I used her again yesterday. I looked at the iDroid and saw marker locations for attacking but not for scouting. It seems she can only tag people she can see, and the tag disappears when the target moves out of her line of sight, unlike D-Dog who just smells them from miles away and they stay tagged forever. Plus, there were two guards standing watch near the prisoner I had to extract. She couldn't snipe them because they were stood under a gazebo. I got her to take out a third guard who was approaching and they obviously heard her gunshot and came running pretty much straight for me. I'll go back to using her when I redo missions but for first time serious ops I'm always going to pick D-Dog. He's my buddy.
She can get silenced lethal and nonlethal sniper rifles later on. And a sniper rifle that looks incredibly powerful I haven't unlocked yet. She can shut down an entire outpost with the silenced nonlethal sniper rifle and will shoot them very quickly if they try to get up. I have to tell her to cease fire in order to interrogate incapacitated enemies, as she will drop them again before they can make it to their feet after kicking them to wake them up. Make sure you are selecting "Cover Me" if you want her to tear into enemies aggressively. She is very nasty when you tell her to fire at will. Also, the main thing D-dog does is mark things, so of course that he will do that best. If Quiet was just as good at marking, there would be no purpose for the dog. Quiet's scouting is very nice if you need strong offense but still get some heads up on where an enemy is. When she spots something, I scan them with my binoculars so they stay marked. I have unlocked silenced, nonlethal sniper rifles for both Quiet and Snake, and I've been getting multiple S completion ratings as a result. The horse is obviously great for timed missions in which you need to travel long distances, such as that awful mission in which you have to constantly blow up vehicles all over that huge map, although you can substitute with a vehicle and either D-dog or Quiet. I like that D-dog knows to jump right into a jeep and ride with you. I wish he'd be a little more cautious when heavy weapons or vehicles are present, though. He got taken out by a tank because he kept standing right next to me. He occasionally walks right in front of me while sniping, too, obstructing my view, which is admittedly typical dog behavior.
Just realized Quiet is that women seen in Snakes hospital room in the start of the game just before Xof hunts you down.
When I saw her when I started the game I thought it looked like Quiet, but since I hadn't yet met her in game I've been unsure ever since. I'm still waiting for answers in this game. Just started doing FOB's yesterday. Love them. The different setups people have can make things challenging.
I tried using Quiet again yesterday. Wow was she shit. I told her to take a guard out, or course being useless she shot his helmet instead of his face, and so they all went on alert. I told her to shoot him again, she shot the cover he was behind, and they started firing mortars at her. She eventually did kill one guy but all I could think was how I would have been in and out if I'd had DD with me. Also I ran into some mines that would have been marked if DD was with me. I'm sure she gets good eventually, but every time I use her I just think how much easier things would be with DD. Anyway, here's a look at Metal Gear Online. Looks good.
Once you get the cover me command, she's great. She might take off a helmet the first time but shell have them dead before they raise the alarm. Tranqing is a different matter since it takes a few shots to remove a helmet but she'll get it done. Bonus side is that you can let her carry on until everyone's asleep and it won't have raised an alert or caution for you. With her best sniper rifle though, it'll cut through helmets like butter. Also; snake is you.
My issue with quiet is that I always have a silenced tranq sniper rifle with me anyway, and I'm much better at dispatching guards than she is, that is to say I don't hit their helmets or alert them with gunfire. She doesn't bring anything to the table that I don't already have covered, D-Dog does. Like I said I'm sure she's great when you get her bond up, but grinding through that will be a chore. I did get The Boss's bandana though, and it looks sweet, helps make him look more like the Snake I know and less like Big Boss. I haven't finished the story yet but I should get it done tonight. Spent the last 2 days using the new rockstar editor. My first attempt is a bit rough around the edges but with each new clip I added I learned to techniques.
If this is a stealth game, why are there so many weapons and upgrades designed for killing? Why would I want grenades or sniper riffles?
I'm done with this game. I have no idea how it got such good reviews but IMO it's just not that great. The missions all feel repetitive and then you hit chapter 2 and they literally are repetitive. The story is short but seems long because it moves at a snails pace. The whole things feels like it was rushed and under developed. Mother Base is stupid. It's huge and has a thousand doors that don't work and you can't do any command work there. And WTF is up with showers. Why do they want you to take showers? Pretty much every game last year was better than this one. 5/10
Dude.. great timing. I was actually gonna ask for your updated opinion since you seemed new to the series. Kojima has crazy fans so ratings mean nothing. I honestly don't think he's made a good Metal Gear since 1996. MGS gets super boring with all the BS that makes it into the game. MGS3 you had to feed your character because The Sims were popular at the time. I didn't care for the geriatric version of Snake in MSG4 either. I think I'll just skip this one, seems like more of the same = boring.
Metal Gear games are extremely overrated in general and they have rabid fans. The original Metal Gear Solid was pretty good, but 2 was one of the gayest things I've ever played. Never bothered with 3 or 4. The stories in these games are weird and Japanese and don't make a damn bit of sense. They are also extremely derivative of the Snake Plissken and Rambo movies, with few original ideas. Except the way Kojima steals and then recombines stuff from those movies doesn't make sense. I think MGS 5 is supposed to be like Rambo 3. That one was set in Afghanistan and had Rambo riding around on a horse killing Russians. Thanks for confirming my suspicions that MGS 5 is extremely overrated and saving me money. Maybe I'll pick it up for shits and grins during a Steam sale, but only if it's really cheap, like under $10. I bought it when it came out, but never played it and returned it thinking maybe I should wait and see what the consensus on it was.
I kept waiting for that ah-ha moment when I realize how good the game is but it never came. Then chapter one ends and I think the game is over because it makes you watch 20 minutes of credits but it's not really over. Chapter two starts and it's like 75% recycled missions from chapter 1. I mean it's the exact same voice narrative and everything. I got to the mission when I had to capture or kill one of my companions that I had already captured and befriended. It literally made no sense. Then between all the recycled material they have short cutscenes that make it appear like the story is progressing despite the fact that my missions are regressing and have nothing to do with the cutscenes. Oh and did I mention the shower? If you don't take a shower you get so stinky that you are ordered back to mother base to take a shower. It's so odd that you might think there is some kind of important payoff in the end but it never happens. Also mother base is way too big. There is nothing else in the game that even compares in size. Not a village and not a city. And it's a vast wasteland of nothing. You got to fly a stinking helicopter just to get a round the place and that's pointless because there is nothing to do there except take a shower. Ironically the shower is very tiny. It's not all bad. Some of the mission are fun and the story is okay.
I would enjoy a game where you have to take regular showers if the protagonist is an attractive girl like in Tomb Raider. I guess this game has that quiet chick, but I don't want to see Mr Snake or Big Boss or whatever his name is take showers and I'm not sure why that's in the game. Maybe Kojima was trying to appeal to the gays? Also being ordered back to base to take showers for being too smelly made me lol hard. And the base being gigantic and its only purpose to house a tiny shower. That all sounds like classic Kojima. Dude is a weirdo. Game sounds like it's worth exactly $7.50 during a Steam sale. Also lol at people like chi saying this is better than Fallout 4, which was an awesome game and pretty easily GOTY for 2015.