IM SAM!
>>737770989Whats IMSAM
Woah I am also sam!
Hey me too!
Hey I'm Sam too!
>>737770989AND I'M DOLLMAN
>>737770989Me too!
death stranding threads never last here, what a failure of a game.
Nice meeting you. My name is Fourchanman
>>737770989that looks dangerous, he can slip and fall
>>737775680SHUT THE FUCK UP>>737775728Did you miss all the ones that reached bump limit for a month after pc release?
hey mine's heavier!
>>737775849To be fair, the threads in the last few weeks have struggled to autosage.
>>737770989Sam I am!Do you like green eggs and ham?
>>737776315True. Most people who wanted to discuss the story are done. Only MULEs are left
shake it, baby >:)
I refuse to buy DS2 until Kojima gives us racing vehicles. Those roads look so yummy. Seem wasted on silly utility vehicles, yuck.
>>737778651>roadster on level 2 roads>mfw turning
Reminder that Higgs did nothing wrong
VOID OUT VOID OUT PORTERS WAR NOW
I'm Redfield
I'm Wario
Eтo я, Heчaeв!
>>737775680That's the last time.
>>737773030A korean dish
crazy how all the fans of this game disappeared overnight
shake the baby
>>737770989I'M JUST SAMANYWHERE ELSE I'D BE A 10
A BLOODY UTE
If you're going to use teleportation bullshit, then I'm just going to scarf down chronobiotes.
>tfw missed the pc threads
I really really don't want to complete the entire highway offline but my autism says otherwise
>>737787450If you choose the "only some" shared in the online options, you don't get any shared structures, but you do get help with roads.
This game has some immaculate vibes sometimes. I'm hiking up through the cloud layer listening to CHVRCHES - Death Stranding. I jump on a zipline, the clouds clear, the chorus starts, and the giant moon starts to reveal itself as I rise. And then I ruin the moment by going into photo mode.
>>737770989>I'm specifically Sam Delivers Packages. That's my full birth name. Just ask my friends Star Wars Episode 5 The Empire Strikes Backman and Tim.
>>737776981>Only MULEs are leftOh god that is so true. I am beating up people just trying to survive in order to steal their belongings and deliver to other people. What have I become...It's time to put on the yellow jump suit.
The whole game was absolute kino. I literally clapped at the end.
sam is sooo old in this game.
>>737770989
>Just finished the first DS>waiting for price drop on the the new game>nothing to play in the meantime
>>737784350>cute white woman stare
wen director cut
>>7377976422 years after the main game and 3 years before physint comes out.
>>737797706
I hope Kojima keeps the limited cargo mechanic for weapons and gadgets in physint.
>>737782187kek this happened to me earlier.
Why do I hate The Pioneer so much? Every time I see his ugly face I just want to smack him around.
>>737798485Smack him in the face, smack him on the ass, he doesn't give a fuck!
I can't stop picking up other player's lost cargo. So much trash just lying around
>>737798723
>>737787145It's over then. Shit's been said and it's not a controversial game or anything.
>>737800891I don't think enough has been said about Death Stranding 2.How it's kind of a gnostic piece. How it's a Photorealistic Anime featuring cute girls doing cute things. How it couldn't have possibly been mainstream since it's so Specific, it doesn't meet players where they stand but instead takes them on a delirious ride unique to one man's particular arrangement of worldviews. I can equip 12 different pairs of glasses, none of them confer stat benefits though they all bloc direct and reflected sunlight. Maybe the game connects on an utterly personal level and that makes society level discussion more difficult?
So was anyone else expecting a distro center to go "WARNING WARNING CHIRAL CONTAMINATION DETECTED" at some point?
>>737802184>radioactive sam entering shelters with no decontamination
So what's the deal with BPAS? And what is the Metagen's 21minute syndrome? I've 5 starred them both and did all their aid requests, but nothing. And I'm certain I didn't skip any conversations.
>>737798485TAKE A LOAD OFF MY DUDE>>737805060I thought BPAS would be revealed to be an AI but there's nothing about him>metagen's 21 minutes syndromeIsn't it her vision gets really sharp and she can see really far away, or is that her sister's ? I don't remember
>>737805978Cryptobiologist is the super vision (it's in an SSS post).
PIZZA
>>737775680Everybody loves Dollman!
>>737800891TAH. I just wanted to play and shitpost along my fellow porters, worst part is I was hoping for a PC release for a long time, but thanks to real life happenings I had no time for the internet so I missed the announcements AND the threads
>>737808668>SAM LETS TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!>SAM SEE THAT GEAR YOU DROPPED? IT WILL TEACH OTHER PORTERS NOT TO BE AS RETARDED AS YOU!
>>737808786What's keeping you from playing and shitposting RIGHT NOW
>>737808996>>737808996That's exactly what Im doing rn, delivering the musician order as we speak.Also Im playing on "hard" but there's another difficulty, can't remember the name but it's something that sounds REALLY hardcore so I skipped it, but to be honest the description of Hard sounds difficult but I have yet to encounter a challenging moment. I just wish this game was only walking and that your character just couldn't climb himself out of most situations, climbing is so op there's almost no point in ladders.
>>737809609To the wilder makes everything hit a lot harder during combat. Battery depletes faster too, but other than the combat it doesn't change that much to the delivering and environment unfortunately. Ladders can still be useful, especially now that you can combine two. I love that.>delivering to the musicianYou're going to see an old friend soon :^)
this game is shit
>>737813104ur shit
I am flying through my second run of DS2 because im only doing main orders, sub orders and aid requestsbut whats made a huge difference is from the beginning ive been setting aside all excess materials for the magellan, so when ive connected a bunch of knots the road is immediately built, and im already setting aside the ceramics and chemicals for lv2ive just got to the first weapons factory mission at 30 hours, im pretty sure on my first run i was at like 90 hours at this point lolbut as a consequence im not really getting many likes at all on my structuresso i loaded up playthrough 1 and holy shit my zipliness are getting love, i think one day a week im going to load up the first save and just deliver other players lost cargo, put down atmospheric guideposts, and donate the shitloads of materials from each prepper ive accumulated
Otspeko!
>>737782187an XL crate flew off the mountain like that once from a huge peak when i was doing a long mission whizzed right past my face i wonder if it could actually damage you
>>737813804Cargo avalanche as a proper mechanic and hazard sounds like a lot of fun
>>737809609>Also Im playing on "hard" but there's another difficulty, can't remember the name but it's something that sounds REALLY hardcore so I skipped itIf you're talking about DS1 and you're not playing on Legend of Legends or Legend of Legend of Legends you're just making a mistake. There's virtually no difference outside of maybe getting knocked out by a mule or killed by a BT one hit earlier (Which you will never do because you're not going to be encountering BTs ever) and having the batteries and equipment wear out slightly faster. This only matters for the very intro of the game and the instant you get past the intro there's no difficulty since you can just Bola Gun every MULE in the head instantly and for BTs you, again, are not going to be encountering them or just sneaking past them, and even then you very quickly get blood grenades and a way to kill them even quicker on top of stealth kills.Seriously though, if you are encounter BTs past the first few hours or the introduction of a new area you're at fault because you should already have a bridge set up above their spawn point so you can just ignore it, a zipline set up to never see them again, or a shortcut so you never even go near their areas. Simple example, if you're encountering a BT at all going to the Weather Station or Timefall Farm that's your fault. If you're encountering a BT at all going to the Chiral Artist that's your fault.
i cant find any information on sams hunger meter in this gamehow do you fill him up? what does it do? i only get somewhat satiated from the cryptobiotes in the safe roomthe digestive spring in this game seems to only increase the amount of health/stamina restored from eating and drinking
>>737805978you can actually get her sharp vision as an effect from the chiral spring above where the magallan breaks down in the mountains
>>737798723most of the cargo lying around isnt from other players, you can check by holding dpad up and hitting cargo management when standing beside itits msotly just npc cargo
hes always watching
>>737814079What does it do gameplay wise ?
>>737814291you can identify materials and cargo from a farther distance instead of having to spam the odradek
>>737814338Sounds useful. Too bad it's always fucking snowing in that place, I was able to use that spring a grand total of once in 200 hours
>>737813104This nigga doesn't even have a Ha, let alone a Ka, broke ass bitch
>>737814426just build a timefall shelter beside it and have a quick nap
>Get to the musician>go down to the lake>there's a shrine in the distance>decide to investigate thinking maybe something will happen>nothing happens
What's your kojima name anon?Me? I'm virginchadman
>>737815443some shrines like that manifest a huge amount of chiral crystals below them but yeah i think one of the few issues i have with DS is that its rarely worth exploring, a lot of cool locations wont activate anything unless youre directed to them by a mission
>>737815932Cringe Basedman
>>737815932IM CHUDMAN!
>>737817098HEY, ME TOO!
>>737813970An anon said his Sam became fully satiated but i think he was being a liar and a faggot.Maybe if you never shower, eat all the biotes on top of an apple and go to the hotspring?
Cargo cannons are the weirdest structure, where did you build yours?I don't know what to do with them.
>>737817787You get in them, and then you shoot yourself around the map
I'M HIGGS!
>>737770989Hey, my name's Samefag too!
>>737818245>I'M HI-ACK!!!
>>737818386FUCK YOU SAMLuv u burn u next week
>>737817787I use them for combat. You can turn it into a bomber if you filll it with grenades
>>737818245HEY I'M HIGGS TOO>bombs nearest knot
Higgs? More like jobbs
>>737817787I had a zipline high above the aeronautical engineer, id use a canon to shoot myself up to it instead of building another zipline Theyre mostly for flavor and trolling enemies, although that face of mountain by the chronobiologist is a good spot to fire off
So, if I 5 star a settlement I just ignore all the random cargo on the ground, right?
>>737820478Damaged goods
>>737820621Pretty much yeah, some settlements will give you extra shit for the more stuff you dump off. But honestly it's not worth it.
>>737820946Actually, the only one I can admit is worth it is the fancy boots in DS1.Because you can't craft those yourself.
>>737820946I miss NPCs giving you useful stuff like compressed/lightweight materials, chiral ladders and all for every LLL rank delivery. In 2 they rarely ever give you things and when they do it's stuff you dont need or equipment you're already carrying
>>737773030IMmersive SAMulation
>100 hours>been playing for a month>just got to this partporterbros am I retarded
>>737821260Compressed/lightweight materials got replaced by mines and simply being able to use ZestHardMan's ship to easily move shit around.Absolute boot replaces the golden boot you use to be able to get in DS1.Chrial ladders are now meh because the new chiral bridges you can easily set up to drive trucks over gaps
I just realized that holding your breath is a skill because that's what whales do
>>737821608Maybe, Im doing the same but only because I want to 5 star every place and the fucking Lone Commander drops are ultra rare for some reason
>>737822338Are you doing his missions too?Some places will lock the star rating until you do certian missions for them. Even when the receiver is there.
Well, fuck me.I'm 94 hours and just about to head to Terminal Fort Knot. Seems like the game is almost over with them telling me this is the final location but I haven't even got F7 online, which I've found but don't have an order for.
>>737822736Don't fall for it
>>737821608DS2 only took me me 40hours story wise.DS1 took me 60 hours on LLL, but another 60 to do all 300 deliveries. Plus another 10 for the extra 40 in the directors cut.Now I'm 110 hours into DS2 with 302 into the wilder completions. So nah, honestly it just comes down to how many side orders you bother to pick up.
>>737770989ORE WA SAMMU DA
>>737821746I liked getting this extra stuff. Getting a single repair spray after 6 billion deliveries sucks
Does killing the BTs in the timefall zones in the postgame with QPid on permanently kill them or just for a long while? Game seems to say its permanent until you turn the thing off
somehow, Death Stranding threads are actually good
Its actually more enjoyable than I thought delivering other players lost cargo and donating mats and equipment around the map after 400 TTW 100% clear I feel like I can just totally relax doing it.They dropped the ball with online aid requests though, I conpletely ignored them as soon as I saw they were automated, meaning the majority of them might not even be players in need of something the game just thinks they are.Never turned it on myself.
>>737823690I don't think the usual schizos derailing every new game's threads care about Death Stranding for whatever reason so we tend to just get left alone to our own devices. DS threads are honestly some of the best threads you'll find on /v/.
>Go to bandit outpost>METAL>METAL>METAL>METALBro, I just want some Chemicals
do australians like DS2?
I dropped an unused silenced sniper rifle into the ring of an online aid request beside a bandit campIt clearly never accepted it because when I was out of range I got told it was Lost Cargo
>>737823926did you try the chemical camp, the one with the chemicals and a chemical mine?
>>737823929I feel like I would but I'm fencesitting because the game costs... AUD 124.95. Loved DS1 though.
>>737822130KOJIMAAAAAA
>>737824000No, Im still on the Ceramic mine area
>>737820621
so this was like, oceanfront property before the death stranding? or is it just mummified beach towers?
>>737823946You have to send the cargo after dropping it
>>737823884There is one guy but he always gets ignored.
>>737823574Just for a bit. Qpid on means everything will respawn>>737823946You need to press a button within the area of the aid request to send the cargo you put down
>>737826583I delete the structures I've built once I hit 5 stars....... only to find out I need to head back to Heartman's Lab after reaching F6.... I had a nice zip line to her too......
>>737826778Why would you ever delete your own structures ?
i said on my second playthrough i would focus more on jump ramps but man its harder to settle on a good route than it is with zips
>>737775680>throws you against a rock five times
>>737776315this is such a boring way to play the game. the game gives you so many crazy tools to take on enemies and you use the fucking silenced sniper rifle
>>737784350So what the fuck was up with this scene? I just got it and picked Fragile but then Sam wakes up like nothing happened. I get Sam having nightmares but that one was particularly weird
>>737827274Needed more zip lines, I was setting up the entire mountain with zip lines. I started deleting structures that were set up next to 5 Star shelters. I figured I would no longer need them. I had a nice zip line route leading up to Heartman's Lab but I deleted thinking I wouldn't need to go back there.
>>737789438It’s no Death Stranding 1, but it’s still a very beautiful game. Shame going into photo mode kinda ruins the mood sometimes though. I wish photo mode would at least have diegetic ambient noise playing even while the world is frozen in time
Just witnessed the Dollman dance scene for the first time ever, nigga is growing on me
>>737827774i had a lot of zip lines but never came close to running out of networkyou dont have to build them literally everywhere you know
>>737798485He has a punchable personality. It’s like he acts cool and like he’s hot shit but at the same time he lives in alone in a bunker and his only friend is a man who’s shot a flying whale.
>>737801842This is how I felt about the first game. It feels like Kojima handcrafted the game personally for me, as retarded as that sounds. The story, the characters, the deliveries, the combat, the world, the music, it was all perfectly cherry-picked to appeal to me personally. Whereas other players dislike certain aspects of the game, I enjoyed it for everything it was. The second game is extremely fun too, but there was more of those things certain players didn’t like, even though I also like everything about the game just like the first one (except Dollman obviously)
>>737827920Forgot to mention that I'm playing with no other player structures. Building everything by myself. I was only using the zip lines to harder to reach areas like Heartman's Lab and Dowser. For example, zip lines moving along the mountain to Heartman's Lab. Once I hit the big mountain though, I set up zip lines that connected to everyone on the mountain, so I could go from Ghost Hunter to the Adventurer on zip lines. I got them set up all over the mountain lol
>>737812985kek
>>737813619Wish there was an easy way of starting a new game. I’m always worried about my previous playthrough getting written over.
>>737817787In the first game I built one by the Junker so I could shoot his tar-infested trash all the way to the tar lake
>>737827470Most of the crazy tools are more braindead than the tranq sniper rifle.>doesn't work on mechs>doesn't work on BTs >have to account for bullet drop>needs multiple body shots>needs multiple headshots on enemies with helmets>have to 5 star that cunt his retard mountain to get a silenced versionMeanwhile the bola stun gun for example>aim in the general area code of an enemy for an instant silent one shot
>>737821608I have 150 hours and I barely reached the Metagenomocist or however you say it. Had to run from that Hand BT but then I unlocked the pokeballs so the first thing I did was return to the BT and catch the fucker.
before the last death stranding thread ever archives i just want to say i really wanted to use this picture as a reaction image but i could never figure out the proper post to attach it to.
>>737828545>needs multiple body shotsNope. MGS rules apply. A shot to any part of the body will drain health until the NPC goes to sleep.
>>737828658I'm much farther than you and I've never seen a hand BT. The only ones I've faced are the Skull boss towards the beginning. The lion/dog BTs and the Lord of Tar Lake. How many different BTs are there?
>get the BT launcher for the ship>"You can kill people with it and it doesn't trigger a voidout!"Isn't this kind of a big deal? He says it so nonchalantly
>>737823884It’s a mix of both. On one hand you have people with Kojima Derangement Syndrome who shudder at this game’s mere existence, but on the other you have the most chill anons who just wanna drive a delivery truck in the post-apocalypse. It’s a hatecult balanced out by a comfy “community” of actual players
>>737826583 Me with the Elder only to come back 100 hours later to find out he fucking turns into a BT
This place is some kind of death trap or something. I guess someone put a trap ladder from above causing everyone to tumble at the end. Just look at this sea of items.
>>737828907Thought about that too>"Hey Sam, this weapon can genocide a whole camp of humans">"Oh but don't worry it won't cause a voidout!"Kinda fucked up inni't
>>737828834It’s roughly east of the Metagenomicist. I assume it was a scripted encounter since I didn’t get caught by any Gazer BTs, I just happened upon the area and the ground suddenly turned to tar and the Hand BT came out of nowhere without warning. Guessing you must’ve taken another route
>>737828907Dollman? He’s just like that. When you kill a human, he doesn’t seem to show any concern for the life lost, all he cares about is it triggering void outs. He doesn’t say it like “Sam! What the fuck is the matter with you? That’s a human being!”, he says it more like “Ugh, Sam, now you have to incinerate the body or else it’ll cause a voidout”
>>737829076wtf lmao
>>737817787
>>737827904That feeling will fade after you see his backstory cutscene
>>737828907>>737829480It was extremely tone deaf. I had just gone through 1 and 3/4ths of a game series that had taught me to never kill anyone and treat all human life as precious.Then suddenly I was given a weapon and the NPCs were saying, "Yeah this murders innocent people, but it's okay. Just fucking kill those bastards."Like dude, that's a bit fucked.
>>737818245That would've been pretty funny, rather than dollman's annoying shouting
>>737828834There's quite a few. They all have at least one spawn point, they will always appear if you go in their area without needing to get caught by spooky ghosts. Kheir has two, first is between the pizza chef and metagenomicist and second is near the mine in the desert, next to the ocean. Of course if your drawbridge qpid is off and you already killed them, they won't respawn.>>737829643He does have a line that's roughly UGH SAM YOU KILLED ANOTHER HUMAN BEAN.>>737829939It's weird how nobody gives a fuck. Also it's shit, doesn't work properly half the time.
>>737829943I can appreciate a voice actor getting into his role and portraying genuine excitement and emotion, but holy shit if there’s a game where you strap a talking yellow paint bucket with a nasal high pitched voice to your hips, it’s not fucking Death Stranding. Dollman is such an insufferable character
>>737815932>arnie isnt holding a cryptobiote or wearing the ludens sunglassesI am disappoint
>>737830584It's a fucking shame because the design is pretty cool, I like the low fps animations. He even gets a really nice music and all of that is ruined by having him never shutting the fuck up and having a retarded story on top of that
The ending of the second game was kino. I finished it last weekend on PC.
>>737830951It made no seeenssse! Ahhhh! Why didn't Deadman reveal himself at the earliest opportunity? If Deadman was hacking into the APAS servers, then why the fuck didn't he bump into Higgs or show up on the APAS beach?
>>737828248I beat the game but never got to a point where the moon was that big, where is it and how did I miss it?
>>737831143because higgs was too busy writing sam's name in the sand over and over againwhat makes the less sense is neil's bt making contact with sam triggering a massive void out
>>737828373all your structures are there in the matrix forever if that makes it any betterbut you should just keep two saves from your first run at the bottom of the save list
>>737828658on my first run i actually triggered the tar but the BT didnt show up so i just walked around the arena kekcame back later and was like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT BRO
>>737830951is reminders me of the arena where raiden fights the rays in arsenal gear
im actually surprised the community hasnt littered rainbow valley with lots of multicolored guideposts it would look sweet at night
the forbidden fruitsam couldnt even have a crumb...
Halfway through the game on PC and why aren't you fuckers helping with the roads
>>737831468The catcher does show up but he's covered in buildings, like that sea creature who uses sea things to make its shell, forgot its name
>>737829076>>737829686It's where you rescue the adventurer so everybody drops their shit so they can pick him up.
>open shared locker>put all the materials in my private locker>recycle all the equipment>throw all the lost cargo in the nearest riverNot my problem
>>737831975Imagine if Sam and Tomorrow developed a romantic relationship.
>>737832438sam's too old
>>737832558What do you mean? When is a man too old to fuck women?
I saw a post calling Death Stranding 2 soulless even though it's absolutely unfair because it clearly has its own soul. It's Metal Gear Solid 2 all over again. Complaining DS2 doesn't have the same music, landscape, ambience and tone is precisely like complaining about not playing as Solid Snake, boy you know you did trash MGS2 just for that, but nowadays you wouldn't call MGS2 soulless or "not metal gear". MGS2 is fundamentally like MGS1 and DS2 is fundamentally like DS1.
>>737833074It's worse because it's too easy. Too "assessable".DS2 needed its map to present more of a challenge. We needed more Doctors, Collectors and (holy shit) more Windfarms. We needed more difficult delivery locations, you know?
Did anyone but the......tablet?
roadster whenranked orders whenrobot buddies whenracing track when
>>737833474but
>>737832049on my second playthrough i literally walk up to the autopaver with a truck full of materials and it tells me i only need 150 ceramicsfor fucks sake it was thousands my first time
>>737833474>3,699 dollaroosfinally some competition for the gabecube.
>>737833515
>>737832078wtf ive tried to interact with the apple and the stick but it wont let me do anything
>>737833386We're not ready for my argument. It's too soon but one day neither of us will mind the terrain anymore.For now i agree anyway because a nice walkable slope transforms the cliffs into backdrops and mere scenery is the last thing the landscape should be in Death Stranding.
>>737832394even inadvertently indians will turn a beautiful landscape into a trash heap shithole
On ep7 now, first time playing and on wilder difficulty. Genuinely what a fantastic game.
>>737782187
>>737833474No, I bought the spicy sauce
>>737833836Kek
>>737834529so that's why they always stink, even water repels them
You did take LOTS of pictures of your daughter, for memories of course, r-right /v/?
>>737835252Imagine the chiral sweat.
>>737831975doesn’t he eat an apple at some point?
I played this game on my birthday and all the other Sams in the nearby signs and structures wished me a happy birthday whenever I called out. Also when I got in the Magellan I was greeted by the most kino 4th wall break ever. Then Sam ate a pizza in his room. It almost tops Cliff wishing you happy birthday in the first game. These games are good to me, man
>>737836278
>>737836329Cute claps
>>737834529Realism...
>>737832049It’s the opposite for me, stop building my roads, you fucks. Building roads is like one of my favorite things to do in both games
>>737832428kek. Honestly though, they still get likes for you taking their materials and equipment, and the cargo probably just gets assigned to another porter, so you’re ultimately doing more good by doing that than by just leaving it in the locker
please make sure your seatbelt is securely fastened before takeoff
>>737833074>>737833386I agree with both posts. DS2 obviously has soul, you just can’t deny it. However, it’s missing a lot of the magic from the first game. I don’t just mean the tone and the plot, it’s fine if a sequel isn’t an exact clone of the first game. But DS2 feels like DS1 with its edges sanded off. Like Kojima caved to the retards that got filtered by the first game and decided to meet them halfway. That’s why Australia feels so flat in comparison - why basically every river is walkable, why there’s no ravine networks like the area south of the Junker, why there’s no giant cliffside shelters like the Doctor, why you have a doll strapped to your belt pointing out the obvious, why there’s a bigger focus on combat this time around. DS2 isn’t soulless, but the retard filter from the first game got taken off at the expense of the fans of the first game. I personally don’t mind the combat in DS2, but Australia is just so boring to hike through compared to America where you’d have the land itself forming your path, whereas in Australia you just walk in a straight line
>>737834529>Sam says the water feels nice as soon as the jeet flies out of itSubtle
Explain Hot Spring customization to meSo each Spring has a unique effect and you can add a bonus effect.But I just went in one there, got an effect i didnt expect.Came out and checked the terminal.The first of three slots was my secondary effectThe middle slot was empty another players name was listed on the bottom slot who apparently gave me the additional effect So is the middle slot another one I can unlock or for another player? Kinda crazy you can potentially have 4 effects running at once?
>>737838537I just replayed the first one and the biggest killer for me is no music player and having to manually fiddle the licensed music playlist on YouTube on and off The second biggest killer is the incinerator area is worthless, and the wetland beyond is absolute dog shit. They did a great wetland with mules at the first part of the map why make it ten times bigger and only have a mule truck occasionally patrol a fraction of it
>>737838924I've never seen the 3rd slot filled by an online player. I use it to put a chiralgram buddy. A lot of the extra effects aren't really important, the main benefit is restoring stamina. I can switch up my slot if I want cold resistance.
>>737835845I'm imagining
>>737839693>no music playerNTA.I agree, but it also makes you appreciate the paths with scripted music more. In DS1, you have to walk uphill in the rain, and when you are about to reach the top it clears up with a beautiful view, and as you head downhill, the music starts playing and it just hits you. In DS2 I only use the music player when I have to grind mats/reputation, not during main missions moments like that are worth it.
>>737823884Remember, remember, 2019 in November.Death Stranding received its rapetrain campaign it was VICIOUS.
>>737840954Yeah thats great for the main story, absolutely unbearable for doing anything else.I dont use the music player for main missions in DS2 either just incase
>>737841224https://youtu.be/2Hy87yKfXn0This was absolutely brutal, dunkey also shit on it at first but came around to appreciate it
>>737826640Gotta be beach towers, thanks i didn't think of it. I guess the ocean got compressed into tar or something.
>>737839693>not liking wetlandsNgmi
>>737827920>offline>43.500 bandwidth>feeling the pressure
I just met Rainy, shit was so kino
I have zip line fatigue
>>737838537I think it's mainly due to two reasons. - No Low Roar which was responsible for the majority of the mood/vibe/atmosphere of DS1. Look at the very first Death Stranding trailer and how important the song 'I'll Keep Coming' was for example.- DS2 doesn't really have the 'sequel-twist' you come to expect from Kojima. Probably because DS2 started out as DLC. Furthermore Kojima admitted that he changed the script halfway through so a lot of the story beats feel underdeveloped.I like DS2, as a videogame it's better to play than DS1. But DS1 was wholly original and the music of that game was a lot more poignant.
>>737828185In DS2 i used to agonize over the redundant selection of weapons not being balanced, too many guns and some were better than others.I had to let go to realize like in real life there are too many guns to own and people choose a few firearms they like according to their fetishes.Enjoyment of DS is a function of alignment with Kojipro's train of thought, in gameplay and story because there is a logic to the madness of the game.Both stories are about humans using systems as tools and the games are choke full of systems and tools for the players to use. It's not random it makes sense.
>>737831285Sam was carrying Lucy who was not a repatriate.
>>737843369Lucy was a corpse, void outs don't occur with corpses
>30 minutes to rescue and deliver the Kangaroo>whole trip takes about 5 minutesWhat?
>>737831360>begin new save file>receive Likes from structures in other saves>APAS knows you>all registered lives have been linked
>>737842196DS1 being poignant is the word i use as well.DS2 is just for fun, it says "'whatever lol".
>>737841327No i meant on /v/ in threads by anons and the counter-positivity was just as aggressive in return.Who cares about what youtubers think, they were shocked by a strange game, the youtube review phenomenon was something other.
>>737843618Then how come void outs occur with corpses when you don't incinerates your kills?
What are the chances that Kojima's OD will be as good as Death Stranding 2?
>>737845215If left on its own long enough, a corpse will go necro and a BT will emerge from it. You can see it happen in game, at least in 1. If you kill a MULE and leave the corpse there in the camp among his alive buddies, the BT will end up touching one of them causing a void out
>>737838537Death Stranding is a rope game.Death Stranding 2 is a stick game.
>>737845215The corpses become BTs which void out on some unsuspecting porter. If we only had automated porters this would not
>>737845595sticks are fun. we need more sticks
>>737845632Shut the fuck up president
>>737845516I trust Kojima to deliver a fun game.
I feel like DS2's biggest sin is not elaborating more on how Sam is/was a bridge baby. That means he predates Lou by decades, is this a plot hole?
>>737845686which ones are these? I tried them and they just bounced off enemies.
shit myself after a long trek to deliver and build the hot spring, forgot i had a higgs holo on the jump ramplooked up and thought it was some enemy on the loose for a second
>>737846047There are lots of plot holes in DS2 because it ignores established lore if it makes for a better scene. Like Deadman dies and goes to the beach, but shouldn't be able to coherently interact with Sam and co. The beach is supposed to be purgatory. Souls linger there temporarily before moving on to the afterlife. Troubled souls life Cliff/Neil linger there for a while until whatever trauma resolves. Deadman should be gone to the afterlife, but we need Del Taco to make funny scenes so he gets to stick around. DS2 focuses a lot more on the spectacle than the first entry. You really need to just go along for the Ride® with Norman Reedus.
>>737846308just the basic rods
>>737846485Based higgs still trolling sam
>>737846667Oh i don't have those yet.
>>737846818You should have gotten them from La Madre, it's like the first reward (maybe it's the second).
what do you call the yellow bag? a man purse? I want to buy one irl.
>>737847093I wanted to say it's a courier bag, but no it's a sling bag.
>>737847190thx
Its retarded you cant op to drink all your cans in one cutscene
>>737846968kek i forgot all about Mexico. Guess I'm going to have to go back there once I get the Magellan moving again..... if it moves at all, I'm supposed to head to Terminal Knot at this point.
i like that the street lights flicker in BT swamps
>>737848769you can stroll through the plate gate
Brilliant game with stunning graphics but man they put no effort into the physics aspect. The vehicles all handle like absolute garbage and even just walking often gets retarded. In spite of that though, still having a blast with the game, up to 65 hours in my first playthrough.Also, I finally saw that weird santa claus thing.
what difficulty should i play ds2 on when i get it? anything below very hard in ds1 felt like baby mode
>>737848160Speaking of that, what's the deal with the hunger system? They never explain anything about sam's hunger. They just let you eat a couple bugs and give a message about being mildly satiated.
>>737833785The stick doesn't do anything. It's just there as a lame decoration.
>>737849753Go straight to To The Wilder. The only thing semi-difficult are the first few bosses, because they are damage sponges. It's less of an issue later when you get better weapons.
>>737849656I was on a zipline and it came within 10ft of me it was spooky and loud
>>737849823you vill eat ze bugs
>>737778651Really wish we had DS1's motorcycle. Or hell, the model is already in-game, let us use the Neil and his boyband's Honda motorcycles for fucks sake.
>>737851629Give me a repurposed ghost mech bike or give me death
>>737815932I'm ColdSteelman. Why? Well, funny story, see I'm always carrying a Cold Steel blade in my BED pack everywhere I go, and the name sort of stuck.I also wear a lot of eyeliner and I love Nine Inch Nails (the band), but I hate nine inch nails (on fingers).
>>737831230something about chiralium making the atmosphere distorted. Doesn't always happen
>>737852230oh forgot pic
>>737814079You can? I thought it just repaired your stuff.
>>737815932Pathetic Loserman. No life. Alone. Forever.
>>737848769once you unlock sub orders its a good idea to 4 star most of mexico. They give you pretty good rewards and its not much effort with a trike
>>737852360I don't remember making this post
>>737833780Those two are fucking, aren't they?
So does more of Mexico unlock? Or is it just the like 8 or so outposts and that's it? I want to find Tijuana, ese, but attempting to travel past La Madre just grains the screen and pulls back until it hits an invisible wall.Granted, I only tried after going to Australia the first time, and now I'm several chapters in but haven't returned to check.
>>737852497In real life? yes>>737852880No. I was expecting to come back after Australia and the left side of the map would open up, but no.
>>737852360don't be so hard on yourself Deadman
>Had 800,000 likes>Next day at 9,800,000T-Thanks, now everyone will see my vertical ladders going up the waterfall like a idiot
All done.
>>737853317>Should we have connected?
>>737853490(You) are now a trve porter
when I see lost cargo for the adventurer I pick it up, calmly walk towards the nearest wall and throw it at it until its broken
>>737853961NO. I would have happily taken an infinite ammo silenced pistol over 9,000,000 likes.
so rare but so awesome https://x.com/i/status/2049025579836731770
>>737829643No it's the Tar Therapist that gives you the thing. Dollman doesn't shut up when I hack a bandit to pieces.
Sequel when?
it's droning time
>>737858231Probably never and if we do get DS3 it will not be directed by Kojima because he will be in retirement.
>>737858906ok where do you get the golden color? Figured it was from the artist but she just gave some silly paintings.
>>737859454it's DS1, collector's backpack rank 2 I'm too poor for DS2... for now...
>>737787145i speedran the last 1/4 of the game, which already took up pace, to be able to open ds threads, as they are full of spoilers...only to find out they become more rare each day..
>>737860471Why would you worry about spoilers? The game is nothing if not entirely predictable. It's more about execution than surprises and twists.
>>737859454Fisherman
>>737858231Hopefully not with Tomorrow. I don't want OP dooms powers or have the story beholden to availability of Hollywood actors. I want someone to come in fresh with their own ideas for the setting/genre, but I don't trust the Creatividad to stay out, even if retired.
>>737845686YOU RED SPEAR CHUCKING PIECE OF SHIT PORTER
>>737776315what's the point of the bullet drop compensation reticule if the bullet doesn't drop?
Hate how two walking sticks are optimal hiking gear even though it makes me look stupid. Even with an exo-skelly, i'd just have that + walking sticks for even more walking power. If only optimization could also be cool.
...yuck
>>737817787The cannon's main feature is that it rotates 360°, this is the edge it has over the zipline.They're weird because you don't build cannons "at things" unlike other structures, build them between points of interest. Building them high up effectively increases their range.
are the mules, bandits or whatever any smarter in the sequel?
>>737815443>he doesnt know
>>737865956They're still pretty dumb, but they get new abilities.
>>737853490moby dick? more like MORE DICK
>>737782187Can you please tie a rope around the cargo on the carrier FFS.
>>737829851I used to hate him for the constant interruptions. But once I saw that and realised what a massive retard he was I despised him even more.
>>737832202Hermit Crab
SO HERE I SAMDOING EVERYTHING I'M SAM
>>737833074I like 2 but finding convenient spots I could easily fit a truck through EVERYWHERE really made me appreciate 1 more.
>>737832428>open shared locker>take the free 8x ceramics 320 someone donated, game now thinks they are yours>be at end game so don't need em anymore>immediately share them to the same shared locker again>free 1000+ green likesThey really made the bridge link ranks grindy this time. I got to bridge link rank 93 in DS1 while in this I'm barely reaching 75. I'm doing something wrong
>>737868146HOLDING ON TO L2 AND R2PRETENDING THAT HEY I'M SAM TOO
>>737841881Good. Finally you can join me in my anti-zipline club.>Omg I can press one button and then sit like a retard for 20 seconds while the game plays itself and I bypass the terrain completely
Post em'
>>737868468Do people really care about how many upvotes they have?
This game is alright
>>737781881wth was capcom thinking?
>>737868630Yes. Duh.
>>737837693Wtf
So all you do in this game is delivering cargo and fighting bandits? I am only 2 hours in, but it's really boring so far compared to KDC2 or stalker games.
>>737871360It's also about paving paradise to put up a parking lot
Why don't Death Stranding fans just take a walk outside? It's free, you know.
>>737871473And risk running into scary black creatures that chase you down and void out your wallet? No way
>>737871742The woods and mountains filter them.
>>737815932Whisky LivermanIt kinda sounds like an actual name as well
>>737858304But why>>737871473>try to skate on coffin>get arrested>try to skate down mountain>die>don't repatriateAnd that's without mentionning the parts and parcel of cities
Sam, Charlie here.
>>737864604It does its just a considerable distance, like two bridges if you think the bridge at the enemy base near the motherhood
>>737864604Bullet drop starts at 200m
CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME?
>thread dies on a week day because porters are working
>>737871742Normal people can't even see bts remember. Its only dooms sufferers.As a normal person you go outside and just suddenly get swallowed by tar and dragged away by unseen things.
>>737882118I think it needs mentioning again how similar APAC is to AIPAC and that Kojima is probably based.
>>737830748this. I honestly wouldn’t mind Dollman if he just hung around in the Magellan. I actually don’t mind him even if he’s a retard for getting his kid killed. But the fact that he’s literally tied to you and constantly yaps unprompted giving the same repetitive obvious advice over and over just ruins the whole character for me. It almost ruins the whole game.
>>737840954Agreed. I do like that the music player is there, but the lack thereof in the first game makes the actual scripted songs feel that much more meaningful. Though, to agree with the other anon’s point, I did once do a thing where I did my last few standard deliveries while playing some Low Roar and going in and out of youtube was such a headache
>>737841224Are you talking about all those threads with webms of Sam rolling down a cliff and the OP saying something like >NOOOOO! MY SPERM DELIVERIES! MY DELUXE BUG PIZZABecause I actually found those threads funny even though I later came to love both games when they eventually came to PC
>>737845686Rods are so fun to use. I wish they had more durability and didn’t break after one throw
>>737848769Just go to the nearest Transponder and teleport there
>>737849753Seconding the other anon. Don’t be afraid of TTW, it’s really not hard at all. Boss fights are a bit unforgiving though but nothing that isn’t doable. If that one boss gives you trouble, try using stealth takedowns on him, it’s tedious but it works
Chronobiotes shouldn't have been in the game.They made fights that were already easy, even easier.
You should have more faith in yourself
>>737883294Even the most avid DS enjoyers in here will make such shitposts. I saved a couple of the webms that were constantly posted because they're funny
>>737883814I'm glad they are. Fuck you Neil and your third fight.
>>737885207Its because of stuff like this that I 99.999% of the time do not bring ladders or use other people's ladders. They are for low IQ people who can't figure out how to reach a certain place by the terrain alone. Fuck ladders, and fuck ziplines too. Run into and over every ladder I see when driving around.
>>737885349The S rank for that fight in the VR Training is fucking cancer, and you don't get any chronobiotes.
>>737883294>>737885207Shit like this makes me laugh everytime.
>>737879171I HEAR YOU
>>737884037RIGHT!
>>737885512HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW
>>737885697Make proper paths for the truck first.Heres my order 505 with LLLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIO7laP_kr0&t
>>737885207its so fucking funny when its not you its happening to
>>737883170i have that button on my keyboard just plays or pauses youtube even when im fullscreen in a game but its still lame
>>737885501Can you even get perfect stealth on that one?
