My copy is still shrink wrapped, can I avoid this nonsense FOB mode if I only care about the story and some side missions? What impact, if any, does it have on sp? What about on MGO, that's a whole separate thing isn't it?
Depends how you play.
You get your FOB, you unlock a lot of stuff, you die a little inside as you are asked to wait hours for a gun to get made.
It is all incredibly fucking stupid and insulting.
But... You don't actually use any of it. Gaining soldiers? Pointless. Unlocking guns you'll never use? Not worth your time. Waiting months for processing of fuel so you can upgrade your base to get an ability you don't even try out? Why bother.
Just start a mission, select your trusty tranq gun and off you go.
So it is a strange one for me. All this shit konami added has no place in a retail title, let alone a metal gear game. But it is all kind of irrelevant to how I play metal gear anyway.