Multiplat Death Stranding

[Simon_Says]

Is there an easy way to see what your connection level is with everyone? I 5 starred first prepper the other day (still giving out Santa hats btw) thinking he was the last one I had to max out but no trophy.

Yeah same, I noticed a few trophies that haven't popped for me.
Finish 10 amount of Premium deliveries on hard for the trophie, hasnt popped yet. Now I'm up to 18 deliveries may as well complete 2 more and get the next trophy

 

[Simon_Says]

Excellent. Thanks. I'll check it out. Port Knot may well be it for me too. I've never platinumed a game before and am hoping this can be the one.

If you dont know,
You can also keep your difficulty level down to what ever your preference was until the option to deliver the standard deliveries. Then Pump the difficulty up to hard. Then select Premium delivery option, complete either 10 or 20 of them at an S Rank (Legend of legends). The only way to get that trophy

 

[Beerfish]

In options - bridge links - your profile, should be one of the tabs, NPCs or something i think.

Maybe you have one on the first map, port knot city was my last 5*.

I have literally never looked at that screen before. That's going to be a big help getting the last few trophies.

Turns out I had the tiniest sliver of a star left to get for the novelists son, geologist and evo devo biologist.

 

[Beerfish]

Yeah same, I noticed a few trophies that haven't popped for me.
Finish 10 amount of Premium deliveries on hard for the trophie, hasnt popped yet. Now I'm up to 18 deliveries may as well complete 2 more and get the next trophy

Yeah I was confused about this too but Jeba cleared it up for me. It's not just 10 and 20 deliveries it's of each type of delivery. The bridge links screen lists the number of each type of delivery you've done so you know what you're missing.

 

[Simon_Says]

Yeah I was confused about this too but Jeba cleared it up for me. It's not just 10 and 20 deliveries it's of each type of delivery. The bridge links screen lists the number of each type of delivery you've done so you know what you're missing.

hahaha mother ****er! Its never that simple is it?>

 

[Jeba]

hahaha mother f***er! Its never that simple is it?>

If you are going for the plat and still have a number of places to 5* it probably won't add any more time or extra grinding. Just remember to pick the delivery type you need and always premium. It's mainly the timed deliveries that take some effort as first you need to find the easy ones and then often you need to build ziplines to guarantee you beat the times.
The other trophy to keep an eye on is the Greatest Deliver where you need to get each rank to 70, my timed rank was alot lower than the others but doing the timed order from the farm to lake knot boosted it by over 10 ranks each time.

 

[Simon_Says]

If you are going for the plat and still have a number of places to 5* it probably won't add any more time or extra grinding. Just remember to pick the delivery type you need and always premium. It's mainly the timed deliveries that take some effort as first you need to find the easy ones and then often you need to build ziplines to guarantee you beat the times.
The other trophy to keep an eye on is the Greatest Deliver where you need to get each rank to 70, my timed rank was alot lower than the others but doing the timed order from the farm to lake knot boosted it by over 10 ranks each time.

Without spoilers, i'm still relatively early on in the game only up to Chapter 3
Nice little time saving hacks? Build the zipline then replay the same delivery to boost the "Time" stat?

 

[Beerfish]

Okay this game is trolling me or something. I finally 5 star everybody (found the musician had a sliver left too - it's getting to feel like the game is sneakily taking a bit away from a random person each time I think I've got it). This time I'm absolutely sure. Yep, sure enough all 5 stars. Except the porter. I'm -17 likes. 0 stars.

Then I remember this one encounter with a couple of other porters one time where one of them held out a gift and instead of taking it from his hands I accidentally decked him. He gave me -500 likes or something.

I guess I'll just have to walk the earth looking for porters to give gifts to. Good thing I have a santa hat now I guess.

 

[bourbons]

You can get negative likes!??

Haha, no way. Played for around 100 hours and never noticed.

 

[Beerfish]

You can get negative likes!??

Haha, no way. Played for around 100 hours and never noticed.

Yeah it's the only time it's happened to me. Not sure if there'd be other circumstances where that would happen.

 

[Beerfish]

So I finally got the porter likes into the black but there doesn't seem to be a star rating for them.

Then I stumbled across the veteran porter by accident. I can't believe I managed to go through the whole game without finding him. He is the tightest bastard around too although I'm wondering if that is the same whoever you end up with last. He doesn't seem to have many orders for him and I'm reduced to hunting for lost cargo for him.

On a positive though I have been having fun creating an extensive network of zip lines that allow me to go from time farm to vet porter to weather station over the waterfall to mama's lab and south knot, over to the chiral artist, over to film director, engineer, district centre, elder, craftsman all without having to touch the ground. Just when I think there's not much left to enjoy in this game I find something else to do.

 

[DapperJong]

So I finally got the porter likes into the black but there doesn't seem to be a star rating for them.

Then I stumbled across the veteran porter by accident. I can't believe I managed to go through the whole game without finding him. He is the tightest bastard around too although I'm wondering if that is the same whoever you end up with last. He doesn't seem to have many orders for him and I'm reduced to hunting for lost cargo for him.

On a positive though I have been having fun creating an extensive network of zip lines that allow me to go from time farm to vet porter to weather station over the waterfall to mama's lab and south knot, over to the chiral artist, over to film director, engineer, district centre, elder, craftsman all without having to touch the ground. Just when I think there's not much left to enjoy in this game I find something else to do.

I got annoyed when the bandwidth was low and I couldn't build anymore. But I suspect since you have 5 starred everyone else, this won't apply to you.

 

[Beerfish]

I got annoyed when the bandwidth was low and I couldn't build anymore. But I suspect since you have 5 starred everyone else, this won't apply to you.

Nope. I also still have the memory chips to collect too so that'll be something else fun to do. That'll just about be it I think.

Really hoping for some kind of dlc but not holding my breath

 

[dwwaino]

Death Stranding PC Release Date Announced, Half-Life Crossover Content Included - IGN

Death Stranding has a PC release date confirmed now for June.

au.ign.com

 

[dwwaino]

calyam how are you finding this on PC?

 

[calyam]

calyam how are you finding this on PC?

I'm really enjoying it which has surprised me a lot. I'm in chapter 8 at the moment.

I have enjoyed the social aspects of the game a lot more than I thought I would. There is something really satisfying about building roads or cross country zip lines that others can use. I particularly like the variety of traversal options, each with their own strengths or weaknesses, that forces you to really think about how you go about a delivery.

I'm not really engaged in the story. Neither the writing nor the acting has really grabbed me.

The PC port runs like a dream. It holds 4K60 with ease on my RTX 2080 and it seems like every modern GPU can get outstanding performance. It is quite the technical marvel.

 

[Summer Nights]

Been playing this the last few days. It's clearly a slow-burn kind of game. I'm about six hours in and not especially enjoying it yet however will stick at it. Opening up access to vehicles will make a difference. Hoping there are better weapons so BTs can be popped off more easily than hurling shit grenades everywhere.

 

[Drummer_19]

Been playing this the last few days. It's clearly a slow-burn kind of game. I'm about six hours in and not especially enjoying it yet however will stick at it. Opening up access to vehicles will make a difference. Hoping there are better weapons so BTs can be popped off more easily than hurling s**t grenades everywhere.

You'll know if you want to continue or not when you get to chapter 3 (I'm pretty sure it's chapter 3, from memory), that's when it opens up a lot more. The slow burn is very persistent tho, def not for everyone.

 

[Beerfish]

Still can't believe how much I enjoyed this

 

[Summer Nights]

You'll know if you want to continue or not when you get to chapter 3 (I'm pretty sure it's chapter 3, from memory), that's when it opens up a lot more. The slow burn is very persistent tho, def not for everyone.

Definitely getting into it. Building roads and shooting mules is fun.

 

[ioppolo]

Building roads can get as tedious as everything else.
I'm at 29ish hours but still on Chapter 3. So I'm probably doing it wrong.

 

[Summer Nights]

I got to the end credits today. By and large, it's a really unique game with some unique mechanics and payoffs in terms of experience. I will admit that a ridiculous number of cutscenes were skipped. A negative was the bloat with regards to narrative. By this I don't mean the plot, which was really cool, but some of the ways it was told were just excessive... too many conversations, clips and NPCs saying the same thing over and over... but I guess that's the Kojima style.

Played on PS5 using the PS4 disc + upgrade on 85" UHD tv - some of the geography at scale is absolutely awesome.

Glad I played it and will continue to play it and try to max out all the locations and unlockables.

 

[Beerfish]

I got to the end credits today. By and large, it's a really unique game with some unique mechanics and payoffs in terms of experience. I will admit that a ridiculous number of cutscenes were skipped. A negative was the bloat with regards to narrative. By this I don't mean the plot, which was really cool, but some of the ways it was told were just excessive... too many conversations, clips and NPCs saying the same thing over and over... but I guess that's the Kojima style.

Played on PS5 using the PS4 disc + upgrade on 85" UHD tv - some of the geography at scale is absolutely awesome.

Glad I played it and will continue to play it and try to max out all the locations and unlockables.

I should go back to it now I also have a ps5 and an 85" tv. Got totally caught up in Days Gone and have Cyberpunk sitting there waiting..

 

[Summer Nights]

I should go back to it now I also have a ps5 and an 85" tv. Got totally caught up in Days Gone and have Cyberpunk sitting there waiting..

They brought in a feature where you can transfer your PS4 save data to the PS5 upgraded game.

Oh and I loved Days Gone. It's one of a few have been keen to get back to on PS5. The res and frame rate improvements they introduced for so many games is brilliant.

And Cyberpunk is def on the list. Hopefully a lot of the bugs have been ironed out by now.

 

[Beerfish]

They brought in a feature where you can transfer your PS4 save data to the PS5 upgraded game

Unfortunately I didn't have much left to do. I absolutely thrashed it. I was hoping for some dlc but I don't think that happened? I'll still transfer my save but may end up starting over anyway.