Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition News

• Discover a New Location — venture to Carnage Hall, the epicenter of splendor, death, fame, barbarity, fortune, and bloodshed. The place where the greatest fighters battle for glory!
  
• Experience a New Narrative – secure a spot in the Pantheon of the best fighters, and make tough choices as the plot for power and revenge reaches its tipping point.
  
• Behold… the Carnage Manica! — tap into the power barricade that is the Carnage Manica and take hold of new weapons to make creative combat that much more creative.
  
• Fight the Freaks — face off against hordes of new Infected like the towering Gorilla Demolisher, fire-spewing Inferno, and many others!
  

• The Nights in The City got darker! Overall darkness is way deeper than before
  
• Throwable items trajectory implemented
  
• Players can now run in the PK ship HUB
  
• Outfits preview is available
  
• Fixed an issue with the achievements not being granted to the players upon completion
  
• Players will no longer be able to travel outside the playable area in Let’s Waltz quest
  
• Waltz in Let’s Waltz quest will no longer be idle
  
• You can no longer get stuck in a car during the Let’s Waltz quest
  
• During the Let’s Waltz quest, toxic chemicals will reduce the player’s infection as usual
  
• Fixed an issue where UV Safezone in Main Terminal Station was not fully functional
  
• Hakon won’t fall asleep on the mattress in the Getting Stronger quest, allowing players to progress with the quest
  
• The toxic area near Downtown and The Wharf will deal damage again
  
• Howler’s alert indicator will be shown correctly
  
• The death screen will be shown correctly when defeated in the Challenge
  
• Collectibles from Chapter 2 will not count toward the achievements
  
• Fixed an issue where the grappling hook was unavailable during Hooked on the Thrill Challenge, and Nightrunner Trial 3
  
• Multiple Challenges got fixed objective count and timers
  
• The Wharf water tower will be correctly assigned to Peacekeepers upon the player’s decision
  
• Virals will hear better, reacting to various sounds with more intensity
  
• Fixed an issue where the Infected becomes unresponsive and dies
  
• Damage scaling for fists and dropkicks is fixed, no longer allowing players to box through the game easily
  
• You can no longer fall through the elevator
  
• Fixed an issue with “Leaving the mission area” during the Twin Brothers' quest
  
• Added a new Craftmaster upgrading tutorial for the new players
  
• The wardrobe is no longer blocking the exit in one of the safe zones
  
• Frank’s door at the Fish Eye is now open during Explore Villedor mode, which will allow plates to get a collectible located there
  
• Fixed AI outline during Rage Mode in one of the story quests
  
• Fixed issues with Stamina not depleting during some of the Nightrunners’ trials
  

• Users won’t encounter a black screen while activating windmill when one of the players is respawning
  
• Animation of grabbing the player by infected should no longer freeze
  
• You can now leave the game if the host dies during certain story quests
  
• Fixed user’s online ID disappearing during some activities in co-op
  

• Removed a glitch where a white box showed up when LMB was clicked
  
• Fixed a display timer on Challenges from Chapter 1
  
• Players will be no longer to see outside the map with the Photo Mode
  
• Fixed lighting inside buildings during the day
  
• AI clothes will not stretch in a long distance
  
• Fixed some missing textures in the bazaar
  
• Beehives are more aligned with the trees in the Prologue
  
• Fixed the sound glitch that did not play any sound during the death screen
  
• Biters will ragdoll correctly when dropkicked
  
• Raindrops will be appropriately displayed on the water’s surface
  
• Aiden’s Stash text fixes
  
• Multiple Lightning/Brightness tweaks
  
• Fixed an issue with previously looted bags being highlighted during survival sense
  
• Fixed issues with missing textures
  
• Parts of the player’s outfits are now displayed correctly in Photomode, and inventory
  
• Fixed an issue with parkour music being stuck on one track indefinitely
  

• Fixed an issue where using a rollback feature might lead to the game crashing
  
• Fixed the framerate drop issue that was happening randomly after a few hours of gameplay
  
• Fixed an issue with random crashes during the combat
  
• Players will no longer be stuck in the infinite loop after launching the game in Steam Offline mode
  
• Fixed multiple crashes on consoles
  
• Fixed random freezes when changing some options
  
• Fixed textures in X13
  
• Fixed D3D failed to execute error
  
• Fixed occasional crashes when playing with Video Settings set to D3D12 Ultimate Raytracing
  
• New Intel XeSS upscaler available
  
• Screen space reflections are now more stable & capable of reflecting particles
  
• Improved water rendering
  
• Improved water ambient lighting
  
• Improved water screen space reflections
  
• Water is now able to reflect reflection probes in the interiors
  
• Water & fog interaction is enhanced.
  
• The default sharpness value for upscalers closer resembles the native result
  
• Ray-tracing VRAM consumption reduced (up to 1G)
  
• New Intel XeSS upscaler available
  
• Screen space reflections are now more stable & capable of reflecting particles
  
• Improved water rendering
  
• Improved water ambient lighting
  
• Improved water screen space reflections
  
• Water is now able to reflect reflection probes in the interiors
  
• Water & fog interaction is enhanced.
  
• The default sharpness value for upscalers closer resembles the native result
  
• Ray-tracing VRAM consumption reduced (up to 1G)
  

As if Villedor wasn't haunted enough! The first Dying Light 2 Halloween event is now live, and the zombie game's post-apocalyptic old world city is now crawling with pumpkintiles - that's volatiles with pumpkins on their heads, obviously. By hunting pumpkintiles and the infected, you can earn some Spirit Halloween-style costumes and gear.

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