Thanks to the group's coordination, initial progress was quick, with PS3 nuke counts dropping from over 800 on July 10 to below 100 in under a week, according to the GitHub scraper. 'Teaming up brought that fun back, I suppose.' 'This time it was like a 'right, let's just get this done' mentality, maybe because the game is nearing its fifth anniversary,' Stefferp told Ars.

'We all disarmed at the same time during this past month so we wouldn't have to worry about people bringing the numbers back up to what they used to be,' TheHungHorse said. Both Konami's official counts (which the company stopped publicly updating years ago) and unofficial counts via a GitHub server scraper show historical disarming progress either long-stalled or actively going backward over time, depending on the platform and server (the PS4 and Steam versions of the game are still far from full disarmament as of this writing).Įventually, 20 or so hardcore disarmers started a group direct-message chain to coordinate their efforts and schedules.

There, players would join together to discuss raiding the Forward Operating Bases of nuclear-armed opponents on MGSV's online servers in order to steal and then disarm those weapons to lower the total worldwide count.īut interest from disarmers has been sporadic, and the effort has faced sustained opposition from self-interested players who are encouraged to create nuclear weapons as a form of in-game protection and deterrence. Organized MGSV nuclear-disarmament efforts have been going in fits and starts for years, first via the now-defunct Metal Gear Philanthropy subreddit and more recently in the MetalGearAntiNuclear subreddit. Now, the excited players behind the disarmament are waiting to see if Konami will officially acknowledge their achievement and perhaps unlock some long-hinted-at new content for the five-year-old game.

This week, players on the PS3 version of MGSV seemed to reach that long-sought goal, unlocking a cut scene congratulating them on a day that character Master Miller says he 'thought. Further Reading The worldwide effort to disarm Metal Gear Solid V’s nuclear weaponsNearly five years have passed since Konami started Metal Gear Solid V's nuclear-disarmament metagame, tasking the game's community with removing every single nuclear weapon created by players on the game's servers.

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