A Buddy Guide For Dummies

A Quick simple guide for learning 4 Buddies on the game, and how to use them

Welcome

FIRST OF ALL:
If you don't want ANY SINGLE SPOILER ABOUT BUDDY
Then leave this guide!

Do you get 4 buddies but you dont know how to use them?

Do you just want to get it simple, in one sentence, what is this buddy can do to me?

First of all, i am not MGS pro player
i don't play S class all the way, No kill, pure perfect
no no no.

I am purely noob MGS player
Every single mission i always try to sneak. At least no alert.
If something go wrong, then yeah, go loud.

So don't ask me like:

"Duddeee what buddy can help me do achieve S rank all mission???"


This guide is for a new player, learning player, that doesn't know what this buddy do

D Horse

First Buddy

Your "Transportation"

Your "Run away"

Your "Cover"

To understand this horse
Imagine this is a invicible BATMOBILE without GUNS

You use this buddy in the begining of the game

Then you use this buddy if you must go arround Afganistan / Africa without vehicle

This Buddy can be use for scouting enemies base
How?
Just take cover on your horse, enemies will not spot you even on a close range

This buddy can be use for transpoting Hostages

And the most beautiful thing about this buddy
Whenever you feel you need to run away from gunfire / helicopter / mecha
Use this buddy

Well yeah
This is pure transportation Buddy

D Dog

Your free "sonar scanner"

Your "Google" in the battlefield

Your "best friend"

This buddy is very very very VERY useful for finding stuff

Hostage? Use this buddy to locate it
Animals? Use this buddy to sniff it

Once you use this buddy, whenever you go, he will spot the enemies for you just like what you do with your Binoculars

You don't need to check every single corner or blind spot
This Dog can sniff the enemies.

With some upgrades, DD can kill / stun the enemies

very very useful for sneaking mission

DD doesn't block your way, run away, left behind, doing stupid stuff

It's purely smart helpful dog

You will feel save whenever sneaking around the base with this dog

Quiet

This one Buddy is a little bid hard to use

because she can fail your mission instantly

She is your "Sniper"

yeah.

Just sniper.

She do what sniper do

Scout, Kill, Cover.

But

If you give her wrong command, she can alert all the guards in the area.


So how to use her?

First of all:

You must know what you want to do

Once you ariving on the base / outpost / camp

Think!

Do you want to destroy the camp or just sneaking around finding stuff?

If you want to sneaking around
Open your iDroid
Go to Right Tab, Buddy Support
Choose QUIET SCOUT
Then choose the camp

That way, Quiet will find a sniping place, and scout the area for you
She works just like D Dog do, marking the enemies

But
If you want to create distraction, or just to destroy the base
Then choose Quiet Attack
She will start shooting

Remember:
In the begining, Quiet use a sniper WITH NO SUPPRESOR on it

So once you tell her to shoot, every single guard will know and go to alert phase

But you can use it as distraction

This buddy is very usefull to scout a huge complex of base
Or for a distraction for you to sneak around

D Walker

Your "Tank"
Your "Loud Horse"
Your "Moving Machine Gun"

This Walker is like an update for D Horse

If D Horse is useful for sneaking around, this Walker is use for do some crazy stuff

Put some machine gun / rockets on it, you can destroy one base with ease

Or you must kill someone on vehicle? Use this Buddy for your transportation

It can walk, it can use it wheels and speed up.

This Buddy can be your cover too.

This buddy is soo perfect for a mission with Tanks / Armored Vehicles / Armored Soldier on it

But if you want to play MGS with pure stealth

dont use this buddy.
Use horse / d dog instead

Extra Top Tips From : fudgepucker69
DW isn't a straight upgrade to DH, but DW has different uses. DH is a lot more flexible to your play style, you can use any weapon that you can weld while riding. Another important note is that you can get off of DH a lot easier, this is VERY IMPORTANT, it makes taking out vehicals in motion so much more easier, because all you have to do is shoot it in the back to make them brake, jump off your horse, and fulton it all in one motion, with DW you have that rolling animation of you jump off wasting time. DW plays by its own rules rather than following your playstyle. The main benifit to using DW over DH for moving around the map is no fall damage. I have died more times on 'Back up, Back down' to racing off of a cliff on DH than any other way. DW can fall 1000 meters and not even take a scratch.

FREQUENT:Y ASKED QUESTIONS

So okay, lets just begin

Q: Can buddy die?
A: Yes sure, you will lost some friendship with that buddy, especially if they died because of you.
For example: Blowing C4 beside your Dhorse
Or shooting Quiet

Q: What happen if buddy die?
A: For my experience with Quiet. I left here getting shot at some base, and i just doing nothing
watch and watch

Quiet using her "sleeping" sniper without suppresor
She got shoot soo many times (Plus some Gunship)
Then eventualy, Miller / Ocelot will tell you that Quiet taking a massive damage
She will automaticly fultoned to the base
And you left with no one.
Give it 1 to 10 minutes, she can be deployed again

Same thing happen with your Support Helicopter

That Piquod guy, can be killed in action too
But after you pay 80k GMP, it can be automaticly deploy again. And it called Piquod again

Q: I heard that Quiet can leave you in the end of the game? Is that true?
A: There are tons of these type of thread on the steam comunity
Use your ultimate search machine, Google.
What i know is
If you use Butterfly logo on your emblem, the mission that Quiet leave you will not trigger

Q: What is your best ultimate Buddy?
A: For me? Quiet
Yeah yeah i know she makes the game soo easy.
Especially if you give her Sinfull Butterfly (Most powerful sniper)
She can headshot armored enemies in one bullet

But for stealth mission without any alarm, i choose D Dog

Q: What happen if you never use one type of buddy. Does he / she / it will angry and lower your bond?
A: No
I used D Horse only 5 --> 7 missions, then i got 3 bonds.
I didn't use D Horse until mission 30++
The bond still on 3


Q: Does using D Walker will increase your bond?
A: No. It's a f*cking machine

Q: How to change Ddog fur colour?
A: Max his bond, and you can cuztomize him

Q:Can i make Quiet go... quiet? Her humming is sooo annoying
A: No. But her humming can be your ultimate help

Whenever you heard her humming some noise
it can be 2 meaning:
1. Hey snake, i found some enemy, what should i do?
2. Hey snake, give me some orders please

Q: If i use Quiet as buddy, i can choose to say "Quiet", but she doesnt say anything. What happen?
A: If you say "Quiet" to her, and she is near your area, your camera will pan on her location.
If you near her, and see her, then you say "Quiet", she will see you and giving you Thumbs up!

Q: D Horse... can.... defecate... what the ****?
A: It actually can be use as strategy

If you tell D Horse too dump on the road
Just wait for an enemy truck / jeep passing through
it will be spin arround and all the passenger will be stuned
You can easly fulton it

I never tried it with Tank / Armored vehicle. You guys should try it

Q: How to get Ddog?
A: In the begining mission after you extract Miller (first mission on Afgan)
You will given 3 another easy main mission

I played this game twice from the begining
and i always got Ddog from side mission that you must extracting russian intrepeter
I always choosed night deployment (18:00)
And always on the same location (i don't remember how many deployment location)

After you drop from your helicopter, wait. Dont do anything
Just wait wherever you are.
You will see small tiny dog approaching you.
Miller will say something, and you can just fulton it to the base

After that just do some side ops / main ops , then go back to the base, again and again
Base --> ops --> base --> ops
There are 3 cutscenes will happen about Ddog
1. When the first time Ddog on the mother base
2. When Ddog getting big and Ocelot (or Miller i don't remember) will say "soon Ddog can help you on the field"
3. When Ddog ready to be your buddy and get inside your helicopter with you

[BigolDoinks.223]

do you remember when club penguin is kil

[$anada]

good and funny guide

[.Nitro]

Also would losing Quiet have anything to do with Chlorine or Chlorine disinfectant

[.Nitro]

Just got to the cutscene where you try to extract the burning mans dead body and he wakes up and i was hoping he would be on this list

[DannyJohnson757]

The French Potato: |When You Complete Mission #10

[EntropicMalevolence]

Around mission 10 is when d-dog should mature but depending on which order you play the missions and if you dont return to mother base after every mission, it may happend later.

[Calamari]

how long does it take for d-dog to mature? cause its been a pretty long time for me

[Balthor]

Thanks for adding how to get D-Dog and how to make him grow! P.S: D-Walker is stealthier than D-Horse! It makes less noise when moving, and it's a tiny bit smaller. Sure, you can't pass right next to some guards looking directly at it while hiding behind it, but you can sneak behind anything and tranq it or kill it. Use it at night and as long as you keep away from lights or the enemies direct line of sight, you'll be much harder to notice than when on horse. Emmerich may be a traitor, kinda , but he has his shit together for making robots.

[RoyalFox]

Thank you all for the wonderful advice.

[NichoZefanya]

I added some FAQS for your basic question about Buddy. Hope it helps :P