Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain PlayStation 4 Cheats and Tips

Whenever you are at Mother Base make sure Snake has a shower as doing so will increase his maximum health, give him a longer duration for reflex time and increases his chances of successfully extracting enemies with the Fulton.

This suit becomes unlocked and ready for development when you have completed mission 29: Metallic Archaea and your R&D team and Medical team are both at level 25. The standalone suit does not give you any special powers and you must equip it with parasites which you can only get from extracting members of the Skull units. When you have extracted the skulls go to 'Development' then to 'Items' and choose which parasite you want to develop.

If you point your flashlight into the face of an enemy wearing night vision optics you will be able to momentarily blind them. Doing this will give you the time needed to take them down silently.

When you import a saved game file from 'Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes' you will be able to get the followng bonuses as a reward.

Metal Gear Solid 1 Skin:

This skin is similar to how Snake appeared in 'Metal Gear Solid' on the original PlayStation version.

Ground Zeroes Sneaking Suit:

This suit is available as a special upgrade through the Mother Base.

Gold Bionic Arm:

This bonus is only available if the saved game file was created after completing Mission 5: 'Over The Fence' and rescuing the Bionic Engineer.

Complete the following tasks and then enter the iDroid's 'Development' menu and meet any other requirement that may be needed to unlock the corresponding item.

Bandana:

Complete Side Op 143.

F-Ballista (D-Walker):

Extract 1,000 enemies.

Furicorn Uniform (D-Horse):

Complete Side Op 144.

Gray Fox (1998) Uniform:

Complete ALL missions, except the High Difficulty missions.

Gray XOF Uniform (Quiet):

Watch Quiet's Interrogation Scene.

Hand of Jehuty:

Complete Side Op 49.

Infinity Bandana:

Complete Mission 46.

Leather Jacket Uniform:

Complete Mission 46.

Naked Gold Uniform:

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The following music tapes can be found at the indicated location and once found can be played from the cassette menu in the iDroid. When looking for the tapes use your binoclulars to search the area and pinpoint their location by hearing the music.

204863:

Kungenga Mine, SW guard post

A Phantom Pain:

Wakh Sind Barracks, NE huts

All The Sun Touches:

Munoko ya Nioka Station

Behind The Drapery:

The Wialo Kallai

Dancing With Tears In My Eyes:

Ditadi Abandoned Village, under a canopy

Dormant Stream:

Smasei Fort, West guard post

Friday I'm In Love:

Lufwa Valley, inside mansion

Gloria:

Nova Bragia Airport ..

The most effective way to avoid the stun effect on yourself when you throw a stun grenade at close quarters is to hide inside the cardboard box.

You can increase the control of your sighted weapons while aiming if you play the cassette tape of Quiet's humming.

The first time you play the game you will be asked to enter your birthday, when you then play the game on that date there will be a birthday party at Mother Base thrown for you which will have a cake and cigars as part of the celebration.

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When your night vision goggle batteries and Rocket Arm are running low you can recharge them using the sun, to do this just run or sprint when the sun is brightest. Perform a dash to extinguish the flames when you are on fire with the cardboard box.

This suit becomes unlocked and ready for development when you have completed mission 29: Metallic Archaea and your R&D team and Medical team are both at level 25. The standalone suit does not give you any special powers and you must equip it with parasites which you can only get from extracting members of the Skull units. When you have extracted the skulls go to 'Development' then to 'Items' and choose which parasite you wish to develop.