In the Barracks is where everything happens in between different missions. So get familiar with the place. Spend skills points, swap out gear, go through cases on the battlefield, inspect characters, customize names and appearance or recruit new soldiers before …
Things have opened up in Metal Gear Solid V, even more so than Ground Zeroes, and the Metal Gear formula is adapting around it. That is not to say you may no longer walk through a stronghold in a cardboard …
Even so, Gears Tactics players will likely be having enough fun with the gameplay that the repetitive missions may not bother them that much. Plus, the side missions do give players the chance to collect more loot and level up …