Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Revision history

Bmn at 23:51, 15 August 2020

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Stealth!5fEdge at 14:35, 6 August 2016

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Stealth!5fEdge at 14:33, 6 August 2016

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Squared64: /* Misc */

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‎Misc

Squared64: /* Big Boss */

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‎Big Boss

Squared64: /* Enemies */

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‎Enemies

Squared64: /* Big Boss */

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‎Big Boss

Squared64: /* Big Boss */

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‎Big Boss

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‎Big Boss

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‎Big Boss

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 == Big Boss ==
-Big Boss is the top rank on Extreme and European Extreme. The requirements are believed to be:
+Big Boss is the top rank on Extreme and European Extreme. The requirements are:
 * Tanker-Plant
-* Time under 3 hours
+* Time under 3:00:01
-* 8 or less saves (PRUD ENCE)
+* 8 or less Saves (PRUD ENCE)
 * 3 Alerts (ALRTNUM)
-* No kills (NUET)
+* No Kills (NUET)
 * No Rations used
-* No continues
+* No Continues
-* Damage taken under 10.5 life bars (DMGA MMOUNT)
+* Damage taken under 11 life bars minus 50 (DMGA MMOUNT)
-* Shots fired under 700 (AMMOUS ED)
+** This is 10 life bars on Extreme, or 9.3… on Euro Extreme
 Notes:
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 * The names in parentheses above refer to the stats shown on Plant's Mission Failed screen. You can die after saving to examine your current stats in a segmented run.
 * Mission Failed (or rather, Fission Mailed) also appears twice during Tengus 2. The stats shown here are accurate - if ALRTNUM is 3 at this point, your Alerts stat is good.
-* The "damage taken" requirement is not known exactly - one Very Easy life bar is 200 hit points, while one Extreme life bar is 50, so expect the cutoff to be anywhere from 525 to 2100 damage. Regardless, you're unlikely to get close to failing this requirement.
+* The "damage taken" requirement is dependent on difficulty. One life bar is 200 (Very Easy)/120 (Easy)/100 (Normal)/75 (Hard)/50 (Extreme)/30 (Euro Extreme), so damage taken ranges from 10.75 bars (on VE) to 9.3… bars (on EuEx).
-* Similarly, 700 shots is plenty. You're only likely to fail this if you waste ammo in an area with ammo spawns (most likely the oil fence sniping area).
+* 700 shots is plenty. You're only likely to fail this if you waste ammo in an area with ammo spawns (most likely the oil fence sniping area).
-* The three mandatory Alerts occur at the start of the oil fence sniping area, the start of Tengus 1, and the start of Tengus 2. You're not allowed any unnecessary Alerts. Note that continuing from Game Over on the Tengu fights will add to the alert number (even though continues will void the rank regardless).
+* The three mandatory Alerts occur at the start of the oil fence sniping area, the start of Tengus 1, and the start of Tengus 2. You're not allowed any unnecessary Alerts. Note that continuing from Game Over in any of these three areas will add to the alert count (even though continues will void the rank regardless).
 Strategy:

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 * Quick reload
-Double-click R2 to refill your clip quickly. You can also use this to skip the end of a long firing animation (e.g. the M9, which needs a round loaded for every shot), which enables you to shoot at a faster rate. For example, if done fast enough, you can run at a guard and send them to sleep in three shots (Ex/EuEx) before they can turn around
+Double-click R2 to refill your clip quickly. You can also use this to skip the end of a long firing animation (e.g. the M9, which needs a round loaded for every shot), which enables you to shoot at a faster rate. For example, if done fast enough, you can run at a guard and send them to sleep in three shots (Ex/EuEx) before they can turn around.
 You receive a magazine when you run out of bullets in a clip - using quick reload stops this from happening.

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 * Quick reload
-Double-click R2 to refill your clip quickly. You can also use this to skip the end of a long firing animation (e.g. the M9, which needs a round loaded for every shot), which enables you to shoot at a faster rate. For example, if done fast enough, you can run at a guard and send them to sleep in three shots (Ex/EuEx) before they can turn around.
+Double-click R2 to refill your clip quickly. You can also use this to skip the end of a long firing animation (e.g. the M9, which needs a round loaded for every shot), which enables you to shoot at a faster rate. For example, if done fast enough, you can run at a guard and send them to sleep in three shots (Ex/EuEx) before they can turn around
 You receive a magazine when you run out of bullets in a clip - using quick reload stops this from happening.

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	You can avoid Rose's codec calls that usually appear on the first time through Strut F-E Connecting Bridge and Shell 1 Core 1F by being in Caution status when you enter these areas. This also works in the Engine Room to stop the door repair guard appearing.		You can avoid Rose's codec calls that usually appear on the first time through Strut F-E Connecting Bridge and Shell 1 Core 1F by being in Caution status when you enter these areas. This also works in the Engine Room to stop the door repair guard appearing.
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		+	* Avoiding the Stinger
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		+	While not a timesaver, if the player defeats the Harrier without the Stinger, it will appear fully loaded in their inventory regardless at the beginning of the Metal Gear RAY fight, which is impossible without either the Stinger, or RGB6 (with more ammo than it can hold required).

	== Big Boss ==		== Big Boss ==

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 # Enemies see and hear significantly farther
 # Enemies tranquilized with the M9 wake up after 40 seconds as opposed to 3 minutes
 # Enemies take longer to stun - 25 singular punches instead of 20
 # Enemies take longer to kill - 10 spaced gunshots at a guard's chest (avoiding the instant-kill heart hitbox) versus 6
 # The button mashing sequence with Solidus is significantly harder on the initial console versions (55-65 seconds, region dependent, as opposed to ~30). The HD collection version drains oxygen faster, but lasts a measly 14 seconds by comparison.

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 The enemy's field of vision is relatively narrow, and does not change between difficulty settings. The distance from which an enemy becomes suspicious of the player, and the distance at which they discover the player, however, change significantly. See the image on the right for distances scaled to the in-game radar. Note that on European Extreme, an enemy can become suspicious of the player from a distance beyond that of the radar. The distance enemies can hear wall knocking is equal to the distance at which, in a straight line, they would discover the player.
-Certain enemies such as the binocular-using guards in the Plant chapter, for obvious reasons, do not adhere to the same sight distances as standard enemies. Interestingly, at least one standard guard - the left-side guard in the second room of Deck-A in the tanker chapter on the Extreme settings - has a severely lowered sight distance than the difficulty would demand. This is (presumably) because Snake peeks into the room with corner view during a mini-cutscene, and with the sight of an Extreme or European Extreme guard, Snake would be found during a demo. Supporting this idea, the guard's ability to hear is unaffected.
+Certain enemies such as binocular-using guards, for obvious reasons, do not adhere to the same sight distances as standard enemies. Interestingly, at least two standard guards - the left-side guard in the second room of Deck-A, and the guard on the balcony of the Aft. Deck in the tanker chapter on the European Extreme setting - have lowered sight distances than the difficulty would demand (both remain at Hard/Extreme). This is (presumably) because Snake comes into both guards' distance of sight during in-game cutscenes, and would be discovered with European Extreme sight. Supporting this idea, their ability to hear is unaffected.
 * Knock-down tranquilize

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 * Unlike Metal Gear Solid 3, the core gameplay of MGS2 changes between Extreme and European Extreme difficulty.
-# Health is reduced from 50 to 30 hit points
+# Health is reduced from 50 to 30 hit points. Regenerative health is reduced from 16-17 to 10-11 (HP is restored in 2s when crouching so the possible maximum can change)
 # Enemies do not carry any items
 # Rations are completely removed from the game (getting sea lice in the inventory reveals that, theoretically, the Extreme limit of 2 rations is still in the engine)