All Environmental Hazards and Effects in Death Stranding 2
While Death Stranding 2 may pick up Sam Porter Bridges' travels through these uncharted and dangerous terrain like Mexico to Australia, the game's environmental threats churning travel quickly begins to become more than a long subway ride to work, a primal race against death.
Far from just setting the stage, these environmental hazards act as colorful puzzles, forcing players to predict, react, and creatively use their arsenal of weaponry to overcome them. Here's an exhaustive scenic tour of each ecological calamity in the video game, how they'll block your path, and the smartest methods to salvage those square-tiled travels.
Timefall
: The Rain That Ages All
Perhaps the most well-known hazard returning from the original Death Stranding, Timefall is a rain that rapidly ages anything it comes into contact with cargo containers, equipment, even the terrain itself.
Effect
: Timefall slowly increases damage to cargo container health, risking the integrity of your precious contents inside and jeopardizing your precious S Rank delivery. In addition, when it comes into contact with rain, the damage multiplies if dropped or used incorrectly.
Strategy
: Make sure you always have a Container Repair Spray unlocked extremely early in the game and deploy it right after the rain stops. For demolition, construct a timefall shelter with PCC. Though these shelters only offer the benefits of standard cargo storage when vacant, once filled with repellant, they offer protection from BTs, making them a useful tool in dangerous areas.
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Strong Winds
: Sandstorms That Steal Your Balance
Exploring far out across vast, arid, wilderness-like terrains exposes Sam to fast-moving, fierce sandstorms that come in the shape of Strong Winds.
Effect
: Strong winds resulting in impossible visibility from blowing snow make it deadly for walkers. When loaded with delicate freight, small impacts can create a dramatic chance of toppling or being upended by the breeze, causing large freight losses.
Strategy
: When you see the first wafts of sand dancing in the air far on the horizon, prepare for the storm. Look for natural cover, rock faces, structures, or walls and let Sam experience a bit of R&R by pressing Square to regain stamina. If the wind is at your back, this can work to your advantage on your journey, giving you a boost from the tailwind and reducing your travel time.
Earthquakes
: The Ground Beneath
Unyielding and cataclysmic, an earthquake can level even the most experienced porter.
Effect
: Underbelly inequities Violent tremors cause cargo spills, as flammable container fires crossed the road, and risk of liquefaction-induced landslides. It's harder to move and stay balanced if the ground is shaking and rolling. You're more likely to fall and injure yourself.
Strategy
: Choosing impact categories When the big one hits, don't panic, find open ground and stay there until the shaking stops. If you do fall, having your cargo well tied down and as close to the ground as possible will guarantee that you cause as little loss as possible.
Rising Waters: Nature's Sudden Barrier
Frighteningly enough, crossing rivers has never been safe in Death Stranding. Death Stranding 2 raises that risk a hundredfold with surprise spikes in water depth.
Effect
: Sudden unexpected high tides can wash Sam and his precious cargo away, making some sections treacherous passages at times.
Strategy
: Carefully scout every road crossing ahead of time and look for alternate paths. Once water begins to enter, if it's flooding over the top, return to higher ground and ride the storm out. Whatever the cause, the attempt to cross a flood will just about always make for a tragic outcome.
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Tar
Pits and Tar Seas
: Death by Voidout
These dark, treacherous pits are not just dangerous traps.
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They're deadly deathtraps.
Effect
: If your feet sink too deep in tar, you begin to sink, cargo becomes damaged, or even a Voidout occurs (a large explosion resulting from dying near BTs).
Strategy
: Run, don't walk to escape this one. If it's impossible to avoid tar zones, establish a route around tar zones or deploy equipment capable of reaching above dangerous areas.
Where Death Stranding 2 really shines is in making its unique environments more than just window dressing. They're unpredictable, powerful, visceral risks that can upend even the best-laid plans to which we've worked so hard. Every hazard needs to be learned. Even more than the opportunity to build this world safe enough to survive, is this hope that we can bring from a healed and mended world—hope over a broken and splintered world.
So pack smart, walk safe, and never underestimate the first wrath of Mother Nature.
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