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MGS:PO Info Dump
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GENERAL
RANDOM INFO
Running into a wall/step within close hearing range, while disguised and partially/fully out of sight (e.g. Research Lab I.) exposes you
The amount of time lost by using a Wait is a little less than 2 seconds.
Loading and exiting a Stage to pass time for Reports loses around 9s IGT each time. The worst amount of times I've had to do that was 5 times. =45s IGT timeloss due to RNG
The worst amount of total possible time lost to Report/Development RNG lies around 1m 30s
ADDITIONAL ITEMS
m37 on rail bridge 2 & 3 smoke g on guest house
Box Travel Strats
All currently documented Box Travel Strats can be found in this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfJ5hi4JjGcRaBLpA_N1JLCMvB0b-CAYb
So far, these are mostly to be used on the NG Any% Route.
IGT Accuracy and Strat Finding
So far, since we can only estimate when exactly the IGT stops counting (do transitions count or does IGT stop right after you hit Start?), I went with the most conservative timing approach - timing with the highest possible IGT.
Same goes for every Member Swap into instant Pause to Member Swap again, where I've added 0.8s each time.
I took a similar appraoch with finding strats. Only using Member Swaps that are 100% guaranteed to be faster - while assuming that Pause Transitions count for the IGT.
Generally, I went in with Snake at Daytime and only deemed a Member Swap 100% worthwhile when the Box Spot (X) swapped to is at least far enough to touch Snake's 50 Sense circle from the inside.
Box Travel IGT Timesaves
NG Any% Easy/Normal: ~60-73s timesave
HPT 6s save RL1 4s save Menu Jo #2 3s loss SD2 8s save RB1 3s save Spy Reports 3s loss min, 6s loss avg ---------- SD3 2s save RL2 2s save SPB2 4s save ---------- RB2 2s save HB 1s save (Menu Jo) 0-3s loss SB 2s save WS 8s save Menu Re in 1s loss (Menu Jo) 0-3s loss A 5s save SE1 1s save SE2 1s save RB3 <1s save GH 15s save Sn#1, Jo#2 <1s loss P 3s save Menu Py in 2s loss R 5s save PS1 / (Menu Py) 0-6s loss PS2 / SE3 <1s save SC 3s save
TO DO
ITEMS
recheck for faster (or earlier) stun g spawns than SBase, & Silo Entrance
NG GENE w/ 144HP Snake tanking damage
| PAL | Easy | 2 charges | 3 fa-knives |
| PAL | Normal | 2 charges | 2 fa-knives |
| NTSC-U | Easy | 2 charges | 3 fa-knives |
| NTSC-U | Normal | 2 charges | 2 fa-knives |
| NTSC-J | Easy | 9 charges | 5 fa-knives |
| NTSC-J | Normal | 3 charges | 3 fa-knives |
Make NG+/EXTREME version of this ^