Dying Light 2’s developers are considering adding a New Game Plus option to the game, enriching the open world zombie survival experience.
Dying Light 2 developer Techland has confirmed that the team is considering adding a New Game + mode to the game. This was in response to several fan requests for the popular feature found in many games on social media.
Dying Light 2 was released in February 2022 after some delays, and promised players more of the first-person parkour and intense zombie sequences that made the first entry in the series so successful, whilst adding a branching storyline dependent on Dying Light 2 players’ choices. The idea of multiple choices impacting the world of the game was missing from the original Dying Light, with the exception of a key moment in its story DLC The Following. It’s mostly because of this feature that fans who finished the game want to dive back into the world of Villedor to see what the outcome would be if they sided with different factions and made different choices without losing the progression made or the skills they’ve unlocked in their initial playthrough.
On Twitter (via PCGamesN), the official Dying Light account responded to a fan’s demand for New Game + and confirmed that the developers were “seriously thinking about” adding the feature, but added that it was “too early to promise anything.” This isn’t the first time Techland has responded to requests for the Dying Light 2 feature, as last month, Dying Light 2‘s lead designer Tymon Smektala explained the reasoning behind the absence of New Game +, stating that “the idea was you can see [the different outcomes] in other peoples’ games through coop.”
NG+ is an option we’re seriously thinking about, but it’s too early to promise anything yet.
— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) March 4, 2022
Smektala has also been open to asking fans how they’d want New Game + to work regarding difficulty levels, and fans have responded using the original Dying Light‘s New Game + mode as a reference point. Dying Light‘s New Game + reset the story whilst allowing the player to keep their progression from their initial playthrough. In order to maintain a level of challenge, enemies received a health increase, which was most noticeable when changing the difficulty to Nightmare.
Whilst Dying Light 2 has mostly been praised for its brilliant parkour system and weighty combat, it is the absence of some features like New Game +, or even guns, that have left some fans of the original scratching their heads as to why they were excluded. Although from the sounds of it, New Game + could still be a while, Techland has promised that much like the original, which received new content right up to the launch of its sequel, there will be five years of post-launch support for Dying Light 2. This post-launch support will include story expansions akin to The Following, as well as new content, some of which has already been released for free with the Authority and Ronin packs.
Sources: Dying Light/Twitter (via PCGamesN), Tymon Smektala/Twitter
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