Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20150111204934/@comment-2.24.8.247-20150117110031

It's possible old_motherbase is actually just a location for in-engine cutscenes to take place in (say, flashbacks to more detailled scenes of its destruction, or a remade version of the scene with Miller and Big Boss at the end of Peace Walker with the parked MSF helicopters). Would certainly beat the powerpoint presentations in the other games, and I think that's the most likely answer.

That said, it would be really neat to have a mission with, say, an enemy force trying to recover Zeke's nuke or AI pod or some vital data from the submerged wreckage and having a sequence doing sneaking in a bunch of partially flooded modules at crazy angles to one another, like an upside-down mess hall or tackling the Peace Walker killhouse turned on its side.