Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

Version 1.000.000 included on disc. Version 1.000 displayed in game.

Entire main story playable offline.

This game has an online element where you and other players are encouraged to work together by sharing structures that you have built, contributing supplies to build larger structures, as well as helping each other complete support requests and deliveries. You can fully play the game offline without this feature but you will have to completely rely on yourself to contribute supplies to build & maintain structures, and the only support requests that will appear will be ones from NPCs. While this can make the game a bit harder, the game still feels very well balanced even when playing offline.

If you are going to be playing the game fully offline, it is HIGHLY recommended to disable the “Log In at Launch” feature, as keeping it enabled will interrupt your gameplay occasionally to tell you that it cannot connect to the internet.

Two online-only trophies are required for the Platinum.

Issues:
⁃ At the very beginning of the game after it asks for your birthday, the patched version adds icons for when it talks about your Star Signs

⁃ Some minor pop-in encountered

⁃ Noticed a minor framerate drop during one cutscene

⁃ Occasionally, during gameplay, some minor sound effects don’t play when they’re supposed to, the most noticeable one being the sound effect for picking up Chiral Crystals

⁃ Encountered two instances where the Terminal music continued playing during a conversation

⁃ Some occasional animation jankieness observed during gameplay, however, most of this was also present in the first game as well.

⁃ Encountered an instance in Episode 14 where none of the music during gameplay played properly. Reloading a save fixed the issue.

⁃ Encountered two instances in Episode 16 where sound effects for a character could be faintly heard during cutscenes where it wasn’t supposed to be audible. This issue wasn’t observed after restarting the game and loading a save.

Content completed:
⁃ Entire main story completed.
⁃ Completed a few side and standard orders.
⁃ Completed various non-order related side activities
⁃ Reached overall Porter Grade 153
⁃ Earned 38/55 trophies, with 57% overall completion

Voice languages included on disc (Only English was tested): English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Polish, Russian, Japanese

Text languages included on disc (Only English (USA) was tested): English (USA), English (UK), French, Italian, German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Polish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Dutch, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)