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At the beginning of December, I wrote an article about the vehicles that you can use in Hideo Kojima’s bizarre, divisive new game, Death Stranding. Long story short, you play as a digital and generally quite grimy version of Norman Reedus, and almost all you get to do is carry an astounding number of boxes across uneven terrain while occasionally throwing poop bombs at extra-dimensional specters. Riding a motorcycle or driving a car can make this process easier.
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What I didn’t mention before is that it’s technically a multiplayer game. Even more technically, it’s an asynchronous, shared-world multiplayer game where you never interact with other players, but the things you do can make life considerably easier or considerably more difficult for everyone else. Ideally, you’ll do things like build roads that other people can use, or donate materials to help other players build or repair roads.
Less ideally, you can crash vehicles into places they’re really not supposed to be and keep people from getting to their objective.
This is an online game phenomenon known as griefing: the act of, essentially, exploiting mechanics to terrorize other players. In the case of Death Stranding, some people are taking advantage of the fact that you can share vehicles with others to block paths, make story-critical locations inaccessible, or help an already hostile environment feel even less hospitable.
In the meantime, the game’s development studio, Kojima Productions, is hard at work on an update that will allow players to remove said vehicular obstructions. So that’s something to look forward to.
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