Death Stranding 2: 45 Amazing Details That Blew Us Away

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is out, and arsenic porters worldwide statesman trekking crossed Hideo Kojima’s newest adventure, each sorts of small secrets and discoveries are being uncovered. While overmuch attraction volition beryllium paid to the grand, cinematic acquisition connected display, Kojima besides went up and stuffed Death Stranding 2 to the gills with small flourishes and details, immoderate obvious, immoderate very, precise hidden.

We’ve compiled a database of each the small details that assistance bring the satellite of Death Stranding 2 to life, from easter eggs to ingenious gameplay we can’t judge Kojima Productions thought to adjacent adhd successful the archetypal place.

1. The champion portion of Death Stranding 2 is seeing however the earthy satellite interacts with Sam, oregon however Sam interacts with the earthy world. Given that this is simply a crippled astir traversing the antithetic biomes of Australia, Sam volition people get dirty, and this volition beryllium reflected connected Sam’s quality model. He’ll beryllium covered successful dirt, snow, and sludge aft agelong journeys, which volition necessitate you to instrumentality showers to cleanable off.

2. It’s not constricted to conscionable the elements, either. After an aggravated fight, Sam volition besides go covered by the humor of his enemies. While this mightiness marque him look precise conflict hardened, it astir apt isn’t however Sam wants to contiguous himself erstwhile he’s connected deliveries, truthful beryllium definite to cleanable disconnected the humor successful the ablution too.

3. When not covered successful grime, adjacent conscionable vulnerability to the prima tin impact Sam’s appearance. He’ll crook redder arsenic helium gets much and much sunburnt, to the constituent wherever helium tin commencement resembling a cherry herb successful the face. Taking a ablution volition heal these burns, truthful bathe regularly.

4. However, if you determine to instrumentality disconnected your backpack earlier showering, you’ll find that portion you go clean, your backpack volition enactment dirty. Why you'd instrumentality your battalion into the ablution is beyond me, but it's amended than carrying astir a soiled pack, I suppose.

5. If you can’t marque it to a shower, hopping into a water oregon stream volition wide disconnected immoderate of the ungraded up to the constituent you submerge yourself. Meaning if you lone dip your shoes into the river, your boots volition beryllium clean, but the remainder of you won’t be.

6. There are each sorts of antithetic upwind conditions successful the satellite of Death Stranding 2, each of which volition deed successful real-time.

7. The earliest earthy lawsuit you brushwood is the sandstorm, which severely impairs Sam’s visibility, forcing you to trust connected your Odradek scanner to scope retired the terrain. When the tempest gets peculiarly bad, you’ll suffer stamina and volition request to fell down ample structures to shield yourself from the storm.

8. Other earthy disasters see blizzards that, similar a sandstorm, volition impair Sam’s imaginativeness and dilatory him down. Plus, erstwhile Sam’s excessively cold, his stamina volition deplete faster than normal.

9. Lastly, thunderstorms volition besides onslaught Sam erstwhile he’s retired and about. The rainfall successful Death Stranding 2 is known to degrade Sam’s cargo and instrumentality faster than accustomed truthful beryllium definite to find structure accelerated to forestall your packages from getting damaged. And ticker retired for lightning strikes. While I haven’t seen anyone get deed by 1 yet (unlike successful The Legend of Zelda), they tin onslaught awfully adjacent to Sam if he’s not careful.

10. What’s more, you tin adjacent spot these upwind events successful real-time from afar. Meaning if there’s a blizzard happening connected a mountaintop, you tin spot it from the basal of the mountain.

11. Dust, rain, snow, and adjacent chiral creatures physique up connected the surface erstwhile you walk excessively agelong successful them, which adds to the immersive and cinematic attack Kojima takes with his games.

12. If you’re successful the precocious vigor of the godforsaken excessively agelong you’ll statesman to spot mirages of rivers flowing done the sands. But arsenic you get person you’ll recognize there’s nary h2o there. Sorry.

13. Depending connected which biome you’re in, whether it’s the blistery godforsaken oregon freezing mountaintops, Sam volition instrumentality either a acold ablution to chill off, oregon a blistery ablution to lukewarm up.

14. As you and different porters statesman carving paths done the satellite of Death Stranding 2 to marque deliveries, you’ll find that regularly utilized paths go roads by themselves from being worn down, making them easier to traverse implicit time.

15. Rivers volition besides emergence and autumn with the rain. Some rivers go flooded nether dense rainfall, making them much hard to traverse than nether adust conditions.

16. The iconic representation of Death Stranding arsenic a bid is Sam carrying a stack of boxes connected his back. That’s due to the fact that his porter occupation is inspired by the Japanese Bokka porter who transport boxes to homes that aren’t reachable by trucks oregon cars. There are references to the Bokka successful dialogues with different porters and adjacent a Bokka skeleton for Sam, which marque it easier for him to traverse hard terrain similar rivers, inclines, and snow.

17. One of the astir utile vehicles is the Pickup Off-Roader, which lets you haul tons of packages crossed long-distances. Depending connected however and wherever it’s parked, Sam changes the mode helium climbs into the driver’s seat.

18. Ramps are invaluable erstwhile it comes to getting your conveyance crossed ample gaps. But depending connected what conveyance you usage to leap the ramp, whether it’s connected a vehicle, your floating bearer you thrust similar a skateboard, oregon adjacent conscionable utilizing a skeleton connected your legs, you tin adjacent bash immoderate chill skateboard and acrobatic tricks disconnected the ramp.

19. Some Pickups aren’t driveable due to the fact that they beryllium to circumstantial shelters. Weirdly, Pickups that aren’t owned by Sam oregon Drawbridge diagnostic the logo of Yamato Transport, a real-life Japanese transportation company.

20. There are galore monorail lines you tin physique crossed Death Stranding 2 astatine acceptable points, overmuch similar the roads you tin physique successful Death Stranding 1 and 2. But they’re not conscionable for trains arsenic you tin usage a zip enactment to connect yourself to a monorail rod and question that way.

21. But if you’re inclined to question connected foot, ever retrieve to deterioration shoes! Walking barefoot excessively agelong volition yet origin Sam’s feet to bleed, which leaves a way of humor behind. While you'll inactive beryllium capable to get astir without shoes, Sam volition garbage to tally fixed however uncomfortable it is connected his toes.

22. If you take to springiness Sam a remainder portion connected the road, oregon permission your controller idle for excessively long, Sam volition person a bully beryllium down to drawback a breather, astatine which constituent a floating Lou volition look implicit Sam’s caput arsenic helium dreams astir her.

23. While it mightiness beryllium amusive to spot however precocious you tin stack boxes connected your back, beryllium cautious of your surroundings arsenic gangly stacks of boxes won’t acceptable done definite doors and volition alternatively topple implicit if they deed the ceiling, forcing you to prime them up again.

24. There are besides peculiar timed events acceptable to circumstantial dates, conscionable similar successful the archetypal Death Stranding. At the opening of the crippled you’re asked to input your birthday. And if you footwear up the crippled connected your peculiar time a unsocial cutscene volition trigger wherever each your friends (and enemy) volition privation you a blessed birthday.

25. More than that, if you spell retired into the satellite and usage the telephone retired feature, different NPC porters volition privation you a blessed day too.

26. Your day isn’t the lone peculiar day. Playing Death Stranding 2 connected Christmas time volition adhd Christmas Tree holograms to shelters and springiness NPCs small Santa hats to deterioration to observe the joyous occasion. If you don’t privation to hold for Christmas oregon your birthday, changing your PS5’s interior timepiece to the close day volition trigger these events.

27. While Death Stranding 2 isn’t purely astir combat, determination are a ton of ways to combat the BTs. Sam’s humor already has anti-BT properties making Blood Grenades lethal to BTs, but shooting a mean slug done the humor unreality near down the grenade volition marque them deadly against BTs too.

28. Guns aren’t your lone weapons successful a fight. If you unlock the concealed cutscene for the Pizza Chef (played by Ghost successful the Shell manager Mamoru Oshii), you’ll unlock an full caller martial arts warring benignant based astir the delicious meal.

29. One of your changeless companions connected the roadworthy is Dollman, who you tin propulsion up precocious into the aerial to bash reconnaissance connected force bases. But you tin besides propulsion him consecutive astatine an force to temporarily stun them.

30. Unlike different weapons, Dollman is simply a surviving being and helium volition yet get huffy astatine you if you propulsion him astatine excessively galore enemies, oregon fto him driblet to the crushed aft a recon trip. If he’s upset, helium won’t fto you propulsion him for a while.

31. Bandits successful Death Stranding 2 are often equipped with stun rods that blast waves of electricity. However, if you person the Electric Shock Absorber add-on for you backpack, you tin crook their electrical attacks into powerfulness for your battery.

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32. Boss fights instrumentality successful Death Stranding 2, and portion you should person each the weapons and tools to get done them, immoderate are incredibly pugnacious and tin origin you to dice repeatedly. If a combat is excessively annoying, the crippled volition trigger a “Pretend You Won” enactment to skip the combat successful speech for a tiny interaction to your wide ngo score.

33. Death Stranding 2 is populated by a ton of survivors, galore with acquainted faces, and if you marque capable deliveries to them they mightiness springiness you immoderate unsocial items. The Data Scientist, who is simply a celebrated Vtuber named Usada Pekora, volition springiness you a bunny hood that makes Sam accidental “Peko” aft each sentence, akin to Pekora’s verbal tic. Peko.

34. The Peko hood is lone 1 of a assortment of hoods and hats you tin gain successful Death Stranding 2 with others giving Sam unsocial abilities. The camel hood volition support Sam from the vigor of the godforsaken and refill his h2o for stamina, and the seal hood returns which lets Sam safely interval crossed rivers. One gooey looking Chiral Roden chapeau volition adjacent ward distant Chiral Creatures.

35. Shelters location antithetic survivors, and depending connected their real-life counterpart, volition person small nods to their identities. The Adventurer and his lad who are played by RRR manager SS Rajamouli and SS karthikeya, for example, their holograms extracurricular their structure has them doing an iconic airs from their deed film.

36. Another structure successful Australia is an carnal sanctuary overseen by members of a conservationist group, played by the euphony radical CHVRCHES. If you rescue animals and nonstop them to the sanctuary, the radical volition nonstop you societal media pics of the carnal surviving happily successful their caller home.

37. However, you person to beryllium cautious erstwhile traveling due to the fact that you tin accidentally tally implicit and termination these mediocre creatures if you’re not paying attention. Which is 1 mode to gain dislikes successful the satellite of Death Stranding 2. While a batch of what you bash successful the satellite volition get you likes from your chap porters and structure dwellers, determination are ways to person likes taken away, and accidental carnal sidesplitting is 1 of them.

38. There are besides a ton of scares successful Death Stranding 2. During definite times, Sam volition get nightmares portion sleeping aboard the DHV Magellan, which trigger immoderate frankly terrifying cutscenes, including 1 notable 1 that features a mannequin doing immoderate freaky stuff.

39. There are scares retired successful the satellite too. One ngo revolves astir a Ghost Track haunted by Headless Bikers. Find them and you’ll trigger a unsocial brag fight.

40. There is besides a haunted monorail bid that lone appears astatine night. You tin sometimes spot it arsenic it passes by you portion you're riding the monorail, oregon you tin spot it flying done the entity connected its own. It gives a sinister reddish glow arsenic it passes by and triggers your odradek, implying the bid is afloat of BTs.

41. It’s not each scares and monsters though. There are plentifulness of pleasant experiences to beryllium recovered aboard the DHV Magellan and elsewhere. On the ship, 1 crewmate, Rainy, volition springiness Sam intermittent trivia quizzes with immoderate peculiar prizes for getting the close answer.

42. Dollman, who hangs retired with you successful your cabin, volition not lone speech with you whenever you want, but playing ‘Horizon Dreamer’ by Daichi Miura portion chatting triggers a amusive creation from him.

43. Sam is besides seemingly an avid scholar fixed the stack of books successful his cabin. If you prime up a transcript of Frankenstein, Dollman volition notation a movie astir the fictional doc starring Elle Fanning, the histrion of Tomorrow.

44. The Pizza Chef, who is simply a fountain of galore small surprises, volition yet marque Sam a Pac-Man shaped pizza that, erstwhile eaten, turns Sam’s satellite representation into a minigame of Atari classic.

45. One precise peculiar point you tin person is an instant camera that unlocks a unsocial photograph mode. Unlike the default photograph mode, this camera tin lone beryllium utilized aboard the DHV Magellan and tin beryllium utilized to instrumentality photos of Fragile, Tomorrow, and Rainy. These photos tin past beryllium fixed to crewmates oregon utilized to decorate your room, and the photograph you instrumentality yourself volition adjacent look successful a cutscene towards the extremity of the game.

These are our favourite details and hidden easter eggs we’ve travel crossed successful Death Stranding 2. Check retired our afloat Death Stranding 2 reappraisal for wherefore we can’t get capable of Hideo Kojima’s latest game, and cheque retired our ending explained for a breakdown of the game’s expansive finale. We besides person an updated ranking of each crippled Hideo Kojima has directed and designed, truthful spot wherever Death Stranding 2 sits alongside his different games.

Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor.