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Spoilers for Death Stranding 2 are flooding social media and YouTube, posted by those who bought the digital deluxe edition of the game.

This digital deluxe edition, which provides a 48-hour early access window to those who buy it, released on the 24th June. For owners of the regular version, the game becomes available tomorrow on the 26th June.

Those who have been able to play early have been keen to share their experiences online, but given how narratively rich Death Stranding 2 is (and the whole catalogue of Kojima’s works), this has led to a deluge of early game story moments and equipment popping up on the internet.

Why not check out our video review of Death Stranding 2. No spoilers!Watch on YouTube

Death Stranding 2, a game which takes between 35-50 hours to beat, is a chunky experience, especially for completionists. However, given the fact deluxe edition owners will obviously continue to play and post their screenshots and videos online as they proceed into the game’s later moments, it’s best to stay away from such platforms if you’re looking to go in fresh.

It’s been a rough few days for the spoiler-averse. Earlier this week, the opening hour of the game leaked online, giving away all the twists and turns the game throws at you in the game’s opening scenes.

One could argue plenty of story moments have already been revealed ahead of launch, due to a release trailer for the game which featured plenty of cinematics from throughout the game’s runtime. Still, it’s nice to go in without knowing the surprises that await you. Except for some of the spoiler-free technical stuff maybe, like the fact Death Stranding 2 benefits from super fast load times. Cool!

If you want a spoiler-free impression of what the game is like, why not read Eurogamer’s Death Stranding 2 review! In it, the game is described as: “A busier, louder, and more emotionally resplendent take on this singular hiking sim.” No spoilers necessary!

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If you’re one of those people who refuses to look at social media out of fear of spoilers, Meta’s Instagram-adjacent Threads app has a solution it hopes will keep you doomscrolling anyway. The new tool will let people mark words in their posts as “spoilers,” preventing eyeballs who haven’t yet watched, say, a certain episode of The Last of Us from learning a certain beloved main character’s grisly fate.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the feature “let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment (or anything that can be spoiled), simply by marking it as a spoiler. When a user marks it a spoiler, the text or image will be blurred until whoever is seeing the post selects it and asks to know more.”

That sounds similar to Reddit’s feature that lets users hide potentially spoiler-y text when posting in forums discussing recent TV shows, for instance. So far, Threads is the only social media platform to offer such an option; X and BlueSky, THR points out, do not have anti-spoiler tools in place.

In theory, it’s a great idea. However, it’s on the person posting to deploy the feature, which means it’s up to individuals to decide what they think is a spoiler and what’s not—as well as what an acceptable “window” is for blabbing about a major plot twist. For some, it might be a week; others, it might be “as soon as the thing happens in my time zone.”

And really, there’s a greater question at work here: what are you doing on social media at all if spoilers are that important to you? Inevitably, someone’s gonna spill the beans—even if you’re carefully only treading on Threads—and you’ll only have yourself to blame for seeing whatever they wrote.

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