How To Unlock All Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Costumes

How to unlock all Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain costumes? That question will be answered in this Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain skins / suits / fatigues guide that shows you which alternate skins to unlock to get the full set of alternate costumes; and how to achieve that.

Below we’ve listed the secret costumes. Take the following steps to unlock each one, and soon all unlockable costumes in the game will be available to you. 😀

Index of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Guides:

How To Unlock All Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Costumes

Here we’re going to highlight a few special costumes in alphabetical order.

Tip: You can switch Big Boss’s costumes out at any point. To change costumes, before starting any mission from the “Main Menu” you must go to the mission preparation options to select & equip them in the “Uniforms” section. Only a handful are available to unlock at launch.

Note: Any Big Boss costume you choose to wear in-game, will also show up in cutscenes!

Time to show you how to get all Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain skins AKA suits or fatigues! ^_^

Unlockable Costumes (In-Game)

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Default Costume
Default Costume

Big Boss Default Costume (The Phantom Pain’s Sneaking Suit) — How To Unlock: Your default suit is available from the start of the game, as soon as you begin the Story Mode.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Solid Snake Suit from Metal Gear Solid 1
Solid Snake Suit from Metal Gear Solid 1
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Sneaking Suit from Ground Zeroes
Sneaking Suit from Ground Zeroes

Ground Zeroes’s SV-Sneaking Suit & Solid Snake Suit (From Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes) — How To Unlock: Ground Zeroes’ Sneaking Suit & Metal Gear Solid 1’s low-polygon Solid Snake Suit become wearable items in The Phantom Pain if you carry over save data from METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES to METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN. – Of course this means you’ll have to have played Ground Zeroes, most notable including completing the “Deja Vu” mission (if you want the MGS1 Solid Snake Suit) before starting the transfer.

Step 1: To carry over save data, first start up METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES and select [UPLOAD MGSV:GZ SAVE DATA] from the Main Menu.
The data is then uploaded to the game server.
Step 2: Next, select [DOWNLOAD MGSV:GZ SAVE DATA] from the METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN Main Menu to apply the save data that was carried over.
The Sneaking Suit should be available right away, but if it isn’t, try (re)playing a story mission for it to unlock.

• Save data to be carried over includes the Sneaking Suit from METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES as well as certain prisoners and soldiers you extracted.
• To obtain these save data carry over bonuses, you need to be able to play METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES (have the access to the console hardware, game software, and save data), have online access, and install an online update for the game.
• You can carry over save data from either the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 3 versions of METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES to the PlayStation 4 version of METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN. It’s the same for Xbox 360 or Xbox One versions to the Xbox One version, and of course it also carries over from PS3 to PS3, Xbox 360 to Xbox 360, and PC to PC.
• Your METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES and METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN data must be associated with the same Sony Entertainment Network, Xbox Live or Steam account.

Ground Zeroes to The Phantom Pain Unlockable Transfer video guide:

Unlockable DLC Costumes (Free Bonuses)

Fatigues AKA Snake Costumes were given out as free DLC Costumes with the Day One Edition (digital & retail) as a pre-order bonus, as well as part of the Collector’s Edition (retail).

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain DLC Costumes
DLC Costumes

All-Purpose Dryland CostumeHow To Unlock: Get the download code for the “All-Purpose Dryland Suit” as a skin 4-pack bonus with the “Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain – Collector’s Edition”.

Black Ocelot CostumeHow To Unlock: Get the download code for the “Black Ocelot Suit” as a skin 4-pack bonus with the “Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain – Collector’s Edition”.
You could also get it as a digital Day One Edition pre-order bonus with the PS3 & PS4 versions in Europe.

Blue Urban CostumeHow To Unlock: Get the download code for the “Blue Urban Snake Suit” as a skin 4-pack bonus with the “Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain – Collector’s Edition”.
You could also get it as a digital Day One Edition pre-order bonus worldwide (except for with the digital PS3 & PS4 versions in Europe).

Gray Urban CostumeHow To Unlock: Get the download code for the “Gray Urban Suit” as a skin 4-pack bonus with the “Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain – Collector’s Edition”.

Unlockable DLC Costumes (Paid)

All DLC CostumesHow To Unlock: For the current and the rest of the costumes, all we know so far is that they will be made available as paid DLC on your system’s online store in the near-future.

Potential DLC CostumesHow To Unlock: If you register your purchase of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on the Konami Core Vault website to be rewarded with future unlockable DLC for the Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain game. After registration, this will be confirmed with the following message: “Come back in 2015 to claim your Downloadable Content!”

[Work-In-Progress: Please comment if you know of any other costumes hidden in the game or being made available through DLC!]

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Have you gotten your favorite Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain costumes yet? Which are they?