MGS5 - Ep.41: [Proxy War Without End] - No Traces / Perfect Stealth 

Typical CFA Aviator Recruitment

The beta pequod vs the chad CFA chopper.

yeah, this is the WTF moment XD

“This is CP. Knock it off. Out.”

"This is CP. Go back to your family, you need it bud. Out"

This is CP, Stop doing Drugs man. Your wife your worried about your health. Out!

"This is CP, schedule a psych. I'll join too."

+Mayer Yedid awes-truck

Omg, LMFAO

+Madnam the hilarious part is that the CFA is dumb enough to think that one of there own men did it.

Let's not forget the helicopter crash.

TheLivingGlitch but they got suspicious with the helicopter

Michiel Kudova Yeah, a clear trace of what happened, plenty suspicious.

I wonder what would would happen if you fulton the truck without taking him down first

+prenatual That was incredible. Some of the most creative Phantom Pain gameplay I've seen to date. How did you get the idea to do this? What was your thought process behind it?

Want to know the whole process? OK, here you go :) First, I needed to find a way to destroy the gunship. Calling in the chopper to the airport's LZ worked well enough, but it would usually kill 3 or 4 enemies before turning its attention to the gunship. I wanted to find a less violent method. I knew from mission 19 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rkHIo6bOYh0.html) that there is some weird interaction between gunships and land vehicles. I decided to try it here and it worked quite nicely. After some testing it turned out that a truck is the best vehicle for this task, since 1) it's high enough to reach the gunship, and 2) it's the only vehicle you can hide in. Second, a week we've had a discussion with A0Refrigerator about putting people in the back of the trucks: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fMGBmLi7w4w.html&lc=z12dvfmpewreerrjr04ccphg1rrgztngrj4 He wanted to do it just for laughs, but it got me thinking about how I can get some real use out of it. Since I was going to extract the commander I thought: "Hey, why waste time following the guy? I'd have to wait for him to reach his destination, then distract him a couple times to lure him away from nearby enemies, then extract him, then crawl back to the truck and wait again for the good opportunity to destroy the gunship. Why not just keep him in the back of the truck?" After a bit of experimentation I found the spot where the gunship drops off the commander, placed the truck there and, sure enough, was able to get the commander jump into the back of the truck. The next step was a bit more difficult. I went through a couple of iterations before I landed on the method you see in the video. I tried: -Ramming the gunship with the commander still standing there. It works but the commander would usually turn around after the explosion and see me in the truck's cabin. -Driving away to a safe distance without disarming the commander first and extracting him before blowing up the gunship. Unfortunately, it makes the commander teleport back to the gunship as soon as you exit the vehicle. -Performing a hold-up from outside the truck. For some reason, it always makes the commander try to counter-attack me. -Putting D-Horse back in there (for the extra comedic value). Again, this increased the risk of the commander turning towards the cabin and seeing me. Performing a hold-up while lying in the back of the truck was the only thing that worked consistently. And third, destroying the gunship would always get me spotted or get a presence indicator, even when I waited for all patrolling enemies to get as far away from me as possible. The main problem was the guy standing near the airport entrance (10:40). He never leaves his post normally, but once, when I played the mission while it was raining I noticed that he would go inside the building and have a smoke every minute or two. So I had to start the mission exactly 2 hours before the rain would start to ensure that it would affect the guard. This is only the second instance on this playthrough when I used the weather to my advantage (besides mission 15, where I used mist parasites). So, that was the whole thought process behind this strategy. Makes it sound a lot more complicated than it appears, eh?

That's pretty amazing. I love how all of the knowledge acquired over time comes together in a practical way in the end.

+prenatual that shit idea with the horse is just superb! gives you just enough time to fulton 2 tanks.... thanks for this but I must say I don't have your skills to do the last bit :(

+prenatual What is the visibility breaking point for snake driving beside an enemy in a truck?

Then appear in some kind of oil extracting platforms in the middle of the ocean, working for an legendary soldier.

Especially when it's defecating.

+A0Refrigerator Thanks for the inspiration :)

+Adequat Name Here But the most awesome thing was the dog trick in blood runs deep, let's be real.

Yeah, that definitely was one of the most difficult encounters to get No Traces on. Don't know if I would call it awesome, though, because of how stupid and badly scripted the AI was. For me, personally, getting all 11 vehicles on Backup back Down was the #1 "fuck yeah" moment of this playthrough. No stupid kids, no bullshit, just Man and his Horse vs. Machines.

No traces maybe. But this was very easy to S Rank first time. I waited for them all at that one guard post. I extracted them one by one as they came by and blew up the chopper with a rocket launcher.