Learn how to recruit allies in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. This guide covers capturing soldiers, special conditions for unique characters, and the benefits of different soldier careers.
Walkthrough
- 1Capture Soldiers: Incapacitate enemy soldiers (do not kill them).
- 2Transport Captured Soldiers: Drag the unconscious soldier to the truck or a cardboard box.
- 3Prisoner Management: After a mission (completed or aborted), captured soldiers will be in prison. Here you can view their skills, remove equipment, rename them, or dispose of them.
- 4Recruitment: Soldiers will join your unit after a few in-game days. Having a soldier with the 'Politician' career speeds this up.
- 5Immediate Recruitment: Certain actions and characters lead to instant recruitment:
- Rescuing a captured soldier during a mission.
- 6Fulfilling special conditions for Unique Characters.
- 7Recruiting via AP Scan.
- 8Using specific passwords (e.g., for the GAKO soldier or Zero if you don't own the Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel).
- 9Soldiers joining voluntarily through Cyber-Survival.
Tips
- Soldier Careers: Each soldier has a career that provides specific benefits and determines the best unit to assign them to. For example, 'Athlete' increases movement speed in the Infiltration Unit, while 'Politician' makes prisoners join more easily and can be placed in ANY UNIT.
- Cyber-Survival: Use your recruited allies in Cyber-Survival mode via WLAN points. Assign equipment and send them online. Monitor their condition and learn from battle reports if they lose. Be cautious, as losing soldiers in Cyber-Survival can result in them being captured by the enemy. Some soldiers may even join you willingly and provide gifts like the Stealth Camouflage.
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