The Metal Gear Solid 5 PS3 denuclearization may have been another hoax

Metal Gear Solid 5 PS3 players hitting quite a feat the other day by achieving consummate and utter denuclearization… or not. Afterward closer inspection, it appears as though this could exist yet another fake positive as many factors put this perceived achievement in a unlike light.

Steff, the account that posted the original "legitimate" denuclearization video, has quite a unique PlayStation profile (as pointed out via DM by Reddit user GatorsNc). Metal Gear Solid 5 is the merely game on their account, which is also simply 4 weeks one-time. And it gets even weirder one time y'all dive into their actual trophies in the game since they don't line up at all.

Non simply is it odd that they haven't done one Side Op or captured a single baby-sit, but they also somehow got the "Accomplished" trophy for doing all of the game's missions on July 1 without getting whatsoever of the individual trophies for completing story missions. This includes the trophy for finishing the prologue.

There are other fishy aspects in the video, likewise. At the iii:16 marking, you tin can meet that the game says they decommissioned exactly a one thousand thousand nuclear weapons. Whether this includes just Steff (as GatorsNc has claimed) or is a cumulative total of the PS3 customs, this is very unlikely for a few reasons. Disposing of a nuke that isn't yours in MGS5 takes a lot of effort, but developing them takes a fair flake of fourth dimension and resource as well: 750,000 GMP, 75,000 fuel resources, l,000 minor metals, and about 24 existent hours in the game.

You can only brand a nuke afterwards Mission 32 as well, which is pretty far into the game, farther limiting any potential nuclear powers. Konami also used to give totals of the nukes on each platform (the page now just redirects to the MGS5 habitation page) and there were nowhere almost a one thousand thousand nukes on all the platforms combined. And according to PSN'south trophy data, only five.9% of PS3 players have even made a nuke to begin with.

Konami also said information technology was "investigating the matter," but has not reported back with a conclusion. However, fifty-fifty if it is another goof past Konami or some outside forces, it's hard not to run into this as annihilation but all the same another faux positive. Given that this cutscene would have played for others upon booting up the game on PS3, it'south suspicious that the only business relationship to upload a video of it would be one surrounded with so many peculiar details.

We've reached out to Steff and will update this article if we get a response.