Metal Gear Solid 1 CQC Question

[rhyno435]

This is probably a noobish question, but I just started playing Metal Gear Solid 1, and I've noticed that when I do a combo on a guard or choke him out, it doesn't actually knock him out. He falls to the ground and I have to hit him a second time to actually knock him out, and by then there's almost always an alert.

Is this just how the game plays, or am I doing something wrong?

And I know I could just use my silenced pistol, but I like playing the Metal Gear Solid games without killing people if I can help it.

 

[shrekfan246]

If you're playing the original Playstation version, and not the Gamecube remake, then you're pretty much SOL.

CQC has never really been the best way to take somebody out, and in the first MGS you don't get any non-lethal weapons (but they were added to the Gamecube remake). [sub]Well, there are stun grenades, but those aren't exactly optimal either.[/sub]

And you'd have a hell of a time trying to get through MGS just using hand-to-hand combat...

 

[rhyno435]

It's the original Playstation version. I guess I'll just keep playing it the way I have been. I haven't used any guns aside from where it's scripted, and I'm at the part where I just escaped the prison/torture area, and it hasn't been too difficult, so hopefully it doesn't get much worse.