Can You Beat Metal Gear Solid V Without Using Weapons? 

You can totally100% kill non-grabbable enemies with CQC. Just throw them, and then kick them while they're down over and over. All attacks do a tiny amount of damage, but repeated kicks are most efficient. Holding up a prone enemy in shallow water will also cause him to drown, but that's not applicable here

In mission 18 Blood runs deep, there's this easy strategy I've read online. After freeing the kids, request 2 cars, tranq the kids, place them in the car and fulton the car. This way you don't have to worry about them getting themselves killed

God... Can't even imagine how long this took to finish the whole game... Great job mate

Tip for an easy Skullface S Rank with perfect stealth: Bring a jeep and right before the sniper at the first gate is able to see you,throw all your smokes into the back of the jeep and just drive in,enemies get caught in the smoke trail and act how they do when they're in smoke and walker gears don't have collision with vehicles so no problem there just drive straight through the final walker gear guarding the elevator.

You can use your bionic arm to break the skulls armor. Then use it to knock them out. Also for the stuff you must destroy, develop the blast arm.

in proxy war without end, instead of calling artillery strike, you can call a tank drop on top of the chopper

I don't know if someone else has already said it here, but actually in C2W you can use the water pistol to trigger a shortcircuit in the comms equipment. I don't consider it weapon usage, since you are using the water pistol as a device to spark a specific physical effect that is not possible by any other means in that situation. Cheers, great video!

Voices: Get the Man on Fire to stand near the cliff towards the back where the Devil's House is and drive a jeep into him, knocking him into the river below. Then Mantis is a complete non-factor. That has to be one of the easiest ones to not use weapons, unless you consider a hit and run jeep a weapon.

The Boss: "Try to remember some of the basics of CQC." Big Boss: "K, brb."

You can also abuse the quirk with Quiet's sniping: she can't hear you until she fires her first shot. So, if you're quick enough, you can get to her and kick her once or twice to knock her out

The Man on Fire shotgun sequence isn't technically a kill so I consider it more of a useful defensive tool at the time. I would also consider the Stun Arm and Rocket Punch Arm to be tools as well since they technically aren't weapons or lethal. You could even use the Water Pistol as something fun.

In C2W you could actually find a claymore on the way in and throw a stunned guard inside the room. Then plant a claymore im the entrance and the guard kills himself with the radio by walking out the room. It would still count as using a weapon sure but its a more Finese uproach

Bruh, how the hell does this only have 374 views.

If a pacifist isn’t willing to punch a child in the name of peace then that shows a real lack of dedication.

@ 15:39 "Never be game over." Konami: "Hold my beer."

You only have to extract 1 kid to finish Blood Runs Deep and on the mission Voices, you can stun Psycho Mantis by calling in a resupply on him. Just immediately call in a resupply on where the Man on Fire is after stunning him and you'll knock Mantis out.

0:11 Best pronunciation of "Launchers" ever to be uttered. Shame I can only sub to you once.

One of my favorite tactics is to call in a supply drop of a tank onto the choppers.

Finishing the game without a gun is the Canonical way on how to play the game, thats why snake says : "Kept you waiting huh"

Loved the backing track at the start. Loved Tombii !!!!

4:11 you can actually skip this mission until u have crafted e water pistol, guess it dowsant count as weapon, u just throw water into things with it, it will disable comms system

I think you're allowed to use the watergun on the radio because it doesn't cause any lethal damage on people

In proxy war you can just drop a truck on the chopper and it will instantly explode.

I suppose anything can be considered a weapon but I think sticking with the water gun would have been a nice approach to that hold up situation and destroying comms. I’d even call it fair to “shoot” enemies with the water gun. I might have to download MGSV all over again lol

Hope to see more from u

Love this, not a lot of peeps doing MGS challenges out here.

16:42 in the words of Skullface yes you did , " words CAN kill . "

Love challenge videos like this, and i love the metal gear games. Nice video, subbed

Putting aside some of the boss fights, You can play every MGS without using weapons

Running punch with the Blast Arm does hidden explosive damage on not just people but objects as well. You could've used that to destroy the comms equipment in C2W.

"I love this mission, cuz you get to punch some kids" Lost it here

I usually play the game like that but I'm pretty sure using the tranquilizer gun even to shoot at a wall to distract an enemy it takes away the no traces bonus at the end I THINK! not too sure but yeah

I know this video is 3years old but an easy way to do the mission with the kids without having to escort them is by knocking them out and directly fultoning them if you have the upgrade or call in a vehicle put the kids in there and fulton it sadly the last injured kid has to be extracted by chopper but you can always call the chopper that lands at the mine without having to go all the way down znd face guards

I love you Phonetic Spelling of your pronunciation of the game title!

for the dreaded shotgun let's just say you used blanks to spook his horse

The funny thing about the weapon use in C2W is that you don't even need to do C2W unless you're going for all missions complete. If you just complete missions 3 and 5, mission 4 can be ignored outright because mission 6 will become available. Alternatively, you can go to the immense pain of farming out enough soldiers in Afghanistan to develop the water pistol, and use that to destroy the radio. And uh... it's a squirt gun, so I really don't think it counts as a weapon.

"You know Kaz, i dabbled in pacifism once."

Total Stealth missions are if any enemy spots you, the mission is a failure. And there is no reflex mode. So, unfortunately, your strategy is going to be quite tricky with each of those missions.

you can abduct the truck in traitors caravan without spawning the skulls by extracting the truck while beng in reflex mode from being spotted

next,beat the game without tranq gun,camouflage and buddies

Love the sound from tomba/tombi in the background ❤️

3:20 That is never going to hold up in court.

If you're going by weapons used, then just use the lethal pistol you use in Shining Lights throughout every non Skulls mission. It's the same weapon.

7:48 omg I found this bug too, I wanted to call an air support of sleeping gas to tranquilize the walker gear guards but the damn thing exploded above everyone even though they were outside of the enemy outpost

Venom snakes hands are considered weapons

Pain. Fission mailed, loved this vid! I hope to see more vids in the future!

Sprint at the radio with the bionic arm equipped and give it a sprinting punch

You wanna know a fun fact? C4 isn't considered a traditionally termed "weapon" in real life. It's a special-purpose, all-use demolition and equipment denial device.

I could be mistaken, but you need to add +1 to the counter because before the two guards you're expected to shoot something to stop the approaching fire. To let the player get used to aiming before shooting something trying to kill them.

The blast arm running punch and water gun can be used to destroy any electronics without firearms, but they are impossible to develop for C2W ;-;

you can blow up the oily water tank with a punch from the blast arm, which is quite funny

Listening to the music at the start: "Man is that what I think it is?" Looks at channel pfp: "Excellent"

the stun arm for coms equipment

I'm surprised they were able to have child soldiers that you can merc

if you have a high enough support level, you can manipulate the weather to make it rain on the fights against the man on fire

Desmond Doss if he was born a few years later

In voices you can just push the man on fire into the pool with D-Walker.

this isnt even basic CQC anymore, this is advanced CQC

Can you destroy the Radio with a watergun? Water gun is more tool or toy than weapon. Waterpistol will help with fire guy too.

could've use the water pistol to destroy the comm radio in C2W. I mean, water pistol doesn't do any damage so it doesn't count as a weapon(?)

"Already.... fission mailed" Loved it

BOLLOCKS!

You said that decoys weren't used for damage. The only problem with this is that the decoys can be used as a weapon and so can the empty magazines. You just got to know how to use them right. Not to mention there are the decoys that do non-lethal damage. So yes the decoys can do non lethal damage. Also if you throw a magazine or a decoy just right like I said above you can use them as a weapon you could quite literally hit an enemy with them and not them out causing them to take non-lethal damage.

Of course you can. I didn't beat the game yet but I have gone through most missions with the hidden No Traces bonus, ie you can not use R2 in any way, not even with support weapons like magazines. You can not make any physical contact with any hostiles either. In regards to your run though: You can use the Blast Arm punch to destroy communications equipment, radio dishes, etc. The Water gun can also take out most electronics. You don't actually have to shoot Sahelanthropus in the mission, the slow motion takes effect but nothing happens if you wait. The gun might have to be in overheat mode for this to work though. Traitor's Caravan is a very easy mission to do a No Traces run on. You just have to lure away the Skulls and then drive the truck out of the hotzone. Leading the kids out without using weapons or even using the R2 button is also possible, you just have to lure guards' attention away. DD's bark is useful in no traces missions in general. And the list goes on

Honestly, Shining Lights is more emotionally impactful for a Big Boss who swears against using guns

For missions like C2W, assuming NG+, I would take the watergun - weather you count that as a weapon or not, it's way funnier than using a grenade or something.

Wait, you can destroy Sahaelantropus with a sniper rifle?

This video came out in my recommendation........and now I'm gonna playing this game again.

you can setup a car near the cliff at the devil's house and push the burning man off it using that car.

For exploding stuff you could potentially have used C4 as this could be considered a tool rather than a weapon

Maybe the water pistol can damage electronics like generators and radios.

As for destroying choppers, I've seen some people time fultoning vehicles to attack them. Takes a lot of work tho.

23 Times for Handgun Lethal isn't so bad, you used weapons the least number of times possible.

This may be late but in back up back down the giant fort thing has a acp in the beginning that you could have stealthed into and fultoned it out it really didn't matter since you used d horse but thats how I would do it

"I'll add a .5" - that line made me laugh

Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think you have to shoot sahelanthropus with the helicopter machine gun. It just blows up on its own

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Your content deserve more views bro...hope the channel gets bigger someday

A pacifist would throw hands with anybody.

It’s weird that the air strike didn’t work for the gas tank in mission 13, I’ve used a strike to destroy it in the total stealth version of the mission

Before to watch the video: yes, the game itself... probably yes. But the bosses? Just thinking you can't even pass the first horseman on fire, without using the shotgun. No, I don't think so. At least for the ones where you have no choice. Now, let's see the video.

Technically you are a "Weapon" And your CQC is using your bionic weapon arm...

"Finally, I can get back to my fisting." Bro?

C4 isn't actually a weapon. It is a demolition, and the Geneva convention restricts using it as a weapon. You coulda got by on this technicality in my book. Especially when you blew up the oil tanks with a grenade instead. A grenade is definitely a weapon lol.

Good idea with the parasite armor and the tanks. I've never tried the parasite armor liks that because I didn't think it could be that strong. Usually I just shred through the skulls when they try to use it on me. I'll do the battle armor and bandanna because those usually save me from getting killed in one shot so I csn evade get back in the fight.

i love this background music from tomba! :D

I’ve seen someone do a running punch on c2w for the comms equipment never pulled it off myself

water gun destroy coms and some electrical

On C2W you can use the water pistol to destroy the equipment!

You can also just put the kids in a car and extract the car

Hey so in the one where you destroy coms, it is possible to throw a soldier at the ones inside the building like you did. Its pretty much a "just trust me thing" since in my first playthrough of mgsv on the ps3, i had shot the coms enough that they didnt explode and were still active, but then threw a soldier at it, making it explode. Its completely unverifiable and me saying this is just a suggestion more than anything based on a single anecdotal event but yeah. I guess i should probsbly test it on pc because its been over a year since i played it on the ps3

Proxy wars: It's kinda me but not

Swear the 1st time I played hell bound I used the air strike

In C2W cant you use the water gun for the comms? still count as a weapon?

Can you beat MGSV without using weapons? Short answer: No

I beat the man of fire at that spot.... ah shit never mind I used C4 to destroy and water tower, stunned mantis by calling in a load out on his head and then extracted him. Lol

TL;DW. It's a fucking stealth game. You're not supposed to fight or get caught.

The water pistol could have been used to destroy comms equipment. While listed as a weapon, who actually considers a water pistol to be a real gun?

Man I'd really love to see u do another mgs5 challenge!

Blood Runs Deep is much easier if you supply drop a car, load the children on, and fulton them out.