Death Stranding

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Just got up, and the timer said 30 minutes, 28 asleep... I've turned it off. **** you Kojima.

In case you don't see my reply to your post that's gone to the previous page, no need to shelter from the rain, never had any cargo destroyed because of it

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Christ they don't make much very clear. So it's just the container that gets damaged, and as long as you don't fall the contents will be ok?

If I turn it on again I'll run through it. Cheers for the advice!

I'm not fully sure on it myself. I got messages sometimes 'cargo container handfed 100% but when i handed it in, there was never a fuss, maybe not an S grade but i was never bothered with that. Those timefall shelters are handy that they repair cargo when you're under one but yeah, feck waiting there imo.

Yeah, some unclear mechanics but like at the end of chapter 2, the message sounds like you better finish everything up but in chapter 3, you get to travel back whenever you want. People spent 10's of hours on chap 2 because of it, could definitely see why people could get burnt out.

Container and content damage are 2 different things. The repair spray you can equip, or auto output from a Timefall shelter, repairs containers and not content. The target for a delivery only judges you on content quality, so if the container is at 1%, and the content is 100% you get a perfect score there. But it is a relatively minor stat anyway in that most premium deliveries only want 50% content. Where it becomes a real issue is some equipment boxes won't repair with any spray (like PCCs). So Timefall can impact critical deliveries to some extent but usually is more of an issue for personal equipment and vehicles (esp. when you start just stealing MULE trucks that you can't repair). 70 or so hours in and on chapter 10, so more time spent on side stuff than story compared to most (and Zero above who is way ahead on story), NEVER waste time at shelters, as was mentioned some timefall is transient most is hardcoded into zones. Only use it for a free repair spray, and always carry at least 2 spray containers yourself. Esp. when you head West.

Edit:
Adding if you are repeatedly hitting real issues with Timefall look at the other systems to combat it:
- Unavoidable mostly early on it is negligible as long as you don't waste time you won't lose anything critical.
- Avoid zones you find yourself, and watch for signs from others. If you aren't seeing signs put up some yourself and work on the social backend (build more reusable things yourself, when you hit Bridge level 10 look through your links to other players and add them as contracts,more likely to appear from then).
- Getting a vehicle that covers cargo - Always have container repair spray.
- If not doing a specific 'Delivery for Sam' and just working up your likes and essentially XP, on a known route that you can avoid conflict on, unequip everything bar anything that helps with cargo delivery. You won't need ARs/Bolo rifles if you are just travelling on the Road you helped build between points.
- Help build logical structures. The road is a bigggy, without story spoliers whlie it always helps I personally would advise only focussing on it on the East side to the first Distro on the West. But for those sides, critical to the foundational game, it is a godsend and worth every cent of resource. You can zip battery free through Time fall and so many obstacles that would otherwise keep you in it.
- yeah, a spoiler but not for the canon, just a story mission that if you truly hate timefall makes it easier
Re-reading and I think TL;DR would be play into the concept of the game. Connect. Build things that make sense possibly to others aswell as yourself. Give as many thanks as you can to things that genuinely make sense (it auto gives on use but your ability to manually give increases with your bridge level, right now on average I can give about 400 or so likes per interaction). Besides being a decent response this makes it more likely that person will add you, and in turn you are more likely to see each other's structures in your worlds, also in my own experience when deconstructing to save Chiral bandwidth I won't touch anything with likes. This is nice at the start but is an absolutely essential layer when Chiral bandwidth becomes an issue (other chars structures in your instance take 0 local bandwidth, and if you chose wisely on your way they will have half your ideal infrastructure built for you when you add a region to a zone, or in fairness you help build it for them).
The idea of connectivity is not just for narrative, it is the core of the game.

OK, from being a long time Hideo Fan from way back to PS1 Metal Gear Solid (through all the Gear series) and recently playing Metal Gear 5 for the second time right to the end, I'm disappointed on a major scale with this.

I honestly feel after giving this a serious go - about 8 hours in, I'm throwing my hat at it. I cannot see any defence for the repetitive gameplay argument. The tedious and dull journeys, simplified enemies and constant cut scenes skipping..

It's not the lack of gunplay, but the adsence of anything substantial.

I feel half the players are just being fan boys to an extent - A cutting idea I admit, but my honest feeling - That if the Anthem studio released this, it would be panned globally.

I know I'm rocking the boat and each to their own but I'm at a loss how the mechanics in general are engaging players.

I see some seriously good quality game building, but it’s not for me at all. I hear the end game is solid, but thats no excuse to keep a player engaged for 40 hours who has no interest in the core delivery.

I totally get the Luke warm reviews.

This sums it up very well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSwMBAu_OOo

Anybody have any tips on how to get ceramics in bulk ? I'm developing an addiction to building roads but the ones in the mountain area need an insane amount although each section of road built is pretty long tbh.

The section in chapter 6 where
The BT combat is definitely the low point for me so far. I usually don't have enough weapons on me so I just end up running around until the game decides to give me more weapons via the other players' ghosts.

Also it's a bit odd how Sam can carry seemingly thousands of chiral crystals but the hubs will only store a few hundred.

_CreeD_ wrote: »

Finished it this morning also. Absolutely loved it from beginning to end (if that wasn't obvious from previous posts). It's rare a game can actually make me feel anything and I won't lie

Chapter 14, with BB's theme playing (stunning version of it), had me on the edge of tears. I kept trying to use the 'soothe bb' function and took breaks on the trip thinking 'maybe it'll work this time'

. The visuals, audio, story and gameplay all came together to make something that shouldn't work so well do so brilliantly imho.

Exact same!

bugs wrote: »

I came across a bridge in my instance, beside mamas lab. It doesn't go over water or any obstacles, it's actually a bit of a hindrance and it has over 10 million likes. I'm at a loss as to why!

I saw that during my time with it as well, it was at 5 million, thought it was surely a glitch as it was nothing special. Tried googling that bridge an all but found nothing.

Started Chapter 3 last night. Only real complaint (bar the story which is just pure insanity at this point but that's a whole 'nother matter, plus pretty much every location being called 'XXX Knot City' or 'Waystation Near XXX Knot City' meaning I can barely remember which location is which) is it's not the easiest system for equipping/using weapons on the rare occasions you do have to use them. The blood bag auto-equips a new one when it runs out, but the grenades don't, instead forcing you to drop the empty one to equip a new one. I spent more time in that fight trying to figure that out than actually fighting.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Penn, same thing happened me with the grenades in that fight until someone on here told me you don't have to drop old ones. When you hold right on the d pad, you can click R3 to go to the next page of items and select a new grenade box. Annoying it doesn't auto equip new ones but beats dropping old ones first.

Nearly the hardest thing in that fight was other players kept appearing and dropping items for me. In a panic I was collecting pretty much everything, then ended up nearly overloaded.

Enjoying the game anyway. Excited to explore the new area. Haven't picked up too many standard orders yet but I'm sensing there'll be more back and forth as I go on so will try pick a few here and there.

Deleted User wrote: »

Don't bother running from them, even when they have rifles you can just run up to them and batter them.

Aye they really are a non-threat unless you get mobbed by 5-6 early on. Basic melee and strands are enough, and the Bola gun makes them trivial. They're just mobile resource farms .

Underground wrote: »

I've seen some reviewers say that Horizon Zero Dawn is a better version of this game

So I gave up on this. I only managed to get to the third waystation, or point, or whatever, done all the dialogue stuff, set up for the next mission to the next waypoint. Got to the exit about to start the walk, and I just couldn't face it again. I understand that some people are enjoying the "traversal" parts, but to me they're absolutely boring. Hold both bottom shoulder buttons and go. Not hard. The BT parts were more annoying than anything imo, scan, move around, hold R1, scan, move around, hold R1... And the BB, even though it wasn't annoying yet, I could see it getting annoying, and the one story section where you're running to the waypoint to figure out what is happening to BB, the crying/upset noises were doing my head in. But I don't like kids, especially babies, so this was probably never going to work for me.

I'm really intrigued about the setting, the lore, etc, but the gameplay leaves this down imo. I'll probably watch a story video on YouTube to see what the craic is.

In complete opposite to Underground, I think HZD done this way better and was far more interesting, instantly grabbing me and not letting go until the end. But Death Stranding doesn't appreciate my time. It's a sneaking game really, in the beginning at least (no idea if you can actually take on the BT's at any stage), but with lots of lonely walking around inbetween. And the like system, as previously mentioned, is not for me either. It feels forced, and the story also does feel forced, 'we need to reconnect for the future of humanity'... Feels like i'm playing Facebook: The Game at times.

Again, I can see why people would like it, but I need to echo the sentiments of others, it's a boring game. Maybe i'll wait for some fan to do a mod and turn it into an action game instead. Might be good then.

Deleted User wrote: »

You get the rocket launcher towards the end if you could stick it out. Lots of guns available as you get past chapters 4&5.

I couldn't keep going. The idea of spending another 20+ minutes holding forward and R2/L2, with maybe a sneaking section to make the progress slower, just couldn't bring myself to keep going. I do appreciate that it's deliberately this way, but like other games of it's ilk, it's not what I look for. Can't say I didn't try it at least!

Wow, what a masterpiece this is.
60hrs and didnt want it to end. Now to get the platinum.

Finished building my road network on wednesday so went back to the story last night. Got hooked so went from chapter 8 to the start of chapter 12. Have absolutely no clue what's going on.

One question that others who finished it might know

I'm enjoying the gameplay as a whole, but feck me Chapter 3 is becoming a real slog. Road network coming along slowly, can't be bothered with standard orders even if I'm heading back that direction because I need to keep enough cargo space for metals and ceramics for the road, and my cargo gets ridiculously high on my back with all the ammo for both BTs and mules since I'm going back and forth over territories for both all the time, or don't know if even though one mission doesn't require anti-BT weapons, if the next one will and I'd have to go back for them if I didn't have them with me.

Only plus side is I looked up how to properly deal with Mules (didn't know you had to kick them after hitting with the Bolo so was constantly just having to run away). So finally managed to clear two mule camps and loot the road supplies (as much as I could fit in the trucks anyway).

But yeah, have to do a mission for the junker at the minute, and I swear the end to this chapter better be soon. I've heard it's pretty much the longest chapter anyway, I just really want to progress past this bit at this stage. It's really sapping the energy out of the game.

Penn, yupp 3 is long enough and if road building is becoming a slog, forget it. Ignore standing orders and materials for building, stick to orders for Sam. Always check the shared garage as i always had access to multiple bikes and take them. Don't forget the bike can jump over rough terrain a bit with x.

If progress are enjoying the building in 3, great, but if not it's not essential. 4 is such a crazy chapter and worth getting to. 5 & 6 brings new terrain challenges and after that it's short story focused chapters (compared to 3). Well worth getting through.

Gyan

Hideo is putting up some great behind the scenes videos. Would love a full making of doc.

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1200571666775982085?s=19

I sat down at 8 on Friday night thinking ill put in 1 hour then play something online with the lads.Next thing it was 2am and i was still trying to carry boxes of metal to a road paver.

I dropped my vehicle in the river somehow and I can't seem to find another on episode too when I go to garage nothing is there... Can I not get another vehicle now?

Deleted User wrote: »

You have to fabricate one. There has to be enough of the required materials at the distribution centre to make one.

Can't seem to see it in the fabrication options. Also I've no likes on things ive made is that supposed to be like that?