Avoidance is key in most encounters, but time comes where you have to fend them of to activate a wormhole generator (fast travel points) and you learn the hard way how to prepare for these moments.Īs you progress, you gain more and more ‘recipes’ and materials for better equipment and gear to tackle the Wanderers, and worse. Alerting one pretty much means you’ve alerted a few more and they overwhelm you rather easily. They can’t see, rather they ‘sense’ you, mainly through hearing. They’re easy enough to dispatch with on their own, but that’s the trick see? They are almost never on their own. The Wanderers are your introduction to actual psychical threats in Metal Gear Survive. I say hunt, but 90% of all animal hunts were just me running up and Superman punching goats and wolves like Roman Reigns in a zoological spin-off of WWE. You can hunt the wildlife for better food, but it needs cooking to cut the risk of sickness. You can gather berries early on and they’ll stave off a bit of your peckishness, but boy does that meter deplete quick. Left untreated (there’s several medical aids for wounds and infections a la Snake Eater), and your character will be upchucking all over the place whilst losing health and stamina. You may get away with a few glugs of filthy water, but eventually sickness will be an issue. Thirst is tough to begin with because apart from the odd one, nearly all water you’ll find is dirty. As noted, it’s a good while in before you truly stop any of them kicking your arse, and by then the game’s thrown a few new bouts of sadism at you. Your thirst, your hunger, and the crystal-topped undead known as Wanderers. That’s both in depth and in character, but it isn’t without the odd moment.
Don’t misunderstand me here, it’s not even close to the level of storytelling in most Metal Gear titles. It definitely touches base with the over the top weirdness that’s his signature however. Metal Gear Survive is not a Kojima game, that much is clear. From there is government cover-ups, undead soldiers, stealth, survival, eldritch beasts and dollops of history lessons. One that sorta looks like Afghanistan (because it is) from Metal Gear Solid V. You then find yourself in a strange new dimension. In the battle to save Mother Base seen at the end of Ground Zeroes, a wormhole opens up and swallows a large section of the F.O.B. The basic premise of Metal Gear Survive is suitably daft. The fact that how I felt about the game shifted into overall positivity after all that speaks volumes about how strangely compelling Metal Gear Survive can be. So you can imagine how I felt about the game during the early, tutorial-heavy hours.
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