re: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (A Hideo Kojima thread)

Yeah that was crazy

Anything that says REPLAY are just main missions you can redo for the normal rewards and whatnot. Anything that says TOTAL STEALTH or EXTREME or SUBSISTENCE are old missions with a higher difficulty or some restrictions that make the mission harder.

You will have to play through some of those last two mission types in Chapter 2 before it will open up new story missions. The only exceptions are missions 47, 48, 49, and 50. These are completely optional and do not add anything further to the story. Effectively, the story is done after mission 46.

Pretty interesting article about the game being unfinished: LINK
I don't agree with the thesis, mind you, but he makes some some solid points. Don't read if you haven't finished the game.

Game is unfinished and that's a fact. Whether one wants to give that deep meaning in whatever form is up to that person. The issue the author doesn't address is this game was billed as "completes the saga" and "men become demons". The promotion for this game was significantly different than the final form.

That said, I can appreciate where the writer is coming from. We got the fan-serviced mess that was MGS4. That game is proof positive some questions are better left unanswered and to the imagination.

Crazy shite is normal, but the opening is a little crazier than most other MGS moments.

XBone? There have been many reports of issues regarding sound distortion and loss of control. Hard reset seems to help, but not solve it.

Here's the best explanation I've seen about your problem. Should be getting patched, just don't know when...

"Being open world, the game has to stream data to the RAM so it appears to be this massive world you're running around in. What it really is, though, is line of sight objects. So in other words, when you're looking at that building with the truck in front of it and the other object behind, those don't actually exist as you see them. All the game really renders is what you see. So just the one side of the building, just the one side of the other object, etc. Doing that cuts down on the amount of objects that have to be rendered, and the technical term for this is occlusion culling. Normally, middleware tech like Umbra 3 handles this task, but since Konami (or Kojima, really) built the Fox Engine, it most likely has its own way of processing that info, since there's no real middleware tags at the beginning of the game. Unless they paid extra for a clean opening.

Anyway, what's happening when you get stuck moving is that you've input the direction right as it has started stuttering trying to render the image you're seeing
So basically your input in the controller is continuous at that moment, akin to holding the direction down as it's loading that second. It's the price we pay for such a beautifully detailed world that taxes the processor within an inch of its life."

Yeah, that blows. On my PS4, not a single problem. On my PC, game has crashed 3 or 4 times.

Yeah the opening is annoying as shite

After that it gets awesome

I love DD. You eventually can get him to wear a fulton outfit and can command him to fultion people around that are knocked out. It doesn't work perfectly but when it does its cool to let him do it while you focus on other things.