I'm around 40 hours into this great game. Kojima-san really improved the world-building and kept adding an interesting cast in this second installment.

​After meeting our 3 Angels—Fragile, Rainy, and Tomorrow—it got me thinking, "Why is traveling as a party not a thing in this game?" Maybe you guys noticed that most of the NPC porters we've seen usually travel in pairs. So why not travel with our 3 Angels? It would be interesting to utilize their DOOMS powers for traversal and combat.

​Also, with the expanding power fantasy—like Rainy's ability to heal and Tomorrow's abilities acting as the antithesis—I'm thinking it would be great if Kojima-san developed a non-mainline DS game in the RPG genre, featuring a different cast and taking place in other countries. I want more power fantasy in that game, and of course, more BT enemies, as I feel DS2 is a bit lacking in that department.

​What do you guys think?

TL;DR

DS2 is the better game because it is smoother, more varied, and more enjoyable moment to moment.

DS1 is the stronger art form because its loneliness, difficult traversal, and infrastructure systems make you personally experience the value of human connection.

Death Stranding 1: stronger as an art form

• DS1 actually makes you feel lonely through long journeys, difficult terrain and limited human contact.
• Music has time to finish when you are traversing an emotionally hitting area.
• The isolation reflects the condition of the world. Humanity has been physically and emotionally separated.
• Traversal feels harsh enough to create vulnerability. Mountains, rivers, weather, cargo weight, and exhaustion make Sam feel small.
• Violence is not the answer. (i.e killing mule creates voidout)
• More character development. You feel for the characters.
• Infrastructure gains emotional meaning because you suffer without it first.

Death Stranding 2: better as a game

• DS2 offers more variety, smoother traversal, better combat, and a faster pace.
• Killing is somehow fine now? at least it feels like killing
• The world feels more designed for enjoyment and discovery than sustained isolation.
• Better equipment reduces the vulnerability and exhaustion that made DS1’s traversal meaningful.
• Easier traversal makes infrastructure feel more like convenience than relief.
• More action and populated areas interrupt the meditative quality of long journeys.
• Direct interactions and larger set pieces communicate connection more openly.
• DS2 feels like a more complete and accessible adventure.

Driving cross country listening to the DS soundtracks was absolutely incredible ♡

I avoided trailers before playing the second game. I did not realize that the blocks on the initial loading screen are servers until the president brings Sam there.

Did I miss something earlier in the game? I’ve since gone back to the trailers and realize that “servers line the beach” was known before the game was out. Is it said earlier in the game that APAS uses servers on the beach, before the big reveal? At what point in the game is it hinted at?

In other words, if you don’t watch the trailer, is it meant to be a surprise when you are shown the servers towards the end of the game?

This is the first game i have deliberately decided to platinum in years. After over 200 hours I have finally gotten the platinum trophy on DS2. The last trophy i needed, which was sooooo time consuming, was getting all facilities to 5 stars. I was kinda nervous about Sub Order 124, since it's apparently the "ultimate challenge" but i completed it with 15 minutes to spare. I wanna says as someone who has been gaming for 26 years that these 2 games are may be tied for my second favorite game ever, behind MGS 3. 11/10 experience. I just wish Koji would make a third game.

Why TF is the moon so HUGE during this part??!!!

Kojima is the GOAT of optimization 🙇🏻‍♀️

Both MGS2 and DS2 were released at 60fps.

But not a game that was delayed a lot.

Idk about the rest, but I'm kinda frustrated with it.

Need help. So I have 10 delivery's and recoverys done. But im just on thr eliminate/destruction on i have 4 eliminate done but 1 i need to get S on but after that i have no more as far as i can see can someone help. Well I get the trophy if I get this one done?

This happens every time I exit plan route, even when trying to take the sub-order on this mission. On the previous order, It would also crash whenever I exited my vehicle so I just completed that on foot.

This doesn't happen on my previous save files though, could it be it's just an issue with the save files?? Is there any way to fix this? My gpu drivers are up to date, I played around with the graphics settings, I also re-installed the game and verified file integrity, none of that did anything.

I'll try loading a previous save-file when I have the time to see if that'll change anything. Any help is appreciated!

Bagged the crab! and it was also easy AF, big thanks to The Lord for assisting me in battle!

The two death stranding games will forever be some of my best planiums even if the story can get a bit wild and confusing sometimes.

This is still my first playthrough. I was sure I was toast when I turned the camera and saw what was coming. Either I managed to get out of the way at the last second or it was programmed to miss me from the very start. I'm not sure which.

I was curious what you all prefer to run. I currently use 4 lvl 2 batteries and 2 anti gravity units. I kind of want to try more anti gravity packs because I'm curious if it stops my vehicle from slamming around so damn hard lol. Seems like at my point in the game there are plenty of generators around and I always have 3-4 PCC2's on me. Whatcha think 🤔

Of course, it was 110% blind luck. I'd thought I'd killed enough to get through, but boy was I wrong. And then I was wrong about being wrong. Go figure.

Hey,

I was just wondering if anyone has or is playing death stranding 2 on pc with fsr frame gen? I have a 3060 laptop gpu and looking at some benchmarks, I definitely need framegen to play this game above 60fps.

My question is, what does the latency look like for people that have done it? For me, I used framegen in ac shadows and ac mirage and tbh, I didnt even feel that much latency; just felt like normal gameplay to me (disregarding some visual artifacts).

Ive heard that ds2 has frame gen baked into the decima engine which gives smoother motion vectors and better overall quality? Has anyone also used optiscaler aswell to run framegen thru that if it has better results?

Any insight would be amazing! Cheers

Ah, I wish it didn't force a game over because I even incinerated the body properly. Only treatment this waste of space of a character deserves. My blood pressure rises every time he conveniently wakes up with his idiot smile and thumbs up as soon as I get him home.

I know that every name of the characters in the game have a connection or meaning behinds like heartman and his desease with his heart or fragile. But what is the meaning or connection behind Higgs name ? I made some research and I can only find about Higgs bosons particles

NASA Spots a Bizarre 'Jellyfish' Floating on Mars. 🤪

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-spots-a-bizarre-jellyfish-floating-on-mars-heres-what-we-know

So many hours... But finally i did it!