There's something extremely disquieting about the gameplay in this installment of the franchise that really highlights the War Is Hell theme going on in all the games.

Just to give you an inkling of how dark this game gets: We've changed that picture to your right four times between the release dates of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.Īnd if all this wasn't dark enough for you: ALL SPOILERS WILL BE UNMARKED FROM HERE ON OUT, WOOOOHHH!!! Note that using this mode is not essential to beating The Phantom Pain, but it is worth the risk to try out FOB, especially since having these bases will increase your staff capacity.As the darkest games of the Metal Gear franchise, both Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain have some A-grade military terror. Just as friends can invade your FOB, you too can invade theirs. These are external bases that are meant as a first line of defense to protect Mother Base. Beyond the Main Missions and Side Ops, you will be facing challenges from your friends in the Forward Operating Base online mode. So if you get emotionally attached to any one soldier, you might want to give them a non-combat job. No assignment can be completed with 100% certainty and even if your squad returns victorious, there is always the risk that some members may not come back alive.

As you send out troops on missions that match their skill level, their spoils become another resource stream. This is where the Combat Deployment mode (under Missions) comes in. Some of your soldiers’ talents do not lie in product development or medicine, but rather in combat.

Lesser troops will be retired to make way for new ones. Go ahead and add to the roster even if your Mother Base is technically full. It’s not easy to selectively stun or kill unwanted soldiers in a mission while trying not to kill the S rank commanders you want to steal. It’s both a challenge and a luxury to be pickier later on. It’s as if upper management has been forced to help with patrol duty since you’ve killed or stolen their less skilled comrades. As you advance through The Phantom Pain, so does the quality of soldiers in the field. This is especially helpful when your Mother Base is currently at capacity and you want to limit headcount for the immediate future by only picking the best of the best in the field.

He could have a lowly E rank in R&D but he could have a beneficial B in Intel. If you can point the Int-Scope at a soldier for a couple seconds, you be able to see where he would be a good fit at Mother Base. One of the enhanced features of your Int-Scope, aside from being a handy pair of binoculars, is its skill assessment functionality.

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