Metal Gear Scanlon: V - Part 13

Phew, for a minute there I was worried there wouldn't be cool guy action stuff this week.

Yes!

I never messed with the Parasite suit stuff, so I'm interested to see what it's like.

Drew is the guessing game master.

Drew is a psychic holy shit!

Drew Fighting!!!

Holy crap. Dan got shook!

Oh boy, I know what mission is coming up in this one.

Why can't Drew just look at the map? Why is it better than Dan tells him? I don't get it.

I don't get most of the decisions they're making in this game.

So guys Drew is legit a witch.

Also, I feel like Dan is instilling some bad habits into Drew by discouraging him from looking at the map.

So are we like a tenth of the way through or so? I know they're past where i was last at. :(

Omg, I don't know if I can deal with Quiet humming. It's seriously driving me nuts.

Seriously. Holy shit how does a constant five second loop make it into the game?

@drewbert got super powers from Europe

...THAT "moment" was really fucking insane. Drew knows Dan insanely well.

Drew's inside your head, @danryckert !!

Nice! Good shit, Drew.

Quiet hums because she has someone in her sights. It's her signal, her way of communicating to Big Boss that she's ready to fire and kill her current target. If you don't want to hear it the best thing to do is either tell her to fire or have her go hang out somewhere else.

@danryckert To get the sniper rifle you need unlock the legendary gunsmith. You guys should probably do those side missions

@ripelivejam: Story wise, I'd say they are about at least 1/3 of the way through. If they are able to just keep doing story missions, I can't see this series being longer than 40 episodes. It also depends on how quickly Drew can get stuff to trigger in Chapter 2.

Drew really needs to do the Gunsmith missions. This game is at its best when you can fully customize your gear. And Dan isn't doing Drew any favors by always doing the map stuff.

Here's the solution I dumb-lucked my way into for the main mission in this episode:

Run to the airport where the transport truck is parked. Sneak up and fulton the truck right after the Skulls pop. Ran around the airport like an idiot avoiding the Skulls until I ran into a container of materials. Hopped on it, fultoned my way out of the mission.

Quiet has the best taste in music.

ahhh expect the unexpected

Drew is Psycho Mantis!

Dan needs to plug in the controller in the 2-player port!

There's a side op that leads to being able to customize guns. Once you unlock a silencer on the M2000 (which has a low R&D requirement) you can take that and place it on the Renov tranq version. That's the fastest way to get a silenced tranq sniper rifle.

Haven't watched the video yet, but you can do this mission without the Skulls seeing you. I let the truck leave the airport then shot at it from a distance (causing it to stop and the skulls popped out). Then circled around to kite the skulls away, fultoned the truck, and booked it out.

EDIT: Welp Drew ended up doing something similar (well done @drewbert!). I left out that I was taking out the escort unit before it even reaches the airport. But actually the way Drew did this seems less complicated (I didn't realize there was so much stuff after the airport...Miller made it sound like it was do or die); also noting that the escorts get disabled when the skulls appear. In fact the first attempt where the skulls showed up he could have just jumped in the tank instead of fultoning it in order to take on the skulls (at least I think it would be doable that way).

I do wonder what happens if you get Quiet to snipe the truck driver (there was a window where Drew could have done that). I used D-Dog for this mission :)

To get the silencer for the Tranq sniper quicker, you should do the Legendary Gunsmith sideop

DREW AND DAN PLEASE READ:

Riot SMG = loud thudding shots, often misses, often doesn't KO in a single shot. Stunned enemies often get hit hard enough to fly in a direction and create even more noise.

Tranq pistol = silent near-completely undetectable shots, incredibly accurate, KO's in a single hit 99% of the time if you nail the head and sleep lasts longer than stun. Even if you aim at the body the sleep triggers in mere seconds and the shot still isn't detected or heard at all. Eventually gets an upgrade with an infinite silencer.

The smg is for non-lethal crowd control just as the non-lethal stun rifles are. The Tranq pistol just like the tranq sniper is for god damn stealth. They are THE stealth weapons. If you wanna be stealthy please use an actual stealth weapon.

Just unequip Quiet. I can't take the humming.

@unlivedphalanx: I found it soothing when I played. I played better with her humming than without

Please start using camouflage. The sneaking suit is mostly useful if you are sneaking up on people. And since Drew usually like to take enemies out from a distance, using appropriate camouflage is the best option for him.

Pretty happy with myself that the only one of those obscure moves I hadn't yet figured out on my own was the disarming.

"I didn't even know you could do this stealthily" - Dan. Of course you didn't Dan. It's not like it's a game based around stealth. Hmmm.

This was post vacation Drew? He seems in high spirits.

Super fun episode!

One other way to to the caravan quest is to just book it to the west side of the airport where the truck is waiting for the tanks, hop over the fence and Fulton it the moment the skulls pop out, then just book it out of there.

@jacksukeru said:

They were joking. They haven't recorded any new episode and he hasn't come back yet.

@fortran: Dammit, I was hoping that video would show me some super obscure stuff I missed. Most of the things in there are just stealth game staples I expect to be in a game like this.

@ripelivejam: I would say about 1/3 of the way through considering how few side ops they do (for understandable reasons of course)

I have a feeling Drew's going to be super grumpy when he comes back from vacation and sees all the comments his batch-recorded videos have gotten since he went away. Expect a lot of annoyed-sounding FINE, I'LL USE THE DAMN TRANQ PISTOL, JEEZ

That said, here's my weekly reminder to crawl, son! Does your box keep falling apart in the rain? No problem! Get on dat tum-tum in some high grass, and even the most keen-eyed of tanks won't spot you, even 10m away!!!!

All aboard the Goob Express to GoobTown

She's Quiet in all languages as far as I have seen (クワイエット). The way I tackled 16 was openworld gaming freedom at its best (note that I took a good lot of hours enjoying Afghanistan before heading to Africa):
1) Airport? It'll leave from the airport?
2) I'm nearby! (riding)
3) Hey what is that truck?
4) OH MOTHER OF SHIT
5) Fulton in panic, ride off

Quiet keeps that name on foreign localizations (at least in the subtitles), I played the whole game with Portuguese subtitles and the character names stayed the same.

Also, @danryckert and @drewbert, to get a silencer to the sniper rifle (highly recommended!), you need to do the Legendary Gunsmith side missions.

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It's the sound cue indicating that she has an enemy on her sights, but yes, it's extremely annoying! It's like her name is Quiet because I just want to shout "quiet!" every time she hums. On a game with such smart sound design it's a shame that they went with that humming. For me using her was only worth it once I got her the silenced tranq sniper, so I could tell her to fire all she wanted.

I finished the game being as stealthy as possible, with good rankings overall and used the Riot SMG like 85% of the time. Once you get the option to customize weapons and nail headshots, it's fine. To be fair, I had a silenced tranq sniper rifle with me to use as a tranq pistol, but anyway the Riot SMG isn't completely ruining Drew's playthrough like some are making it look like.

@asmo917: I did something very similar but I got out of the area just a little differently:

I ended up using D-Horse. I jumped on him after fultoning the truck and hauled ass but ran in a zig zag pattern to avoid Skulls when they popped in front of me. Once you get far enough out they stop chasing and you complete the mission.

Best reasons for Drew to do the Legendary Gunsmith side quests are silencers on just about everything and the under-barrel attachments.

Love this mission. I almost immediately shot the driver of the truck, which caused the skulls to pop out and then GTA'ed both the tank and the armored vehicle to kill off the skulls before driving the truck out of there.

And yeah do the goddamn legendary gunsmith side-ops, they are litterally a game changer!