Dying Light 2 adds New Game Plus to ‘significantly alter’ gameplay

techradar.com:

Dying Light 2’s latest patch, 1.3.0,  is here and it brings the long-awaited New Game Plus mode to the game, alongside many other changes and improvements. 

From now, after you complete Dying Light 2 you can return to the game and play it all over again “with modified game parameters” that will make it a rewarding, different experience to the first playthrough. 

In the patch notes for the update developer, Techland, doesn’t go into a huge amount of detail around exactly what players will see in New Game Plus but it does mention new enemy behaviors, 30 new inhibitors, new platinum objectives for parkour challenges, a new legendary weapon tier, gold encounters and enemy difficulty levels that scale to the player’s level. 

These and “many more changes” will, Techland says, “significantly alter the gameplay style and allow the player to develop their character further.”

In addition to New Game Plus, the patch notes also mention a number of changes to the game’s co-op mode which should make it a smoother experience. These include improvements to general co-op performance and fixing connection issues that players were experiencing when playing with those who were further advanced in the story. 

There’s also a brand new quest called “Something Big Has Been Here”, which includes “special elemental Goon variants”, alongside a host of other bug fixes and quality of life improvements to the game as a whole.

Dying Light 2 released back in February of this year for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PS4 and PC. In our review, we gave it four stars out of five, calling it «without a doubt one of the most ambitious zombie games ever made».

This release of New Game Plus comes hot on the heels of the late March revelation that it was something