Kojima Productions has released a brand new update for the PC version of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, with a focus on bug and crash fixes based on player feedback. Along with this, the update has also bolstered the social aspects of the title’s Strand system, now allowing players to see more Steam user avatars in the game next to their messages or structures.
The studio has also noted that the update brings in more options for players to tweak when it comes to defining sharpness when making use of image upscaling. Along with this, bugs related to frame generation have also been addressed. For more details about the update, take a look at the full patch notes below.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was released on PC just last month and has seemingly been quite a successful launch. It made its debut with almost 56,000 concurrent players on launch day, along with an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating with 96 percent of all reviews praising the port. In its estimates, research firm Alinea Analytics has estimated that, as of the end of March, the PC release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach sold around 425,000 copies, bringing up the game’s total sales across PC and PS5 to over 2 million.
Leading up to the title’s PC release, Kojima Productions had taken to the PlayStation Blog to discuss some of the platform-specific features that had been designed for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. This includes features like ray tracing with reflections and ambient occlusion, as well as new content like the To The Wilder difficulty mode that pushes “your porter skills to the extreme in merciless environments filled with deadly enemies”. It is worth noting that new gameplay content was also added to the PS5 version with a free update.
Our own review of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach on PC praised it, giving it a score of 10 out of 10 thanks to its excellent performance on the platform, plenty of graphics options, compelling story, and gameplay refinements over its predecessor. We called the title a “uniquely meditative experience” that was “punctuated by high-octane action” with “awesome boss fights”.
More recently, Kojima Productions had also updated the title to bring in enough performance refinements to get it officially Steam Deck Verified. This means that, along with UI considerations like readable texts and controller support, it is also capable of running on Valve’s handheld gaming PC at reasonable frame rates without many crashes or other issues.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach PC update 1.4 patch notes:
- Players on Steam will now see more Steam user avatars in the Social Strand Service.
- Fixed various rare crashes and implemented additional stability improvements.
- Expanded the range of sharpness control for upscaling options.
- Improved image quality for various textures when Texture Quality is set to Medium or lower.
- AMD FSR and Intel XeSS Frame Generation now correctly include vignetting when interpolating frames.
- Resolved a bug affecting the appearance of flowing water that occurred when building a Hot Spring with Frame Generation enabled.
- Various improvements and bug fixes related to the user interface.
- Fixed various minor graphics-related bugs.
