In Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, is there any way to speed up the processing of materials? Will my materials process while offline/not playing the game?
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It is indeed possible to increase the bond level with your buddies.
For example: D-horse, take it on missions and ride with it.
Actively utilizing your buddy will increase the bond level.
In the end it comes down to which buddies you want to increase the bond level on. Decide which ones and bring them on the missions with you.
In the upper right corner you can see "Diamond Dogs"-icons. These indicate the bond level you have with this particular buddy.
TL;DR : Yes. Bring them on missions with you.
Customizing weapons is not very hard, you just need to know where to look.
First things first: You need to have completed a mission where you
Extract a Legendary Gunsmith
It's a Side Op, and is labeled as above. He'll become a part of your staff and you'll be able to customize weapons.
You're now done with the above, so how do you go about the actual "customization"?
First you need to be in the ACC (Aerial Command Center), you get there by just calling your chopper for a transport.
Next, you open your iDroid and go to the Mother Base tab and choose Customize.
And there you go, you should now have several options for customization.
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I've discovered one way, but it might be considered a glitch, as it involves abusing the game's checkpoint system.
Checkpoints usually reset all progress -- combat deployments, development progress, any Fulton'd individuals, etc. There are a couple of important exceptions, however.
Processed materials are yours, forever, so if, during a mission, you get the "Materials Processed" notification, (processing 1000 units of Fuel, for instance), and then reset, you won't duplicate the materials -- returning to the previous checkpoint at that point will show those 1000 units sitting in Mother Base's treasury. But! Returning to the previous checkpoint will reset the time until the next "Process Some Materials" popup.
So what you really want is to trigger a checkpoint immediately before the materials processed tick triggers, so that when you "return to checkpoint", you only need to wait 2-3 minutes, rather than the 30 minute (or however fast your base currently processes) wait you'd normally have.
I've never tried to set this up intentionally, but if you find yourself in a situation where you can exploit this, it'll burn through your unprocessed materials quite quickly!