This page is for the Director's Cut. For the original game, see Death Stranding.
Death Stranding Director's Cut
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Kojima Productions |
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Guerrilla Games |
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505 Games |
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Decima |
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March 30, 2022 |
| macOS (OS X) |
January 31, 2024 |
| Metacritic |
85 |
| OpenCritic |
85 |
| IGDB |
91 |
| Monetization |
One-time game purchase, 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 |
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Death Stranding Director's Cut is an open world action-adventure game developed by Kojima Productions and published by 505 Games. The game is a PC port of the PS5 game of the same name, which itself is a enhanced port of Death Stranding.
Director's Cut was released on March 30, 2022 and replaced the original game on most storefronts. Similar to the original game's PC port, Director's Cut featured 21:9 ultra-widescreen support, DLSS 2.0, FSR 1.0 and 2.0, high frame rates and adjustable graphics options. As it is a port of the PS5 game, support for DualSense's features are added. Crossover contents in the form of quests and items from Valve's Half-Life and Portal series, as well as Cyberpunk 2077, were also retained in this release. The MacOS version of the game was later released on January 31, 2024.
The game received many updates since its release, which added XeSS 1.0 (later updated to 1.1), support for DualSense Edge controller and an ability to use the DualSense's adaptive triggers over wireless connection.
General information
- Publisher Discord server
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- Owners of the original game are able to upgrade to Death Stranding Director's Cut for a small fee.[1]
Monetization
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| 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
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Input
Audio
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| Separate volume controls |
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Up to 7.1 output. |
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| Mute on focus lost |
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Story missions have licensed music, can easily be distinguished because game displays the artist name on screen |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Issues unresolved
Repeated Xbox controller buttons input
- Using an Xbox controller may result in the game registering each button press more than once.[10]
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Connect or reconnect the controller after launching the game, not before it[11]
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Enable a Steam Input Xbox controller preset[12]
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- From the Steam client settings, access Big Picture Mode.
- Navigate to Library → Death Stranding -> Manage Game.
- Select Controller Options under Steam Input and set the option to Forced On.
- In the same menu, select Controller Configuration and Browse Configs.
- Choose and apply one of the official Xbox presets.
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Issues fixed
TAA enabled on launch
- The game may enable TAA on startup irrespective of the last anti-aliasing setting.
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Modify the game executable to force the preferred anti-aliasing method[13]
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<path-to-game>\ds.exe or <path-to-game>\DeathStranding.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
- Search for
48 8D 8D 58 01 00 00 83 FB 02 0F 46 C3 as hex.
- Replace it with:
48 8D 8D 58 01 00 00 83 FB 02 B0 00 90 for no anti-aliasing.48 8D 8D 58 01 00 00 83 FB 02 B0 01 90 for FXAA.48 8D 8D 58 01 00 00 83 FB 02 B0 02 90 for TAA (default).
- Save the changes.
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Corrupted save data
- The game does not allow players to share their save data, displaying a "corrupted data" error.
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Modify the game executable to bypass the save data checks[14]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\ds.exe or <path-to-game>\DeathStranding.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
- Search for
75 05 41 C6 46 3A 11 48 8D 8D as hex.
- Replace it with
EB 05 41 C6 46 3A 11 48 8D 8D to bypass the checks.
- Save the changes.
- 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.
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Other information
API
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12 |
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32-bit |
64-bit | ARM |
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System requirements
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Intel Core i5-3470
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
Intel Core i7-3770
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
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8 GB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
80 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 560
3 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
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AMD Radeon RX 590
6 GB of VRAM |
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Requirements for 30 FPS at 1280x720. |
Requirements for 60 FPS at 1920x1080. |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- CPU AVX support is required.
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Minimum |
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13.3 |
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Apple M1 |
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77 GB |
Notes
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 2.0 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.
- ↑ Although Digital Foundry believed the level of filtering to be 16x, multiple other reports suggest the value is lower or close to 2x.[citation needed]
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