The first Dying Light released in 2015, and received free content up until just a few months ago. The series’ developer, Techland, has promised to do the same for Dying Light 2, going as far as to create a general roadmap for what the next five years of content will look like. Though it seems like a lofty goal, if the last few months are anything to go by, it seems like the developer might just stick to its word. Since its release in February, Dying Light 2 has received a slew of updates, each one bringing technical tweaks, bug fixes, new cosmetics, new weapons, new enemies, and even a whole new game mode.
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Every Dying Light 2 Update Added Since Launch
Dying Light 2’s first free update, the Authority Pack, released in three parts mere weeks after the game first released. This pack added a range of new gear to the game, all themed after the Peacekeeper faction of the game’s main story. Chest-pieces, coats, pants, high-tops, and even a brand new two-handed hammer were all added to the game, completely free of charge. While most of these pieces were purely cosmetic, the update cemented Techland’s determination and immediately put the developer in good stead with the community.
About a month later, Techland added some new parkour challenges to the game. There were four parkour challenges in total, each one forcing the player to use their agility skills wisely and show off all they’d learned during the campaign. On top of the challenges, this update also added a new mission which teased an upcoming threat, the mutated infected types.
At the end of April, Dying Light 2 received its biggest update yet. This update, titled “1.3.0,” added an impressive amount of content to the game, all for free. On top of the usual round of bug fixes, in particular some pretty significant co-op tweaks, the 1.3.0 update added the much-anticipated New Game Plus mode alongside a new difficulty tier for parkour challenges and a wave of legendary-tier weapons with some accompanying missions.
Dying Light 2’s New Game Plus mode was no simple affair either. Unlike most games’ New Game Plus offerings, Dying Light 2’s went all-out, tweaking enemy AI to make it smarter, shuffling enemy positions to keep the player on their toes, and adding 30 new Inhibitors to the game, each of which would allow the player to upgrade themselves even further, past the limit of the game’s original state. Through enemy level scaling, Dying Light 2’s New Game Plus mode stays challenging throughout the playthrough, just as any good NG+ mode should.
It’s only been three months since Dying Light 2 released, and players have already received more content than they were expecting, let alone asked for. While Dying Light 2’s paid story DLC has been delayed until the end of the year, the future is still extremely bright for the zombie/parkour slasher, with another four years of content ahead of it.
Dying Light 2 is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. A Switch version is in development.
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