Death Stranding 2: How To Give and Gain Likes

Giving and gaining likes is a core aspect of Death Stranding 2, emphasizing the importance of appreciation, connection, and cooperation. 

Death Stranding 2 emphasizes the importance of belonging and human connection. While the main story revolves around expanding the Chiral Network across Mexico and Australia, players are also passively connecting with other players’ worlds through the innovative Social Strand mechanism. Likes play a crucial role in Death Stranding 2, just like on real-world social media. Beyond appreciating a player’s efforts and boosting their popularity, likes contribute to a player’s progression.

Whether you are aiming for better Porter Grades, unlocking powerful weapons and gears by establishing 5-star connections to facilities, or gaining more APAS enhancement skills, like serves a vital role. Here is how you can give and receive likes in Death Stranding 2.

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How To Give Likes in Death Stranding 2

Likes are primarily tied to establishing connections and helping others, whether it is Preppers, NPCs, or other players. You can give likes by pressing the right side of the Touch Pad on your controller. Since there are no limitations, you can spam the button repeatedly to give multiple likes.

You can give likes to other players by using their structures, interacting with their signs, or simply pressing the Touch Pad. You can also give likes to random NPCs whom you meet in the wild. Additionally, you can like posts from the Social Strand Service (SSS), the in-game social media service.

How To Receive Likes in Death Stranding 2

Players can receive likes in numerous ways. Simply completing missions and delivering cargo nets you a good amount of likes. Hitting S-rank during deliveries significantly boosts the likes you receive. Giving likes to NPCs and their posts in SSS also gets you likes in return. You will also receive likes passively from Lou if she is happy or doing things she likes. Delivering lost cargo to its destination and completing aid requests are other notable ways to get likes.

If you have connected through the game’s online services, you can also receive tons of likes from other players. Things like structures, signs, cargo, and vehicles are shared between different players’ worlds through the game’s unique Social Strand system. If other players use or interact with your structures and signs or follow your path, you will receive likes. Other players can also give likes to you manually by using the Touch Pad option.

Connecting with specific players using the Strand Contracts system increases the likelihood of sharing more things between your worlds. 

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