Metal Gear Scanlon: V - Part 03

I think it very well may be your TV. With mine properly calibrated, it's hard to see anything at night at any distance without night vision. WAY darker than what I've seen in Drew's videos so far. They may just have the gamma turned way up for recording purposes, though.

Regarding the NVGs, they do keep getting better as you upgrade them throughout the game.

@drewbert@danryckert maybe avoid political commentary when you've got a chance to alienate your audience. I know we're all pretty used to hearing ignorant stuff from Dan, but 'All Russians are bad again' is getting close to a line

Yeah, I'm with you on this one. I actually had never thought about this even being an issue until today, when another user on the forums said one of the reasons they preferred the Sneaking Suit was that they didn't have to do "controller micromanagement" in order to sneak up on someone. You know...not pushing the analog stick all the way. I still almost can't believe what I was reading, but there you go.

Oh wow, I've been wondering how to do this since I watched the crap out of the trailers. Dynamic CQC!

lol same here. god dammit, i played the game 80 hours and never figured that out.

I use cardboard boxes for my camo needs.

(Also, I feel like the Battle Dress has some good all-around camo.)

@dozeworthy: I'm 40+ hours in and my high tier sneaking suit is doing me just fine in daytime :p

It's waaay more effective at neutralizing an enemy as for the most part it does so for the entire length of your mission (or even longer).

If you just leave someone sleeping or stunned, they will eventually wake up of their own accord and then often radio in a report of the encounter.

The only way a held-up enemy is going anywhere is if you let someone find them and get them up or if you set off a full-on combat alert, in which case you've already got a bigger problem.

Tranquing an enemy from afar, kicking them awake once you make your way over to them and immediately pointing a weapon at them to hold them up is the best of both worlds.

You don't have to sneak up on them (as they're asleep) so you can't mess up the approach part of the hold up. You then have them totally neutralized so you don't have to worry about them waking up and radioing in an alert if you're taking your time to thoroughly searching and plunder an area.

That's why I was a bit surprised to find Dan teaching Drew to kick an enemy awake but then go through the long wait for him to stand all the way up for the opportunity to grab him and interrogate him, rather than just holding the dude up with a weapon the second he wakes up and interrogating him on the ground.

Having said that, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge problem at all. With so many ways to do things in the game, Drew will get through it one way or another.

@danryckert Dan, Please Please encourage Drew to aim down the sights with the tranq gun if you haven't already, I'm only halfway through and its painful to watch him try and take long shots without it. I found it helpful even up close. Let him know he doesn't have to hold the button down. Just tap it. Super helpful when the enemies start wearing helmets, it also zooms a little.

Did you guys skip Ocelot's CQC tutorial? This combo into weapon grab thing is one of the first things I learned in Phantom Pain.

@apollodynamo: IIRC, there's a conversation where Ocelot specifically states that while he can understand Russian, he doesn't have the expertise to say it in English in the midst of listening to it, which makes it extremely hard to ensure you get all the details right while translating a panicking soldier's statement.

I dont drink soda all that much, but I do understand Dan's desire to have water. I drink water all of the time and honestly I feel like I need it just to keep things moist in my mouth. Sodas not so much

@drewbert Remember how you put a shotgun under the barrel of that assault rifle you were able to attach everything to? You can do the same thing in this game, so you can still have your shotgun.

@drewbert I know a million other people have said it, but the sneaking suit will get you spotted from a million miles away during the day

I badly want to play through this, but I dunno if I could with my vision problems. I got through Arkham Knight just fine, but that doesn't require any aiming.

it seems super easy to miss hell I missed it and only found out about it from punching random guys and having an L2 prompt come up and when I hit it I disarmed a guy.

@barrock: I don't know how bad your eyesight is, but you don't have to be anywhere near as good as Drew. There are a bunch of explosives, for one thing, as well as stuff you can order to attack enemies for you. I spent most of the game with a grenade/rocket launcher for when things get hairy. Straight up precise aiming is not an issue.

I'm sure it's in here already but 1) you CAN reach up on the ladder and grab a buy. It only knocks him out so it's a great way to get guys out of towers and ready to be fultoned.

2) If you kick a guy on the ground to wake him up, then point a weapon at him he'll put his hands on his head and stay down permanently (unless someone finds him or you trigger a combat alert). You can interrogate guys from this position as well.

Good luck D+D. May many more tips come your way throughout this arduous journey through MGSV!

I'm legally blind. It's all central vision, but peripheral is fine. I'd be playing on a 65 inch screen. The thing I was scared about was all the menus, but the upgrading looks pretty easy to understand visually. Plus the PS4 has a zoom feature. I probably just won't be able to get head shots constantly.

"The media needs a heel". It's attitudes like that that start wars.

How is it even possible that the bear was there? The timing is too perfect, I died of laughter.

I got the GZ Sneaking suit as soon as I could choose my uniform and wore that until the Rank 2 Sneaking suit unlocked and then I've used that ever since... I've not bothered to try using any of the camo outfits because the muffled footsteps and thermal signature suppression from wearing the sneaking suit is so handy for my play style.

I've had no issues with being spotted yet and I'm 85 hours in at this point, I mean you can crawl to within 18 or so metres of people with no issues, so I don't feel like the uniforms are really necessary to get by...

I couldn't stop laughing after the bear incident. Only on Metal Gear Scanlon.

Can someone tell me if there's a way to quickly change camo in the field? Or do you have to call in an equipment drop every time you want to change it?

I used to be able to slam a Dew as soon as I got up but now I get a really bad headache if I have sugary stuff right after waking. I have to eat something else first.

That stuff with the bear was pretty great.

I had seen tips on how to climb cracks but had yet to see one in the world. Thought I saw some but never got a prompt to climb. After watching this I finally saw a few and it's pretty handy for totally sneaking past some enemies. I prefer to tranq and fulton as much as I can though.

28:56 did Dan say you can't pull guys out of towers?Because you can.

One thing to note is that you can't get that "just slow enough to not make noise" speed with a keyboard. You either go too fast or a lot slower.

Supply Drops ARE the quick way to change. Once you get your Support team and helicopter developed it only takes 10 seconds or so for a supply drop to come in, so at least it gets better.

Bear > Snake

lmao

Drew needs to learn to use first person

I have no problem getting into an argument about Ukraine. They may have been trying to look for allies against Germany I don't know but communism was as interested in taking over the rest of the world as fascism so I can see why people might not have wanted to help them until Germany was a threat to them. Real politick is the way things work. As well they invaded a sovereign nation (which Ukraine was) without any valid security reason. This is bad no matter how you look at it. It was just as bad (and stupid) when we did it to Iraq.

Except that wasn't what he said. The government and the country is...individual Russians even in Russia (and certainly out of it) may very well not be. I hope we can all agree though that Putin is a butt and the invasion of Ukraine was uncalled for.

Am I mistaken that supply drops can be noticed by the guards? I was playing a mission yesterday and it seemed like a guard took notice when I did a supply drop near him. Although now that I think about it, the sun may have just set and he noticed the lights didn't come on because I had shut off the power a few minutes earlier.

@shaunsharky: I don't think guards notice supply drops, at least that never happened to me anyway.

Yeah, it surprised me that he didn't know that since the icon comes up if you pause for just a second near the top of a ladder.

@barrock: see if you can get hold of a cheap copy of Ground Zeroes as a sort-of demo?

Russia as a state actor is no worse than America, with its barely discriminate law flouting drone campaign killing hundreds of innocent civilians across Pakistan and Yemen, or historically sponsoring of right wing paramilitary death squads in operation Condor which Drew mentioned last episode. Hearing Dan say that America's always the good guys and Russia are bad guys is at the very least annoyingly ignorant, if not offensive.

I'm not sure how many of these Metal Gear Scanlon episodes the guys recorded before posting the first couple but goddamn hopefully Dan reads the comments or someone sits him down and politely asks him to shut up and let Drew play without all the backseat driving. 90% of the fun of this series has been watching Drew develop his own playstyle and strategies to tackle the madness that is a Metal Gear Solid game.

I don't want to rip on the guy to hard though. Dan is an affable guy and I'm sure he's just excited about the play through. He can't/shouldn't totally shut himself down but if he just turned the dial back a bit and let Drew discover/play this game a little more organically it would be more fun to watch.

@jrm: That's not a new complaint. A good reminder.

Drew: "Can't I just get a box that will become wet?"

Jason: "GAAAAAaaahhhhhh"

Cracked me up.

Metal Gear Scanlon is good Drew Scanlon is good Dan Ryckert is good but that kindergarten-level geopolitical commentary was v much not good less of that plz

Now that I can see being a problem. I didn't play the Witcher 3 with a controller and had a similar issue, though it was less of a problem since The Witcher isn't a stealth game.

People really listen to tapes while doing ops? I wouldn't be able to retain any of the information at all.

And stealth would be a lot easier in the day time without the sneaking suit and all the blood lol. Get desert cam for Afghanistan

I would be listening to podcasts otherwise. There are moments when shit pops off and I realize I didn't retain the last few mins of info but mostly I get it.

I know a lot of people play games while listening to podcasts and I feel like MGSV acknowledge this in game (and also eliminates the Codec) which is brilliant.