See you on the beach - the thread for Hideo Kojima's DEATH STRANDING

Tracer, Igor was the guy in the truck with the corpse at the very beginning!

Ahhhh!

I've been trying to put a certain feeling into words and I think this is how one says this these days.. This game has big Tomb Raider 1 energy

I have yet to see a single pyramid-shaped breast

Kojima is still insanely bad at female characters, but I'm just shaking my head and sighing when that issue pops up

This game has big Tomb Raider 1 energy

this, to me, is the highest praise, so consider my interest in eventually playing this officially heightened

oh. that makes me much more interested.

womb raider (because babies (not sure where i'm going with this))

womb raider is a mission in this game, kind of

also my nickname in college

sorry

my phone tells me my copy is on the way, presumably on foot over the scenic tundra of brooklyn

https://www.polygon.com/videos/2019/11/11/20959269/unraveled-kojima-name-generator-death-stranding

Since it was announced I've continued to misread the game's name as "Death Standing," and given so much of the gameplay appears to be about finding your footing while traversing rough terrain, "Death Standing" kind of works!'

it's a strand game though

i love that the president's name is bridget strand. some morally bankrupt new media grad student should write something about kojima character names, aristotle's discussion of names in poetics, the relevant bit of the rise of the novel, and compare and contrast with the work of shigeru miyamoto (whose games feature character with much more "realistic" names inasmuch as they jibe with the contemporary social milieu of their settings).

like, are all porters named porter? and all bridges members named bridges? that doesn't seem to be the case based on the people sam interacts with.

I guess, with some exceptions, you can just run away from boss fights? I took down a creature summoned by a certain bad guy last night and later read a guide saying I could have just hopped my way out of there

I'd probably have a lot more of my blood if I had

In any case, I'm now in the middle of Episode 6

I'm in episode 5, episode 4 was the only real misstep so far, I really hated it--but it was very short.

hi i'm a guy with a metal skull mask named Die Hard Man, i'll be introducing you to your dying mother who is the president of the United States, please don't agitate her to the point of death aaaaaaaaaand okay you already have

I guess if you look at the figurines in your private room, you can replay the "detour" from episode 4.

I'm wondering if there will be any landscapes in the game that you can't revisit. I get the impression that everything's always open

Guys I realise this is really basic but it keeps raining on me and damaging my stuff. I have the ability to make post boxes, but they don't allow me to complete/entrust deliveries - is this something that gets unlocked later? For now I'm tromping around getting rained on and freaking out.

There also seems like way more lost cargo than I can reasonably get back to the Knot Cities but the completist in me sort of hates to leave them lying around.

You'll get a variety of options to help with package damage:
- Find an overhang or cave and take a nap
- Unlock the ability to make Timefall shelters you can sit under until it stops raining
- Weather station that adds a map layer with forecasts up to a half hour (I think) that let you plot routes around storms
- Drive a truck that's enclosed, keeping all your cargo dry
- Run around blasting cargo repair spray at your back

I haven't been delivering hardly any lost cargo because in heavily trafficked areas it's everywhere

I kind of gave up on caring about perfect, undamaged cargo deliveries after getting the DELIVERY ROBOT. I'm guessing I need to upgrade it, but the ability to have small tasks done by a couple robots is nice, even if they get B/C grades

I'm also weirded out by the fact the way the cargo bot walks seems like of sexy, like it struts and swings its robot hips?

trace you are gonna have to make peace with not picking everything up, just look for stuff that's going your way.

i always give myself a good spritz of container repair spray before making a delivery. S rank after devastating S rank over here.

the delivery bot's little shoes fucking ruin me every time

dispatching it on deliveries and shaking my head in shame as it cheerily bounds up the ramp

"the delivery bot's little shoes fucking ruin me every time"

lol same

thing is there's container damage and then there's item damage, right? do you get docked points for container damage?

i was confused by the repair spray stuff at first as it didn't seem to be fixing up my damaged items. was overlooking the fact that it's called CONTAINER repair spray.

i feel like it factors in but i button mash thru those delivery summary screens until i get to the little "numbers increasing" sound and let the dopamine hit.

re: post boxes

i think they only allow to do deliver or entrust "lost" cargo. the stuff you find in the field that's been dropped by others.

You'll get a variety of options to help with package damage:
- Find an overhang or cave and take a nap
- Unlock the ability to make Timefall shelters you can sit under until it stops raining
- Weather station that adds a map layer with forecasts up to a half hour (I think) that let you plot routes around storms
- Drive a truck that's enclosed, keeping all your cargo dry
- Run around blasting cargo repair spray at your back

As a non-player, this is the type of content I'm looking for here

The dynamic with gear upgrades is interesting in that some of the main storyline missions unlock new types of gear, but it's optional side missions that enhance it or provide different functionality

I felt dumb that I was given the ability to set up zipline stations and then immediately forgot! They're a pretty powerful way to get around once you have the resources to set them up.

the game doesn't care about container damage on delivery, only contents damage (i think that's what it's called). the higher the container damage the more damage the contents takes when you stumble etc. and that's what you need to worry about. mostly this just means bringing repair spray and using it if the container gets too damaged from timefall etc but it's not a big deal

can't believe someone posted the kojima name generator but nobody posted their kojima name, i have to rip off half of someone's name because i am a clone

(my current name is OLD COPPER DESIGNER btw in case you too are a clone and need to jack part of my name)

Have a suspicion a lot of these conveniently placed structures are game placed and not user placed.

you don't think other players would build theirs in convenient places?

There have been a few desperate oasis moments where it seemed too perfect, but I’m OK with the mystery.

having spent way too long yesterday finding the perfect spots to a place zip lines and set up a transportation network, I resent the implication it’s all the computer!

just one more road segment to complete and the Lake Knot City to South Knot City highway will be back online!

so many materials

Is this a niche game or something that anyone and everyone would enjoy?

You must be kidding

No. The prerelease narrative was all about qualifying whatever enjoyment it offered, mentioning its antifun tedium and insane Kojima storytelling.

there were at least an equal number of gushingly positive reviews that didn't get factored into that narrative

small spoiler: Heartman, when you meet him, just keeps talking

And that's what I'm trying to figure out! Which experience most closely aligns to my tastes?

i haven't played it yet but reading threads about it reminds me most of the breath of the wild release with how people are excitedly relaying anecdotes of things they found or things that happened to them and are just generally mindboggled at the game existing as it is

I’ve read a few things drawing parallels to breath of the wild! It makes me want to check it out if I delve back into Nintendo’s ecosystem

I mean, Death Stranding itself was a third movie, two thirds game. I'm really not sure the dial needs to be moved any further

every kojima game has something goofy involving a guy using a toilet

The mobile version adds another level of difficulty to the game. I made it to chapter 1 though