Death Stranding: Director's Cut Shows Off Its New Items, Features, and Missions (Including a Jetpack)

Death Stranding: Director's Cut has shown off multiple new items and missions – and also a jetpack.

Shown off during Gamescom's Opening Night Live, an extended trailer showed off multiple new features. New items include thrusters for your jetpack that allow you glide, a cargo catapult that allows you to fire cargo to faraway areas, and a Buddy Bot that can now carry Sam. A new weapon training area includes high score chasing events and virtual combat encounters. Boss battles can also be revisited and refought via your Private Room area, and leaderboards have been introduced.

More music and customisation options have also been added, and jump ramps have also been added that allow you to perform tricks on a bike. The previously announced racetrack addition also got a new introduction.

New delivery missions have also been added, including a stealth-based facility that looks very much like a Metal Gear level (with appropriate music). We also got a curious teaser for what looks like an underwater area, with a potentially dangerous whale.

Death Stranding: Director's Cut is coming in September, bringing everything from performance upgrades, updated combat, and new items to deploy, with Kojima Productions also promising that it will expand on the social strand system. In fact, it's adding enough new material for the first time that even its creator doesn't really agree with the title 'Director's Cut'.

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