The Veteran Porter

[Tr0w]

Whoever worked on this part of the game must utterly loathe the players. Only one delivery for him that i could find after running round everyone in the mountain region and it's a delivery that progresses him by a quarter of a star, while lost cargo progresses him by a millimetre. I expect this kind of miserable content from mmos and ubisoft games...

[Seamus]

As crap as it is it's kinda explained by how much he in absolutely no way trusts Sam.

There's a couple more orders depending on where you look, iirc. That helps a little.

[Waiwai]

Open the map, and find Veteran Porter on map, open available order details on Veteran Porter (default key: F). You should see where can find delivery for Veteran Porter.

Spent around 4 hours for me to hit 5 stars on Veteran Porter.

PS: both of delivery travel length and delivery time spend need to short to get good score, delivery volume is not the most important, otherwise S rank doesn't mean a thing even you hit S rank.

[Crimsomrider]

That's because he doesn't trust the UCA yet, so no matter how much you deliver to him his rating will barely move.

Do his own deliveries and deliver whatever lost cargo you can find. After a while he will start sending emails saying how he doesn't trust the leaders of the UCA, but does trust Sam. Once he does that, even the smallest lost cargo will give a whole star.

Emails are the key. The First Prepper was also like that and impossible to raise any stars until he sends an email about joining the UCA.

[Mountain Man]

Originally posted by Waiwai:

Open the map, and find Veteran Porter on map, open available order details on Veteran Porter (default key: F). You should see where can find delivery for Veteran Porter.

I didn't know you could do this. Good tip.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Crimsomrider:

That's because he doesn't trust the UCA yet, so no matter how much you deliver to him his rating will barely move.

Do his own deliveries and deliver whatever lost cargo you can find. After a while he will start sending emails saying how he doesn't trust the leaders of the UCA, but does trust Sam. Once he does that, even the smallest lost cargo will give a whole star.

Emails are the key. The First Prepper was also like that and impossible to raise any stars until he sends an email about joining the UCA.

He's already sent those mails and i've already read them, made no difference.

Originally posted by Seamus:

As crap as it is it's kinda explained by how much he in absolutely no way trusts Sam.

There's a couple more orders depending on where you look, iirc. That helps a little.

Yeah i get the no trust angle but the devs already handled that way better with other characters. Other people that don't trust Sam give him a potentially difficult task, retrieve x or y from a BT area or Mule/Terrorist camp for a good chunk of points. Running around hoping lost cargo spawns or doing low yield orders until your brain matter is dribbling out your ears just drags the experience down.

[Nope]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Yeah i get the no trust angle but the devs already handled that way better with other characters. Other people that don't trust Sam give him a potentially difficult task, retrieve x or y from a BT area or Mule/Terrorist camp for a good chunk of points. Running around hoping lost cargo spawns or doing low yield orders until your brain matter is dribbling out your ears just drags the experience down.

Unlike the other Veteran Porter is well....a porter, so to him whether you can do dangerous task or not really doesn't matter as, it's only once in a while job, while making regular delivery, complete them with perfection time after time is what a porter should be, because that's his job
Still it's an annoyance at start with him, once you get his trust, you can rank him up pretty fast, unlike with Collector or First Prepper

[ImHelping]

Still not as miserable as the wind farm. Granted I also was insane and spammed deliveries to them before leaving at launch too. But even making a zipline to them later is a slot.

Still, guys like this is part of why one of the few safehouses I make is by the timefall farm. Stubbornly taking a motorcycle in that area saves me more bandwidth (and the farm never lets me sleep in it even after hitting rank 5 because ??? ). And why my second favored safehouse is right behind the spiritulist. (i saw one online once and it ended up my most used safehouse. now I make one there if it isn't there already)

If you have done all the """common knowledge""" tricks, you may be getting ♥♥♥♥ blocked by plot progression instead? If you are not before some points of no return one way or another, try doing some plot missions and then getting back to him later.

See also; "It is common knowledge you can just find a package or reach their location to take a job to unlock them in the first place!" vs "Photographer gives no ♥♥♥♥♥ until the main plot says they should" being a frequent customer of justified confusion.

As much as I love this game, the artificial capping on gains is a real bastard. I can give some leeway on the main plot locations needing bottlenecks for stuff like vehicle ranks and primary weapons. But offbeat 99-100% cosmetic unlock locations being a ♥♥♥♥ tease is just pointless.

I used to try and soften that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on replays by holding deliveries and thousands of likes worth of lost boxes hostage, so I could feed them boxes and deliveries a bit at a time to avoid "You turned in 3,000+ likes worth of stuff and the start did not move because it is not allowed"

But it feels like they made it so you have to turn it all in at once or not at all unless I'm just out of practice with that trick.

[Hiham]

preppers who don't gain much from deliveries, basically mean to advance the story a little bit. there was a point where novelist's son and veteran were both not raising. stuck at 1.5 stars. after you progress a bit of story, their stars will shoot up.

[Waiwai]

Originally posted by Hiham:

preppers who don't gain much from deliveries, basically mean to advance the story a little bit. there was a point where novelist's son and veteran were both not raising. stuck at 1.5 stars. after you progress a bit of story, their stars will shoot up.

In additional, you will be messaged about they try to join UCA or not, or about their past, that hints you can expect next delivery will gain more trust.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Still not as miserable as the wind farm. Granted I also was insane and spammed deliveries to them before leaving at launch too. But even making a zipline to them later is a slot.

Still, guys like this is part of why one of the few safehouses I make is by the timefall farm. Stubbornly taking a motorcycle in that area saves me more bandwidth (and the farm never lets me sleep in it even after hitting rank 5 because ??? ). And why my second favored safehouse is right behind the spiritulist. (i saw one online once and it ended up my most used safehouse. now I make one there if it isn't there already)

If you have done all the """common knowledge""" tricks, you may be getting ♥♥♥♥ blocked by plot progression instead? If you are not before some points of no return one way or another, try doing some plot missions and then getting back to him later.

See also; "It is common knowledge you can just find a package or reach their location to take a job to unlock them in the first place!" vs "Photographer gives no ♥♥♥♥♥ until the main plot says they should" being a frequent customer of justified confusion.

As much as I love this game, the artificial capping on gains is a real bastard. I can give some leeway on the main plot locations needing bottlenecks for stuff like vehicle ranks and primary weapons. But offbeat 99-100% cosmetic unlock locations being a ♥♥♥♥ tease is just pointless.

I used to try and soften that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on replays by holding deliveries and thousands of likes worth of lost boxes hostage, so I could feed them boxes and deliveries a bit at a time to avoid "You turned in 3,000+ likes worth of stuff and the start did not move because it is not allowed"

But it feels like they made it so you have to turn it all in at once or not at all unless I'm just out of practice with that trick.

Aye windfarm was awful but it was at the start of the game so i haven't had anything as bad as it until now. The windfarm at least had loads of big point deliveries from the surrounding area, same with collector.

[Jack]

He blames you for not getting any business, himself, if you read his emails.
He doesn't like you.
So you aren't going to get many "Likes" from him no matter what you do.
What I found helped was collecting his lost cargo and just storing it all.

Make a run of the region and collect whatever of his you can find.
Go to a place, store the cargo, and return to main or close the game.
When you open it back up, you're giving new 'lost cargo' to do it all over again.

If he wants to be an jerk, I can use the power of 'cheese' to defeat him.

He is a bastard, though, you're right.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Whoever worked on this part of the game must utterly loathe the players. Only one delivery for him that i could find after running round everyone in the mountain region and it's a delivery that progresses him by a quarter of a star, while lost cargo progresses him by a millimetre. I expect this kind of miserable content from mmos and ubisoft games...

And crying about it in a forum always helps, right?

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Whoever worked on this part of the game must utterly loathe the players. Only one delivery for him that i could find after running round everyone in the mountain region and it's a delivery that progresses him by a quarter of a star, while lost cargo progresses him by a millimetre. I expect this kind of miserable content from mmos and ubisoft games...

And crying about it in a forum always helps, right?

I know right forums are just echo chambers to shower games with nothing but praise and ignoring their issues. Go ♥♥♥♥ yourself fanboi.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Whoever worked on this part of the game must utterly loathe the players. Only one delivery for him that i could find after running round everyone in the mountain region and it's a delivery that progresses him by a quarter of a star, while lost cargo progresses him by a millimetre. I expect this kind of miserable content from mmos and ubisoft games...

And crying about it in a forum always helps, right?

I mean, this is how a good portion of bugs are solved.
A: cry about it as a bug rep hope it gets patched.
B: Cry about it and this magically makes the bug stop happening to you.

Of course, us actual veterans of this game remember everyone screaming about the guy this OP is talking ♥♥♥♥ about back when the game was new. So... did you just forget everything you ever learned about the death stranding experience?

Next you will tell me you never had a zipline decide to change your drop down angle by 90 degrees to drop you off the side of a mountain to your death at launch instead of it putting you down on the entire zipcode of safe land you were facing.

[kabaab]

Originally posted by Waiwai:

Open the map, and find Veteran Porter on map, open available order details on Veteran Porter (default key: F). You should see where can find delivery for Veteran Porter.

Spent around 4 hours for me to hit 5 stars on Veteran Porter.

PS: both of delivery travel length and delivery time spend need to short to get good score, delivery volume is not the most important, otherwise S rank doesn't mean a thing even you hit S rank.

thank you so much I didn’t even know that was a thing you can do to see where you can find delivery for veteran porter