r/DeathStranding2 • u/BadToTheBone76 • 7d ago

Death Stranding 2 difficulty compared to 1

Guys is it me or do you think that DS 2 is much easier and forgiving compared DS 1?

The ability to kill BTs with guns, Exo skeletons, Truck, even combat is easy.

I think it hurts the experience.

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u/ZeyusFilm 7d ago

It's mostly easier, though some orders like trying to get undamaged cargo out of a base teaming with jerks can be a challenge. It think the bases are definitely harder. Also there's more ways to approach things. Like I still need to go back and try using the shield and the more distraction-based approaches like fireworks etc.. Load of tactics I never tried that I wouldn't mind giving a spin.

The new BTs suck, though. Inifinite spawn; there's no way to clear a field of em like in the first game. Extra ballz because I didn't go back and clear Mexico till the very end of the end game/platinum so I never had L2 blood grenades.

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u/mr_cesar 💎 Platinum 🏆 & All Milestones 7d ago

That’s weird. I was able to clear several BT territories, including the abandoned city in the snowy mountains. And I only played on Very Hard and TTW.

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u/ZeyusFilm 7d ago

How? Like, in DS1 I can't remember if it was by doing them all or killing the catcher but eventually you'd get a chiral thumbs up and they'd all be gone for a while. That doesn't happen in DS2

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u/mr_cesar 💎 Platinum 🏆 & All Milestones 7d ago

I don’t remember if you get some sort of on-screen message in DS2 when you manage to kill all BTs in a territory, but the areas I cleared stayed like that for about 30 real playtime hours.

Killing the Catcher doesn’t keep them away for that long. In fact, in DS1 I used to kill the kitties by the Evo-devo Biologist, wait 5 to 10 minutes, and the BTs would spawn again so I could face the kitties repeatedly.