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Welcome, Porters!

If you're new to the world of DEATH STRANDING and looking for some top tips and advice, you've come to the right place!

Firstly, be sure to check out this brilliant tips guide from Eurogamer! Oh... and don't forget to grab the reverse trike when you get to the windfarm!



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Last year, we put the spotlight on some of the biggest DEATH STRANDING players we know, giving them the opportunity to share their thoughts, knowledge, tips and advice to new and upcoming players.

With that in mind, we took to Discord, Reddit and Twitter and asked some of you to share a personal piece of advice (spoiler free) for PC players. And guess what? You didn’t disappoint! Check out the responses below…

It’s okay to ask for help. In the beginning this game will be unlike anything you have ever played. You WILL likely get stuck, you WILL likely get frustrated, and you WILL fall down a whole heck of a lot. That's how the game is *trying* to make you feel, frustrated, alone, under-equipped/overworked. You’ll soon understand why. There are several fabulous communities dedicated to this game, just a few clicks away, so if you're ever feeling like you're at wits end, pop into the Discord and chat with some people, share your experiences. Ultimately, that is what this game is about after all: connecting with others.
- Pan1c

Like and get liked! It takes only a second to show to other Porters that their constructions helped you in your adventure. Keep in mind that DEATH STRANDING is an experience where sharing and helping other players is important! Also, if you see it, go for it! DEATH STRANDING is one of the most beautiful open-world experiences. The fact that everything you see can be reached is an amazing opportunity to give yourself some challenges. Can I go on the top of this mountain? YES, YOU CAN! Pack your boots, ropes and ladders and go for it. (Don't forget to immortalize the moment with a picture!)
- Tarak Ch.


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Take your time. Just like in the real world, rushed actions and abrupt decisions are risky. When making deliveries, be careful and pay close attention to the lovingly detailed world around you. When resting in a private room, put on some music, and read the emails — these help you understand the game world and progress further. After all, DEATH STRANDING is a game that hopes to teach you a vital lesson, if you're just willing to slow down and listen. In a constantly stressed and overworked world, that message is especially valuable.
- Irina

Throughout the game there are 'Preppers' holed up in various locations. Each Prepper has their own story that you can learn more about as you help them out and they will even reward you with valuable items and equipment. Make sure to fully explore the world and find all of the Preppers as some of the rewards impact your gameplay.
- Brink


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Not only is the timefall rain dangerous in DEATH STRANDING, but crossing water is also a regular threat for you and your delivery. But this is where your scanner comes into use. Scan the area before you enter the water. Squares in the colours blue, yellow and red will give you information about the water level. Blue water can be crossed easily, while the yellow markers indicate a deeper water level. Be careful about your balance and stamina when entering. Red indicates the deepest water level and you should avoid that entirely. It will instantly sweep you away.
- German Strands

DEATH STRANDING may look stunning, but don't let the melancholic beauty of Sam's world fool you – it's unforgiving. From dangerous terrain, cargo hungry MULEs, and disturbing BTs, you'll have numerous obstacles between you and your destination. To give yourself an easier and more enjoyable time, focus on the story for the first few chapters. As with many games, it's easy to get lost in side missions and exploration, but, tackling the story will unlock new items that will make Death Stranding's additional content much more enjoyable.

... And don't forget. No matter how tough the obstacles seem to be, keep on keeping on!
- Enter_the_Fray


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Of course, there are more top tips we could share, but here are just a few things to bear in mind before venturing out on your quest to reconnect America. A big thank you to those who offered their wise words of wisdom and stay tuned for another community driven blog soon.

If you have any top tips yourself, be sure to share them with us over on Twitter for a chance to be featured in a future post! Simply use #DeathStrandingPC in your tweet.

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Hello!

First of all, thanks again to everyone who took their time to participate in our coloring contest. All of your works were amazing, and it was a really difficult but interesting task to choose the top 3.

Important information for the winners: please contact us at support@peaksel.email by Thursday, April 29 until 2pm GMT+2. For the subject of the email write: Coloring Contest. In the email, write your Steam username (not your login name), which reward you won and the email address to which we can send the key for your reward.

If you contact us after the date and time mentioned above, we’ll get back to you in about two weeks because we’re going on a short break. So don’t worry if we don’t contact you right away! :)

The winners are:

1. Kintha


2. tryzessuper


3. GuiKpel


Our rewards are the following:
1. place - Coloring Book for Adults (Pro version) and DLC for the Coloring Book for Kids
2. place - DLC for the Coloring Book for Kids
3. place - DLC for the Coloring Book for Kids

Congratulations!

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Is that the sound of war drums you hear pounding relentlessly, or just your heart? That’s right, Demon Slayers. Polish your armour, sharpen your weapons, and practice your battle cry, because we’re going to war.

The Demonic War Update is coming this summer and of course, all warriors need to prepare for any battle. The intel we’ve gathered for you below contains classified information and serves as a sneak peek into Demonic War and what it will bring.

 


 

Evil never sleeps! Imperial scouts report an imminent attack of monsters from the City of the Demon Gods. Gather up to 10 allies to fight the formidable generals striking terror into the hearts of all in the empire.

 


 

Space and time are terrifying things, made more apparent with the new challenges to be found in the new Elements of Life dungeon, which will be available for players level 69 and above. Brave the floors of elements alone or explore in a group of five.

 


 

Get ready for new adventures! You can now gain additional characteristics with the improved Soul Grid. Visit the guild dungeon to get materials to upgrade soul crystals.

 



 

Treat yourself to a morale boost in the form of a new wardrobe filled with stylish outfits from the most renowned tailors in all the empire! There will be new cosmetic collections containing new apparel, accessories, mounts, and wings. Any spare outfits can be stored in a special wardrobe with a fitting function at any time. Battles shall also be even more dazzling thanks to a technological breakthrough, allowing you to change the animation of your general and special skills.

Keep an eye out for more information coming your way about plot developments, guild training, new additions to stores, and more!

Please note: the list of changes may differ from the final version of patch notes.

We’re back once again with another batch of quality of life improvements! Version 0.22.3 brings a few minor tweaks to a selection of vehicles and addresses several issues with World Editor.

You’ll also find various adjustments to the game engine, Walking Mode, and more. Check out the full list here!

And as always, thank you for your feedback and support!

It took long enough ...
We have just released a new BETA update for Fernbus Simulator.
We fixed the rain on the windows, corrected various problems with license plates, textures and traffic lights and much more. You can find all information here in the changelog:

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Please create backup copies of your savegame files before switching to BETA Update 28.

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ATTENTION: This is a BETA update. Technical problems, instability of the game as well as bugs during gameplay can be possible.

How to install the beta version of the update?
Quite easily:
In your Library, you click with the right mouse button on the entry of the "Fernbus Simulator"
In the drop-menu, you click on the entry "Properties"
In the window "Fernbus Simulator - Properties" you select the tab "BETAS"
In the field "Select the beta you would like to opt into:" select the entry "beta-"
Now you can close the window and the beta version of the update should download right away
After downloading the update you can start the Fernbus Simulator via the "PLAY" button
In the main menu should now be the corresponding version number of the beta version of the update and you can test the update

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Changelog 1.28.41013

• Revised lighting systems: sunlight, moonlight, street lights, etc.
  
• Fixed the visibility of snow and rain on the buses
  
• Corrected errors in the German license plate system, e.g. 5-digit numbers should no longer be possible
  
• Revised the probabilities of the nationalities of the license plates depending on the region
  
• Parked cars now have license plates again
  
• Fixed rain on the windows of the vehicles
  
• The blurred texture of the pickup truck was fixed
  
• Icon of the exe was fixed
  
• Action cameras can now be deactivated
  
• Dynamic weather is now loaded correctly in saved games (only works with new saved games)
  
• Camera zoom and movement have been revised
  
• Incorrectly reported conflicts between key assignments have been resolved
  
• The steering wheel now remains in its current position when you get up from the driver's seat or activate the photo mode
  
• Corrected traffic lights which did not load correctly
  
• Passengers can now use different clothing patterns and colors
  
• A bug with the photo mode and the vehicle control has been fixed
  
• Walking sounds added
  
• Camera zoom revised in both camera perspectives
  
• Resetting the vehicle revised
  
• Some minor to medium bugs have been fixed

DLC VDL Futura FDD2

• Revised seating positions for passengers

DLC Netherlands

• Corrected the geometry of the tunnel in Rotterdam

DLC Multi Media Package

• Fixed a bug when playing the moderation

DLC BB40

• Corrected handbrake bug

DLC W960

• Fixed a bug in the handbrake
  
• Fixed error in cruise control

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Changelog 1.28.41433

• New option to control mouse sensitivity
  
• Sun intensity fixed
  
• Coach bus breaks updated
  
• Added additional license plates to AI coaches and trailers
  
• Fixed positions of license plates for certain vehicles
  
• Updated view distance of license plates

DLC Netherlands

• Fixed random broken license plates in the Netherlands

DLC Multi Media Package

• Fixed streaming issues and crashes

DLC BB40

• Fixed a bug in the handbrake

DLC W960

• Fixed a bug in the handbrake

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Changelog 1.28.41707

• Updated vehicle physics
  
• Fixed counting the passenger not working properly near doors or hatches of the vehicles
  
• Fixed speed limits
  
• Fixed AI coach rear wheel positions
  
• Fixed bus stop staying invisible if you missed the stop
  
• Fixed NPC's sometimes being assigned wrong clothing textures
  
• Additional traffic AI fixes
  
• Fixed weird radio sound on launch for certain PC configurations
  
• Fixed passengers being invisible in mirrors on low-quality settings when loading a savegame
  
• Fixed brake light sensitivity of NPC vehicles
  
• UI text fixes
  
• Fixed resting button function in shuttle mode

DLC Netherlands

• Green road markings on state road are now visible in the vehicle mirrors
  
• Fixed materials of city buildings

DLC Multi Media Package

• Physics of traffic news assets fixed
  
• Fixed visibility of traffic news assets on the world map and navigation screen

DLC ComClass

• Fixed ComClass display permanently showing it to be out of fuel

Hello!

First of all, thanks again to everyone who took their time to participate in our coloring contest. All of your works were amazing, and it was a really difficult but interesting task to choose the top 3.

Important information for the winners: please contact us at support@peaksel.email by Thursday, April 29 until 2pm GMT+2. For the subject of the email write: Coloring Contest. In the email, write your Steam username (not your login name), which reward you won and the email address to which we can send the key for your reward.

If you contact us after the date and time mentioned above, we’ll get back to you in about two weeks because we’re going on a short break. So don’t worry if we don’t contact you right away! :)

The winners are:

1. Louvia


2. BearbyCat


3. ♣CrashandBurn♣


Our rewards are the following:
1. place - Coloring Book for Adults (Pro version) and DLC for the Coloring Book for Kids
2. place - Coloring Book for Adults (Pro version)
3. place - Coloring Book for Adults (Pro version)

Congratulations!

1.22.1 - Weather and Rewards introduce additional rewards when playing consecutive days, stunning new weather settings, faster matchmaking and bug fixes!

We have added Bonus Rewards for playing every day! You can find them in the Daily Rewards section.
Simply complete a match every day and reap all the rewards!*

Get 17.000 Warfunds, 1 Day of Veteran Membership and up to 35.000 Credits each week!!



The battlefield is now looking better than ever! Look up into the sky and you will see the celestial bodies are now clearly visible and we have added new, better looking weather settings!



As always, let us know what you think!

We have reduced the maximum time a match can span to 60 minutes in order to further optimize our matchmaker and as a result improve your experience. You will now find matches much faster while keeping the game more fun and matches better paced.

When we look at the matches going into overtime and players find themselves in a stalemate, everyone becomes a lot more passive. Ultimately the match ends up stalemating and players start leaving.

We want to avoid players disconnecting from the match and for the attackers to stay on the offensive after capturing an objective to keep the gameplay interesting for everybody and the matchmaker popping!

We have remade animations and added a bit more cover to the gunners of US Recon’s M20 Armored Utility Car and T8E1 Stuart Recce.



We also tweaked the level of detail on many objects in order to improve performance, looks and included a bunch of bug fixes!


Enjoy!
RETO MOTO

Changelog
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE FULL CHANGELOG!

* Each day is counted from 00:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC

• Reworked the weather settings to address the issue that the game appeared too dark on some systems
  
• Fixed collision issue on Factory Entrance Building
  
• Fixed collision issue on Mountan Town StorageHall

• Fixed a login issue preventing some players from entering the game

1.22.1 – WEATHER AND REWARDS

New Feature: 7 Day Bonus Rewards for consecutive daily matches

• 2 Days: 2.000 Credits
• 3 Days: 5.000 Warfunds
• 4 Days: 8.000 Credits
• 5 Days: 12.000 Warfunds
• 6 Days: 25.000 Credits
• 7 Days: 24 Hours Veteran Membership

Tweaked weather settings:

• Sun, moon, stars, cirrus clouds now visible.
• Fixed extreme glare when drawing the sun through particles.
• Sky is generally more colorful (sunrise being more golden-yellow, sunset is more red-purple)

• Changed max game time to 60 minutes
• Reduce amount of Assault Teams for Tank vs. Tank heavy-tier setups to have max. of 2 heavy tank / tank destroyer Assault Teams

M20 Armored Utility Car

• Added sandbags to M20 Armored Utility Car for additional protection for the Gunner
• New animations for M20 gunner to make him less exposed
• Added first person crouch camera motion to M20
• Added basic belt movement when firing the Machine Gun on the M20
• Added decals to M20
• Updated preview images for M20 to include sandbags and decals

T8E1 Stuart Recce

• New animations for T8E1 gunner to make him less exposed
• Added crouch function to T8E1 Gunner
• Added first person crouch camera motion to T8E1
• Added basic belt movement when firing the Machine Gun on the T8E1

• Fixed townmap church LOD temporarily disappearing at a certain distance and small texture fix
• Fixed several house assets LODs temporary disappearing when viewed from certain directions and small texture fix
• Fixed Town base disappearing when in the spawn menu on town map
• Fixed trainstation and dock walls disappearing at a distance
• Fixed trainstation base disappearing on in spawn menu on mountain map
• Placed various parts into mergegroups (wooden docks and trainstation base on mountain town are the two major ones) to swap multiple LODs simultaneously to increase performance
• Fixed church LOD on Khutor
• Fixed invisible crosses on Khutor

• Fixed floating light bulbs in some props
• Made the light source disappear when light bulbs are shot
• Added destruction and light sources to wall mounted streetlights
• Passenger seats on M20 and SdKfz 250 set to low priority