Developer Techland has announced Dying Light 2's Update 1.4.0 will be just the first part of a planned five years worth of free content for players, which means the title will be supported into the incredibly futuristic-sounding year 2027.
Update 1.4.0 is now live, and it brings with it many quality-of-life changes, bug fixes, and technical enhancements. The big-ticket items, however, are as follows:
Features:
- Chapter Agent — meet Harper, a former Nightrunner that acts as your link to the new features. Find him at the Fish Eye Canteen and assist him in taking down the Infected.
- New Rank System — discover a system that strengthens the bond between you and the agent by carrying out his tasks.
- Daily and Weekly Bounties — face the Infected head-on in a series of daily and weekly night activities that will earn you reputation points upon completion.
- Unlockables — with enough reputation points, you can rank up to unlock access to high-end weapons, outfits, and consumables.
- 2 New Currencies — to purchase these new items, you will first need to collect mutation samples off of the corpses of the Special Infected and acquire unique Harper’s Tokens with each new rank.
- New Enemies — meet the deadly and fierce Mutated Infected, the Volatile Tyrant, and the Volatile Hive.
- Chapter Mission — in this mission, you will have to endure time trials that will test your stealth, parkour, and combat skills to the limit.
Dying Light 2 has sold quite well since its launch, and we thought it was a good sequel that was ultimately hurt by expectations. The first piece of major paid DLC for the game has been delayed until September, so it's cool that Techland is providing such meaty free updates in the meantime.
Did Dying Light 2 live up to your expectations? Are you planning on checking back in with the game after this latest patch? Stay human in the comments section below.
[source dyinglightgame.com]
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It was okay. The parkour got a bit tedious by the end and I thought the performance was quite bad even on PS5. The graphics quality didn’t seem to match the sluggishness. I kinda do hope for a PS5 Pro next year, seems games struggle to hit 60fps without big graphic and resolution downgrades. I’m looking forward to seeing what proper DLC they come out with, they added some good stuff to DL1. but so far I’m not impressed with time trials, skin unlocks and such. Waiting on story DLC.
@ScepticDK the first game was brilliant (and terrifying). I wanted to like the second game so much but it was very average.
This title has its moments, but too much meh inbetween.
5 years of updates seems to be quite a commitment for a game I didnt think had that big an install base? Nice to see them want to offer that level of support, though I suspect the roadmap, will end a little earlier....
@ScepticDK
Even the story is better?
That was like the worst part in the first game lol. Combined with terrible voice acting.
This one seems like a bargain bin game then unfortunately. Weird, especially how it spent so much time in development
Hopefully the major DLC has new trophies.
@HeroYoshiko Welcome to console gaming, if you want 4K 60FPS Ray Tracing games then buy a £1000+ PC. Digital Foundry were pretty blunt about not needing a Pro because the PS5's true power along side Series X is barely being explored by anyone. Dying Light 2 is also a game where the Devs haven't even tried to do anything with the more powerful machines for it.
A PS5 Pro is not happening anytime soon because right now Sony can barely get PS5's out there. Making a £600+ console that no one can buy is just throwing money away.
Hopefully there’s not a third then cos the 1st one was mediocre and if this one is significantly worse than that, damn
@HeroYoshiko
We ain’t getting any new Pro systems for a long time. We don’t need them.
Still waiting for cross-gen co-op to play
@WallyWest nah, but I’ll get a PS5 Pro or a PS6 when it comes out. Cheers.
@WallyWest wow, making excuses for devs so sweet.
@HeroYoshiko Excuses? Can you read? I said Techland didn't bother to do anything with PS5 and Series X, Forza and Horizon 2 easily show how much visual power you can get from the consoles and Horizon's latest update has made the 4K all but useless as Performance mode is really close to it now.
Enjoy waiting 5-7 years for a PS6 though. As for a Pro yeah keep waiting, the chances of it are slim and Digital Foundry explained why Pro was a thing last gen.
@WallyWest totes adorb
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