2019-11-15T15:42:37 01:00

Death Stranding Multiplayer: How to help each other in the Social Strand System

In our multiplayer guide to Death Stranding we explain to you

what the basis of the Social Strand System is
how to interact with other players
how to support each other

Death Stranding (!) is all about connections and should show what people can achieve together. Of course, a multiplayer mode can't be missing. However, Kojima Productions delivers this to you in the form of the specially created "Social Strand System".

To become part of this online community, you don't even need a Playstation Plus membership (). On the other hand, the multiplayer is completely indirect and you will never meet other players. Below, we'll explain how Death Stranding's online multiplayer is structured and how you can best use it. Also check out our Death Stranding delivery guide to learn all about cargo and items.

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The chiral network in Death Stranding

In Death Stranding, you'll be sent off to connect towns and waypoints via the chiral network. It serves as a way for participants to exchange information and communicate. Connected cities can also use a chiral printer to produce equipment that will be useful to you.

However, it is also the foundation for the social beach system. Because only when an area has been connected to the network with the help of Sam's Q-Pid will you be able to interact with other players there.

Once connected, your map immediately fills with information about all chiral buildings, such as bridges, watchtowers or mailboxes. If you scan the environment with the R1 button (PS4), you will now also find left behind cargo and vehicles from other online players. You even have the option of locating other players' signs.

How you interact with online players

In Death Stranding, you can place signs in any location that are visible to all players - as long as the region is connected to the chiral network. To do this, hold down the L1 key and tap Triangle to enter the selection menu. You can select signs from the following five categories, all of which have different benefits:

Risks: Warns other players of dangers, such as GDs, mules, or time rains.
Route Info: Places signs along routes to point out memory chips or hot springs, for example.
Requests: This is where you ask players to help build roads, generators, or other chiral structures.
Recommendations: With these signs, you give tips on what equipment is useful on the spot.
Other: Motivate your teammates at particularly strenuous spots or make BB happy with a heart motif.

If you like a sign or if it is particularly helpful, you can give it a Like by pressing the touchpad. This increases your interaction rate and increases the likelihood that you will get more likes.

If you use your sensor, you will also find footprints of other players. If enough people follow these tracks, a real path is created there, which enters and makes the hike easier.

If you rest with Sam in the wilderness, a small pile of stones will be left behind, visible to all players. The more players that use this spot to rest afterwards, the larger the cairn will become.

If you press the touchpad briefly during your wanderings, Sam will call out to other players. If there is a player nearby and hears your call, he can answer it.

Death Stranding Multiplayer: How to Share Items

Every item you leave behind in the world of Death Stranding can also be found and used by other players. If you activate your sensor with the R1 button, nearby items will be displayed to you.

For example, if you place a ladder to cross a river, it will remain there. Every passing player can use it afterwards, as long as it is not destroyed by the time rain. You can rate helpfully placed items with a Like again. If you use them, the positive rating will be automatic.

You can also use the scanner to find lost or abandoned cargo. If you still have room, you can take them with you and deliver them. But there is also the possibility to pass them on to other players via terminals and mailboxes.

Freight items deposited there can be picked up and delivered by willing messengers. You can also donate items or weapons(see Death Stranding's weapons guide) to the community via a shared locker. However, you will no longer have access to them yourself.

Supply requests, bridge links, and strand contracts

In the loading stations and towns, you can access a terminal in your private rooms. Select the "RequestSupply " option there. This will ask other players to deposit items for you at specific locations. To do this, simply select a new request, choose the item you need and the location where you want it deposited.

With a bit of luck, you'll find a friendly colleague who will accept the request and provide you with the materials you need. You may, of course, take requests and make the deliveries yourself.

Bridge links represent your interactions with the community. Under the corresponding menu, you'll find a list of all players who are active in Death Stranding. Press R1 (PS4) to switch to a tab that shows you all the players you've already interacted with in some way.

If you call up a name, you can see the player's stats. You can also make so-called "strand contracts". Do this if you want to strengthen the connection with another player. This way you'll see, for example, constructions, shields and lost cargo of your contract partner faster.

Build the world together in Death Stranding

If you have enough resources, you can use "TCKs" to build structures that any player can use. You can have the TCKs you need made in the cities.

The Options key (PS4) takes you to the construction menu, where you can select the construction using the directional pad. Hold L2 to aim at the desired location and build it with R2.

Each construction consumes bandwidth in the chiral network. Once it is exhausted, no one can build new structures. The more you work together to expand the network, the more total bandwidth you'll have.

For large projects, such as roads, you should definitely join forces. These can be linked via connection points and thus continued over long distances. However, they require a lot of resources, which you can hardly get alone.

If you have started building roads or want to continue an existing construction, use the corresponding terminal and add the required resources. You can get them in the surrounding cities and outposts. If you place a request sign for road construction next to your construction site, other players will find the location faster and can support you better.

By the way, when you move on roads, no battery power is consumed by vehicles. Also GDs or Mules can't find their way onto the upgraded road network. If you still need help in combat, check out our guide to the Mules and GDs in Death Stranding.

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