DEATH STRANDING

Guide .

So that you understand - this platinum is approximately 130 hours long, do not be fooled by the 80 in the description. If you are lucky with the buildings of other players, the time will be reduced. I wasn’t very lucky, I built almost all the cables myself, now I’ll tell you about my mistakes and give general advice:
1. Conclude thread contracts (in the “bridge-connection” settings). The point is that if you like someone in the game, then you can enter into a thread agreement with him and all his buildings will be on your map without spending your network points. So try to like high-level buildings and enter into agreements with those who have a lot of likes and have almost completely upgraded all delivery classes. They usually have a lot of buildings. Over time, it will be possible to conclude up to 30 such agreements. Also, when you are killed, you give up at the seam, but do not rush to revive, you can find other players there, just swim through them and their buildings will also appear on you. I didn’t know all this for the first half of the game; I could have saved a lot of time.
2. I recommend leveling up the Eastern region (1 map, capital node) after the game, because then the cables will be available. But it’s better to download the central region (map 2) at the end of the eighth chapter, before going to the edge node and delivering materials from Hartman to the Chiral Relay. Now I’ll explain why this is the best moment for pumping. Then you will move on to the third map (western region) and you can return to the second only after completing the game. According to the plot, you will at the very least rebuild your infrastructure, but after the game the buildings will fall into disrepair (you cannot use them if their strength drops below 30%), and in order not to build them again, I still advise you to download all the nodes at this stage. You will save 5-10 hours.
3. Upgrade non-story characters first. First survivor, old courier, etc. Firstly, they are the most hemorrhagic, and secondly, the Collector, for example, will give you a casing for your backpack, which protects the cargo from destruction by temporal rain. The spiritual seeker gives a keychain for a backpack, which increases the number of likes. The tactics are simple. First, bring lost cargo or small orders to the characters, but do not bring them with a large number of likes. They don't give the first star until they receive an email after completing the order. Those. you need to either walk around the world for a certain number of hours, or sleep in a shelter for this letter to arrive. Then they only give the first star, and the same with the second. But on the third star, take bold orders with a lot of likes for them. In general, stay up too often just to receive emails. During sleep, buildings deteriorate faster.
4. Build only cables, no need to spend network points on everything else. I connected everyone in the mountains, didn’t forget about the photographer, and to the weather station, from there in two directions all the way to the south with the lake. I advise you to improve the cables to the second level. You don’t need a lot of materials: chemicals 240, special alloys 480. You can easily carry two barrels on your back. But the distance of the cable will increase and become 350 meters, the building will be stronger, less network points will be required, in general it will be a good thing. If you don’t have enough network points, then old buildings can be removed directly on the map by holding down the triangle, you don’t need to approach them, as I did at the beginning. Well, we’ll have to build the roads ourselves. But I noticed that you bring materials from the base, put them down, and a day later others will bring almost everything else, all that remains is to report a little. The main thing is to build a road from Ozernoye to Yuzhny so that you can take fat orders for 1000-4000 likes. But I also built up to the mountain node, otherwise you will hesitate to pump large nodes.
5. After you have upgraded all the nodes, I advise you to collect all the flash drives on the map before the buildings fall into disrepair. It was after the eighth chapter (see point 2), and not after completing the game. The 30th flash drive can only be obtained after you have submitted the materials at the end of the eighth chapter; before that, the paleontologist will not send letters at all. I advise you to upgrade his node last in order to quickly receive 4 letters from him. You can also take the last order from Peter Englert after Chapter 8.
6. Over time, standard deliveries appear again, even if you completed them on Legend of legends. Of course, they will not be counted as another legendary, but they will give likes for leveling up the node. It is especially effective for small nodes that have few deliveries, such as cosplayers, photographers, and directors. You can repeat a large order a second time and your five stars will give you the same number of likes. A star with delivery categories can also be upgraded to level 60; it is enough to repeat several orders for 1500 likes several times.
7. Always play on a difficult level and take only special deliveries. It only affects the difficulty of battles, and at these moments switch to easy. You will collect likes much faster.