METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN

FrostedSaber Feb 28, 2016 @ 10:30pm
Maximum level your base units can reach with one FOB?
Can you hit 90?
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Phpminor Feb 28, 2016 @ 10:32pm 
I'd imagine you could if they were all S++ soldiers.
and if the FOB is maxed.
though i'm not exactly sure
FrostedSaber Feb 28, 2016 @ 10:55pm 
Cool, thanks. That's going to take a bit of time though. What if they were all just S+ soldiers?
Bugjuice Feb 28, 2016 @ 11:13pm 
Originally posted by NA:
That's going to take a bit of time though
Definitely, I have 4 fully maxed out fobs and my support platform currently the highest level which is only lv119, I believe I have around 100 S++ in there and the lowest is S.
FrostedSaber Feb 28, 2016 @ 11:25pm 
Originally posted by Bugjuice:
Originally posted by NA:
That's going to take a bit of time though
Definitely, I have 4 fully maxed out fobs and my support platform currently the highest level which is only lv119, I believe I have around 100 S++ in there and the lowest is S.
Oh hey Bugjuice! You replied to another post I made on here not long ago.

I'm trying to see how high I can level up my units with just one FOB. I get S+ soldiers from Combat Deployment, but only rarely get an S++ from saving up PF Points. How do you have so many S++?
FrostedSaber Feb 28, 2016 @ 11:25pm 
Originally posted by 4kinell:
You can hit 137 lvl. And even more
How about with just one FOB?
FrostedSaber Feb 29, 2016 @ 12:10am 
Originally posted by 4kinell:
Originally posted by NA:
How about with just one FOB?
107 is maximum with one FOB. But you need a lot of S++ soldiers.
Thanks for the straight answer. Got something to aspire to now!
Xmerwynd Feb 29, 2016 @ 12:24am 
Originally posted by NA:
Originally posted by Bugjuice:
Definitely, I have 4 fully maxed out fobs and my support platform currently the highest level which is only lv119, I believe I have around 100 S++ in there and the lowest is S.
Oh hey Bugjuice! You replied to another post I made on here not long ago.

I'm trying to see how high I can level up my units with just one FOB. I get S+ soldiers from Combat Deployment, but only rarely get an S++ from saving up PF Points. How do you have so many S++?
This morning I successfully infiltrated five Combat FOBs Lvl 45 - 52. Volunteers were S++(4), S+ (2) & S (25) plus other lower level soldiers. The combat deployments are great for earning Heroic points to enable you to infiltrate "Nuked" FOBs if you can find them with 18 million ESP I never see them :steamsad: . The best way to get the "S" and above soldiers is to infiltrate; I rarely fulton unless it is a S+ non-boaster even then I may pass them by as I am more interested in gaining ESP than soldiers for the PF battles. I routinely get beaten by cheats with Offensive and Defensive levels of over 5 million. :steamfacepalm:You can get the soldiers easier and quicker with infiltrations. I have four complete 4/4 FOBs with the lowest level of soldiers is "S". :steamhappy:
Happy Hunting
No_Quarter Feb 29, 2016 @ 12:32am 
my units won't go above lvl133
FrostedSaber Feb 29, 2016 @ 1:25am 
Originally posted by xmerwynd:
Originally posted by NA:
Oh hey Bugjuice! You replied to another post I made on here not long ago.

I'm trying to see how high I can level up my units with just one FOB. I get S+ soldiers from Combat Deployment, but only rarely get an S++ from saving up PF Points. How do you have so many S++?
This morning I successfully infiltrated five Combat FOBs Lvl 45 - 52. Volunteers were S++(4), S+ (2) & S (25) plus other lower level soldiers. The combat deployments are great for earning Heroic points to enable you to infiltrate "Nuked" FOBs if you can find them with 18 million ESP I never see them :steamsad: . The best way to get the "S" and above soldiers is to infiltrate; I rarely fulton unless it is a S+ non-boaster even then I may pass them by as I am more interested in gaining ESP than soldiers for the PF battles. I routinely get beaten by cheats with Offensive and Defensive levels of over 5 million. :steamfacepalm:You can get the soldiers easier and quicker with infiltrations. I have four complete 4/4 FOBs with the lowest level of soldiers is "S". :steamhappy:
Happy Hunting
That's great to know, thanks for the thorough reply!
Bugjuice Feb 29, 2016 @ 3:49am 
Yes just keep invading, you can get them S+ or S++ volunteers after each successful infiltrations, but chance are failrly low though, I count myself lucky if I get 3 S++ in 10 successful infiltrations.

On the rivals fob platform selection screen check for the yellow info box located at the bottom left, you can see the volunteer acquisition probability.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616738323
You can see it here, if I decided to invade his lv1 command platform, chance of getting the S+ or S++ volunteer are zero as it states that I will be getting random amount of soldier ranging from S to B. Try choose one that states S+ / S++ etc, but it seem to be available on higher level platform only.

This is the example of volunteers I am getting after succesfully infiltrated a lv40-ish fob.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=624081766

Depend on which unit you are trying to level up, let say you wanted to level up your R&D department, then you will need to focus and invade R&D platform more often, when you reached the core you will steal 10 of their soldiers specialized in R&D skill and the core reached bonus also gives you random amount of volunteer soldiers specialize in R&D skills too. The 10 soldiers you stole will be staying in your fob brig for.. roughtly 3 days as I observed, and yes the stolen soldiers rank can be as high as S++, depending on the owner if they do not already locked them under direct contract etc, the better your odds of getting one.

Though if you wanted a shortcut you can always look for cheater fob with unusually high number of S++ soldiers etc lol.

And another easy way to acquire S+ and S++ soldiers is through event fob, you can hit the bound dragon and earn some event point. I already made a video of it, though someone might have a faster way to do this, but this work fine for me as I traded around 100 S+ in just a few hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFyis-nrIA
S++ can be trade up to one time only, and S+ is up to 10 times, until they become greyed out.
Last edited by Bugjuice; Feb 29, 2016 @ 3:51am
FrostedSaber Mar 2, 2016 @ 3:35am 
Originally posted by Bugjuice:
Yes just keep invading, you can get them S+ or S++ volunteers after each successful infiltrations, but chance are failrly low though, I count myself lucky if I get 3 S++ in 10 successful infiltrations.

On the rivals fob platform selection screen check for the yellow info box located at the bottom left, you can see the volunteer acquisition probability.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=616738323
You can see it here, if I decided to invade his lv1 command platform, chance of getting the S+ or S++ volunteer are zero as it states that I will be getting random amount of soldier ranging from S to B. Try choose one that states S+ / S++ etc, but it seem to be available on higher level platform only.

This is the example of volunteers I am getting after succesfully infiltrated a lv40-ish fob.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=624081766

Depend on which unit you are trying to level up, let say you wanted to level up your R&D department, then you will need to focus and invade R&D platform more often, when you reached the core you will steal 10 of their soldiers specialized in R&D skill and the core reached bonus also gives you random amount of volunteer soldiers specialize in R&D skills too. The 10 soldiers you stole will be staying in your fob brig for.. roughtly 3 days as I observed, and yes the stolen soldiers rank can be as high as S++, depending on the owner if they do not already locked them under direct contract etc, the better your odds of getting one.

Though if you wanted a shortcut you can always look for cheater fob with unusually high number of S++ soldiers etc lol.

And another easy way to acquire S+ and S++ soldiers is through event fob, you can hit the bound dragon and earn some event point. I already made a video of it, though someone might have a faster way to do this, but this work fine for me as I traded around 100 S+ in just a few hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mFyis-nrIA
S++ can be trade up to one time only, and S+ is up to 10 times, until they become greyed out.
Thanks for your helpfulness. I'm really wretched at FOB infiltrations though, so I don't know if this will happen for me. But it's good to know for if I ever do get better at them. Happy gaming!
J Mar 20, 2016 @ 4:17am 
If we can hit lvl 137, why does it say "max" level reached at 99?
lPaladinl Mar 20, 2016 @ 5:17am 
Can you reach level 90 with only the first, free FOB? Definitely. Will it be easy? Hell no.

Like others have said, you're going to need a majority of S++ troops. S++ Troops become quite a grind if you plan to get a full crew of them. It's infinitely easier to get higher levels the more FOBs you have.
J A F F A Mar 20, 2016 @ 7:54am 
Originally posted by yami_san:
If we can hit lvl 137, why does it say "max" level reached at 99?

Because lvl 99 is when every platform gets the max S level effectiveness for each of their functions. Anything higher is mostly for development requirements.

This week's FOB event is even easier than Bound Dragons. With just tanq pistol and noctocyanin most people should be able to do it in less than 3 mins without knowing how to do FOBs. It wont get you to lvl 99 but you can get several hunded S+ staff.
Last edited by J A F F A; Mar 20, 2016 @ 8:00am
J Mar 20, 2016 @ 9:04am 
Originally posted by HUEY DID NOTHING WRONG:
Originally posted by yami_san:
If we can hit lvl 137, why does it say "max" level reached at 99?

Because lvl 99 is when every platform gets the max S level effectiveness for each of their functions. Anything higher is mostly for development requirements.

This week's FOB event is even easier than Bound Dragons. With just tanq pistol and noctocyanin most people should be able to do it in less than 3 mins without knowing how to do FOBs. It wont get you to lvl 99 but you can get several hunded S+ staff.

I'm already at level 100 with 3 FOBs :D
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