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[Ozyton]

At what point/mission do you unlock the ability to play as your crew? I assume the 'head option' slot has to have some use.

Found a very important secret.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you try to zoom in while in a port-a-potty Snake will bonk his head against the grate.  Will test if this makes a noise when I get a chance

I tried this yesterday, and all I could think of was the doctor at the beginning of the game talking about how a bump to the head could cause bad things for Snake. Mashing R3 to kill snake didn't work.

Right now I just returned to Medbay to do the side op, and I found one of the doors was blue so I figure it must be in there... but no, it's someone else... What the hell is going on? I assume Snake just doesn't remember things correctly...

[Zangi]

At what point/mission do you unlock the ability to play as your crew? I assume the 'head option' slot has to have some use.

Probably after 4?  Might be later though.Combat Unit, probably after mission 8 then.

[SOLDIER First]

At what point/mission do you unlock the ability to play as your crew? I assume the 'head option' slot has to have some use.

As soon as you get a Combat Unit.
Seriously.
Any people you put in the Combat Unit, you can select during Mission Sortie (for any kind of mission, I believe - main op, side op, FOB...)
Also apparently if you put Hideo in your Combat Unit and play as him, he'll do stuff in the ACC screen besides sit there and stare at the floor.
To my knowledge, the head option slot only works when you're playing as a Combat Unit staff or

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once you unlock the Bandannas.

[Rolan7]

Spoiler: Quiet (click to show/hide)

Haha, I thought the exact same thing about the shower.  Great timing.
Buuut, at least he then "explained" it, saying a shower was fine.  More of a lampshading than an explanation, but okay
Then something about her being unable to move in the shower?  I didn't understand that at all, particularly since she turned it off herself.

It's weird because she's like the End, and they even mention that, but The End didn't have to be naked.  It's a matter of degree, I guess...  The End probably ate and breathed (I think he wheezed as he ran, hehe).  But he was photosynthetic enough to remain still for hours or days.

Whereas Quiet got a more extreme version I guess.  Which uh... hm, come to think of it, I have no idea how she's supposed to survive nighttime.  Her concept is a bit wacky even for a Kojima game.

I guess, to be fair, she must be able to "hold her breath" for at least 16 hours or has an alternate light source for winter.  So a little time with clothes doesn't kill her, but she can't make a habit of it.

[Cthulhu]

Her whole thing's just a really complicated justification for gratuitous T&A.  It's kind of grotesque.

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The other sniper skulls you meet later are also T&A.  I don't know why, they're fucking zombies

[Ozyton]

At what point/mission do you unlock the ability to play as your crew? I assume the 'head option' slot has to have some use.

As soon as you get a Combat Unit.

Ah, I was confused because I unlocked that a long while back but never saw the option to play as anyone else. I guess it's because you have to play as Snake the first time through a mission.

I assume playing as people in your combat unit levels them up? If so would it be beneficial to take your R&D guys out and do stuff as them to raise their skill?

E: Forgot to mention that I feel dumb now

[SOLDIER First]

Maybe it's because Kojima is Japanese? In case anyone forgot, Japan doesn't exactly think the same as other countries do about what's acceptable for things like, say, scantily clad women and boobshots.

Ah, I was confused because I unlocked that a long while back but never saw the option to play as anyone else. I guess it's because you have to play as Snake the first time through a mission.

I assume playing as people in your combat unit levels them up? If so would it be beneficial to take your R&D guys out and do stuff as them to raise their skill?

I think it levels up combat skill. If you want your R&D guys to be super intelligent beefcakes, go ahead, but it will take a hell of a long time.

[lordcooper]

At what point/mission do you unlock the ability to play as your crew? I assume the 'head option' slot has to have some use.

Pretty sure it's whenever you unlock combat team deployments.  You unlock headgear lategame.

The game encourages you to go faster for better rank. 
If you can plow through them quickly with lethal, then yea, you will get a better rank.
If you take it really slow stealthing/trying to do it perfectly, you won't get a better rank.

It's totally possible to stealth most missions really quickly once you're comfortable with the game mechanics.  Between a silenced sniper rile, CQC and empty magazines it's pretty easy to open a path to your objectives.  The difficult part is resisting the urge to indulge my inner kleptomaniac.

Spoiler: Quiet (click to show/hide)

It's weird because she's like the End, and they even mention that, but The End didn't have to be naked.  It's a matter of degree, I guess...  The End probably ate and breathed (I think he wheezed as he ran, hehe).  But he was photosynthetic enough to remain still for hours or days.

Spoiler: The End/MGS3 (click to show/hide)

It's strongly hinted at that The End actually gets his abilities from his gear.  Snake even regenerates stamina/psyche while wearing it.

[Cthulhu]

I unlocked foxhound and almost never get less than an A.  My playstyle is kind of fast and reckless, lots of abusing the couple seconds you have before someone detects you to run around and choke people out.

Also protip.  Don't hold up heavies.  They'll call your bluff and it'll cost you the foxhound bonus.

[SOLDIER First]

I would say with heavies, it's safe to CQC them, then kick them and hold them up on the ground. They can't attack you on the ground, I believe.
Also, if you've got your arm selected, sprint at someone and left-click. They get knocked on their ass and if they have a helmet on, it comes off. Every time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Anyone can call on you, heavies are just much more likely to. You can immediately tell who's going to try and be a hero because you can't tell them to lie down, and their arms slowly lower. In addition, if you CQC at the moment the knife comes out you'll just wreck them anyway.

[Cthulhu]

I don't know how to kick.

And yeah, I noticed the issue with Q letting you know who'll attack.  The issue is I usually have it happen in situations where I can't afford to CQC.

[SOLDIER First]

To kick:
Approach downed man.
Left-click.
It'll change their condition (Asleep > Awake, Stunned > Awake, Held up > Stunned) but if you kick them too much they become The Dead.

[Cthulhu]

Okay, I thought you meant kicking somebody down and then holding them up on hte ground, I didn't realize you could kick people more than once.

[SOLDIER First]

It's useful if you want to, say, tranq a large group and then interrogate one before you fulton them all.