Techland is doing owners of the original Dying Light game a real solid and automatically upgrading base versions of the game to the Enhanced Edition starting today. This applies to both physical and digital versions of the parkour focused zombie game, netting you The Following expansion as well as four smaller DLC packs.
To take advantage of the offer, you'll need to launch the game and then scroll down to the "DLC Packs" option in the main menu. Button through and all the DLC should be listed as free. You'll get The Following, The Bozak Horde, Crash Test Skin Pack, Ultimate Survivor Bundle, and Cuisine and Cargo. The only significant piece of post-launch content you won't receive is Hellraid, which is £7.99/$9.99 on the PlayStation Store.
The Following is the biggest piece of content you're getting here for free with this offer, adding a new map, story, and even vehicle to the experience. In our PS4 review, we awarded the expansion an 8/10 and called it "DLC done right".
Furthermore, the game received a PS5 patch a few months ago, adding three graphical modes. Performance Mode runs at 60 frames-per-second in full HD, Balanced Mode targets 60fps in QHD, and Quality Mode gives you a 4K resolution at 30fps. Will you be taking advantage of this offer and playing some free Dying Light content? Don't forget Dying Light 2 is also out now if you like what you see.
[source twitter.com]
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This is actually a great idea and i’ll be happy to jump back in for what I didn’t play.
More games should do this. Looking at you Call of Duty 👀
Techland are extremely commendable devs. They just stay in their lane and do what their own audience wants, no more no less. From making Dying Light 2 essentially just Dying Light + to now giving every Dying Light player the DLCs for free, they’re sticking to what they’re good at and what people like.
While okay, DL2 is not quite on the same level as DL1. It will get there though. Two very different games. Main lesson I think is the “story” is not that important.
Brilliant move from the developers. Fantastic amount of content aswell. One of my most favourite games from last gen. Excellent game.
Ok fine, I'll finally come back to this game after 7 years. Not looking forward to trying to find someone to play Bozak Horde though, so might just do the following.
I knew I should have just kept holding off on buying this version when it was on sale a few weeks ago. Oh well lesson learned.
This is really cool of Techland. I played Dying Light back in 2015, and enjoyed it for what it was. I completed The Following at the end of 2019, and it was a solid DLC IMO. I loved using the off-road buggy to mow down the undead hordes of greater Harran.
I didn’t like the second game but the first one was brilliant. Haven’t played The Following yet so definitely checking this out.
Sweet! And I was waiting for it to go on sale, I have the original on disc so I can scoop up all the dlc with my disc which is nice, I'm assuming this will work on the ps5 aswell I can install the game later, does enhanced edition have a new trophy list?
@Ken_Kaniff I'm glad I held my guns up, this is a nice surprise 😁😁✌️✌️
The Following is amazing so anyone yet to play it i highly recommend you do.
After completing dying light 2 I went back to 1 now they've added 60fps. Finding it so difficult - don't remember it being this hard before. Struggling to find any decent weapons, weapons break really quickly, and the zombies require a good 10-20 hits before 'dying'.
This is a great move by the devs though, will definitely check out the DLC.
A mate of mine lent me his copy of this, after purchasing number 2. I'll be thrilled to hop in to the ps5 version, with dlc and graphical upgrades! Thanks chum
Amazing. If I weren't so full of games to play right now I would get this game in the PS Store sale today!! Always wanted this and now the 2nd!
@Deoxyr1bose Mostly. They went way of their lane when talking about the story and choices of Dying Light 2. But still, very commendable I agree.
@huyi Yea the DLC has new trophies.
It's not free in US. The Following and Bozak Horde require buying the $30 season pass.
Edit: I have the disc, not digital, if that's the issue too.
Edit 2: Perhaps the update isn't available in US yet? I'm on version 1.43 but it seems to be version 1.49 that makes everything free? Can anyone confirm what version includes the enhanced edition upgrade?
Sweet! I’ll definitely check it out!! Thanks for the heads-up!!
I will definitely check this out. Thank you Techland!!
Hellraids the only one I don't have 🙃
Not to take anything away from Techland doing this for an old game and their continued support of it, but kind of sucks that I could have just bought the regular version of the game and not the Enhanced Edition when they were both on sale a month or two ago on PSN.
I know it's not going to happen, and I also know it might come off a bit petty, but they should also give people the difference back if they bought that now for no reason. It's hard not to feel a little crappy about the fact that people are getting it for free when I just paid extra for it not that long ago. It was only $15 total, but oh well in the end I guess.
Anyone having issues getting the free dlc on ps5?
@Deoxyr1bose y'all was whining and complaining about dying light 2 after it's released and now you love it wow flip flops
@Deljo this is why I asked, I still have my og disc so if I install it to get all the content I hope it will still work
Techland seems to be the new CDPR lol
This is pretty cool of them to do and comes as a complete surprise. If anyone from Techland happens to read this: Thank you!
@Deljo looking online I'm seeing a lot of reports of the DLC not actually being free. I haven't found a single person who's been able to claim it.
@Milktastrophe Yep, can’t claim it. It says in order to purchase I have to buy the season pass.
That is great news. Amazing game and a free upgrade on top.
@Milktastrophe you can do it solo, it took me a Saturday afternoon a long time ago to do it solo but it's doable.
+you get the bozak bow which is imo the best weapon in the game especially if playing the following and you put your upgrade points into the ranged skill.
omg i loved this game i got caught up in side missions met a really funny dude called stavi was that his name? been so long lol
the whole lot was like an insane fever dream lol then another game came out and fell in to it lol i will go back ,have this on playstation ,xbox and steam to the trainer on pc had fun and interesting ways of dealing with these zombies lol only triple dip on games i love lol . il have to clear it before i get the 2nd.
Great news to hear! Hopefully the free DLC will work for me.
@beebs720 me too, seen a post from tech land suggesting that if your using an external hdd to reinstall it directly onto the ps5 hard drive. I'll give that a go later..
I bought then platinum edition for like £20 on a sale a while back? Can’t imagine this effects me?
I still haven’t really played past the first few hours.. maybe I should give it a proper shot
Cool, and thanks. But development wise, that effort imo, could have been put into dying light 2 because it had so big issues for me.
Redownloaded DL2 like an idiot.
@Deljo Cool, thanks! I will try that this weekend.
@Milktastrophe did you have any luck with the download??
@Deljo nope. I contacted Techland support and they said it works fine if you update the game and download the DLC from in-game. I replied with a video showing I'm on the latest version and can't download the DLC, so I'll see if they respond again in the next couple days.
@Milktastrophe I'm the same. What version did yours update to as mines 1.40 but I believe the update should be 1.49...
@Deljo someone told me that the 1.49 number only corresponds to steam and PS4 and Xbox have a different version number. So I guess we'd need whatever version is the PS4 versions May 2022 patch.
I'm actually on 1.43, which is the March 2022 patch for NA. I'm guessing you're EU, in which case 1.40 should be the same.
According to this DB, we've got the latest version, but I'm not sure if this site pulls from PSN directly or has people manually updating it.
Ah, thanks for that. I tried deleting off the ps5 and reinstalling on my ps4 but made no difference. Seems to be a pretty common issue surprising that none of the main sites have mentioned it
@Deljo @LiamCroft Techland support has come back to tell me that the DLC will not be free for people with the disc version until May 19th.
@Milktastrophe sweet, thanks for letting me know bud 👍
@Deljo any luck your end?, still nothing here and got the same email back saying it was going to be today...
@Deljo it's finally free for me. No patch to download and it still says "buy" in the dlc menu instead of "free", but once I clicked on The Following and Bozak Horde DLC's it let me just download them.
Ooo I'll have to try again later, thanks for letting me know 👍
I've download all the updates from the original disc, started the game and went to dlc and there is no option to upgrade to enhanced, what am I doing wrong? Only option is to download the following dlc expansion and that's it?
It's still saying that the enhanced is £30? This is on ps5 console
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