Farming parasites

[Panfilo]

Farming armor parasites is really easy. Metallic Archaea on normal mode is the fastest way. Climb up on top of the hangar and gun all the skulls down.

Invisibility parasites can only be obtained on the code Talker mission, but you encounter the female skulls right away . This mission is also great for farming staff in the form of all the puppet soldiers you can Fulton.

Mist parasites are probably the most annoying to farm, because the skulls that have them tend to be on the end of missions. However, they're the easiest skulls to disable, just take a LMG and mag dump into them.

[StarExile]

Thanks Captain.

[No_Quarter]

Metallic Archaea with Quet, you both bring BRENNAN and mission is over in about two minutes, that includes cutscenes.

BRENNAN is also good for Camo Skulls, it takes down like 2/3 of their HP in one shot

as for Mist Skulls, I never have BRENNAN on me, but Quiet can have it in Honey Bee mission, so if you like to save the Honey Bee ammo for S rank just let her shoot, you run around with grenade launcher and it's easy-peasy

[Setora]

Why would you _farm_ parasites ?

[No_Quarter]

because of reasons

they are usefull for fullfiling some crazy tasks once you get S rank

[Panfilo]

I think the Kaz rescue mission is probably faster since you can duck in, get him, drop him off, wreck skulls and finish mission.

Mist has potential to help S rank other missions, because it's not A rank restricted and in theory cuts down on enemy view range significantly.

[Panfilo]

Originally posted by SephirothCetras:

Why would you _farm_ parasites ?

Armor parasites very useful on mission 45 or vs Sehalanthropus.

Stealth parasites are even better than stealth camo, don't reveal you if you take damage.

Mist simulates fog but isn't a rank restricting

[No_Quarter]

Stealth Parasites are even better than Stealth Camo, I used that couple of times to listen for that conversations
Armor Prasites - because you wanna rush yolo in OKB Zero, grab containers and everything and ride out on one of the containers without taking a shot - easy resources

[Setora]

Originally posted by jerjare:

Originally posted by SephirothCetras:

Why would you _farm_ parasites ?

Armor parasites very useful on mission 45 or vs Sehalanthropus.

Stealth parasites are even better than stealth camo, don't reveal you if you take damage.

Mist simulates fog but isn't a rank restricting

I guess, I mean it's in the game so it is not a reason to not be used, I was just wondering cause I never really used it besides to try the first time I got it and I find them a bit meh, should add more powers to it but oh well

[strikertlj]

Not to mentions its fun all around. I like extracting skulls. hey try this.. Parasite camo. Code talker either one. Climb up the right side. sneak all around. to the far end on the left. there is one of the snipers there. in the woods up against the cliff. Go into Camo. you can crouch walk up to her .. you can even keep moving against her she will not move. its to funny.. I tried to CQC but it does not work. Brennan to the head. But if they know where you are camo parasite does not work so well. but its just fun to play with. Mist its great for low visability well in anywhere.. armor it is what it is

[symphony]

sleep grenade launcher works wonders. takes out about a third of their stamina. this in combination with the invisibility parasites you get from them makes you untouchable.

question. can I quit the mission once I've captured them all or do I have to save the old man?

Update: you can in fact quit the mission, abort, restart, whatever as long as you make it to the checkpoint near the waterfall and it says "extraction arrived at motherbase"

you can confirm by going into your resources menu and checking the amount of parasites. also infinite bandana + sleep launcher = op

[The_Pastmaster]

How DO you collect parasites? Takes me forever to even kill one, let alone knocking one out for extraction.

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

How DO you collect parasites? Takes me forever to even kill one, let alone knocking one out for extraction.

Don't knock them out. Kill them. Once they fall down, extract them.

[symphony]

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

How DO you collect parasites? Takes me forever to even kill one, let alone knocking one out for extraction.

When they are killed or knocked out they will jump somewhere in the forest where you can grab them later.

Personally I've been using stealth camo + with sleep grenade launcher + infinite bandana. The last one likes to hide in the bushes and I'm usually out of camo at this point so I'll use my sniper and just make sure to be behind cover.

[!RJ_Truth]

Originally posted by symphony:

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

How DO you collect parasites? Takes me forever to even kill one, let alone knocking one out for extraction.

When they are killed or knocked out they will jump somewhere in the forest where you can grab them later.

Personally I've been using stealth camo + with sleep grenade launcher + infinite bandana. The last one likes to hide in the bushes and I'm usually out of camo at this point so I'll use my sniper and just make sure to be behind cover.

That is in relation to sniper skulls yes, but none of the other skulls jump to another location. Fulton them where they lie.

[Seamus]

Originally posted by NukeDoctor:

Originally posted by The_Pastmaster:

How DO you collect parasites? Takes me forever to even kill one, let alone knocking one out for extraction.

Don't knock them out. Kill them. Once they fall down, extract them.

That's no fun, Doc. Take the serval and a stun shotgun/stun uragan. Only use the serval to break armor, use the shotgun/uragan for everything else. Way different fight.