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Death Stranding |OT| Peace Walker
- Thread starter Kindekuma
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As I thought, people are starting to troll by leaving vehicles in the middle of the road. I hope they patch this out.
Hopefully they add one later.
No, but in a game THIS packed with features it's not really something we can moan about, imo.
Hopefully they add one later.
But that includes like some big and influential press outlets. That's why people are worried.
It's really easy to sneak past them, even in a truck. Taking them out being an option is cool though.
I don't disagree. I'm just telling you why people are bothered by it or worrying about it.
I do think it's worth noting that playing a game in the context of having writing a review to a deadline is drastically different to playing it at your leisure. Many games just don't work under that pressure. I think Death Stranding is one of them.
I learned this this morning, heading to the Wind Farm for the 2nd time, after raging that I got caught with a shitton of heavy packages on my back and moving at a snails pace. I was PISSED, but then I killed the BT in about 30 seconds and went on about my business...
Edit: Aw sheit. Luckily I've only had to kill 2 so far in about 30+ hours.
It is but I keep hearing rumblings from other players that killing (?) them causes them to spawn in greater numbers.
I don't get this. Do you go completely around them or what? Even on a trike I always get too close and one catches me, or the environment blocks me as I'm about to get past
I am very annoyed by videos coming out to this day about Death Stranding where it's so obvious people don't test the balance mechanic properly. Just gonna put this here in hopes it reaches someone who might have trouble with it.
Hold both triggers all the time on uneven terrain and when making turns, especially if you have a heavy load on your back. This balance/momentum mechanic is not in here to make you stumble on every tiny incline or rock you encounter, if you hold the triggers you're mostly fine until you walk on very steep slopes or cross deeper rivers (longer stretches of terrain that are yellow when you scan). When you balance yourself with both triggers in those cases the game will drain your exhaustion meter (the light blue overlay on top of the dark blue stamina bar) until Sam can't balance himself anymore. And if you thus plan badly and find yourself in a dangerous spot with not enough stamina to balance yourself all the way through you'll take a tumble, that's the whole reason the mechanic is there. It's not acting as a constant annoyance when you play it as intended, but a punishment mechanic for bad stamina and exhaustion management.
Hold both triggers all the time on uneven terrain and when making turns, especially if you have a heavy load on your back. This balance/momentum mechanic is not in here to make you stumble on every tiny incline or rock you encounter, if you hold the triggers you're mostly fine until you walk on very steep slopes or cross deeper rivers (longer stretches of terrain that are yellow when you scan). When you balance yourself with both triggers in those cases the game will drain your exhaustion meter (the light blue overlay on top of the dark blue stamina bar) until Sam can't balance himself anymore. And if you thus plan badly and find yourself in a dangerous spot with not enough stamina to balance yourself all the way through you'll take a tumble, that's the whole reason the mechanic is there. It's not acting as a constant annoyance when you play it as intended, but a punishment mechanic for bad stamina and exhaustion management.
I'm connecting waystations to the Chiral network and it keeps showing me my progress on a map of America. Is it just me, or do those connection nodes across the map make America seems really, really, tiny? You can walk across half of America in like 30 minutes.
Of course, everyone spreading the "walking sim" nonsense is help perpetuate that.
Yeh, DS is really not suited to a short review window/deadline.
I've had 6 tumbles in my 36 hours of playtime. You're absolutely right.
All you do is tap the accelerator so you move forward slowly, and you'll have enough time to dodge when they appear.
When they appear, do a short burst away from them to cancel the footsteps, and carry on.
Only played for about an hour yesterday but took my first excursion out into the Central region. Was able to get to the Engineer and then the Elder, loving the little story details that are being teased out so far. And climbing the mountain to get to the Elder felt like a big achievement (and a great view!). The Power Skeleton is already super helpful and I feel like everything is a lot easier now.
I did run into some MULE problems (I thought I could climb up the mountain on the far left when you're leaving Lake Knot, only to find out it's basically a dead end) but luckily my strategy of running like a bitch saved me.
I did run into some MULE problems (I thought I could climb up the mountain on the far left when you're leaving Lake Knot, only to find out it's basically a dead end) but luckily my strategy of running like a bitch saved me.
Smh. Death Stranding gives me big BOTW vibes since it being an open world game is intrinsic to the gameplay. There's so many wrinkles (skating on lifts????) and the mechanics of just walking around are Dee and engaging.
Please tag the spoiler to let people know what it covers, or no one's going to click it unless they're done with the game.
You can look forward to Death Stranding 2 where it takes 1000 Hours to only complete the main mission.
The irony of IGN review is that they didnt like the game but then posted like 30 videos of the game in the past 3 days.
Is it just me, or do some of the BB cutscenes repeat? It might be that they're random and an issue with reloading saves or something, but I've seen a couple of them a few times now.
They need to cover the most popular games tbf, and more than the person who reviewed it will be working on those.
The assigned writer didn't like it and the editorial team thought the review was good enough to publish.
Chances are many on their team-at-large like it a lot. And they know there's a huge audience for it.
Interesting, thanks for the tip.
I mean, I took a boat to cover more ground. They could use a cutscene or a map montage between areas to make the country feel larger. Anyways, it's not bad, it's just kinda hilarious somehow. Maybe timefall shrunk the country in addition to changing the geography.
Just have to wait for sales...I hope it does well and he makes a sequel for it personally. Death Stranding 2 concept can be ropes and strings! Have people who want to be carriers and folks who just want to fight.
Yep I pointed this out some pages ago. Makes no darn sense! I think Kojima should have focused the story somewhere smaller like an island. If he really wanted this to be set in America, then should have padded the game with quick cutscene of how Sam already trekked the past 500 miles, and now the game is going to focus on the remaining 50 every time you take an order. The distances make zero sense and is immersion-breaking as far as I'm personally concerned.
I was able to just run alongside the left side of the zone and basically just dodge them. just make sure to not stop and keep running
How long does it take for a body to go necro?
I killed a Mule and placed the body inside his own camp. I'm thinking it would cause a voidout there and take out the camp, but it doesn't really seem to be doing anything.
I killed a Mule and placed the body inside his own camp. I'm thinking it would cause a voidout there and take out the camp, but it doesn't really seem to be doing anything.
Chiralium is the new Nanomachines
They have some sort of effect on time, so Kojima could be using that as a macguffin lol
I will try this 2nite, man I took like 3 or 4 shots at this one yesterday and then said EFF this LOL turned the game off....but I shall not give up thats for sure, this game is amazing. It is a true gem, a special game!
Yeah usually my strategy for getting through the camps (because i dont usually like fighting them especially when i have precious cargo)
1. Hold down R2/L2 and sprint like a mother fucker, dodging spears
2. If someone runs at me I'll just juke, if there's more than one i might punch and run, you basically just cheese the combat
3. The smoke decoy is pretty useful but it took me a few tries to figure out how to use it effectively
the bananamachines were not immersion-breaking though. This stuff kinda is. You know for a fact that the geography between DC (capital Knot city) and somewhere in middle of Pennsylvania (your first or second Knot city delivery point) is not picturesque scenery and icelandic mountains.
Well, the review is one person and IGN is more than one person. I'm betting others there like or will like the game.
Fuck, I finally did it! Finally cleared chapter 4! 😭 🙏
Took me three god damn hours.....jfc.
I am so ready to go back to several hours of just mindlessly delivering shit now, lol.
Took me three god damn hours.....jfc.
I hate shooters so much, I'm such trash at them and they make me so friggin' tense. God, I've got the shakes now jfkld;a
Kind of. You can't see other structures until a region is added to the network (this is your primary objective in the game). Once a region is added to the network, you'll start to see other player's stuff. I think the stronger you work on each region doing sidequests and whatnot might increase the amount of stuff you will see. You also level up as far as online status goes so maybe the game scales you with other people your level so that its not overwhelmingly populated at the start
Thanks for this, will def do this lol I literally hold L2/R2 religiously from jump...between that and the skeleton, it makes the game much easier to traverse! :)
Also the fact that places like IGN chase eyeballs for ad revenue and if a game is getting a lot of hits, they'll do what they can to cover it more. It's why things like Destiny got a ton of coverage, despite most outlets giving the game bad marks.
It's like people didn't even bother to understand the mechanics. The IGN Review is pretty bad, I have 20 hours and I fell off like, 2 or 3 times. I had to calm BB only 1 time.
I think it uses Arkham Knight logic where no matter what you do to MULEs they're actually only knocked out.
Highway fully finished! Now to finish bringing everyone up to 5*
When you first enter the map you need to bring sections of it online, and until you do other player's items will not be visible. So you will have periods where you need to traverse new terrain with only your own equipment.
When you do bring the area online, there always seems to be enough room for you to meaningfully contribute.
And you can also remove other builds from your instance if you want, to replace it or just get rid of them.
The way it handles this seems to be quite smart. You have up to 100 people affecting your instance, and there seems to be a limit on how many things can appear from other people in each section.
When you first enter the map you need to bring sections of it online, and until you do other player's items will not be visible. So you will have periods where you need to traverse new terrain with only your own equipment.
When you do bring the area online, there always seems to be enough room for you to meaningfully contribute.
And you can also remove other builds from your instance if you want, to replace it or just get rid of them.
This still rubs me the wrong way and I get its an endless debate, but I just have little respect for "I don't like this thing" style reviews. IGN's main jab at Death Stranding is basically "the walking is slow, boring, hard and arduous". Just reading this thread, I can safely assume everyone here has had very little trouble with coming to grips even with the beginning portions of the game. I saw so many posts questioning who in the world was having trouble playing this game, it's super easy to adjust to after like 30 minutes of playing. Are the graphics above average?, are the controls good? Is the sound and music good? Is the story good? I just could never give fundamentally sound games low scores if I'm writing for a professional site. In my blog I would be as personally inclined as I wanted, but thinking about how others would receive something, I dunno, I guess I"m just more hesitant to put my own personal opinion so far in my criticism of something. Walking is the point of this game, if you don't like that, why in the world did you review it? A legitimate criticism that seems universal is the back tracking, but the IGN review just consistently diminishes the entire point of the game as not being fun. I wouldn't review something I didn't find fun. Because it is to a lot of different people with different taste.
hahaha this is what I have been doing, i get caught....run away from the circle then collect any packages dropped once they go away.
Yeah, regardless of how they feel about it, its still a major gaming event and high profile release. They are going to cover it.
It's called En Kort En Lang (Shake It All About), from 2001. It's about him entering an engagement with his partner but things start to go wrong when he drunkenly enters an affair with a woman at a birthday party, and then has to figure out what he wants for himself and his boyfriend.
And before you ask, Hella Joof is a real name, it just sounds funky when you consider the usage of "hella". Also, notice this: "Strand Releasing"! Could Kojima have based the namesake of DS on this?
Nah, a bit later on in the game you get straight up guns with bullets that can kill people. And the game talks to you that you really should avoid doing that.