edgefusion
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Do you ever get to see the main character outside of looking at someone else's MC in coop? It's weird to me they have all these outfits you never get to see.
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Dying Light IOTI A dead island on the mirror's edge.
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Started playing and I really like the feel of scavenging. That's something they've nailed. It feels really atmospheric to wander these houses around the shuffling zombies and come nighttime, see the value of lights and start seeking them out, none more comforting than uv lights at a safe house.
Hehe yah i´ve been running around looking for a mirror or somthing, no luck sofar.
HassanJamal
Member
Funnily enough, I noticed Crane can see himself even though there's no mirrors in this game. Well aside from
Lightning Count
Member
Can I just ask what the consensus is so far, because I am thinking about getting this.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Do normal zombies scale btw?
When I started, all of them would go down in one hit with the rebar, even if I hit their torso. Earlier, I found a nice little easter egg area with a few waves of them, and most of them took two hits. I hope they don't scale. I wanna get a good weapon, and go to town.
When I started, all of them would go down in one hit with the rebar, even if I hit their torso. Earlier, I found a nice little easter egg area with a few waves of them, and most of them took two hits. I hope they don't scale. I wanna get a good weapon, and go to town.
psn droozy
Cpt.Underpants
Member
The atmosphere during night time changes drastically. I never get out alone unless there's a friendly player connects online or a quest forces me to do it.
Fucken speedster zombies man
Fucken speedster zombies man
MAX PAYMENT
Member
Wow. Best game I've played in a while. The sun setting is a truly scary experience because I am still not ready to face the night.
Did the couple early forced night missions. It was a shit show. Died multiple times.
Did a 1v1 where I was the human. I don't think I've ever been so tense. I barely one.
Love the game. I'll be playing it alot.
Psn: MAX-PAYMENT
Did the couple early forced night missions. It was a shit show. Died multiple times.
Did a 1v1 where I was the human. I don't think I've ever been so tense. I barely one.
Love the game. I'll be playing it alot.
Psn: MAX-PAYMENT
Messofanego
Banned
THAT is a cool-ass detail. Nice.
User 479360
Banned
It seems like I'm inching forward in this game. The story progression is slow.
I like how you can jump off the bridge if it gets too crazy.
I like how you can jump off the bridge if it gets too crazy.
King Tubby
Member
It seems like everyone who plays it (who doesn't write reviews for a living) loves it, myself included. I can't stop playing.
This is true to some extent...but they really nailed the minute-to-minute gameplay of movement, combat, scavenging, atmosphere to such an extent that you don't really care about the cliched aspects.
User 479360
Banned
It's alright. I had more fun with Dead Island despite its flaws.
This just isn't as interesting as it could've been, and no fast travel is a pain in the ass.
Lord of Castamere
Member
4/5 of your biggest trophies glitched. The incompetency. I can't even right now.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Nope. No patch is coming as of right now.
Their solution was a generic "restore licenses", "open ports", and "rebuild database".
Well just completed the game and I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Took me around 30 hours according to Steam stats but it felt way longer haha. For comparison Steam says that I played Dead Island for 57 hours. I played through the whole game solo so can't comment on what the co-op is like but the game didn't even feel like it needed co-op.
TharpDaddy
Member
How would you say it compared to Dead Island? I really enjoyed Dead Island but hearing they changed the combat, my favorite part of DI, worries me about getting Dying Light.
Better game than Dead Island. Much better game. I think the melee is just as fun though it is different in that it puts more emphasis on movement.
So, what have you guys found is the best way to fight the big zombies that swing an axe/hammer? I know how to take them out without taking damage but attacking, then evading back & rinse n repeat is so boring and takes ages lol. Molotovs and shuriken ain't doing it either... hm.
Not too far in the game (basically just got the 5 meds from Rais, level 6 or 7 on the skill trees) so keep that in mind.
Not too far in the game (basically just got the 5 meds from Rais, level 6 or 7 on the skill trees) so keep that in mind.
For the regular Goons (orange suit), you just have to headshot them with a rebar ( if you unlocked the ability to throw your weapon). But for the fireman ones, no such luck, you have to fight them "à la loyale".
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Throw a ninja star on the floor, you can kind of see your reflection in it.
Chin35char
Member
Absolutely loving this game so far. To me it's just a much better version of Dead Island, the parkour stuff is awesome. Playing in game at night time is a lot of fun and pretty intense compared to the day.
constantstatic
Member
Electric weapon with conductive Liquid is good same with fire and Flammable unless they have the firemans suit on.
Collateral22
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TharpDaddy
Member
Better to play with a controller or kb&m on PC?
StevePharma
Member
Seems like no-one has the "complete all sidequests" achievement/trophy yet if I'm looking correctly.
Looks like that one is bugged for now. People on achievement fora aren't sure what the requirements are to unlock it, they've pretty much done everything in the game already.
Thanks! I'm probably being too stingy, I only fight with regular weapons for the time being but I guess it doesn't make any sense to hoard my materials haha
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
Maybe there are missable quests if you progress the story before completing them.
Lord of Castamere
Member
From the PS4 stats, at least 1 person has gotten each trophy but no one has the platinum. So you can get any of the bugged ones but it seems guaranteed that at least 1 will bug out.
derExperte
Member
Now he's screaming 'YES!'. The apocalypse (and drugs, and strange potions with shrooms) hasn't been kind to his brain.
As suspected the percentage goes up way faster beyond ~50%. But I like the pacing, they clearly learned from DI how not to do it.
razgriz417
Member
explosive throwing stars, 3-4 will take it out, that or molotov it a few times before going in to save time
fyi explosive throwing stars will 1 shot the spitters too, tho they do make noise i think so you might get some virals. I found throwing stars are kinda useless vs humans tho, Rais' guys just bat them away tho if youre able to land one its instakill. I usually just lob molotovs and take swings at them when they're on fire
27 hours in and on the home stretch it feels like, my next story mission is
really liking / liked the game, but just like Dead Island (which I also really liked), it stretches for longer than it should. But then again thats on me for doing all the sidequests I guess (and I havent even touched the challenges, nor will I tbh). Im about ready to finish the game if you know what I mean.
The Museum (and my only sidequest left atm is also in the museum to get the reward from the previous sidequest)
really liking / liked the game, but just like Dead Island (which I also really liked), it stretches for longer than it should. But then again thats on me for doing all the sidequests I guess (and I havent even touched the challenges, nor will I tbh). Im about ready to finish the game if you know what I mean.
Mechanized
Member
This game is pretty awesome after playing for a few hours. The parkour aspect is great, but it feels pretty limited starting out, I would say by endgame it will feel amazing though. It seems like sprint should be unlimited, as much as that would detract from the realism. I'm glad guns and bullets are kinda spread out, you probably won't find them unless you do a ton of exploring or get to certain quests. They are rightfully super powerful when compared to everything else. There is some random jank in the game though, I tried standing when crouching under a crouching uh, space, and it stuck me under the world. I was able to get out by climbing up a wall. lol. Also is it just me or is it really weird that the school area drops frames like fucking crazy? It's an interior, usually where the framerate gets better in games. The outside world seems like it's locked 30 on PS4, but when I did that school quest, the game took a shit on itself. Otherwise game has been great, story is pretty good.
NavyPharaoh
Member
It must be really hard to write a consistent story in open world games. I think this started with so much promise, then it just turns video gamey real quick. But they forced themselves into that. IMO there was no reason to introduce
Heres how you easily improve the story. The premise and tower can be the same, you can even look for the same mcguffin.
Everybody shouldn't be able to get close to the leader, especially a new person. So you have to do errands to build trust. Once you meet the leader and find out he doesn't have the file, you branch out to look for who does. Rinse, repeat just make the other settlements and characters unique and I'm interested in where this is going. The best story telling in games, to me, is fueling the fire or giving you some context for why and what you are about to do.
i think writers sometimes try to put too much story in games, when simpler is better IMO. Look at TLOU, one my favorite games, the story isn't complex. Get the girl to the fireflies. Now what happens on that journey makes the story, but why aren't there more TLOU's? Because of writers like those on Assassin's Creed, over complex for the shake of complexity thinking that makes a better story. Look how many writers those games have. Why does a story need more than 2 writers. It's a reason I think all Rockstar's stories fall apart. Having to have all those missions and a reason for all of them, not to mention tie those threads together has to be infuriating.
Rais and send you on a bunch of quests you don't want to do. Then they made the GBE the typical "government agencies are bad" stereotype.
Everybody shouldn't be able to get close to the leader, especially a new person. So you have to do errands to build trust. Once you meet the leader and find out he doesn't have the file, you branch out to look for who does. Rinse, repeat just make the other settlements and characters unique and I'm interested in where this is going. The best story telling in games, to me, is fueling the fire or giving you some context for why and what you are about to do.
i think writers sometimes try to put too much story in games, when simpler is better IMO. Look at TLOU, one my favorite games, the story isn't complex. Get the girl to the fireflies. Now what happens on that journey makes the story, but why aren't there more TLOU's? Because of writers like those on Assassin's Creed, over complex for the shake of complexity thinking that makes a better story. Look how many writers those games have. Why does a story need more than 2 writers. It's a reason I think all Rockstar's stories fall apart. Having to have all those missions and a reason for all of them, not to mention tie those threads together has to be infuriating.
Yep i noticed the framerate drop in the school and thought it was weird since it was indoor, thought it might of been because i was playing for 6, 7 hours straight.
And something similar happened to me too, one of those exploding fuckers went off and sent me through the roof.
Abusive_Red
Banned
Get up high and use throwing stars/axes/tomahawks. Works on the big bezerkers too.
Also, make some resistance potions if you want to go toe to toe with those crazy ass night creatures. Helps a ton.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I've one hit killed the big firemen dudes using the throwing weapon skill. Although I was using the Korek Machete, but it seems like the skill does triple or quadruple damage.
Absolutely loving this so far and I honestly think is some of the finest movement/traversal I've ever seen in an FPS, better than Mirrors Edge as well and slicker than Far Cry 3/4. It's just an absolute joy to move around the world and I just find it really fun to play. Combat's great and the upgrades are well done and you can feel your character getting better with movement, combat etc. It's pretty slick IMO and I love the very slight Mortal Kombat xray cam you get now and again. Very crunchy and impactful. They've definitely made more of an attempt with the side story stuff as well. I mean it is still 'collect this for me' and 'go here' and it won't win any storytelling awards but it's enough to keep it interesting and fun and not be a total bore. I like some of the short traversal puzzles you get as well, just cases where you say have to get to the roof of somewhere and you need to work out how to do it. It feels like a real labour of love for Techland this.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Add another thing to the broken list. Apparently you can't get to Survivor Rank 25. It stops giving you XP towards the end of 24.
.hacked
Member
Man I just had the most epic zombie experience yet, playing coop op with my bro we did the voltage side quest. Started it in the day time, clear 1st 2 boxes easy and ran to the big station. Dozen of transformers in a grid pattern with 100s of zombies between us and the last switch. We hopped across the tops of the transformers over the hordes to get to the fenced in shack were the final switch was. Would not let us activate it until night time. We started to notice zombies glitching through the fence, after killing a few dozen of them we devised a plan to clear the area before night fall. One of us would lure the zombies into a pack with fire crackers while the other set them ablaze with a molotov. It was so much fun, after the carnage we take turns gather our loot. Leveled up 3 or 4 times during the slaughter, best zombie game ever!
I just totally cheesed getting bolter flesh. Went to the safehouse right next to the feeding ground at the top right. Waited for night. Ran out, smacked the bolter a few times and killed it. Got swarmed, ran back to safe house. Waited a few minutes, ran back out and looted it. Got swarmed, ran back to safe house.
I suck at going out at night and have avoided it like the plague (except the
mission, which can be done safely).
I suck at going out at night and have avoided it like the plague (except the
bridge
Wizard of GAF
Member
Its safe to say I have anus muscles. Who's idea was it to put volatiles in ;_;?
I almost cried twice from pure terror. Someone better come up with a "living light" mod cause this night business ain't for me.
I almost cried twice from pure terror. Someone better come up with a "living light" mod cause this night business ain't for me.
Phaethon0017
Member
Made a montage of all the crazy weird shit I've seen in this game so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9hVGuKqAr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9hVGuKqAr0
NavyPharaoh
Member
i have no idea how to use flares. I throw them down in front of a zombie and they walk right over them
It's been a while since I played Dead Island but I remember the combat being very similar if not identical well other than the gun combat which is vastly improved. I did notice that the weapons in Dying Light all felt very similar and the variety just wasn't there but like I said I haven't played Dead Island is a very long time. If you liked DI you should like DL I'd say.