General Information

Sahelanthropus, also known as “Sally” is the Metal Gear present on Metal Gear Solid V.

Sahelanthropus contains a vast arsenal, composed by 2 Vulcan guns, multiple guided small missiles, search missiles, a flamethrower, Archaea grenades capable of disabling any vehicle on the nearby area, 2 Archaea blades with different functions, a pile bunker used for precise melee attacks, a Railgun capable of firing nuclear shells and for last, an armor composed of depleted uranium that can be enriched with parasites during self destruction for an powerful nuclear explosion.

Each attack varies with the AI being used on it, for example, using hellbound AI, search missiles will act as an independent drone looking for the player and warning Sahelanthropus if they detect the player but on Dominion AI, search missiles will act as guided missiles, unlike small guided missiles they don’t follow the player movement, they only fly towards the player location on the moment they lift off.

In the game, the guns that Sahelanthropus can use is controled by AI and Battle sequence, for example, the Railgun, Archaea blades and Archaea grenades are not used by Hellbound AI and the weapons that Dominion AI can use is controled by battle sequences

There is also an shield that is disabled by default, this shield was meant to be used on “Kingdom of the Flies” but since we never got that, we never got a working shield.
The shield is present on Sahelanthropus Main and Static models, there is also colision files for it but the mesh and colision are disabled by the .exe, unlike the Railgun and the Railgun Loader that are disabled only on Hellbound AI, the shield is fully disabled all the time.

Sahelanthropus does have colision with the player, animals, soldiers and vehicles but can only deal damage to animals, vehicles and the player, and no, Sahelanthropus isn’t coded to attack anything else besides the player and Huey(?) on Hellbound episode.
Funnily enough, if you use soldiers as a human shield while it attacks you with the vulcan guns, it will damage the soldiers and they will fall to the ground heavily wounded but no blood will be present.

Health Points and parts

Sahelanthropus Health Points are managed on the enemy subscript. There is on total 17 parts for Sahelanthropus.
Example of sahelanLifeTable from Episode 30:

Body     = 12000,-- Body
Bp       = 840,  -- ???
Head     = 3000, -- Head
ArmR     = 840,  -- Right Arm
ArmL     = 840,  -- Left Arm
ThighR   = 840,  -- Right Thigh
ThighL   = 840,  -- Left Thigh
LegR     = 840,  -- Right Leg
LegL     = 840,  -- Left Leg
RGun     = 1200, -- RailGun
Ldr      = 840,  -- RailGun Loader
Tnk      = 840,  -- Flame thrower
Shield   = 0,    -- Shield
PTLF     = 96,   -- Left Front Parasite/Propane? Tank
PTRF     = 96,   -- Right Front Parasite/Propane? Tank
PTLB     = 96,   -- Left Back Parasite/Propane? Tank
PTRB     = 96,   -- Right Back Parasite/Propane? Tank

Shield Value Does not matter since the shield is disabled on the .exe
Only use integer values for Health Points
Parts names might be case sensitive

Stage Types

The Stage type controls what AI is used, if Sahelanthropus is used without an stage type set, it will remain idle, same happens if the user sets an Stage Type that does not exist.
There is 3 types of Stages available to be used:

0 –> HellBound AI – Used on Episode 12 - HELLBOUND
1 –> Dominion AI (Normal) – Used on Episode 31 - SAHELANTHROPUS
2 –> Dominion AI (Extreme) – Used on Episode 50 - (EXTREME) SAHELANTHROPUS

Note: Hellbound AI and Dominion AI are names given by me (retali8), they are not official names for the AIs. There is an 4th type of AI for Sahelanthropus with index 3, unfortunately nothing happens when we use it, could have been created for “Kingdom of the Flies”.

The stage type can be changed with the next lua code:

this.SetSahelanType = function()
	local gameObjectId = {type="TppSahelan2", group=0, index=0}
	local command = {id="SetStageType", index = 0, }	
	GameObject.SendCommand(gameObjectId, command)
end

The index value Inside the command variable will determine the stage type

Setting Sahelanthropus to Index 2 will not change its color to black, that is done by the .exe.
This command must be used on sequence subscript.

Route Events

Edge Events

Edge event: All
Used on base routes for Hellbound AI, allows it to run, walk and jump?

Edge event: Run Walk
Used on Caution and Sneak routes for Hellbound AI, allows both walk and run. Its also used on routes for Dominion AI but its unclear what it does since Dominion AI uses navmesh to move around.

Edge event: Walk Only
Can be used on Caution and Sneak routes, allows Sahelanthropus to only walk.

Edge event: Run Only
Only allows Sahelanthropus to run.

Edge event: Jump Only
Only allows Sahelanthropus to jump to the next node.

Edge event: Jump Walk
Allows Sahelanthropus to either jump to the next node or walk to it.

Sahelanthropus will only run if the player is far away, even if the event is set to Run Only
Hellbound AI cant jump, if you use Jump only as an event, it will walk and not jump
On Dominion AI, routes are only used to Mantis Jump Attacks, Dominion AI uses navmesh to walk, run and jump

Node Events

Node event: Stand Search
Triggers an animations where Sahelanthropus searches for the player with an spotlight.

Node event: Search Missile
TODO

Node event: Stand Idle
TODO

Node event: On The Hill
Nothing?

Node event: Pile Bunker
Triggers an attack, Sahelanthropus will attack with the pile bunker, it can affect rock gimmicks if its set up properly.

Node event: 4257632892 (Break Steel Tower)
Triggers an attack, Sahelanthropus will attack an antenna if the route node and antenna are set up properly.

Hellbound Documentation

Hellbound Debug Functions
Hellbound route assignment
Hellbound Search Missiles
Hellbound Heli attack sequence

Dominion Documentation

Navmesh Params and Flags
sahelan Navworld
Dominion route assignment
Dominion REX mode