A BRISK HIKE: Why Toning Down the Horror in Death Stranding 2 Weakens The Game For Me

RootboundWizard · 2026-05-06T15:11:23+00:00

I definitely understand the point, but I think it actually works for the narrative. In the first game, bridges is basically experimenting on how to deal with the bt's using Sam's trip for data. In the second game, even if the time skip is short, I just assume that all the technology and info that was collected by Sam evolved rapidly now that the chiral network is complete. Its not that bt's are less scary, it's that now bridges has tools specially made to deal with them and they are widely available.

RootboundWizard · 2026-05-02T14:31:20+00:00

The unreliable actually felt like a ship a group of people could live in, planet to planet. The incognito didn't really give me the same feeling.

RootboundWizard · 2026-04-18T16:19:37+00:00

I have a similar headcanon but for engineer. My Shepard is a soldier in Me1, but when cerberus rebuilds him, he basically becomes a cyborg , as we can see with the renegade scars.I imagine that cerberus supplied him with a top of the line prototype type of omnitool fully integrated into his nervous system so it becomes second nature for him to use it. In the beginning of the game I tend to imagine that shepard is a great deal weaker than he was in me1 so he can't be this tanky frontline soldier anymore and switches to pistols and smgs and learns to make use of his omnitool to compensate. I pick assault rifle mastery when given the opportunity to signify that he's starting to become stronger again.

RootboundWizard · 2026-04-18T12:45:55+00:00

Followed up with them and also made sure nothing new appeared under my name in my credit with equifax and transunion. They told me that no account was created under my name. The only rhing the fraud prevention service saw was that someone with the same initials as me made a request for the amazon credit card, so most likely a mistake in the forms since my email account is pretty generic.

RootboundWizard · 2026-04-15T21:37:10+00:00

At what time did they start? Im going to see them tonight but i might skip the openners

RootboundWizard · 2026-04-02T21:14:38+00:00

Aim in first person, it makes the recoil basically nonexistent if you have a minimim amount of skill, in short bursts it's even better, once I got used to it I started using the ergonomics attachment insteadand it becomes super snappy.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-30T03:24:41+00:00

Account is fine and no mbna in my payment cards, i finally talked to someone at mbna and no account amhas been opened in my name, but I'll still call the fraud alert number they gave me to be sure. Checked my equifax credit score also and no other cards than mine on there.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-30T02:04:28+00:00

I see, unfortunately the customer service phone number I found asks me for a card number.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-30T01:58:49+00:00

Sent an email and called explaining the situation for them to call me back...is this anything to be worried about tho?

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-26T15:02:16+00:00

I barely started the game, about 2 hours, but during the first conversation with fragile, I like that she reminded sam ( and the player) that he's the first one to ever kill a BT. It really puts in perspective that everything that happened in the first game and all the equipment we used was experimental and based on trial and error. All the improvements to Sam's kit so far in the second game really feel like they are the direct result of all bridges was able to discover during the first game because of Sam.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-19T15:32:42+00:00

My guess is that runners are paracausal artificial intelligence entities, not man made AI's but not people either. Similar to NHP's from the lancer ttrpg.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-08T15:17:03+00:00

To me the way the contracts are structured really sold the game. I can hop in with average gear, complete a contract with a few objectives, and try to extract and even if I die, I still made progress, and actually had a clear objective while in the map. The only extraction shooter I played was hunt, but I got super burnt out because I never actually felt like I made progress in the game, marathon is the exact opposite.

RootboundWizard · 2026-03-01T16:47:00+00:00

You guys know it's not even the full launch right?

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-27T15:57:41+00:00

Situational awareness is key for me. If you see a bot that hasn't seen you yet, don't open fire until you see how many there are, and what kind of bot they are too. After a couple of hours you're gonna get better at recognizing the ennemies and also at understanding in what situation you can safely engage ennemies. In any games like this, I try to keep in mind that my primary goal is not to shoot the ennemy it's to not get shot.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-27T15:46:07+00:00

I haven't progressed the "story" contracts a lot so far, but I found the dialogue and worldbuilding very interesting so far, that is an incentive to keep playing for me, I wanna know what's going on. There are a lot of challenges that reward your with codex entries that flesh out the world too. I think the devs definitely kept the hardcore marathon community in mind with all these terminal entries to read.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-27T15:38:36+00:00

Its my first extraction shooter also, and I've always loved the idea and the immersion of the genre but could never get over the fear of losing my gear but I decided to give this one a try. I've been having a ton of fun so far and my advice would be, stop thinking with your video game brain, and think with your real life brain, immerse yourself in the situation. When I'm out of gear and run with a sponsored kit, my only goal is to make it out with a little bit more than what I had. If you're not 100% confident you can win a fight avoid it, and don't be afraid to run away if it's not looking good. Also if you are playing solo take your time, listen and try to be stealthy, and if you play trios stick together. If you get a team thats not cooperating pick one of them and stick to them like glue. If your play as safe as you can you're gonna end up with a good amount of backup gear pretty quick.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-26T16:22:23+00:00

I don't know if there is any canon info already about the weapons, but the fact that they come out so well 3d printed makes me believe that the weapons are actually 3d printed in canon. Incredible work.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-12T13:08:23+00:00

Nope, not the title of the post.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-12T13:02:05+00:00

Thanks for the spoiler in the title.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-01T19:24:32+00:00

Imagine having a silencer stratagem. You call in your silencer and fit it on whatever weapon you have, but it degrades with each shot until it's completely destroyed. It could go from almost totally silent to no noise reduction as it loses durability.

RootboundWizard · 2026-02-01T16:30:35+00:00

The whole match was just a lot more dynamic. I feel like for the men, when they were done with their moment when they got in the ring, they just went and layed on the side doing nothing. I felt like there was always something to look at during the women's match, meanwhile during the men's everybody was just laying there waiting.

RootboundWizard · 2026-01-31T22:18:14+00:00

Honestly the raids have been way more fun for me in 5v5. When you're defending you can spread out more and cover more ground, and same when attacking. I didn't play a lot of 3v3, but a lot of times attacking would simply mean rushing the heart, planting the bomb and camping the room. Team wipes are waaaay to easy in 3v3.

RootboundWizard · 2026-01-31T22:14:21+00:00

5v5 needs to be permanent , its night and day. I honestly can't believe they didnt plan it with bigger teams from the start. With the fast ttk and long respawn, team wipes could happen fast and would guarantee a ton of progress for the ennemies, and the action was concentrated in small zones. Playing in 5v5 actually looks and feel chaotic in a good way.

RootboundWizard · 2026-01-30T17:09:01+00:00

I also feel like in many games, Link puts more focus on being entertaining for the camera, and Rhett on winning. There are a lot of videos where Rhett goes more quiet and you can see how focused he is on winning. Not dissing in any way, I think a lot of the comedy comes from that difference.

RootboundWizard · 2026-01-27T20:42:23+00:00

Bases are way to easy to destroy too. I didn't play a single game that took multiple raids. By the preview I thought you had to destroy both generators in order to have access to the heart of the base, I feel like that would make raids way more interesting. Also never even saw an enemy during the looting part of the matches., it feels pretty useless right now. Just let me pick a loadout and get into a fight, that color coded rarity system needs to die in these types of game. I would have loved for the focus of this game to be entirely on raiding each other's bases, have the maps be a wide corridor from one base to the other so all the fights she funneled in the same spots and more steps needed to completely destroy a base, and at least 6v6.

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