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Death Stranding |OT| Peace Walker
- Thread starter Kindekuma
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I think just a lot of deliveries lol. I've been spending way too much time in Chapter 3 doing deliveries. Gonna put my foot down and focus on just the story for a few chapters now.
Also, I keep reading about Zip Lines, when do I get access to them ?
Granted I haven't been using Ladders and the rope climbs that often either. Just running and skyrim-ing my way through the places.
A good haul I say!
All in a days work
Hot damn !
I don't think this is what Open Wound is talking about. I get the point. It's like when you first encounter BTs. You're slow, crouching, deliberate. You spend 5 minutes getting out of the encounter, because you feel the threat of the encounter. But when you progress, that threat kind of dissipates. I don't feel shit tension when I'm dealing with BTs. It's not like a clicker encounter in TLOU, which it really should've been like.
The game restricts its own impact with the toolset it gives you. I can just lob grenades at any BT that's in my way. It doesn't even alert anyone else. Even if it does, it doesn't matter. You're pinned down. Maybe you'll get out. If you don't, it doesn't matter. As Open Wound says, if you run out of stamina it doesn't matter. If you damage your cargo, it doesn't matter. You just get fewer likes.
I love this game, but I really get this point.
grab yourself a floater and go snowboarding (on the other floater you pack PCC´s to build stuff along the way)
I think this game's scale is kind of necessary to sell the world and the theme and to really give the player a feel of adventure. Trekking all the way to the other side of the map (before player contributions have been unlocked) in the most efficient way possible with basic tools was so rewarding, smaller scale wouldn't have allowed that.
So I do think this game justifies its open world... but your thoughts about open worlds in general being part of the "bigger is better for the sake of it" style that is often on show is definitely valid.
Saying that, I would love Kojima to ditch the open world next time and concentrate on a more focused delivery. I started a playthrough of MGS1 recently, and the pacing in that game is insanely tight while the metroidvania aspects still give it a feeling of adventure without a huge scale, and the delivery of the story is so impactful largely because it's really well timed. I think perhaps a sequence of Ground Zeros style small sandboxes with a wide linear design and some more coirdoor parts in between would be ideal for me.
Is there an upgrade in the game to sync all the private lockers so I can access all my materials from anywhere?
Death Stranding had me from start but the hype around Chapter 3 is real. Whoever made the comparison to BoTW and going from The Great Plateau to Hyrule proper was spot on. It's such a glorious feeling when the training wheels come off.
Some good Samaritan built a bridge right between The Craftsman's outpost and the MULE base in the area which proved to be a game changer. Took out the MULES, stole both their trucks, and cleaned out the entire base, funnelling supplies back to my private locker with ease thanks to the bridge. I spent the rest of the session using my newly acquired fleet(and riches) to build roads. Other players joined in and by the time I logged off the once desolate expanse of terrain now had this long stretch of ghostly highway cutting through as far as the eye could see — an upside-down double rainbow looming omninously overhead. What an incredible moment and sight to behold. Maybe the most satisfying gameplay payoff I've had this year. What a game.
Some good Samaritan built a bridge right between The Craftsman's outpost and the MULE base in the area which proved to be a game changer. Took out the MULES, stole both their trucks, and cleaned out the entire base, funnelling supplies back to my private locker with ease thanks to the bridge. I spent the rest of the session using my newly acquired fleet(and riches) to build roads. Other players joined in and by the time I logged off the once desolate expanse of terrain now had this long stretch of ghostly highway cutting through as far as the eye could see — an upside-down double rainbow looming omninously overhead. What an incredible moment and sight to behold. Maybe the most satisfying gameplay payoff I've had this year. What a game.
That was part of what they were saying, and I can understand that the system isn't balanced perfectly in terms of risk reward. The part I was contesting was that the game doesn't require you to do anything more than hold r1l2 and slowly climb everywhere, and that if you're finding that boring it's on you for not fully exploring the systems and not the game.
I don't want to go in circles any more, but I explained why the game does reward you for going in depth with the variety of systems, so we'll have to agree to disagree if you think otherwise.
Frustrated that since it seems nobody is moving past Chapter 3, all my work on a zipline network in the mountains will go to waste. Because by the time everyone gets there (if ever), they'll have decayed from Timefall. And I am for sure never replacing them...
The only likes I seem to get anymore are from people driving on the three road sections I helped build...
The only likes I seem to get anymore are from people driving on the three road sections I helped build...
Fair point lol. I was only really talking about the mats for building though.
Most of my manual likes come from generators and Timefall shelters
I don't build bridges I've seen some that has 10000 likes each but the roads I build net a good deal of likes enough for the trophy
Plus the zipline network you built will be useful to you to 5 star all stations
I think that's sound advice for all the completionists out there.
Those make a lot of sense, seeing as how you actually have to stop at them and wait, so people are more inclined to literally smash that like button.
Please tag a note saying what that spoiler is about or people can't click it unless they've finished the game.
I´m not so sure about nobody moving on rom chapter 3, its more that the game randomly chooses what to tansfer to other peoples´gameworlds. When i connected the mountains, i built my own Network and regularily found some lone Zipline Stations dotted around the place from various players but almost none of them could easily be integrated into my own Nettwork.
Ground Zeroes was perfect and in hindsight I rather want to revisit it than MGSV, because by concentrating the scope that narrowly you also focus all your design and work on figuring out how to make such a small area really dynamic and diverse to play through, and that's where open worlds bore me. It's about going from A to B and the stuff in between is sparsely detailed. I don't find any Mule encamptment memorable for example. They're just there to be in the way, so you can have a point of challenge for certain deliveries. The same goes for BTs a lot of the time, and when none of those factor in it's just "rock formations, snow, moss, how steep is this part?" etc. and while I keep paying attention to when I need to hold L2 or R2 or monitor my Stamina over time the routine grows old, even though I keep doing it. I think that only becomes a detriment to my lasting impressions.
I'm about 20 hours into the game now (Ch. 3) and I'm getting really annoyed by the MULE camps. I'm not sure if it the game explained it at any point but I'm clearly missing something basic about the stealth elements here. Everytime I even get near a camp their sensor posts ping me from miles away and they already know to start looking for me. I get that it's just a small spot they look at for where the cargo ping is but is the only option seriously to just infiltrate a camp with no cargo so the sensor doesn't ping anything? That seems... not great if true.
Up to this point, I've just said screw it and have been knocking them out but this newest location has a ton of them. Hiding in grass, crouching doesn't seem to do much of anything because I can't even get remotely near the actual buildings or MULEs without them seeing me.
What am I doing wrong here?
Up to this point, I've just said screw it and have been knocking them out but this newest location has a ton of them. Hiding in grass, crouching doesn't seem to do much of anything because I can't even get remotely near the actual buildings or MULEs without them seeing me.
What am I doing wrong here?
Nothing wrong, but I would say at first the best way can often be to move around them. Later on you will get skills that improve stealth and combat, like being able to negate the ping.
You could also leave your parcels at the edge of the border, sneak in and take them out, then go back and collect, if you wanted to.
Yeah, that makes sense. And I was worried that would be the case. It's frustrating though, because half of my reasoning behind it was that I was hopefully making certain sections easier for other people and that the game would be smart to populate other people's games with ziplines that connect, rather than just randomly. But looking back at my own experience with online ziplines, they rarely connected. I think I had only one instance where there was a fully connected path from Mountain Knot to a prepper. It was marvelous.
Still, I hope that they're helping some people somehow. They do have some likes on them, but not nearly as much as I'd hoped.
Alright- I'm on my 6th day of red boxing it and just made it to chapter 4.
Is it time to throw in the towel?
Is it time to throw in the towel?
For newcomers, two tips :
- You can disable player's panels in game options (Parameters > Spoilers > My panel only )
- You can dismantle any structure from the map (with triangle) if you aren't too far from it.
- You will get the bad ending if you abandon a vehicle on a highway. 🤬 /sarcasm
- You can disable player's panels in game options (Parameters > Spoilers > My panel only )
- You can dismantle any structure from the map (with triangle) if you aren't too far from it.
- You will get the bad ending if you abandon a vehicle on a highway. 🤬 /sarcasm
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I really don't have any structures that seem to be generating a ton of likes, and I wonder if it's because I put them in such obvious places that other players have them already and mine don't get chosen to be 'pulled in'. Bridges especially - I use my own bridges, shelters and generators constantly because they are in perfect spots. And there are worn paths going to them, so players use those areas for sure. But 0 likes on 'em and nobody has ever responded to my requests for upgrades.
Roads generate most of my likes but I've noticed I'm no longer even showing up as a contributor on a lot of the roads I built single-handedly. I do have some of them active though and I get a steady stream of like notifications and 'soandso provided repair materials for X bridge or paver'.
Roads generate most of my likes but I've noticed I'm no longer even showing up as a contributor on a lot of the roads I built single-handedly. I do have some of them active though and I get a steady stream of like notifications and 'soandso provided repair materials for X bridge or paver'.
I absolutely love this game so far. Just had a chance to play about 5 hours so far, but it's just hitting the right spot. I had some game burnout earlier this year and didn't really feel like playing anything, but then I picked up God of War, and that was so damn good, just finished it before starting Death Stranding and now I'm fully back in. What a great one-two experience.
Is this either some end-game spoiler, or a joke I'm not getting? No spoilers, please.
People abandon vehicles in the middle of the roads to troll others, it's annoying.
it's a joke. But yeah, highway litter is becoming a bit of a problem, lol. Maybe I'll be more careful in the future - I tend to park my truck at the end of unfinished sections while I'm delivering materials. If I abandon one I'll make sure it's out of the way.
I feel like I'm the only one who builds roads. I literally built the entire road from one end of the map to the other. I don't understand why I never get people building (things other than signs) in my game. They sure love putting signs all over the road I built though.
They also start ziplines that never connect to anything so I try to fill in those too. Very rarely do I come across any completed traversal system.
They also start ziplines that never connect to anything so I try to fill in those too. Very rarely do I come across any completed traversal system.
I mean, you're past the longest chapter, but definitely not the most frustrating one (that's Chapters 5 and 6). If it's not clicking with you, sure. Don't give Redbox any more of your money.
Assuming that's what you mean...
You need to utlize strand contracts to see more builds from the more productive players. Once I did this, my road contributions went up a lot.
The camp is surrounded by sensor posts. As soon as you enter the perimeter, the camp itself pings you. Then, if you are a good enough target, the MULEs will investigate and ping you with their sensor.
You can sneak around with minimal cargo. When I had to find the video game system for the collector, I did it all stealth so I could be in and out and not fight the whole camp. I had 5 grenades in pouches, blood bags, ladders, ropes, PCC, etc. and I was still able to hide in the grass and tie up 5 MULEs and not alert the rest.
I've heard it suggested that this could be a limitation of the way the game pulls in other player creations. Those isolated zipline nodes might be a part of a network in that player's instance, but your instance might just pull that useless and isolated node in itself
Just speculation though
have you been forming bridge contracts? Whenever I see something in a good spot I make sure to add that player and it seems to be working well. For example there was a perfect timefall shelter near the junk dealer from a guy I contracted due to a safe house I'd used earlier.
Thanks. Yeah- its a balance between powering through or just returning and buying the game/ waiting for a sale. I'm just not sure of the longevity/ replay value of this particular title. Are we expecting any DLC?
I've just been letting the jerks come for me. When they come at me I bolo gun their asses and then run over and kick them. Then I have free reign to load up one of their trucks and haul everything back to a distribution center.
I've been there before with Redbox rentals. So often I power through games that I shouldn't and it makes the experience awful.
I don't think they've mentioned any DLC for it, but I wouldn't put it past them. It's the kind of game that could easily get some since it's open world and those seem easy to expand upon.
I personally don't think I'll replay it, but I am keen to keep building up roads and such after I'm done, so I can max out my connections. So if that appeals to you, it might be worth it.
No because I looked at the menu and couldn't figure out how to do it. I'll go back and look. It seems like if someone is building a line of ziplines that I can see, that I should be able to see all of their progress and help out. Is that what the contracts do? Because as it is, I don't feel like building anymore roads or anything.
Appreciate your input. It's a unique game that I find myself carelessly pushing through- not taking it all in. I shall think on it!
I believe you press Triangle on that person's username when navigating the Bridge Links section to make a Bridge Contract. The prompt is at the very bottom of the user info screen, so whatever it says there, but I believe it's Triangle. It's very small, so it's easy to miss.
