Got to spend a bit more time with Metal Gear Solid V this weekend, failing really bad trying to use stealth to complete the missions.

I do enjoy using the Fulton recovery system to send enemies back to base, I'm looking at the abilities of these enemies to ensure I dismiss any trouble makers & making sure they are in the correct department for their skill rating. I've just unlocked the ability to upgrade the base but I do not have the required resources yet to upgrade any department.

Side Op missions have now been added which give you a much simpler objective to complete from extract an individual, retrieve weapon blueprint to kill a target.

I've not managed that much free time to play MGSV apart from completing the first mission & getting to mother base. I started off pretty well in the first mission playing it slow & taking out enemies quietly but when I found Miller I failed to get him to the extraction point & had to restart from the last checkpoint. On the second attempt I just picked him up and ran for the extraction point ignoring all the enemies.

Mother base is your offshore control centre and you can do lots from developing weapons, going on new missions to managing your personnel. You also get daily rewards but I've not unlocked this yet guess I need to play more of the story missions.

I did have some fun free-roaming Afghanistan & attaching the Fulton parachutes to animals & enemies. Annoyingly my twitch stream failed at some point during the session & I don't have a video of this to show the poor sheep I sent to orbit but I have got a nice gameplay video of me hiding behind a rock.

I've only played the prologue so far but wow what a game!

Yes it's got lots of FMV etc blah! blah! It's called presentation & this builds up the amazing opening to the game.

Then leaves you in Afghanistan with a horse to get on with your own thing which I've not done yet but will do next time.

So glad I decided to drop Destiny (Taken King preorder cancelled) & purchase this on release instead.

It took me a few attempts before I got into the hardcore stealth gameplay of MGS. The silencer has a wear down rate before it breaks, the cover mechanic does not stay snapped & there is a whole new button scheme to try and master.

But when it clicked !!

Oh what fun there is to enjoy, sneaking up on enemies to take them out, crawling underneath buildings to headshot a few soldiers & running away when the detected music plays.

I've rescued 'Chico' & I'm on the search for Paz.