Guide: How to Get S-Ranks in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PS4

Posted 2:00am Fri 4th Sep 2015 by Push Square Staff

Quick tips on stealth sequel's scoring system

Play like a Boss

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is designed to be played how you want to, which means that both covert operations and all-out combat are viable strategies. However, if you want to get the best ranks in the game – which grant you crucial GMP currency bonuses – then you'll need to be aware of the optimal way to play. Unsurprisingly, given the series' history, a lot of this depends on stealth, but staying undercover isn't the only thing that you'll need to achieve in order to secure an all-important S-rank.

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Mission Tasks

Much like the Assassin's Creed games, objectives in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain are now multifaceted. While you'll always have a handful of main jobs to complete, the game sprinkles in Mission Tasks to keep you on your toes. These vary depending on the quest, but they range from extracting supporting targets all the way through to interrogating troops and recovering key items. The main thing about these side-objectives is that they're entirely optional, but they will give you enormous score bonuses which will help you to achieve your S-rank.

Speed

If you're taking on Mission Tasks as well, it can be difficult to get through objectives fast, but speed is a major source of points. In most cases you'll probably need to replay missions in order to get that all-important S-rank, so use your experience from previous playthroughs to scout out guard placements and learn the optimal route through the mission area. Practice and you'll be completing entire objectives in record time, which will help you to get that all-important S-rank.

Stay Undercover

If you complete a mission without guards ever even knowing that you've been in the area, then there's an enormous 100,000 points up for grabs – and even more if you keep their blood off your hands, too. Needless to say, then, that staying undercover is absolutely essential if you want to earn maximum points. It is possible to draw attention and still score highly, but to get the very best points tallies you'll want to get by unnoticed.

Check Your Equipment and Don't Take Damage

Taking damage and alerting enemies actually takes points off your total, so to continue from the previous point, you're going to want to stay as clandestine as possible. Don't think that cheating and wearing the Chicken Hat will get you through, though, as donning this clucker will limit your rank to an A at best. The same is true of some other marked items, such as the Infinity Bandana. And using the helicopter's attack protocol is also unwise. Of course, there's no harm experimenting with these if you're still learning the mission – just remember to ditch them for your perfect attempt.








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Improving Performance

     As you know, some of the main differences between MGSV (Metal Gear Solid V) and the previous is that you can manage your Mother base activities, develop your own equipment, and accomplish side op missions. Paying attention to those things is very useful in this game.

 

     Mother Base

     Mother Base is your military base and your back bone. You can recruit solders, assign their tasks, improve their performance, dispatch them to missions, and even dismiss the unwanted ones. The higher basses’ levels you have the larger amount of solders you can get. The amount of soldiers and their ranks are the two main factors of Mother Base’ strength.

     You can recruit solders by extracting them during missions or you can send your solders to recruiting dispatch missions.

 

    Developing Equipment and Docks

     Since you have good solders, you can develop your equipment and increasing Mother Base Docks’ levels. It will surely cost money and resources but it will strongly help you. You can develop armors, weapons, choppers, sneaking suits, radars, and many other things.

 

     Side op missions

     Even though you can get new solders, money, and resources in main missions and dispatch missions, side ops are very useful. Money, resources, and solders can be found in side ops too. Every side op mission has a certain special trophy. Some side ops has highly skilled solders. Unique blueprint which are important to develop new special equipment can be found in another side ops.

What's so special about MGSV

What’s so special about MGSV?

 

    Open World

     Unlike the previous MGSs, MGSV is an open world game with lots of places to explore and discover. It is located in Afghanistan and Central Africa. MGSV provides huge spaces of mountains, woods, deserts, and abandoned villages which were turned into military camps.

 

    Backup

     Several choices of backup are available for main missions, side ops, and free exploring, such as; air strikes, the horse, the legendary sniper “Quite”, the dog, and the small metal gear. Each one of those choices can be developed and equipped. And each one of them is special in a way.

 

 

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