Worth it for Single Player only?

[Stilgar]

I'm planning to play this game solo.
How's the game without co-op stuff?

[Panic Fire]

It's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF1_MrEMpew

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Stilgar:

I'm planning to play this game solo.
How's the game without co-op stuff?

No. It relies to much on grinding, it has microtransactions, and it’s ALWAYS online. When the servers close, the singleplayer can’t be accessed. It also costs $10 just to make more than one character.

[Detective Sadist]

Originally posted by mdesaleah:

Originally posted by Stilgar:

I'm planning to play this game solo.
How's the game without co-op stuff?

No. It relies to much on grinding, it has microtransactions, and it’s ALWAYS online. When the servers close, the singleplayer can’t be accessed. It also costs $10 just to make more than one character.

Can't seem to find a forum post without you.
Don't you have anything better to do with your time?
You seem to be really obsessed.

But to the OP, yes it's worth it.
The grinding is there but it's not too bad because you're always exploring and finding new things whereever you go. You stock up and you get better things to help you out. It's worth it and will help you progress just like any other survival game.

The microtransactions are basically powerless. Small boosters and such, nothing you can't enjoy the game without. The only MT that has any meaning (and it's very small) is yes, as mdesaleah points out is you do have to pay for an extra acharacter slot. But in a survival game it's unlikely that you'll really want to. One character is good enough for your playtime and online stuff.

Always online on a co-op game? Shocking.
I'm sure by the time the servers closed everybody will be happy with the time they've spent on this. It's not something people will be playing for years and years.

My advice? Go on your own instinct and try it for yourself. Download it, give it a try.
Don't go in with the mindset of it being a MG game, go in with the thoughts of standalone.
But personally, I'm really enjoying it.

[Forlorn]

There is also a $10 pay function if you want to send more than 1 team out to look for things.
single player with pay to win features thats funn right?
sorry single player with co-op optional features.

[ClintHardwood]

Originally posted by Alavanger:

There is also a $10 pay function if you want to send more than 1 team out to look for things.
single player with pay to win features thats funn right?
sorry single player with co-op optional features.

Team scavenging is garbage anyway. Useless feature IMO.

[Cheating Death]

honestly, exploring dite alone is boring.Imo they should add coop for SP too.

[Zombie]

Single Player is actually where a bulk of the content is. All Multiplayer is, is a tower-defence game that's fun to drop in every now and then for some extra materials. I recommend trying multiplayer once or twice.

Multiplayer rewards can give you ''broken items''. They're items you can restore to working order but you don't learn the recipe to make them(although that doesn't really matter much). Singleplayer is where you can find its recipe. Single Player has better exploring, is where you build your base, etc.


End game will probably end up being multiplayer, I'm not sure if enough people have gotten there yet. (I'm only on mission 15 myself and it just transported me to an entirely new map as far as I'm aware, make sure you explore a lot!).




TL:DR Single Player is definitely worth it.



Also, I would recommend ignoring people bringing up MT's.


As long as you are a reasonable gamer, and above the age of 10. You will not have to spend $ on any extra features. You can pay to speed up harvests at your base (like potato garden) but the issue they ignore is that this is not an intended way to rely on food. You're supposed to be out hunting for food and the farms and crap are mainly for your crew to stay alive and manage themselves. You also get a few boosts to Kuban energy drops but you'll be finding PLENTY of it as it is, every single mob has them and you'll never be left wanting. Another MT is exclusive to Multiplayer EXP you get, which you don't have to worry about(and is a waste of money). As well as needing an extra character slot. I believe you can grind on multiple characters to do dailies and such double, which is why it's behind a paywall....do you really intend to play the game on two different characters? That makes no freaking sense, it's dumb they charge for it but you'll never use this feature ever. Like, why would you want 2 characters? Why?


This isn't to say they won't add worse ones down the line, and I'm definitely prepared to change my positive review to a negative one as soon as they do it. For now though don't bother even batting an eye at them.


The people whining about the game are just butthurt that it's actually a decent game and think Metal Gear shouldn't be in the title. Kojima has been done with Metal Gear since Metal Gear Solid 2 and only made more because he was practically forced to as far as I care. No one should be butthurt that Konami wanted to make a survival game with its assets but whatever.

[PoutineQuebecoise]

Originally posted by Cronnoponno:

Single Player is actually where a bulk of the content is. All Multiplayer is, is a tower-defence game that's fun to drop in every now and then for some extra materials. I recommend trying multiplayer once or twice.

Multiplayer rewards can give you ''broken items''. They're items you can restore to working order but you don't learn the recipe to make them(although that doesn't really matter much). Singleplayer is where you can find its recipe. Single Player has better exploring, is where you build your base, etc.


End game will probably end up being multiplayer, I'm not sure if enough people have gotten there yet. (I'm only on mission 15 myself and it just transported me to an entirely new map as far as I'm aware, make sure you explore a lot!).




TL:DR Single Player is definitely worth it.

This, Multiplayer is nice but not required. It can help you get materials to build extra stuff which is cool and all, or give you some fast Kuban rewards in order to level up.

Having said that, things progressively unlock through single player so you have to play that anyway. For example you only start with basic workbenches, even if you had the Military Helmet broken piece drop on MP you'd still have to get the Advanced Crafting Table unlocked in your base in order to repair it.

Moreover, the point about recipies and broken items is that your exploration units and such use up items (definitely use up medical supplies) so you want to be able to consistently equip them with good stuff so they can go out and get you materials.

[Drackmore]

Originally posted by TheCatWhisperer:

Moreover, the point about recipies and broken items is that your exploration units and such use up items (definitely use up medical supplies) so you want to be able to consistently equip them with good stuff so they can go out and get you materials.

Yeah you can give those Broken recipes to your exploration units but you should be careful when doing so. They have variable stats that can make them stronger then their typical counterparts. Sure it isn't much but an additional five or ten damage is on top of strengthening it to lvl5 adds up.

Originally posted by Cronnoponno:

Also, I would recommend ignoring people bringing up MT's.

This isn't to say they won't add worse ones down the line, and I'm definitely prepared to change my positive review to a negative one as soon as they do it. For now though don't bother even batting an eye at them.

Yeah currently the microtransactions are pretty benign for the common player. The worst one is the save slot thing and even that is laughable at best. I mean, you can just family share the game if you absolutely must have a second slot. And the rest of the microtransactions are worthless boosts and speedups that only an impatient child would bother grabbing. I'm honestly surprised there weren't any cosmetic microtransactions there was a good opportunity for them and they didn't take advantage of it. But I do hope it stays this benign

Originally posted by Cronnoponno:

The people whining about the game are just butthurt that it's actually a decent game and think Metal Gear shouldn't be in the title. Kojima has been done with Metal Gear since Metal Gear Solid 2 and only made more because he was practically forced to as far as I care. No one should be butthurt that Konami wanted to make a survival game with its assets but whatever.

God isn't that the truth. They get so buttblasted over the reusing of the engine and assets. Like, they had all that stuff just laying around no reason to not reuse it. Most of them don't even complain about the real problems like the UI control thats an absolute pain for anyone new to the engine.

[Deathraven13]

Very good, and you gain Sv coins like you do with MB coins in TPP.

[Virtua Sanus]

Unlike how marketing has presented it, the game is actually mostly focused on the single player content. I am enjoying it a ton so far. I really like games like this where you are heavily rewarded for playing in a paced, strategic way. It can be pretty tense if you get cocky!

[Stilgar]

Thank you all for your responses. I think I'll give it a try :)

[Mahogany Vince]

Originally posted by Stilgar:

I'm planning to play this game solo.
How's the game without co-op stuff?

If you like survival games and Metal Gear the single player will probably net you hours of enjoyment, i've got 10 hours invested on just the single player alone

[mdesaleah]

Originally posted by Stilgar:

Thank you all for your responses. I think I'll give it a try :)

If you haven’t played Phantom Pain I’d buy that over Survive

[Grizzled Grizzly]

Originally posted by ;1693788384128884539:

Originally posted by Stilgar:

I'm planning to play this game solo.
How's the game without co-op stuff?

No. It relies to much on grinding, it has microtransactions, and it’s ALWAYS online. When the servers close, the singleplayer can’t be accessed. It also costs $10 just to make more than one character.

No when the servers close, they'll patch it so they aren't needed.