Is there a use for lethal weapons in Death Stranding...

Is there a use for lethal weapons in Death Stranding? The game discourage you to use them and the non lethal weapons have the option to switch to blood bullets like their lethal counterpart
so whats the point?

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blood bullets do jackshit to BT bosses
you always want a lethal AR and Shotgun, specially the Higgs ones for the trek back to East (because Chiral ammo does a shitload damage)

I'm still in chapter 5 but I haven't found a use for lethal weapons outside of the WW1 section.
Hematic bullets are shit against BTs, just use an Anti-BT handgun. Terrorists and mules are easily dispatched with the non-lethal AR, unless you like lugging a dozen corpses to the incinerator.

Oh i get it now, thanks user, i really appreciate it

you do more damage to BTs if you throw them a blood grenade and then shoot lethal ammo thru the blood cloud

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Mechanics aside, I think it's a story device more than anything. You spend a significant amount of time in the game without any lethal weaponry, then suddenly you get proper guns and it's sort of an "oh shit" moment. Because of the increased danger that comes from death (i.e. voidouts), lethal guns have an extra seriousness to them.

Honestly I dislike the idea of "choice" when it comes to lethal/non-lethal options. Like, what is the difference between a corpse and a permanently unconscious body in a game? What is the difference between a lethal takedown and a non-lethal takedown? Nothing, really, except for maybe how much the narrative tries to make you feel bad. I prefer when a game pushes you towards one approach or the other, and isn't afraid to harshly punish the player. For example in the original Thief games, you're very frail and can get your shit wrecked easily, so you're pushed towards avoiding combat altogether. On the opposite end, being "pacifist" in Doom will lead you to being shredded by demons. Focus is a good thing. Death Stranding is definitely better in this regard than Metal Gear Solid is, killing people is an actual risk, well beyond "oh nooo the shrapnel in your skull is turning into a DEMON horn!!!!".

Unless you're a sentimental player it's often simply not worth the effort to take the non-lethal path in games where they offer you both. Saying that, I always try to avoid killing NSF, police and UNATCO in Deus Ex. Men in black or MJ12, now then can get fucked.

Does anyone know how to spawn BT boss without being dragged? If that's possible

>BTs without getting dragged to them
those are scripted encounters and 90% of them happen after Edge Knot

Like, what is the difference between a corpse and a permanently unconscious body in a game?
You don't have to burn the bodies when they are unconscious?

pretty much
also you can trigger gameover voidouts if you leave an unconscious body in an area with BTs

Would anything happen if I went around killing friendly porters? Other than losing likes?

>get a memory chip
>it's a bike

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I don't know about the blood grenade plus lethal ammo meme. Didn't seem to do that much more and just throwing grenades for their own damage seems to be to be the best strategy. Until you get the HG guns that is.

>donate 95% of materials to an auto-paver
>my name isn't on the auto-paver
Fuck you Kojima

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Those memory chips can vary. I was surprised to see Only God Forgives and Valhalla Rising as the Refn reps.
Is the God of War memory chip on PC?

yeah, it was the first one I found, you can also see Playstations in boxes on Higg's beach when you fight him

Yep. All the Sony reference deliveries are the same too, like the delivery of "Legendary PlayStation systems".

At what point do you get chiral ammo? I’m at the end of chapter 8, and I haven’t gotten the last pizza quest.

assuming you have done all the prior pizza quests, after you beat higgs and return to the area the quest should be available.

I never came across away to permanently make an enemy unconscious, how?

There's no way. By permanently unconscious, he means until the next time you rest.

did you not bother reading tutorials? you either kick the shit out of them or use the strand to instadown them

Beat them until you get a slow-mo sequence and stars over their heads. If you use the bola gun you have to kick them when they're down unless you "headshot" them (look for the icon over their heads. rope symbol means kick is required). Most camps in the main zone will give you a little "porters can temporarily traverse this area" or whatever message if they're all seeing stars. It lasts for a bit and you can rest without resetting it but I don't know for how long exactly.

just beat the game, what are some cool things I missed that I should do before uninstalling?

>tfw so shit at consoleshit aiming I play with one hand on the controller and one hand on the mouse for firefights.

I didn't realise you could double jump before I had to spend an entirely on the beach while blue in the face. That's pretty fun. Also riding off-piste with the carrier is pretty fun and I did it a lot when finishing the collectibles. Too bad that kind of movement is extremely risky with the wonky ass physics in this game so I could never do it while carrying cargo.

I just switched completely to m+kb when I had to shoot.

I don't know all the keyboard buttons so it's easier to just aim with the mouse.

I've done this all hundreds of times and they get back up while I'm looking around. Bola gun + kick & taking them out with strands.

I didn't know either, I just learned on the fly

don't forget the very last pizza delivery (from first prepper) is unlocked after beating him

I think any of your contributions don't show up on your world.
I helped upgrade and repair some other players' structures, and while the game mentions that I'm usually in the top 3 of contributors the menu listing never shows my name.

I wish memory chips gave you something other than a png.

Soundtrack chips should give you a song. Chips of objects should have a 3d model

Try premium deliveries. Get all 500 S ranks.
Memory chips.
5 star all preppers.
That's about it unlike you want to farm likes/levels.

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do you get anything for doing all that?

a smug sense of self satisfaction
and cheevos

You’ve probably missed a bunch of shit like odradec functions and the like for not getting every 3 star.

This. It's immensely more damaging. Non-lethal guns aren't even fucking worth it honestly, save maybe like one or two. It's super easy to just beat the non-BT enemies to not-death. My personal favorite is just snatching shit out of midair that pops out of a guy as he collapses and immediately tossing it at his friends. Most thrown packages are OHKOs if you're at anything but long ranges, and they drop all sorts of useless shit in klonkboxes.

>odradec functions
are there other functions besides ping negation and human outline?

No cheevos for doing S-ranks beyond 20 of each type so that's the ultimate test of autism.