Topic: Death Stranding OT

@Octane if it only it was that simple. You need to have the chiral network to print! Unless you get enough you are forever in the red. With a bunch of pcc 2 weighing you down.

@carlos82 Bravo bruv. I very much doubt I will get this plat. I just can't stand delivering in the mountains!

@KratosMD @themcnoisy Cheers guys. It took me just under 85 hours in total with about 15 of those after I finished the story. I'm not sure I'd have gone for it had I not done most of the hard work (without realising) during the story.

It was quite refreshing going back to the first area at the end and having to explore again in unspoilt countryside, all with no roads to bypass some troublesome BT placements, it reminded me of why I loved the game in the first place

That moment when you shower in DS and think about how you haven’t done that in real life yet.

@carlos82 congratulations dude, I'm still looking for memory chips till I get mine!

@0D0 I wonder how long they last up in the mountains with all the time snow and storms though...

@themcnoisy What do you mean?

@Octane mine are all still there even after getting the platinum trophy so you should be good for some time. I think @themcnoisy is talking about the chiral bandwidth limitations you have to build structures. Depending on how many preppers you have connected you have a bandwidth limit to build, playing offline is a big disadvantage here as you can't use other people's zip lines to complete your network.

@MightyDemon82 not far away then, keep on keeping on 😉

Seriously. I'm on chapter 6 I think. But does nobody care that Mama just died? Everyone is just moving on as if it's the most ordinary thing.

@carlos82 I see. You can only build within the network, right?

@Octane yeah that's right.

The story seems set up to just focus on literally one character at a time with little interaction between them. I did like the conclusion to her story though and maybe that's why everyone just accepts it

@Octane my mountain zip lines have been there for about 10 hours. They're still working.

@carlos82 Yeah, it was just silence, and then Die-Hardman appeared and was like ''well, moving on, there are some preppers I'd like you to connect to the network..''. Very weird lol.

Also, is it me or does the facial animation of Mama look a bit more ''budget'' than the others? Very uncanny in some cases, a bit too stiff and awkward.

@0D0 That's good. Though I really hope they last a lot longer than that. Stuff from the first map has started to degrade, just ladders iirc. As long as the roads and bigger structures stay like this for a while longer I can live with it. Don't really want to build them all over again.

@Octane My roads and bridges have been up for about 45 hours.

@KratosMD Their marketing has been really odd recently. Stuff like they left Concrete Genie out to die, which got very little marketing and then putting out the latest PS5 news on the same day the game got released so that it got drowned out. For a massive corporation they make some really wierd business decisions for some of their products. 🤷‍♂️

After a mind blowing 169 hours I have the platinum trophy. I'm going to miss this game, but got a huge backlog that needs seeing to. I really got invested in the world and loved every second of my time with it.

Chapter 6 - Putting 70h so far.
Having fun at the mountains right now. I need to get 5 stars from all those bases up there.

@0D0 Trust me, zip lines are your best friend there.

@AdamNovice I started planting them. Really useful stuff — and really fun to do. Not always of course: while I was trying to find a spot for a zip line, I was caught by BTs. Tried to scape twice, but I had to beat them. On another occasion, I went to the zip line, but I was caught by BTs right on the spot. When the dark thing shows up, you can't access the zip line, so again I had to fight them.

@AdamNovice @0D0 I reached the network capacity halfway through the mountains. Going to wrap up another set of three, and then I'll head back to the rest of the map to gain some more five stars to increase the bandwidth.

Just watched the credits roll (literally, controller down and drank a cup of tea). I really enjoyed bits of the game, like how you can approach situations in multiple ways, soundtrack and graphics) but by god some of the design choices around some of the repetition in lines and bland bt boss fights dont half drag the game down. I can see why it has such a wide spread of reviews! I'd take a point of the game for the approach to the bloody credits the game has!!