What a coincidence the almighty algorithm gives me this Dying Light 2 tidbit when I was listening back to old Jeremy Jahns Star Wars reviews earlier today!

Not only is this Techland easter egg an easter egg, but it’s an easter egg INSIDE of another easter egg! A Russian Nesting Doll of easter egg-ception! There’s a secret Doom level in Dying Light 2 and players can receive a special new skill by completing it, which ties into the main subject of today’s blog.

But, Stefan, how do I get it? Well, if you can’t find a copy at a local store, you can- No, how do I find the Doom level? I wanna rip n’ tear! Aaah, well sit on my knee and I’ll spill you some tea.

First off, you gotta find 5 black rubber duckies scattered throughout the map. What is the function of them? Sources remain divided. You then have to complete the quest ‘Broadcast’, then you’ll be able to enter a previously locked room once you have the ducks and BOOM, now you get to enter The Fun Zone!

A few moments later, you offer up your dark ducky offerings to a nearby pedestal, complete a challenge that sees you try to get 5 objects within a time limit while fighting zomboners with the Ka Doom Shotgun and there ya go! A shiny new blueprint that gives players the ability to go full Darth Vader on a fool and choke them like a leather-daddy on prom night.

It won’t do a huge amount of damage on it’s own, but works well for stunning enemies and even being more susceptible to damage with follow-up attacks.

Other unlockable easter egg weapons for Dying Light 2 include:

The Left Finger of GloVa: Fingerbang your enemies, shoot your shot. Inside, if possible.

Cyberhands 2177: Mantis blades belonging to a certain ‘punk’, though I could’ve sworn the date was off by… Maybe a century.

“It’s me… Marian” sneakers: Triple jump your way across the land with hardcore parkour skills strong enough to make a certain moustachio’d Nintendo mascot blush!

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Techland has emphasised the immense scale of Dying Light 2 by revealing the quantity of dialogue that’s been written for the upcoming zombie survival game. Paired with the estimated time to 100% the game, as well as the extensive arsenal available to players – Dying Light 2 is looking to be a great follow-up to the original game.

Dying Light 2 picks up 20 years after the events of the first game. Players are placed in the shoes of Aiden Caldwell as he struggles for survival in an unknown, zombie-infested European metropolis. Caldwell will have to navigate the undead as well as other factions attempting to live, which will rise and fall based on the choices made by the players.

Given the aforementioned impact of player choices on Dying Light 2’s characters and factions, it was reasonable to expect the game to be dialogue-heavy. Techland opted to disclose the game’s nearly 350,000 written words, which make up 40,000 lines of in-game dialogue, on Twitter.

350,000 words, 40,000 lines of dialogues – that’s the world we’ve built for you in Dying Light 2 Stay Human. Are you ready to explore it?#DyingLight2 #StayHuman pic.twitter.com/A0D0nzObbj

— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) January 19, 2022

What to Expect from Dying Light 2

When comparing Dying Light 2 to Dying Light, Techland has already utilised similar tactic, pointing out that the metropolis is four times larger than the zombie-infested island in the first game.

Like the previous game, the sequel will have parkour traversal as well as an improved weaponry system in which melee weapons deteriorate through time and use as players repair and upgrade their arsenals.

Techland is publishing the quantity of communication to indicate how much consideration it has given to the potential influence players may have on the globe. The developer has said many times how crucial the factions in Dying Light 2 are to the city, the game’s narrative, and how players’ actions will impact their position in the city.

If players’ choices have that much of an impact on the world, the game would need a lot of conversation to account for the variety of endings before the credits roll, and players would be enticed to return for a second playing to discover how alternative choices change the game.

Dying Light 2 launches across all platforms on February 4th 2022. It’s available to pre-order from our store now!

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Dying Light 2, the much anticipated open-world horror arrives next month after significant delays over the years. Techland has stated that there would be extensive development beyond the launch date, including the addition of new stories and locales.

Want to know what will happen AFTER the premiere? We guarantee to expand the world of Dying Light 2 Stay Human for at least 5 years post launch with new stories, locations, in-game events and all the fun stuff you love!#DyingLight2 #StayHuman pic.twitter.com/SgaNynkrzI

— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) January 14, 2022

“Want to know what happens AFTER the premiere?” they wrote on Friday.” We guarantee to expand the world of Dying Light 2 Stay Human for at least 5 years post launch with new stories, locations, in-game events and all the fun stuff you love!”

Numerous Development Delays for Dying Light 2

The sequel to 2015’s zombie survival game was announced at Xbox’s E3 2018 conference and was set to debut in spring 2020, but that date was pushed back to January 2020.

Following complaints of sexual harassment, narrative designer Chris Avellone left the project in June 2020, which impacted the development process. They also had issues with technical limitations, which meant the game had to be re-built from scratch essentially.

The Dying Light 2 developers responded to impatient fans in March by reading out some of their most hostile comments and assuring them that the game would be released this year.

The game’s first announced release date was set for December 7, 2021, but it was later moved back to February 4, 2022. It looks like it has been well worth the wait though.

Following opposition to its prior assertion that the game will take more than 500 hours to complete, the Dying Light 2 production team clarified the game’s length and responded to backlash from fans.

While the tweet was meant to be complimentary, it was met with criticism from players who felt it was too long for a single game. Techland then clarified in a follow-up tweet that the main storyline within the game is only 20 hours long. The total game time is inclusive of completing everything on offer. Check out some co-op gameplay that was recently released!

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Between Dying Light 2 pulling this and Nintendo recently breaking it’s disembodied player 2 fast, I’d say this could be a great year for co-op titles!

As always, have a butcher’s (or a fisherman’s) hook at our store if you wanna get your mits on the Pre-Order Editions, but Dying Light 2 will be dropping in a little under a month on all consoles!

Techland recently announced via it’s latest ‘Dying 2 Know‘ stream series that the game will include co-op gameplay of up to 4 players. Statements of being able to ‘finish the game in co-op’ especially tickles me the right way because if Genshin Impact is anything to go by, it can be a little annoying at times having to switch between co-op and solo modes just to unlock 7 Statue locations and collect daily rewards from Officer Jenny- I mean Katheryne!

Players will keep their items and character progression, but the story campaign progress will be dependent on the host’s place in the story. All players in a team will get the chance to vote on different plot-diverging story moments when they come, so that can range from cutely wholesome to deliciously messed up in a heartbeat… Is what I would say, if it wasn’t for the fact that the host will have ‘final say’ privileges in the decision-making, so in that sense, I guess that’s more accurate to choices in political parties than you’d think!

The Dying 2 Know stream also heavily featured the performance rates of Dying Light 2 on all major consoles. The framerates are currently unknown due to the gameplay only highlighting specific scripted segments (try saying that three-times-fast). That said, it’ll seemingly be below 60 frames-per-second by the looks of it. I’m not the biggest graphics guy, but hey, I know that matters to some of you and that’s valid as heck!

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Unlike my last Dying Light 2 blog, my decision to write on this, plot twist, ISN’T just because we happen to have Dying Light 2 pre-order copies available (not that I’m stopping you from getting them, wink wink, nudge nudge).

There’s been some mild (by Twitter standards at least) backlash to Dying Light 2 following a recent claim the game will be some 500 hours in length! More on that here. The folks at Techland recently came out with a statement that essentially boils down to “calm your tits, we’re not trying to outdo Persona 5 here! What we MEANT was that 100% completion of the whole game will take about 500 hours, the story campaign (excluding multiple runs for different endings) will be about 20 hours. Will that be enough to please Her Majesty’s Secret Service”?… I’m paraphrasing of course, the day a company says “calm your tits” about literally anything is the day I uncritical my race theory!

Fun fact: According to the official Dying Light 2 Twitter, 500 hours would be the approximate time it’d take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid.

More specifically, the Dying Light 2 team have given the following approximations:

• 20 hours to complete the main story.
• 80 hours to finish the story AND all side quests.
• 500 hours to “max out” the game with all “choices and endings, checking every place on the map, every dialogue and finding every collectible”.

So, why DID I choose to talk about this? Well, sit down and strap on, it’s story time! There’s this one small-time not-too-well-known indie gaming bloke you might have heard about? By the name of… checks notes. Hide E.O Couchiema? Kyjama? Kojesus? Ko- Okay, I’ll stop! Long story short, Metal Gear Solid games. Solid franchise, varying degrees of storytelling quality, always hilariously over-the-top even at the worst of times… Then Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes happened, where on launch, folks essentially paid 40 quid for what amounted to one 15-30 minute level, presumably because Konami felt like giving some cheeky foreshadowing of how they’d rather sabotage their own business than carry on making video games (though with that attitude, probably for the best they’re sticking to making Pachinko machines).

That mildly-quirky recap of the situation’s my way of saying “well hey, better too much than too little, oi oi”.

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If you’re excited for Dying Light 2, then this will be music to your ears. According to a recent Twitter post from the game’s official page, to fully 100% all of Dying Light 2’s content will take roughly 500 hours. This huge task was compared to the journey between Warsaw and Madrid, taking around 524 hours itself.

To fully complete Dying Light 2 Stay Human, you'll need at least 500 hours—almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid!#DyingLight2 #stayhuman pic.twitter.com/Sk3KFpRJoA

— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) January 8, 2022

Dying Light 2 Is Going to be Big!

500 hours is a huge amount of content, and it does beg the question as to whether there will be enough to keep things fresh and exciting or if it will get stale over time. I doubt this will be the case though, as the gameplay shown so far looks pretty good, with maybe a few minor gripes here or there. But nothing major. A traditional playthrough of the game will take significantly less time than this though of course.

https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/1479889980205981705

A normal playthrough of the game still provides ‘less than 100 hours’ of gameplay, according to another tweet posted shortly after. So, from the sounds of it there is a lot to explore in this zombie riddled world, regardless of whether you are a completionist!

The post-apocalyptic towns of Dying Light have evolved into overgrown, contemporary dark ages 15 years after the events of the original game. The parkour and melee combat we grew to love in the original has grown and been improved upon in a vastly larger open world. Each have their own devoted skill tree, which you can read more about here.

The game does look a little bit dated from what we’ve seen so far, and more akin to something you’d expect on PS4 or Xbox One rather than the current generation of consoles. This is understandable though, as the game’s Lead Designer Tymon Smektała explained in an interview with VGC last year how Dying Light 2 essentially had to be remade from the ground up due to technical limitations. Given that everything was remade anew, I think things are looking pretty good for the February 4^th release.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is scheduled to release on February 4th 2022 for PC, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Pre-Order it from our store now!

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Why yes, we do have Dying Light 2 pre-order deals that Definitely Had No Impact On My Decision To Write This Article At All… TM.

For the uninitiated, Dying Light is a first-person action-adventure game seeing you use all manner of sick-gnarly flame-swords, guns and hardcore parkour to survive in a zombie post-apocalypse.

The sequel is being developed by Techland, who recently released a primer on how Dying Light 2’s combat will work.

Dying Light 2 is currently slated for release in the month of love, chocolate and Deadpool, February (4th)! I can only assume the story mode will be a heart-warming wholesome ballad about the star-crossed romance between Tom Genericzombie and my 400-Horse-Power Battleaxe (AKA, Lucy).

In this handy-dandy video, Techland explained and showed how players will have access to a parkour skill tree and a combat skill tree, so you can mix-and-match which order of skills you want to specialize in. Do you wanna go guns-blazing like a drunk guinea pig, or unleash your inner Ong-Bak street-chasing skills? Trick question, on a long enough timeline, you’ll unlock everything in both skill trees anyway!

Beating enemies and performing certain actions often will net you skill points that you can put into the skill trees, as well as generally completing in-game quests.

Main skills include:

Grappling and throwing enemies: For when CQC stands for “Close Quarters- Charlie, stop saying ‘judo throw’ every time you do that, you’ll alert the zombies”!

A double-jump:🎵I’m defying GRAAAVITYYYYY🎵

Parrying enemy attacks: “Filthy casuals beware, you’re in for a scare… Except the Sekiro fanboys, you’re good”.

Ground Pound: “Look, just because your name’s Mario doesn’t mean you can magically…. Oh, shows what I know”.

Bash: Live out your line-pushing fantasies to Karen-esque proportions!

Tic Tac: “For the last time John, what the f*ck do Tic Tacs have to do with wall-running”!?

Far Jump: “Come on dude, just pick a naming style, none of this wishy-washy half-n-half crap”.

Techland have also confirmed the final behind the scenes video on Dying Light 2 will be dropping January 13th, so keep an eye open for that one.

Dying Light 2 will be releasing on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. A cloud version will also release for the Nintendo Switch.

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Coverage has surfaced from a recent media event that shows new gameplay footage of Dying Light 2: Stay Human. The first Dying Light was a very well made game, but it left me wanting more and thinking about some of the things they would improve on in a sequel. For a while it seemed like a follow-up game was unlikely, but contrary to popular belief Dying Light 2 does actually exist.

GameInformer posted the video above on YouTube, which shows some footage of the game while they discuss some of the game’s new features.

An important aspect of Dying Light was making choices that were impactful and mattered. Dying Light 2 supposedly builds on this and makes it even more vital, but it is not yet revealed how exactly it does this to avoid spoilers. There are several factions available for players to join , and your choices impact the alignment of the city towards these factions.

How Factions Affect Gameplay in Dying Light 2

The faction alignment impacts gameplay in a number of ways. One of them is that, depending on how the alignment is shifted, you will have access to certain benefits depending on how the alignment is shifted. For example, one faction will set up more zip-lines to traverse of rooftops rather than using the ground.  Another faction will set up traps on the ground for zombies.

Your decisions with faction alignment will also affect which NPCs play a part in your story. Different factions will have different NPCs playing more prominent roles to you, whereas they may have a more minor role were you to side with another faction and shift the alignment in their favour.

The Game’s Refined Mechanics

The original Dying Light had solid parkour mechanics that were similar to Mirror’s Edge, with extra focus on gunplay and close combat. The gameplay in Dying Light was good, if not a little awkward at times. Dying Light 2 looks like it has taken the framework the original established and built upon it substantially.

Dying Light 2 looks much more precise  with many more animations and moves available to the player, thanks to the new tools. The combat looks more refined too as it looks a lot more realistic due to the way enemies react to being attacked.

In general, the game looks like it’s going in the right direction. Many aspects were unexpected, such as enemy healthbars, but it appears to be very enjoyable. The game’s HUD is one area where I believe it might be improved. It takes up a lot of space on the screen. It would have been more immersive if it had been more simplistic.

Dying Light 2 will release for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC on  February 4th 2022, and is available to pre-order from our store now! Don’t miss out on the zombie-slaying mayhem.

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