Slow helicopter...Can you speed up travel?

[Wanderer]

Is there a way to skip the helicopter rides, like when you're on the way to a mission? I'm really sick of sitting there in the helicopter constantly waiting to get to the mission area, or waiting to get back to mother base. Can you skip it or speed it up? Seems like a quarter of my playtime is spent sitting in the helicopter waiting to get somewhere...
Thanks for any help.

[Misa]

you can upgrade your heli speed but you still have to ride it =[

[Blappityflap]

I had the same question - looks like it's just part of the immersion into the Metal Gear Universe

[Bite]

Well, you can make it go faster by upgrading it, and you can get rid of the trip back to Mother Base by selecting "Return to ACC" from the pause menu.

[Blappityflap]

Oh snap, that's nice to know.

[I Am Lemming]

I don't have an issue with flying to missions.. There relitivly fast, and I am always mashing Y to jump out. HOWEVER moving from platform to platform it just garbage.lol He always takes you on a joy ride and it sucks. I did find out it is faster to pull out your cardboard box and ship yourself. LOL

[Misa]

YEa certain things in the game just makes me scratch my head... like why can't snake just take a heli ride to the next mission instead of to ACC then take chopper then to mission locations

[Chewiechanga]

Originally posted by Bite:

Well, you can make it go faster by upgrading it, and you can get rid of the trip back to Mother Base by selecting "Return to ACC" from the pause menu.

Not the mention mountain of GMP cost if you have helicopter fully equipped with armour+engine upgrades, I forgot that I installed those in my motherbase morale runs to get faster between decks, it ate 68k gmp just to pick me up.

[Misa]

But I guess it's build into that "takes players hundreds of hours to finish" deal

[Ri0Rdian]

And people wonder why we have tens of hours spend in the game. No ♥♥♥♥, when you have to enter and exit each mission with a long in/out flight!

[Jae]

do what I do and smonk the kush if yaknowwhatimsayin. but nah just use the phantom cigar for 2 seconds.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Jigg:

do what I do and smonk the kush if yaknowwhatimsayin. but nah just use the phantom cigar for 2 seconds.

You betcha, but it doesn't speed up the travel, haha.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Bite:

Well, you can make it go faster by upgrading it, and you can get rid of the trip back to Mother Base by selecting "Return to ACC" from the pause menu.

Thanks I'll do that. This is an awesome game, the travelling in the helicopter is my only complaint with the game.

[Jae]

Originally posted by G-Rombo:

Originally posted by Jigg:

do what I do and smonk the kush if yaknowwhatimsayin. but nah just use the phantom cigar for 2 seconds.

You betcha, but it doesn't speed up the travel, haha.

if only you could skip the 40 second PEQUOD opening intros. but yeah, just use the phantom cigar.

[Jae]

return to acc only works in free roam, not in main missions, so using the phantom cigar is the only choice you have if you wanna get PEQUOD TO LZ faster. That or leaving the zone, depends on the mission.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Jigg:

return to acc only works in free roam, not in main missions, so using the phantom cigar is the only choice you have if you wanna get PEQUOD TO LZ faster. That or leaving the zone, depends on the mission.

Thanks Jigg. I'll give it a go.