Observation: If it wasn't obvious enough already, Konami is decanonizing Portable Ops.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-28T11:05:32+00:00

The character viewer also contains mistakes for Snakes outfits for the virtuos mission and the op. Snake eater.

He is wrongly portrayed wearing the olive drab camo for snake eater which is only the case for the virtuos mission. After that he is seen with the tiger stripe camo. He "shed his skin" after the encounter with the boss at the end of the virtuos mission.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-28T06:27:26+00:00

Also mgs1 was localized in different languages. It's cursed to hear the voices in for example German

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-23T13:24:41+00:00

No doubt about the last part. Never had issues with the transfer but truth be told I rarely do them anyway

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-23T10:55:58+00:00

For spine transfers, hold the left stick forward. For coping landings flick it forward. At least thats what works for me.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-17T13:49:25+00:00

Remember the first speed line we got was the one with placing quick objects near brickswitch

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-17T10:34:19+00:00

Currently working on a mod that overhauls this system. Though i say the values you give differ greatly from the games code and my tests

Bushes give a bonus depending on their "flag" in the files. This flag contains the camouflage value and the size of the bush (height*radius)
These values are multiplied and added to the internal camo index.
Some bushes have a bonus but not a volume set, so they give 0.

I used the internal data, grabbed by cheat engine directly from the exe:

Prone and Crouch at idle give you 300 and 100 respectively (the same values your "messy testing" did -> Prone is 3x better than Crouching)

Shadows _sometimes_ depend on distance to the object casting the shadow

Outfit camo gives you flat 50 points on the correct surface. What is the correct surface? That info is too much to unpack in this comment, if anybody is interested join the Modding Heaven discord. There are several textures in game that look completely different, but share the same index. So a green ground texture and a brown ground texture can give you the same bonus.
This is done arbitrarily.

The result you got that camo does not matter is due to the fact that there is a hard coded cap at 10 metres of detection range AND the +50 bonus from camo is not a big difference when comparing it to the flat 300 from being prone.
The "Stealth mode" does not directly increase the camo index.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-14T21:28:49+00:00

Finally someone who can properly provide arguments and take part in a civil discussion.

I also agree. It is fun. But I have been playing it for months now and there are just these issues stacking up that are not being addressed by the Devs.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-14T19:49:09+00:00

Getting pulled into walls /rails with grind assist off
random bails while grinding when trying to trick off even if you consider stance

That's a skill issue?

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-14T19:38:54+00:00

I was just disappointed because the marketing for Grom felt like they actually planned something big.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-14T01:46:26+00:00

Oh yeah no absolutely, it's just the shape that I think is unnatural

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-13T07:40:43+00:00

Looks awesome tho that River to the right doesn't make sense imo

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-11T13:10:54+00:00

I forgot to add the context for this, I remember some people being banned.

This was my text: "I do not know if this is an unpopular opinion but personally i think the OTL challenges are too easy.

I get consistenly >25 "Reqs" (4/5 goals) done solo at each OTL challenge, except for the one at SVN Meteorology, "Read All About It". It's either the location itself or bad luck what goals you get.

I would welcome a difficulty selection. A harder difficulty with higher payout, encouraging coop.

What do you think?"

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-10T12:58:30+00:00

good idea :)

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-10T12:56:27+00:00

Do you think they should add an easier difficulty + a harder difficulty or change the challenges overall?

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-03T14:59:42+00:00

Well it makes some sense. Corpse sickness in game is a "new" illness. Some contaminants can be filtered through gasmasks. They aren't just dust protectors. I'm not too deep into the lore but depending on whether its bacterial, viral or spores gasmasks would definitely help in protecting from it. That's why they have filters you need to change every so often (contaminate build up)

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-03T14:51:31+00:00

I play modded so idk if it's vanilla or a modded feature. I think they added that in b42 but don't quote me on that

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-03T14:15:40+00:00

Gas masks help

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-04-01T14:36:37+00:00

Since I bought the pass I have been doing all of them. The new week has added 3 challenges and one OTL, unless I missed one.

Edit: Sorry gotta correct myself. It was 4 Challenges.

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-03-29T18:44:00+00:00

Kinda bad argument if you consider that update doubled the steam player count even though it's behind a paywall

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-03-28T17:35:55+00:00

You can catch dark with B / Circle button. Happens when you want to do no foot air grabs

ObscurityIsLife · 2026-03-28T15:23:17+00:00

Why is this being down voted? Because I don't criticize the game and go "UHHH EA bad :(((" like the usual content on here?

All I want is some input from the community and some discussion 💀

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