I doubt this is how it's supposed to look like. Looks like the animations glitched there.
Wow, so people who jumped in later are basically getting a vastly different gameplay experience then? Arguably worse, even.
Janks in a Kojima game? He's still human after all. :P
This is pretty much my only but big concern here. But I suspect the devs must've thought about this too and built in some counter-measures (maybe all that stuff has a rather limited lifetime due to timefall or something like that).
Obviously nothing is certain yet, but here's the direct quote from Kojima for context
Hideo Kojima said:
Yeah. I just want people to understand that I'm not claiming anything definitive. This is still a big unknown but Kojima's comment about millions of people being connected at launch has me intrigued, what happens after launch though? What about 6 months down the line? I wonder how frequent things like bikes and manmade structures like rest stations and bridges from other players will show up. I'd imagine they have a system to keep it limited as having a bunch of them littered around once people have inhabited the game world doesn't seem great at all. It does give off that vibe that you aren't alone but at the same time, I'd imagine it'd make the game's challenge a lot easier, especially having rest stations and bikes around everywhere. Maybe this kind of thing is tied to difficulty? The harder the difficulty, the less likely you're going to run into these stuff thus making the game a bit harder?
I'm pretty sure you won't be connected to millions of players at the same time. It'll be shards or clusters (what is it called again?) of players like in the Souls games. So the density of interactions will stay they same (therefore no dozens of bridges across the same river). Only the number of automatically grouped players with whom you could potentially be connected with will vary.
Looks like Hitman might have some competition in the "satisfying briefcase throw" departmentSome combat:
It's a really silly stupid complaint we've seen happen with BotW as well. It's missing the point. But i'm sure this game will turn around that complaint for lots of people
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think what I and Kojima meant by the millions of players comment though is that we'd all be playing Death Stranding at the same time. Not necessarily connected together through online play, but we'll all have that shared experience, and that feeds into internet discussions, theorycrafting etc. I feel that kind of thing would be lost if you were to play way later down the line.
I'm not saying it's irrelevant, just that it's not the only factor or the most important. RDR2 had amazing animation but the controls broke any immersion that created. And if actual immersion is of such focus then obviously a first person view would be used anyway.
That's actually kinda dope, not gonna lie. The like system presumably has some sort of value attached to it and I think this would make a lot of sense though I feel it might have a deeper meaning too, possibly connected to the story and the Chiral Network.
Yup. I imagine this will be similar to playing Demon's Souls at release. (DaS was my entry point to the series and exploring all its mysteries at launch together with other players was a fantastic experience).
I think this is just something Kojima added in post, it shows up in the trailers too as a sort of transition between scenes.
BotW for it being called empty is filled with points of interests. I dont think thats what DS is going for. It's more of getting over the obstacles from point a to b
Tactical espionage action
Timefall I guess. Everything that lives grows and rots super fast. Therefore, there's only grass and smaller plants on rocks.
A cataclysmic event called the Death Stranding happened 10 years ago causing explosions to occur in major cities around the US, completely reshaping the landscape and introducing otherwordly creatures called BTs that consume humans. It also introduced this special rain called "Timefall" that accelerates the progress of time of all life that comes in contact with it except Sam, who is immune to it. Humans found out that by consuming cryptobiotes daily, you can avoid the effects of it.
