Overview
This Steam Community guide for METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain details the various codenames awarded at the end of each mission. Information for all codenames has been gathered from the METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain Guidebook (Collector’s Edition) and as such may not be 100% accurate with updates made to the game. These may also be very uninformative and only give very vague hints towards what you must do in order to earn a codename.”Codenames are recieved depending on your playstyle in the previous three missions you have played through. Earning Codenames has no practical use other than unlocking the corresponding Emblem parts – and, on occasion, bragging rights.” – METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain Guidebook
Codenames
Codename
Award Condition
CHICK
You have not yet completed Mission 06.
CHICKEN
You have used the Chicken Hat at least once in the last three missions.
FOXHOUND
You have completed the last three missions with the “Perfect Stealth, No Kills” score bonus (you caused no Combat Status, didn’t trigger Relfex Mode, and didn’t kill anyone).
FOX
You were not detected in the last three missions (triggering Reflex Mode is permitted).
EAGLE
At least 90% of the enemies you neutralised were neutralised with headshots.
PUMA
The method you used to neutralise most enimies was to hold them up.
BEAR
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was CQC (throw, choke, combo, Bionic Arm Punch, kick).
OCTOPUS
You used nonlethal weapons to neutralise most enemies (all weapons and items with a blu icon – [ZZZ], [STN] or [—] -dispersing sleeping gas with the Fire Support option also counts).
MANTIS
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to slit their throats.
BEE
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to kill them with lethal handguns.
SCORPION
The method you used to neutralise most enemies to kill them with lethal submachine guns.
PIRANHA
The method you used to neutralise most enemies to kill them with lethal shotguns.
DOBERMAN
The method you used to neutralise most enemies to kill them with assault rifles.
RAVEN
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to kill them with lethal machine guns (including turrets, anti-air cannons,and the helicopter’s gatling gun).
WOLF
The method you used to neutralise most enemies to kill them with lethal sniper rifles.
SHARK
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to kill them with missles (rocket launchers, Blast Arm and mortars).
ORCA
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to kill them with lethal throwing weapons (hand grenades, grenade launchers, Petrol Bombs).
SPIDER
The method you used to neutralise most enimies was to kill them with placed weapons (C4 and mines)
HOG
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was knock them out by riding into them at full speed with D-Horse.
HOUND
The method you used neutralise most enemies was D-Dog’s “Do It” command (requires a Sneaking Suit or Battle Dress for D-Dog.
BUTTERFLY
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to have Quiet dispatch them (whether by your command or her personal discretion).
OSTRITCH
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to dispatch them while manning D-Walker (either by riding into them or with its weapons).
TORTOISE
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to dispatch them with vehicles (either by driving into them or by using built-in weapons)/
HAWK
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was to have them dispatched by your support helicopter.
WHALE
The method you used to neutralise most enemies was Bombardment via the Fire Support option.
BAT
You used various methods to neutralise enemies, but all in exact numbers (for example: ten kills with a handgun, and ten incapacitations with CQC).