaded like all the other guys who previously hit me.  Need to rescue some people.

[Cthulhu]

Apparently I hurt the game's feelings when I said I didn't like FOB.  People conveniently look in my direction as I'm walking by and someone seems to have laid ducks, frogs, bicycle horns, and other noisy things everywhere I go.