Mission 18 - bugged children

[ReignFall]

Is anyone having issues with the clearly stupid childen who will only run to the LZ chosen by the game?

Defeats the purpose of non linear game play if the NPC's will just run to the extraction point.

Also, without the ability to fulton these kids this mission is absolute sh!t.

[Luxia]

I'm with you, thankfully there IS a upgrade allowing to fulton children. You'll get the possibility of developing it later in the game.

[SnazzyNaz]

That would be an 'escort' mission. There's one in just about every MGS title. They're always tedious. A tip: the kids are slow as ♥♥♥♥ and start and stop constantly even if you didnt issue a wait command. Once you're about 200m away from LZ, after extracting the crippled kid first, kick a different kid so you can pick him up and sprint them to the chopper. Rinse and repeat. I discovered this after them getting shot one to many times less than 30m away and getting hella infuriated.

[DeathScyther]

Otherwise, after you knock them down, you can call a 4 wheel vehicle, put 3 of them to the car and fulton the car, it will work and you don't need to wait for children fulton.

[ReignFall]

ive tried this mission about 20 times and just cannot get it with the sheer stupidity of the kids.

FYI, i love metal gear and have played every game and managed to finish European Exteme on MSG2 and Equivalent of it on 3 and 4. This mission though is one of the worst i have ever played in a metal gear game thanks soley to those retarded children

[Mango]

Seemed easy for me, another S rank.

[Luxia]

I'm with you again. For all sakes, I was 50m from the LZ... I turn back... These idiots are 300m from me. And I didn't issue a "wait" command to them. ...

[Midnight_Fenrir]

i hate escort missions, i hate escorting children, i hate escorting children who dont "wait" when you tell them to, i hate the fact i' escorting 4 of those little bastards an have to carry one.

my biggest mistake was trying to not kill everyone, after dieing 4 times i said "♥♥♥♥ it, kill eveyone"

second mistake was not taking out the gunship as soon as i landed.

[Zentrus]

Don't try to micro-manage them. Just tell them to "Go" and basically ignore them, except for the one you need to carry. Run ahead taking out all the guards (I just tagged everyone with sniper/pistol tranqs and moved forward when all in sight were asleep. The kids would stop if there were guards ahead, and move whenever I cleared the area).

If you move at a brisk pace, you'll be at or near the chopper by the time they realize the kids are missing. Then when they come in force, they'll focus on your chopper, and picking them all off is easy. I also had sent Quiet ahead to the LZ.

The only issue for me was the enemy chopper. I wasn't prepared for it on my first attempt, but the second time I brought a rocket launcher and took it out when it targeted my own.

Originally posted by ImLiar:

Otherwise, after you knock them down, you can call a 4 wheel vehicle, put 3 of them to the car and fulton the car, it will work and you don't need to wait for children fulton.

Now that is just smart.

[The U in UwU]

I lost my sh*t at seeing, what I called, a "super escort mission" where there wasn't one target I had to babysit but a multitude of NPCs. As expected, I got pissed when they didn't follow directions since, like with Quiet's commands, they don't actually work most of the time.

What I did was abuse the crap out of the tranquilizer sniper rifle and Riot SMG with a silencer and using DDog to scout out the targets ahead while waiting for the other kids to EVENTUALLY catch up. In other words, just go on ahead of the AI kids. I had two guards literally hovering over them while they sat behind rocks and did absolutely nothing and said guards didn't seem to care. I eventually tranquilized those guards, causing the kids to move again and into the extraction helicopter. They'll only try to kill you and the kid you have to carry. The rest of them don't actually matter. I was happy I got an S-rank on my first attempt it because I don't ever want to play that mission again, even if you can make it easier with the +children fulton, which you can't actually do on your first run of that mission anyway.

[ReignFall]

Finally beat the mission by shooting everyone, was detected multiple times and was done with zero finesse.

And i got an A for it.

S Ranks on this mission arent worth that much if the passing grade is commit African Genocide and herd mentally defective sheep into their pen.

[Drontti Edvard]

Absolute ♥♥♥♥ children run at enemy when I tell them to stop and when I tell them to go they stay behind and get spotted

[Seamus]

Originally posted by Drontti Edvard:

Absolute ♥♥♥♥ children run at enemy when I tell them to stop and when I tell them to go they stay behind and get spotted

Or you could do the smart thing and fulton them out in a jeep like everyone else does.

[Drontti Edvard]

The ♥♥♥♥♥ chopper also left the 4 idiots on the ground when I went to cover them with the machine gun GG

Absolutely the worst mission in the game so far

[Seamus]

Or you could continue ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. That works too.

[Drontti Edvard]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Originally posted by Drontti Edvard:

Absolute ♥♥♥♥ children run at enemy when I tell them to stop and when I tell them to go they stay behind and get spotted

Or you could do the smart thing and fulton them out in a jeep like everyone else does.

Cannot fulton children at this stage and no Jeep. It would not even drive trough the rough terrain like waterfalls next to the mine