Techland has dropped a new update today for Dying Light 2, its 2022 zombie-slaying adventure. The key feature in this update is 'Nightmare Mode' - a brand-new high difficulty option for seasoned Dying Light players.
You can check out a slice of the new mode in action up above, which features tougher enemies, better loot, no health regeneration, real-time crafting without game pausing and a whole lot more. Here's what the team is bringing to the table with Dying Light 2 Nightmare Mode:
"If you like challenges, we’ve got what you need. Nightmare Mode is our new highest difficulty for those wanting to truly experience the nightmarish reality of the Dying Light universe. Enemies are most cunning and brutal. They will put up even more of a fight now, which is important, as you’ll now realize everything you’ve relied on in previous playthroughs aren’t so reliable! And survival becomes essential with limited information and UI elements."
Alongside this new difficulty option, Techland is still working away on the core experience - making more bug fixes and balance tweaks over two years on from launch. We'll drop their full Dying Light 2 patch notes down below:
Dying Light 2 Nightmare Mode Patch Notes
CO-OP
- Fixed the issue disabling joining multiplayer via Quick Join
- Fixed the issue in the “Ferry Tale Endings” quest causing the generator to turn off and on when attacked by multiple Biters, resulting in failing the mission
- Fixed the issue where blunt attacks to the head counted towards the “Off With Their Heads!” Survivor Mission Bounty
- Improved accuracy of online status information in the Friends section of the Online menu
- Player icons on HUD are now differentiated with different colors
- Player icons on HUD are now properly hidden if the Immersive HUD option selected
- Player icons on HUD are now visible while using the extended HUD option
- Fixed and tweaked several TPP animations
- Fixed the issue with the “Boss Raid” bounty only progressing for the player who last hit the boss when in a full party in any Elite Survivor Mission
- Fixed the animation for Wall Run Kick in TPP
- Fixed the animation of swinging the weapon while the camera is pointed towards ground
- Fixed the missing swing animation upon attacking with the Grubby Bat
Gameplay
- Fixed Virals being able to successfully perform jump attacks by turning in mid-air towards players, even if they dodged. Additionally, the frequency of Viral jump attacks has been lowered
- Increased Firearms damage values:
+25% of base damage on all Firearms
- Sniper Skill (Legend Levels) will now give +2% damage per each point, instead of +1%
- Addressed the issue with the Bounties tracker being stuck on 3/6 or 6/6 Bounties
- Fixed the Renegades not spawning properly during the “A Place to Call Home” main quest, blocking further progress
- Fixed the blocked by a car transition to the Central Loop
- Fixed the camera while unlocking a windmill cutscene
- Fixed the game still running underneath the credits after the alternate ending from the new story path
- Fixed the Adaptive Triggers sometimes not working unless a weapon with Adaptive Triggers was held just before
- Fixed the issue causing kills with explosive knives counting towards the Improvised Weapons Bounty progression
- Fixed the Alpha Demolisher not having damage resistance to headshots
- Fixed the issue with the “Drive By” Bounty completing by hitting Infected instead of killing them
Added Combat and Parkour XP to the Firearms quest rewards
- Fixed the issue sometimes blocking the player from climbing the lamp poles
- Fixed the missing VFX fire for Molotovs when thrown from higher places in a certain location
- Fixed the prolonged black screen sometimes happening at the end of the "Now or Never" quest
- Fixed an issue where animations sometimes did not blend correctly after performing a vault jump with crossbow equipped
- Fixed the issue with Lawan sometimes changing her position right after the dialogue in the “A Place to Call Home” quest
- Fixed the issue where the Banshee’s jump attack cannot be dodged in the Prologue
- Fixed the issue where perfect dodge sometimes didn’t work during fights with Demolishers, causing player to get stunned
- Fixed the despawning NPC after finishing “The Black Widow” quest
Technical
- Fixed several rendering issues present on the ground, concrete, and lights in the Prologue
- Fixed the error that sometimes failed to load the audio voice-over metadata file after launching the game in the Bazaar
- Fixed the bug causing internal memory running out after a few minutes of gameplay
- Fixed the improper rendering encountered during 'Priceless' Elite Survivor Mission
- Fixed the graphical corruption occurring when several HUD icons aligned
- Fixed the graphical glitches that sometimes showed after changing video quality and the upscaler
- Fixed the textures that sometimes improperly rendered in a specific room of Central Loop
- Fixed the mural collectable clipping through the roof of a kiosk in Central Loop
- Fixed the projectiles' trails sometimes being improperly displayed
- Fixed the game sometimes crashing on the loading screen when starting NG+
- Fixed an issue that sometimes did not play death screams on enemies’ deaths
- Fixed the inconsistent LOD0/LOD1 materials in R02 overpass
- Fixed an issue blocking the selection of any sfx in audio prefabs in the DevTools Editor
UI
- Redesigned the Audio Output menu to make it more clear
- Fixed the text on "Bacon's Cipher" going outside the UI frames
- Added the “Buy Max” feature, allowing players to buy all the available items without choosing the amount
- Corrected typo in the “Split The Marrow” Bounty description
- Fixed the issue sometimes incorrectly showing negative values or previous statistics during the Survivor Missions ending screen
- Fixed an issue sometimes incorrectly showing a death screen when dying by leaving the mission area and due to lack of immunity