Beached Things, or BTs
As mentioned in our guide dedicated to the story of Death Stranding, the name of the game and its themes are inspired by cetacean stranding or beaching. When entities from the world of the dead, are washed ashore in the real world, that is 'Death Stranding'. The spectral creatures of Death Stranding are nicknamed Beached Things, or BTs. For they have beached themselves in our world, and they seek to devour the living.
When a BT eats a living person, it creates a large crater called Voidout. Sam has the particularity of being able to return to the real world after a fight in what looks like a crossroad between the world of the dead and ours. It also seems that his blood has a power on BTs, for unknown reasons.
Gazer
Gazers seem to be the most common BTs. They are often present in areas that have suffered a voidout in the past, or when the paranormal timefall phenomenon is also at work. Unlike what their name might suggest, they detect living beings with sound.
Sam can avoid detection by staying still and holding his breath. Strangely, the gazers are invisible when Sam moves, but they appear when he stops. The gazers cannot be killed, but Sam's hematic grenades can paralyze them for a while.
Hunter
When a gazer has spotted Sam, he alerts the hunters who will chase him. These BTs look like hands and arms, and they will try to catch Sam and then drag him into the nearest puddle of tar to swallow him up.
It seems that the weight carried has a significant influence on the outcome of this fight. Once swallowed up, Sam finds himself in the transition zone between the world of the living and the world of the dead, facing a Catcher.
Catcher
Large BTs with various appearances, but which usually have tentacles on their heads. They are made of antimatter, and if they devour Sam, a voidout that will annihilate part of the map. The impact on the story is not yet fully understood, but it seems that Sam can still come back to life after that, however, the crater will remain. On the other hand, if Sam manages to kill a wrestler, it drops a craft component called Chiral crystal, which can be used to build advanced equipment.
The combat video shows that his attacks are quite diverse and fearsome, with long-range energy attacks and tentacles blows among others. In another video, the wrestler behaves more like an aquatic creature leaping from one black puddle to another. In another trailer, Higgs invokes a Wrestler to attack Sam.
Colossus
We know almost nothing about these enormous monsters, not even their official name. We can see one of them annihilate Sam's team and create a voidout in the 2017 TGA trailer.
