>This is fucking stupid
>20 minutes later
>This is literally the greatest game ever made
>20 minutes later
>This is fucking stupid
>20 minutes later
>This is literally the greatest game ever made

La Creatividad does it again

>>714172370 (OP)
Sounds like you just like watching cutscenes

>>714172370 (OP)
This game is the first game I genuinely enjoy and get addicted to in 3 years. Already played 60 hours since released and I'm enjoying th shit out of this kino masterpiece.

>>714172554
the gameplay is the kino part though

>>714172370 (OP)
..desert camo pants
DS2 has camo index?

My favorite "that was dumb" was the DHV reveal, and the AI dude said "You can't possibly be serious" like it was literally me talking to the screen

Anyone have an issue like mine where you suddenly can't see the names of those who made constructs? Suddenly stopped appearing.

>>714172774
fuck that's actually incredible

>>714172821
>DS2 has camo index?

A character tells you that the camo you pick can be used to blend into the enviroment, but I don't know if it actually has any gameplay effect or if it was just flavor dialogue

did anyone refuse fragile's job twice? absolute cinema

I was worried this game was less soulful than the original but the dollman private room performance has got me back on the monorail

>>714173319
I hope you set your birthday to a realistic/soon number, cause the game has alot of hidden shit like a special happy birthday scene.

>>714173278
I literally let out a loud cackle at that part, I had kind of forgotten how funny Kojima games can be at times.

>>714172370 (OP)
To be honest, the little I played the first, it's a great game with extremely stupid dialogs and overall story.
You literally take the journey of your fucking life with the greatest music kojimbo could find, just to arrive at a place and be greeted by the biggest tardo you can find and disjointed dialogs that look like they were recorded in different places for different ocassions but ended up played back to back.

>>714172370 (OP)
Been playing the first since it as on sale and honestly, it's actually enjoyable and I don't know how. It's the fetch quest game of all time, now with a sequel.
I am glad that in DS2 that you find out that Lou really is Sam's kid, even if his wife cheated on him. It would have greatly damaged the relationship Sam had with the kid otherwise.

>>714172774
That's not her or she's a master at makeup, but the only thing that's the same between her and kojimbo is the face shape, but the lips are completely different and her hair is impossible to be hidden under such small wig.
That's probably her boyfriend that's holding the gear in the first clip.

>>714173508
I always use my real birthday in his games, I usually don't play on the day but if I do it feels more special

Higgs DLC when?

>>714172370 (OP)
I just like enviroments with a sense of scale.

>>714174330
I like that you can actually traverse over most of it too. I've found postboxes and charging stations in some really remote spots.

>>714174330
Why does it feel so small when playing then?

>>714172370 (OP)
Literally me. Ive been thinking about dropping the game after the first 10 hours or so, and then I end up having fun. I just finished episode 6, I expected more soap opera with Tomorrow but im glad it ended up becoming anime by the end

>>714174053
or maybe it's actually the real creatividad???

>>714174240
I said it before, he shouldve pulled a MGS2 and let us play as Higgs by the end of this game

>>714172370 (OP)
It's worse than DS1, which I loved. So it's not a bad game, just worse in about every aspect except being able to take your pack off.
>maps are worse. Too easy to navigate around danger.
>weather is mostly useless
>container repair spray is still a useless mechanic
>hiking wasn't made any more involved. In fact it's easier than DS1
>no toddler Lou strapped to you

>>714174730
I was expecting to play Tomorrow for a bit atleast

>>714172370 (OP)
That Niel nigga deserved better desu.

Has anyone messed around with photo mode?

>>714172370 (OP)
Kojimarian

Holy fuck that was close

Is it ever explained exactly why the BTs attack people? Is it just like a (super)natural instinct thing? Like organic beings feeding themselves.

Is it me or are packages more susceptible to damage in vehicles than in the first game? I swear the only damage I get outside of combat happens in vehicles now

>>714173114
Anyone?

Im playing this game on a 32" Samsung screen I have since 2012

That was my experience playing the first one. Core gameplay was kino, carting packages across the mountains was gratifying in a way no other game has managed to capture for me. But the story and acting was just dreadful and it ripped me out of it whenever I reached a shelter. Also, the forced combat sections were absolute cancer. Kojimbo is a total wildcard, he either delivers gold, or dogshit - no in between. Every one of his games I’d recommend, just with a huge caveat that parts of it are garbage.

>>714175337
Im not using online features, no idea

>>714175493
Actually what I will say for the story is the world building was great. Lots of the details were laughably stupid, but the overall setting worked perfectly for a mysterious world that you’re slowly exploring, and connecting each area to the network was a cool gimmick.

>>714175493
>the story and acting was just dreadful and it ripped me out of it whenever I reached a shelter.
Acting is inconsistent as fuck in both ganes, but the overall story is enjoyable, like watching Eva or something like that. The text dumps with stiff holograms talking after every delivery sucks tho

>>714174330
>big empty space with zero interactivity and 2005 game tier physics
woah...

>>714175376
uh can you drop your whole backpack in the first game?

>>714175757
Acting and direction*

>1st game
>poignant serious story with a few jokes
>2nd game
>le wacky alan wake 2 dance numbers and gay tentacle kissing

why did he do it?

>>714174839
>no toddler Lou strapped to you
This was my biggest letdown. I was looking forward to raising her.
DS1 was a story about fatherhood while DS2 is a story about a crew of weirdos.

>>714175934
both stories are serious and played 100% straight
DS2 is just more insane

I think that vehicles ruin the game. The map should have been a tad smaller but only allow on foot. The climbing shit is the fun part, trivializing it all with a speedy vehicle ruins the fun. But not using a vehicle makes everything take so fucking long due to the size of the map.
I do love building roads for some reason though, I get so excited when I find an XL ceramic lying around

>>714175934
he wanted to subvert your expectations. you wanted a fun game? fuck you nigger! you'll get shit instead and you will fucking rike it!

>>714176272
>I get so excited when I find an XL ceramic lying around
You WILL spot that XL ceramics in a MULE base and clear out the entire place just for it.

>>714176272
Same issue as the first game unfortunately. Deliveries aren't really restrictive enough and you often have to curb the temptation of brute forcing everything with a truck in order to make use of other delivery tools

>>714175934
Death Stranding 2 is arguably more poignant than the original. The first game had a generic message about hope and perseverance and self sacrifice for the greater good. Death Stranding 2 is about moving on in the face of grief and the struggle to commit to a purpose after losing someone you had staked your whole life on.

If there weren't all that levity and avant-garde shit happening in DS2, it would be a constant downer and much harder to enjoy. The absurdity softens the blow of the themes in a game that actually kills a baby, and shows it happening, to cap off the first act.

>>714177010
The truck with the grapple cannons is busted as fuck. You can snipe so much lost loot on a simple drive, you don't even need to be close like the bike at all.
I actually think that so many of the star unlocks are busted. Like the stun bola is insane.
I think someone playing on easy mode that only does just the story events and doesn't level any bases will have a much harder time then the brutal player that does everything solely because the brutal player will have all the OP shit.

>>714172370 (OP)
Dadslop

>>714175934
DS1 being so dry and boring was the worst part of the story, Kojima isn't a good enough storyteller to pull it off, making DS2 more whimsy and fun was the right move.

>>714174240
>flowing locks
>beautiful eyelashes
>no eyebrows
what do you call this aesthetic

>SHOULD WE HAVE CONNECTED
so what's this about?? Can someone who played tell if it's significant

>>714177456
homo demens
emphasis on the homo

>>714177456
Orochimaru

>Really Higgs? Are you going to say that in front of Usada Pekora?

>>714177456
Burnies

>>714172370 (OP)
It's good.

>>714177660
Chiral network affected beach behavior and even nature

maybe this is the appeal but Reedus just being some dude really draws me out when everyone else is hollywood sexy. like hes fighting hair metal guy and Snake and he still looks like the kind of shitkicker with a heart of gold that aught to be the main character of a silent hill game, not scifi action.

>>714177902
This scene is fucked. You can get the entire cast wishing you a happy birthday even if you haven't met some of them yet.

I really do not understand the complaints about the tone. THIS is what people wanted more of. Batshit insane entertaining Kojima.

To turn around and say WELL AKHTUALLY WE WANTED THE STORY TO BE EVEN MORE SERIOUS is just so bizarre after all the shit that DS1 got.

My wife and her boyfriend had a child together and now I can raise their kid? Don't mind if I yabba-dabba-do

>>714178107
He fits the blue collar worker archetype. Try to imagine someone else as Sam, impossible.

>>714178349
Nobody outside the people who didn't give a fuck about either of these games is saying this. Just look at the meta and userscore.

>>714178434
It's Sam's kid.

>>714178234
No you can't, it's progression locked

>>714174240
He's the jokah baybe

Kojima did it again.

>>714178770
I watched some guy get the entire cast wishing them a happy birthday before they even got to meet Rainy. Either they've since patched that or you're incorrect.

>>714172864
The amount of looking directly at the screen in the last act of the game would've been dumb as fuck if done by anyone else but worked 100% here

>>714172370 (OP)
He told y'all years in advance.

>>714175857
Yeah possibly, I just found a lot of the concepts to be slightly eye-roll worthy, and the peculiar delivery just made it much worse. Fragile and Mama in particular really ruined it for me whenever they were on screen. But Refn and Del Toro weren't much better, the whole thing just feels off in a really grating way - not in a mesmerising way like Twin Peaks or something like that.

>>714178976
DS1 made me feel so used to it that it just feels like something people do regularly in this universe

>>714177092
>self sacrifice for the greater good
lol

>>714177767
Higgs bozo dude

>>714177892
for you

>>714172864

I finished it last night and the whole story was nothing but banger after banger towards the end, I would be up for a 3rd game with another protagonist but it also works as a great endpoint for the series

>>714177892
>all the red reviews are e33 simps and shills
Kek

>>714180201
>IGN Japan rated E33 a 7/10
>IGN France rated DS2 a 6/10
Heh.

who the fuck gave kojima the aux

How much did the gameplay evolve since the 1st game? This seems like the perfect game to me for cargo raiding and base raiding, but the game doesn't seem to focus on raiding at all.

>>714180317
If you mean going in and taking what the MULEs have, you can go and do that, and you can get better weapons/fighting moves to help you.

>>714180317
Core gameplay hasn't drastically evolved, it's mostly just a refinement of the first game with some added bells and whistles. Biggest change is probably with stealth and combat, and there's more emphasis on directly confronting enemies this time round which you may like

>>714180317
There's a million things they added including a literal pokemon system for catching and summoning boss BTs
By the end of the game you can use chiral crystals to have BTs eat all the brigands but you can also take everyone down with stealth or a pizza dough themed fighting style

>>714180317
The gameplay has evolved very subtly and without a solid grasp of Moby Dick most of its nuance will go over a typical player's head.

>>714180937
Shit, Nintendo is going to sue.

>mfw mines and monorails

>mfw coffin hoverboard that also burns corpses
>mfw it upsets Dollman

I’m so MAD that kojima didn’t make this a cross platform i mean why bother buying the rights from sony if you are not gonna release on pc. Trying to avoid spoilers is so hard when literally everyone is treating this game like it’s the second coming of christ. Fuck you kojima im never buying a ps5

What's the point with material you find on the ground? There's no global storage and each camp you go to like 2-3 times, and you never feel like you are out of material. Am I missing something? I just leave it on the ground.

>>714181856
You grab them on the way to add to the nearby road paver.

>>714181368
There's no ball involved so they're SOL

>>714181856
>He's not using his ceramics

>>714175410
Touching the Void > Enter the Void

>MWAAH

>DHV
Holy fuarking kino

>>714177092
Everyone knows Lou isn't really dead though.

Mecha-Higgs getting destroyed over and over was so kino

>>714182569
Except Sam cause he's stupid

>>714182113
For what? Roads?

kojimadrones are something else

>>714180290
are you sure it was revenge? maybe it was a coinkidink?

transjeet marketer thread

>>714183238
This isn't a slop 33 thread

>>714172774
Does this count as Yellowface ?

>>714183939
kek still seething it has a higher metacritic score?

Lea loving Kojima so much is pretty cute. I kind of hope she's in Physint in some way shape or form, maybe as some menu voice.

>Going on vacation this saturday, away from the PS5 for two weeks
>can't play on friday because it's a family birthday
FUAAAARKKK

>>714174839
Boss fights are a bit better though.

>>714184365
Yeah she seems to be enjoying this whole gig a bunch. Well, it's either that or she's getting paid very handsomely. Though I don't feel like she's big enough of a star to be faking it for money.

>>714174839
>worse than a bad game

kek proves the people are only putting up with this walking sim slop because they feel the need to deepthroat kojima

>>714175293
What difficulty are you playing on? I am on Brutal and I feel like I have had more packages get damaged in vehicles in 2 so far compared to 1 as well.
I feel like Brutal might be a tiny bit more difficult than Very Hard in DS2, like packages being more susceptible to damage.

Only killed 2 major bosses so far (just killed the mech octopus) but damn are bosses more fun to fight this time around. That was a kino fight.

>>714175376
This kind of stuff is kino unironically. It feels so good for some reason.
I love being a deliveryman
>>714175832
Nah that's a new thing in 2

>>714184365
I'm so jealous that Kojima got both my waifu (Lea) and my husbando (Mads)... and even if somewhat too old, daughterfu (Elle), as a bonus

>>714177092
>Death Stranding 2 is about moving on in the face of grief and the struggle to commit to a purpose after losing someone you had staked your whole life on.
That's also in DS1.

It's a matter of accepting the premise of the game as something that is a continuation, but still a different work that does new things.
Death Stranding 1
>Blue
>Cold
>Cool
>Quiet
>Fragile
>Alone
>Death Stranding 2
>Red
>Warm
>Hot
>Loud
>Strong
>Connected
So far I have a bit of a preference for 1, but 2 is still a great game and does do some things better.
I hope Physint is wildly different though, like completely. No big huge open world, not 80+ hours long. Not sure about OD yet

>you can actually catch diehardman while taking a photo before he's even revealed
La creatividad

You aren't actually building roads or monorails in these games, you're just delivering materials for them to be build in a predetermined manner. And most of the deliveries you do can only be done in one specific order otherwise the story doesn't work. You don't even need to prepare or ration out your resources because the deliveries are so short and easy anyway. And the game will literally throw resources at you to make sure you can't get stuck or fail. I don't get how anyone can find the gameplay engaging, it's the most streamlined experience imaginable.

I really like Sam and the way he is written. I love Fragile too, she's so amazing in 2.

>>714184710
Like a proud mother taking pictures of her son at the school talent show. Why does she like him so much lol

>>714175041
>pandemic
People are still pretending there was a pandemic?

>>714177902
Who is the fertile semen demon on the left?

>>714172370 (OP)
>that very last line from Norman where he just replies with a very dry and plain "Yeah." to Elle's "I'm your Louise."
Jesus Christ man. Like was he not available that day and they had to use that bit from another sound bite or something? It's so weird sounding. They should've had him either redo it or say absolutely nothing. It's so jarring.
And I personally feel like it should've ended on a hug to mirror the reveal of the first game with Sam hugging the baby. He does hug her while she's unconscious on the beach though, so technically it's still there.

>>714184365
daily reminder that lea is the typical modern feminist. she let a man knock her up and then divorced him a bit later and now lives alone in paris or wherever with her kid. this is the real reason for all the divorces now. women let some random dick knock them up and then divorce them when the relationship becomes boring and they've wrung everything they can out of it and then skedaddle with their brood. this is what always ends up happening when societies allow women to divorce their husbands for no reason. so-called no fault divorces literally destroy countries.

>>714185408
>most of the deliveries you do can only be done in one specific order otherwise the story doesn't work
Story deliveries yes, that's why they're story deliveries. Standard orders you can do at any time in any order once you've unlocked a distro/prepper, same as the first game. Plus they added aid requests now

>tfw Low Roar came up
damn I wish Ryan was still here

>>714186320
virgin alert!

>>714186320
Bro showed up to the no one asked competition and started yapping

>>714185408
>I don't get how anyone can find the gameplay engaging, it's the most streamlined experience imaginable.

Its just a very goodlooking Fetch Quest Simulator

>>714172554
Yes, he was watching one cutscene

>tfw you get the power gloves and start charging the attack

>>714174053
>her hair is impossible to be hidden under such small wig
You'd be surprised

>>714186541
so? it's the truth. me being a virgin doesn't change that.

>>714186720
don't defend this. be the better man. don't be a cuck like all the other men.

>>714182220
>she knows she's dead the entire time and just wants to spend her last weeks going on a roadtrip with Sam
massive improvement over her role in DS1 it's not even funny

>>714172774
>ywn have that level of makeup skill

>>714188707
Kojima rethreaded some tropes that he used in mgs games. (Not a bad thing)

SAME AS IT EVER WAS

>when Charlie starts dancing DIEHARD flashes briefly on one of the evangelion computers
Is there anything he or any one else can do in the rest of their career that can top the cringekino of that scene?

>>714174053
>>714173209
>>714189069
That's absolutely not make-up, idiots. You can't make-up an Adam's Apple, or make your hand a full size larger.

Haven't played the game but if everything in the world is dead what the fuck do people eat? If all the water is poisoned, what do they drink?

>>714190145
With makeup and an imagination, you can become anything. Even God.

>>714190234
They eat the bugs and live in the pods, unironically.

>>714190234
>if everything in the world is dead what the fuck do people eat?
If everything actually were dead why would there be people? Are you dumb?

>>714172370 (OP)
Eat ze chryptobiotes Sam.

>>714190234
By the way, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is now available on PS5. If you are patient, it will be coming to PC. Be sure to add it to your wishlist and consider pre-ordering.

>>714172370 (OP)
David Cage?

How is the movement in DS2? I'm trying to give DS1 a chance but controlling Sam is insanely janky, especially considering walking around is what you're doing for the entire game. I keep comparing it RDR2 which felt so much better

>>714190913
Who is that short semen demon.

>>714191015
It's a bit more responsive. Movement in both games depend on how much you're carrying.
Take off the backpack in 2 and it's almost as responsive as MGS.

>>714191015
Less jank that doesn't make sense, but the realistic "jank" is still there, like if Sam is moving very fast while he's very heavy he'll have trouble stopping and you might faceplant into a wall, that kind of stuff. Vehicles driving over rough terrain seems improved at least

>>714172774
Matan should contact her

I never expected the actress of Fragile to be my favorite of the series if you asked me a few years ago.

>>714187526
kek

>>714191695
"Wanna come work for me"

>>714175618

>>714191695
*cries sexily*

LEGENDS OF LEGENDS OF LEGENDS

>>714191185
Come on he's not that short

https://youtu.be/r39_xQNpYh4
what did Kojima mean by this?

>>714194000
Jej

>>714187526
lol

>Tens of thousand of years of just... wandering.
did he deserve it?

>>714195468
can you imagine living that long with no sex?
Man we cant go twenty four hours without getting sum

>>714195751
>we

When is the first time you meet the Red Samurai? I thought it was the weapons factory but I was watching some streamer and she implied she saw him before that mission.

>>714173114
Happened to my online vehicles stored in garages but not in the field structures.

>>714188257
Anon, you can't reason with an incel with no idea how costuming and make up works. His ego is too inflated.
Also yes you can flatten any amount of hair down with enough hair gel and styling. Volume in hair is not physical mass. If your hair has been wet before, you can see just how much you can smooth it down. Hair gel works the same way.

>>714198103
During the run back to Sam's shelter when it gets attacked.

>>714172370 (OP)
No shit nigga, it’s just like the first game, where he stretched 10 hours of content into a 30 hours game

>>714198340
>30
it's like 60+ at least, probably closer to 80
I guess it might be 30 if you speedrun the story, but then you're missing out on all the fun shit you can unlock

>>714198264
I think I did a small circle around the parking lot area after the bridge and was on a tri-cruiser so I probably missed him. I ignored all the combat there.

>>714179704
>what did he mean by this

>>714198506
You didn't miss much. He just kills some mechs and then does his vanishing act.

Why did Kojima make Sam the Man a cuck?

>>714198762
Sam was a cuck in the first game. Second game literally uncucks him.

>>714195468
>spend thousands of years gooning to Sam on the beach
>come back
>see him playing happy families with Fragile and being happy
I'd go fucking nuts too desu
I don't think he deserved it in DS1 because the majority of the game is fucking Amelie pulling the strings and Higgs just became her fall guy. DS2 Higgs is a bit of a lost cause though.

>>714198762
He didn't? Lucy was already sleeping with Sam before she broke up with Neil and she just lied about the baby not being his

>>714198938
Higgs is a tragic figure.

Okay is the Red Samurai actually Higgs or Deadman? I thought it was Deadman most of the time except for the two times it's explicitly Higgs, yet he mentions puppeteering it the whole time which seems weird considering he literally fights himself with it? What would be the purpose of him saving Sam from... himself?

>>714199471
Corpus confirms it was Deadman initially.

>>714199471
Higgs spends almost the entire game in one body until Fragile destroys it. Deadman alternates between the Red Samurai and Heartman, meaning Higgs could hijack the Red Samurai when Deadman's Ha was inside Heartman since they both use the exact same method of bodyjacking

>>714195468
I dunno if I'm reading it wrong, but Higgs kinda just seems like he's having fun the entire time.
I'm not even sure he really died at the end.

>>714199638
>>714199804
Okay, that's what I thought. I've just been seeing people online stating that Higgs was always the Red Samurai when logically if doesn't make sense, so I was wondering if I somehow got things wrong

>conection star maxing is somehow even grindier
>playing online the game is like a garbage dump of various clutered shit everywhere
>playing offline everything is too expensive to rebuild
>"hey sam you must prepare and fabricate for this fight!!!"
>nevermind the game just spams you free shit during the fight
>fast travel!!! oh nevermind delivery likes are nerfed to shit. nigh worthless feature
>"bro look at all these stealth options"
>stealth is completely broken and useless. none of the areas are designed for it
>shotgun rage run is somehow the most effective
>same for all the build bullshit. off roader is the most effective
>the game is terified to force and chalenge you to traverse the terain any different way
>80% of cutscenes contain no conected story and are just random non sequitur vignettes
>somehow even more menu micro management autism

its slop.

>>714172370 (OP)
Do you enjoy bollywood films too?
Its the same wild ride

>>714198938
it's so sad when a villain shows a moment of clarity but knows that he's too far gone to put down the gun.
Sam even asks him
>I get it, but is this really what you want?
And he just goes back to his old self. For a moment he shows you the real amount of pain that he feels.

>>714200453
It's just people (and you apparently) being retarded. No, this whole thing is not referring to the Red Samurai..

>>714200361
I don't think Higgs is dead either. He has that parallel to Sam that he just cannot die, even though he isn't a repatriate. With Higgs being swallowed by an EE and seemingly "ascending" to some higher plane or beach at the end, I wouldn't be fucking surprised if he came back as an actual god/EE or some shit if DS3 happens.

>>714200453
Forgot to spoiler the image.

It's just people (and you apparently) being retarded. No, this whole thing is not referring to the Red Samurai

>that last shot of Neil gazing at Tomorrow before they march off
kino

>>714177456
soft egyptian, fits with his theme too

>>714182569
Dollman literally says the pod is empty. It's just Sam seeing her ghost/BT in the pod. Everyone else (Except maybe Higgs) just accepts that he's telling the truth because stranger things happen every day for them. Lou is absolutely not okay. She won't grow up. She'll never leave that pod again. All of her potential is gone She's literally a ghost.

>>714199406
>tfw he used to be a legendary porter that loved helping people
Higgs got in the way of all the worst manipulative and evil shit from Amelie. Sam would end up just like him if he wasn't there to take the bullet.

https://youtu.be/6hZPaSuM_YY?t=76
https://youtu.be/VVGQ3fOgHOE?list=RDVVGQ3fOgHOE

>>714174240
A tomorrow new game plus DLC is more likely

>>714175798
>chooses the desert to prove his point
>which that eats up batteries stamina and speed
>which has regular sandstorms that further reduce speed
>which has at least 4 places of interest and 3-4 spots where chiral crystal clusters form
>which is the area where you can find an albino kangaroo
>there's... le NOTHING

>>714172370 (OP)
>ds3 will be a prequel just like mgs3 was
>ds4 will break the longest videogame cutscene record

>linking up several floating carriers, taking on a fuck ton of orders and just lugging it on foot between a bunch of different preppers to get to your final destination halfway across the map while you pick up lost cargo on the way and do aid requests as you follow the route you planned
Pure fucking ludo

>Dollman: I feel like a very long cutscene is about to happen. Are you really up for that?
>cutscene is a parody of MGS4 that ends with a dance number
Have to give it to kojimbo, not many people can look back on their midlife crisis and laugh at it like that

>>714204562
>cutscene is a parody of MGS4
I thought it was referencing 2

>>714204676
the whole computer graveyard thing is something he did in 4

>>714204774
I was thinking bout Diehard man talking about how they'd rather make their own decisions than relegating it to the ai

>>714202927
God she is so evil. Using two innocent guys that would otherwise be friends to deal with her split personalty.

>>714177456
david bowie

>I don't get it
>ah okay I think I understand now
>actually that opens up more questions
>nevermind it makes total sense now
>wait what is going on
I feel like I'm having a bad trip and Kojima is whispering some random shit into my ear.

>>714175031
A Rank

>>714204360
DS3 where you play as Higgs and slowly getting converted into doing shit for Amelie.
Kinda in line with the whole "a loyal man gets used and turns into a villain" type of arc he did with BBoss.

>>714205291
Did you played DS 1?

Does the baby pod in DS2 still start crying when BB gets stressed?
I fucking hope not, since the pod is actually empty, making it an unnecessary mechanic

>>714206029
Yeah it still does. Also affects your Odradek for some reason.

>>714172370 (OP)
I genuinely have no idea of what kind of mental illness cocktail is required to endure, let alone enjoy, Death Stranding.

>>714205661
A Higgs prequel could genuinely be very interesting. He's like the second protag already. You can have the porter gameplay, more crude technology, show some cities before they got nuked. Worse nightmares with increasing dooms, BT controlling abilities.

>>714206392
i payed 80 bucks for this and the cinematography of the cut-scenes are kino

>>714206392
Its called looking for something unique

>>714199406
This would literally be Sam if Higgs did not exist

>>714206919

>>714206392
You just need to be young and naive and still believe there must be more to life.

>>714205730
Yes but it was similar there, too.

STRAND GAME (TM) in Stalker universe where you play as a scientist would be genuinely kino. You walk in the wild or among ruins, trying to not break your legs or get torn to shreds by anomalies. Collect samples, use weird devices to take measurements etc. Shoot some snork ocasionally but enemies would be massively less concentrated than in normal stalker games.

>>714208285
Just play anomaly with every difficulty slider cranked up. You can start as a scientist too iirc.

>>714208515
I did, but the old maps are too fucking small, large enviroments are a crucial ingredient of the STRAND GENRE (TM). Walking is also very very barebones and the zone is too busy overall

i sincerely hope the Konami MGS3 rapes kojima stranding

>>714206858
>start with child Higgs living with his abusive uncle up to killing him
>slowly rising in porter rank
>working for Fragile express and Cofin
>raiding BB facilities
>Higgs is happy making the world better
>mid point
>Amelie shows up
>Higgs starts becoming stronger and using his powers to do more good
>Everyone loves him
>Starts to become unhinged and power hungry
>normal cargo deliveries turn into smuggling nukes to cities
>Veteran porter Max Payne is a central character
>becomes scared of Higgs and leaves him
>Higgs completely loses his mind and everyone abandons him
>He forms Homo Demens at the end and puts forth his plan for extinction

It writes itself, the arc is there.

>>714209012
>hope a kojima's game rapes a kojima's game
lol

>>714174839
There are so many QOL improvements I think it will be hard to go back to the original but I agree the map (or rather its use) is a step down. Granted I'm only on chapter 5 or 6 but nothing has required much creativity. There has only been one time I've gotten stuck where the terrain surprised me and even then I just yeeted a truck off a drop to cheese it with no cargo damage. I will say one big improvement gameplay wise is that the infrastructure feels more rewarding to build. Not that it really matter though as you don't even need it as the game is piss easy

>>714209442
I honestly don't think there was much creativity to avoiding mules or BTs. It just kinda forced you to keep taking the same path to avoid them. I don't think I'll mind 2 being more "loose" in that regard.

>>714204512
This is the way to do it. Floating carriers are peak comfy and you can add cargo to them without menu autism. Plus you get the reward of skateboarding down a hill when you're done with them

>>714184778
You sound deranged and obsessed

>>714209217
not anymore lmao

>absolute cinema

>>714172370 (OP)
How do you complete those emergency aid things that other players put up?

Do you need to go back to Mexico at any point in the main story after the first couple of chapters? I just did all the main missions in that region and have been only been doing shit in Australia.

>>714211786
Yes

>>714175376
I love dropping all my mats and delivery stuff outside of bandit nigger camps and wiping them out and just going back and collecting it back. DS2 honestly has an impressive amount of QOL improvements and not a single one of them actually harms the core struggle of the game, in fact most enhance them by opening up your options in gameplay.

>>714211713
You offload the cargo into the circle and then hit send.

>>714210798
It's quite literally the exact same game with current-gen graphics. How delusional do you have to be to pretend that it's not a Kojima game anymore?

>>714181619
That's the shit right there. Easily the best addition.

Is there any reason not to use the AI camo suit you get from Pekora? All the other suits I've gotten so far aren't as good.

>>714209156
Perpetually angry autistic retards live like this.

>Start up a road job.
>Only donate chiralium and let everybody else waste their mats to build the rest for for me.
>Rake in the likes whenever it's used.
Anybody else like this?

>>714212115
stupid autist

>sticky gun upgrade
>cargo van
>full playlist
>irl trucker hat and sunglasses
Yeah, I'm thinkin' it's gaming time.

>>714212641
Nice argument.

>>714212249
AI suit is the only one with noticeable benefit and NPCs are too dumb for proper camo to actually matter.

Did anyone else get the feeling ds2 was an allegory of kojimas konami firing and killing of mgs

Solid snake 2.0 being cucked really really felt like that

Do you ever get the original game's songs for your music player? If they released a paid DLC with those songs I would buy it if they aren't already in the game.

>>714198458
I mean, I had something like ~35h on DS1 and I did a fair amount of sidequests, 60/80h sounds horrendous

>>714212115
I guess he means in legal sense, but in that way it was never Kojima's so I don't see the point of "anymore" in his post.
Kojima derangement syndrome I guess

>>714172774
>>714172774
Perfect faggot litmus test. The girl is very pretty, but very unattractive when cosplaying as Kojima. She literally looks like a dude. A low-T dude, but still a dude.

>>714172774
Not the same person.

>>714206858
Not having increasing DOOMs abilities is a missed opportunity imo.

What's the point of Monorails when you can just load the Magellan up with resources and teleport? I guess you can use them for deliveries but still. I feel like letting the Magellan carry cargo was a mistake.

>>714172774
>This game is the first game I genuinely enjoy and get addicted to in 3 years.
It is honestly nuts how addictive the gameplay is.

I spent the entire day not doing a single main story order and just doing deliveries and leveling up the other preppers and facilities.

>>714207552
The young and naïve are bitching about how boring this game is. Videogames exist for entertainment and escapism. You play this game to experience something other than real life.

>>714178782
He may look like the Joker but personality wise he's more like the Reverse Flash

I just beat the game last night after 64 hours, and it is ludokino.
>>714213021
The ones they made for the game like Ludens and Ghost? No, I don't think so.
You get some of the old Low Roar tracks, though, and Asylums For The Feeling.

>>714214487
THOSE GAY DREAMS YOU'VE BEEN HAVING SAM?
IT WAS ME

>>714214554
>Asylums For The Feeling
Kino, that's my favorite one.
Every time I think of Death Stranding it's THAT song. That trailer was so godlike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3UngLFou4&t=76s

>>714215087
Yeah, that trek down to Port Knot when it played really defined the original for me.

>>714214554
>spoiler
Nice

All of that sounds interesting but it doesn't mean as goddamned thing until it comes to PC/Steam (anywhere else is fine but no Epic exclusivity etc). Fuck Sony for this garbage behavior exclusivity. Bring to to PC in the next 1-3 months and I'll pick it up at launch as I enjoy DS1's Director's Cut, but if they take 6+ months there's no way I'm not waiting until its a big fuck you discount. We're not launch players, why should we pay the launch price or something near it 6-12 months down the line?

When did you come to the realization that FOXDIE is real and actually exists? It's not nanomachines doing it, it's the spirits.

>>714178782
>>714214487
The fact so many thinks, or jokes, that he's supposed to look like The Joker, and not The Crow, makes me feel old.

>>714215848
I just assumed he was supposed to be a glam rocker like KISS or something.

>no gold trophy for finishing the story
Seriously?
Anyways, 55 hours in and I still keep coming back. I have to finish all the fucking roads my autistic brain won't allow me to put the game down until I do it.

Lou Lou Lou I've got some apples
Lou Lou Lou I've got some stew

Troy Baker's performance is on another level.

>>714216416
i don't think the actors are actually acting the scenes

>tfw the Kangaroo delivery
Jesus Christ the fucking raining fire scared the shit out of me.

Explain these games to someone who has never played it

>>714178349
This is the first thing I've seen that makes me interested in the game.

>>714216416
Yeah I don't think I've cringed more at a performance. Comparing a VA to a real actor isn't fair but hard not to notice how cringe his performance is when Lea is right there mogging him.

>>714216710
The manly experience of conquering nature.

>>714216681
I went full DSP during that segment.
HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW A METEOR WOULD HIT ME
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
I CAN'T SEE WHERE I'M GOING

>>714216710
Post apocalyptic truck sim with giant ghost squids and extremely autistic dialogue

>go to complete a safe house
>bep-bep-bep-bep-bo-beep-pow bebep-bep-bep-bep-bep-bebep-bep
>start headbanging
Such lust for beats...WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?!?!

>>714217192
>extremely autistic dialogue

stop with this. just say you think japan is autistic. it''s different. the East and the West has this huge divide that globalism hasn't solved yet.

>>714216710
stoic turboautist and jar baby have death powers and travel around to rebuild upsidedown tar/rain world's infrastructure for updoots and extinction entity pussy while avoiding ghosts and permamad memehick antagonist

I loved DS2, but the first one just hit different. DS1's world felt real and this one feels like a theme park after you connect all the areas. This is the downside of having so much variety, the world feels artificial.

>>714172370 (OP)
Kojima is a hack and this game is just a glorified update for DS1, it does everything exactly the same, people praising this game are dishonest at best, really stupid and low iq at worst, i played the game and even all the plot devices, the whole SCENARIO IS THE SAME, it's not only the same but it betrays DS1 by going full blown MGS1 , MGS4 in the last fight, it's very pathetic to look at a retelling of snake vs ocelot liquid with guitars, really pathetic and the signs of someone that smell their own farts and has become senile and drunk with his own pl ss.

>>714214242
>Videogames exist for entertainment and escapism.
You're the one entertaining the game. You go along with its nonsense story and trivial game mechanics for hours expecting a payoff. It's not that the game is boring, it's that it doesn't respect the player's time.

>>714218329
not only it's fucking cringe and pathetic to look at it but it also show how much Kojima is creatively bankrupt to take two retarded and disgusting bloated looking creatures mystery meat actors to put them in the exact same slot as snake and liquid.

It's fucking crazy it's like modern art throwing shit exhibition at michelangelo statues or exquisite forms of art, Kojima really thinks you are all retarded and he might be fucking right.

>>714216710
You hold the stick up for 50 hours. Sometimes a really cool cutscene happens.

>>714216816
You chose to praise Lea but not that Lea of all people?

Maybe I'm not far enough yet but BT encounters feel like such a joke in this one.
There have been multiple times now where I enter a BT area as part of a main mission only to walk/drive straight through and not even see 1 enemy.
Also you get blood grenades right away in this one as opposed to having to make do with shit & piss grenades and splashing them with Norman Reedus gamer girl bath water.

i like that its not imitating dark souls

>>714218278
Are you guys just making up reasons to shit on the game now? Too much variety? Seriously? After shitting on DS1 for not having enough.

>>714218823
Bro, it's literally DS2.

>>714218905
Both games are equally dogshit yes

>>714188707
>those lips
holy fuck

>>714218332
You have no clue what you are saying. There is never a payoff playing any videogame because they are exactly for what I said they are for. Its there for dopamine injections. The dopamine injections you get from this game comes in the form of Likes. And you only get likes when you complete orders or provide something useful to other players: like a safe house placed conveniently by a chiralium farm. And this can even lead to even more likes and free repairs if someone finds your structures to be beneficial to them. You'll see their name pop up multiple times an hour, almost guaranteeing that you earned a strand contract.

Often enough, people with your sentiment don't do anything of the sort and get left behind. Death Stranding IS an allegory for human evolution afterall. If you don't respect the game by adapting to it, the game won't respect you and leave you with nothing.

t. getting 52k likes a day

>>714177456
Alice Cooper

>>714218278
True, the first game felt like it could be in real world Iceland most of the time. The new biomes are nice but definitely make the map feel more videogamey

when it gets ported to PC there will be dozens of threads praising the game to high heaven, its really good

Wait a year and watch how the discourse around this game on /v/ changes once it gets ported to PC.

Did they add anything new to the delivery stuff, like vehicles, weapons, ways to travel (ziplines)?

>>714219580
yeah

>>714218819
I beat the game without ever dying in the normal difficulty. The game is piss easy, so much so that all the combat sections feel pointless. All the combat gadgets are useless, if you're mildly competent at video games you can just sprint into an enemy camp with a pistol or a rifle and mow down the entire camp by just aiming and shooting. I never had to fabricate or pick up bloodbags.
By the end with ghost mechs you do consume bloodbags but only a few and you don't have to change your approach to combat it's the same shit, just run and gun. There's no point to stealth at all.
The only somewhat interesting combat section is samurai Higgs, but even then it feels like watered down Dark Souls with gigantic dodge windows.

>>714218819
I dunno, the watchers alone seem to make BT encounters themselves less trivial than in the first game. The biggest issue I found is how easy it is to outright avoid BT zones altogether, basically means I barely need to engage with them outside of retrieval orders

>>714219785
i like that its easy, stop making everything into dark souls

>>714219785
They made the enemy AI way too passive in normal mode. I watched some gameplay, and they can't hit shit and just stand around to die.
Brutal is still not all too difficult, but it at least makes you use your tools because they fight back.

>>714219416
>The dopamine injections you get from this game comes in the form of Likes
Likes and the bombardment of noises you get from simply moving around and interacting with shit. It's like they engineered every sound in this game to be digital crack. Today I was going on a mad loop in Mexico to get 5 stars on every location and the hours flew by.

>>714219897
are we going to pretend that the BT encounters were harder in the first game? You just hold the stick up in both of them

>>714219897
>>714220120
BTs are the worst thing about these games. They're just fucking annoying because the game keeps taking control away from you, and when fighting them you're in a tar zone with 90% less move speed. It's not scary, just plain annoying. I dread every BT encounter.

Should I speedrun Death Stranding 1 so I can play 2 asap or go slow?

>>714184365
She's a noble blood so i don't think about the monetary issue, maybe she like working with kojimbo because of the story and nature of the game is like auteur french cinema

>>714214139
Based and same. Just doing standard orders in various different ways. Sometimes I got in a bike or truck, sometimes I felt like walking. Sometimes I attacked random camps for the shits and giggles. Finished some roads up and just relaxed. Played for 7 hours straight not touching the main story.

>>714220120
No, my point is that they were easier in 1, but 2 seems to make even less effort to railroad you into BT areas so you can just skip them

Okay did anyone actually use the tar cannon to save the kangaroo? I feel like there's no world where it isn't just easier to run around the fires

>>714220791
Speedrun for the story. If you enjoy making deliveries for the sake of it you can do it in 2.

>>714221184
Someone's mounted tar cannon showed up in my world, so I used that.

>>714221184
no lmao I just jumped the fire with a bike. I got a B though

>>714221229
Kek same.

I really recommend playing this on Brutal, I'm a 30 y/o boomer who basically only play on normal these days but I suspected that DS2 would be easy like the first game so I went for hard straight away. I'm glad I did because Brutal feels more like normal difficulty and I've only failed a handful of times and it was mostly due to dumb negligence on my part. It's definitely not a difficult game

>>714222198
Yeah brutal doesn't even really feel that much harder. It's still fairly easy and I haven't struggled much with anything so far. Though I've gotten a shit score on every boss fight.

>>714219416
That's what I am saying. The game wasting your time with trivial tasks is justified to you with the expectation of getting likes.

>>714222354
You just gotta get the L2+X dodge down. Also be sure to level up the Pizza Chef connection since he gives you some real useful stuff for fighting.

>>714214686
I could see him actually doing that.

>>714174509
Because you won't stop fast travelling like a little bitch

Why did they have to make this piece of shit so fucking annoying?

>>714223735
They didn't

>>714222814

>mfw deleting all signs on the highway
>at some point they stop spawning closer than 100m from each other

>>714223804
Hehe he's holding his boob

>>714175376
The exosuit may help his legs and back carry all that shit, but when he climbs ropes or ladders that's all him. dude is crazy strong

what the fuck is a Golden Chiral Creature

I think I saw one but I mistook it for an animal that I wanted to capture and it just went away

>>714223735
I like him.

>>714223804
What do you have to do to trigger this? I never saw it

>>714223778
Sam, it appears this anonymous user on 4chan has disagreed with you about me being an annoying exposition device. Should we try to convince them that I am in fact, extremely annoying?

>>714224028
Sam the swole man

>>714223735
What's his accent?

>>714224295
Sounds like Dutch or some shit

>>714223878
wtf man give me my like

This is literally Sam and Higgs having sex

>>714224364
absolutely not dutch, it sounded some flavor of south american

>>714224137
sleep next to coffin outside when its not raining

>>714224397
MY RIFFS ARE TOO STRONG FOR YOU, TRAVELER

>>714223804
Why did God instill such love of tentacles into the Japanese?

>>714224086
I tried that too. But you shoot it with anything that can harm a BT for chiral crystals. It also splits off into mini goops which also give chiral crystals on death. If there are a lot in an area spread out, use a silenced pistol. If they are clumped close together, double tap a grenade. I have not tried blood grenades but I think they might work better.

>>714222553
And you missed his point entirely and are still trying to further your simpleton argument. You can't objectively argue that one game is a waste of time and some other game is not, because objectively, they're both a "waste of time". Think about what you're physically doing when playing any game. Any activity that doesn't further your material security is a "waste of time" in our shared human understanding of the concept. That's why it's play and not work.

Admit it, they make a cute couple

>>714224208
I actually had to laugh when the Magellan drops you off during the finale and he still considers it necessary to explain what's happening right now. What a wasted character.

>>714224105
I'd like him a lot more if he did more than point out things that happen right in front of me. I walk into a BT spawn, "Sam, there's BTs right in front of you", I pick up the packages I need for a delivery, "it looks like you have all the packages you need!", a door opens right in front of my eyes, "Sam, it looks like that door just opened". I'm so fucking tired of it man, why is he telling me things i already know from playing the first game?

>>714225397
SAM GET DOWN THE ENEMY SNIPER

>>714225397
Every character in this game is constantly repeating shit you already know, this is a Kojima thing.

>>714225383
>What a wasted character.
Yep, it's even more disappointing since the trailers made him seem like he was actually interesting.
>>714225520
I feel like the first game wasn't as bad since Die-hardman was taking the flack for all the yap in the game but in DS2 it's even more noticeable with the amount of unnecessary dialogue between Fragile and Tarman.

>>714225332
Hey this is just liquid and solid being homofags!

>>714204562
There's so much shit that's directly referencing Metal Gear in this game that it feels like he's hinting that he's working with Konami again on Physint.

> I thought you had to build the monorail from one city to the next to get to The Inventor
>you just had to scan the tar around the island and walk through the yellow dots

>>714225332
this isnt kcd 2 gtfo

>>714225276
There's no such thing an objectively good or bad use of your time and that's not what I'm arguing. I am arguing that the moment to moment gameplay is very shallow effectively making it a waste of time.

>>714225823
*homo demens

>>714225928
I tried getting to the island on my trike because i thought it would float and it sunk into the tar, went back to get on the monorail

>>714206029
It's not empty. It has Lou's BT in it. No one else can see her because Lou is connected to Sam like Malingen's baby was to her.

Have you tried freshening up with a shower?

>>714227102
Anon... all the relevant characters have DOOMS and should be able to sense a BT in one way or another.

>>714227331
The best most of them can do is show the Chiral Allergy response, which is useless on the Magellan, because it's constantly triggering that response by its nature. Sam is the only one who can actually see BTs on his own, because "his DOOMS level went up."

>>714175798
This is a Death Stranding 2 thread, not a Dragon's Dogma 2 thread.

>>714172370 (OP)
I'm getting more and more upset every time I have to see the "get on a vehicle" animation. Makes my blood boil for some reason. 1 second shorter would be fine. Just half a second of a cutscene, but nooo.

I've been watching Aris play and he's been shitting on it and making jokes the entire time. But he finally came to the sad realization (from his perspective) that he might like the game a teeny tiny bit.

>>714186043
That's Norman Reedus.

>>714227618
Anon, it's about generally sensing. Sam could sense them before his level went up. Then again, it's confirmed that Fragile can see BTs. So can Dollman.

Raindrops keep falling on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining

So real Lou was killed by Higgs after Fragile tried and failed to teleport her? And now Sam has a new Lou to detect BTs?[/spolier]

>>714228204
Play the game.

>>714172370 (OP)
No it's just fucking garbage made by a an out of control hack who's eternally coasting on MGS3.

>>714228307
I am but sometimes my mind wanders during the cutscenes. I thought Lou was alive but my wife says she died.

>>714227102
I thought it was empty and Sam was hallucinating or something so I neglected the fuck out of it lol

>>714228470
It's complicated, but it becomes clear as you progress through the story.

>>714172370 (OP)
Are there more indoor areas this time around or not. The first game had like one indoor area.

>>714185364
>DS1
>Blue
>DS2
>Red
Interesting how DS1 focused on Sam looking for and finding the divine feminine in Bridget / Amelie, represented by the blue.
Meanwhile, DS2 seems to be focusing heavily on Mars as the archetype for Sam and Higgs to become the divine masculine.
I'm going to hyper-analyze the shit out of DS2 whenever it releases on PC.

>>714228204
none of that is true, do you really want spoilers?

>>714228891
>Bridget / Amelie, represented by the blue
wat

>>714205385
no way

Sam kiss every photo before going to sleep

>>714228980
No just tell me what happened with the scene where Fragile tries teleporting Lou. Does Lou get shot? Taken away?

>>714205385
omg this scene was exactly what it's like to be trans

>>714229303
That scene is intentionally vague. It gets resolved later.

>>714229069
she's both masculine and feminine

>>714229069
She wears red to motivate Sam to begin his hero's journey, while also being the one who is tasked with ending the world. She is the Divine Feminine wearing the garb of Mars.

Will they keep the piss and bathe mechanics in Death Stranding 3? Just asking…

>>714172370 (OP)
That's how I feel about MGS2 and I still like it

>>714182198
>>714182220
>She got fucked by Terry "T-Bone" Richardson

>>714172774
if you fuck her as kojima is that gay

>>714201159
>wild ride saar

>>714172370 (OP)
troon tranding fans are genuine sub-humans.

>>714185605
many of the actors have said kojima just loves everything they do so I am guessing if a guy is blowing smoke up your ass all day you start to enjoy him

>>714229303
answering that would spoil a lot. Just keep playing, you should be able to work it all out before it's revealed to you, there was only one twist that I didn't see coming

>>714229069
>>714229518
To expand a bit, because you're not as schizo as I am, Amelie carries the ultimate responsibility as the Extinction Entity. She needs to make a decision, to take action to either stop the death of all life or let it happen. Her two "sons", Higgs and Sam, represent this duality.
Mars, aside from being the God of War, embodies the act of deciding, and to struggle through your decisions. Amelie wears red because she's embodying the need of Mars.
Amelie/Bridget is Venus wearing Mars' skin. She's a single mother, and Madds is a physical (in Death Stranding terms that is) manifestation of Mars, the divine masculine, just trying to get his son back from the clutches of a divine feminine who's trying to be Mars for what she believes is "the greater good".

Is there any point in storing stuff in shelters over DHV? Since DHV is literally just your own portable shelter.

>>714186035
its funny to do covid denialism when one of the actual genius aspects of death stranding was the prediction of society falling out and atomizing due to some virus or whatever

I know that “connection” is part of the theme of this game but I feel like turning online off completely. I feel like the game was already played for me when I see so many structures in areas that are supposed to be difficult to navigate.

>>714172774
Same, I'm absolutely fucking in love with it.

>>714231458
It’s worse than the first game. I haven’t had to worry about stamina or walking since the prologue. I just zoomed passed a bunch of storyline bts in my first Australia connection,

>>714231560
You've never even smelled the outdoors.

>>714231429
Just use the limited online option.

>>714231560
It's definitely different in a way I can understand disliking. I was apprehensive before it came out about the greater focus on shootan and action but I dunno, now that I'm playing it I can't get enough of it.

DS2 is better than DS1 because its more fun. I'm glad Kojima injected some more Metal Gear wackiness but still kept the general DS1 blueprint. Having more moments where the game goes absolutely nuts actually contrasts nicely with the calmer moments and makes the game less monotone, also means more fun weird mechanics and gameplay

>>714231026
>Is there any point in storing stuff in shelters over DHV?
It only really makes sense to use the storage of shelters and knot cities to temporarily store lost cargo or cargo for standard deliveries. I store all of my weapons, items and building materials on the DHV Magellan.

>>714230319
>its ok to be a pajeet when Kojima does it

Call me a shallow faggot, I don’t care. I wish there was more combat.

>>714212624
You get substantially less likes for this approach and the roads would also be built rather late, but you can do it like this if you want, because the roads will eventually be built.

Finally

When do roads unlock? I want to start buildan

>>714213021
I really want Lou's Theme, because that is the best track in DS1. Hopefully it is offered to the player as the story unfolds out (I'm only in chapter 7 so far).

>>714232736
You're not a shallow faggot. In fact, you are the true philosopher of our time.

>>714232826
I just go to the data scientist myself, lol

Weird that it is some Japanese V-tuber, but oh well. A little charming quirkiness never hurt anyone. :)))

How do I get a lot of (yous)

*shitty MKUltra circus music starts playing*
>I EAT MORE CHICKEN THAN ANY MAN EVER SEEN
*shitty boomer guitar solo*
>SHE GET HIIIIGH
>SHE GET HIIIIIIIIIIGH
>SHE GET HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH
*shitty ten minute CIA-funded keyboard solo*
>FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
*farts*
*song ends*
wow, truly the GOAT band. Thank you Kojima for your truly groundbreaking """game"""

>>714232938
>unfolds out
*unfolds

>>714233095
Put the signs where they can't avoid them

>>714172370 (OP)
This game proves Kojima can attach his wacky Kojima-isms to a ham sandwich, the game itself doesn't matter.

>>714232682
I like that some bases can be permanently liberated from brigands. I wish all of them could *eventually* be permanently liberated, but I am not sure if that is the case.

>>714233110
Look just buy a ps5 man they aren’t expensive

>>714233095
Build bridges, time fall shelters, generators and other structures where it makes sense and could be helpful to the player. For example, bridges that ease access to shelters is always a good idea. Time fall shelters in or near BT areas or near shelters as well.

That said, one of my bridges already has over 30K likes. :)

can someone explain why higgs has such a murderboner for sam??? am i crazy or do they never explain why hes such an asshole

>>714174839
Altough I really still enjoyed the game I mostly agree. Also
>Chiral creatures do nothing except look interesting the first few times
>Floods literally do not impact the game besides maybe the first 2 times you see it in Mexico
>Barely take damage when falling

I was transporting the emu to Animal Shelter and I got attacked by some sort of giant spider BT. It ended up killing the emu and when I restarted the spider BT didn't show up

What the fuck was that?

>>714233576
I do those things but every useful spot already has buildings

>>714212624
Damn I wish I could bridge link with you in the game because in my experience people are stingy as FUCK with chiral crystals

>>714233387
i have one

>>714233857
who that in the pic

>>714233095
build catapults or zip lines in good places on the mountain

>>714233952
Samantha Porter Bridges desu

>>714233797
Then build more. A generator next to the DHV Magellan or next to a road near a knot always makes sense.

You could also just delete a player bridge from your would and replace it with your own. Not to mention that you do also get likes for upgrading the structures of other players.

Should I bother finishing the first game? I haven't touched it in over a year.

>>714234323
The story or the deliveries?

A lot of people seem to suddenly be glazing the first game's story like it wasnt unbearably written and bone shakingly cringe. No matter what the narrative is, I'll take "kept you waiting huh" guitar shredding boss battles over "princess beach" literally every single time.

The entire Evangelion/Pacific Rim sequence on the beach from start to finish is undeniably kino

Dollman told me to finish up any business before doing more main orders after we took Rainy to the Motherhood. Should I actually go back and finish my roads and deliveries? Is it a semi point of no return?

>>714233747
Time passes faster on the beach so after getting completely rekt by Sam in the first game, he spent 10,000 years alone seething over it.

>>714234424
Story. I liked it but always try to do everything in games and got burnt out, moved on to other stuff and never went back.

>>714234513
It's not THE point of no return. I think it's just a little bit before you can come back to do stuff.

>>714234323
Of course. Just do the main missions and ignore everything else, if you want to get through quickly.

>>714231026
Packages stored on the DHV Magellan get less likes and lower rank, so really just store everything but packages on it.

Game is cool but I really wish Kojima went full dragons dogma 1 with the nighttime

>>714224295
His voice actor is the guy that played Jesus in the chose so I assume some kind of middle eastern

>>714234434
Yeah, the writing needed some better editing, but who cares? The lore, setting and characters are just really good. You just hate it, because you were filtered by the gameplay.

>>714214021
>you can just load the Magellan up with resources and teleport
you get way less likes and you are awarded the "Magellan" delivery rank (basically a "You Cheated" rank that only gives you completion. if you care at all about getting LLL rank the monorails are huge)

>>714227102
Absolutely incorrect. Have you finished the game yet?

>>714234779
The gameplay was my favourite part of the first game, as well as the world building. It was the moment to moment dialogue that completely put me off. Second game is weaker in the world building but the dialogue is much tighter while still having that "no editor" Kojima feel to it

>>714234576
It's definitely worth finishing it for the story, the gameplay has been upgraded nicely in the sequel but just play it for the story and fuck around with deliveries as much as you want before you get bored

>chuds be like

Can someone that played it elaborate about the online integration: Is the system better than the first one, in terms of structure distribution, the like system etc?

is there anything cool worth unlocking in the mountains, making deleveries there is hell

>>714235478
It feels comparable to the last one.
There's an option to lower the amount of sharing if you want the game to be harder, though, and there are some perks that allow for more stuff to be shared, more strand contracts, longer like windows, that sort of thing.

>>714235478
It's fundamentally the exact same system but with some upgrades to increase the amount of shared structures and the ability to connect with players who are more likely to like your stuff

Sam looked cool with gray hair, can you get it back or are you forced to dye it?

>>714235998
Forced to dye, I'm afraid.

>>714235630
>>714235793
I see, thank you. What about the boss fights? It was the weaker aspect of the first game and the DS2 trailers made it look like nothing changed that much, am I wrong?

>>714236103
The boss fights are vastly improved.

World ends because of humans were using braindead mothers and their fetuses which ccaused a soul fail to move on into the world of the dead creating the first BT
Beach is your own personal limbo, if you fail to move on you become a BT
People live underneath the earth because touching a BT causes a nucular reaction
Rain bad
And people that can access their beach and leave into the world of the living gain supah powers because supah powers are cool or something.
Troy is literally Kafka
BBs can sense BTs because they live between the world of the death and the living

Did i missed anything? seems pretty self explanatory to me

>>714236228
You're kinda misunderstanding some of the fundamental stuff.
The Death Stranding happened and then humanity started using brain-dead mothers because of the connection to the Beach.
Everyone has their own Beach, but they're all also interconnected.
Everyone also becomes a BT through the process of necrosis unless the body is incinerated or otherwise rendered inert.
Having superpowers isn't really about being able to go to the Beach. DOOMS sufferers have their abilities just because of the influence of the Death Stranding and Beaches in general. Some of them CAN go to Beaches, though, as an effect of their abilities.

>>714236510
and what triggered the death stranding? and don't say kojima

>>714236621
It's a supernatural, naturally occurring phenomenon intended to target stagnating species to instigate evolution.
It's happened to prior species as well.

>>714227102
>It's not empty. It has Lou's BT in it.
The pod is actually empty.

This is also barely a spoiler, because this is confirmed at the beginning of the game. Sam just sees Lou in the pod, because he is schizo like Cloud.

>>714236690
I realize putting 'supernatural' and 'naturally' next to each other looks goofy, so I guess it's better to say it's metaphysical rather than supernatural.

>>714236621
The Death Stranding happens because Bridget was conflicted about doing her natural duty as the Extinction Entity. It could have happened in an instant, with little to no harm to everything else on Earth. But her decision to stick it out and try to go on with her life as a human is what triggers the Death Stranding.

>>714172370 (OP)
Thank you for beta testing.

>>714236510
>Everyone has their own Beach, but they're all also interconnected.

higgs is the one that connected them to cause the 6th death stranding i still need to finish DS2 but someone mentioned that the beaches are already merging

>zero anti-grav on truck
OH GOD I AM SUCH A SLOW FAT FUCKING FAGGOT HURRFDURRF
>two anti-grav on truck
>*boings*

>>714236885
The game runs rock solid though. I've had exactly zero issues in 45 hours of gameplay.

I like when the game camera pans out just a little. I wish there was a way to always have it at that medium distance view. It's too close to Sam.
>>714174839
>no toddler Lou strapped to you
Yeah seriously. Why bother showcasing her so much on the cover when it's stripped away and back to business as usual within the hour. Keeping Lou could have introduced some cool game mechanics.

>>714234716
It would be cool if Kojima made a high fantasy game. That game would be completely fucking bonkers. lol

>>714237320
Lou motivates Sam. He would have never went to Australia if things didn't happen as they did. He was reluctant to even do any work In Mexico.

>>714174839
>no toddler Lou strapped to you

objective improvement, I couldn't care less for that annoying brat crying 24/7 after every fucking pebble, kids are disgusting and gay

>>714177767
>really in front of the whore?
Yes

>>714230587
>why do actors like their simps that give them money
Truly a mystery.

>>714234657
Is it very long? Trying to decide if I should go back now or later. If it's not too long I'll go back after. Not sure I want to do mines and roads tonight.

>>714237729
>Sam gets discovered and raided
>Barely makes it out with Lou
>Transmission from Fragile
>Come to blah blah blah and hook up network along the way, you and Lou will be safe
There. Same weak premise of an opening plot but with Lou in tow. Fugitive dad and daughter on the journey while making friends along the way is better than what Kojima provided.

how much skin can Elle's model show?
lewdest pics from the photo mode or whatever this shits called?

>>714172370 (OP)
Eats Fatman
Big Crapman
Needto Shart-man

>>714238505
>Neil
>Cucks Sam
>Neil Cuck Man
>Plot twist: Sam cucked Neil
>Neil Cuckman
Kojima is a ruse meister.

>>714237767
You get the crying baby regardless.

>>714237767
If only your parents thought that way and drowned your sorry degenerated ass.

>>714238683
>wahhh why aren't you a pedophile like me
seethe

>>714239181
>out of the three anons in the baby convo he is the only one to make it sexual
Here's your (You), nigger.

>>714239726
>furfag reaction pic
of course the pedo would also love to diddle animals, arrest yourself to the police

>>714182198
Lea Seydoux is past her prime but at least we have her body scans to last forever.

Bless you Kojimbo for ditching the roost for this french goddess.

>>714186320
> Celebrity actress can't commit to a relationship and is a liberal feminist.


You're better off listing what Millennial celebrity female is NOT liberal.

>you're forced to stealth through a hallway past a few chiral BTs you have no means of killing
>they fucking learned so much from the first game
I can't wait for the next Death Stranding already.

>>714235587
Always bring a few level 2 pccs(ziplines) with you before delivering in the mountains

3 better have some intricate rock climbing mechanics

Kojima made a big mistake when he removed Sam pooping from the game. What was he thinking?? You used to be able to poo and pee separately. Why remove features?

>>714238445
It's best to get as far into the story as possible so you sync up with everyone else and have all the roads built to save you the trouble

>>714240508
I ran out of bandwidth almost :( I have a pretty decent network from the Government to East Fort Knot minus a few places but I don't think I have enough for the mountains.

>>714240850
So best to reach point of no return?

>>714186320
>Leftist whore woman
Many such cases

>>714178349
I don't understand what I'm seeing here, but I believe it's pretentious.

>>714241719
its more cringe than pretentious but it is also somehow based in the end

>>714178349
It's especially bizarre because the ridiculous/funny parts are just chances to catch your breath, the game gets pretty fucking grim

Pekora Hat? Equipped
Anime suit? Better believe it
My child? Not mine
My wife? Cheated on me with another man
My upbotes? in the millions

Yup it's Reddit simulator time

>catpcha prw XD

>>714242182
(Lou is your child)

>>714242182
>Anime suit?
Manga suit.

>>714242237
>WHAT. THE. LE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
>*Smashes steamdeck running Darktide against wall in fit of anger*

>THIS IS A WH*TE BABY! WHAT THE FUCK! YOU BITCH! YOU LYING FUCKING CUNT THIS IS A WH*TE BABY WHAT THE FUCK HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO SLEEP WITH TYRONE!!!
>YOU SCOOPED UP SOME OF MY CUM?! BECAUSE YOU WANTED A CHILD WITH THE M*N YOU LOVE? YOU JAN 6TH ALIKE NAZI ALT RIGHT INCEL CUNT!!!! I KNEW I SHOULD OF GOTTEN THAT VASECTOMY AT THE VAUSH CONVENTION!!! I THOUGHT IT WAS SUSPICIOUS THAT YOU ARGUED AGAINST IT BUT I FIGURED IT WAS FINE BECAUSE I NEVER HAD SEX WITH YOU!!! I NEVER THOUGHT YOU’D STAB ME IN THE BACK LIKE THIS!!!
WHAT DID I TELL YOU LAST YEAR AT VERMINTIDE FEST?? I'M THE MOD OF HECKING /r/antinatalism! HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BE THE REVOLUTIONARY VANGUARD IF MY INCEL REACTIONARY CUNT WIFE POPPED A FUCKING LAUGHING BOUNCING WHITEOID CHUD NAZI INCEL BABY OUT OF HER CUNT!!!
>OH MY SCIENCE, I’M RUINED!!! YOU’VE RUINED ME YOU STUPID TWAT!!! MY WIFE GAVE BIRTH TO A WHTE BABY!!! AND A BOY TOO!!! IF IT WAS A WHTE GIRL I COULD AT LEAST LOOK FORWARD TO GIVING HER UP TO TYRONE ONCE SHE STARTED MENSTRUATING BUT I CANT DO THAT WITH A WHTE BOY NOW CAN I??? IM GONNA BE THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE KEKOLD COMMUNITY NOW!!! THEIR GONNA THINK IM A FUCKING NAZI RETHUGLICAN NOW!!! THIS IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!
>GIVE ME THAT NAZI WH*TE BABY RIGHT NOW IM GONNA BREAK ITS FUCKING NECK!!!! I’M GONNA SMASH THAT WH*TE FUCKING BABYS FUCKING SKULL UNDERNEATH MY MY RICK AND MORTY FLIPFLOPS!!!! GIVE IT TO ME YOU LYING NAZI CUNT OR ILL CUT YOU A NEW HOLE IN YOUR FUCKING THROAT!!! GIVE IT TO ME YOU BITCH GIVE IT GIVE IT GIVE IT!!!!! IN THE NAME OF JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL IT!
I'M GONNA BURY IT IN THIS NINTENDO LABO CARTBOARD RIGHT UNDER MY SHED

>>714242352

>>714238446
I don’t think having a toddler strapped to Sam’s chest for the duration of the game would go well or even make sense. Sam gets shot and faceplants regularly. How would Lou survive these things? Unless they made an armored baby carrier or even a bigger pod for her to go in. She’s just too big for it

>>714236871
What do you mean 'little to no harm', it's quite literally in the name Extinction Entity.

There were 5 prior extinctions but they were nowhere near as bad as this one because the dominant species were not so advanced as Humans. Presumably it's just tiny voidouts that erupt around the EE instead of literally everyone having the potential to nuke cities into oblivion, invade our world as BTs and timefalling shit into oblivion. Even then, Cryptobioites are suggested to be able to thrive even when humanity is wiped out.

Because Amelie is smart enough as a human to try and R&D a way to survive the Death Stranding, she started all the BB experiments and creating the Chiral Network. She literally can't die/move on until all of humanity is dead so it doubles as a suicide trigger in DS1 until she decided to lock it and herself away due to Sam.

>no baby rising
i loved lou
first game made me cry even tho you could see the ending coming
what happened to lou?

>>714242182
fuck off