Best place to farm R&D and Combat personnel?

[Frag Maniac]

I have 3 Main Missions left, and 21 Side Ops Missions that aren't showing yet. I have several Target Practice missions I've yet to try, because they started getting really annoying.

My R&D level is pretty much staying at 43, and I need to get it quite a bit higher to do some of the upgrades I want to apply, especially for Extreme Sahelanthropus.

I want to get the level 5 Battle Dress, max out the chopper's armor (currently at level just below that), and max the Hail ((2nd highest level right now).

I was hoping mission 48 and 49 will unlock the last of the Side Ops missions, and that those missions and 48 & 49 will have decent R&D and Combat skilled soldiers to extract to prepare better for Sahelanthropus.

The Side Ops not yet showing are 91, 92, 103-106, 124-127, and 132-142. I looked at a missions list of a guide and many of the ones not showing are actually replays of prior important Side Ops missions. So I'm hoping they're also good for farming.

Lastly, do uncompleted side tasks of Main Missions affect unlocking of Side Ops missions? I may have to go back and see if I'm missing any specialists. I noticed one upgrade requires a Noise Suppression Specialist that I don't have. That obviously won't be helpful for Sahelanthropus, but if it helps unlock Side Ops missions, I'm going to do it.

Please don't suggest any FOB farming, because I only play the SP components of the game.

Thank you.

[Panfilo]

Invade R&D FOBs

[Sexy]

Originally posted by jerjare:

Invade R&D FOBs

this and event fob gives u something atleast

[lexilogo]

Side Ops don't seem to give you particularly skilled people, most of the time. Extract The Highly Skilled Soldier missions just seem to give you a random soldier; I've had "Highly skilled" soldiers be folks with a max rank of B while an S-ranker is standing right next to them.

Extract The Wandering Puppets/Mother Base Soldiers give you good ones, though, as they'll automatically earn a Service Cross (Which is a stat improvement). Some missions that require you to extract Diamond Dogs members that have been captured (Free the captured MB platform, Extract the Intel Agents, ecetera) will also earn whoever you extract Service Crosses, though there's a minor risk of them being killed should you mess up.

As for this:

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Lastly, do uncompleted side tasks of Main Missions affect unlocking of Side Ops missions? I may have to go back and see if I'm missing any specialists. I noticed one upgrade requires a Noise Suppression Specialist that I don't have. That obviously won't be helpful for Sahelanthropus, but if it helps unlock Side Ops missions, I'm going to do it.

No, they don't unlock additional Side Ops. Just keep doing Missions and Side Ops and you should unlock just about all of them.

[Frag Maniac]

Thanks lex, yeah there are MANY Wandering Puppets Side Ops in the ones I've yet to unlock, and I have been extracting the ones with good rankings. I always wondered how they could possibly be useful if they're puppets though. LOL

Do you know if particularly Main Missions 48 and 49 unlock a lot of the Side Ops missions I mentioned, because I really hate the more advanced Target Practice ones. It's not the shooting, it's the damn searching for targets. I find it idiotic and annoying.

As for jerjare and melee, thanks for offering, but I DID say in my last sentence that I only play the sp components.

[Panfilo]

You can do mosquito's fob event, it's vs AI and nobody is going to come ruin your day. Also great for farming GMP.

[Frag Maniac]

Originally posted by jerjare:

You can do mosquito's fob event, it's vs AI and nobody is going to come ruin your day. Also great for farming GMP.

Well, I don't need GMP, I'm maxed at 5,000,000, and that's with a lot of GMP rewards unaccepted yet. As I said, I mainly need intelligent R&D and Combat personnel.

And I'm playing completely offline. As far as I know, you have to be online to play FOB missions.

[Panfilo]

How did you get so much money without being online and yet haven't completed all the missions yet?

[Frag Maniac]

Originally posted by jerjare:

How did you get so much money without being online and yet haven't completed all the missions yet?

For one, I don't develop more than I actually need to use, and I'm pretty frugal with supply drops and such. Plus combat development missions pull in GMP consistently if you keep launching them when the ones you have deployed are finished.

Honestly though, this game is not hard to make money in, even without selling things.

Never mind, just noticed I made a typo. It was supposed to read 5,000,000, but offline play DOES cap at that, though why I don't know. Especially since you can have lots of money on top of that in reserve via unaccepted rewards.

[neph]

Just go to a outpost thats populated, like the airport, out of the 20+ soldiers, should get a few high ranks.

[strikertlj]

Some one already suggested it but I am telling you do the FOB event. do the mosquito platforms.. if its R&D you want do that one first. First time through you get best rewards. and they are not hard.

One question. have you unlocked S rank soldiers yet. with the binocs? just curious cause that you need to do. Just extract everyone. boasters included.. they have S rank too. never found R&D to be a problem if anything its over populated in the game.

[lexilogo]

Actually, one other thing; Going into the PF Grade thing on your iDroid's Mother Base section allows you to trade PF-related stuff you earn via automatic Virtual Battles into skilled soldiers. You can get highly skilled soldiers that way (Or get resources/Digitalis Lutea if you'd rather).

[strikertlj]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

Actually, one other thing; Going into the PF Grade thing on your iDroid's Mother Base section allows you to trade PF-related stuff you earn via automatic Virtual Battles into skilled soldiers. You can get highly skilled soldiers that way (Or get resources/Digitalis Lutea if you'd rather).

yes you can but with the PF system bugged with all the hacks that is going to take a very long time. Most you can get is S+ you will get more of those just doing the event FOB than you will in months of PF battles

[Frag Maniac]

OK, I did the 2nd Code Talker mission, recruited some high soldiers there. Did Subsistence Occupation Forces and kinda just stealthed through it since you start with nothing. Did all but two of the Target Practices, which are like the 3rd ones on Command and R&D platforms, but still the 21 side ops not showing are not available yet.

Decided to go ahead and try Extreme Sahelanthropus upgrading my Hail one more level, and adding the PB shield. Got it done about 3 min slower than the Normal one, but this time with 10,000 for destroying the head and hitting the flying boy. Yet it gave me an A instead of an S like last time.

So it seems like there's not much left to do except try and go back for all S scores and side tasks, but the mystery of why those side ops missions won't unlock remains. Now that I've completed the Main Missions it feels less necessary to do them, but I'm curious about them just the same.

BTW, I've been collecting S rank soldiers here and there for a while now. For some time I've been only going for Elites and Legendaries, and ignoring anything else. It's just that I was looking specifically for R&D and Combat guys, but in the end, I didn't need the higher level gear anyway.

[Luxia]

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Please don't suggest any FOB farming, because I only play the SP components of the game.

Obvious pirate

[GrayHound]

Originally posted by Raddenson11:

Originally posted by Frag Maniac:

Please don't suggest any FOB farming, because I only play the SP components of the game.

Obvious pirate

The fact that he doesn't own the game doesn't help either.