After two-and-a-half-years, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on PC has lastly unlocked a hidden cutscene celebrating full nuclear disarmament. This has been a semi-secret neighborhood problem, ready for gamers to destroy all nukes constructed by gamers within the recreation’s ‘Forward Operating Base’ multiplayer invasion mode. However! In a really Metal Gear-y conspiracy principle twist, evidently celebrations are untimely, as a result of Konami say that the occasion was triggered when the nuke counter was not at zero. We’re celebrating peace whereas hundreds of nukes are nonetheless unaccounted for. If you load MGS V now you possibly can see the cutscene, or watch it right here:
I at all times neglect I’ve that nice clubhouse flag.
Nuclear weapons are a part of the sport’s FOB invasion mode, objects that gamers can construct which prohibit who can invade your clubhouse and enhance your base’s stats. But when gamers do invade, they will yoink your nukes then disarm them. They’re comparatively minor within the scheme of issues–one thing you possibly can play the sport with out ever encountering–however eradicating nukes has given gamers a process to work in the direction of.
We’ve known about the disarmament cutscene since 2015 but it surely’s been an extended, lengthy struggle in the direction of attaining it. Players have organised in locations like the Metal Gear Anti Nuclear forum on Reddit, arrange a disarmament hitlist, stored an unofficial chart of progress, and customarily tried to struggle the rising nuclear tide. This hasn’t been helped by quite a few identified and suspected cheats and glitches for getting and maintaining nukes, which Konami have been sluggish to counter at occasions.
Here it will get very Metal Gear-ish with conspiracy theories. When they observed the nuke depend on PC beginning to fall at nice velocity, some gamers suspected Konami have been fiddling the numbers to wrap MGSV up in time for the February launch of survival spin-off Metal Gear Survive. Others suspected a kind-hearted hacker was in some way disarming nukes. Konami themselves say they don’t know what’s happening.
“We are still investigating, but can confirm that the event was triggered while the nuke count hadn’t reached zero,” Konami mentioned in a tweet on Sunday. Sounds just like the dastardly machinations of the La-li-lu-le-lo to me.
“We would like to apologize for the inconvenience and reassure you that we will investigate the matter as well as take the necessary action to avoid this in the future,” Konami added.
This all feels much more becoming for the occasions, when disinformation is rife and world leaders are casually tossing round threats of worldwide thermonuclear extinction. For a kooky bag of jargon, Metal Gear is usually oddly prescient.
