Been playing this recently and I'm really enjoying it so I'm wondering how the sequel is. I've heard it's a pretty big downgrade. Any thoughts on that?

The human combat is way better, best part of the game. Also the city you are in is much more vertical which is fun
Other than that, everything is far worse. And the "your choices matter" is once again a weak gimmick.

I wouldn't pay more than 20 for it.

>>712609395 (OP)
Melee combat is a downgrade.
Parkour seems about the same/better? Been a while since I've played. Glider kinda ruins things but grappling hook is fun once you get the hang of it.
No guns when I played 2 but heard it was added in one of the updates but gunplay in 1 was pretty shit anyways
Story is still shit but you're not playing dying light for the story. You're here to style all over your enemies with parkour.

I lost the interest by the time I reached old town and and the side missions were all boring as fuck. Are the DLCs better?

>>712609395 (OP)
This has to be the most overrated zombie game I have ever played. Combat is absolute dogshit. Story is trash. The crafting system is so ass. The only thing people hype up about this game is a parkour and that gets old by the time you get to old town.

>>712609395 (OP)
Wait for the beast, ignore DL2.

>>712609395 (OP)
I'm not biased because I've never played Dying Light 1, only played 2 and I really enjoyed it. but 30 hours and you're done because it gets repetitive.

Is it true that in Dying Light 2 they made some kind of "Prettier white girl" DLC for the main love interest girl because they originally did the "2020s game make the women uglier on purpose" thing with her?

>>712612972
No. I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about. Did you just make that shit up? The only "love interest" in the game is Rosario Dawson.

>>712612972
Its true. Its damn true

>>712609395 (OP)
Devs went woke and dumped Avellone because of false allegations
>>712612972
They did, except she's not white

>>712609395 (OP)
I miss the feeling of 1 at night. The chase music and the main guy frantically breathing during chases and almost whimpering when you hid during a chase gave the stronger zombies a real "Oh fuck" feel even at high character level that 2 lacked

>>712609692
>Combat is absolute dogshit.
Literally filtered in the first hour and admits to it

>>712615242
>filtered in the first hour
Explain how I finished the entire game then you retard. I even played through the entire garbage dlc with the skeletons. The combat was just ass. Fucking Dead Island 2 has better combat.

>>712609395 (OP)
dl2 has a LOT of copy paste content

>>712609395 (OP)
This game was hampered by Chris being a whiny bitch the whole game.

>>712609395 (OP)
Got it for free
Absolutely amazing looking, sounding and animations for a game made 10 years ago
I guess Warner Brothers money will do that

I just spent like 30 minutes throwing zombies off the end of a bridge to the ocean
>Zombies all path to me climbing over a police car
>Half of them fucking SLIP on the bent over cars windshield and slide into the ocean
>Rest of them i just gently push into the side
Modern games could never ever

>>712612972
Never heard about this but it's true.

>>712609661
this

>>712609395 (OP)
First had it's minor issues but overall a fun game, and still dabs on today's tech. DL2 is fucking shit though, barely worth pirating, absolutely not worth the 19 euros on discount.

Lile I always say in a DL thread: don't touch the hard mode unless you wanna have a bad time. It's not worth it. You're in for a dozen hours of hitting zombies in the head who refuse to die. Play it on normal and the game is great.
And weapons are fun and powerful but you can't buy ammo in hard. You're supposed to get that power trip moment in the old town, pulling out the combat rifle and taking heads from a distance sitting on a roof. It's too fun to pass on this.
>but infected cucks will come out of manholes if I use gunerinos
Kick them off the roofs. High stomp them. Drop kick them. No infected on me roof.

>>712625948
>You're in for a dozen hours of hitting zombies in the head who refuse to die
Isnt that the entire point of the zombies being hard to kill though?
Whenever i took over a safe zone, i would kick myself for closing the door and not leading them outside first.
You have tools for dealing with zombies easily, its called the molotov, you should try it sometime. Its silent too.
You can also throw them off buildings, throw propane canisters at them etc.
The only painful one is the Giga Niggers with the sledgehammers, but again, you have tools to deal with them.
For me, hard mode is when you actually have to use your tools. Firecrackers actually make a lot of sense when you cant just slice through a billion zombies with a kitchen knife.
Hard mode is hard mode, what else did you want it to be?

>>712625948
>>712626351
the best part of dying light to me is taking 10 minutes to kill just zambies with some blunt weapon

it also makes it 10x more satisfying to just onehit them with powerful weapon later on

>>712626783
>slide-kick their knees out
>stomp their heads
who the fuck needs weapons in this game

>>712609395 (OP)
Steam scores should tell you everything. 2 is shit. 1 is objectively superior in virtually every way imaginable.

Just glanced at the upcoming beast thing

Dying Light should be in a city with plenty of vertical parkouring, highrises and shit
Not a fucking forest
Who the fuck asked for this? Its going to be shit, i dont give a shit about guns and melee combat, i just wanna climb shit and throw zombies off rooftops

>>712628405
>Dying Light should be in a city with plenty of vertical parkouring, highrises and shit
>Not a fucking forest
It will have plenty of vertical parkouring, but with forests and shit in-between. I think it's cool. It enables the spooky night encounters in forest and car gameplay like in the following.

>>712629086
Its made to appeal to Last of Us fans, not people who played DL1 and just wanted more

>>712625948
nightmare is even worse, you can't use dev weapons, the extra xp and gold weapons and extra costumes and stuff aren't worth it.
especially after the legendary tree nerf in patch 1.12.0, if i'm remembering right.
you used to get the good stuff of normal difficulty like stronger weapons and better gameplay in general, with the actual good things in nightmare mode like longer nights, no enemies on minimap, etc
but now it's just boring.

>>712626351
>>712626783
it doesn't sound like you two progressed very far desu, the early game of dl is the best because you can do those things, it's designed around the parkour mechanics and pushes you to avoid enemies and deal with them in a smart way, using firecrackers to distract them, baiting them into grouping on you then using molotovs and later bombs, etc.
but later in the game they start pushing you into fighting them, and they scale to your level, making even gold two handed hammers with king mods and even maxed legendary tree useless.
you keep hitting them again and again and again and it does nothing, and what makes it worse is that they push back against your hit.
early in the game you can use wrenches to push enemies or knock them down to get out of you way, but no they just try to grab you no matter how hard you hit them.
i honestly don't think techland knows how to balance this game, back when it first released you were stuck with machetes and sometimes katanas in the endgame and they oneshot almost everything, now even the highest stat weapon barely works.

>>712625948
I was wandering around that field of grass near the stadium(?) when some fast zombies came out of fucking nowhere and tried to beat me to death. The only sound i'd made in the previous 5 minutes were my footsteps

>>712609395 (OP)
It's so boring that me and a friend who played through the first game 4 times dropped it like 5 hours in. It's honestly insane how boring it is.

Dying Light 1 is the best zombie game I've ever played due largely to the setting and ambient sounds. Sometimes it feels like being an old 80's cheap horror movie and I love it.

I haven't played 2 because everyone says it is worse.

So how do you guys think the Beast is going to turn out? It looks closer to DL1 than it does 2 so I'm somewhat curious. Though it originally being a DLC for 2 that got made into an entire game lowers that expectation quite a bit.

>>712634498
I don't know. Haven't looked up much on it. But I really miss the Haran middle eastern setting. Namely, the slums. What a fucken fantastic setting that was.

>>712609395 (OP)
Massive downgrade + overshadowed by its sibling dead island 2

Does the game spawn more loot at night in DL1? I find little justification other than that for playing at night.
The game looks gorgeous... and most of the beauty is lost during the night when you cant see shit
You just spam Batman vision to see the meat monsters and run behind them, the game turns into muted stealth game 90% of the time
The night is great at inducing terror when you get caught and have to run away, but i find that parkouring at night is just a worse experience.
You cant see shit to make any good decisions on where to run
I doubt the night vision potions bring back the beauty the game has, im sure they fix the other problems

>>712614973
No fucking way this isn't a mod...

>>712609395 (OP)
2 is good, the story is kinda dumb and on release it was way worse but now it's pretty solid overall.
Honestly people are too kneejerk-y with 2, most people that shit on it either haven't played and are just regurgitating other opinions or they haven't played it since it came out, when we know with from what happened with 1 that the devs are constantly working on it and listening to the fans.

>>712635740
ironically there is actually a mod that restores her look from the left side how she originally was supposed to be, sadly her personality is still retarded.

>>712615374
why did you play all of it if you didn't like it?
I didn't even play the shitty fantasy dlc lmfao

go find something you actually like you shit cunt

>>712635740
Nope, Tencent bought Techland and gave us qt azn grills

>>712613913
hahahahah
>>712614973
hahahahahahahaha

>>712613913
you're a fucking CUNT
kys

>>712609395 (OP)
The rush you get parkouring through town at speed in gone in the second game as there's a lot more verticality. Slow, boring tall buildings.
The upgrade system is broke that you'll never grind more than a couple fully upgraded weapons by the time the game ends
And the story is fucking garbage

>>712609606
>Also the city you are in is much more vertical which is fun
I hated that aspect. You spend all your time on the rooftops playing a parkour game where there might as well not be any zombies at all and occasionally dip down to loot a dark place or whatever. Also trampolines and gymnastics bars everywhere looks fucking stupid.

>>712609395 (OP)
I was playing this yesterday and it sort of turned me off when I got killed by a bunch of nightcrawlers or whatever they are, the enemies that show up at night, and the game immediately loaded me at the nearest safehouse. it felt cheap, like it was handing me victory, because my objective was to get back to the tower (after finding and destroying some of the vaccine or whatever).

hope I eventually get guns in this game, otherwise I'm gonna drop it. the parkour is cool though, I guess. climbing the radio towers has never been done better - ubisoft could stand to take some notes.

>>712639524
you do get guns and you also get penalized for dying at night somewhat with lost XP iirc

>>712639524
Yeah thats the first introduction to nights in the game, notice you cant actually sleep until night before that? Its part of the tutorial. They really should make you start at the air drop if you died, i felt shit dying on my first go aswell. Especially since you cant choose to go back and try again.

>>712639815
>and you also get penalized for dying at night somewhat with lost XP iirc
No, you get penalized only if you die during the day. Dying during nights doesnt cost you anything but lost potential XP you got from surviving all the way until you died.

>>712639924
Are you sure that's the way it works on all difficulties?

I love these games and would love to co-op through them again but after downloading 2 some months ago everyone you join just kicks you or disconnects because they apparently can't handle an options menu to make their shit private.

Or its just some cheater on the first mission with legend level 100 or whatever

>>712640009
In 2 at night you get a multiplier for how alert the zombies are and get (xp) next to regular xp. If you can make it to morning or a safehouse you get the (xp) if you die you lose the (xp).

After you've leveled up all your skills you start getting legend xp and I think you lose all that you've accumulated to next level if you're on the harder difficulties when you die.

>>712640009
Atleast on hard, you only lose survivor xp if you die during the day. During night youre free to experiment, if you die its no biggie, you just dont get the bonus XP from surviving.
In short
>Die alot, your survivor xp takes a hit, unless you play at night
>Never kill anything, you never get combat xp
>Just run to places but dont climb, you never get agility xp
>Do both during the night and you get twice the xp, and bonus survivor xp depending on time spent outside a safe zone.

>>712609395 (OP)
DL2 sucks. They made it even more ubisoft-like. The expect you to raid the same copy pasted dark zones so you can get sneakers that do "plus 3% sneak damage after performing a slide" bullshit. None of the side quests or content is very good, its all front loaded, the first side quests are alright but thats the best they have to offer. Zombie density is very low, there isn't any areas like the bridge in DL1. The city is literally just copy pasted over and over, you'll see the same interiors and exteriors over and over again. The retcons are pretty bad and the whole "they made another virus" story is pretty bad. The story telling itself is better then DL1, which IMO is the worst part of the game.

>>712640227
I'm pretty sure anon was talking about 1.

>>712640325
According to the 1 wiki you loose all XP on death on the nightmare difficulty, which is what I played. Sounds like hard handles that better, as nightmare nights are just suicide on new charactes.

>>712640325
Oh yeah and if you escape from the night runners during the night you also get bonus agility xp

>>712609395 (OP)
Harran......


Home......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9phLaCT2atY

Am I the only one who found the melee weapons retarded?
>here's your baseball bat that shoots lighting and flames and shit
The game tried to be more serious than the Dead Island games but this they ad to keep

>>712609395 (OP)
Back then when it was released I thought the story and the characters were really bad, but the gameplay was really good and the atmosphere was 10/10. But after playing it a lot I understand it actually has quite a lot of good or at least decent character, and after I experienced DL2 I also understand that DL1 story was not so bad at all.

>>712640628
But none of the weapons (except maybe some easter egg stuff I forgot about) shoots anything?

>>712609395 (OP)
Dying Light 2 is shit, SHIT

>>712640579
it had some pretty solid music
https://youtu.be/GWAoqJXiVug

>>712641116
There's weapons that have electrical and fire damage and have an igniter flame like a flame thrower etc. When playing I avoided them and just crafted those weapons that looked halfway plausible like planks with nails in it etc. It's a holdover from the Dead Island games but it really felt out of place in this game.

>>712641548
Yes, the soundtrack is pretty good. The composer was clearly inspired by 80s horror and zombie movie soundtracks. Very well put together soundtrack. It adds a lot to the amazing setting

here is my gamer resume
DL2 was terrible at first
but they kept patching it
they kept listening to players
and it turned out to be an OK game eventually

you wont unlock guns instantly, you need to wait until the second half of the game and then some until you need to investigate some cashe, a dude named Jai or something will contact you to do instanced shit. then you get guns. a gun. a pistol. after that you need to start doing daily shit for more guns and other things. it will take the better part of 20 days or more if you want to unlock everything because some daily quests are annoying as fuck like a double kill headshot with a bow or trying to airshot one of those little screaming faggot child zombies

if you play online be prepared for glowstick parties, which are basically fighting right outside a safe zone with those little throwable UV lamps fighting stunned volatiles as you get high on regeneration juice and shit until daytime. oh by the way there are tokens you get for killing zombies that you use to upgrade your craftables
there are other farms too like volatile hive farms. the volatile screams its head off while you fight off the spazzy twitchy screaming type of zombies while the other volatiles stay outside. you can farm those volatiles too but its risky since apartment buildings and shit

like, you are ganna have fun if you want to kill zombies, gather and craft shit but you might not since i dont know you

>>712643071
man, fuck DL2 for changing the setting and making it post-apocalypse. I don't want to rebuild society in wooden palisades, dealing with tribal faction bullshit and having zero resources since everything's been looted or spent decades ago.
Put me at ground zero when the shit's hitting the fan and let me try to survive with whatever I can get my hands on. That's a zombie game.

>>712645276
Good news is that Dying Light The Beast seems to be a return to form from what I've seen in the new gameplay trailer. Although it's set in a European inspired city, it still reminds me of Harran. No more RPG crap either.

https://youtu.be/2ZXdLBVg1Qk?si=-1tE1sH1n9o8er0j