Sam, isn’t it time you took a shower?

>>714913304 (OP)
doll puppetman... forgive me...

>>714913304 (OP)
Why was Dollman so obsessed with Sam being clean?

nah yeh

>>714913367
Bouncing by his dick all game.

>>714913304 (OP)
Isn't it time you shut the fuck up you doll cunt

I can't believe Kojimba put me, humble Chumbus, in the game.

>>714913304 (OP)
Shut up before I put you back in the cum jar

>>714913384
GO TO THE BATHROOM

>>714913304 (OP)
can you shut this thing up somehow?
this is a huge deal breaker for me.

>get a chance to look up at the stars
>very first constellation
>also railcar going to the moon for some reason

>>714914482
no he's this game's mimir

>>714913304 (OP)
WHATS EVEN THE EXPLANATION FOR THIS ABSOLUTE PURE CANCER CHARACTER?

>>714913304 (OP)
the brown suit looks gross. like it would be itchy tweed
do you unlock the duster coat when you beat the game? Or any cool skins?

>>714915110
He’s a magic doll man named dollman, get it?

Please tell me there is a theater viewer post-game. As a straight middle-aged man, Higgs is my new kink.

>>714915110
the mechanical explanation is a spoiler it's so Sam can use BB abilities still and also so you can have an annoying Navi character doing color commentary on everything you do

>>714915110
His backstory is actually really fucking good.

>>714913384
YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF SAM

>>714914482
>>714915110
Why is everyone hating on this character? I haven't played the game yet. He can't be Morgana levels of insufferable

Sam's realization about Lou made me tear up. God damn, I love this game.

>>714914762
Mimir is actually a great character who's narrative exposition makes sense. Plus he has good voice acting.

>>714913304 (OP)

So is the game any good? I still gotta beat the first game before I move on to this one.

>reinstalling Death Stranding Directors Cut on my Steam Deck
What am I in for? I only played it a few hours

>>714915669
The story is pure Kojima, bizarre and emotional (surprisingly funny like the Adventurer giving you thumbs up while he's passed out twice). The combat is a step up from MGSV with a smaller map, and the visuals and OST are 10/10. It is a masterpiece that doesn't take itself too seriously.

>>714915518
Just an annoying character that explains what's happening right in front of you. I was hoping he and same were gonna talk to each other when you travelling but no.

Do you get anything in Death Stranding 2 for having a save file from Death Stranding 1? Kojimbo used to do stuff like that with MGS.

>>714913304 (OP)
That guy sure wants me to take a shower.
Like, a lot.

>>714915440
>my familia le die
>I putta my soul in the doll
>oh yeah I have The Sorrow powers for some reason
brava kojima great writing

>>714914482
If you open up the weapon wheel quick enough and pull him out you can throw him at the ground to shut him the fuck up

>>714915518
Haters must hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTMrI3CWgrc
Stay moisturized and unbothered, lads

>>714915367
But he can still use the Odradek in Mexico where he has neither Lou nor Dollman

>>714915518
He's worse than Morgana because Morgana has more dialogue other than "let's go to sleep" whereas dollman is only there to tell you things you already know and point out obvious shit for retards

>>714916820
To track BTs?

>>714916105
not that I noticed, I got a couple of bonus items but I think they were from preorder and such.

>>714915916
>doesn't take itself too seriously
hard to think of a writer that takes himself more seriously than kojima
you think he's just being "wacky" but he is playing it 100% straight and wants you to take all of this seriously

>>714917280
Are there BTs during that prologue-ish sequence? I don't remember, it was 160 hours ago for me

>>714914105
Why is modelled after this guy but voiced by Jesus?

>>714915518
literally nothing just like Navi barely ever actually bugged you in OoT unless you were a literal knuckle dragger who was lost.
I think Dollman barely talks to you at all in the overworld and typically just after a cutscene. He's not really going out of the way to give any tips, usually you get repeat tool tip popups instead which are more annoying honestly and can probably be turned off.

>>714917538
there are, but I don't remember much difference
Sam's dooms level is higher so he can see them now. Dollman is just assisting since his is higher.

>>714917538
There should be some behind C1, but I haven't checked personally. Outside of tracking BTs the Odradek doesn't require a BB.

>>714913304 (OP)

>>714917773
Navi would bug you to get back on the main quest when you were exploring new areas and hunting for collectables like Heart Pieces and Skulltulas.

>>714915518
Hes worse

>>714917452
>the bad guy is the joker with an electric guitar
>the wife of nicholas winding refn pukes uncontrollably every 21 minutes
>Elle fanning is a superhero
>kojima wants you to take this seriously
C'mon son.

>>714919340
The Refn's wife shit was so fucking jarring because it was so fucking obvious she was only there because she was Refn's wife while Heartman's whole fucking shtick is that he literally spends his days going in and out of beaches searching for his dead wife and child. Why the fuck was that allowed?

>>714913384
YOU’RE COVERED IN CHIRALIUM SAM

Why did she do it?

>>714915808
the game doesn't actually start till about chapter 3/4 when the story really starts to get rolling so don't get bogged down doing all the endless side shit in the opening acts trying to perfect deliveries without all the upgrades to your gear

>>714922052
It's a wink. I don't think the game ever says they're an actual couple, but then again, I took it as really sweet that the whole narrative theme was letting go, and Heartman has a chance to be happy again. God. I'm about 90% done, and every single character has a great "letting go" moment that has either happened or Im sure will happen, which pairs with the theme that even though Sam and the player seem alone, everyone is going through some shit with him, driving home the whole 'connection' point of the game. It's such a good game, bros. I love it so much.

>>714923349
TO THE WILDER
TO THE WILDER

>>714922052
PS the two hot blondes are Refn's IRL daughters. Metagenomicist and another later game prepper. Luckiest autist is the fucking world.

>What if we made To the Wilder, but better?
https://youtu.be/zaPl-J_RvAo?si=DG9zIuUvq3Xpi65R

>>714923534
For me, it's Minus Sixty One. The phantom riders track slaps hard too.

>>714914762
No? Dollman is not knowledgeable about the world or lore. He rarely does exposition. He is no Mimir (and as thr other anon said Mimir was good for what he was needed)

Sam, this is charlie hardman

>>714923771
That's correct. Sam, contact Fartman for more information

Reminder that we've only played half of Death Stranding 2.

Hello, Sam. I am Ligman.

>>714915669
Its woke, shit game about wageslaving

>>714923624
For me, it's story of rainy

>>714923624
For me it’s Neil’s theme. Only for the fact that it copied a few notes from Snake Eater

Delivery mogging these porters.

>>714914482
Most of his talking is in your private room and you have to intentionally interact with him. Outside he only occasionally says things.

>>714915669
Absolute shitheap of a "game" but if you're retarded enough to enjoy the first one it's probably better you give your money to Kojima than spend it on food

>>714917280
Yes, it's mentioned Sam can see them on his own now, and you can scan even when moving and still see them

>>714917452

>>714924169
TO THE DELAWARE CIRCUIT COURTS

WHATS THE FUCKING PSEUDO-SCIENTIFICAL EXPLANATION OF A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT RETARDED LIVING DOLL.
EXPLAIN IT NOW.

NO!

>>714926684
That's not relevant to the Odradek tracking the closest BT visualized through its flapping, which is what a BB enables.

>>714927035
the Ha went into a different Ka

thats as much as you get

>>714927035
Some retconned horseshit so Hideo has an excuse to include the sony mandated handholding device

>>714924474
I am glad projecting commietroons hate this game.

>fight forearm BT
>manage to catch it
>it gives you a thumbs up before it shatters
SOVL

I don't get the Dollman hate. He only speaks when I eat shit or when I collect all of the packages on a retrieval request

Anyone else playing post-game? Doing all standard deliveries and getting LLLs? I am and it's more fun than the base game/story. This was the case for the first game too. There's just something weirdly satisfying for me in driving the same braindead routes again and again while listening to Kojima's favorite hits and building more optimized braindead delivery routes. I just enjoy it. Usually I only really enjoy difficult and high intensity games but there's something therapeutic in DS1 and 2 deliveries. Maybe I should become a mailman IRL in some remote area

>>714914672
that's unironically santa claus' carriage btw, for some fucking reason.

Sam, you have to eat all the eggs.

>>714927887
For me, its just building optimal transportation infrastructure. DS1 had me spending a full week tweaking a zipline network through the mountains.
There's also something satisfying about upgrading some random player's structure and knowing it actually impacted them in a positive way.

>>714927775
It's exactly those moments that are annoying. I already know I have all the packages collected for delivery, I don't need that explained to me every single time I do it. If he actually had some dialogue that wasn't babysitting me he wouldn't be as annoying.

>>714927887
>tfw rural carrier irl
>come home and deliver cargo

its game time

>>714927775
He provides a lot of unnecessary commentary during story missions, mostly stating the obvious.

>>714928478
He’s kinda necessary because Sam is retarded and has no grasp on reality

>>714927220
It's hooked up to sam. It's hooked to both sam and BB in the first game, that's how he gets the bleedthrough stuff. It only shows it once briefly in the first game but there's a needle in sams arm for the odetrek.

>>714928712
What point are you trying to make?

>>714928568
Necessary for Sam, not necessary for the player

>>714929354
... that sam being able to detect BTs much better than the previous game is why the thing points at them without lou
you know, the thing we were talking about, the entire point of this conversation

>>714929591
Oh, you're just sharing your headcanon.

>30 minute cutscene of us arriving at the beach to save Tomorrow from Higgs, easily conveys what is happening and what you're about to be doing.
>Gameplay starts
>"Okay, Sam, we are now on the beach. While the DHV Magellan is distracting the BTs, we can get out of harm's way and hopefully find Tomorrow, who is probably waiting for us. Yes, Sam, that's right, we came here for Tomorrow. As you might recall, she was kidnapped by Higgs, the primary antagonist of the video game Death Stranding 2 - On the Beach. And speaking of Higgs, there's a chance we'll encounter him too, since he is the one who kidnapped Tomorrow and brought her to this beach in an effort to trigger the Last Stranding, as you might recall. Anyway Sam, be prepared to potentially face off against Higgs, the person responsible for this impending calamity, and settle your differences with him. As you might recall, you and him don't quite see eye to eye about a lot of things."

Dollman is the western video game design virus infecting Kojima's brain.

>>714929471
It is actually because you, the player, is also retarded

>>714929960
>Dollman is the western video game design virus infecting Kojima's brain.
This wouldn't have needed to happen if modern gamers WEREN'T SO FUCKING STUPID

>>714930142
Touché

>>714929956
The game literally spells this out for you before you even meet dollman, so this scene is actually Kojima's headcannon.

>>714931670
No, you're confusing Sam's ability to see BTs with the odradek automatically tracking them.

PC release when?

>>714929960
DS1 had a fuck ton of repetition in its story too and the stupid tool tips about liking things and deteriorated structures never stop even if you have tips turned to minimal.

>>714930534
Kojima thinks movie-watchers are clinically retarded and he made the game for movie-watchers.

>replace an online zipline with my own for curves just two days ago
>zip past it
>11.5k likes
>had to doubletake because I thought it was an online one

>>714931670
Hey retard, notice something? Like the odradek not tracking the giant BT in the prologue? I wonder why this is...

>>714927074

>>714932737
Why can't people just learn how to fucking play video games

>>714933498
Based peko

Bump peko

>>714923054
Therapussy.

>>714937649
>I'm not fucking my husband enough? Nah, he's just shitty.

>>714937649
Man falls out love with wife who doesn't give a fuck about his feelings and falls in love with someone who does. Shocking.

>>714915110
Outside of traversal and the shower quips, he's actually pretty insightful. I didn't have a problem with him at all.

>>714926097
>skeleton
They're the ones laughing at you

>>714939784
>pretty insightful

>>714940167
I said outside of traversal, nigger.

>>714940295
>Hey Sam, let me explain what happened in the cutscene you just watched.

>>714940167
This really pissed me off after playing a whole fucking game of shooting enemies obvious as fuck weak points.
>>714940686
There's a part in the pizza chefs bunker where the bunker opens for you to go inside and he literally says "it looks like that door just opened. Like, really?

>>714940686
Optional, the conversation is broken up into parts, and the cutecene doesn't actually show why they went there.

>>714941350
>Optional
And?
>the conversation is broken up into parts
Repeating what's already said/shown in an already optional cutscene.
>the cutecene doesn't actually show why they went there
It directly tells you. I'm starting to see why you'd think he's insightful.

>>714913304 (OP)
Is that Alan Wake?

Bump

>>714941842
When I mean insightful, I mean the summaries of the books Sam can peruse and how they relate to their plight, or his musings on other characters' emotional states, troubles, motivations, etc.. it is truly a shame when the exclamation point appears in the private rooms and you are asked if that cryptobiote tasted good or if you're going to wash your ass. He's not near as annoying as he's made out to be, but they should patch the convo logic to stop bringing up showers and food after chapter 3 or so, when the player knows what is going on.

>>714946942
This is probably the stupidest thing in the entire game. Yeah, she misses mommy, but how do you make the leap from that to bringing her to a bt convention. It's inexplicably dumb.

>>714947830
He's a medium and thought he could do something. He said it was a mistake.

>>714947918
It also kinda looked like it was working until the music made things turn bad?

>>714947918
What exactly does a medium do? It was probably explained but I don't remember anything about it.

>>714948449
Short version, they're people who can see and communicate with spirits/the dead

what surprised me the most is how all these directors actually were fine as voice actors

>>714947649
>I mean the summaries of the books Sam can peruse and how they relate to their pligh
Hey Sam, did you know that Frankenstein is not the name of the monster? Also, doesn't the image of the monster cobbled together from corpses kind of remind you of Deadman? Just an observation in case you haven't played the first game.
>his musings on other characters' emotional states, troubles, motivations, etc.
Hey Sam, did you notice Tomorrow sitting atop the stairs with rows of rotten apples? She threw you a ripe one, smiling from ear to ear. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I'd like to think she's happy that she's finally learning to control her powers.

Dollman is just Kojima pointing at the screen to tell you what he's doing as if it weren't painfully obvious.

>beat the game
>see a cutscene of how Dollman became Dollman
>says he wants closure
>no post game where you get him closure
why?

>>714949504
The directors only provide the faces. They get actual voice actors to voice them.

>>714949567
Really? George Miller sounds identical to the game. Did they get someone to mimic him?

>>714949712

>>714940069
Kek

Can I still make special grenades out of my body's fluids?

>>714950690
They cut out everything except blood grenades because they realized that blood grenades were the only useful ones

Is there still any mysteries that weren't answered after 2? I kinda like the background lore. Maybe something more could be done with the nature of EEs, beaches and the first voidouts

>>714932257
I search for that at least once a week lmao
Pure suffering, yeah

>>714928096
Dont forget to drop some materials in a shared locker every now and then

>>714950742
I hope that's not true. Thats like saying dropping the pistols because the rifles are more effective. Plus grenades were also about misleading BTs and getting them away from you, not only offensive.

>>714950249
Best character in the entire game on the left.

I just reach chapter 10 how much game is there left?

>>714951776
Around 25-33%

>>714951776
Maybe 3-4 hours including cutscenes?

You're pretty much at the point where you're entering the more linear story heavier run to the end.

Bump

>>714915518
The ADHD retards who constantly need music, a podcast and a video essay on their other monitors while playing will tell you he's not that bad.

If you don't like a passenger yapping in your ear constantly while driving irl, then you'll dislike Dollman.

>>714951776
so this... is the crush of Kojimbo...

Is that his 10/10 or is that just the best he can lure out of Hollywood?

>>714915916
>The combat is a step up from MGSV
No it fucking isn't

I finished this last night and not gonna lie I was in tears by the credits, just like the first game. But I hate the plot of this game regarding Sam, it literally didn't have to exist. It's just misery porn for him. First lose your adopted daughter, lose your sanity, lose your dead wife's loyalty, lose your original dead daughter's paternity, lose Fragile and then regain your adopted daughter who was actually your biological daughter all along but lose out on seeing her grow up. Also the game really doesn't put in effort about making Sam care for Tomorrow, they have the most barebones interactions that end with him mostly walking away. She seemed closer to Rainy and Fragile than Sam, and it was obvious from the start that she was Lou so it was a real missed opportunity.

With the Lucy and Neil stuff, that shit just made me angry. I loved the Neil parts but the cheating was just awful shit. Clearly invented for the second game. What was the point? Why did Lucy have to cheat on Sam why couldn't Neil just have an unrequited crush on her and vow to protect her kid even if it wasn't his? He DID leave her to die. And in the end telling Sam the kid wasn't his was pointless because they still killed her for it anyway assuming it was Sam's kid.

The other NPCs were the saving grace of this game and they were the thing that really touched me. Tarman losing his son, Rainy being outcasted and almost suiciding with her unborn baby, the Doctor being unable to give birth to those babies and killing a kid, Fragile's meaningless death, Dollman losing his body and his daughter (absolutely brutal shit lingering on his dead daughter's tar covered body like that). All of that for absolutely no reason other than the cruelty of the world. Only part that saved the game for me.

>>714951776
I have always been team Dakota, something about Elle's nose weirds me out. That said, this game really made me like her. She's a silly character but absolutely badass in her arc. Basically Sam's muscle, even though he treats her like a little girl. The fact that she can actually sing as in >>714923604 is a bonus.

>>714959983
My girlfriend kinda looks like her IRL it was weird as fuck playing this game where you have to be her dad.

>>714959765
>Also the game really doesn't put in effort about making Sam care for Tomorrow
She barely had any lines at all. It feels like she was only included because Kojima wants to fuck her. I wish they at least had a mission where one of the other cast members suggests that Sam brings her on a delivery so she could get out for a bit and so they could have an actual conversation together, THEN they could get ambushed by ghost mechs and THEN she could show off all her powers and shit instead of her just running off out of nowhere.

>>714959765
dollman was too cheerfull for being a man stuck in his daughter doll and daughter lost in the voidout, women with daddy absence or not had a weird turnon on trash abandonment issues cute guy doesnt matter she said it was mistake she was leaving to mexico with him that is a cliché of infidelity scape place from spic tv novels shows

>>714960190
>She barely had any lines at all. It feels like she was only included because Kojima wants to fuck her
Exactly. I was surprised when she started talking and it was actually Elle Fanning because she was such a non character I thought she was in there just to get SCANNED and pose for silly fucking pictures. When you reach the end sequence where you have to link up the final terminal for a moment I thought that's when Tomorrow was going to come along, taking out ghost mecs with her tar powers alongside Sam. But no she stays on the ship handling the fucking guns. Give me a break. I liked that she beat the shit out of Higgs while Sam was being tortured but logically there was no reason for her to intervene to help him there other than Fragile telling her to, she had no memories and no relationship to Sam at all. For such a good first game that really slowly builds the dad/daughter relationship here it was done horribly. This is simply unacceptable in a post-TLOU world I mean come on at this point we know it's possible for a game to have a good slow build up or a father/teenage daughter relationship while the same father is dealing with the loss of his first kid.

>>714960512
supossedly she was a baby full of grow hormones even thought i also didnt buy that she isnt affecionate or react to sam presence

>>714960501
>dollman was too cheerfull for being a man stuck in his daughter doll and daughter lost in the voidout
The way he talks about how if Fragile hadn't found him he would have been laying on the bog next to his and his daughter's rotting corpses for all of eternity without any emotion at all was incredibly bleak shit.
>doesnt matter she said it was mistake she was leaving to mexico with him that is a cliché of infidelity scape place from spic tv novels shows
That just makes me even more angry other than cheating on Sam and telling him the baby wasn't his she was gonna elope with her lover and Sam's unborn baby and make him raise it. In the end that's even what he did, stuck in the world of the dead with Lou he did "raise" her while Sam missed out on her entire childhood.

>>714927953
Santa Claus was stuck in the death world all along. The Death Stranding allowed him to finally come back, to deliver tar stained gifts made out of old memories to all the good boys and girls.

>>714960640
The most interaction they get is when she's training with the apples and Sam looks at her and then walks away. And singing Raindrops Are Falling on My Head.

>>714940069
>Caring about natty delivery
If you want the stars, you gotta go hard on the skeletons. If you want skele-maxxing, you ain't trying.

>>714950747
Higgs' birthmark

>>714960512
>When you reach the end sequence where you have to link up the final terminal for a moment I thought that's when Tomorrow was going to come along, taking out ghost mecs with her tar powers alongside Sam.
Not having this was such a letdown. Between the first scene of her easily killing ghost mechs and sam providing support fire and her training how to control her powers throughout the story it felt like there was going to be some build up to some epic mission where she goes with sam and absolutely fucks everything up with Sam behind her but instead she got left on the ship because "we must protecc the girl who can melt ghost mechs and literally phase into the ground". Such a waste, they should have done the reveal that she was Sam's daughter so much earlier so they could form an actual bond.

>>714960838
Sam was also the one who stopped her from going back to death land which in turn reassured her that she has a place in the Magellan.

>>714961262
Fragile and Rainy could have easily done that, there was no reason Sam was the one that made the difference. Heartman only said that because he was worried for her and thought that maybe she had people she cared about on the other side (like he does). Once she said that she didn't, that they were all dead, then anybody could have told her she could be a part of their little Magellan family.

>>714961090
That's true, in the end her powers really don't amount to anything huh. She gets two really cool fight scenes and that's that. Maybe Kojima realized her powers were way too OP and put her in the backseat, but it felt like a massive lost opportunity.

>>714961694
>Maybe Kojima realized her powers were way too OP
It probably would have taken away a lot of the fun of shooting your way through everything at the end but even so they could have had her as an assist like with the Magellan for when you started to get outnumbered by all the mechs

>>714962058
Especially with the last giant mech, could have had Tomorrow zooming through those tentacles while you're shooting it.

200hours report. mfw pizzado. Tomorrow is olev, Higgs' a homo, Sam's a cuck? The ghost mechs have incredible designs.
Have you tried a single mountain delivery without a bokka skeleton equipped? The difference in mobility is major.
Playing with structure sharing off reinforced my suspicion that the game was balanced for offline and that it's only journalist-easy because of online structures, the game mechanics weren't balanced with online play in mind. The online layer is like an extra thing that descends and covers the gameplay so it doesn't integrate and instead erases battery management, stamina conservation, materials consumption.
Are the Likes really worth it?
How am i supposed to find all the hot springs?
Is Leon Easton an autistic character?
When do i get to deliver pizza all over the map?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bas_fZ1anQQ

I like the story bits but it doesn't dive deep into anything and is really hands off. They didn't want cutscenes to take too much of the center stage this time. I would have liked more slice of life with the crew but i guess i'm the weird one. Fucking A, man, it drives me nuts. Who gives a fucking shit how long a scene is.

I reckon i'll be done after 300 hours. No showers, Sam must become a dirty man in order to pee on mushrooms. Don't forget to eat your cryptobiotes.

>>714963770
Glad at least someone's having fun. I'm a storyfag and would have played this game in Piss Easy mode if the story had been stellar kino even if it meant 5 hour long cutscenes. At least the gameplay is good, wish I could be like you anon. I couldn't stand the preppers and fast-forwarded every single one of their interactions from the absolute beginning.

>>714963770
>Have you tried a single mountain delivery without a bokka skeleton equipped?
I never take my battle skeleton off lol

>>714963923
A few preppers manage to make some sort of personality come through. Maybe these actors didn't know what they were doing or felt uncomfortable in their mocap suit. I can pretend that some of the chiral grams are AI chatbots trained by the preppers to handle interactions and it's why they're so wooden.
The metageneticist has a really cute butt. Imagine if her syndrome was that every 21minutes, her pelvic muscles uncontrollably seize up and she orgasms for 3minutes. Rhythms of the beach and all that.

>>714964560
I feel like Gen Hoshino is the only one with a personality and feels genuinely grateful to Sam whenever he delivers something

>>714964560
I don't think any (or many) preppers are mocapped, they're just face/body scans performed by standard voice actors

>>714965068
I wanted more Gen Hoshino songs

So that fire storm was just a one-off set piece then? I thought wildfires were going to be a whole thing like the quakes and floods

>>714965262
I guess. Even the gate quakes didn't stick around for long, after a certain point all you'll get is
>a gate quake has struck in this area
and there won't even be a slight rumble in the controller

>>714915808
That other anon’s wrong. Do deliveries whenever you can, Premium (hard difficulty) deliveries if possible. You’ll level up centers/preppers and unlock cool shit like the hoverboard or the smaller exoskeletons. Also if you don’t want to build the roads you literally don’t have to, other players will eventually build them for you

>>714940069
lankoid cope

>>714923054
Only seeing her pregnant in a photo was a travesty. That said, as a pregchad, I was eating SO good in this game.

>>714965149
Me too he's such a good singer

>>714927887
One of my favorite deliveries in DS1 is the South Knot delivery of like 2000kg worth of ceramics and metals to Lake Knot. I always drive the truck at regular speed without boosting, even though you have infinite boost in the roads. I just love cruising in the post-strandocalypse. Plus, you get to basically max out the ceramics and metals in Lake Knot so you can use those materials to build/repair roads.
>>714928096
>There's also something satisfying about upgrading some random player's structure
This is something I wanna do too. Just load up a truck full of metals or something and just drive around upgrading and repairing random structures and replacing ropes and ladders. It’s a bitch keeping structures repaired so I like to think the other players will appreciate it

>>714965665
Rainy's bump had me diamonds whenever she was on screen

>>714927887
I did that in DS1 and loved the process but I really have no interest in maxing out every prepper in this game. Australia is too boring.

>>714964560

I was really hoping it's reveled that there's no one actually in the bunkers just a hologram playing a recording that's my headcannon at least

wait are people still doing the whole "people do not act rationally in death stranding!" bit that is now 5 years old?

>>714949543
there's unironically no use to argue with people who think dollman contributes anything of value to the game. genuinely a different species.

>>714949550
because if you talk to him enough you get this cutscene by chapter 10, and in the ending credits it shows him having moved on from the doll.
would be cool though if there was an order to finally get rid of shitty tutorial man.

Anybody else here wanting to immediately replay the 1st after the 2nd

>>714940167
>its literaly called dollman
kek

>>714965838
It bothered me that the Australian preppers and Dis Centers just look the same as they did in the UCA. Didn't feel like it was another isolated culture at all. I know that they made contact through the Plate Gate 11 months before the beginning of the game but that's not enough time for the entire architecture to be the same. The cities even follow the same format with the XYZ Knot City, that's just unbelievable to me. Reused assets.

>>714960512
IMO everything with Elle Fanning feels lazy and sloppy because she probably did one small scanning and mo cap session since she is a in demand actress. Meanwhile someone like Léa Seydoux isn't as in demand and had more of the story be about her. It's either that or Kojima is a terrible writer.

The BTs here feel less like a threat than the 1st. I don't even hold my breath anymore

>>714966738
yea you can just run through them and it they aggro just press R1 while running and it puts you into a super long slide animation that already counts as being stealthed and immediately resets them. ds2 is a fucking joke. i mean obviously in the first you also eventually got to a point where they weren't threats anymore but in this game you get magic anti bt bullets before the first time you even encounter bts, and gazers and watchers barely even react to you. they literally cannot catch you unless you go completely afk and deliberately let yourself get caught.

>>714966594
Fragiles character got next to nothing in this game either. And yea all of Elle Fanning's scenes were probably recorded in 1 or 2 days lol. In Kojimas mind she's supposed to be some huge presence in the game, but she has like 10 minutes of screen time total, and it was probably just a little side gig for her.

I wonder if it will be a nightmare in 10+ years if they want to remaster or re-release these games and they have so many Hollywood actors and directors in them?

Refunded death stranding directors cut

>>714919340
>>kojima wants you to take this seriously
Nah that Anon is right he definitely does. When people pointed out DS1 story sucked, he said it's just because Americans are too dumb to "understand it" unlike Europeans.

>>714967230
I'm guessing this was on steam?

i cannot believe they just give you the bokka skeleton before you even set a foot on the mountain
wtf kojima

If D2 Directors Cut has a proper end game of some kind I will buy it

>>714967436
The rewards for leveling/deliveries are so fucking random in this game

>>714967317
Huh uh

>>714967523
sir?
your mr. impossible sub orders?

>>714967556
Thats not a proper end game saars

>>714967436
I mean they give you the coffin board like halfway through the game, at that point nothing matters anymore anyway

>>714967436
He was farming those scores by making the game as journo friendly as possible.

>>714967605
coffin is cargo limited

can you still void out in this game? I never died outside the times the game made you can you still get into a situation where you cause an explosion and a crater?

Are the timed VR missions hard or am I bad at the game? I tried the first one 20 times and couldn't S it

>>714967835
You can but only by choice, you really have to afk or let yourself be caught by the hunter for the game to voidout.

>>714967928
I voidouded because I intentionally let myself get caught by a watcher to kill the catcher, but there actually is no catcher and if a watcher gets you, it goes straight to voidout

>>714961574
the point was that there was a pivotal moment that isn't just a cutscene. I agree that they could and should have done more between them though, like show that they have an uncanny connection.

I don't really understand how Rainy restores greenery

>>714968729
plants like water

>>714968867
then why are there barren areas with constant time fall

>kojima on game 1
>"gamers are lonely autistic incels that dont know how to communicate"
>"so then i made this game for them where they can feel conected"
>kojima on game 2
>"gamers are disgusting smelling neets that dont shower so then i"

he cant keep geting away with this

>>714968729
She gets close to them and they go back in time due to her corefall

>>714968962
...they're barren because of timefall?

While Rainy's entire thing is that in close proximity to her, timefall reverses and becomes de-aging/rejuvenating

>>714968729
don't worry about it :^)
t. kojima

but yeah, it just is. it's limited to those in close proximity to her though, it's also why fragile de-aged.

>>714969003
ok but when she moves away 1.5 meters they get timefalld again immediately

>>714969029
okay but rainy also spawns genuine time fall outside the 1.5m range

it is also australia that is famously dry as shit place

>>714919340
Yes anon, DS goes to great lengths to explain its themes and messaging to you, something that wacky and unserious games are known for doing

Just face it, he isn't being goofy, he's playing it straight and thinks its all very deep & meaningful but you interpret it as "unserious" because otherwise you'd realize it's kind of retarded

>>714926763
There's nothing more cowardly as a writer than being so desperate to get your point across that you over explain all of your themes. The notion that someone might not understand his genius terrifies him so much that he is pathologically incapable of subtext

>>714969139
I think they just take license with her range if it suits the drama of the scene, in hindsight if they didn't mention the range the first time it probably wouldn't be noticed

it is called being sincere
try it once you ironic shitposter

>>714969081
This one is a plot hole. One of many.

What the actual fuck some faggot stole my backpack and ran off with it! Thanks APAC for bringing diversity to Australia.

>>714919340
That's Kojima - serious and philosophical themes but variable in execution, sometimes wacky, sometimes straight, sometimes a mix of both and you really can't tell. It's exactly why his games are fun to play - Matosis said it well it's a mix of highbrow and lowbrow.

>>714913304 (OP)
>FOTM meme game

>>714923349
Also Luca's IRL wife is Lucy's actor.
Luca stays winning

>>714971590
he has been doing it forever
metal gear solid games are all geopolitics and shadow cabinets but also giant robots are cool

Death Stranding 2 is about love

>>714971906
reversed cucked in game but won irl

>>714946942
I finished the game ~60hours in and never seen that cutscene, how?

>>714972039
talk to dollman

>>714971498
it's the adventurer's son or research in the mountains I guarantee u

>>714971906
The most pointless cuck subplot since MGS4.

>>714917538
All of Mexico is just a prologue?

>>714968384
wait can you void out in DS1 if you get grabbed by the Gazers? i thought they always triggered a fight with the tiger Catcher

>>714940295
no you said outside of traversal and the shower quips, meaning you think his stupid obvious combat hints are good

meaning you're a fag

>>714937649
>I resent my husband
>wtf why does he wanna leave me?

>>714933529
it might seem trivial to you but its a lot harder to learn new things as an adult, if someone doesn't like videogames its very hard for them to learn

the real issue is that companies want the money of THESE retards

>>714972038
>reversed cucked
explain
did he think he got cheated on but it didnt actually happen?

>>714974613
People think it's a cuck arc because he died trying to save the wife and child of another guy, then spent decades in limbo to eventually become that childs protector until she grew up and returned to the real world and her father

Radical position: I think this makes him cool as fucking hell, actually

Walking simulator

>hiking through the snowy mountains in a blizzard
>cargo is being damaged from snow
>comfy mumblecore low roar music starts playing
>find timefall shelter that will offer me refuge from the snow and repair my cargo
>sit sam's ass down under the shelter as it repairs my cargo
>chill out for a bit under the shelter listening to the soothing music and taking in the incredible visuals
There is no game like Death Stranding.

>>714975432
spoken like a true cuck

>>714975432
He put aside his feelings to do right by the woman he loved, he was based as fuck. Retards just don't get it.

why is there never enough Ceramics in this fucking game?

It's so annoying building roads because of this.

>be me
>walking around
>making noises i heard yesterday
>some boxnigger covered in junji ito manga runs up and stuffs me in one of his boxes for no reason
I hate boxniggers.

>>714960921
>>714965582
You'll never be a real porter

>>714977448
Bandit camps, son. Drive a truck in and rob them blind.

>>714977448
I used the mines

>>714977448
The mine near the Northern Environmental Observatory gives ceramics.

>>714977448
there is a big ceramics mine in the middle of the map

>>714977448
The very first mine you restore gives ceramics. Bring a truck, fill it with ceramics and park it inside the Magellan so you can take it anywhere

they added too much fucking teleporting

>>714971498
this post is so fucking funny for some reason

>>714977881
Doesn't work like that in DS2. You're lucky if you find 2 XL containers.

With the amount a cryptobiotes i end up collecting it should be a material like crystals.

>>714975697
It’s fucking amazing how this game manages to create special moments so randomly like this. The most memorable moments I’ve had with this game all came from me trying to do the most menial, basic, inconsequential shit. It’s like you create your own emotional and impactful story quests just doing basic shit without even realizing it until it’s over and you’re safe and sound back in the Private Room

>>714923054
Least realistic cheating of all time. What bitch would fall for a coward who literally ran away and left her to die the last time they met?

>>714979958
he was like ... 10

>>714980524
Girls never get over the ick.

>>714915518
Its a meta slop, bordelands tier..

how many full blown open maps are in this?
Is it just mexico?

>>714982062
Mexico is just the tutorial map, a little bigger than DS1's tutorial map. Australia is where the rest of the game takes place which maybe 1.5x the size of DS1's main map.

>>714982657
>Australia
isn't this place like a flat desert full of giant spiders

For me, it's La Madre.

>>714937649
I genuinely feel so bad for the husband. He must have felt so unloved and unheard by his own wife to have fallen so fast for the first person who actually heard him.

is there a day/night cycle in this game?

>kept you waiting huh
>mgs4 final boss fight

>>714983842
Yes

>>714984120
based Kojima, got the earth spinning again.

>>714983296
>same voice as the gargoyle from deadlock
caught me off guard

>adventurer suborder destroys my zipline
Fuck this faggot.

Is the pc version out yet?

>>714914482
unshowered hands typed this post

>>714986384
lol, pc version always take a year to get.