Dying Light 2 Has One Of The Weirdest Side Quests Of All Time

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The first Dying Light was absolutely packed with fun Easter eggs to find. There was a sword called the EXPcalibur that you had to yank out of a corpse like King Arthur. You can go down a chimney in Old Town and enter ‘World 1-1’ where the zombies look like Goombas and you have to jump on their heads to earn Mario’s Tanooki Suit. You can find the loot cave from Destiny, Harry Potter’s bedroom, and Bates Motel. I have no doubt that countless Easter eggs and secrets will be discovered in Dying Light 2 before long, but so far, I’ve only found one secret mission. It’s called The Space Cock, and it’s one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.

When you eventually make your way to the Colonel’s stronghold in the final hours of the game, you’ll have the opportunity to look around a little bit before confronting Williams. Opposite the Colonel’s room is a short staircase that leads around the corner to some other living quarters. In one of them you’ll find a talking chicken in a cage.

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The chicken speaks in long bawks that sound like a man doing a lazy chicken impression, but luckily Aiden is somehow able to understand it. It tells you that it’s an alien and it’s been trapped here since the zombie outbreak started. Apparently, Earth was meant to be the target of an Indepence Day-style alien invasion, but once everyone started turning into zombies, the aliens decided to turn their efforts elsewhere. This left our new chicken friend stranded here, so he asks you to retrieve some parts that will help him get home.

Since you’ll be locked in the epilogue at this point, you can’t complete this side quest until you finish the game. But once you hit the post-game,