Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Episode 1 is complete after turning in Main Order No.7 when returning to Sam’s Shelter.

Episode 2 is complete after the cutscene that takes place following the completion of Episode 1.

Episode 3 is complete after turning in Main Order No. 14 when reaching Rainbow Valley.

Episode 4 is complete after turning in Main Order No. 16 when reaching Northern Environmental Observatory.

Episode 5 is complete after completing the story sequence that comprises Main Order No. 17 on the results screen.

Episode 6 is complete after turning in Main Order No. 23 when reaching Heartman’s Lab.

Episode 7 is complete after turning in Main Order No. 30 when reaching East Fort Knot (F4).

During main Order No. 26 to open the door to The Motherhood you must enter the birthday you used at the start of the game. If you forgot you can view the entry for The Motherhood in the Corpus and press to reveal the number you need to enter, or view your SSS profile.

Episode 8 is complete when returning to the DHV Magellan after completing Main Order No. 37 at The Adventurer.

Episode 9 is complete when turning in Main Order No. 43 at the Southern Environmental Observatory.

Episode 10 is complete when turning in Main Order No. 44 at F7 North Distribution Center.

Episode 11 is complete when you finish Main Order No. 45.

Episode 12 is complete when turning in Main Order No. 46 at F8 Terminal Fort Knot.

Episode 13 is complete after the cutscenes that occur following the completion of Main Order No. 46.

Episode 14 is complete after returning to the Magellan and after reaching Sam’s Shelter, thus completing Main Order No. 47.

Episode 15 is complete after you finish the boss fight On the Beach.

Episode 16 is complete after you finish Main Order No. 48 and complete the story.

Standard Orders become available in Episode 3 once you connect the Western Environmental Observatory to the Chiral Network. They can then be accepted from the Delivery Terminal at Facilities.

Unlike the first game there is no “Premium Delivery” extra requirement, you just need to complete the order within the stated requirement to earn the top rank, which doesn’t change based on the difficulty you are on.

Order types:

• Delivery – Represented by a cube icon, these are orders where you take items from one facility to another, and are the most frequent orders available. Deliveries are graded based on how many of the items you bring, along with the average content damage of the items (almost always average under 5%). Some orders may also have a time limit attached to them, but you aren’t required to specifically complete any orders like this for the S ranks.
• Recovery – Represented by a downward arrow icon, these are orders where you need to go to a location and pick up an item, then return it to the facility you picked up the order from or take it to a second facility. There are not as many of these available as standard Deliveries, but there are still many you can choose from. Recoveries are graded based on how many of the items you bring, along with the average content damage of the items (almost always average under 5%). Some orders may also have a time limit attached to them, but you aren’t required to specifically complete any orders like this for the S ranks.
• Elimination/Destruction – Represented by skull and explosion icons, these orders are technically two different categories, but are counted together for this trophy requirement. Elimination orders require you to go to a location and take out enemies or bosses. Destruction orders require you to go to a location and destroy an item, typically cargo containers. These orders have the fewest available in the game, so you will likely need to go out of your way to make sure you are doing these to reach the S Rank requirement. Elimination/Destruction orders are graded on the total damage Sam takes during the course of the order, which generally ranges from 30% to 100% depending on how dangerous the order is considered. While doing these make sure not to pick up the order unless you are immediately completing the objective, as it counts all damage from the time the order is picked up, not just while you are in the objective area. You can also make a save after accepting the order, and revert it if you mess up so that you don’t need to wait for the order to become available again to retry it.

You cannot see in-game the total number of how many of each order type you have completed with what rating, but you can use the Search options in the Orders menu to list out specific orders with multiple search options. This will let you search for only standard orders, then by objective. The menu will then show you the starting point for the order, and whether or not it is currently available or on standby, along with the highest grade achieved on the order.

Facilities with Elimination/Destruction orders:

Mexico:

Ciudad Nudi del Norte (C1)

• Standard Order #202

Villa Libre

• Standard Order #214
• Standard Order #215

C1 South Distribution Center

• Standard Order #227

Australia:

The Government’s Base

• Standard Order #253

West Fort Knot (F1)

• Standard Order #287
• Standard Order #293

F2 South Distribution Center

• Standard Order #340

The Dowser

• Standard Order #360

Heartman’s Lab

• Standard Order #366

The Chronobiologist

• Standard Order #457

The Metagenomicist

• Standard Order #471

F5 East Distribution Center

• Standard Order #482

The Fisherman

• Standard Order #494

F7 North Distribution Center

• Standard Order #575

Current aid requests can be viewed in the pause menu under the Aid Requests option. This menu lists all currently available aid requests, and lists their requirement along with showing their location.

To place an online request hold  to bring up the Signs menu, then the Online Aid Request menu is on the bottom right. You won’t be able to place all requests in all locations, which will be shown by a yellow border around the sign.

In the Social Strand Service menu and viewing your profile under Bridge Links, you can view gameplay statistics which track how many structures you have built. The only two not tracked in this menu are the Hot Spring Digger and the Deployable Shield, so for completing the trophy you would need to make sure you have all 17 slots filled in this menu, and then make a Deployable Shield along with having earned the trophy Spring Into Life for constructing a Hot Spring Digger.

If you don’t want to go out of your way to make structures just for this trophy, you can complete the NPC aid requests where you will build most structures, which also contributes Likes toward the requesting facility’s connection level.

Note for the Bridge and Safe House to count for the trophy you must place the foundation with a PCC and then contribute materials yourself. Just placing the foundation adds to the stats, but the trophy requires you to fully finish one of each with your own contributed materials.

12 PCC Structures:

1. Watchtower
2. Postbox
3. Timefall Shelter
4. Generator
5. Bridge (must place foundation and finish by contributing materials yourself)
6. Jump Ramp
7. Zip-Line
8. Transponder
9. Chiral Bridge
10. Safe House (must place foundation and finish by contributing materials yourself)
11. Hot Spring Digger
12. Cargo Catapult

3 Tools:

1. Ladder
2. Climbing Anchor
3. Guidepost

2 Weapons:

1. Electric Trap
2. Deployable Shield

Any Sign (D-pad )

This trophy is awarded once you connect a Facility using the Q-pid for the first time.

» Facility Locations and Unlocks

» Facility Locations and Unlocks

While working on deliveries for a specific facility you can use the Search section in the Orders menu to search orders by specific destination, as well as view whether they are currently available or still on standby after you have already completed them.

You can repeat already completed Standard Orders for the same number of Likes over and over once they become available again, but note that the number of Likes you receive is affected by factors such as the distance from pickup to delivery destination, the number or weight of cargo, and whether you interacted (defeated/stayed in stealth) with enemies during the order. Most locations you won’t need to go out of your way for, but some optional locations such as Mr. Impossible have few orders, so you are better off repeating orders with high weight requirements for the most Likes at these locations. Make sure you’ve enabled the APAS Enhancement “Faster Order Preparation” to reduce the time that Standard Orders are on standby after they are complete.

If you seem to have very few orders available delivering to a specific location, you can try completing other orders from other facilities. As you raise connection level and complete other orders new ones will become available, so you may find new orders to deliver if you go out of your way to complete orders for facilitates that you haven’t completed before.

Once you unlock an enhancement it can be enabled or disabled through the APAS Enhancements menu at any time as long as you are in an area covered by the Chiral Network. You aren’t required to unlock and use all Enhancements, but the majority are beneficial on your journey so you should activate ones you think will be helpful to you. Once you increase your connection level with all facilities there is more than enough memory bandwidth to activate all 48 enhancements at once if you wish.

Over the course of the game you will receive around 300,000 – 400,000 or more Likes from delivering orders while working on connection level, so you will earn the two Like trophies without trying.

More training programs are unlocked throughout the game, but you are only required to complete one once for this trophy.

If you want to find an animal and get this out of the way early, the easiest to find are Koalas. You can find a bunch of them either in trees or on the ground beside trees in the valley between Rainbow Valley and the Animal Shelter.

There are at least 4 albino animals in the game, with three of the locations being given to you if you complete the Aid Requests for The Pioneer. They will ask you to bring them animal material from 3 locations, which are also the locations of the albino kangaroo, lyrebird, and echidna.

If you don’t want to complete these aid requests, the easiest to find albino animal is the kangaroo, which can be found in the desert area directly north of The Data Scientist. Because of it being a large animal it sticks out pretty easily within the desert area.

Restoring roads requires contributing Chiral Crystals, Metals, and Ceramics to the Auto-Paver terminal. Online player contributions also count toward each road, and once the total required amount has been contributed the section of road will be restored. Later in the game you can unlock the ability to upgrade roads to Lvl2 which adds a Timefall cover and increases the speed vehicles can travel on them, but this isn’t required for this trophy. You can view the current required number of materials for each Auto-Paver by moving the cursor over it on the map, or view the current durability of each road section if you have already restored it.

» Mine Locations

To earn the trophy though you need to restore a full monorail line, which also requires restoring any mine connected to the track, allowing you to move a monorail car between each stop.

» Mine Locations

West Monorail Line

West Fort Knot (F1) > Mine North of F1 > F2 South Distribution Center > Mine near F3 Crater

East Monorail Line

South Fort Knot (F6) > Mine North of F6 > East Fort Knot (F4) > Northeastern Mine

Central Monorail Line

Terminal Fort Knot (F8) > F5 East Distribution Center > Mine North of Tar Lake

» Hot Spring Locations

» Hot Spring Locations

» How to Discover the Truth About the Pizza Chef

» How to Defeat the Lord of the Tar Lake

» How to Solve the Riddle of the Headless Riders

» How to Prevent the Terminal Fort Knot Voidout

There are two ways you can go about getting to the F3 Crater, an early optional way, or a required later way.

If you want to go out there early, you can drive across the tar using the Coffin Board that is unlocked after connecting The Mechanic to the Chiral Network. You can then ride the Coffin Board to the cliffs around the crater, and the trophy will be awarded once you reach the top of the cliff overlooking the crater.

If you want to wait until you are required to come here, you will be transported to the crater when you complete Sub Order 121, which is required to max the connection level for the facility The Adventurer.

When enabled, it reduces the frequency of BTs and Ghost Mechs, but also prevents you from interacting with the Ghost Hunter facility, and you will receive an SSS post from Local Porters hinting that they can’t access the Ghost Hunter’s terminal. With the Drawbridge Q-pid enabled, attempt to make a delivery to the Ghost Hunter facility to earn the trophy.

You can still make deliveries to the Ghost Hunter to complete the facility connection level, but you must disable the Drawbridge Q-pid in the System menu first.

The first opportunity you can use this is on Main Order 033 immediately after you receive the grenades. If you go straight across to the objective you’ll encounter an area where a few Bestia BTs will spawn. Damage one of them until its health is red, then throw a grenade directly at its mouth to capture it and earn the trophy. Make sure to pick up the crystal after to allow you to summon the BT from the Special section of the Weapons/Tools menu.

Once you capture a BT you keep the crystal forever. Summoning it costs chiral crystals, so make sure to capture new BTs when you come across them.

You can find these in locations that have high chiral density, where there is typically tar floating out of the ground and a large number of Chiral Crystals. Shooting the golden one from a distance causes it to spawn a large number of Chiral Crystals you can pick up, along with ordering the trophy.

There are many locations like this throughout the game where they can potentially spawn, but two early locations where you can find them frequently are near the Mine North of F1, or near the Animal Shelter.

Outside the front of the mine is an area with a bunch of tar pools, and typically a large number of Chiral Crystals. On the east of the entrance where the tar pools are, you can generally find one blob moving around.

Another location is southeast of the Animal Shelter in the area where there are a few tar pools. There are typically a few groups of the normal blobs near the pools, but also a few of the gold blobs moving around.

The five categories are:

1. Porter – Completing delivery orders from Facilities.
2. Combat – Fighting enemies or completing combat orders.
3. Stealth – Being undetected by enemies during deliveries or taking out enemies undetected.
4. Servicemanship – Completing aid requests, contributing to construction of roads, monorails, and mines.
5. Bridge Link – Interacting with online player structures or having players interact with yours, delivering cargo for other players.

Porter and Servicemanship are relatively easy to level, and you should complete both while working through the story and increasing connection level with all facilities, along with delivering lost cargo, completing roads/monorails to make your deliveries easier.

Bridge Link might seem difficult early on and like it will require a lot of player interaction, but the easy way to gain a lot of Likes in Bridge Link is by finishing off restoration of Roads and Monorails by contributing materials. It will then show in other players’ games that you contributed to their roads/monorails, and whenever they drive on the roads or use the monorail it will give you likes. You can also do things like place helpful Signs in the center of ramps leading into Knots/Distribution Centers, as most players will walk through the Signs and trigger them which awards you Likes. You can also check facilities for other players lost cargo and deliver it for them, which gives Likes toward the facility and Servicemanship along with Bridge Link.

Combat and Stealth take the longest to level, as there aren’t many Combat-related orders early in the game, which makes it seem very slow. Later in the game you have many more combat Main Orders which give a lot of Likes toward these categories so you don’t need to stress about it, but if you want to level it earlier to unlock the extra APAS Enhancements you can earn Combat and Stealth bonuses by dealing with enemies while delivering normal orders. Taking out enemies gives Likes for Combat even if the order didn’t specifically require it, and the closer you are to enemy areas during an order without being detected the more Stealth Likes you will receive.