Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - S-Rank Walkthrough - Mission 20: Voices (Man on Fire Boss)

Mission 20: Voices
Bring some explosives to this mission, C4 or a grenade launcher would be best. Make your way through the enemy camps undetected as quickly as possible. The tricky part is the boss fight against the man on fire at the end. Place some C4 on the gas tank by the pool. Now wait for him to walk between the tank and the pool and blow it up. This will push him into the pool and end the fight immediately. Escape through the tunnel to end the mission.

There are two golden rules for getting S-ranks:
1. Don't try it on your first playthrough (a lot of strategies only work when replaying missions and you will unlock better gear over the course of the game).
2. Skip all cutscenes to save time (yes, cutscenes add to your time and will greatly reduce your points!)

S-Rank Strategies, basic tips and things you should know:
- Getting 130,000 points in a mission unlocks the S-rank (same score requirement for all missions)
- Only main missions have a ranking system, side ops don't. Main missions 02, 22, 43 are an exception, they don't have any ranks. There are 50 main missions in total.
- Completing the missions as quickly as possible without being seen is usually good enough. Skip the bonus objectives, they take too long and will complicate things.
- Equipping the Invisibility Camo, Parasite Suit, Raiden Suit, Cyborg Ninja Suit, Chicken-Hat, Infinity Bandana, using D-Walkers Fulton Ballista or calling in air strikes / helicopter support will void the S-rank. With these items you are limited to A-rank at best. So don't use them!
- On your first playthrough of the missions, always try to take out the enemy radar stations. This gives you a huge tactical advantage because you can call the extraction helicopter directly to the enemy base (or start the mission there).
- S-Ranks earn you a lot more money and heroism than lower ranks

With these tips in mind you should have very little trouble following these video guides and obtaining all S-ranks. Be warned, however, that the game uses a variable difficulty system. If you use a lot of headshots, enemies will get helmets. If you always infiltrate at night, enemies will get night vision goggles. If you always use sleeping grenades, enemies will wear gas masks etc.
In this walkthrough series I stick to the basics to make it as easy to replicate as possible. These guides are fairly spoiler free as I skip the cutscenes to save time.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Trophies and Achievements:

Apprentice
Completed a mission using a Combat Unit staff member.

Accomplished
Completed all missions.

Executed
Completed all mission tasks.

Elite
Completed all missions with an S rank.

Undertaken
Completed a SIDE OP.

Cleared
Completed all "Mine Clearing" SIDE OPS.

Achieved
Completed all SIDE OPS.

Captured
Captured an outpost or guard post.

Search-and-Destroy
Captured all outposts and guard posts in Northern Kabul, Afghanistan.

Sweep-and-Clear
Captured all outposts and guard posts in the Angola-Zaire Border Region.

Deployment
Completed all key Dispatch Missions.

Intruder
Played an "Infiltration" FOB mission.

Cry Havoc
Made D-Dog available for deployment.

Speechless
Made Quiet available for deployment.

Trusty Steed
Raised bond with D-Horse to the maximum.

Man's Best Friend
Raised bond with D-Dog to the maximum.

War Buddy
Raised bond with Quiet to the maximum.

Extraction
Fulton extracted an enemy soldier.

Interrogation
Interrogated an enemy soldier.

To The Rescue
Extracted a female prisoner.

Platoon
Increased Mother Base staff to 50 or more personnel.

Battalion
Increased Mother Base staff to 250 or more personnel.

Army
Raised all Teams/Units to level 99.

Enhancement
Developed 50 or more development items.

Reinforcement
Developed 100 or more development items.

Locked and Loaded
Developed 300 or more development items.

Architect
Constructed all available platforms for Mother Base.

Deterrence
Developed a nuclear weapon.

Disarmament
Disposed of a nuclear weapon.

Prosperity
Earned a total of 10,000,000 GMP or more.

Conservation
Extracted all wild animal species.

Collector
Obtained all blueprints and key items.

Reminiscence
Obtained all memento photos.

Hero
Obtained the codename "Hero."

[neroangelo]

That mini heart attack you get when you see the Man on Fire and then it fades to gameplay.

[AngraMainiiu]

I love how this mission is the only time the word 'Fuck' has ever been said in Metal Gear!

[Shadowking]

I hate how everybody got such an exciting defeat, while I got the most anticlimactic defeat. I stood near the cliff and waited for him to shoot those huge flame towers so that he could spawn next to the edge of the cliff and after he spawned there, I used the RPG and shot him off the cliff.

[grahamcnn]

I have found ALL of the tutorial videos extremely usefull. Thank you for helping me understand more about the game.

[jeremybinion]

am I the only one who had a water pistol for this mission

[mrs.bridges]

At 6:37 when he crawled past the tent, did everyone else notice its the radio dialogue from P.T.!!?!! I found this while playing and was pleasantly shocked, its so cool Kojima put that in there!!

[sataoborao]

You can skip outpost A and B completely. near Nova Braga you can cross the hills through a gap in them. It leads you right in front of outpost B’s exit.

[TheJBerg]

Alternatively, there is a pass 2 clicks up the road that allows you to just skip the outpost guarding entrance to the valley, and thus allowing you to bypass ALL outposts prior to entering the mist as show in the video. So, you can pretty much ignore the first 4 minutes of this video and skip straight to 4:30

[grayfox]

In my game I was trying to figure out what to do to defeat the Man on Fire until the moment it rained and he was defeated that way.Kaz also thanked Mother Nature ;-)

[Finyaldan]

I'm South African and it's so cool to hear the enemies speaking Afrikaans :D

[johnnymartinjohansen]

8:57 "Blow up c4 when enemy is between tank and pool". Well, I'm doing EXACTLY what you do, but he will rarely spawn where he does for you, and he will NEVER go between the tank and the pool, he'll just sometimes "flash" past it, and he seems immune to explosions when he does that. But most times he'll just respawn on the other side of the pool. More than 30 attempt on doing it this way, no luck at all. This may be the gamekilling mission for me :(

[Nhilzer]

What a smart play PP, nicely done, loved it.

[aaronjonesk]

Blowing up the tank does fuck all for me. He doesn't even flinch.

[IISoLiDuZII]

I like your disclaimer but your walk throughout are so good it only took my 1 try for all the missions I used your help on. Thanks again.

[yashesh]

see the trick is after he fires a fire conon ball at you next move of his to teleport right next in your face in close personal so let him do conon ball keep running around and then immediately after dodging it run fast asap to the tank and when he swapns next to you and the tank blow c4 he will absorb all the damage and fall into pool

DON'T LET HIM BLOW UP THE fuel TANK

run around the pool but be careful he sometime blows up the tank either try to shoot with fireball or simply walking around it/near c4 already placed near the tank

if this doesn't work out simply abort the mission and go to the acc

restart it immediately and then again try to mimic POWERPYX it worked out for me 2nd time around after restarting checkpoints

S RANK was given whatsoever so don't worry about restarting through checkpoints

[TheUnsolvedMyth]

Use your jahuti hand to pull man on fire in water pool, it's the easy way

[Saud-Mohammad]

Hmm .. I've just run around till the rain shows .. And then he got away .. Kaz said thanks to the natural

[nohulse]

I found a glitch. Whenever there's a cutscene of Snake smoking his cigar, if you pause and select skip while everything is in fast motion, the time continues moving at that speed. The soldiers still move at normal speed, but you can go through a whole in game day within a minute!

[BruceHeartBreaker]

volgin can be extracted . after blowing up water tower, Mantis will appear right above volgin's body. Shoot mantis with at least 20 bullets then mantis will disappear and you can extract him easily.

[bubu]

I blew up the tank and missed, but then placed a new C4 next to the destroyed tank and ended up blowing him in with just the c4. Also got spotted once but still ended with an S.

Thanks for these videos!!