Key Items Guide | MGSV: The Phantom Pain
Key Items are badges you can receive in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. You get them for performing certain actions, and in return, they unlock various abilities, items and improvements.
In this guide, we’re going to show you how to get all key items and what they unlock.
How To Get Key Items
When you do what you’re supposed to, you’ll automatically receive the key item. They are more like awards than actual items – you can’t touch them, or use them personally. They unlock research and abilities, helping you in a more passive way.| Name | How to unlock | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Children’s Reward | Rescue the children from the mines in Mission 18 | Water pistol becomes available for research |
| First Aid Manual | Search Masa Village after Mission 18 | Unlocks D-Dog Fulton Gear |
| Master Certificate (Marking) | Mark 500 objects or people | Makes enemy decoys more obvious |
| Master Certificate – Fulton | Extract 500 enemies | Unlocks Grade 3 Fulton upgrade |
| Grand Master Certificate – Fulton | Extract 1000 enemies | Unlocks F-Ballista for D-Walker |
| Master Certificate – Box | Collect all Invoices in Africa OR Afghanistaion | Unlocks C-Box WR |
| Grand Master Certificate – Box | Collect all Invoices in Africa AND Afghanistan | Unlocks C-Box SMK |
| Conch Shell | Complete Side Op 113 – Eli’s Challenge | Unlocks Fulton upgrade |
| Skulls Machete | Finish Mission 29 – Metallic Archaea | Unlocks Task-Arm SM for D-Walker |
| Strangelove’s Memento | Complete Side Op 143 – Extract the A.I. Pod | Unlocks Bandana |
| Man on Fire (Corpse) | Finish Side Op 144 – Secure the Remains of the Man on Fire | Unlocks Furicorn uniform for D-Horse |
| Quiet’s Examination Report | Complete Mission 40 – Cloaked in Silence [Extreme], OR watch cutscene Quiet’s interrogation at Mother Base | Unlocks Gray XOF uniform for Quiet |
| Handkerchief | Finish Mission 40 – Cloaked in Silence [Extreme] | Unlocks Sniper Wolf uniform for Quiet |
| Emmerich’s Research Notes | Watch the cutscene where Emmerch is exiled from Mother Base | Unlocks Stealth Camo Uniform |
| Master Certificate – Standard | Complete every main mission except the ones on hardest difficulty with any rank | Unlocks Cyborg Ninja uniform |
| Grand Master Certificate – Standard | Finish all main missions with S rank (except Extreme, Subsistence and Total Stealth ones) | Unlocks Raiden uniform |
| Master Certificate – Elite | Complete all missions on high difficulty levels – Extreme, Subsistence, Total Stealth with any rank | Unlocks Naked (Silver) uniform and Bionic Arm (silver) upgrade |
| Grand Master Certificate – Elite | Complete all missions on high difficulty levels Extreme, Subsistence and Total Stealth with S Rank | Unlocks Naked (Gold) uniform |
| Star of Bethlehem | Finish the Phantom Pain’s secret Mission 46 – Truth: The Man Who Sold the World | Unlocks Infinity Bandana (head) |
| The Codename: Big Boss | Complete the Phantom Pain’s secret Mission 46 – Truth: The Man Who Sold The World | Unlocks Leather Jacket uniform |
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So I got s rank for missions 1-32 but I haven’t seen unlocked Raiden outfit why’s that?
You need to complete 1-32, 35, 38, 41, 43, 45-46,
Hey i completed all 50 missions on rank S, still no cyborg and no raiden.. i only got the silver and gold suit for snake HELP PLS
Hello, How can I upgrade R&D level?!! Please answer me! Thank you so much!
Raiden outfit? WTF? This is the GRAY FOX outfit.
Gray fox is completing standard missions with rank A or below. In order to get the full on Raiden outfit. All Missions must be completed with S rank on standard game play (Aside from high difficulty missions.)
I’ve got all S ranking and still no Master Certificate.
You’re wrong, the raiden outfit will unlocking
I hav completed all 50 main mission with s rank excluding extream etc which is not in s no cyborg unlock 74 percent complete please help
wtf no patriot, theres always a patriot
Got the first aid manual, but it didn’t register for some reason and when i go back its not there anymore
Does it apply for ps3 and xbox 360 version also? Or just one and ps4? For cyborg ninja and raiden outfit
Nope in ps3 and x360 this items are included, all less the unique items of next-gen. BTW before doing 40 do a backup of your game and do missions of the history untill mision 45, that mission is critical. You lose something unique and maybe you wann keep it, so save before mission 40 and keep playing main ops missions. or see in internet what happens in that mission but better play and then decide to keep your game or use the backup.
Do i still get Sniper Wolf’s uniform for Quiet even if she left the base?
You can still get the key item for doing the extreme mission, but you can’t research the uniform after mission 45
You can get her back too by doing cloaked in silence 7 times after she leaves for good changes the name from replay to reunion
wait is that true ??
yes one hundred % true
Abit of a mistake there eh “Coplete Mission 40 – Cloaked in Silence [Extreme], OR watch cutscene Quiet’s interrogation at Mother Base” Might wanna change coplete to complete XD