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Yeah there are a few massive deliveries in the game that you really, really want a truck for, and the truck is awful at offroading, so it's not generally worth attempting those until you have a proper road network built. Once you have a truck though, getting the road network up doesn't actually take too long, since you can yank a ton of resources out of each shelter/distro center and load up your truck and just kind of keep driving along finishing each section as you go.
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This interminable goddamn ending is draining every bit of goodwill I had toward this game. EDIT: IT JUST KEEPS GOING  EDIT: Finally sweet jesus. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Mar 7, 2024 13:02
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Dick Trauma posted:This interminable goddamn ending is draining every bit of goodwill I had toward this game. Welcome to ”Its only 8pm, and this seems to be the end boss, Ill open a beer and finish the game tonight”-Club!
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Mar 7, 2024 19:35
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I just started a second play through and I forgot how bad the start is for that as well. It might not be quite as much cutscene as the end, but you still only get about ten minutes of gameplay in the first hour of the game
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Mar 7, 2024 23:26
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Valtonen posted:Welcome to ”Its only 8pm, and this seems to be the end boss, Ill open a beer and finish the game tonight”-Club! Or a quarter bottle of bourbon. I didn’t mind the end except you had to sit through the FULL credits. Twice.
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Mar 8, 2024 01:15
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Douchebag posted:Or a quarter bottle of bourbon. That was a bit much, yes.
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I have just 1800 more ceramics to farm and I’ll have finished building every road in the central region. Goddamn what a trek this project was.
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I finally started Death Stranding (Director's Cut, PC version) today after having bought it four years ago, and I really like what I've played so far! (which is about 7 hours) I don't know how, but in all the time it's been out, I was able to go into it not knowing anything about what the game was about, so the opening hours of it was wild. Between the rain that ages people, the BTs, the baby-in-a-jar being a way to see the BTs, the huge explosion, Sam being able to come back to life, and the first real mission being porting Sam's mom (who is also the president) to incinerate her body so it also doesn't explode, it's quite a trip. It takes a while to the game to actually start because of all that, but once it does, it's pretty engaging. From what little I saw of the game beforehand, it seemed like they tried to more-or-less replicate the Fox Engine, because the UI seemed to be similar to the iDroid from MGS5. Actually playing it, the movement is also very similar to MGS5, but the stamina bar reminded me a bit of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and the ability to leave signs and that there's tools, paths, and packages left by other players seem to be taking a cue from FromSoft games. I'm playing on Normal difficulty, and I haven't had any deaths, nor have I dropped any containers, even when carrying very large loads. I had a close call with BTs once, but I got out of it okay. BTs seem to be more annoying than difficult to deal with. I don't know when you're supposed to hold your breath (I assume when you're right up close to them), but I keep it held when in the general proximity. The irritating thing is that the button to hold your breath (R1) is also the same button you have to press to ping the sensor and highlight where they're standing. BB's radar points towards the closest one, but because there's a few of them in an area, you don't want to sidestep one and run into another. I've done the Wind City mission, and once I got back to the town, I built a generator and was able to power up the bike outside and zip back to the capital. The highlight of the game so far is using the bathroom, and finding out it generates "number one" and "number two" grenades. 
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I also went in completely blind despite coming to it years late. I consider trying to explain it in much of any detail and I just... realize that unless I go absolutely the most bare-bones possible, in a way that doesn't really capture much of anything about the game, I'm just gonna sound like I'm poo poo-posting. I don't know, does anyone else feel like that's why they kept their peace about it? Because it's simultaneously wilder than it sounds while also not actually being quite as wild as it sounds?
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Death Stranding not actually being as weird as the trailers made it seem because Kojima makes sure to explain every aspect of this world he created is one of my favorite things about the game.
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"it's a hiking sim but it's actually hella fun, also there's weird ghosts"
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What if Kojima made a mountain porter simulator? Is probably as concise as you can get.
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:What if Kojima made a mountain porter simulator? Is probably as concise as you can get. Anyone who knows who Kojima is will probably already know what Death Stranding is though
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I completed the road from Lake Knot City down to South Knot. Partway I realized that it was in an unconnected region because I hadn't visited the Collector so I had to take several side trips until he had what he wanted. There was a big gap toward the end and it took alot of trips and building a couple of zip lines to go back and forth with materials, but it's done. I'll be working my way up into the mountains next and will pick up what I think is the only prepper I missed. Not trying to 5 star anyone, I just want to see the road go all the way through considering how drat hard traveling was in that region.
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disposablewords posted:I also went in completely blind despite coming to it years late. I consider trying to explain it in much of any detail and I just... realize that unless I go absolutely the most bare-bones possible, in a way that doesn't really capture much of anything about the game, I'm just gonna sound like I'm poo poo-posting. I don't know, does anyone else feel like that's why they kept their peace about it? Because it's simultaneously wilder than it sounds while also not actually being quite as wild as it sounds? I had the same sort of feeling while writing my post, because even though I'm sure everyone what happens in the game, what I initially wrote felt like I was being facetious or flippant about it. Macaluso posted:Death Stranding not actually being as weird as the trailers made it seem because Kojima makes sure to explain every aspect of this world he created is one of my favorite things about the game. *watches the trailer* "Why is Guillermo Del Toro holding a baby enclosed in a pod? So weird!" *plays the game* "Oh, I guess it's not that weird after all." The whole idea of BBs reminds me of something from some other series where they had a similar concept, but I can't remember what it was exactly (could also be that I'm thinking of something from folklore). Also, I have to ask. Is the guy at the Ludens Camp models after Geoff Keighley?
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Max Wilco posted:Also, I have to ask. Is the guy at the Ludens Camp models after Geoff Keighley? Yes. The game has a lot of weird "cameos"
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Max Wilco posted:Also, I have to ask. Is the guy at the Ludens Camp models after Geoff Keighley? Yes. I'm not sure if it's still the case after all this time but it used to be a rite of passage to pee at his bunker which is why it was overgrowing with mushrooms.
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Ugh, I just found out the changing the difficulty reloads your last save. Not sure if I missed a warning about that but fuuuuuck. I'm currently doing the mission to transport the nuke to South Knot, during which you can't save. I hadn't build the roads much past the distro centre, so I was doing those as I went. Built three or four new sections. I'm playing on very hard, so as I approached South Knot, I decided to turn it down in anticipation of a boss fight. Guess who just lost all their road building progress!
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I'm getting so many notifications that people have used my roads!  I'm beginning to work my way into the mountains and there's a lot of incomplete segments, but the closest ones don't look to be too far from completion. Once the roads are all done I can close the book on this weird but enjoyable game.
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Macaluso posted:Death Stranding not actually being as weird as the trailers made it seem because Kojima makes sure to explain every aspect of this world he created is one of my favorite things about the game. so many moments in death stranding where you go 'Oh, THATS what that trailer was all about... well okay then', it makes me laugh when I hear people talk about how indecipherable the game and claim they beat it because there's just no way. everything that happens in the game is pretty clearly explained in a way that's really a lot more sensible than say some of MGS4's conclusions. It's the most tight package Kojima has put out in ages and yet somehow it comes off as insane to say that I feel lol
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I have avoided end spoilers for years but anytime I get a peek of people analyzing the game it's funny how people will make fun of him for being too unsubtle and then still totally miss the point when they bring it up.
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I keep forgetting that you can't take stuff with you when you jump. I feel like I've wasted a ton of resources as a result, lol. Just started episode 6, which I get the feeling will probably be annoying due to not having BB. Still enjoying it though, and I was well pleased with myself for examining the map closely to find an easily navigable pass to the east of Mountain Knot City.
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1st AD posted:I have just 1800 more ceramics to farm and I’ll have finished building every road in the central region. Goddamn what a trek this project was. If you’re at that point with roads, just claim the ceramics from a bunch of preppers. There is also a few of them that give you high density resources after a few deliveries making that stuff easy.
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Douchebag posted:If you’re at that point with roads, just claim the ceramics from a bunch of preppers. There is also a few of them that give you high density resources after a few deliveries making that stuff easy. I did end up doing that…then found out there’s one more paver in the snowy part of the mountains that needs like 7200 ceramics 
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Dick Trauma posted:I'm beginning to work my way into the mountains and there's a lot of incomplete segments, but the closest ones don't look to be too far from completion. Once the roads are all done I can close the book on this weird but enjoyable game. When you connect an area to the network, all the pavers in that area will get ~50% filled. Before an area is connected they'll all be empty.
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During my road building I found a quest chain that was still underway for data chips and I had to retrieve one from a terrorist camp. I built a bola gun and a couple of grenade launchers and headed out. I managed to negate their ping so I was able to creep up to an outcropping above their camp and wow the range on that grenade launcher was amazing. I was popping off sleep rounds all over the place until they were all out. Or I thought they were, because as I made my way down to their postbox a couple seemed to wake up so I blasted them, grabbed the chip and made a run for their truck. At that point they all seemed to wake up because I was getting shot at from all over but I tore off and made it out unscathed. So I guess the sleep rounds aren't like knocking people out from the bola or kicking them. I'm now heading toward what I think is the last prepper I didn't connect so I can get back to road building. EDIT: I'm near the Photographer and there's a paver that requires an immense amount of materials but is in a networked area. There's no preppers left unconnected save the First Prepper and he's nowhere near here. The paver's at the southern edge of a terrorist camp. The one not far north was normal, but the next southern paver seems far away. Perhaps that's why. But I have a truck full of materials and they're barely going to put a dent in the total. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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It feels like I've been making my own paths during episode 6, mostly to the preppers around Mountain Knot. As a result I've really been making use of the signs a lot more, which feels good. 
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Well all the roads are now built and it feels like I’m done with my time in this game. It was a great 77 hour jaunt but America is rebuilt and I’m ready for Sam’s next adventure.
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Where was DS2 supposed to take place again? In DS1 you can walk across USA in one afternoon so what does the map look like in the sequel and where are we
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Cliff crying blood/the black tar BT stuff is supposed to be a Casino Royale reference, right? Maybe I'm just mad(s). I cut my first BT umbilical cord yesterday entirely by accident due to (episode 6) not having BB with me; the prompt just came up while I was sneaking and I took my chance. I was pleased with myself, and then that feeling turned to laughter as the BT gave me a like. I really like this game.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Cliff crying blood/the black tar BT stuff is supposed to be a Casino Royale reference, right? Maybe I'm just mad(s). gently caress
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Cliff crying blood/the black tar BT stuff is supposed to be a Casino Royale reference, right? Maybe I'm just mad(s). "I want my BB back!" is also a classic cinema reference.
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WaltherFeng posted:Where was DS2 supposed to take place again? Dunno where it starts as a little bit of time has passed since 1, but the trailer mentions getting into Mexico.
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I think that the setting will be all over the world. Instead of the world map in DS1 basically being the east coast, central, and west coast, I bet we’ll get big maps representing different locations around the world.
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“I’m setting out from Tokyo” (Hikes 30 minutes) “Here’s your delivery, Mrs Kim”
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I’m excited for the Mexican take on Iceland.
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Steve Yun posted:“I’m setting out from Tokyo”
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Honestly I want any game to have a full scale and size Earth map using every topological and geological survey data map available. I took a class on GIS stuff once and it was mad boring but I loved the lectures that talked about landscapes and what's in em and where. As far as I know it's basically Minecraft Earth which isn't great and Microsoft Fly Simulator but I assume it's more fun to scroll around Google Earth so you can look at stuff up close, not fly past it all fast.
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The cutscene where you meet Heartman... some of it is obviously meant to be funny, but I'm not sure about some of the other bits. I thought the lake looked less like a heart and more like the imprint of a giant pair of testicles. That it's Nicholas Refn's likeness is just the cherry on top of the total absurdity. I've been finding the bit immediately after that a bit of a slog. Not so much because of the increased number of BTs (I actually kind of like those bits because they're nice and tense but not overly difficult) but because of the snowstorms and all that. I've heard that it doesn't get much better in the tar pits, but I'm kind of looking forward to the return of Moby Dick Studios anyway.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:The cutscene where you meet Heartman... some of it is obviously meant to be funny, but I'm not sure about some of the other bits. I thought the lake looked less like a heart and more like the imprint of a giant pair of testicles. That it's Nicholas Refn's likeness is just the cherry on top of the total absurdity. I think it’s mostly because the distances and terrible terrain. I hated this part of the game and just stopped doing anything other than do the minimum to progress the story. BT’s were always easy to deal with, in my first playthrough of the prologue I managed to just stealth my way through the river route and avoid all the BT’s, at a time when I didn’t exactly recognize all the signs that you were getting close. Once you get your first grenades they are utterly trivialized, and once you get the cuff’s it’s basically a cakewalk dealing with them.
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