Death Stranding 2

I finally got some ziplines set up to get me to his base avoiding the BT area, so I can start delivering to him again. First order on his list… retrieve items from the BT area next to him.

I can see why he's all alone up there. He's an arsehole.

I'm probably a lot better equipped to take on and clear the BTs in that area now, but when they were taking 3 blood grenade Lvl.1's to kill at the time, I just couldn't be bothered trying to get back up to him. Obviously now with Lvl.2 grenades, the boomerang, Lvl.2 shotgun… they probably wouldn't be too much hassle to clear.

I might have gotten the tranq pistol from him already. I'm pretty sure when I first unlocked him I'd brought a good few bits of cargo to him and did one or two of his orders which were easy to do while I was there.

I have been wondering though if I'm going to hit a point where the Bola gun stops being effective, because that's been my absolute go-to for clearing out enemy camps. It's just so goddamn satisfying to use.

There are so few places that the pickup or at the very least the trike can't climb or get to even outside the Chiral network that walking is near pointless. Even most of the rivers which were near instant-death in the first game aren't that deep and you can usually find the smallest gap between two places that walking or driving through the river isn't that much trouble.

The only time recently I walked for a main mission and setting up a new distribution centre was because the game made it pretty clear there was going to be a big BT fight, but even then I wish I had brought the trike because trying to detach and put the cargo on a floating carrier out of harms way while the big BT fight was going on was a bit disastrous.

Spoilers for halfway through Chapter 8:

Also, there are too many BTs in some of the areas, which also isn't helped by the gold BTs randomly popping up and moving quickly. The amount of chiral you get from them is fantastic, but really drags the whole thing out and it can be hard enough seeing where your scanner is pointing without it glitching between a normal BT and a new golden BT which is wandering about.

Spent a fair chunk of time yesterday evening upgrading roads, mining, transporting as much as possible over several trips (really pushing the pickup to its limits). Have almost the full road network done around the big lake.

Spent all of this evening up in the mountains where I can barely even see any of the roads off in the distance. All that time yesterday, and I dont even get to enjoy the fruits of my labour.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit under...

For farming Chiral crystals, the best places are where there's the BT jellyfish. There's usually a sub-order nearby to clear them, but I think you can just clear them anyway if they're there without the order. There's one between the Dowser and the F2 South Distribution Center, the Dowser normally has the sub-order for it. Takes a few days for them to respawn, but they're quick and easy to kill with little effort (if you shoot the reddish ones, nearby ones fly towards it, then shoot the reddish one more and it'll explode and take out the others).

That or going to mines every few days. Chiral crystals normally respawn in the small tar puddles around mines every few days.

Then of course there are the gold BTs who move quickly in BT areas. They should drop 500-1000 each if you can kill them.

But yeah, it's hugely beneficial to take a bit of time every now and again and just prioritise roads/monorail. Makes deliveries and backtracking so much easier.