mh have you ever cut their “umbilical” cord with the fancy new handcuffs?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
don’t try and bust through on a trike tho cos it don’t work.
― Fizzles, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
yeah that's the problem, i'm trying to get the cargo through on the trike so it's a slow process of clearing a path, moving the trike, clearing a path, etc. i've got the blood bombs. i can do it, i just need to find the time to sit down and do it in one sitting since you can't save amongst the BTs
― na (NA), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
you don’t need to clear *all* of them to get through on the trike ime. but yeah, slow going.
― Fizzles, Monday, 13 January 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
I've done the umbilical cut multiple times, but it's become exceedingly difficult now that I'm in HARD MODE and late game
the funniest shit is when you're on a vehicle and it's a beautiful flat area with no rocks, fuck the BTs, I'm gonna barrel through
and then your vehicle going full speed runs directly into one and INSTANT HARD STOP
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
finally got through to port knot city. turned out it was a lot easier to ditch the trike and just hike through. i was able to bypass most of the BTs just by climbing around them.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:36 (four years ago) link
this is getting easier and more fun. i stole a truck from the MULES and have a bolo gun and suddenly there are paved roads and i'm just tooling around between outposts making deliveries
― na (NA), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link
also getting the cyborg skeleton thing has helped
― na (NA), Monday, 20 January 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
cut some BT umbilicals yesterday and.... feels good man.
i'm now at the tar lake and apparently trucking around the outer edge of.... everything i've connected so far. which is weird, because i thought i was going across the united states??
not enough has been said about how great this game looks. the tactility of the snow. and how the game teases the mountains even at the very early stages of the game, and how you ease up into them, a few incursions here or there, but you know it's inevitable. some of the weather you end up encountering is just tremendous.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 January 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
I was introduced recently to the concept of “rubbersheeting” which is the distortion of one map layer, like satellite imagery, to align with another, like a gps grid
It’d be an interesting practice to map the DS map on to ours because, even taking into account the in-game map it shows when you add someone to grid, the scale is insanely weird. Basically Kojima & co. had continental locations and cities and routes that reference small pieces that they put across the US
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 05:33 (four years ago) link
ha it is basically a little peninsula, maybe 5 square miles max? which gets represented in the game as the entire united states.
i beat higgs. what a fucked up boss fight. the final stage of bludgeoning each other senseless was definitely kind of....... homoerotic. oh and can i say beating higgs' giant extinction event beast wasn't really hard but it was SO SATISFYING.
don't ever want this game to end obv.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 08:50 (four years ago) link
i fuckin lost it when it turned into EA's xbox-era classic fight night
― adam, Wednesday, 29 January 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
yes!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
get prepared for EVEN MORE EXPOSITION from here on out!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
that’s not what i want. I just want to build roads, man.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
you get some more Mads, though, as a treat
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
any amount of mads - even homeopathic levels of mads - is a treat
― the main character Cooly and his fart attack (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
I can’t remember if you’re to the point where you’re kind of locked into finishing the plot now. Pretty close, if not already. But worry not, you can still build roads and deliver nice underwear to people when the plot wraps!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:45 (four years ago) link
xp there’s a reason the otherwise ridiculous game awards gave him best motion captured role
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Have still never gotten a single trophy better than bronze. !!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Total play time - 69:34:11
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
lol wait a minute it’s still going
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 January 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
did anyone find out whether constructions degrade outside playing time? i haven’t picked this up for a while.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 February 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
I don’t know but I’ve started a few zipline networks now and it’s ridiculously satisfying. Hope they don’t just die.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
lol there’s some amazing behaviour going on. From a Reddit thread:With the truck I keep hitting the order limit trying to be too efficient. I'm running my own sorting facilities piling up goods in private lockers to be shipped on together.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
Things i have never done:- a “premium” delivery- used the sticky gun- used any lethal weapon (at least not on purpose)- fabricated a truck- cancelled an order- redeployed cargo- manually saved a game- changed the difficulty- used an EX grenade to any effect at all. Seriously they don’t do anything as far as i can tell???
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
premium deliveries are easy, select them by default and you'll meet the requirements almost everytime
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
omg oh well.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
oh and i never used the otter hat!! i should try it out on the waterfall :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
conan o'brien's v disappointed in me i imagine
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
you can equip both the otter and the cap at the same time, otter only kicks in when needed
― chihuahuau, Sunday, 2 February 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
pro tip: resting by sitting down saves the game without having to jump into the menus
switching the game to hard mode and then doing some premium deliveries (even easy ones) gives you achievements and, I believe, helps you rank up locations faster. the latter point may be wrong as I started really bulking up on cargo around the same time
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 2 February 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
premium deliveries also worth it because time means nothing for the majority of normal deliveries so doing them quickly gives you nothing
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 2 February 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
what's the deal with the pee mushrooms, is that a reference I don't get or just something funny?
― StanM, Sunday, 2 February 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
Don’t they eventually grow into cryptobiotes? Or did i just make that up?I got into a habit of peeing on other people’s mushrooms for some reason. /weirdo
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 February 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
keep on keepin' on!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
i like rebuilding roads. it's so satisfying to zoom from place to place on the highway.
― na (NA), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
I severely underrated how fun the bikes are for too long. Sure, trucks are great for lots of cargo. Speeding your way across the landscape on the bike? Now we're talking
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link
the bikes can go pretty much anywhere as well. even up the matterhorn or whatever it is.
the exposition got insane. there was just hours of it. i started skipping it. so now i have no idea what the story was supposed to have been. i liked it better when it was sort of unexplained tbh so i guess this is my way of preserving the mystery :) i still think there is phenomenal scope for the story to go forward. sam and mama leading a resistance against bridges and the UCA.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
love to do the patient 75 degree vertical angle zig zag up a craggy slope for 90 seconds only to fuck up at the end and plummet to a cargo scattered embarrassment. i know that sounds sarcastic but i really did love it
― adam, Monday, 3 February 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
see i did that once on foot and then put the game down permanently. i think it takes a type.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
it gets easier with the all-terrain exoskeleton and powered gloves
there was one delivery where... damn did I screw it up. pretty sure frostbite was involved
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
i wonder if there should be an 'extra hard' difficulty setting. needing to stealth the fuck out of mule camps for instance. or having to do speed runs. or getting a C grade for any damage at all. (for all the difference that makes, lol. when i had to deliver to cryptobiotes to fragile i destroyed 99% of the cargo and still the story advanced and i didn't see any actual downside)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
Did yall see this yet? https://kotaku.com/hiking-gets-even-harder-in-death-stranding-when-the-con-1841429693
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Monday, 3 February 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
oh my god. i love it.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 February 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
fwiw there's another soundtrack on streaming now of more music from the game
I get the impression the prior two (original score and Timefall) were material Sony had the license for and the new one, which is 3/4 tracks by Low Roar, are Kojima's picks
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
I wanna get this game so much but it is very expensive atm
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
If you can wait some months the price will drop quite a bit. I'm personally going to wait till it reaches $20 before I consider buying it.
― Charlotte Brontesaurus (Leee), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about the plot on the way back from lunch and, although contrived in a very Kojima-esque way, it's kind of an amazing rumination on loss and the different ways people cope
otoh, it's a little overwrought because -- as I said before -- nearly everyone integral to the plot has a bleak backstory
― caucus fricked iowa account (mh), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link