Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

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Rescue

Rescue

In the "Ground Zeroes" mission, rescued the prisoner to be executed and extracted him via chopper

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How to unlock the Rescue achievement in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - Definitive Guide

This achievement is attained during the "Ground Zeroes" mission. You will need to rescue the prisoner that is brought out to be executed close to the first area of the map, however, they will not be there from the spawn and will only appear later on during the mission after rescuing Chico from the prison camp.

This prisoner can be found in the area just down the hill and to the left of the initial starting location, and they will be accompanied by 3+ guards which you will need to take down. After clearing them out, you'll want to pick up this prisoner, call in the chopper using the menu, and extract them before returning to the mission, unlocking the achievement.

It is not recommended to pair this achievement this an S Rank walkthrough.
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19 Mar 2014 05:25

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I can confirm you can get this as soon as the mission starts. The prisoner is just sitting somewhere in the first camp down the hill (from starting position). I simply picked him up, extracted him and achievement unlocked. No need to wait for the scenario to start!
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By BLAZE VII on 19 Mar 2014 16:56
^ Agreed, I just got the achievement today by finding him there by accident, when I play it again I want to check out the scenario.
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By BigNev44 on 30 Mar 2014 01:12
Co-sign Blaze VII, I too went over to the camp site with no enemies present. The prisoner was just sitting there and I picked him up, called the chopper and boom, chevo unlocked. If it's worth anything I initially triggered a shoot out when started the game up with dude moving the light on the tower.
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By Ninja Scroll on 08 Jun 2014 20:13
I also went to the prisoner at the start of the mission, got him collected and continued, waited 2-3 minutes, nothing. Checked smart glass and the Rescue achievement is listed as 100% progressed but still locked so I'm lost!. I suppose I should reinstall the game or something.....
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By EmperorFatty7 on 22 Jul 2014 01:46
I can also confirm the prisoner is there from the start, and actually easier to get to before getting Chico as there are only two guards (one elevated, and another making a patrol around a much wider parameter). He is in the tent in the corner furthest away from you starting location.
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By a Fi1thy Casual on 17 Mar 2015 13:12
Did it right at the beginning, achievement unlocked after putting prisoner on the helicopter.
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By BruteForce0G on 15 Aug 2015 18:08
How is this top solution? Clearly not the easiest or most efficient.
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By keyhole69 on 21 Aug 2015 14:54
haha so true.

I just got the cheevo on 360 and it's way easier to rescue the prisoner without going to Chico in the first place.
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By Marcos Aspira on 29 Nov 2015 15:13
This solution is rubbish and should not be in the top. Deceiving waste of time!
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By WarIsComingHome on 16 Jan 2017 23:20
Thanks for the video. Took me forever to find this guy. facepalm
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By Brave Tanuki on 24 Feb 2022 23:58
I guess I'll be the sixth person to say that you can get the prisoner from the very beginning. He's easy to just walk past though, so take your time looking for him underneath one of the shelters in the refugee camp in the western area of the map, just to the left of the locked gate at the beginning of where you start.
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By Moozipan Cheese on 06 Jun 2015 19:50
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This achievement is easy. As soon as you load up the mission take out the guy in the light house straight in front of you. Then proceed left through the gate in front of you. There will be a guy on the road who starts talking to another, wait a min or so the he will walk away and take the guy still there out. Then just to the left will be another light house, take this guy out then all you need to form here is take the prisoner to the LZ.
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30 Mar 2014 01:36

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The best solution for this chievo. I followed it and got the achievement in a few minutes.
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By Bernman 117 on 20 Aug 2015 20:55
Written by my friend Rave Monkey87 i am posting it becase it wouldnt let him

The prisoner who you need to rescue is in a ditch with tents near the beginning of the mission, right after the first locked fence. Before going to the fence, take out the guard in the guard tower who is shining a spotlight, by going to the right of it and up some rocks. Shoot him with your silent pistol and proceed crouched to the locked fence. Wait for a jeep and a truck to both pass to your left. The two guards by the fence will separate. When the truck disappears off of your map (if you identified it with your binoculars) open the fence. Push through gently and proceed to the left to a red and white barrel. There will be a guard around the corner to the right. Put him to sleep. Pick up his body and put it in the booth diagonally to the left. Climb the guard tower next to it and wait for the guard up there to finish speaking on the walkie then melee him (R trigger). Take over the spotlight and aim it to the left by the outhouses and you can see the prisoner who you need to rescue. At this point, if u have done everything I have written you should be able to pick up the prisoner (hold B button) and re-trace your steps back to the beginning cliff you started at. Call in your helicopter right away to said cliff (start button, menu index, third option down, SW landing zone on the map) as it takes a minute or so to arrive. Put the prisoner on the chopper (Hold B) and the achievement should unlock.
Sorry for the long solution, but it's my first time writing a solution for TA and I felt it would be better to explain everything than to be vague and have several questions asked. Good luck and happy hunting...
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25 Mar 2014 18:11

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Good guide. Explained simply. :)
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By Mad Hectic on 03 Apr 2014 20:05
Send a message to Rave Monkey, link above, he wasn't able to post it so I did
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By Iceberg082006 on 03 Apr 2014 21:14
This guide is the proper one to do this achievement correctly. Thank you!
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By RandomAlec on 11 Mar 2023 22:22
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A little more stealthier way to the achievement . Reminder the achievement will pop during mission you don'tsmile have to finish mission unless you want the cassette tape you get for doing so
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21 Mar 2014 05:05

I can confirm that this prisoner is in the camp to the left of where you start at the beginning of the mission - you do not need to rescue Chico first, or do anything interesting or unique to make this guy available for rescue.

And it is actually easier if you make this guy your first priority at the start of the mission for two reasons:
1.) He is right there, so no backtracking required.
2.) If you get him first, you only have two stationary guards to deal with in that camp (one in the watchtower, the other standing in front of the camp entrance below the watchtower). If you save Chico pr Paz first, and then go for this guy, you will have 3+ guards circling the prisoner within varying parameters. If you are going for stealth, this will cause additional, and unecessary, difficulty.

Here is what you need to do:

STEP 1: Start the mission.
STEP 2: Take out out the guard in the watchtower directly in front of you.
STEP 3: Wait for the two guards on the other side of the fence to finish talking, and start their respective patrols.
STEP 4: unlock the gate, and neutralize the guard that took off to the left (hide the body).
STEP 5: Continue left on the road until you can make visual confrimation of the guard standing in front of the entrance to the small encampment. Take him out (don't worry about his body).
STEP 6: To save ammo, I would advise simply climbing the watchtower and choking the guard out. No need to worry about his body either.
STEP 7: Go down into the encampment, and turn left. The tent at the corner from where you came in has the prisoner in question. Pick him up.
STEP 8: Press cn_start and call in your chopper to rendezvous where you started the mission.
STEP 9: Get to the chopper (backtrack the way you came into the mission).

The achievement will pop once he is in the chopper, however I would advise continuing the mission from there. If you remain out of the enemies line of sight, as well as not kill anyone, and rescue all the prisoners in Chico's area while keeping all this under ~40 mins (with next to no retries - i.e. checkpoint abuse), then the S Rank is yours.

If you want the S rank, I found going after Paz first made it easier for me. Getting Chico first increases the concentration of guards around Paz, and vice versa. I had less difficulty with increased numbers around Chico simply because they were all out in the open (much easier to mark, track, and neutralize wink).

Questions, corrections and neg vote justifications below.
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23 Mar 2015 13:48

Difficulty: Easy

First mission, Ground Zeroes. There's a bit of confusing information out there about what you need to do. Basically you can get this in under 2 minutes following this Youtube video below. The hostage is at the start. No luck required, very easy.

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05 Sep 2015 22:38

Really easy.

1- As soon as the mission starts, select the pistol gun (push down on the D-pad cn_down) and do not change it again until the end of the mission.

2- Fall down and wait for the searchlight to move pass your spot then sprint forward hugging the wall on your right towards the man in the watch tower BUT STOP RUNNING BEFORE you move too close to him. Aim at his head (headshots with the pistol gun put enemies to sleep right away) and shoot him.

3- Turn to your left. Pick either one of the 2 guys that are talking beyond the gate. You are going to need to perform 2 headshots here through the gate and in a short amount of time, the second of which will be during a few seconds of slow motion.

4- After they're both down, pick the lock at the gate and once you open it bring their bodies behind cover.

5- Now, go through the gate again, to the left. Fall down into the pit and start moving behind the tents towards this other watch tower. Before putting the guy in the tower to sleep though, you will have to deal with a guy that is guarding the tents. If he sees you you will have a few seconds again to shoot him in slow motion. Then climb the tower and put the watcher to sleep by pressing the cn_RT once you are close enough of him and then mashing the cn_RT (the other options are to press cn_Y to kill him or cn_LB to demand information, neither of which interests us right now).

6- Once all of the above enemies are taken care of, your path is clean. Grab the prisioner who is below, by the tents and close to the second to last guard you took care of, press cn_start, select the helicopter to come and meet you in the same landing zone from the beginning of the mission simply by pointing with the cursor on the circle and pressing cn_A. Run there, wait for it to go down and for the option to place the prisioner aboard to show (you just need to hold cn_B when it's time). Move away, go complete the rest of the mission. The achievement will unlock shortly after you start walking away from the helicopter.

Unlike Maka said, it's totally cool to cumulate this achievement while pursuing a "S" rank on this mission. I just did it and by rescuing all 7 prisioners (Chico, Paz and the other 5 unnamed ones, including the one from this achievement) I got over 20k points. That many plus another 20 something k made my final score "S" in a single run.

If this solution helps you in any way, please leave it a thumbs up to let me know.
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24 Apr 2016 03:35

Plan to rescue the escapee during your first playthrough of the main mission. He is worth 7,000 points--3,500 as a rescued prisoner and 3,500 as an escapee. He is in an unsupervised area so it is an easy task. It is best not to extract him individually. I recommend extracting him with Paz.

Pick the lock on the gate closest to the start point after taking out the watch tower guard and the two guards near the gate. Turn left and take an immediate right into a small compound. The escapee is located in the far left corner. Although the area is relatively safe, stay low to avoid detection. Retrace your steps. I recommend postponing the extraction and combining it with Paz. If you choose to do so, hide the escapee just outside the gate concealed by a tarpaulin on the fence. You may elect to call the chopper and extract the escapee immediately unlocking the achievement when you put the escapee on the chopper. If you combine the extraction with Paz's or Chico's, make sure you put the escapee on the helo before the mission prisoner. When you do so, you will pop the achievement.

In my opinion, the most efficient approach to the game is to rescue all prisoners including the escapee during the first playthrough obtaining an S rank as you do so. You then must do a second playthrough to mark all enemies and unlock an additional trial. This is not possible during the very first playthrough. In this second playthrough, score is not important so it is ideal for collecting cassette tapes and insignia. The following is a video that shows how to rescue the escapee and all other prisoners getting an S ranking in the process:
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25 Jun 2018 00:11

At the start the Ground Zeroes main mission, look to your left to see the white tents in a large hole. The prisoner is confined in a small shack around the northwest corner of this fenced-in area. Make sure you tranq (or kill) the guard in the tower and the 2 near the fence so that you have an easily accessible escape route. Do your best to ensure that this is the only achievement you are doing on this level, that way you can focus on it and nothing more. Here is a video to help,
Credit goes to PowerPyx for the video.
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07 Mar 2016 00:00

As soon as you start the Ground Zeroes main mission, you'll see a little zone crammed with white tents to your left. The prisoner is confined in a small shack around the northwest corner of this fenced-in area. Be aware of any guards about you, especially the one in the tower controlling the spotlight.

As long as you tranquilized a majority of the enemies in the fenced-in vicinity, you should be able to designate a safe landing zone for the helicopter at the cliff where you began the mission. Put the prisoner on the chopper and the achievement will unlock.

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Within the main mission, Ground Zeroes, there will be a specific prisoner you must rescue and extract before they are executed by a group of enemy soldiers. As soon as the mission starts, make your way down the hill, past the spotlight and locked fence. You will now want to enter the first camp directly to your left; it has several white tents set up.

Once you get inside this area, either sneak by the guards or take them out - it's entirely up to you. Now head to the northwest end of this camp, past the tents, and you will come across a small wooden shack with some crates. The prisoner is sitting here with a bag over their head.

All you have to do now is pick them up and extract them via the helicopter. To do this, call in the extraction helicopter by pressing the start button and choose the landing zone that is located where the mission's starting point is located. Run back up the hill with the prisoner and as soon as they're safely inside the helicopter, the achievement will unlock.

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The prisoner is under a small iron canopy in a tent city.

Video for clarity
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25 Mar 2014 00:17

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The prisoner can only be saved before Chico is saved! Located in the corner of the campground, next to the tower!
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By bobahsmtp on 26 Jul 2016 15:15