Has anyone here every tried doing a "Rambo" run?

[Patch]

Going all loud, naked camo, only the biggest,loudest, weapons you can muster. Has anyone tried this and how difficult was it?

[Jay Jonah]

honestly it isn't that hard at all, compared to a full stealth first blood run.

The biggest factor in regards to how "hard" it would be is difficulty, to be honest. on harder difficulties, you take more damage which would end up eating through your healing reserves, where as on easier difficulties you could steamroll the soldiers with little issue.

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

yes, when they implement keybinding settings for mouse and keyboard there will be a "rambo" playthrough. with the crappy configuration it's already possible to mow everything down pretty easy on medium.

i am aware that there are methods of changing the keybinds via third party programs.

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by Jay Jonah:

honestly it isn't that hard at all, compared to a full stealth first blood run.

The biggest factor in regards to how "hard" it would be is difficulty, to be honest. on harder difficulties, you take more damage which would end up eating through your healing reserves, where as on easier difficulties you could steamroll the soldiers with little issue.

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

[Snake]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by Jay Jonah:

honestly it isn't that hard at all, compared to a full stealth first blood run.

The biggest factor in regards to how "hard" it would be is difficulty, to be honest. on harder difficulties, you take more damage which would end up eating through your healing reserves, where as on easier difficulties you could steamroll the soldiers with little issue.

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

you can avoid the sorrow boss fight if you drown yourself and take the revival pill

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

Originally posted by cØhlestic:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

you can avoid the sorrow boss fight if you drown yourself and take the revival pill

spoiler? :D

[Deathraven13]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

Even if you die there you can still win.

[BloodShed]

Originally posted by cØhlestic:

Originally posted by BloodShed:

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

you can avoid the sorrow boss fight if you drown yourself and take the revival pill

Doing that won't get you the spirit camo.

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by BloodShed:

Originally posted by Jay Jonah:

honestly it isn't that hard at all, compared to a full stealth first blood run.

The biggest factor in regards to how "hard" it would be is difficulty, to be honest. on harder difficulties, you take more damage which would end up eating through your healing reserves, where as on easier difficulties you could steamroll the soldiers with little issue.

I bet the Sorrow is going to be very hard if doing a Rambo run.

Nah, but it's definitely very long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYv27Buecbw

[Jay Jonah]

I miss the old CBT run, where you shoot every single soldier in the balls to kill them.

highlight of the youtube days prior to adpocalypse

[SakuraKoi]

Well, after re-running quite peacefully once to scout all 'collectibles' and re-read the story (on Very Easy, dunno how I got 4 kills but Eva got one), I found myself going quite lethal on a Normal but keep switching to just shooting with the tranq pistol.

Especially now that I found quite a bug (Switch) where I kept being constantly staggered due to some reason or another. Enemies even kept shooting in the air. It was on mountain stage 2/3, shortly before 3/3. I slowly tranq'd two on high alert while 90%+ Camo thanks to the animal print but I was supposedly found despite no one being close. I couldn't find a mention of that bug anywhere so I ended up here...

The problem I found is that the reinforcement mechanic is just annoying, ballistic shields and basically every time I refresh the alert/evasion/caution, a new set is called.

Maybe in the Remaster it will be more fun to go around shooting like in a true FPS (i.e not stationary, dunno if it will have it, only saw the crouch walk) or have a proper TPS (current is with dodgy auto-aim or miss) but atm only the boss fights are the actual 'fun' shooters. Even if Snake sounds like playing Rambo with the LMG.

In any event, I can't recommend it. It's neither particularly fun nor really rewarding. Only silently execute some if you intend to explore the area but going for 'European Extreme' isn't so bad... once one figures out the early Ocelot Unit Fight. The tip I found, to stun-grenade them from under the bed once the door falls, is gold. It is actually quite handy to instantly fail the mission (just choose Continue) instead of enduring the time it takes to either reload the game/save or flee and wait it out.

[Kohchu]

This is the default way to play MGS3, it's a general easy way for default gameplay. The 0 Kill/0 Alert run is way harder to do.

Going gung ho isn't recommended due to the high damage and extra guards, but nothing stops you from doing it. It's usually wise to stay hidden, and go loud if you get rumbled.

[Mahogany Vince]

I almost did this with my recent playthrough on Hard, I took a lot of opportunities to test out how to effectively sneak through enemies and how to really utilize the game's mechanics and it resulted in my getting caught a lot so I did a lot of Rambo'ing out of situations

But you'd be amazed how far you can get with a shotgun and an assault rifle, it probably wouldn't be too hard especially if you let Snake heal naturally from his injuries so that his maximum health bar value can increase