Items provide crucial support, healing, and tactical advantages during missions. Managing your inventory effectively is key to survival.

- Ration: Restores a small amount of health and stamina. Essential for prolonged missions.
- Instant Noodle: Restores a moderate amount of health and stamina.
- Life Medicine: Fully restores health. Rare and valuable.
- Cardboard Box: Classic Metal Gear stealth item. Hides you from enemy sight. Can be used to move undetected.
- Smoke Grenade: Creates a cloud of smoke, obscuring enemy vision and allowing for escape or repositioning.
- Chaff Grenade: Disrupts electronic devices like security cameras and radars.
- Magazine: Can be thrown to create a distraction, drawing enemy attention.
- Binoculars: Essential for scouting ahead, identifying enemy patrols, and marking targets.
- Night Vision Goggles (NVG): Allows you to see in dark environments.
- Thermal Goggles: Detects heat signatures, useful for seeing enemies through walls or in smoke.
- Stealth Camo: Renders you almost completely invisible. Extremely rare and powerful, often a late-game unlock.
Always carry a good supply of healing items and tactical items that suit the mission's environment and objectives. check for hidden items on maps.
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