Dying Light 2 update will add New Game+ this week

metro.co.uk:

You’ll get to experience Dying Light 2 with all your upgrades and equipment in New Game+, but the game won’t suddenly become a breeze.

Techland is giving Dying Light 2 fans a reason to replay the game this week, as its next patch adds the long-awaited New Game+ mode.

The patch arrives in just a couple of days, on Wednesday, April 27, and the new mode is precisely what you’d expect. It will allow you to experience the whole game all over again, but with all your equipment and skills from your last playthrough.

Some specific tools, however, like the paraglider and grappling hook, will need to be acquired again by progressing through the story.

In a behind the scenes video, producer Julia Szynkaruk explains that this is because the developers didn’t want to ‘break the flow of the game.’

While you will be much more powerful from the start compared to your original playthrough, New Game+ won’t make the entire game too easy. Enemies will scale to match your level, to ensure you’re still kept on your toes.

30 new inhibitors, to further upgrade your health and stamina, will be added as well. Although obtaining them will require solving puzzles rather than just stumbling across them on the map.

On top of that, new challenges and encounters will be added, plus the usual gamut of bug fixes and a field of view slider for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions.

Recently, Techland announced that Dying Light 2 sold 5 million copies across all platforms within its launch month of February. What’s more, the first Dying Light, which released in 2015, has managed to break the 20 million mark. Whether or not these milestones will generate a third game remains to be seen.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is available for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox