What New Zombie Game? Dying Light 2's Gut Feeling Update Is Out Today

Slay together for the kids

by Khayl Adam Fri 21st Apr 2023

Dying Light 2's huge Gut Feeling update is out today, directly competing for the hearts and minds of gamers with Dead Island 2, the other big first-person zombie-slaying franchise on the market.

In addition to overhauling the game's melee mechanics and physics (including a focus on dismemberment which seems like a direct response to Dead Island 2's FLESH system) and adding in transmogrification, Gut Feeling will add the Viral Rush limited-time event, as well as new blueprints for players to uncover. It's also entirely free, so another plus.

While obviously not as full-featured as a whole new game like Dead Island 2, it's nice to see developer Techland isn't willing to cede any ground and is committed to making its game the best it can be. Will you be spending your weekend with the new-hotness, Dead Island 2, or will you be dancing with the one that brought you, Dying Light 2? Make a tough decision in the comments section below.

[source dyinglightgame.com]

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

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itsfoz
Fri 21st Apr 2023

I took DL2 for a short but sweet spin last night and it’s a lovely update but I’ll be wining, dining and PlayStation Five-ing (sorry - I had to..) with Dead Island 2 from today.

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EfYI
Fri 21st Apr 2023

Dying Light 2 was such a huge disappointment to me personally. The best elements of the first game was watered down. The story was very lame, I felt a huge disconnect. The changes to communities were at best a sugarcoated lie. Weapons and crafting felt worse. Combat felt way worse. Zombies and their overall design felt way, way worse.

Traversal was good, though.

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Nepp67
Fri 21st Apr 2023

@EfYI My problem with DL2 is that it never felt like it had a proper focus to it. It always seemed like they were trying to make it for everyone with watering down the horror aspect of night, only making chases happen if you alert a howler instead of roaming volatiles, and the choices mattering SO little.

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LordAinsley
Fri 21st Apr 2023

I dropped this game so hard, but the combat is looking pretty good here.

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WolfyTn
Fri 21st Apr 2023

Like my momma always said.. “you can polish a turd but it’s still a piece of sh💩”

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EquiinoxGII
Fri 21st Apr 2023

Yeah I switched DL2 off after 30mins. Absolute turd.

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stephenhughes23
Sat 22nd Apr 2023

Honestly I love both I will be plan on playing DI2 OH HELL YEAH

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CallMeDuraSouka
Sat 22nd Apr 2023

Thanks Pushsquare!! I knew this was coming up, but thought it was in June.

Finally took it out of the box and in 27 hours it'll be downloaded. (Might be kidding, not sure......)!

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JustinTimberlake
Sat 22nd Apr 2023

I'll get dead island 2 when it's bargain bin price like i do all modern AAA games, haven't even finished dying light 2 i mean what a snoozefest and complete downgrade on the first game.