Dying Light 2

RobXIII said:

Still taking my time here too, doing a few side quests a night after work.

They decided to nerf the dev room +durability mod to uselessness (costs 666 scrap to use it now lol!), no fucking clue why. I think I'll just focus on the main story and close this one out. Man it sure is pretty in upscaled 4k at least.

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I'll get back to the game once I'm done with ER. One of the main devs stated on twitter that Koreks Charm was working as intended then someone secretly nerfed it. It wasn't even in the patch notes. He got called out on it and he stated he wasn't even aware of the change and will be looking into it. I think he said he will make sure it's either reverted or reduce the harshness of the nerf in the next patch. They also apparently nerfed the underwater chests and grappling hook. Won't bother me though since I haven't gotten to those parts yet.

Korek charm fix

Utnayan Got Dying Light 1 installed and prepped and ready to go on Xbox. I'll try and quickly get to the point where you can start coop. Let's do it sometime in April!

Utnayan fingers crossed they fixed the fast travel bug. Was going to start the epilogue tonight but I think I'm going to wait now.

I bought this at the start of the sale and am about 30 hours in. This feels not as scary/fun as I remember the first being. So trivial to just funnel swarms into a tight place and mow them down and collect loads of loot. The movement is pretty nice though I die from fall damage way too often thinking I'm no where near high enough to go instasplat.

They tamed night down a bunch from the original. A few patches ago they actually made night harder because it was way too easy. They are playing a balancing act now since they want night challenging but not like the first one. They had some crazy statistic where they said a good majority of players in the first one would just skip night completely.

Edit: They finally fixed the fast travel bug!

As one of the players who pretty much skipped night completely...that's exactly what I wanted. An experience so scary I avoided it like the plague except when story missions forced me to go out at night. That's what made the first game so goddamn memorable and why you shouldn't rely so much on statistics.

Pretty much everything they changed from the first game was shit decisions made by retards. It's all 'change for the sake of change' when it should have been 'if it ain't broke...' Haven't played it at all in a few months but I still don't see "Actually made the game fun" anywhere in the patch notes. Definitely going down as my biggest regret purchase of '22 since I could buy it for $12 right now instead of the $60 I paid at release (not that I would buy it at all now).

It confuses the fuck out of me how these development studios are so goddamn stupid. When gamers say they just want the same thing but tweaked to be a bit better or to remove glaring problems, we fucking mean it.

Take The Binding of Isaac. That game was "remade" 3 different times starting with a dude in his house in a Flash window and eventually ending up an entire team across multiple platforms including the Switch and the game never actually changed. It was more than 15 years of the exact same gameplay that was just plied with more content and visual and gameplay changes based on community feedback. And it made a sick amount of money. So much money that the original dude never has to work again and just funds vanity projects.

Jesus, it is so tiring to see these games get fucked by people who think they know better than what made the thing popular in the first place.

It's especially infuriating with games that launched in a rough state and then were massively improved over the course of several years until they are just about as good as they could possibly get... then the whole team goes full retard while making the sequel instead of taking everything they learned and applying it to a new game that doesn't have any of the fundamental design or engine problems that the first did.

See also: The Division 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint... actually just about every Ubisoft series now that I think about it.

Pushed to Halloween from this month. Better be worth the wait.

5 years of post-launch support are still being honored by Techland for Dying Light 2.

Some info on the new story coming up.



The datamine indicates it'll be a sizable story addition with 2 separate ending paths.

Tough getting back into the game. With parkour skills weakened from several months off, you end up in a lot of combat plus they added new stupid mobs.

I guess after playing Elden Ring the combat feels a little stale, since Elden Ring is what put me on hiatus from DL2.

I do have the PK crossbow. I guess I could farm feathers, make the rounds to the merchants and go xbow only until I get my parkour memory back. I meant to finish DL2 and its upcoming DLC story but questioning if it's actually worth it right now. It just feels like the combat isn't really holding up too well fun-wise.

Anyone else have trouble returning to DL2? Just wondering if it's possible to actually get back into this game or if I'm wasting my time trying.

What are you getting back into exactly?

Main story? Even if you ran solely on the ground from checkpoint to checkpoint you could beat the game regardless of difficulty setting as the zombies aren't really scary or damaging. It also doesn't take much story progress to start finding 300+ damage weapons and then the game becomes extra trivial as 99% of things die in 1-2 hits. Nothing requires some extraordinary parkour engagement either to complete the MSQ. Some side quests are worth doing before beating the game though.

Post story? It's all the same copy pasta content with nothing notable to keep people engaged unless you're an achievement sperg imo.

Chimney said:

It also doesn't take much story progress to start finding 300+ damage weapons and then the game becomes extra trivial as 99% of things die in 1-2 hits. Nothing requires some extraordinary parkour engagement either to complete the MSQ. Some side quests are worth doing before beating the game though.

Post story? It's all the same copy pasta content with nothing notable to keep people engaged unless you're an achievement sperg imo.

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I'm 2/3rd into main story.

Shook some of the rust off. I think I just had a bad return experience. The car bombs have a bigger blast radius, and I got hit z-axis for 80% of my life while being on a ledge above the car but still tucked back. Instantly tilted me because car bombs used to be a joke.

The screen shaking in general for a variety of shit was obnoxious. Some of the screen warping is exaggerated now probably as part of the new "graphics" update. Then got into a fight with a new elite and had to figure out dodge again for the first time. Then got given a semi-main story night quest with 0 parkour available to get near the location, and just plain straight up have to sneak/walk through a huge open space with volatiles and howlers. A friend said to get the glowsticks for that one, and after that it should be fine and there shouldn't be another quest like that. My weapons are also anemic but I'm just 1h away from getting some bigger stuff.

Was just the worst possible combination of events to come back with 0 memory of anything.