{"id":81211,"date":"2015-09-11T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81211"},"modified":"2015-09-11T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:02:59","slug":"crisis-in-metal-gear-solid-v-dont-fall-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/81211-crisis-in-metal-gear-solid-v-dont-fall-victim","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in Metal Gear Solid V \u2013 Don&#8217;t Fall Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just got falcon punched in the face by the biggest troll in gaming history, Hideo Kojima.<\/p>\n<p>At a certain point in the game, a severely drastic situation will begin decimating your personnel.<\/p>\n<p>I have written this article so that anyone playing this game can avoid this very debilitating tragedy, at the cost of a spoiler. Seriously, it\u2019s worth reading on.<\/p>\n<p>After Mission 20, the mysterious parasite that various people you encounter throughout the game are suffering from will reach Mother Base, causing an epidemic amongst your beloved staff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81213\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81213\" class=\"wp-image-81213\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-1.jpg\" alt=\"Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - MGS V\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-1.jpg 1380w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-1-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-1-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The mysterious parasite has all kinds of effects&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you do not move the symptomatic victims into the newly created Quarantine Platform, you will most likely lose hundreds of members and thousands of heroism points, as I did.<\/p>\n<p>I foolishly thought that this process was being done automatically.<\/p>\n<p>The way to combat the epidemic is to hand pick the infected and move them to the Quarantine Platform in order to avoid further infection.<\/p>\n<p>The big problem with this process is that there is a specific and obscure trait that the infected all share, language.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81215\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81215\" class=\"wp-image-81215\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-2.jpg\" alt=\"Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - MGS V\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-2.jpg 1380w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-2-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-2-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extracting the mysterious &#8216;Code Talker&#8217; will end the epidemic, but until then it&#8217;s up to you to curb decimation.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The parasitical virus is some twisted, ethnic cleansing abomination that only targets those P.W. Botha would.<\/p>\n<p>Something not even Hitler could have dreamed up, but somehow a mild mannered, middle-aged Japanese game developer did.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what you want to do when your Mother Base gets hit by the plague is find any members amongst your staff that speak the language \u2018Kikongo\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Using the iDroid, go into the \u2018Staff Management\u2019 tab and scroll through your various departments.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone that speaks Kikongo <strong>must<\/strong> be slammed in the Quarantine Platform to avoid, in my case, 221 members KIA and 6630 Heroism points lost.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81217\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81217\" class=\"wp-image-81217\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Metal-Gear-Solid-V-The-Phantom-Pain-MGS-V-Crisi-3.jpg\" alt=\"Metal Gear Solid V - The Phantom Pain: MGS V\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yes, this is a game involving much pain and loss, and broken controllers.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The obscurity of this process and its ensuing catastrophe is meant to hurt you and your base &#8211; in order to foster incredible rage and desire for vengeance in the player &#8211; to better help you empathize with Big Boss and his allies and fill their shoes as you now burn to avenge your fallen comrades.<\/p>\n<p>It would, however, be much better not to fall victim to Kojima\u2019s sadism.<\/p>\n<p>When the time comes, make sure you cut your losses and separate the sick from the healthy.<\/p>\n<p>I lost 221 highly skilled people I spent countless hours securing in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Screw you, Kojima. No wonder they kicked you out of Konami.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>MGS V, it&#8217;s everywhere<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/81061-a-guide-to-mgs-vs-buddies.html\">A Guide to MGS V\u2019s Buddies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80995-the-easter-eggs-of-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain.html\">The easter eggs of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/80781-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-ps4.html\">Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PS4)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid losing potentially everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":81219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3180,575,1269,9988,13628,15397,129,1239,15399,1853,79,10065],"class_list":["post-81211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-feature","tag-hideo-kojima","tag-konami","tag-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain","tag-mgs-v","tag-pc","tag-playstation-3","tag-playstation-4","tag-ps3","tag-playstation4","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81221,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81211\/revisions\/81221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}