MGSV:TPP Soviet Guard Smoke Break Conversations

The little conversations and "break behavior" of the guards in MGSV:TPP are fun to watch. I still remember when I thought the guards taking a lunch break in Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold was fascinating. As it turns out, the Russian guards have a favorite smoke break location at the power plant parking lot. If you visit the location multiple times, you'll get different conversations, an interesting mix of real-world history and MGS fiction. I'm sure there may be more? It's cool watching their body language while smoking, it almost looks like watching people really take a 2-minute smoke break at work. So far I've seen eleven different ones, which I recorded here:
1. Hind Gunships in Afghanistan
2. Fossil Fuels and Capitalists
3. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
4. Casualties in the Afghan War
5. Surveillance Cameras
6. Ukraine
7. Decoy Balloons
8. Soviet Ethnic Propaganda Posters
9. Big Boss in Afghanistan
10. Use of D-Mines to Replace Boots on the Ground
11. MLRS/Katyusha Rocket Launchers

[@juanjoalbertez103]

Conversations are indeed very funny. Many of them are related to the enemy response system. For example, if your headshot preparedness is high, the guards will talk about getting helmets. If your fulton response is high, they will talk about them seeing strange balloons that make soldiers disappear and so on. Also, you can hear your own soldiers at mother base talking to game-related events, such as the parasite disease, Emmerich, D Dog, Quiet. I even heard two girls talking about "Team Ocelot" and "Team Miller." A great touch from Kojima definitely.

[@sidekickdanieldg]

Very cool I wasn't aware of that! I've basically been at the point where I just free roam now looking to listen to conversations and smoke breaks hahah

[@juanjoalbertez103]

If that's what you enjoy, go for it. What's great about this game is that you can do almost anything you want. I remember when I first got it, I used to play mostly on free roam myself, but in my case, it was basically because I sucked at Missions, hahah. You can get valuable info from those conversations. If you hear the one that goes, "Have you heard the stories of lone operative sneaking in the area", that means that you are just a rumor, they don't know who you are, who sent you or why you're there. So if they spot you, they will react more slowly and won't have great firepower or enough radios and you can get away fairly easily. But if you keep triggering combat alerts, their talks will change, "They say that the man sneaking in the area is Bog Boss" or something like that. Now they know who you are. That means that if you're spotted, they will react quicker and they'll have greater fire power, etc. Same goes for fulton, if the preparedness is low or mid, you will hear, "Many soldiers have been disappearing..." and they will take longer to shoot the ballon. If it is high, they will know Big Boss is behind it and will shoot the ballon right away. I could go on, but I don't want to make it any longer that it already is, hahah. Sorry.

[@sidekickdanieldg]

That's awesome, thank you for the insight on that, I didn't know that. I kind of miss some of the elements from the older games, like in MGS3 when you knock out the food they start walking around saying "I'm so hungry, I haven't eaten in days" and eventually get to the point where they start shooting at lower ranking soldiers and making them dance for entertainment. That or MGS4 where if you use emotion rounds or the inhibitor on PMCs, each combat alert makes them progressively less emotionally stable. I used to spend hours in the Central America mission in MGS4 making all the guards go nuts. I also miss MGS2 where the HQ dispatcher would say, "Why are you LATE making your status report?" and as you ratchet up the chaos both the guards and the radio dispatcher get more emotional. "He got another one! We need to find this bastard, NOW!" haha

[@juanjoalbertez103]

Agree 100%. Number 6 is Chernobyl, right?

[@sidekickdanieldg]

I'm not sure; he was talking about "ZATOs" (zakrytye administrativno-territorial'nye obrazovaniya; closed administrative-territorial formations) which were basically secret towns built around top secret projects. It sounds like Chernobyl because of the tongue in cheek reference to the party line of Soviet reactors being safe, but it's hard to tell. MGS games are notorious for throwing around words but not necessarily using them in proper context. To keep track of MGS you have to automatically assume with each sequel or prequel the world as you previously knew it is out the door and different for the latest retcon canon. I'm still wondering though how it's possible that in MGS 1 through 4, Ocelot/Liquid Ocelot is basically a narcissistic sociopath, but in MGS5 he basically turns into a clone of late 2000s acting career Brad Pitt, where he's an ENFJ Myers-Briggs personality type, doing things like patting little kids on the shoulders, coaching Diamond Dogs members like a JV football coach, and best of all, being the sane level-headed one while Kaz is basically the maniac. There's also the aspect of how Ocelot hates French in TPP, but he speaks it so eloquently in 1-4 lol

[@wortenheimmer]

The more you listen to them, the more you realise they're just doing their jobs

[@0Jsays]

True..but the "splatch" sound from a lethal headshot is better

[@EthanDyTioco]

@@0Jsays i only kill the troublemakers :p

[@ahabrawgaming1289]

Doesn't mean you should be sweet to them. I'm doing my job as well

[@skell6134]

@@ahabrawgaming1289 Game gives you option to do job in non-lethal way,so do it dammit XD

[@spotlight9269]

@@ahabrawgaming1289 Your job is to eliminate a target, not an entire base, so

[@Dartjuk]

3:12 "Ne Karkat'"(не каркать/не каркай) can be translated as "no cawing". In this context "cawing" means "jinx or attracting disaster". There is a believe in russian culture, that if you assume bad things will happen out loud, you jinx yourself and increase chance of it actually happen. This solder assume that he will die next. There is also believed, that if you already croaked, to prevent disaster you need to knock on wood 3 times and spit over the left shoulder also 3 times.

[@janusznosacz4914]

In polish we got sth very simmilar

[@Tokio2425]

Oh shoot we have jinxing in the USA too! We knock on wood 3 times as well

[@thatonefpsgamer1339]

​@@Tokio2425ngl I read this too fast and thought it said knocked up wood

[@andrissanta9905]

In Hungarian culture too

[@jankemjunkie6564]

I’ve been ADDICTED to this game for about 4 weeks now. I haven’t played anything else and I regret nothing.

[@Big-BossX]

Try 7 years hahaha

[@doan4534]

This game is still a masterpiece, I bought it this month and started to play it and damn it's a very great game. I feel get bored about the AI when playing another game after MGS V. One of the best AI system I've ever seen, guards and enemies felt real.

[@skumomcbee1255]

Soviet soldiers just wanted to go home, when they got back people just ignored them... less so than Vietnam but.. dang.

[@themissingpeace7956]

Afghanistan was the Soviet Union's Vietnam

[@extremelyjuicy6034]

@@themissingpeace7956 well 2 Months ago

[@JayV98]

The big difference is that the Soviets asked to intervene by the Afghanistan government against CIA backed rebels the Mujahideen. They never did it to take Afghanistan.

[@Atomicus_]

@@JayV98 yeah the Afghanistan Government that was implemented by soviets/commies, go figure. It's all the same imperialistic agenda, just different flags and ideology.

[@BadassName17]

The Lieutenant Colonel that didn’t launch the nuke was named Stanislav Petrov. Unlike the game, he actually wasn’t rewarded but he was not punished as well. As a result of the incident, the Russian Federation put in place a system to confirm an attack.

[@13_BlackBurn]

His reward was not getting punished.

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

4:22 the guys relative is stationed near a ukrainian nuclear power plant? wooh boy that aint gonna end well.

[@trackernivrig]

Yeah I caught that one too lol

[@pihlajafox]

Da da our glories reactor's are mutch better and safer than those those western imperialists, capitalist evil reactor's

[@Smelly556]

@@pihlajafox hmm yes especially the soviet reactor in chernobyl. I heard it's so safe it's the bomb

[@GoogIe_sheets]

@@Smelly556 it may be blue but it’s the bomb

[@iamjacksennui]

I liked those historical tidbits in the game. One soldier also mentions the Korean airliner that was shot down although he doesn't mention details.

[@MackSackDaDomo]

I like the convo with the Zero Risk Security driver at the airport during Traitor's caravan "is the rumor true that anyone that looks under the truck's canvas gets possessed?"😲 "do not look under the canvas"🗿

[@_info1167]

Pretty interesting how they call the afghans "Dushmani". Nice video btw

[@KOTYAR0]

It's from afghan or tajik word for "enemy" They are still called that sometimes, but word lost negative connotations

[@nebuweed]

same in romanian, we say "dușman" or "dușmani" (plural)

[@cesargonzalez4146]

@@Just_another_Euro_dude Maybe adopted during the centuries of conflict with the ottoman empire in the Balkans, the turks have their origin in Central Asia, from there they gradually migrated or were extracted during the Umayyad and Abbasid Islamic dynasties as slave soldiers and conscripts.

[@arsaland9301]

@@KOTYAR0 afghan and tajik are races and accents. Both races talk persian (parsi/farsi). Now persian has diffrent forms such as pashto and dari and some other. Its probably because both countries (plus azarbaijan, armenia, gorjestan and kurdish areas) were parts of Iran and with the start of the modern history of Iran, started a dark age in the country and those areas splited with the will of russia and england.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

It means "enemy" in Hindi

[@fongie8948]

damn, that guy in a vest ruined his lungs

[@imadrifter]

He could be killed in any instant so 🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬

[@BadassName17]

They smoke like 1000 a day, so I wouldn’t doubt it.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

compared to his occupational hazards as a Soviet conscript unlucky enough to be deployed to Afghanistan and probably born in European USSR in the mid-60s, honestly the cigarettes are a negligible contributor to his life expectancy.

[@fongie8948]

@@youmukonpaku3168 I heard that many Soviet men smoked cotton so their lungs would be destroyed and they wouldn't be fit for service

[@yudishundomo3996]

4:52 Anatoly dyatlov approved

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

These have to be some of the most fluent Russian-speaking voice actors I've ever heard

[@hammerbro1947]

6:32 The rumors about Big Boss/Venom Snake Maybe if the player killed many enemies in a short period of time.

[@ajackxe4891]

I have never killed anyone after Episode 4 but i still heard the conversation, so i doubt it

[@tomjackjack960]

@@ajackxe4891 kill or extract some soldiers is enough to trigger it

[@hammerbro1947]

@@ajackxe4891 With missing comrades, I guess their mates presumed them dead.

[@forestmanzpedia]

I guess it depends how many times you got spotted?

[@zues2011]

“Optical Camouflage, can’t you even die right?”

[@justananimefan495]

I like this conversation in game. Also after hearing one of that, I always couldn't go lethal. Anyway, I was doing everything non-lethal

[@iamjacksennui]

Going lethal all the time is actually kinda stupid since it ruins many things for yourself or make it unnecessarily difficult: you miss out on getting quality soldiers, ruin your rank during a mission, and the outposts step up their defenses.

[@severussin]

@@iamjacksennuiyou can go silent and lethal scanning and fultoning the guys with good stats and killing the guys who have bad stats Lethal doesn’t mean causing an alert

[@iamjacksennui]

@@severussin true. I played the game a few more times and, after getting fairly decent, I started to notice you don't always need asb perfect frickin stealth for that beloved "S"

[@Monkey-King]

Now I feel like having a smoke...

[@imadrifter]

Same

[@Smelly556]

3:09 Is it bad to say that id pop from the corner and shoot him as soon as he said that?

[@warmwater8498]

I'd pop his head like a fucking zit as soon as I could if I caught him saying that Then I'd fulton a few sheep and put some mice in my pocket to balance out the evil of killing him

[@cumcer6140]

Nothing to be ashamed of, irony gets the better of us all

[@JerkInci]

he didn't knock on wood, you're free to go!

[@drkinferno72]

Got afrikaans conversations?

[@Sushi-dt2rk]

Ah yes i love Stealth Camo PeePee

[@midorifox]

1:40 oh, they're referring to Stanislav Petrov. It's an interesting read.

[@downeyrd4869]

Bruh idk but i guess im the one that not kill all of em doing side opps or just replaying the mission i just make em' down not to kill i feel bad if im kill of em' after hear all those random conversations , 😅

[@AxelCross]

0:52 Don't tell John Wick that.

[@mateusmascarenhas5824]

I love how after talking they almost immediately starts to smoke

[@aliekexie8467]

Why did they sub it ''Ne karkat when they could have used Dont jinx it''

[@rootkit4865]

Poor guys don't realize that soon they will be smoking on Mother Base, ALL OF THEM

[@xim__13.]

2:30 they watch aot 😂

[@trackernivrig]

Lol of course

[@atomicspartan131]

Awwww nooooooo xD I haven’t watched the new season yet

[@trackernivrig]

@@atomicspartan131 Oh no!!! So sorry for the spoilers! But you should definitely watch the new season it’s so good.

[@syphon_9892]

What is aot ?

[@trackernivrig]

@@syphon_9892 AoT is short for Attack on Titan. It’s an anime. The final season is airing now.

[@mysteranonymous7773]

They aren’t wrong about Islamic extremist the problem with their operations is that Afghanistan was made by lot of tribes it was like civil war affair but normalized Kremlin was targeting indiscriminately

[@dannydorito2954]

Now, I understand learning a language is very hard. Russian probably even more so. But I wish their was something that began to change the English subs into Russian subs as you the player began learning the language as well. Of course it'd be optional. Someone shouldn't HAVE to learn another language just to enjoy the game but listening to Russians (or other natives) talking long enough it would have been neat to actually learn some of the language. Like a real soldier deployed to these places. People dont just start speaking Russian because they show up. The soldiers learn the language instead. Also as online gamers we're constantly put face to face with people who may not understand our language and vice versa. Would be nice if a game with a topic like MGS would jumps start those who may not have taken the time to learn another language by giving them some foreknowledge on the subject besides "VOCAL CORD PARASITE ATTACK SOUND" IDK rant over.

[@nutball3756]

The Russian they speak in the game isn't actualy Russian, I think.

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername]

Well the whole having to deal with getting a translator is much more than what most games will do, although I do think that getting a translator should've been harder than just finding one in an outpost during a mission

[@randomstuffprod.]

@@nutball3756 it is. Source: I'm Russian

[@nutball3756]

@@randomstuffprod. Did you ever bother getting a Russian interpreter for MB? (Also real Russian language or not, I don't think MGSV's story is long enough - at least the parts with the Soviets - to where you'd be able to learn Russian, you'd need to play for quite a long time on free roam + all missions featuring the Soviets)

[@randomstuffprod.]

@@nutball3756 yeah, because during interrogation they talk gibberish, so that Russian speakers had to get an interpreter

[@insertgoodchannelnamehere]

6:32 I got this convo when I was doing a pacifist run. Had killed no-one up to that point. Kinda took me out of it.

[@internetguy2760]

The soldiers that you take are presumed dead since they’re never seen again, and a lot of them are taken without a trace of where they could’ve gone. When the soldiers are discussing the rumour of Venom Snake’s presence, they haven’t seen Venom Snake firsthand, they only hear the reports of sightings and entire outposts being emptied out.

[@youmukonpaku3168]

also, there are other places where people *have* been dying, and where Snake (or a DD soldier) has potentially been seen. Quiet's killing people until you get close, and who knows what Skull Face did around OKB Zero, which the Soviets built but which has an anglophone garrison with American accents when you get there, not Soviet disguised XOF agents.

[@DracorusDracius]

1:24 conversation is a reference to MGS Peacewalker

[@maroonring]

No this actually happened in real life.

[@SharpForceTrauma]

A real life event that was also referenced in Peace Walker, actually

[@maplemaple1439]

@@SharpForceTrauma yep, iirc (could be wrong) Coldman used this as his evidence that "deterrence theory" didn't work, since not everyone would be willing to send a nuke back when getting attacked. Whether it's because they simply are unwilling to kill that many people in a futile attempt at revenge, or because they don't want to be known as the one responsible. Because of this, Coldman believed that he could assert US dominance without pushback. (Note that Zadornov's plan was different)

[@BadassName17]

It happened for real, the man that didn’t launch it was Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov.

[@dogestranding5047]

“Capitalist imperialists!” - Say the ground forces occupying another nation for the Soviets.

[@avecaesar617]

Afghan government asked for help from Soviet troops in defense against "Dushmans" - Islamic militants

[@Americansikkunt]

Ahh, but the Soviet soldiers here were “Communist Imperialists”!

[@matthewjones39]

@Dakyn Yeah, the invasions that happened over 20 years after this game takes place.

[@ArakiSatoshi]

The way Kojima Productions portrayed the Iron Curtain is actually spot on. Sometimes when you hear these lines you can't help but think "are they stupid?", but when you think that these are still Soviet troops, you get reminded where the lack of awareness is coming from.

[@user-if9ee8gz4g]

Game name?

[@BigNutts21]

Sex with hitler

[@13_BlackBurn]

Legend of the Zelda: Breath of the Wild

[@WahtheSkel]

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

[@tolikhab8280]

ооо опять плохие русские , понятно....

[@warmotion864]

Нет, это Афганистан. Это Советские солдаты.

[@tolikhab8280]

@@warmotion864 это конечно сильно меняет картину)

[@egosdragonis6149]

Ну тут они не такие уж и плохие. Антагонисты и противники, да. Но всё же не COD: MW 2019

[@Trigger-chan]

Действительно, мы никогда не на кого не нападаем, это все пропаганда капиталистических свиней.

[@tolikhab8280]

@@Trigger-chan не, иногда мы голос миллионов, которых не услышали. Скоро услышат.