Attention! The prologue is no longer necessary for Chapter 1 / Any% / NG+ runs!

This part starts with a new game and it end when you, finally, can move Snake around “freely”.

• Wait until camera is almost focused and doctor says “Can you hear me” and skip the cutscene.
• Move the camera around and look up when he asks you to (If you accidentally look down, game will flip your camera Y-axis).
• Enter a name and skip the cutscenes whenever you can.
• Selecting your avatar: SELECT → UP → UP → SELECT → LEFT → SELECT (SELECT being the key/ button you use to select in menus. On keyboard and mouse you can use both the space bar and mouse1).
• Skip cutscenes until you start crawling. Just hold forward and skip any cutscenes that happen.

Example by Metsa

This part starts when you gain “free” control of Snake and it ends with the Horse Chase.

• When you finally have “free” control, walk into the room Ishmael is in and start crawling towards the next cutscene trigger before he stops you (as close to him as possible).
• Crawl into the room, skip the cutscene, and hold forward so you trigger the next cutscene immediately.
• Skip the cutscene and crawl into the corridor.
• Skip the cutscene, get up immediately and start moving.
• Wait next to wall until the search light moves away and start walking.
• Don’t hug the wall so when Ishmael catches up with you, he pushes you along the wall instead of going past you.
• Wait for the shooting, start running towards camera and skip the cutscene.
• Walk to the next door, skip the cutscene and hold forwards to keep moving through the people.
• On the last person, skip the cutscene as soon as you notice the camera move.
• Crawl under the beds and stay on the left side and skip the two cutscenes.
• Move to the doorway, crawl into the hallway. Wait and skip the cutscene.
• Press the action button immediately to fix the injury and follow Ishmael to the next door.
• After ishmael opens the door, run in to the left side, and hug the wall.
• Skip the cutscene where you acquire the AM D114, hold back to turn, reload and press sprint to stand up before you can move.
• Sprint to Ishmael and shoot the two guards and run to next door.
• Skip the cutscene, run through the hallway (ignore the guards) and skip the cutscene.
• Try to run outside again but, this time dive into the cutscene trigger (you can dive before the prompt).
• Skip the cutscene and run out.
• Skip cutscenes until you’re on the horseback.

Example by Metsa

You want to keep the Man on Fire close so he only attacks with his projectiles, and doesn’t try to slow you down.

• Shoot the man on fire 1st time when you hear a tree set on fire.
• Whenever he charges an attack, wait some time and shoot him.
• When he gets close, after Ocelots yells about it, wait for about 3 to 4 seconds and shoot him.
• Optimally you want him to hit you once, without slowing you down, to save some time at the scoreboard.
• After your paths diverge you can just chill. The Man on Fire won’t shoot you unless you messed up the pattern in the first part.

Example by Metsa