How do i get through the forest area by the Wind Farm with BTs?

[shamalamadingdong]

No matter how careful I am I can't sneak through this area. I keep triggering BTs and it really drives me nuts. I also try to just stay on my bike but the rocks on the ground make it impossible. I'm really enjoying the delivery part of this game, but the BTs grind the game to a halt. The slow motion poop water sludge while the baby is crying and the giant whale is no longer scary or interesting after you see it 20 times. It's ruining the game for me and is not fun. Can anyone explain to me is there a trick to avoid BT's in this area or is there something im missing? Is there a 100 percent way to get around a BT every time when I see one? Do I just not like this game?

[JayJay]

https://guides.gamepressure.com/death-stranding/guide.asp?ID=52392

[Snow]

Crouch, and hold your breath

[satsun]

Go left around the upper edge. No BTs.

[Lunchbox]

Just go really slow. Stop and look where they're at then go away from that. If you get too close, hold your breath, and if they start coming after you, don't run or you're screwed. If they notice you, hold your breath and slowly crouch walk away from where you were. Pay attention to your odradek too cause it always points to the closest BT. Also, you should not be riding the trike through there. I'm playing on very hard and have only got caught by BTs once and even then did not get killed or pulled away or anything.

[Commander Hitman2b]

Originally posted by shamalamadingdong:

No matter how careful I am I can't sneak through this area. I keep triggering BTs and it really drives me nuts. I also try to just stay on my bike but the rocks on the ground make it impossible. I'm really enjoying the delivery part of this game, but the BTs grind the game to a halt. The slow motion poop water sludge while the baby is crying and the giant whale is no longer scary or interesting after you see it 20 times. It's ruining the game for me and is not fun. Can anyone explain to me is there a trick to avoid BT's in this area or is there something im missing? Is there a 100 percent way to get around a BT every time when I see one? Do I just not like this game?

don't use the bike or atleast use it to escape the BT

[Noah]

Standing still reveals BTs. You can then scan them and they will appear highlighted for longer while you move. As soon as you are out of orange warning and into blue clicking, you can release breath. Make sure you are drinking from your canteen to maximise time to breathe, as you will only drink what you need, so nothing is wasted.
I can't remember if you will have EX grenades or blood grenades but you can use EX to stun and bloodnades to completely kill a BT.
To minimise contact, following the outside of the forest is viable, and also provides better visibility.

Sometimes you may need to go backwards to get into a safer spot and to allow yourself time to choose your next move.

If you're spotted, you won't always need to stabilise yourself with LT and RT, after you shake off the initial ghouls, you should sprint out of the circle

AND OF COURSE CROUCH THE WHOLE TIME lol

[Hsekiu]

The first time I went to the wind farm on the PS4 I felt like you. I honestly never wanted to return there after that first experience, but it's not that bad once you plan your route around the terrain. Most of the area in the middle is very uneven with big rocks, trees, etc making the space you have to walk around and avoid BTs very small. Even worse, they're quite densely populated, so you should avoid this area if at all possible.

Instead, when picking a route through the wind farm I highly recommend sticking to the left side, try hugging the mountain as much as possible. This area ironically has a lot more open terrain and also far less BTs. Even if you encounter any, you should have a lot of space to avoid them with ease.

The other advice mentioned above when around BTs still applies.

Watch your odradek carefully and pay close attention to when it changes. When it gets faster, that means you're closer to a BT. When it becomes orange, you're very close, and when it's spinning, you're right next to one and should be extremely cautious. When it becomes a tight pin, that means a BT has discovered you and is now coming your way and you need to get out of the area quickly. Don't be afraid to stay still for a moment in combination with your odradek, like if the direction changes or you think you're close to one. It'll reveal where they are to you.

Use all of the information that gives you to plan when it's appropriate to walk normally, crouch, and slow crouch / hold your breath. Once you get used to this system after a while you'll feel a lot more confident around BTs and will probably spend less time holding your breath or staying still. Usually once you get to the end of BT territory there's a good stretch you can just walk normally, go ahead and do that since it's faster. You'll know because the odradek will be pointing behind you very slowly.

[Omensinger]

Press Q

It will show you the close BTs and you can walk around them. Also, go high up on the right and follow the ridge, there's not many of them there

[Plumpeach]

The trick is when your od makes a noise, stop! If you hold for a few seconds you can actually see them.

[ウィッチ（？）]

Bring some grenades (that made with your.. stuff from shower and toilet). Those will stun BT for a while to let you move thru quickly without getting detected.
Not have or ran out of grenade? use your pee instead (as last resort but it works).

[Raiden]

I found that dropping everything, except 2 rounds of BT Grenades, with 2 blood bags. Then I spam 2-3 grenades at the boss, sometimes you can't be sure how fast it will move, so I'll throw a grenade between me and him. Then when he gets closer like a idiot, he'll touch the blood cloud, and then I throw another grenade. You might be able to do the same thing with some Ex 2 grenades, but I kinda doubt it. Ex 0 makes them walk the other way, Ex 1 stuns, and Ex 2 kills them temporarily.

If your set on trying to avoid them, the left side of the mountain works best, the right side has too many and you end up trapped. When this happened to me, I bolted across, and they couldn't catch up to me before I got in the base perimeter, and they lost interest at that point. If you have alot of heavy stuff on, bolting across doesn't work so well. Also there's some vids that show Sam Porter peeing on them. They really don't like it. But the boss guy ignores the urine, and just eats ya.. so there is that.

If you want to test the urine thing, make sure to drink some monster before the encounter to build up that BT-b-gone urine. lol...

Once you master the grenade stuff, it becomes alot easier, also resting before the encounter to "save" is a good idea, if you'd like to test out different strategies.

[NexAngelus *X*]

i just RAN like hell and ended up getting dragged half way to my destination....stopped being dragged...KEPT running like hell :) super easy

[shamalamadingdong]

Yeah thanks for replies I realize now I was being stupid by trying to bike through everything. I had no idea you could crouch sneak by them... I notice when you crouch every few seconds the BT vanish and make a noise and then reappear. am i supposed to stop moving when they vanish for a second? Also sometiems they are facing me but it does not seem to matter if they will see me or not.

[topeveryday]

pretty sure this is the part of the game where you suppose to interact with the bts and encounter it, after that just pee on them or something

[Crinkles]

Originally posted by shamalamadingdong:

I had no idea you could crouch sneak by them...

So many people miss/forget important mechanics that the game straight-up tells you about...

Some of the tutorial-style tips do flash by a bit faster than you can read them if you're busy looking around. It might be worth opening your cufflink screen and looking through the tips in the Data menu to see what else you might've missed.

But yeah, the forest can be passed on foot without a BT laying a hand on you just by crouching and weaving between them, keeping an eye on the Odradek. I went right down the center not knowing the left side was a better option.