Dying Light Glitch Lets Player Combine Pocket 7s And Assault Rifle

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Dying Light has been out for a while now, which means developer Techland has had plenty of time to iron out all the bugs that the game launched with. However, it’s really hard to squash every bug in a big open-world game (just ask Bethesda and CD Projekt Red), and there are still a few glitches here and there. And one of them can turn your assault rifle into a rapid-fire grenade launcher.

The glitch, as showcased by mogley1992, somehow combines the Pocket 7’s explosive effect with the assault rifle’s regular hitscan bullets. The net effect is essentially an explosive rifle that has more in common with Borderlands than Dying Light.

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For those unaware, the Pocket 7's are a developer blueprint weapon. It's a single-shot revolver where every bullet will randomly have one of seven different effects (hence the name). One of those effects is a big explosion, which just so happens to be the most impressive and effective of the Pocket 7's possible effects.

Sadly, it seems like this is just a cool one-off bug. Mogley1992 said that the glitch "ended when I died and I haven't managed to do this since." This was confirmed by another Redditor who said it was "just a bug that happens sometimes, no way to consistently get the effect."

If you want to try replicating the bug, mogley1992 confirmed they were using the Volkan combat assault rifle paired with Pocket 7's. If you don't already have a Pocket 7's from a past event, you'll need to find someone with the blueprints to make you one.

Dying Light 2 is still set to receive its second major DLC sometime before the end of 2023. It'll be a "story-driven" campaign in a new location that's "unlike anything