Metal Gear Solid 5’s infamous nuclear disarmament mission is ‘impossible’, investigation concludes
An investigation into Metal Gear Solid 5’s nuclear disarmament mission, which has seen players attempt to rid the game of nukes for over half a decade, has claimed that completing it is “impossible”.
In a video by Did You Know Gaming, it’s claimed that the goal, which publisher Konami inferred unlocked something special, has been impossible for years. Although the reward, a hidden cutscene, has been datamined, it’s never been viewed legitimately, despite years of fan campaigns to complete the game’s final quest.
Did You Know Gaming also spoke to a group of players known as The Anti-Nuke Gang that claimed to deplete the nuke count on PS3 to zero, however, Konami claimed this was illegitimate.
The group would later reveal that it used hacks to lower the count to zero, and in doing so, discovered that because nukes tied to banned accounts can’t be disarmed, the quest was impossible, something Konami has failed to fix in the 7 years since release.
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The Anti-Nuke Gang, led by a player known as “The Hung Horse” began the quest to lower the nuke count on PS3 to zero at the start of the pandemic but quickly found that doing so via traditional means was virtually impossible, regardless of the bugs present in the game.
Firstly, the game has been out for 7 years and sold very well on PS3 meaning that the number of nukes, although lower than on other platforms, was still significant. Another issue was that players on PS3 were able to easily cheat, adding 16 nukes to their account (something that should take weeks) in a matter of minutes, making abolition extremely difficult.
The Hung Horse stated that despite the group’s efforts, there was a
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