"Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" was released on Sept. 1 and it did not take long for gamers to data mine the whole game. The latest discovery reveals a secret that sounds almost impossible to be triggered and it involves all nuclear warheads within the game.
The secret was discovered after gamers stumbled upon a hidden cutscene. While it is still part of the game, many are still bewildered as to how to trigger it. The most prominent theory circulating around the "Metal Gear" community is that players need to disarm every single nuke in the game. This sounds to be a very difficult, almost impossible, task but it did not deter gamers to try and achieve it.
In the multiplayer mode of "Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain," players have the change to build nukes as long as they reached a necessary requirements and amassed the needed resources. According to Kotaku, nukes take 27 massive hours to be built. Players can also steal nukes from other players.
According to PC Gamer, since building in-game nukes is based on player discretion, it will take the whole multiplayer "Metal Gear" community to agree into total disarmament before the cutscene will be triggered.
The cutscene hints at what will happen once all the nukes in the game are disabled. The opening of the cutscene shows a message "This world has been rid of every last nuclear weapon." The message further supports the theory of total disarmament before the hidden cutscene can be triggered.
On the other hand, many gamers cited the cutscene's inspirational message about the real-world importance of nuclear disarmament. On the cutscene, one of the game's characters made a lengthy speech about the importance of such feat.
The hidden cutscene was uploaded on YouTube and can be accessed here.