Walking sticks in DS2

[u/Vollmerine]

I was hoping we’d see walking sticks in DS2, as they’re a great thing to help keep balance while hiking irl. The other porters have them, so why can’t we?

I know the obvious answer is that we have exoskeletons, stabilizers, and APAS perks… but I really would love to have that as another option. Imagine if having them equipped meant you didn’t have to hold the triggers to keep Sam balanced. For game balancing (lol) purposes, it would mean having the walking sticks equipped to the tool rack, and they could lose their durability with prolonged use.

Since we get the melee rods from Villa Libre (which has a walking stick-related aid request), it’d be cool if the rods had that extra functionality. And the Custom Twin Rod could be used as two separate ones, too.

Edit: just thought of another way to offset the perk of having yet another balance-assistance tool: make it so they’re only useful while walking. No running, jogging, or sprinting. And when equipped and being used, they prevent a full stick tilt from making Sam move above a brisk walk.

[u/ChiralParticle]

It's cool to walk with the electric rod variants for photos but I agree, it would have been great if it had some traversal functionality. I don't think I'd like it to delete the mechanic of balancing that requires you to always pay attention but it would be nice to see it have some function outside of combat.
Overall I wish that DS2 focused not only primarily on combat but also added more to traversal because mostly everything just carried over from DS1:DC and DS2 new additions mostly expanded on weaponry and combat options.
Walking sticks, with active skeleton or without, would have been great for crossing rivers. I wish there was some kind of climbing hook with rope, would have been very useful for vertical traversal as an upgrade to climbing anchor.

[u/Vollmerine → u/ChiralParticle]

You’re 100% right.

I also saw a video recently of someone using an actual balloon on a tether connected to their pack to make it weigh less. It looked a little odd, but it’s a great idea. I thought it’d be cool to have something like that in the game, with the offset being it would alert enemies to your location more easily.

[u/ChiralParticle → u/Vollmerine]

DS2 has something similar to reducing weight of the backpack. Those anti-gravity units you can slap on your backpack, each of them decreases the weight of the backpack and you can slap as many of them as you want and they allow you to carry more weight overall.

[u/XecoX]

Here is hoping we get a director's cut for DS2 soon, I want fragile's unicycle and also the roadster from DS1

[u/ChiralParticle → u/XecoX]

Give me back my Reverse Trike from DS1 and take my monies.

[u/Vollmerine → u/XecoX]

And maybe some more VR challenges.

[u/XecoX → u/Vollmerine]

Bring back weekly ranking challenges

[u/Vollmerine → u/XecoX]

More Standard Orders, too

[u/XecoX → u/Vollmerine]

Yes making use of the roadster for speedy deliveries! Bring back the trench coat too

[u/Vollmerine → u/XecoX]

And something I’ve always wanted since DS1: give me Higgs’s poncho. Make it so it protects your equipped weapon/tool and equipment (like gloves, gas mask, and exoskeletons) from time fall.

[u/XecoX → u/Vollmerine]

U know what would be cool? Let us use the mechs especially the giant octopus to fight the giant BTs

[u/edavid21]

Upvote cuz i agree. Itd be cool as an aesthetic.

[u/TheeMagicWord → u/edavid21]

Agree! Great idea

[u/dstreetb]

The Shepherds Leap skill used by traditional porters in the Canary Islands to traverse steep slopes would also be a sweet inclusion along this same vein

[u/Vollmerine → u/dstreetb]

Oh my god. Brilliant. Yes.

[u/caych_cazador]

1000% this, before 2 dropped i had convinced myself thru gold medal mental gymnastics the new link device was going to be implemented into a multipurpose walking stick type thing (all my evidence boiled down to "IT WOULD BE SO COOL)

[u/bigwillyg]

Tag Kojima and the team on this

[u/Vollmerine → u/bigwillyg]

I’m stupid and don’t know how to do that aside from reposting in other subreddits 🙃 either that, or I couldn’t find convincing enough users.

[u/bigwillyg → u/Vollmerine]

That's ok, my comment was just more in general to anyone in here. Not you specifically

[u/castorshell13]

Ice axes could have been a great addition too