METAL GEAR SURVIVE

METAL GEAR SURVIVE

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Survivalist

Survivalist

You survived 140 days, 15 hours without dying

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How to unlock the Survivalist achievement in METAL GEAR SURVIVE - Definitive Guide

As of writing this achievement guide the description is incorrect. You actually can die. I got it at 141d total but with 130d on my current "life". If you want to speed this up get a bunch of animal meat and canteens full of clean water and make a ton of soup/stew (canteens make 2 portions per meat). Then just alternate sleeping and eating until you run low on food. Each "clear zone" on the map has animal spawns (but they seem to spawn based on play time or real time). Also you can try talking to base crew members after sleeping to refresh their side missions (sometimes they have you hunt an animal that the side quest generates).

Total time survived is a stat under the pause menu in records, about 2/3rds down it tells you total time survived, longest life, and current life.
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01 Mar 2018 06:23

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Do you know if deaths in MP count toward this?
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By ROOSTERxBS7 on 01 Mar 2018 23:39
Very nice, is there a way you can check how many days you have in current "life"?
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By BigNev44 on 01 Mar 2018 23:45
MP doesn't count nor does selecting "restart from last save". Only thing that counts for time survived is if you select "return to base camp" when you die (which leaves a lost box). You can check total time survived in the pause menu -> records.
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By fallouthirteen on 02 Mar 2018 01:09
Thanks. @bignev44 under the pause menu about half way down, there’s a stat for “days survived”. Counts total days, longest streak, and current streak.
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By ROOSTERxBS7 on 07 Mar 2018 08:16
I concur. I just hit total 140 days 15 hours and the achievement unlocked instantly. My longest without dying is 65 days.
Looks like I'm the 5th person in the world, or on this site, to unlock it.
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By E vee dub on 08 Mar 2018 05:20
Just unlocked it. Just went from clear zone to clear zone, cooked, sleep, repeat.

FYI. I don’t know if this happened to anyone else but my game started freezing at the end of the final sleep towards the achievement. Still unlocked though. I thought I was about to rage.
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By ROOSTERxBS7 on 09 Mar 2018 15:24
Thanks for the info guys, looking forward to doing this.
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By BigNev44 on 04 Apr 2018 10:32
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A reference to the radio frequency for Meryl (IIRC) 140.15, this trophy requires you to cumulatively survive 140 days and 15 hours. If you haven't played long enough to get this trophy, you can fast forward 1 day at a time at the tents in your Base Camp. Just keep an eye on your hunger and thirst as you do so, they progress fast when you speed through a few days.

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It is not yet entirely clear whether deaths in co-op count. In single player, if you die, you can use a resurrection pill or just quit the game. You can check it in pause menu -> records -> days survived. With pills and leaving the game, the counter does not reset.
Theoretically, you can speed up the process by resting in a camp, but you need to have decent supplies of food and water, as sleep reduces hydration and nutrition levels.
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09 Mar 2018 16:30

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The trophy is cumulative! I died several times (10 - 15 times exactly!) and the “lived days” counter on the iDroid was reset. The trophy dropped when I had 59 days shown, i.e. it doesn't matter whether you died or not.
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By HardShooter357 on 25 May 2021 15:06
Maybe not quite a hint, but more advice. If you are going to go for platinum, don’t bother with this trophy, just live (no matter how strange it may sound). As stated above, reviving pills and the rise of party members in a co-op do not interrupt the counter. But you shouldn’t specifically do this trophy early in the game. In the endgame you will have almost unlimited resources of water and food, and you can even finish this trophy by “eating-sleeping-eating” even after deaths. From personal experience, I thought that 141 (in fact) days was so long that I deliberately tried to fill it with the last resources. As a result, at the moment there are 450 days without deaths, a lot of resources and the question - why did I bother with him so much?
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By Skelarium on 07 Oct 2020 21:43
sleep, eat, sleep, get a trophy
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23 Mar 2018 11:18