Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore director Hideo Kojima has mentioned that there are at present no plans for any episodic post-launch DLC for the sport. Talking in a latest episode of his radio present – as caught by X person naven0m – Kojima mentioned that he believes that episodic DLC is an outdated idea.
Whereas there aren’t plans for post-launch DLC, Kojima has mentioned that the studio will proceed to launch updates for Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore, bettering the title and fixing any bugs which may make it by way of the sport’s June 26 launch. He didn’t outright dismiss the potential of some form of post-launch content material coming to the sport, nonetheless, merely saying that he couldn’t make sure about it proper now.
“As for DLC – proper now, there aren’t any plans,” mentioned Kojima. “That form of factor isn’t actually the pattern anymore, is it? I’m unsure although. Earlier than, we used so as to add stuff post-launch fairly repeatedly. However now – perhaps there will likely be one thing like that. After the discharge on the finish of June, if any bug pops up – we’ll repair them. We’ll hold bettering the sport. We would even create one thing that didn’t exist in any respect within the first sport. Who is aware of. I can’t say for positive proper now.”
One other attention-grabbing element that Kojima spoke about with reference to Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore is the truth that protagonist Sam Porter Bridges was initially conceptualised as having hair that may develop out over the course of the sport. Based on Kojima, the unique plan was to have Sam begin out with shorter hair that might develop out. Contemplating Norman Reedus’ personal hair, nonetheless, the choice was made to scrap the function.
“At first, we had been going to have him reduce [his hair],” mentioned Kojima. “His hair would develop out, and he’d shave his personal beard. We really constructed a system for that. If you happen to hold enjoying, it grows naturally – so if somebody needs him to develop it out, they’ll simply hold enjoying as-is. And if not, you’ll be able to stand in entrance of a mirror, trim his beard, and we even deliberate to allow you to dye his hair. We had been going to implement that – however Norman Reedus is, nicely, a famous person. And when you permit blond hair, purple hair, aand so on – there’s simply so many choices, proper?”
“Identical to in [Death Stranding], when you let folks coloration outfits, everybody finally ends up going for gold or silver in the long run. It turns into one thing like Osaka’s flashy style. And when that occurs, you’ll be able to’t assist however really feel like, ‘Nicely, that is Norman we’re speaking about…’ If it had been simply an avatar, it’d be nice, however – we ended up scrapping that system. There was even an opportunity that he might’ve gone blonde. We actually did have a system for altering his hair coloration.”
In the identical episode of his radio present, Kojima had additionally spoken about getting so many individuals that needed to be scanned to turn into a part of Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore that half of them needed to be turned away.
Demise Stranding 2: On the Seashore is coming solely to PS5 on June 26.
