Dying Light 2 update "focusing on combat" to make every night terrifying

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Dying Light 2 is about to celebrate its first birthday, and rather than going around demanding gifts, developer Techland is giving us, the players, something: glorious updates. The team is starting by radically changing the open-world zombie game’s deadly nights. And I, for one, couldn’t be more excited.

“The plan for 2023 is to focus on delivering what the community needs and expects,” Dying Light 2’s franchise director Tymon Smektala told us. ”We are ending the phase of experiments and trying different things. We now know what our community wants”. 

This year looks jam-packed with Dying Light 2 content, as a new DLC was hinted at in the anniversary live stream(opens in new tab) along with upgrades to the combat system that will add “physicality, more brutality, and be even more immersive than it is already” Smektala says. The heightened brutality will affect every aspect of Dying Light 2.

One of Dying Light’s most memorable qualities is its day and night cycle. UV light weakens the zombies in this apocalypse, so they are pretty docile in the sunshine. However, this gives you a horrific false sense of security. When the sun sets, these once docile creatures flip a coin and turn into destructive killing machines. Super mutants like the veiny and shredded Volatile that can tear you apart in seconds also venture out of their dark lairs to stalk the streets. 

Techland didn’t always mean the Dying Light series to be this scary, though. In the first game it “wanted to make the night a little bit more accessible to casual players”, Smektala says, but it turns out that fans prefer the hardcore. 

“Fans just want to have a night experience that really makes them; apologies for me for saying this, shit their pants”, Smektala says. The