The Weirdest Speedrun Strategy Find of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel

Описание: Context: While routing New Game+ RNG Manipulation for Metal Gear Ac!d 2, I noticed an interesting bit of flavor text for Metal Gear Gander+ (Card 447). Lo and behold, a completely different game released half a decade later tells us a valuable speedrun strategy.

Strategy: I use the same positioning for both the alert strategy and stealth strategy, throwing a grenade to the left at the tile line above the guard's head. This guard appears on all difficulties besides Easy. After throwing the grenade, either run diagonally on alert, or KO the guard and make a break for it.

Value: During the Metal Gear fight, most grenades are thrown at Metal Gear's machine guns, yielding chip damage of 1 HP. When tossed at the end of the fight at the flamethrower, the grenade deals 4 HP. By throwing a grenade on Floor 99 in Stage 11, we get a free flamethrower hit/save 3 grenades from chip damage. You can also do this on Floor 98 to get an additional 4 damage, but waiting out the alert to get on the elevator is too slow to be worthwhile.

A small bonus on Stage 11 for Any% Normal, Hard and Very Hard - around 40 frames saved compared to the old strategy of knocking out the guard.

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