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Below we've collected 100 of the craziest (and spoiler free!) Metal Gear Solid 5 details we could find, based on our own experiences from the past few weeks and from several other enthused players around the world who have shared their stories and observations online. Special thanks to the communities on Reddit and NeoGAF for initially spotting several of these details.In no particular order...1. When you leave a mission area, you don't leave D-Horse behind. He's equipped with his own automatic Fulton device, and flies away.2. If Big Boss gets severely injured on a mission, he will be hooked up to a blood bag in the helicopter between missions.3. If you stun or tranquilize an enemy and they fall into a puddle of water, they will drown.4. You can prevent a Fulton extraction by just shooting the balloon.5. Dialogue of soldiers speaking languages other than English won't be subtitled unless you've extracted an interpreter, so interrogating them for information is useless until then.6. Despite being a scripted event, the first time you're injured during the opening/tutorial sequence, the injury alert sound plays to teach you what that sound means.7. If Big Boss goes days without showering, enemies will smell him and investigate the area. Wild animals may even think he's dead.8. At some point, not showering will trigger a scene where Ocelot throws water on him 9. Another way to wash blood off of you besides showering is walking around in the rain.10. If you tranq Ocelot repeatedly, he has a variety of custom dialogue, including... "La Li Lu Le Lo."11. If you Fulton away a base’s stuff and then return later, guards will have custom dialogue complaining about getting in trouble for the missing equipment.12. Cardboard boxes will start to fall apart in the rain. This can be distressing to the guard trying to ogle the pin-up poster on your box.13. You can sled down slopes while wearing the cardboard box in the prone position.14. The various signs around Mother Base are modeled after some notable characters: construction signs have Paz on them, the warning signs on the brig have Quiet, etc.15. The fastest way to travel around Mother Base is actually to mail yourself to the other platforms. Just sit on a delivery point while in a cardboard box and you can be hand delivered to another area fairly quickly.16. You can also deliver yourself across different enemy outposts by grabbing invoices from desired delivery points and having the right type of cardboard box.17. If you happen to destroy the comms equipment from the mission C2W in free roam before accepting the mission, the mission will end during the opening credits, with a surprised Kaz congratulating you on being so efficient.18. Guards actually change shifts in 12 hour intervals. This movement can make missions easier or more challenging for Big Boss.19. If a wild dog attacks and pins you while you have DD as a buddy, he will leap to your rescue automatically if you don't follow the button prompts to escape.20. If you incapacitate a guard while they are in the middle of reporting in on radio, the person on the other end will notice the transmission cut out and send someone to investigate.21. Pointing a flashlight at a guard with night vision goggles on will temporarily blind them.22. Tank drivers will honk their horns to wake up any nearby allies who have been put to sleep.23. You can Fulton a cargo container and quickly hop on to ride it back to the ACC for a fast getaway.24. Dropping a supply crate on an enemy's head knocks them out, and is a great way of taking out some of the tougher adversaries undetected.25. You can blow the treads off a tank with C4 a la Saving Private Ryan and immobilize it.26. You can use the water gun to fry electronic equipment on enemy bases without having to blow them up and risk detection.27. You can also use the water gun to put out fires and make outposts darker at night.28. If you try to use the water gun on the Man on Fire, Ocelot will call and tell you that isn't enough water to take him down.29. You can actually drive through trees and telephone poles.30. You can melee enemies from a prone position, but it takes several hits to stun them, and you look really stupid doing it