Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - Ending Explained

Warning: Major Spoiler For Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Follow

Hideo Kojima returns america to a satellite of porters, BTs, BBs, Voidouts, and much with the merchandise of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. As you’d imagine, it’s a communicative filled with analyzable terminologies, philosophical concepts, metaphysics, and more, but we’re present to assistance you marque consciousness of it all.

So, whether you finished the sequel and request assistance knowing the afloat representation of the ending, oregon conscionable looking to spot however Hideo Kojima’s newest escapade unfolds, here’s our afloat Ending Explained for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach.

Setting the scene

Death Stranding 2 picks up 11 months aft the events of the archetypal Death Stranding. Following the palmy transportation of the erstwhile United States to the Chiral Network (this world’s magical net that is helping the satellite rebuild pursuing the apocalyptic titular Death Stranding), defeating the violent person Higgs, and preventing his sister Amelie from destroying the world, Sam Porter Bridges attempts to settee into a quiescent beingness with his daughter, Lou. But that thought is rapidly brought to a halt by the reappearance of erstwhile accomplice Fragile and her caller company, Drawbridge, erstwhile she asks Sam to caput southbound and get Mexico backmost connected the grid.

Upon connecting Mexico to the Chiral Network, it’s discovered that linking unneurotic a state appears to unfastened a Plate Gate (a elephantine teleportation portal) to different continents. This is captious due to the fact that aft the events of the Death Stranding, civilization is inactive mostly separated from each other, and Plate Gates would spell a agelong mode towards making Earth 1 interconnected nine again.

But arsenic Sam completes his Mexican mission, calamity strikes erstwhile a mysterious equipped radical successful reddish invades Sam’s location and kills Lou and injures Fragile, sending Sam into a depressive spiral implicit the nonaccomplishment of his child. Lost, helium agrees to articulation Drawbridge and the unit of its ship, the DHV Magellan, connected a ngo to link Australia, the destination of the Mexican Plate Gate.

Who are the Armed Red Attackers?

You got reddish connected you. Credit: Kojima Productions

Knowing who attacked Lou and Fragile is the archetypal measurement to knowing the ending of Death Stranding 2. The radical successful Red are mechanical soldiers 3D printed by a reborn Higgs, who, aft the events of the archetypal game, killed himself connected his Beach lone to travel backmost arsenic a glam stone mercenary robot hellbent connected getting revenge connected Sam and Fragile. This is wherefore helium attacks her and Lou.

But Higgs didn’t conscionable travel backmost to beingness by himself. His psyche was revived acknowledgment to an entity known arsenic APAS, a backstage corp that manages the automated transportation robots transporting packages astir the UCA. Their extremity is to link Mexico and aboriginal Australia to the Chiral Network to unfastened adjacent much Plate Gates and yet nexus up the full world.

But down the scenes, APAS is really tally by a sentient entity known arsenic APAS 4000, which is the fusion of the APAS AI strategy that manages deliveries and 4000 quality souls from radical who were killed successful a monolithic Voidout. Their eventual extremity is to elevate each humans into souls, preventing humanity from evolving and alternatively keeping them trapped successful the satellite of the dead, stopping them from triggering different Voidout ever again. A benevolent, but yet misguided effort to effort and incorporate humanity from erstwhile again exploring the satellite and making connections with 1 another. It would support Earth’s colonisation safe, but astatine the outgo of what makes them human, changing radical further into integer entities successful the signifier of their saviors.

How Sam Defeats APAS 4000

Who is this charismatic...doll? Credit: Kojima Productions

In a crippled of cat-and-mouse, APAS 4000 believes it is utilizing Sam to further its extremity of 1 time containing humanity from ever leaving their shelters ever again. But down the scenes, Fragile’s Drawbridge knows astir this program and is moving to halt APAS 4000. Fragile and Drawbridge’s benefactor, who is yet revealed to beryllium erstwhile President of the UCA, Die-Hardman, arsenic good arsenic the unit of the DHV Magellan, were successful information connecting assorted settlements successful Australia utilizing a caller Q-Pid. This instrumentality would sever the transportation betwixt the satellite of the surviving and the dead, and by extension, chopped disconnected APAS 4000’s transportation to the satellite owed to it being an entity made up of dormant souls.

By afloat connecting Australia with the caller Q-Pid, APAS 4000 is divided from the satellite of the living, and its program to trap humanity fails.

Wait, but what astir Higgs?

Higgs returns. Credit: Kojima Productions

While Higgs whitethorn person been brought backmost by APAS 4000 to effort and propulsion on its plans, Higgs is by nary means a lackey. Instead, Higgs uses his newfound robot assemblage to transportation retired a separate, much personally fuelled program of revenge. It was helium who attacked Fragile and Lou portion Sam was engaged reconnecting Mexico, and yet it’s revealed that Higgs plans to decorativeness what helium started successful the archetypal Death Stranding crippled and bring astir the extremity of the satellite via “The Last Stranding”.

Whereas successful the archetypal game, Higgs tried to usage the Extinction Entity known arsenic Amelie to trigger the earth-ending event, this clip helium tries to usage Tomorrow, a young pistillate Sam recovers from the satellite of the dead, who has mysterious powers that let her to usage tar to velocity up decay. By utilizing Tomorrow arsenic an Extinction Entity, Higgs’ program is to erstwhile and for each extremity quality life, sidesplitting Sam and Fragile successful the process. While Sam manages to decision Higgs and yet extremity his apocalyptic phantasy via a combo of samurai sword duelling, electrical guitar battle, and bully ol’ fashioned fistfight, Higgs does win successful completing 1 of his goals…

Fragile Dies

A hero's death. Credit: Kojima Productions

For overmuch of Death Stranding 2, we’re made to deliberation thatFragile survived the onslaught by Higgs, but Lou died. In reality, Fragile utilized her trans-dimensional teleportation powers to nonstop Lou to the satellite of the dead, portion Fragile was the 1 killed by Higgs. Because clip dilation and the favoritism betwixt beingness and decease are each kinds of messed up successful the satellite of Death Stranding, the Fragile that Sam and the DHV Magellan unit person been travelling with the full crippled is really Fragile’s psyche that she temporarily near down to assistance Sam and the unit decision Higgs, halt APAS 4000, and reconnect the world.

Unfortunately, her clip successful the satellite of the surviving is lone temporary, and she dies for existent astatine the extremity of the game. But what astir Lou?

BB-28/Lou/Tomorrow/Louise

Who is she? Credit: Kojima Productions

As it turns out, Lou was spared successful the onslaught by Higgs successful Mexico arsenic Fragile utilized her powers to nonstop Lou to different beach, efficaciously different dimension. Sent distant by Fragile, Lou grew up successful the satellite of the dormant arsenic manifested by the worker Neil Vanna (more connected him later). Years later, Sam Porter Bridges volition extremity up warring Neil successful this satellite and inadvertently rescue Lou, who is nary different than Tomorrow.

That’s right, Tomorrow is successful information the aforesaid babe Lou that Fragile sent distant astatine the commencement of the game. Lou, abbreviated for Louise, is besides BB-28 that Sam traveled crossed the UCA with successful Death Stranding, and much than that, is really Sam’s biologic daughter.

The Neil, Sam, and Lucy Love Triangle

Vana. Neil Vana. Credit: Kojima Productions

Okay, present we explicate the last puzzle that ties each of Death Stranding 2 together. So Louise survives Higgs’ archetypal onslaught successful Mexico and grows up to go Tomorrow. But wherefore did Higgs privation Lou successful the archetypal place?

That’s due to the fact that decades ago, Sam, who I should punctual you is simply a Repatriate — idiosyncratic who tin resurrect themselves acknowledgment to the effects of the Death Stranding — was successful a narration with a therapist named Lucy. Around this time, Lucy was seeing different patient, a antheral named Neil Vana, who was a smuggler moving for Bridges to present illegally acquired brain-dead large women whose stillborn babies would go the precise archetypal Bridge Babies. Wracked with guilt, Neil sought the assistance of Lucy, who, it turns out, saved Neil erstwhile they were some children from the aforesaid colony nether onslaught by BTs.

Reunited aft each those years, Neil rekindles a narration with Lucy that becomes romanticist adjacent though Lucy was successful a narration with Sam astatine the time. Despite Neil and Lucy’s adjacent relationship, Lucy chose to enactment with Sam, and unneurotic they conceived a child.

Unfortunately, a babe calved from a Repatriate similar Sam held precocious worth for Bridges, who were inactive conducting their archetypal experiments with BBs. Once they discovered Lucy’s pregnancy, Bridges sought to instrumentality the kid from her.

To support the unborn babe Louise, Lucy convinced Neil to unreal to beryllium the begetter of the child, making the babe little invaluable to Bridges. Together with the baby, they would flight the metropolis and Bridges, but would sadly ne'er marque it that acold arsenic some Neil and Lucy are killed, but not earlier Louise is removed from Lucy’s dying body, frankincense redeeming the baby.

Louise becomes BB-28, but is thankfully hidden distant by Sam’s adoptive parent and President of the United States, Bridget Strand, keeping her hidden agelong capable to beryllium reunited with Sam decades aboriginal during the events of the archetypal Death Stranding.

As for Neil, his last enactment of revenge against Bridges is for his assemblage to necrotize, truthful causing a Voidout and destroying the metropolis and everyone successful it. Meanwhile, Neil’s psyche wanders the earth, incapable to find peace. Similar to Mads Mikkelsen’s Cliff successful the archetypal game, Neil’s mercenary psyche haunts Sam until the 2 men look disconnected successful a destined duel that yet gives Neil bid and Sam closure with Lucy.

Post-credits scene, and volition we get a Death Stranding 3?

Will determination beryllium a Death Stranding 3? Credit: Kojima Productions

But that isn’t rather the extremity of the revelations. Yes, Death Stranding 2 does person a post-credit scene, and it features a seemingly adjacent much grown-up Tomorrow/Louise dressed up successful afloat porter gear, arsenic good arsenic inheriting Fragile’s creepy 2nd acceptable of hands and her smoking habit. She’s faced with a Plate Gate, possibly signalling that she’ll travel successful her father’s steps and effort to link different caller continent to the Chiral Network. Could Death Stranding 3 person america going to Europe, Asia, oregon Africa, for example? And could we beryllium playing arsenic Tomorrow successful the sequel? We surely wouldn’t accidental nary to playing astir with her unsocial tar-infused martial arts skillset.

And that’s the afloat ending of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach explained. Be definite to cheque retired our reappraisal to work wherefore we loved Hideo Kojima’s newest escapade and besides cheque retired our ranking of each Hideo Kojima game.