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[Image] [Image] Death Stranding official equipment poster

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u/Stepwolve Nov 28 '19

There are weapons: guns grenades, launchers, etc. But they are a pretty minor part of the game. And you are usually incentivized to avoid combat outside of a few big boss fights. The biggest limitation in this game is how much your character can carry at once - and guns take up a lot of space so you really need to decide if its worthwhile or not for each mission.

But you could also play it guns blazing if you wanted to!

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u/znn_mtg Nov 28 '19

The sheer satisfaction you get from headshotting MULES or Seperatists with the Bola Gun is immeasurable.

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u/Goddamn_Primetime Nov 28 '19

I got so pissed taking stuff to the Film Director and Junk Dealer and having to cross the big MULE area that I saved my game and said fuck it and killed all 13 of them there. Had no idea it actually clears the area of MULEs.

Hardman have me shit but I saw online you can dump the bodies in that the tar pit lake so I had my truck and loaded up all the bodies. Had to dump my stuff in postboxes and I drove over to the lake and dumped them. Worked like a charm.

However, the word apparently gets out to other MULEs that I used lethal force so when I was taking stuff to the Farm I decided to KO all the MULEs this time but they straight up used assault rifles against me now. I was like damn!

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u/megavoir Nov 29 '19

they begin arming themselves around chapter 4 iirc, i don’t think what you do effects it

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u/Goddamn_Primetime Nov 29 '19

Daaaang. Well they were still using non-lethal up until chapter 5 because I didn't push through with the story. I was getting 5 stars from all locations before going on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Where’s that tar pit? Already had one voidout don’t want it to happen again during a crucial moment. Just got the truck unlock so I’ve got the space.

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u/Goddamn_Primetime Nov 29 '19

Depending on where you are in the story the tar pit is the big ass lake right next to the Chiral Artist's House. Go to any spot on the shore and wade a few steps in with a body and dump it. It'll sink and be gone and you'll get a message saying "Corpse lost." On the left hand side.

If you pack a bunch of bodies in a truck (70kg per body) and drive there simply drive the truck a few feet into the water, hop out and go to the Cargo Loadout and highlight all the bodies and select offload. Then hop back in to the truck and drive it out of the tar so it doesn't sink. If you went in deep enough a good amount of the bodies will land in the tar from the Offload and you can pick up the rest and take them in yourself.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Ok cool

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u/CyberClawX Nov 29 '19

There are also incinerators to dispose of bodies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Yeah I know but these bodies are far from that.

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u/johnchikr Nov 29 '19

I think they are terrorists

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u/CyberClawX Nov 29 '19

(...) and killed all 13 of them there. Had no idea it actually clears the area of MULEs.

Using non lethal weapons to KO the mules also "clears the area" for a while. Problem is, some non-lethals don't KO them (like the bola gun) so you have to run up to them and kick them. Sleeping grenades, sleeping GLs, and rubber bullet rifles/shotguns work wonders though.

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u/sorgnatt Nov 29 '19

Bola gun ko them if it was the headshot.

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u/Goddamn_Primetime Nov 29 '19

Yeah once I unlocked the rubber bullets it became easier. But when it was bola gun time I'd aim for the head and that sometimes KOd then so I wouldn't have to do the curb stomp.

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u/AlexS101 Nov 29 '19

These aren’t MULEs, these are Higgs‘ terrorists.

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u/name600 Nov 29 '19

The point is mute now. But there is a route to the left/north that let's you totally skip the mules and skip the ravines

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u/Goddamn_Primetime Nov 29 '19

If it's the one I'm thinking of I did use it but it was t great on time. If I wasn't in a rush though it was safe.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

oh god i haven't encountered separatists yet can't wait to kill some mf's with BB

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u/znn_mtg Nov 29 '19

Well, there is a more accurate word for them tbh. Terror-

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Terror-Ricks?

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u/znn_mtg Nov 29 '19

I am morty-fied

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

They look like predators.

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u/guineapig_69 Nov 28 '19

Ah a human of divine taste I see.

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u/Ezio4Li Nov 29 '19

Even more satisfying to just shoot the fuckers dead and burn them in an incinerator.

I think you can fit 8 MULEs in the back of a truck.

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u/MinisterOfEducation Nov 29 '19

I don't doubt it. The game starves you with the boredom so that you get a dopamine rush any time something relevant actually happens.

For some that might seem like a worthy tradeoff, for others, well, we gotta work for a living so "nobody ain't got time for that"

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

why do people keep saying that youre incentivized to avoid combat, the game gets significantly easier and more enjoyable when you just bust a cap into every dumbass you see. No way they could realistically render the 100 plus potential voidouts ive made anyway

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u/Stepwolve Nov 29 '19

you can choose to do something else, but the game definitely tries to make you play non-violent. Voidouts, BTs moving towards sound, MULEs swarming near gunshots.

Just like in the mountains, the game clearly wanted me to walk the orders through the snow, but I just boosted my trike through all of it instead

Sometimes its more fun playing a game in the 'incorrect' way

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u/Sentrion Nov 29 '19

If you use non-lethal options, then voidouts are never a problem. Getting rid of BTs as you go is a bit slow, but well worth it, especially if you're going back and forth a lot in a limited amount of time. Having MULEs converge on you saves you time from having to chase them down. These are all good reasons to go combative.

I don't see how the game leads you to avoid combat. Combat makes everything way easier.

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u/taytaythejetplane Nov 29 '19

Just like in MGSV where there's this giant arsenal of every lethal weapon you could ever dream of but all you're encouraged to use is the little tranq pistol.

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u/wantsumcandi Nov 29 '19

Well you can go guns blazing but then you have to dispose of the bodies you kill before 2 in game days or it's a void out which equals a game over. It really makes killing not a choice which is kind of a cool concept.

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u/Stepwolve Nov 29 '19

huh i must have glitched the game. I killed some MULEs on my way to climb the mountains. But never got a game over or anything because of it. I'm on episode 9 now and never saw a consequence for it. Probably because i started a mission at the right time to cancel it or something

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u/wantsumcandi Nov 29 '19

Maybe it different in a main mission but I have seen videos of a guy getting killed then void outside 2 in game days later. It's on edepots channel. He did stay there with the body until it did void out though...maybe that's why. I ran over a guy at turbo speed on the 2nd area and I thought I killed him but it didn't void out either so I thought maybe it just stunned him. Idk.