>start playing DS today>did few hours of playing>closed the game to tweak some settings>relaunch the game>refuses to start>restart PC>load game>save gone>WTF>go to nexus to check if there's anything>you can download new save>IMPORTANT: In order to implement this save you will need to temporarily disable Death Stranding's save corruption check with the Hex Editor. Once you have entered the save and made your own save, you will be able to turn the check back on.>disable the check after confirming my own saves are still in the game folder>game now sees my saves again and I don't have to load new save from someone elseWhat the everloving fuck is this shit
>>738002961why would anyone voluntarily play this boring garbage
>>738002961What the hell did you mod exactly, and why? The game is great as-is.>>738003346T: never played it.DS is one of the best games of the century. Addictive as fuck, atmospheric and gorgeous.
>>738002961PcmasterCucks
>>738003346Fpbp
>>738003576They really can't help but tell on themselves, just love sitting in that corner chair watching others enjoy themselves.
>>738003506I hex edited the .exe to accept "corrupted" save file but it made the game accept my own save. I didn't have to do any recovery or fight with the cloud saves. The game simply flagged my save as corrupted for whatever reason.
>>738002961Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is not a video game. It's Kojima's $100 million excuse to hang out with Hollywood celebrities while you hold the left stick forward for 40 hours. Almost every location has a flat path straight to it. You can make any delivery by holding forward or driving a truck. Congratulations, you just experienced "gameplay." The game throws numerous tools at you that you absolutely never need. It's like being handed a Swiss Army knife to eat soup — the equivalent of playing Doom where enemies fall down without you ever pulling the trigger.But the crown jewel — the absolute proof Kojima doesn't make games — is the "Pretend You Won" button. Die to a boss and the game literally asks if you want to skip it. Pick it and you get a SLIDESHOW of how the fight would have played out. The results screen reads "Imaginary Victory" with a drawing of Sam sleeping. Even the protagonist doesn't care. No game should let you skip core combat. That's not accessibility — that's a confession. That's Kojima saying "gameplay doesn't matter, just watch my movie." The single greatest evidence he's NOT a game developer — just a film director accidentally given a dev kit instead of a camera.Did this cinematic walking screensaver win GOTY? NO. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — an actual VIDEO GAME with actual GAMEPLAY — bodied Kojima's celebrity meet-and-greet simulator at The Game Awards, Golden Joysticks, DICE, and GDC, racking up 291 GOTY wins in 2025.But don't worry — his own game taught us the solution. He can just Pretend He Won. Skip the awards, read a little slideshow that says "Kojima won GOTY" with a picture of him sleeping. Imaginary Victory. Kojima — put down the controller. Pick up the camera. Stick to making movies. You clearly want to. You were never one of us.
>>738003346I don't find it that boring. Also I've been playing through Doom (2016) and then Doom Eternal throughout the week and I don't feel like playing DE right now. It gets kind of tiring. Need to take a break from fast shooters for a bit.>play on ultra nightmare>get rekt anytime I make small mistake>each encounter I have to learn where what spawns so I can avoid being instakilled
I tried this death stranding game because it was sort of cheap and I wanted to test out the dualsenseIt really put me to sleep, the characters are actively unlikeableThe music is fairly fucking homosex like I feel I have to be californian to play this shit
>>738004404I didn't read this pasta before but damn. It sure is right.>pretend you won
>>738004404funny but accurate.
>>738004404>No game should let you skip core combat.hard disagree
>>738004149>the corruption check seems to think my save is corrupted>but i can't seem to figure out why the corruption check would tell me it's corrupted, it just checks for corruption
>>738006271>game holds multiple saves>completely disregards my entire save profile>disable the check>loads data without a hitchWhere's the corruption that the save system is supposed to detect?
>>738006487Who knows if it's not checking for it any more?
>>738004149>The game simply flagged my save as corrupted for whatever reason.I wonder why
