The Demon Points Mini-Guide v1.0 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

-----Table of Contents-----

DPG01-Introduction
DPG02-The basics of the Demon System
DPG03-Demon Levels
DPG04-Earning Demon Points
DPG05-Losing Demon Points

DPG01-----Introduction-----

Many people have abstained entirely from killing enemy soldiers out of fear of increasing their Demon Level, which results in limited gameplay, as most weapons available to the player are lethal. Hopefully this small guide will clarify the basics of the Demon System and encourage the use of different weapons and allow the player to experience a different way of playing.

On the other hand, for all of those who want to reach the Demon Snake level, in this guide you'll find a complete list of ways to increase your Demon Level, as well as things to avoid if you want to raise your Demon Level quickly.

DPG02-----The basics of the Demon System-----

The Demon System determines certain factors of the appearance of Venom Snake, the player can gain or lose Demon Points by performing certain actions; once the player acquires enough Demon Points, they will increase their Demon Level, which will trigger a cutscene and enlarge Snake's Shrapnel-horn. Sadly, there isn't any sort of indication in-game that tells the player exactly how many Demon Points they currently have, their only clue as to how much they may have is the current size of Snake's horn.

Also, one thing to note is that Hero points do not affect your Demon Points or Demon Level in any way, although certain actions that reward the player with hero points also decrease their Demon Points.

DPG03-----Demon Levels-----

There's 3 different Demon Levels:

1- Normal Snake: starting level; basic appearance of Venom Snake.

2- Horn Snake: it has a longer horn than Normal Snake (http://imgur.com/EbBrNdP). In order to increase your Demon Level to 2 for the first time, you must accumulate 20,000 Demon Points.

3- Demon Snake: it has the longest horn and Snake is always covered in blood (http://imgur.com/RwjC9lQ). In order to increase your Demon Level to 3 for the first time, you must accumulate 50,000 Demon Points.

Once you reach Demon Level 3, you can change your Demon Level back and forth by increasing/decreasing your Demon Points, allowing you to revert the effects of Demon Snake and change the horn's size.

Normal Snake: lowering your Demon Points to 39,999 or less will change Snake's appearance back to normal.

Horn Snake: after returning Snake back to normal, if you raise your Demon Points to 40,000 Snake's horn will grow.

Demon Snake: after returning Snake back to normal, if you raise your Demon Points to 80,000 Snake's horn grows again and gets covered in irremovable blood.

DPG04-----Earning Demon Points-----

The following is a list of actions the players can perform to increase their Demon Points:

+20 - Fail the fulton extraction of an animal
+20 - Kill an animal
+30 - Critically wound an enemy soldier
+40 - Kill an animal with fire damage
+60 - Fail the fulton extraction of an enemy soldier
+60 - Kill an enemy soldier
+60 - Lose a staff member held hostage by aborting mission 22 (+60 each)
+75 - Destroy D-Walker
+90 - Kill a Diamond Dog staff member held hostage
+100 - Kill a prisoner
+120 - Kill a critically wounded enemy soldier
+120 - Kill an enemy soldier with fire damage
+150 - Destroy a support helicopter
+150 - Critically wound D-Dog, D-Horse or Quiet
+180 - Kill a Diamond Dogs staff member
+180 - Kill one of your Diamond Dogs staff member held hostage with fire damage
+200 - Kill a prisoner with fire damage
+50,000 - Develop a nuclear weapon

DPG05-----Losing Demon Points-----

The following is a list of actions the players can perform to decrease their Demon Points:

-30 - Fulton extract a common animal
-30 - Fulton extract a critically wounded enemy soldier
-30 - Fulton extract a puppet soldier via helicopter
-30 - Fulton extract a critically wounded enemy soldier
-30 - Fulton extract a Skull
-30 - Extract an enemy soldier via helicopter
-60 - Fulton extract a rare animal
-60 - Fulton extract a Diamond Dogs staff member
-60 - Fulton extract a prisoner
-60 - Extract a puppet soldier via helicopter
-60 - Extract a critically wounded enemy via helicopter
-60 - Extract Quiet via helicopter
-120 - Fulton extract a child
-120 - Fulton extract a very rare or extremely rare animal
-120 - Extract a VIP or prisoner via helicopter
-120 - Extract a Diamond Dogs staff member via helicopter
-240 - Extract a child via helicopter
-300 - Visit the Animal Conservation Platform
-1,000 - Dispose of a nuclear weapon
-1,000 - Earn the "Cry Havoc" trophy
-1,000 - Earn the "Speechless" trophy
-5,000 - Earn the "Cleared" trophy
-5,000 - Earn the "Trusty Steed" trophy
-5,000 - Earn the "Man's Best Friend" trophy
-5,000 - Earn the "War Buddy" trophy
-5,000 - Earn the "Reminiscence" trophy
-10,000 - Earn the "Conservation" trophy
-30,000 - Dispose of ten nuclear weapons

-----Credits-----

Special thanks to user mikesettokill for helping with the making of the lists

So it actually seems like you have to try to get to the Demon Snake. I think I've only had 6 kills in total and only failed like 3 extractions. Side ops antics count right?

lol, seems like most people will have negative demon points.

Can you have negative demon points?

Smashingpmkns posted...

Side ops antics count right?

Yes, you can also earn/lose Demon Points during side-ops

So if it's just completely separate from heroism is there just no disadvantages to just having a bigger horn?

How do you gain nuclear weapons to dispose of? I've heard it's one of the dispatch missions, but in 50+ hours of gameplay I've never seen any of those.

Fob

Large horn eqals always covered in blood.