Learn how to recruit allies in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. This guide covers capturing soldiers, special conditions, career effects, and Cyber-Survival strategies.
Walkthrough
- 1Incapacitate enemy soldiers by knocking them out.
- 2Drag the unconscious soldier to a truck or a cardboard box.
- 3Ensure the soldier is brought to safety before they regain consciousness.
- 4After completing or aborting the mission, captured soldiers will be in prison on the Squad Management screen.
- 5From prison, you can view their skills, remove equipment, rename them, or dispose of them.
- 6After a few in-game days, they will join your unit.
- 7Having a soldier with the 'Politician' career in your squad speeds up this recruitment process.
Tips
- Rescuing a captured soldier during a mission will make them join your unit immediately.
- Unique characters have special conditions for recruitment.
- Certain characters like Jonathan, Para-Medic, Python, Raikov, Sigint, Sokolov, Eva, Venus, Teliko, Gene (EU version), and Zero (if you don't own the Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel) can join immediately under specific circumstances.
- Any soldier rescued during a mission, recruited via AP Scan, or through passwords (though only recommended for the GAKO soldier and Zero) can join.
- Soldiers can also join voluntarily through Cyber-Survival.
- Assign equipment to your unit and send them to participate in Cyber-Survival mode via a WLAN point.
- Monitor your unit's condition after 12 hours.
- Analyze battle reports if you lose in Cyber-Survival to identify weaknesses.
- Be cautious in Cyber-Survival, as losing can result in your soldiers being captured.
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