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Digital Foundry - Dying Light 2 First Look + Developer Interview
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Lol right? They could have just changed the setting and I would have been fine with the sequel but this is drastic changes.
Here's the interview around the 5:30min mark the director talks about how the zombies work in this which is pretty much I Am Legend rules with the sunlight.
Yeah I saw that earlier :D
I'm not all doom and gloom yet, but I'm still wary of how much they're changing and to what ends, but we'll see.
Glad you're not down on it. I'll be getting it too, I'm just disappointed with a major feature getting sidelined for the minor ones since I have many open world games with humans. Imagine if Horizon did what this game is doing.
Horizon has terrible human combat. We still don't know how human combat feels in this DL2. It's not a fair comparison. If human combat is good, then it would be a change in the right direction. Chris Avallone's involvement makes me unconcerned personally.
We already have DL which had bad human combat. This is a sequel and the combat looked really similar to the first one in the gameplay we saw. We can kind of extrapolate some things from there, to a point, where it's fair to be concerned about the quality of it.
60 fps on base consoles? I wanna see that. First party games seem to be great with framerate but 3rd seems to be hit or miss imo. Hope there is cross play. I'll get this on pc, hope I can play with my pals on ps4
It's been 4(?) years and a new engine. I think they'll get it right this time since it's one of the main mechanics in the game.
Yep the human combat was bad in both Dying Light and Horizon. I was just saying imagine if they pushed back Machine combat in favour of Human combat.
Of course it won't happen but I felt it was a fair comparison since in both games humans were not the main focus.
Maybe they made the combat better since it's the main focus.
Combat looked great in the demo. Certainly more refined than the original. The AI was interesting to observe as well
There's always the plot point where mid-game zombies for whatever reason are becoming more aggressive and have now begun appearing during the day and you have to figure out why?
Yeah sure, they can do all that, if you read back to what we was talking about initially they have relegated zombies to nighttime and dark areas like buildings and probably caves in favour of the humans about the city and their conflict.
I didn't play the first game because I could fight humans, but because it had an open world with zombies in it.
Hope you understand my issues more now.
Do you mean this like there will be a shift in the game where the zombies will be able to come into the light?
Really hope for there to be 60fps option on all consoles and not just Pro and X and if they did then i change from buying on sale to buying on day one I'll always support Devs adding 60fps to their games on console. I'd take a 50-60 variable fps too that's fine
That is what hurt my hype for this game, too, despite the obvious improvements. I legitimately loved the first, but the zombies made the game what it was.
For real, the zombies were just fun, you could experiment with many different ways to take them down.
it was a great game for just dicking around and quite a sandbox which I hope they are going to build upon in this.
I'm accepting of human combat just don't make it for the majority of the game.
Everything looks and sounds great to me :)
60fps on consoles is awesome. Wonder how stable it will be on base consoles.
I got the pro and I would gladly take a almost locked 60fps, even if it's only 1080p then.
60fps on consoles is awesome. Wonder how stable it will be on base consoles.
I got the pro and I would gladly take a almost locked 60fps, even if it's only 1080p then.
Targetting 60 fps huh? Sure you are Techland
https://gamingbolt.com/dying-light-...4-xbox-one-talks-current-next-gen-differences
https://gamingbolt.com/dying-light-...4-xbox-one-talks-current-next-gen-differences
That would be great news for my console brethren if Techland manage to get DL2 running at 60 fps. I wonder if the decision to reduce the emphasis on the infected was influenced by that at all - fewer complex moving entities should make it easier to reach higher framerates, I think.
I remeber reading an interview where a DL2 dev says there are areas that are more populated (like the one from the demo), where zombies come mostly at night, while more remote areas have daylight zombies, could be wrong tho. At this point im mire curious about the implementation of working vehicles in the game.
If you watched the video, John mentioned this and they said it could change but they're trying to stick to it.
Targeting 60 doesn't mean they're 100% confirming 60, they're saying they're going to TRY and get 60.
Am I the only one that just really isn't liking the setting? I've always liked Techland's zombie games because of how beautiful the locales were.
Dead Island's tropical paradise was breathtaking at the time, and Dying Light's pseudo-Istanbul had such a unique and wondrous feel to it. These are places that, minus the zombies, I'd be thrilled to visit in real life.
Dying Light 2's city looks, by design, absolutely disgusting. It's a theme park and a shantytown fused into the rotting corpse of a modern city, and while I have no doubt it'll be a very well-developed backdrop (Chris Avellone's involvement ensures this), it doesn't seem like the sort of place I'd want to occupy.
From the "escapist fantasy" perspective, I'm a bit let down.
Dead Island's tropical paradise was breathtaking at the time, and Dying Light's pseudo-Istanbul had such a unique and wondrous feel to it. These are places that, minus the zombies, I'd be thrilled to visit in real life.
Dying Light 2's city looks, by design, absolutely disgusting. It's a theme park and a shantytown fused into the rotting corpse of a modern city, and while I have no doubt it'll be a very well-developed backdrop (Chris Avellone's involvement ensures this), it doesn't seem like the sort of place I'd want to occupy.
From the "escapist fantasy" perspective, I'm a bit let down.
