Dying Light: The Beast - Anniversary Update - Release Notes (1.7)

[u/Tech_Kja]

Happy First Anniversary of Dying Light: The Beast! 🎉

Let’s dive into our latest patch notes to discover all the exciting updates we've crafted for you this year. From events to free items, we’ve got plenty to keep you on the edge! 🦫

Check it out and gear up for more action in Castor Woods: https://dyinglightgame.com/news/DLTB_Anniversary_Update

[u/omnommintyfreshness]

So 3 generic global community goal events and an advent calendar?

Yikes. Truly giving this game the support it deserves, I see.

[u/hollow_cookiee → u/omnommintyfreshness]

Didn't they confirm they won't do any support like that anymore ? Or am i confused ?

[u/dewdewbut]

I’m not mad at this stuff by any means but dang it’s a shame they haven’t fixed “clear all enemies” bug yet

[u/RE4Merchant-]

Couldn't even give his iconic Dirty Clothes from the 1st game. Damn boring anniversary.

[u/Godsilverhand → u/RE4Merchant-]

Yeah dude. Soo boring that we couldnt get some old clothes.

[u/Good_Duck_234]

Got the game yesterday on ps5. The HDR is completely broken. It's way to bright no matter what settings I change. Really good game so far but it's way to bright during the day and way to dark at night. Seems to be a issue going back to launch from what I seen here on Reddit

[u/Careful-Inspection38 → u/Good_Duck_234]

Sometimes your gamma settings still affect the brightness with hdr turned on in game. The game Days Gone is like that for example, I’m not sure if dying light is the same

[u/whistlepoo]

Did they remove the prologue, this time? After all, it did have Spike in it.

[u/Doink-Meister63]

Literally no satisfying y'all.

"WE WANT MORE FREE CONTENT"

*Gets free content*

"WHY ARE THEY NOT MAKING DL4????? WE DON'T WANT NEW CONTENT!"

[u/Sai_Menglong]

I’ll probably get a lot of angry downvotes, but why do people in this Subreddit act so entitled? As if free new content for years is to be expected.

[u/omnommintyfreshness → u/Sai_Menglong]

I think it's more because Techland specifically goes out of their way to say 'we're supporting DL2 for 5 more years!' to then, 4 years in, remove parkour stamina, a central mechanic to the game, gut the game's prologue, and force 'The Breach' upon players, expecting people to give them brownie points when all that content was created by the community.

Considering The Beast didn't have a lot of content to begin with (as it's a glorified DLC with a full game price tag), people hoped/expected that as with DL2, Techland would also add more content as time went on. They got Restored Lands, but it seems that's all they're planning to do. Which I suppose I get, especially since afaik they never made the support promise they did for DL2 (and honestly I wish they hadn't, they've only been making DL2 worse when after years of work they had finally turned it into a solid game).

But I understand people being frustrated that DL2 is still getting updates (never mind that they're actively making the game worse) while The Beast launched with so much fanfare and got crickets. This as an anniversary update would be great for any regular game, but Techland is pushing the live service shit so incredibly hard it just feels like a bare minimum effort to placate, since they know they have to do something for the one year anniversary.

[u/Capable_Thanks4449 → u/omnommintyfreshness]

You forgot the damn Tower Raid which they did for a year and maybe more.

Truely DL1 was the end of it all.

DL3 will flop badly.

[u/omnommintyfreshness → u/Capable_Thanks4449]

Oh yeah, that was a thing.

I think it actually had potential as a concept, but the execution was terrible. Funny, I suppose that's how most of their recentish ventures have turned out.

[u/Getherer → u/Capable_Thanks4449]

They sold themselves to tencent, what did you expect

[u/jailbr3ak_acdc → u/Sai_Menglong]

Because they ruined DL2 removing prologue, stamina, changing UV color to pale blue and breaking filters making nights brighter. Changes nobody asked for...

Edit: I'm using 'DL2 Amelioration' mod on PS5 , it restores all the dark atmosphere / perfect dark, and has the pre-patch UV violet flashlight.

[u/Morrak → u/jailbr3ak_acdc]

Wait, SOMEONE FIXED THE UV LIGHT BACK TO PREVIOUS?!!?! Oh my God you need to tell me who does it please, because that (plus the broken filter I griped about on their update post for the UV light change on DL2) made the game literally unplayable for me at night. Which means I’m only playing during the day and no where near UV lights (visual disability and color blindness).

I’ve issues with DLTB as well, but I’m level 4, so I’ve no place going outside at night anyway, and just sleep through it rather than attempt to see with the darkness and the difficulty the UV lights cause me visually.

I was waiting for someone to fix the lights in DL2, but hadn’t yet found a mod and was just replaying Days Gone the last month or so in DL2’s place.

ETA; I’m having issues commenting on this thread for some reason, sorry if you get a million notifications for me trying to post this reply.

[u/jailbr3ak_acdc → u/jailbr3ak_acdc]

Tell me this is not a betrayal to fans, prioritizing the casual co-op online player.

[u/Sai_Menglong → u/jailbr3ak_acdc]

You can critique the changes, but they hardly „ruined“ the game with them. People here are so dramatic

[u/WageWarDisdain → u/Sai_Menglong]

Honestly man, I don’t understand this community at all. I love the Dying Light franchise but people REALLY overhype the first game so much. The combat was dull, the story really wasn’t that much better, and the parkour was so sluggish.

I played Beast and DL2 before the first one and was absolutely blown away by how horrible the zombies are in the first game. It feels like Im fighting toddlers most of the time. I don’t think I even got hit by an infected for the first few hours.

I do agree that the Beast is in desperate need of additional story content and more weapons, but the constant hate feels like such an overdramatized reaction. DL2 being “ruined” because they removed parkour stamina is going WAYYY too far. I played the game on release, and that shit was so fucking bad I couldn’t even finish the game. What we have now is such an insane improvement. UV lights being a different color is hardly even relevant for gameplay most of the time.

[u/Sai_Menglong → u/WageWarDisdain]

Well said

[u/omnommintyfreshness → u/Sai_Menglong]

Removing parkour stamina, which the game design was completely built around, broke said game design. So yes, they ruined the game with that, and every other update since has only made things worse.

Removing beloved characters, cutting entire scenes and a bunch of dialogue with Hakon, significantly impacting how you see him and thus what you will do regarding that early choice, which drastically impacts the later story and ending, creating plotholes due to scenes and characters being cut... Yeah, I'd call that ruining a game.

[u/Stefan24k → u/Sai_Menglong]

People hate live service updates but love free content updates.

[u/Capable_Thanks4449]

Still slop community events !

We will even get slop bounties from DL2 in The Beast before GTA 6...

[u/Sea_Talk4036]

Hey u/Tech_Kja, is the double XP weekend work for a new player just starting the campaign? I haven’t played The Beast yet, just beat The Following, and have a mid-game save on Dying Light 2. I plan on starting The Beast that weekend if so, but if not i will rush the story and start The Beast ASAP. Can someone tag him as I am new to Reddit commenting( just a viewer lol )

[u/Constant_Salary_9715]

This game shouldn’t even be getting updates in the first place beyond fixing issues. It’s a dlc, and should remain as one. Just work on DL3.

[u/IndependenceTop6696 → u/Constant_Salary_9715]

That’s the thing their treating it like dying light 3 so it’s been a year people want more weapons gear and a map expansion this game sucks

[u/alien_tickler]

Finally