Sony Interactive Entertainment has successfully patented the path-building mechanic featured in Death Stranding.
The patent, which was filed four months before the game originally released on PS4 and was just granted on Tuesday, is named “terrain radar and gradual building of a route in a virtual environment of a video game”.
It protects one of the game’s more interesting features, in that paths can be improved depending on how many players have previously used them.
The patent refers to “improving
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