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Death Stranding Director's Cut

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This page is for the Director's Cut. For the original game, see Death Stranding.

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT cover
Developers
Kojima Productions
Guerrilla Games
Publishers
505 Games
Engines
Decima
Release dates
Windows March 30, 2022
Reception
OpenCritic 86
IGDB 90
Taxonomy
Monetization Sponsored
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Open world, Adventure, Action, Racing
Vehicles Motorcycle, Truck, Automobile
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi, Post-apocalyptic, North America
Series Death Stranding
Death Stranding Director's Cut on HowLongToBeat
Death Stranding Director's Cut on IGDB
Death Stranding Director's Cut on MobyGames
Death Stranding Director's Cut on Wikipedia
Death Stranding
Death Stranding 2020
Death Stranding Director's Cut 2022

Death Stranding Director's Cut is a singleplayer third-person open world, adventure, action and racing game in the Death Stranding series.

General information

Publisher Discord server
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store
DRM-free after installation through Epic Games Launcher (notes may include more details)
Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
GamersGate
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Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
Humble Store
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Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
Steam
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Upgrade for original game owners also available.
Windows
Owners of the original game are able to upgrade to the Director's Cut for a small fee.[1]

Monetization

Type Notes
Sponsored Ride with Norman Reedus, J.F.Rey and Acronym product placements are included as part of the in-game experience.
Original game featured prominent product placement from Monster energy drinks, but this has been removed in this version of the game.[2]

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions Death Stranding Director's Cut has no microtransactions.


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\KojimaProductions\DeathStrandingDC\profile\
<path-to-game>\settings.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1850570/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\KojimaProductions\DeathStrandingDC\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1850570/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Also natively supports DualSense and DualSense proprietary features when connected via wire
PlayStation button prompts
Manual in menu
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes
Generic/other controllers
Gyro sensors are supported and can be used for: Controls for Soothing BB
Button prompts
Button Icon Display setting allows to manually select any of the available prompts for all supported controllers.
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Co-op
Limited to asynchronous interaction primarily with objects placed by other players.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Dedicated

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3470
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 560
3 (Nvidia) or 4 (AMD) GB of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
CPU AVX support is required.

Issues fixed

TAA enabled on launch

The game may enable TAA on startup irrespective of the last anti-aliasing setting.
Modify the game executable to force the preferred anti-aliasing method[4]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ds.exe or <path-to-game>\DeathStranding.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
  2. Search for 48 8B 4C 24 30 45 0F 46 C7 as hex.
  3. Replace it with:
    • 48 8B 4C 24 30 41 B0 00 90 for no anti-aliasing.
    • 48 8B 4C 24 30 41 B0 01 90 for FXAA.
    • 48 8B 4C 24 30 41 B0 02 90 for TAA (default).
  4. Save the changes.

Corrupted save data

The game does not allow players to share their save data, displaying a "corrupted data" error.
Modify the game executable to bypass the save data checks[5]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\ds.exe or <path-to-game>\DeathStranding.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
  2. Search for 75 05 41 C6 46 3A 11 48 8D 8D as hex.
  3. Replace it with EB 05 41 C6 46 3A 11 48 8D 8D to bypass the checks.
  4. Save the changes.
  5. Launch Death Stranding and load the game.
On the first launch, a "corrupted data" error may pop up: click "OK" and ignore it. This will only show once.
When the new save data has been loaded and saved, the original executable can be restored.


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1850570/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1850570) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT PC COMMUNITY UPDATE - Steam News - last accessed on 2022-01-27
    "To those PC Porters who already own the base game of DEATH STRANDING, we’re giving you the opportunity to upgrade to DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT at launch."
  2. Death Stranding: Director's Cut Removes Monster Energy Product Placement - last accessed on 2022-03-31
  3. Verified by User:Rose on 2020-07-14
    Tested on an HDR TV where an HDR Settings option appeared.
  4. Verified by User:TL431 on 2022-03-31
    Tested with AA disabled on Steam version v1.00
  5. Verified by User:TL431 on 2022-03-31
    Tested on Steam version v1.00