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

The zip lines in the mountains for me were sparse enough and rightly placed enough to bounce off of them with my own additions.

Haven’t picked this up since X-Mas, I wonder if the building deterioration is based on game time or real time?

This is still easily my favorite game of the year. Wanna get back in.

i want skis so bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnJMElfDItc&feature=emb_title

can't see that YouTube, but you can kinda snowboard on those floating carriers

lol yes that's exactly what this guy did. he created a "ski resort" with rails and jumps for floating carriers. try this:

https://youtu.be/mnJMElfDItc

that ski slope is excellent!

God I would love a proper skiing minigame though. FUCK

I like that there really *aren't* minigames within the game? The closest we get is the encounters with the larger BTs and a very brief segment in one of the endgame boss battles.

Even the BT encounters aren't really any different than normal gameplay

fwiw my version of hell was when I was half-asleep and did some extended mountain hiking using the wrong damn exoskeleton. The all-terrain one is incredibly essential. The warming packs really help, too.

i guess by minigame i just mean that i dream one of these preppers will present me with a blueprint for some skis. and then i will just ski the fuck out of those mountains

i haven't gotten the warmers yet. something to look forward to! am using the gloves but i can't tell a difference.

man some of these autopavers need a LOT of stuff.

the gloves do help with traction. the boot upgrades are gradual enough you don't notice too much, but they also help. i've also got some CHIRAL BOOTS now

fuckin MULES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I64CF3SR0k

I wonder if anyone's tried eradicating the MULEs from their game by blowing them all up and making runs to the incinerator

I've read game forum posts where this exact speculation has occurred but afaict no one has actually tried it!

(You can make runs to the black crater lake as well if you need to, right?)

Yeah, incinerators and the lake are your two disposal methods

One of the craftsmen has a bunch of chiralium-corrupted cargo outside his location that you can take to the lake to dump and get an achievement and karma

What's your opinion on bot deliveries? I used to max him out but I started feeling humiliated by the C and B ratings so I had to bench him. Fuckin guy.

It's not a bad way to passively (and slowly) increase your ranking for out-of-the-way places. I have been working on getting 5 stars at every location and bots gave me a good head start.

Alternately useful to increase material storage in an area where you might need mats.

Ah because increased stars of connection increase those materials there? Hmm. Still. I feel like I'm letting these people down. I see stuff like 'Rare painting. Damage level - 92%' And I'm like damn.

Things I have never done:

- Created a sign requesting something, much less done that and then gone back to see if someone's actually followed through on the request

- Killed anyone

- used a 'Bridge Link' or created a 'contract' with another online player

the bridge links/contacts are subtle enough to seem ephemeral given the amount of material that bleeds in naturally, tbh

Well, any time a place receives a delivery there are some materials added to their cache I believe. I'm not sure if increased star rating = increased material gain, I'm just gunning for 5 stars for fun and for the items and equipment upgrades you can get out of that.

I understand the hesitancy to send important or delicate sounding materials via bots though haha. I wish you could encounter them stumbling around in the wild.

xxp

increasing your ratings ups the maximum amount of materials a site can hold, but I'm unsure whether it ups the regeneration rate

man i suck at this game. still in chapter 2, trying to get to port knot city for the first time. it seems like i need the bike to get there with all my cargo, but the bike can't get through the terrain. so i try to walk and end up falling down cliffs with my overloaded cargo.

keep on keeping on

ropes and ladders, friend. ropes and ladders

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i like it

what begins in comedy ends in tragedy

I’m being a big dummy and running around my game where I finished the story in normal mode, now in hard mode

the big old BT fights are definitely meaner, and I’m more apt to run away. it’s like the first time I ran into two of those lion-looking jerks the first time, only now every fight is that stressful. and the timefall is much more punishing!

apparently there’s a backpack cover upgrade that I was unaware of that protects packages that don’t extend beyond the top of the bag! working on that

i was just being too cute about finding a route to avoid the BTs when the game at this stage is obviously trying to funnel me towards them. i made pretty good progress getting through them the other day (and finally figured out there some that don't appear like big floating humans but are instead wispier and harder to see) but then i turned off the console without saving by accident so now i get to do it all again. this game obviously rewards patience and i am not a patient person so i am likely going to continue to suck at it.

the BTs are annoying. later you get bombs and stuff that will “kill” them.

you can do a lot of evasion by crouching, walking slowly, and holding your breath at strategic times

yeah just slowing down and going around them pretty much always works.

mh have you ever cut their “umbilical” cord with the fancy new handcuffs?

don’t try and bust through on a trike tho cos it don’t work.

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

you don’t need to clear *all* of them to get through on the trike ime. but yeah, slow going.

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

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.

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.

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

also getting the cyborg skeleton thing has helped

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.

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

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.

i fuckin lost it when it turned into EA's xbox-era classic fight night

yes!!

get prepared for EVEN MORE EXPOSITION from here on out!

that’s not what i want. I just want to build roads, man.