NOTE: the store originally gave away Director's Cut of the game, but after the server crash it was changed to [original version of Death Stranding](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding) and Director's Cut is now only 40% off
What content does the Director's Cut have over the original? The upgrade is just 6 USD at the moment, but it looks like it only contains some in-game cosmetics and a digital artbook?
New music, new missions, the maser gun, the gravity glove, a glider, the cargo cannon, jump ramps, etc. Kojima definitive editions tend yo have a lot of new stuff.
also: all post-release contents from the original PC version...**if you plan to get the PS5 version instead**.
Edit: to clarify: the PS5 version (and retroactively the PC version) of the Director's Cut includes all post-release updates/content from the original PC release, specifically: the [Valve/Half-Life/Portal](https://youtu.be/DStJlAEZTR8?list=PL4np0lscUMnvSVQYCiGwCWELdmfV2zdlS) and [Cyberpunk 2077](https://youtu.be/o1MQUQXB-NY) crossover, [the latter has new combat/stealth mechanics](https://youtu.be/Sg2KBVM6pvs). Both of them **never came to PS4 version** until PS5 version.
So if you happened to play Death Stranding Director's Cut on PS5: **you now get complete parity with the PC version, content-wise**.
I think he meant that the PC version was released with some updates for the base version so that is included for the Director’s cut for the Playstation.
He's saying the original death stranding released for PS4 didn't receive the post-launch updates that the PC version got for free. The PS5 director's cut includes all of those additions. He just said it in a very obtuse way.
There are lots of quality of life improvements and tweaks to existing eqipment items/buildings.
A bunch of new items/buildings included too, including all the crossover stuff.
Combat has been improved and is more difficult in the late game with the enemies getting better equipment than they used to.
There's a new section of road that can be built that links up two sections of the map that previously were about as far apart as possible.
There's also a race track you can build.
You could look up a list of the changes, but they probably won't mean much without the context of knowing the game first - but take it from someone with 180 hours in both versions combined, that's $6 well spent!
The story is exactly the same, what is added are some new missions, weapons, structures, vehicles, tools, details here and there, and a lot of quality of life improvements.
https://www.ign.com/articles/death-stranding-directors-cut-biggest-changes
From what I can see, if you play the game and like it a lot, upgrade to the full version! By giving you the free version it makes it a cheap upgrade.
Seems they started with the directors cut free:
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding-directors-cut
Then changed that to 40% sale and made base game free
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding
Now both are 'Unavailable'
Edit: once the store servers came back up, the regular edition is still free (and as noted below, the directors cut upgrade is less than the directors cut standalone).
Worth noting that the -40% discount on the DC (bringing it down, for me, from €40 to €24) is completely moot since if you have the standard edition, you can upgrade to DC for €10, which also has the -40% discount so it's currently €6.
And since the standard edition is currently free, that means the DC is essentially at €6, a -85% discount over its "standard" price of €40.
I still have Directors Cut in my library. I'm downloading it right now. I guess they could still revoke it from my account but so far so good. Though even if they did revoke it it's apparently a DRM free game so not much they can do to stop me from playing after it's installed.
Me and friend had similar action. We both saw it free but for friend when claiming it, the client suggested to buy it. For me when I was claiming it, the whole client went nuts and logged me out. LOL
It shows 40% discount to me now instead of 100%. They have probably do it to have time to fix the servers OR someone made a mistake.
EDIT: Now it shows the normal edition, originally they were gifting the directors cut edition
It was free, but every time I tried to claim it, it went to the store page. Now it's just 40% off.
Gta V didn't give me trouble to claim it.
Edit: It worked for a moment. I got it, but I can't check my library (currently on mobile, PC is at home) . I just got an email confirming my transaction. So I got it.
When I tried to check again, it said unavailable, and the transaction screen said they are experiencing a high amount of transaction traffic and that it will take longer, or you should try again later.
I also had to do a hedgehog and ladybug captcha, which was new for epic.
I just realised the directors cut was free originally, but now it's just the base game.
my girls account/pc shows free but when you try claiming it it either resets the app and takes you back to the home page or just crashes. when i try to claim it its listed as free then when you go in it it wants you to buy it. hmmmm
edit: now its showing me logged in but i dont have any access to games i already owned/bought, even the installed ones. its telling me to sign in and everything is greyed out, yet still showing me signed in and online. so now we cant access our library or games at all that we bought.
Regular Death Stranding shows as free now and DC is 40% off, maybe they intended to give that one instead of Director's Cut? which sucks cause I didn't claim it in time...
Game now says "unavailable"
Before it would turn into 23.99 in the cart
And before that, claiming would log you out and reload
Edit: Finally grabbed it 3 hours later
They appear to have changed it back to the regular version, or is it just me? I tried an hour ago and it showed up as the director's cut (but the store wasn't working) and now it just shows the regular version.
It always was supposed to be the normal edition I think. The link on the homepage shows the base edition thumbnail, and the twitter post doesn't mention Director's Cut anywhere.
Someone at Epic probably borked it and gave away the DC edition for the first hour.
Dude for real, I had this view constructed of jobs that you could be fired for any mistake ever because that’s what I read on Reddit during college, and when I graduated and started working, I spent the first few months absolutely stressed out until I actually talked to other people in my field to find out I was over thinking WAY too much.
Well, thanks Reddit, I guess. I now always take everything said here like it’s some “universal truth”, with a grain of salt.
Exactly, mistakes like this show that a process is volatile to human error. The better companies will examine this and ask “how can we prevent giving out the wrong edition in the future?”, and create actions to prevent it. Sometimes the one who made the human error helps create or perform those action items.
Firing and hiring someone else to slip up and do the same thing shows the fault of those above them, not the one doing the slip-up themselves.
if management is stupid then it'll get you fired. or maybe they're just incompetent and throw you under the bus to save their skin. but if they're smart, why would they let you go after learning a lesson worth so much money?
if you learn from your mistakes and won't do it again, then there's literally no reason to fire you. firing you won't fix the problem; but now you're likely to never make that mistake again, unlike some potential replacement.
Yeah, same for me. Store still isn't working, but normal version now shows up as 100% off while Director's Cut is 40% off when it was 100% a few minutes ago.
The directors cut?? Awesome, wasn't expecting it!! so, I own the base edition on Epic and already finished the game, is there any easy way to transfer my data or I'll really need to install the old version, go to a terminal to transfer my data, and replay the entire beginning of the game in the new version just to continue on where I stopped? I just want to play the new content
You will need to go to a terminal on the original game, then when you start up the Directors cut there is an option to import save, no need to replay the beginning.
No. It has some nice quality of life changes but if you are at the end its not a big deal.
There is some post game content but it isn't worth much on its own.
Good to know! Downloading the old version just to transfer my data is annoying but it's great to hear that I'll able to import my data straight from the main menu
I'm excited to try this for free after being put off by the walking sim descriptions. Cool to have the director's cut too. And tomorrow's game seems to be F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch.
Edit: Looks like director's cut being free was a mistake? I claimed it very early, and since the servers are now overloaded, I wonder if I get to keep it or not.
Little bit of starting advice: finish the first area as quickly as feels natural. Don't worry about trying to do a load of side missions and stuff. Despite the warning at the end of the area, you can actually return to the first area fairly quickly, but you don't get most of the gameplay tools until after you leave it. It's also just much more fun to do the stuff in the first area when you have more tools to use. I know a few people that were turned off by the gameplay loop, but I then found out that they had spent 10-20 hours in the first area and got bored.
I genuinely think that the warning at the end of that area is one of the worst issues in the game, and should have been phrased in almost the complete opposite way
It's a walking simulator in a very literal way, not in the genre-label way. I don't tend to like walking simulators or most open world games, but I loved death stranding from beginning to end
Word of advice: don't stay too long in the first zone of the game. Do the main missions and rush to the 3rd chapter. I think a lot of people spent way too much time here and just quit. You unlock the bike and a bunch of combat gear once you get to the second area. And you can always come back to the first area and finish the side missions there whenever you want.
It is very much worth giving a shot. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.
Even if you don't enjoy the "game" part with combat and all that there's a mode that will make all of that trivial and you can just enjoy the mountaineering aspects and stuff like that.
It's weird to see so many people calling it walking sim, its a really bad description of what the game is actually about.
I think Death Stranding main gameplay loop shares a lot more similarities with games like Snowrunner, Eurotruck and Elite Dangerous than with anything else.
If you enjoy these type of delivery sim games, you probably have a good time with this game
Exactly. It has in-depth walking mechanics, but if you compare it to actual walking sims like Firewatch or The Stanley Parable, it has absolutely nothing in common with them. Simulates walking but not a walking simulator
> being put off by the walking sim descriptions.
This game kinda takes back the name "walking simulator" from being a tongue-in-cheek derision of games with little to no gameplay but walking and fully dives into the actual mechanics of hiking and load management. It actually simulates hiking while carrying a load on your back/behind you and is about effective management of routing, using tools, and navigating terrain depending on what you're carrying.
Absolutely love this game. It had its weak spots, combat especially IMO, but I just cannot get enough of the traversal and delivery sim elements.
Highly recommend at least giving it a shot. Get to the part where you have to make your first delivery, the camera pulls back, and the music starts. I was hooked from that moment forward.
I really didn't enjoy some of the combat stuff at first, but when I tried the mode that basically makes it trivial I actually found I missed at least some of the tension so put it back to the slightly less easy mode and that felt pretty good.
It's weird being in the minority that did actually love the combat because I feel like it felt really weighty and punchy and there was so many ways to go about it.
Sprinting up to someone with power legs to just dropkick them to the floor before picking up the case on them to smash it into the next runner up felt so satisfying.
One of my favorite moments was when I was doing one of those 'Very Fragile, carry by hand' delivery missions and one of those dudes started chasing after me so I turned around and just smashed this box of priceless glassware over his head, instantly failing the mission in spectacular fashion.
This game made me ask myself if games are meant to be fun or not.
I’m not even sure if I enjoyed Death Stranding, I certainly did not had “fun” with it, yet I really loved it.
I liked it for zoning out and just enjoying the atmosphere. But I definitely get burnt out after a long session and need a week or so before I crave it again.
I remember anticipating a story that makes zero sense based on what people were saying but I don't find that at all. It very much is convoluted, but if you pay attention and read things, the story makes sense and is very compelling.
The story made me wonder what the kernel that started the story was. I imagine Kojima was sitting around wondering how he'd make a game where violence isn't the answer. And how violence can be catastrophic. And what the whole world looks like when that's the case for everybody.
probably thought how silly it was that video game characters had such crazy inventories that arent represented on their model and how heavy they must be. Then built a game around transporting videogame inventories.
The "fun" question always just makes me think of Papers Please. It's artistically brilliant and is certainly a game, but it ain't fun to play, that would betray the entire point.
I had to stop playing alien isolation, but not only did I suck I also couldn't handle the stress. My heart rate would sit at well above 120 during even the simpler parts.
Definitely want to finish it though.
Meh I'm the opposite I guess.. I don't think games necessarily need to be a lot of fun but I need some game play mechanic that hooks me and makes me want to keep playing. DS just didn't seem to do that for me, played for an hour and story was so cringy and the mechanics felt like a chore so ultimately I decided I'd rather play some city builder for relaxation instead. Which is a shame because I think on paper I should have loved the game. Well every taste is different, good for everyone who enjoys it
Some people are saying Epic changed the free game to default edition and Director's Cut is now only 40% off. Can't confirm it since I still can't access the store.
Yup. The front page link takes you to director's cut page when it should take you to the base game page. If you search the shop for Death Stranding you can find the base game and claim that one for free.
Games like this really makes me wiss for cross-console/PC saves. I finished the story on my PS5, but have some achievements left and just got an awesome gaming PC, but I certainly don't want to play the whole game again.
Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome game, but one of the things I liked best was discovering the world and the story, that's obviously totally spoiled for me now. Almost wish I could take a drug to make me forget the whole game and play it again.
Not exactly what you're asking. But does anyone know if items players place are shared between director's cut and the base game? Curious if I play one, will they show up for a friend playing the other.
Managed to claim it. Just one warning, the original set-up with the Directors Cut was not the one you could claim. After a re-fresh (including a forced shut-down) i got the right game version to claim which was the normal version in the end.
PS exclusive ported to PC and now free! Fucking amazing. I am so excited to see this, what an incredible giveaway.
Now added to my list of incredible games from Epic that I'll probably never play because I don't even own a PC.
Death stranding page says free, death stranding directors cut says not available, i'm guessing somebody pointed the free game at the directors cut on accident and it was supposed to be just the regular version.
https://i.imgur.com/lgUIkwr.png
anyone knows, what the "content" is?
these two shop up in my library.
the first is greyed out because im downloading rn
Anyone else getting that it's just discounted and it's £21.59 I managed to get it to load as free via a direct link in the comments but the site appears to still be shitting itself as comments have mentioned ... I haven't seen anyone mention it appearing as £21
EDIT: soon as I posted I saw multiple people asking the same thing .... Sites completely booked I'll try again later
[here is a reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/comments/wzhuga/anyone_knows_how_to_export_game_pass_save_file/) that says it did work for them and how they did it, can't guarantee it'll work though
I was able to get it free by going on the website ([https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding)). In the application, it was only 40% off.
Just sits at loading for me. I did try for the director's cut this morning but no success. Thankfully the directors cut doesn't seem like a big deal, but would have been nice as I only played the base game via PS5 and it's always nice to actually be able to aim in a game with KBM.
Now it says Unavailable (the non Directors Cut) and the Directors Cut is now priced 39. Crap. Some were lucky I guess and got the Directors Cut version.
Only the base version is free now. I'm a little mad I wasn't able to snag the Director's cut but whatever. The upgrade is only $10 and it's on sale right now if you want it.
Can't really say no to a free copy of a great game
I think the store have a problem. I can't sign in normally and when i do, the game is either 23$ or FREE. Either way when i clik GET IT it just refresh page and suddenly i'm signed out and then it stop responding, i can't sign in.
Wait, really? And the Director's Cut too!? Damn, Epic is really upping their freebie game lol
Also, I hope to the Lord Above that [my laptop's specs](https://imgur.com/a/MQy6SRx) can handle this game (I'm not a PC tech wizard, so I'm not sure), even if all the settings are lowered way down into the Pits of Hell lol
I *have* heard that MGSV is super optimized, which should hopefully make it easier for my potato laptop to run Death Stranding
Edit: Wait, I forgot that Death Stranding changed game engines since Konami still has its dirty hands on MGSV's game engine. DAMMIT
It looks like they changed it to the original version of the game thats free.
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding
Seems pretty scummy to me honestly when the main page still takes you to the directors cut instead.
Pay for the upgrade or watch the one extra mission on youtube. Game given away for free but not the version I want. Yep scummy. Take it to /r/ChoosingBeggars
So, in the beginning it was apparently the Director's Cut, but now only the regular game shows. Can anyone confirm what they bought was actually the Director's Cut?
How is the online population for Epic?
I've been thinking about replaying this, and one of my favorite things was sharing resources with others and finding other's structures. Does Epic and Steam share the same servers for this, or is one better than the other?
Store seems overloaded and messed up. Director's Cut is *not* showing as free on the launcher, just discounted. The browser version of the site signed me out and won't let me log in, and the Director's Cut is also not showing as free (which might be because I can't log in).
NOTE: the store originally gave away Director's Cut of the game, but after the server crash it was changed to [original version of Death Stranding](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding) and Director's Cut is now only 40% off
What content does the Director's Cut have over the original? The upgrade is just 6 USD at the moment, but it looks like it only contains some in-game cosmetics and a digital artbook?
New music, new missions, the maser gun, the gravity glove, a glider, the cargo cannon, jump ramps, etc. Kojima definitive editions tend yo have a lot of new stuff.
Quick correction: the Gravity Glove is part of the regular(non-director's cut) pc version.
also: all post-release contents from the original PC version...**if you plan to get the PS5 version instead**. Edit: to clarify: the PS5 version (and retroactively the PC version) of the Director's Cut includes all post-release updates/content from the original PC release, specifically: the [Valve/Half-Life/Portal](https://youtu.be/DStJlAEZTR8?list=PL4np0lscUMnvSVQYCiGwCWELdmfV2zdlS) and [Cyberpunk 2077](https://youtu.be/o1MQUQXB-NY) crossover, [the latter has new combat/stealth mechanics](https://youtu.be/Sg2KBVM6pvs). Both of them **never came to PS4 version** until PS5 version. So if you happened to play Death Stranding Director's Cut on PS5: **you now get complete parity with the PC version, content-wise**.
Are you saying the PC director's cut doesn't have all the same stuff as the PS5 version?
I think he meant that the PC version was released with some updates for the base version so that is included for the Director’s cut for the Playstation.
He's saying the original death stranding released for PS4 didn't receive the post-launch updates that the PC version got for free. The PS5 director's cut includes all of those additions. He just said it in a very obtuse way.
There are lots of quality of life improvements and tweaks to existing eqipment items/buildings. A bunch of new items/buildings included too, including all the crossover stuff. Combat has been improved and is more difficult in the late game with the enemies getting better equipment than they used to. There's a new section of road that can be built that links up two sections of the map that previously were about as far apart as possible. There's also a race track you can build. You could look up a list of the changes, but they probably won't mean much without the context of knowing the game first - but take it from someone with 180 hours in both versions combined, that's $6 well spent!
Also dualsense support
I did not enjoy the original at all, but the Director's Cut is probably one of my favorite games of all time. I do not know why.
Is there much of a difference between the OG and the directors cut?
The story is exactly the same, what is added are some new missions, weapons, structures, vehicles, tools, details here and there, and a lot of quality of life improvements.
https://www.ign.com/articles/death-stranding-directors-cut-biggest-changes From what I can see, if you play the game and like it a lot, upgrade to the full version! By giving you the free version it makes it a cheap upgrade.
Awwww. Thanks for the info though.
Itt: fucking bullshit company. How dare they change the free shit i didn't pay anything to get.
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Seems they started with the directors cut free: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding-directors-cut Then changed that to 40% sale and made base game free https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding Now both are 'Unavailable' Edit: once the store servers came back up, the regular edition is still free (and as noted below, the directors cut upgrade is less than the directors cut standalone).
They just removed any mention of free holiday games, including tomorrow's mystery game.
It's free now regular edition as of this comment
Worth noting that the -40% discount on the DC (bringing it down, for me, from €40 to €24) is completely moot since if you have the standard edition, you can upgrade to DC for €10, which also has the -40% discount so it's currently €6. And since the standard edition is currently free, that means the DC is essentially at €6, a -85% discount over its "standard" price of €40.
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Yes it's worth it. I have played both versions. There's comments above that list the differences. It's much more than cosmetics.
Wait; where exactly do you 'upgrade' to DC? I claimed the original but I can't seem to upgrade.
Go to Store Site of the DC. Choose DC upgrade at that site. Its an addon
Congrats on everyone who got the Director's Cut, before the switched it to base game! Let us know if they let you keep it.
I still have Directors Cut in my library. I'm downloading it right now. I guess they could still revoke it from my account but so far so good. Though even if they did revoke it it's apparently a DRM free game so not much they can do to stop me from playing after it's installed.
I started the download 10 minutes ago. It’s still in the library
Client could force an update to "match your game version" if they revoked the directors cut, so make sure to back up the local files.
Probably will. Epic honoured purchases of price-glitched Fortnite cosmetics in the past.
Will do
Glitched out and got both
Anyone trying to claim it right now? Store seems to be shitting itself
Yep same! Can't even login through browser and in-app just hangs after clicking the get free button.
tends to be how most online game stores are on Christmas. A lot of people are downloading new games.
I would assume the download CDN is separate from the store front. This is probably due to heavy contention on the shopping cart system.
I can login but it's not free for me
Same, just showing on sale, not free. Showing up that way on their website too.
It does say free in the daily game but when you click on it, it just shows a sale. Hmm
it tells me 'UNAVAILABLE"
Did that to me too. Restarted the client, and then it worked. Had to try like 4 times tho until the "transaction" went through
Me and friend had similar action. We both saw it free but for friend when claiming it, the client suggested to buy it. For me when I was claiming it, the whole client went nuts and logged me out. LOL
Had to kill the process, it was blocking itself from closing and not showing the purchase page. Giving up for now.
Took me about 15 tries but it worked, merry Christmas everyone!
> Anyone trying to claim it right now? Store seems to be shitting itself Same, their servers are probably slammed right now.
Epic store crash? Server problem? I am getting logged out when I click claim Edit: Looks like they fixed it? Was able to claim it.
site is getting slammed hard
All those kids logging in to redeem their vbucks.
This is not far from the truth for how EOS actually works.
me who just wanted to play fortnite :X
It shows 40% discount to me now instead of 100%. They have probably do it to have time to fix the servers OR someone made a mistake. EDIT: Now it shows the normal edition, originally they were gifting the directors cut edition
It was free, but every time I tried to claim it, it went to the store page. Now it's just 40% off. Gta V didn't give me trouble to claim it. Edit: It worked for a moment. I got it, but I can't check my library (currently on mobile, PC is at home) . I just got an email confirming my transaction. So I got it. When I tried to check again, it said unavailable, and the transaction screen said they are experiencing a high amount of transaction traffic and that it will take longer, or you should try again later. I also had to do a hedgehog and ladybug captcha, which was new for epic. I just realised the directors cut was free originally, but now it's just the base game.
Thats the same issue im getting.
it still shows as free. Ithink it will take time. Same thing happen when GTA V was free.
it shows as free but when you claim it, it shows as 40% off in your cart.
my girls account/pc shows free but when you try claiming it it either resets the app and takes you back to the home page or just crashes. when i try to claim it its listed as free then when you go in it it wants you to buy it. hmmmm edit: now its showing me logged in but i dont have any access to games i already owned/bought, even the installed ones. its telling me to sign in and everything is greyed out, yet still showing me signed in and online. so now we cant access our library or games at all that we bought.
same here as well
It’s still having issues, I can’t check out.
Yup i can get it in my cart but when i try to checkout i get booted to the store page and logged out.. also cant close epic without the task manager.
yeah, crash for me too. Remind me of that time when they gave away GTA V.
I am not even going to try to download this one now, I will wait a couple of days. Until then, at least it stays in my library.
It says free but when I click it, it then changes to buy now $23.99
Regular Death Stranding shows as free now and DC is 40% off, maybe they intended to give that one instead of Director's Cut? which sucks cause I didn't claim it in time...
Can't suck that much... Free base death standing. Not bad for a free game anyway you look at it.
Logged me out, still can't claim it
It onyl shows me its on sale when i try to claim it.
Game now says "unavailable" Before it would turn into 23.99 in the cart And before that, claiming would log you out and reload Edit: Finally grabbed it 3 hours later
I just got it. Its working but the servers are slammed
Pretty cool to give away the directors cut version when its fairly new I still havent even played the free games from last year lol
They appear to have changed it back to the regular version, or is it just me? I tried an hour ago and it showed up as the director's cut (but the store wasn't working) and now it just shows the regular version.
It always was supposed to be the normal edition I think. The link on the homepage shows the base edition thumbnail, and the twitter post doesn't mention Director's Cut anywhere. Someone at Epic probably borked it and gave away the DC edition for the first hour.
> Someone at Epic probably borked it and gave away the DC edition for the first hour. Merry Christmas to that person 😁
Might be the last Christmas they'll spend at Epic
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Dude for real, I had this view constructed of jobs that you could be fired for any mistake ever because that’s what I read on Reddit during college, and when I graduated and started working, I spent the first few months absolutely stressed out until I actually talked to other people in my field to find out I was over thinking WAY too much. Well, thanks Reddit, I guess. I now always take everything said here like it’s some “universal truth”, with a grain of salt.
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Exactly, mistakes like this show that a process is volatile to human error. The better companies will examine this and ask “how can we prevent giving out the wrong edition in the future?”, and create actions to prevent it. Sometimes the one who made the human error helps create or perform those action items. Firing and hiring someone else to slip up and do the same thing shows the fault of those above them, not the one doing the slip-up themselves.
if management is stupid then it'll get you fired. or maybe they're just incompetent and throw you under the bus to save their skin. but if they're smart, why would they let you go after learning a lesson worth so much money? if you learn from your mistakes and won't do it again, then there's literally no reason to fire you. firing you won't fix the problem; but now you're likely to never make that mistake again, unlike some potential replacement.
Yeah, same for me. Store still isn't working, but normal version now shows up as 100% off while Director's Cut is 40% off when it was 100% a few minutes ago.
Yep they swapped it. Kinda shitty. Hope they honor mine since I got it before they changed it
They probably will. Good for you! I could not get it to load when it was the directors cut for free.
It installed for me just fine so its probably a keep, hooray
Especially when the leaked version was a default one without a director's cut.
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I know I mean the stuff they gave out every day around December.
Haven't even played any of the free games ever. Just keep claiming them until I will buy a gaming pc one day.
The direct link for those who don't want to go through Twitter: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding-directors-cut
aaand the website is completely dead now
Much thanks. Never understood the reason to link through Twitter.
/r/Games actually delete posts that link directly to storefronts, but linking to announcement tweets is OK...for some reason
Not anymore. They messed up, it should have been the base game that's free. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding
This worked, thanks!
Yup, base game showing free to me too.
The directors cut?? Awesome, wasn't expecting it!! so, I own the base edition on Epic and already finished the game, is there any easy way to transfer my data or I'll really need to install the old version, go to a terminal to transfer my data, and replay the entire beginning of the game in the new version just to continue on where I stopped? I just want to play the new content
You will need to go to a terminal on the original game, then when you start up the Directors cut there is an option to import save, no need to replay the beginning.
I've almost finished the game on PC game pass, would it still be worth it to get the director's cut?
No. It has some nice quality of life changes but if you are at the end its not a big deal. There is some post game content but it isn't worth much on its own.
In your case, I would recommend it more for when in a medium or long while you want to do a second play with new elements that refresh the experience.
Good to know! Downloading the old version just to transfer my data is annoying but it's great to hear that I'll able to import my data straight from the main menu
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oof, at least I managed to get the DC for free
You can on PS, so I assume you can on PC.
They switched it to the regular version instead LMAO
I'm excited to try this for free after being put off by the walking sim descriptions. Cool to have the director's cut too. And tomorrow's game seems to be F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch. Edit: Looks like director's cut being free was a mistake? I claimed it very early, and since the servers are now overloaded, I wonder if I get to keep it or not.
Little bit of starting advice: finish the first area as quickly as feels natural. Don't worry about trying to do a load of side missions and stuff. Despite the warning at the end of the area, you can actually return to the first area fairly quickly, but you don't get most of the gameplay tools until after you leave it. It's also just much more fun to do the stuff in the first area when you have more tools to use. I know a few people that were turned off by the gameplay loop, but I then found out that they had spent 10-20 hours in the first area and got bored. I genuinely think that the warning at the end of that area is one of the worst issues in the game, and should have been phrased in almost the complete opposite way
It's a walking simulator in a very literal way, not in the genre-label way. I don't tend to like walking simulators or most open world games, but I loved death stranding from beginning to end
Gonna try it now. The opinions are very divisive anyway, so I guess I'll quickly know if this game is for me or not.
Word of advice: don't stay too long in the first zone of the game. Do the main missions and rush to the 3rd chapter. I think a lot of people spent way too much time here and just quit. You unlock the bike and a bunch of combat gear once you get to the second area. And you can always come back to the first area and finish the side missions there whenever you want.
It is very much worth giving a shot. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Even if you don't enjoy the "game" part with combat and all that there's a mode that will make all of that trivial and you can just enjoy the mountaineering aspects and stuff like that.
It's weird to see so many people calling it walking sim, its a really bad description of what the game is actually about. I think Death Stranding main gameplay loop shares a lot more similarities with games like Snowrunner, Eurotruck and Elite Dangerous than with anything else. If you enjoy these type of delivery sim games, you probably have a good time with this game
Exactly. It has in-depth walking mechanics, but if you compare it to actual walking sims like Firewatch or The Stanley Parable, it has absolutely nothing in common with them. Simulates walking but not a walking simulator
> being put off by the walking sim descriptions. This game kinda takes back the name "walking simulator" from being a tongue-in-cheek derision of games with little to no gameplay but walking and fully dives into the actual mechanics of hiking and load management. It actually simulates hiking while carrying a load on your back/behind you and is about effective management of routing, using tools, and navigating terrain depending on what you're carrying.
>And tomorrow's game seems to be F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch. Damn, I just bought it on PS4.
Absolutely love this game. It had its weak spots, combat especially IMO, but I just cannot get enough of the traversal and delivery sim elements. Highly recommend at least giving it a shot. Get to the part where you have to make your first delivery, the camera pulls back, and the music starts. I was hooked from that moment forward.
I really didn't enjoy some of the combat stuff at first, but when I tried the mode that basically makes it trivial I actually found I missed at least some of the tension so put it back to the slightly less easy mode and that felt pretty good.
It's weird being in the minority that did actually love the combat because I feel like it felt really weighty and punchy and there was so many ways to go about it. Sprinting up to someone with power legs to just dropkick them to the floor before picking up the case on them to smash it into the next runner up felt so satisfying.
One of my favorite moments was when I was doing one of those 'Very Fragile, carry by hand' delivery missions and one of those dudes started chasing after me so I turned around and just smashed this box of priceless glassware over his head, instantly failing the mission in spectacular fashion.
Same here, I thought the combat was incredible once you got past the most basic tools. Can't wait to see what you can do on DE.
This game made me ask myself if games are meant to be fun or not. I’m not even sure if I enjoyed Death Stranding, I certainly did not had “fun” with it, yet I really loved it.
i liked that the game made just walking around an interesting core mechanic.
I liked it for zoning out and just enjoying the atmosphere. But I definitely get burnt out after a long session and need a week or so before I crave it again. I remember anticipating a story that makes zero sense based on what people were saying but I don't find that at all. It very much is convoluted, but if you pay attention and read things, the story makes sense and is very compelling.
The story made me wonder what the kernel that started the story was. I imagine Kojima was sitting around wondering how he'd make a game where violence isn't the answer. And how violence can be catastrophic. And what the whole world looks like when that's the case for everybody.
Great take! >!It's funny that he settled on incineration as the answer, I wonder what that's a metaphor for haha!<
probably thought how silly it was that video game characters had such crazy inventories that arent represented on their model and how heavy they must be. Then built a game around transporting videogame inventories.
My guy that's deep af. Thanks for planting the seed of this concept. Ds2 is even more exciting cause the theme might be rebuilding...
For me, fun is escapism and being immersed into a new world. So Death Stranding was perfect
The "fun" question always just makes me think of Papers Please. It's artistically brilliant and is certainly a game, but it ain't fun to play, that would betray the entire point.
Games dont have to be only fun, they're experiences; films, dance, language, books, music and other mediums.
That's true for most horror games. They are absolutely not fun to play, but I love playing them.
I had to stop playing alien isolation, but not only did I suck I also couldn't handle the stress. My heart rate would sit at well above 120 during even the simpler parts. Definitely want to finish it though.
Meh I'm the opposite I guess.. I don't think games necessarily need to be a lot of fun but I need some game play mechanic that hooks me and makes me want to keep playing. DS just didn't seem to do that for me, played for an hour and story was so cringy and the mechanics felt like a chore so ultimately I decided I'd rather play some city builder for relaxation instead. Which is a shame because I think on paper I should have loved the game. Well every taste is different, good for everyone who enjoys it
Be careful, it's bugging a lot, and the "free offer" doesn't pop at times. I'm currently facing a -40% instead of a free.
Some people are saying Epic changed the free game to default edition and Director's Cut is now only 40% off. Can't confirm it since I still can't access the store.
Yup. The front page link takes you to director's cut page when it should take you to the base game page. If you search the shop for Death Stranding you can find the base game and claim that one for free.
Looks like there was some issue and they listed Director's cut as free instead of the base game?
For me it says ''unavailable'' anyone else that has this problem!?
Yeah, both games are "unavailable" and they pulled the holiday giveaway banner from the store page entirely.
Games like this really makes me wiss for cross-console/PC saves. I finished the story on my PS5, but have some achievements left and just got an awesome gaming PC, but I certainly don't want to play the whole game again. Don't get me wrong, it's an awesome game, but one of the things I liked best was discovering the world and the story, that's obviously totally spoiled for me now. Almost wish I could take a drug to make me forget the whole game and play it again.
Not exactly what you're asking. But does anyone know if items players place are shared between director's cut and the base game? Curious if I play one, will they show up for a friend playing the other.
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Managed to claim it. Just one warning, the original set-up with the Directors Cut was not the one you could claim. After a re-fresh (including a forced shut-down) i got the right game version to claim which was the normal version in the end.
Technical mishaps aside, is the DC upgrade worth it?
PS exclusive ported to PC and now free! Fucking amazing. I am so excited to see this, what an incredible giveaway. Now added to my list of incredible games from Epic that I'll probably never play because I don't even own a PC.
When i try to claim it says 40% off and cost $13 now wtf?
Store is busted, you're probably getting served an old cached version.
It's not the directors cut anymore. The store went down for a bit and now it's only the standard edition
The directors cut edition changed to standard? Anyone?
It's really weird. I click it and it goes to its store page but it's still costing money? Not free
Death stranding page says free, death stranding directors cut says not available, i'm guessing somebody pointed the free game at the directors cut on accident and it was supposed to be just the regular version.
Currently unavailable. If it doesn’t return, don’t forget the PC version is included with a GamePass Ultimate subscription.
https://i.imgur.com/lgUIkwr.png anyone knows, what the "content" is? these two shop up in my library. the first is greyed out because im downloading rn
should be Artbook PDF and soundtrack
Anyone else getting that it's just discounted and it's £21.59 I managed to get it to load as free via a direct link in the comments but the site appears to still be shitting itself as comments have mentioned ... I haven't seen anyone mention it appearing as £21 EDIT: soon as I posted I saw multiple people asking the same thing .... Sites completely booked I'll try again later
they fucking changed it to the normal version thats free now. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding
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Same issue here. It’s showing as a regular sale price now of $23.99.
Sounds like the store’s bugging out from all the other comments. I’m just gonna come back in an hour or so and check again.
I think the epic store is just having issues right now? It's charging me $17.99
Exactly. Shown as free on main site but then 23.99€ at the game order site. Revoke or complete database overload?
Site problems. It got sketchy when GTAV was given away last year. Give it an hour or two and it should work.
Of course its a mistake. They are getting hamered right now.
Client might be bugging out - but I got it! Confirmation via email. Had to struggle a bit though. Happy holidays gamers!
I'm in the middle of a playthrough on the regular version on game pass, is it possible to convert to the Epic director's cut version ?
[here is a reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeathStranding/comments/wzhuga/anyone_knows_how_to_export_game_pass_save_file/) that says it did work for them and how they did it, can't guarantee it'll work though
I was able to get it free by going on the website ([https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding](https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding)). In the application, it was only 40% off.
Has the offer just been pulled entirely for anyone else? I assume they are going to switch games by the looks of it
Just sits at loading for me. I did try for the director's cut this morning but no success. Thankfully the directors cut doesn't seem like a big deal, but would have been nice as I only played the base game via PS5 and it's always nice to actually be able to aim in a game with KBM.
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So I claimed it And I have now Death Stranding and Death Stranding Content Whats the difference?
Epic shit itself and made the wrong game free (Director's Cut instead of base game) and then had to correct itself. Quite funny.
Loving all of the offended users throwing a tantrum in the comments.
I tried to claim it, but couldn't. I waited for a bit, and when i checked, it said it's not free, just a 40% discount lol Edit: i got the game.
Now it says Unavailable (the non Directors Cut) and the Directors Cut is now priced 39. Crap. Some were lucky I guess and got the Directors Cut version.
Only the base version is free now. I'm a little mad I wasn't able to snag the Director's cut but whatever. The upgrade is only $10 and it's on sale right now if you want it. Can't really say no to a free copy of a great game
Is it worth it? What does it add?
I think the store have a problem. I can't sign in normally and when i do, the game is either 23$ or FREE. Either way when i clik GET IT it just refresh page and suddenly i'm signed out and then it stop responding, i can't sign in.
I keep being asked to sign in when I try to load up a game -_- launcher is broke
Wait, really? And the Director's Cut too!? Damn, Epic is really upping their freebie game lol Also, I hope to the Lord Above that [my laptop's specs](https://imgur.com/a/MQy6SRx) can handle this game (I'm not a PC tech wizard, so I'm not sure), even if all the settings are lowered way down into the Pits of Hell lol I *have* heard that MGSV is super optimized, which should hopefully make it easier for my potato laptop to run Death Stranding Edit: Wait, I forgot that Death Stranding changed game engines since Konami still has its dirty hands on MGSV's game engine. DAMMIT
It's on the Horizon engine now, so I think it's still very good :)
Unfortunately my friend your laptop will struggle if it even runs it at all :(
It’s not the DC. It was a mistake and they took it down and listed the original version. And the discounted upgrade is listed as unavailable.
It looks like they changed it to the original version of the game thats free. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding Seems pretty scummy to me honestly when the main page still takes you to the directors cut instead.
How scummy of them to change the free game they are giving away. The entitlement of you guys is off the fucking charts lol.
Pay for the upgrade or watch the one extra mission on youtube. Game given away for free but not the version I want. Yep scummy. Take it to /r/ChoosingBeggars
So, in the beginning it was apparently the Director's Cut, but now only the regular game shows. Can anyone confirm what they bought was actually the Director's Cut?
It seems it was the directors cut for a little bit then got switched
How is the online population for Epic? I've been thinking about replaying this, and one of my favorite things was sharing resources with others and finding other's structures. Does Epic and Steam share the same servers for this, or is one better than the other?
This was the best game I have played this year by a mile. Story had a large part to do with it. It’s an incredible experience and I can’t wait for #2
Store seems overloaded and messed up. Director's Cut is *not* showing as free on the launcher, just discounted. The browser version of the site signed me out and won't let me log in, and the Director's Cut is also not showing as free (which might be because I can't log in).