But you've never played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
One day left, only one day. 
The game will go online today and the microtransactions have appeared on PSN. This has caused a meltdown on gaf and I have been sharing my thoughts there and I want to go over what all this means.
if you feel base management is a spoiler don’t read anymore.
if you have played peace Walker you know what to expect, managing the base is very similar. The good thing is that fultoned soidlers automatically get placed where they should, you don’t have to even touch that screen. What you need to worry about is improving the teams and having money and resources to build stuff. Two ways to do this, make money on missions and fulton/ find a ton of shit While you are out on them. The other is combat ops which is like those AC missions you send your squad on that you choose on a menu and it gives you a percentage of success and it takes like 20 minutes to complete.
FOB, the online base thing comes online today and building FOBs is the only way to send out more than two teams at once on combat ops. But FOBs are tied to microtransactions and some currency called MB points. They are not in the game as of now, no one knows how to earn them in game. But they are selling them for ridiculous prices. You seem to get one FOB free any more you need MB points.
So how does this effect the game? For me money is a bit hard to come by, things cost a ton of money. But it’s not like I am running around grinding, I simply play as I want and make enough to build 4 or 5 new items after each mission. I have about 40 stuff that can be built right now but I dong have the funds. Do I need all those things, no. Most of it are guns I will never use it upgrades to shit like the cigar. The good stuff I have money to buy.
i think as long as you fulton stuff (which is needed to level up the teams and get materials) you will be fine. But what you want to use, don’t buy just to collect everything. If you do this you will be fine. Those wanting 100% it does seem like it will get grindy at the end.
I'm wondering if all of this microtransaction nonsense is what caused the rift between Kojima and Konami...
phantom_leo said:I'm wondering if all of this microtransaction nonsense is what caused the rift between Kojima and Konami...
Perhaps. I fear for MGO
Do we know what these micro transactions are at the moment?
travo said:Do we know what these micro transactions are at the moment?
Yes, its MB points which is needed to open FOB bases. And it's like $25 for enough to open one base.
Can somebody put this in layman's terms?
Is any of this connected to the single-player campaign? If so how? Is the online multiplayer inter-connected like it was in, say, Mass Effect 3?
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bugsonglass said:Can somebody put this in layman's terms?
Is any of this connected to the single-player campaign? If so how? Is the online multiplayer inter-connected like it was in, say, Mass Effect 3?
The only way it's connected to the single player is that there is a way to send your troops on missions to make money, you can only send two teams at a time. To send more at a time you need these FOB bases that we don't know exactly how to earn them in game but you can pay to get them. It just makes earning money in game a little faster, no big deal.
How are the boss fights so far?
Dvader said:bugsonglass said:Can somebody put this in layman's terms?
Is any of this connected to the single-player campaign? If so how? Is the online multiplayer inter-connected like it was in, say, Mass Effect 3?
The only way it's connected to the single player is that there is a way to send your troops on missions to make money, you can only send two teams at a time. To send more at a time you need these FOB bases that we don't know exactly how to earn them in game but you can pay to get them. It just makes earning money in game a little faster, no big deal.
From what I'm reading, the first FOB is free and the rest cost real money. *sigh* MGO is going to be shit.
travo said:How are the boss fights so far?
Only fought one and it's similar to a MGS classic but was a bit easy.
So who is getting this tonight! Make sure you have over an hour to play. I cannot wait for impressions.
Why do you need over an hour?
Nope, GameStop isn't doing a midnight release. So I'll wake up, drop the kids off, dump garbage then pick it up at 10am.
Check your GameStop. Last minute they are making some stores do a midnight.
Just called 
....motherfuckers!
I'm not sure if we have a midnight release here but I'm going to pick up the game tomorrow during the day anyway.
This is without question one of the greatest games I have ever played. The sheer amount of gameplay options is staggering. The places you visit, the things you do. I am in a random base in the middle of the game and that location could be the final level of any super well designed action game and here it's just what you do for one mission, no big deal. There are some games where the stealth and action is broken up in tiers like Deus ex, you can build the stealth tree or the combat tree, screw that, here you are everything at once. You are not half a soilder. You have every bit of stealth mastery that you have for combat mastery and it all happens on the fly.
I have gone 30 minutes of perfect stealth, systematically taking out guards making my way in and one mistake, boom now I am fighting guys with shields, snipers, a helicopter is firing missles at me. It's ridiculous and that's just normal. I can't tell you he thrill of evading the alert phase when entire death squads are searching for you and you manage to make the perfect distraction and slip right by them.
I can't think of a game that has more satisfying emergent gameplay than this. Not GTA, not far cry, this sets a new standard.