so...is this group going to stay together for Kojima's amazing mpreg adventures?

Now that we'll have friends lists we can finally get together. Oh Konami...

http://www.konami.jp/mgs5/tpp/en/news/update201512.php5

MGS Pachinko confirmed http://blog.hokanko-alt.com/archives/46480319.html

I finally got my first FOB in the works, It's gonna be daunting going online and waiting to see if I was invaded D:

I finally managed to defend some random FOBs. Man that's fun, although they were over way to quick as I butchered the invader with a surprise attack. Too bad the support list is very limited and I only get that once in a while and most of the times with disconnects.

85 hours and i am done with the game. Great game.
Ill still play the open world now and then, and when server things goes better try the FOB stuff.

58 hours in and I've finished with Afghanistan. way too many extractions forced me to get rid off a few lower ranks, which also allowed me to hunt higher rnak soldiers. Lots and lots of sidequests.

As of right now, we can't seem to add specific friends to our in-game lists. However, things may change, as the server instability has forced them to only display one page of random FOBs, which will obviously be updated as well.

As they have stated in multiple demos that you could both defend and visit your friend's FOBs, I can only imagine this will be possible with a later patch. If not, the group will still remain active, as we have MGO to look forward to.

If there's a way to do that then I don't really know. I just reached it. Haven't had any connection problems, though, so that's good at least.

I thought the FoB game demo from E3/Gamescom specifically stated that you can defend your friends base. Man that is disappointing.

So I dug around, and it doesn't look like it lets you add your friends as Supporting/Supported FOBs, only people from that stupid random list of players. What a wonderful design decision. Wish I could help you guys out, wish you could have helped me out too since I got raided by a guy that already has the wormhole Fulton.

It's not stable. It doesn't even work. I've tried to invade myself as training twice and at failed even at that.

I haven't had too much trouble with it keeping me logged in, it's mostly that it slows down loading menus, for some reason. So I wind up shutting it off after a couple hours anyway. That said, I have no idea what stability is like in an actual FOB match since it's locked behind 22 missions and I'm not there yet. :V

Most of the time the game forces me to go into offline mode because of network error. I really hope they figure this stuff out.

Don't bet on it. The online side of the game is super ♥♥♥♥♥♥ right now.

Hooray, I'm finally about at the mission where FOB unlocks, so I'll finally be able to defend some of your bases.

I kill targets if I'm in a hurry, and did so more before I got Quiet her silenced Guilty Butterfly. Also, yeah aerobatics, there's probably no one playing thanks to how bad the serves have been. I can't even figure out how to add friendly FOBs as allies at this point.

Why can I not defend anyone elses FOB on my friends list? Is no one playing online or something?

Does anyone get a huge thrill for KO'ing a target within a group when a sandstorm hits? Also who actually eliminates their target instead of fultoning them?

Just a heads up, Konami did some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with borderless window mode in the most recent patch. If you launch the game and the resolution is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, switch to fullscreen and it should let you go higher than 1280x800 again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8RCD2KAbX4

Only problem I've had is the codex/database menu being completely busted and locking up for 30 seconds every time I try to scroll through it. Outside of that, the biggest problem is that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Metal Gear being terrifying.

It works, I've been running around mother base tackling dudes to Life During Wartime all damn day. Feels gooooood

There's literally a custom music folder in the steam install so now I can put custom mp3's in there, hopefully it should work...

Have you tried opting into the Beta-Update via the Game Properties in Steam SnakeBeater321? Worked for me, they fixed some stuff insanely fast.

Anybody else not able to play because it crashes immediately?

How is the PC version running???

INSTALLING BAHBEEEEEE

downloading at 6mbps with a 1 hour download estimate. could it be possible?

It's gonna take me 6 hours to download,why couldnt there be a pre-load! :(

if youre having troubles. try restarting steam

Off to a wonderful start. Who would have guess things would just break.

its downloading!!!

Here we go! See you on the battlefield, brothers!

Kept you waiting, huh?

I meant FOBs to help defend...not rob...yeahhh

If you are a Nvida user, there's an updated driver out, which you should grab if you are feeling saucy. I know I am! :D

Guys, make sure to add me so I have plenty of FOBs to rob. Thanks.

Gonna be out real soon

We've got a big influx of new people coming in, so make sure to give the listing a look (either on here or in the thread) and see if there's anyone new that you'd like to add.

To pass the time I made MGS:GZ my first "perfect game" on steam. I also bought Mad Max in the hopes that will help keep me distracted lol. Here's to you Bombardiers!

two days is too long. i don't know what to do with myself.

HYYYPE!

I'm pretty sure targets will be chosen via random matchmaking, otherwise you could pick weaker targets and farm them over and over again.

Yeah, exactly. I have over 110 people from this group on my list. If the system works as designed, that's a whole lot of people who now know of your location. You have to assume that any base you assault will at least cause a small number of people to come after you (if they wanted), assuming you get caught doing it.

It's that tension which makes the FOB system so interesting to me.

I don't think much can be done about that since it's the nature of the game. If you get attacked, and the attacker is exposed, they will be added to everyone's retribution list. For me that's like, almost 40 people. I kinda like it because the whole F.O.B. concept carries a lot of risk vs reward. Invading a base certainly has its benefits, but you have no idea how many people's ♥♥♥♥ list you're going to end up on. Personally I'm hoping matchmaking is random, as I would like to avoid invading anybody on my friends list and instead defend their bases, but until the 1st we won't really know.

But I do think the way it works, as-is, is good enough. If you invade someone you should already be aware of how much of a risk it is.

The problem (possibly) arises when one person from the group attacks another person in the group, then everybody is going to start attacking eachother because the retalition list is going to be filled with nice people who thought they were doing the right thing by defending thier brothers. Hopefully there will a system in place that'll prevent this from happening.

It's fairly unlclear how you select targets to attack, or if the matchmaking is random. Either way, anyone who's in the group should realize how many people would wind up with the ablility to retaliate against them (since they should know how many members we have).

I'm not going to boot people out if they decide to try it, though, since we don't know how targets are selected. You might get dropped in against someone in the group against your will, for instance. It doesn't seem very enforceable from my end, anyway. I'll let the natrual cycle of revenge be the moderator, unless everyone gets up in arms against one person who's only reason for joining was to get more target of oppertunity. If that happens, I'll make a post and we can decide what to do.

I hope you can't attack anybody on your friends list. That'll cause an internal destruction.