# | REQUIRED/OPTIONAL | OBJECTIVE | SPECIFICS |
1 | Required | Make contact with Quiet | --- |
2 | Required | Eliminate the Soviet mechanized unit | This is a large unit that includes a gunship and many vehicles |
3 | Optional | Obtai[Subsistence] Quiet's cassette tape | --- |
4 | Optional | Extract seven tanks and seven armored vehicles | |
5 | Optional | Complete the mission without Quiet taking damage |
- To unlock this mission in the first place, you'll have to complete Main Mission 43, have a maximum bond with Quiet (bring her along on many missions to achieve this), and complete Side Op 150. To unlock that particular Side Op, you'll need to have Quiet as a buddy (duh) available, with maximum bond, you must have seen the cutscene at Mother Base in which a certain scientist is told to leave, and you cannot use the 'Butterfly' design in your emblem (small chance that you would've, anyway).
- In this mission you must protect Quiet against .. well, essentially a small army of troops and vehicles. The main objective is to destroy (or extract the vehicles), which is best done with your highest-upgraded rocket launcher (not the Honey Bee though, it is quite weak). If you have the CGM 25 that'll help.
- Fulton extracting vehicles is pretty much only possible if you neutralize or eliminate all troops near it (otherwise they'll pop the balloons). One way around this (for a future, easier playthrough of the mission) is to use the Wormhole Fulton upgrade (gotten after Side Op 50).
- I[Subsistence] can help to plant ATB or EMN mines at the key roads up ahead; don't place them too close together but line them up so that multiple vehicles can be stopped one at a time.
- Destroy (or extract) the rest of the vehicles as soon as possible with your rocket launcher.
- [Subsistence]-Rank Tips: Skipping cutscenes is always a good idea. Other than that, you'll want to Wormhold/Fulton extract all vehicles ASAP, so quickly approach them one by one.