Dying Light: The Beast News

Call of the Beast: Week 2

[p]The first community challenge has come to a close, but that just means it’s time for the next one! It’s time to stop, drop and kick all over Castor Woods. We knew you’d like this one![/p][p][/p][p]Community Challenge: Dropkick Rush[/p][p]Goal #1: 1,000,000 dropkick kills
Reward: Sunset SUV Car Skin[/p][p]Goal #2: 2,000,000 dropkick kills
Reward: Sunset Machete[/p][p]
Note: Dropkick kills are counted if: the dropkick directly kills an enemy OR within 3 seconds of the dropkick, an enemy dies after hitting a wall, spikes or falling.[/p][p]Call of the Beast Week 2 runs from Thursday, October 23 at 4PM CEST until Thursday, October 30 at 4PM CET.[/p][p][/p][p]IMPORTANT: Unlike last week, the rewards won’t be sent to your in-game stash as soon as the goal is completed. Instead, they will be distributed at the end of the challenge. [/p][p]
As before, to know how close the community is to victory and your rewards, head to Dying Light Outpost to see the progression.[/p][p]Now get out there and kick (literally) some zombie ass!

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Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office

Techland has released its post-launch roadmap for its free-running, zombie-dropkicking spinoff Dying Light: The Beast. As gaming roadmaps go, it's closer to what you'd scribble on the back of a packet of ciggies than the cartographical masterpieces produced by Ordnance Survey, with Techland's plans stretching over just 11 weeks. But this pencil-scrawl to your local newsagent nonetheless has a few landmarks worth visiting between now and the end of the year...
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Devs React

[p]Our devs sat down to read some of your best reviews of Dying Light: The Beast.

Check out their live reactions as we celebrate the game’s release. And of course, don’t forget to leave a review of your own!
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Hotfix

[p]Good news, survivors![/p][p]We’ve just released a hotfix that addresses the recent issue where weapon and armor stats were reduced after a player’s death or when restarting the game.[/p]

Dying Light The Beast reveals 11 weeks of freebies and its most-requested new mode

Of all the games to release this year, Dying Light The Beast has probably surprised me the most. It's not that I thought it would be a bad game, I just thought that releasing amid the likes of Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, and Battlefield 6 would leave it flying under the radar a little. I thought it might be a game we'd grow to love, to look back on in a couple of years' time and say, 'that was an underappreciated gem,' or suchlike. But no. It hit the ground running, immediately finding a place in our best zombie games list, and it isn't showing any signs of losing steam. Techland has now announced an 11-week roadmap of post-launch content, including community challenges, a higher difficulty setting, and New Game Plus.

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