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"Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain is split into two chapters, but soon after release dataminers discovered a title card for a third chapter and a secret nuclear disarmament cutscene. Konami, the game's publisher, hinted that if all nukes in the game (per platform) were disarmed a hidden reward would be unlocked. And so began years of campaigns to rid the game of nukes.


The cutscene was seemingly unlocked for PC players in 2018, though Konami claimed this was an error.

The most recent campaign began at the start of the pandemic where a user called Hung Horse led The Anti-Nuke Gang. Players began ridding FOBs of nukes on the PS3 version of the game - the version with the lowest number.

They seemingly managed to achieve it (July 27, 2020), but months later Konami deemed the group's methods illegitimate.

Why? The Anti-Nuke Gang was just a front for a hacker named Stefferp who was brought in once the group discovered that reaching zero nukes was an impossible task.

That's because nukes belonging to banned accounts cannot be acquired.


So, after all these years, was this all just a marketing ploy to keep players online with the game? Or is it something of a metaphor for the futility of modern warfare?
After all, one of the central themes of the games is Kojima's opposition to nuclear weapons."

(Eurogamer)


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