Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

• You can remap all the controls. You SHOULD remap all the controls. play around with them until they feel less horrible.

• You can rest on the map screen up to 3 times between missions. This is your friend since it lets you heal your units stamina and health and advances spy reports.

• To faster recruit people, have a higher HP guy who knows CQC, and a Mk 22, to an area between multiple people to knock out and then switch off to a Rescuer to drag everyone inside the box radius, and call up the recruiting codec to grab them all. You eventually learn a codec call to summon reinforcements.

• People with uniforms appropriate to certain locations can get ignored by similar looking guards so long as they act normal.

• People you hold up can shake off three items. Deliveryman can send those to the truck instantly.

• There are maps with engineers. You're going to want a ton of them because they are the only way to get more Mk 22s.

• Stamina killing bosses is one condition to recruit them in your party, and it's worth doing it, since they're actually GOOD most of the time.

• Look up a guide to know how to recruit the hidden characters.

• The Spy trait lowers the stats of everyone in his area. Don't recruit people from there. Regular spying requires a lot of the Sense stat from each person and Surveyor opens up more info of the section.