Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside director Hideo Kojima has stated that there are presently no plans for any episodic post-launch DLC for the sport. Talking in a latest episode of his radio present – as caught by X consumer naven0m – Kojima stated that he believes that episodic DLC is an outdated idea.
Whereas there aren’t plans for post-launch DLC, Kojima has stated that the studio will proceed to launch updates for Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside, enhancing the title and fixing any bugs which may make it by means of the sport’s June 26 launch. He didn’t outright dismiss the potential for some kind of post-launch content material coming to the sport, nonetheless, merely saying that he couldn’t make certain about it proper now.
“As for DLC – proper now, there aren’t any plans,” stated Kojima. “That type of factor isn’t actually the development anymore, is it? I’m unsure although. Earlier than, we used so as to add stuff post-launch fairly frequently. However now – perhaps there will probably be one thing like that. After the discharge on the finish of June, if any bug pops up – we’ll repair them. We’ll preserve enhancing the sport. We’d 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 on the subject of Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside is the truth that protagonist Sam Porter Bridges was initially conceptualised as having hair that may develop out over the course of the sport. In line with Kojima, the unique plan was to have Sam begin out with shorter hair that may develop out. Contemplating Norman Reedus’ personal hair, nonetheless, the choice was made to scrap the characteristic.
“At first, we had been going to have him minimize [his hair],” stated Kojima. “His hair would develop out, and he’d shave his personal beard. We really constructed a system for that. If you happen to preserve enjoying, it grows naturally – so if somebody needs him to develop it out, they’ll simply preserve enjoying as-is. And if not, you possibly can 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 celebrity. And when you permit blond hair, pink hair, aand so on – there’s simply so many choices, proper?”
“Identical to in [Death Stranding], when you let individuals coloration outfits, everybody finally ends up going for gold or silver in the long run. It turns into one thing like Osaka’s flashy vogue. And when that occurs, you possibly can’t assist however really feel like, ‘Properly, that is Norman we’re speaking about…’ If it had been simply an avatar, it’d be positive, however – we ended up scrapping that system. There was even an opportunity that he may’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 grow to be a part of Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside that half of them needed to be turned away.
Dying Stranding 2: On the Seaside is coming solely to PS5 on June 26.
