Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

what can i say?
gave it 2 playthroughs worth of my time, and its just so.... dull.
all i kept thinking was "dying light 1 was fun" missing the combat and the lighter parkour.
dl2 went to hard into parkour and skipped on the combat. Weapons feel off.
also the story you can tell has been cut down considerably. like you can tell where there was meant to be filler quests, side storys. hell even the map has unfinished areas which are just screaming for being fleshed out.

bandit camps? only 3 of em btw, so why are they in the game?
they do nothing, like with the backerys, sawmills, schools. The game has the pieces to be greaty but got fucked over by that fake accusiation, which made techland gut the story and your left with a poor excuse of an open world game, with a shitty story.

Aiden is a poormans kyle crane, and thats why dl the beast is A: bringing him back
and B: why its standalone, can you imagine crane being subjected to this combat system?

also: adien can sometimes be a volitle. missed opptunity. would of been an awesome mechanic to use if the world had more to do in it....

shame.

sadly its worse that DL1 in every way. Parkour feels sluggish and slow, combat hasnt as good tools and many interactions. Crafting is just the worst, you get the best blueprints and you never need any other weapons which affects looting as well. Story wasnt all that bad but the world felt miserable, especially central loop. I hope DL The Beast will be better, yet I feel it wont when its a tencent product

Bad parkour mechanics, bad story, bad combat mechanics. Just play DL1

Built from the ground up to be a console game. UI is a complete joke. Not even close to holding a candle to the first one.

This game is horrible with a lot of problems, the mechanics of climbing is broken, every time you grab a ledge your character decides to fall for no reason after grabbing it, and this happens multiple times even with a full stamina bar, other times your character will miss the ledge randomly or he doesn't even move instead wasting precious time depleting your stamina. Combat is clunky and unresponsive, the amount of times where I was kicking through enemies, I got hit through the walls, or attacks go right through me while blocking, or the arrows randomly scattering while firing at point blank is mind numbingly horrendous. Heck guns are inaccurate, there is no aim assist while playing on controller and this makes it incredibly difficult, but on top of that there is bloom added, so your shot could randomly miss while on target at throwing distance, which makes using gun almost impossible. Mission locations are a joke, especially if you die, and a lot of the safe house locations don't put you close enough to the mission, especially at night, where you often have to travel up to 200 meters or more even at night while getting chased. The boss fights that take place during night makes the game unplayable, it's supposed to be a 1 on 1 with the boss, but instead you have a lot of zombies running after you interfering with the fight, and if the night zombies see you, forget it you're not completing that boss fight, considering how they keep free-roaming all over the place. Oh let's talk about the zombies, please explain how every time I turn my back while fighting a goon zombie in day light, that there's magically 50+ zombies appearing out of nowhere swarming the area that I'm trying to complete the mission in? This is the most unrealistic s#!t I have ever seen, and I keep seeing it all the time, hell there could be nothing behind you in a closed off area, and randomly the zombies become Houdini and appear magically behind you. It doesn't stop there multiplayer has it's fair share of broken dysfunctional glitches like black screening when starting missions forcing the host to restart their game, or the mission doesn't start, but continues to show the objective marker. The law with day light does not apply at times, you go into a dark zone, and despite the game telling you to come back at night because of the night zombies, there's literally sun light shinning through the windows onto the night zombies, but they are not even affected which is bull$#!t but on top of that your immunity still goes down, despite the sun light hitting you while indoors. Night time is not much different, the sun is below the horizon, there's a bit of light, I can see stars in the sky, but the dark zone warning says it's not "night" and the dark zone keeps telling me to come back at night when it's legally night by definition, and on top of that just to add salt to the wound, I saw a night zombie accidentally wonder out of the dark zone and it was not even affected by the time of day, so the game just lied to me. Every npc I run into I don't like, they all behave the same and are cringe, especially when they try to act tough, or speak in an unorthodox way that doesn't make any sense, a lot of loop holes in the story and cliche events, which makes you wish you could slap your own character in the face for acting like such a dumbass. Levelling up seems to only work during missions, I don't feel like I'm earning any XP while free-roaming. Stealth is laughable have fun sneaking around when a zombie is blocking the door way that you need to go through, better yet the random detection and getting caught for no reason makes it all pointless, even worse the zombies that "detected" you are outside, you're inside, which means you could be doing a mission and you can't progress because the game thinks there is enemies near by, despite you being in a completely different location. I got stopped multiple times, because I had to wait for the imaginary zombies detection to go away before I could do anything. Safe houses are not safe, you can't heal in a safe house, and whats worse is that the night zombies can kill you even if you are safe, I had them shoot me while I was checking my inventory and I died. What is the point of the safe house if it doesn't keep you safe? This is a rage inducing game, and don't get me started with the Skyrim lock picking nonsense, have fun picking a lock, being almost close to succeeding only for a zombie to hit you randomly, resetting the position of the lock. The shops are overpricing everything at 500 gold and above, meanwhile the same items and weapons you are selling are like 10 gold or less, why am I getting ripped off? I feel like this game isn't even finished, with the amount issues in the game it feels unplayable. There are some fun things like running on walls and fly kicking, but it starts to get old real fast. Also another thing, why does hang gliding cost stamina? This is so stupid, you don't do anything that costs energy at all, you're just sitting there gliding in the air, the glider is holding your body weight, what physical activity is making you loss stamina, to the point where you die from magically falling? Seriously I want an explanation, because if this is supposed to be realistic in some way, then it's a miracle that the death toll irl hasn't sky rocketed from passengers dying for sitting too long on planes, or people plummeting from hot air balloons due to feeling tired of standing in a basket, or actual hang gliders crashing randomly because, eh boredom, but whats just as worse is the fact that only one projectile has to hit you causing you to fall to your death, and it doesn't even have too hit the glider, it could hit your shoe lace and that's enough to disable the glider. Who the f@#k thought this was a good idea? Oh and the Double Time mission where you challenge a guy to a parkour race, yea, it says it's a night mission, but every time I go to the location he's not there, at first I thought my game was broken, but no, he only appears during the day defeating the idea of it being a night mission, but on top of that the whole mission happens in broad day light, so what part of it was night mission orientated? This mission pissed me off so much, because I wasted so much time because it was labelled as a night mission, when it never took place at night, and it had me believe it was broken due to the mission disappearing on my map whenever I got within 50 meters of it. Oh and there's no fast travel between hide outs and safe houses, why is this feature non-existent? Do you honestly believe I enjoy running around for long distances? I'm surprised I haven't fallen asleep while navigating this mess.

This is getting ridiculous. They hardcoded "E" so hard to "Next in menu", it's impossible to rebind a key to "E". Because screw all ESDF players, yes? And this is just scratching the surface - I tried to look up online for a solution, but read about tons of other binding problems, like hardcoded middle mouse button and stuff. Are we really at the point where one pays 60 to 100 dollars for a triple A game and still needs a Nexus Mod just for the controls to work? Ridiculous! Rubbish! Refunded!

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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OH MY CHRIST i couldn't wait for the ending, 60 hours wasted on some of the most terrible story telling and unpolished game ever. I cant tell you how many times i wanted each session to end as soon as i started running around the map and getting stuck on anything even things that aren't visible.

When you jumped you almost prayed something happened in your favor. They tried so hard to try some different things with the parkour but failed in the end cause half of the upgrades don't have much uses if any at all.

They went for a weird mmo/rpg kind of feel with enemies and ruins the combat like when i have a kitana or machete and hit critical spots i expect limbs to fly like the first game but this one revolves around health bars....TRASH.

Parkour and combat is 65% of your game and its trash. The way the chasing at night works is annoying especially with there cheap way of just spawning zombies near you.

Now the story is bland didn't really hook me until the end and at that point it was to late to care. Side missions almost never tied in to the story or were ever interesting, just nonsense run around missions that were made to waste your time, so mid way through the game i stopped doing them and everything else other than the main missions.

This is coming from someone that has played DL1 story 4 times including dlc and many hours farming, I pray the 3rd game is much better than this.

Too many glithces in elevators and stuck on dead bodies in the streets. The parkour was horrible and constantly getting stuck and not doing the actions. Definitely WOULDN'T recommend this game after the first (which was amazingly done.) The weapons in this game weren't that great and the dodging of the volitiles when physically hitting them was annoying. The paraglider was the worst add-on into the game, the grappling hook was way better in the first game. There were too many cut scenes to really enjoy the game. AND HAVING TO GET LAWAN'S SHOES?!?! That little side "quest" was garbage..
Hated every minute of this game..

This game is one of my top favorites. The story is great, great mobility, exciting, thrilling, fun. Will recommend, start with the first game.

For a parkour game this game has some of the most sluggish unresponsive controls ive ever seen in a game. Got this on sale for $20 and I wanna get my moneys worth but let me tell you it is a chore to play most of the time. Zombies arent even a problem. 99% of my deaths are all from jank ass mechanics and wall climbing mechanics. The first game is far superior to this. Dying light 2 feels like they were trying to hard to fix a system that wasnt broken. Literally doing to much if you will. Dont get me wrong the parkour is cool but not so much that it needs to be such a pivotal focus for the entire game and if you do choose to go that route you need to make damn sure your mechanics are on point. Which they clearly are not in this game. Story has been pretty forgettable as well up to where I am now as well. (about half way to lvl 7).
If you are bored and just looking for something to play this game will keep you busy though. Seeing as how theres no saves or anything to revert back too. You are forced to literally beat the game 3 times at least to get 100% completion on achievements. Claiming this game has 500 hours of gameplay when all they did was add 10000 collectables through out the map and force you to beat it multiple times is a scam. I 100% cyberpunk 3 times. First when it came out and then after phantom liberty dropped and the last time after the 2.0 update. Did literally everything in the game and ended up with 300 hours played and enjoyed every min of it.
Just getting 300 hours in this game seems like it would make you want to take a long walk off a short cliff.

Dying light 1 just with the gravity of mars & story telling accessibility for the geriatric pc gamers

I don't understand why the Epilogue locks you out of continuing the game from before starting that mission, like the first game did; you were able to return to Harran almost immediately to wrap up loose ends, but here, it forces you to "roll back to a previous segment" or move on to NG+.
But that aside, I still thoroughly enjoyed the game, the story and the characters. Empowering Yourself by Olivier Deriviere, is now one of my all time favourite video game OSTs

This game is nowhere close to being as good as the first one. I get swarmed with those stupid virals on LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ENCOUNTER. In the first game they would only come out if you made noise. In this game they come out every single time I initiate combat. Makes absolutely zero sense. Completely ruins the game for me. On top of that it's buggy as hell. I would get stuck halfway into the floor causing me to reload to the main menu, combat feels clunky compared to the first game. Parkour seems to be hit or miss. This is a serious downgrade from the first game. Glad I got this game on sale for $20. I couldn't imagine paying full price for this garbage.

I enjoyed it well enough until the ending. The story is the weakest part. Maybe don't even play past when it prompts you that the Epilogue is starting and ignore the ending. If you like running around a city smacking zombies in interesting ways, this game does that well. There is a lot, maybe too much, bonus content. If you pick it up on sale you can have many hours at a great price.

Techland has done a great job supporting, updating and adding free content to the game.

Dying Light 2 is honestly one of my favorite games. I’ve logged about 250 hours on PS5 and felt the need to try it on PC just because—why not? Although the launch wasn’t the best, the constant updates over the years have made it much more solid and definitely worth a try.

The graphics are great, though the story is definitely lackluster—but that’s not why I play Dying Light 2. When it comes to zombies, there’s definitely room for improvement, and I hope the next game can tap into its full potential. That said, it’s still an improvement over the first. The inclusion of chases adds some fast-paced fun.

The parkour and the new glider are fantastic—they really add to the overall experience and feel refreshing compared to the first game.

As for the characters, some are good, and some are forgettable. Not much else to say there.

I’ve experienced no bugs, except in multiplayer, which has always been a bit questionable since launch, though it has improved dramatically since then.

The DLC isn’t great, but I do enjoy the weapons and the gladiator-style feel it brings.

If you played and enjoyed the first game, you absolutely have to try this one. There are consistent sales, so it’s a great deal price-wise. The replayability makes it worth it. And if you haven’t played the first game, you don’t need to—it’s not directly tied to the story. However, playing the first one does give a better understanding of the outbreak’s origins.

Dying Light 1 was unique and Dying Light 2 is even more unique. You can clearly see the improvements compared to the first game. Good story for a sequel and a LOT of content to get into. This game probably has 10 different endings. The vibes and landscapes in this game are so good, especially the Central Loop and its tall buildings and sky scrapers. They really captured the feeling of an abandoned city. Too many good things to say about this game. I'll be waiting for Dying Light 3.

Fun game but forcing online modes on a single player game so you can justify 50gb updates and microtransactions is a trend that really really needs to stop. Gameplay is fun but bad "good" business practices brings it down from a solid 7.5/10 down to a 4/10

The first game was simple and fast yet this game is complicated and slow.
For both the gameplay and story... So sorry Techland, but you can't waste people's time like this.
I hit 20 hours without exploring the next region because of everything there is to do in the first region.
But 20 hours with my job is a lot of time and in this time i maybe completed the first game and its DLC.

Game is fun, but I hate the new game mode for the tower. I like Dying light for the Parkour and world traversing with fighting zombies. The new "Tower Raid" is a poorly made "rogue lite" that removes the main appeal of Dying Light and gives you only the poor combat they have. The old version of the tower was much better where I got to keep my character and play with the tools I already had. They whole Tower Raid idea is poorly made and boring.

First of all, most mechanics in this game are great, the open world exploration, parkour, and combat are fluid and feel great.

However the new gamemode, the tower raid? Who asked for that? I didn't come to dying light for a roguelike experience, who asked for classes and making it so you can't use your character with all your items in the tower? The first introduction of the tower was way better than this final iteration. The tower should be a place where people go to farm materials and ammo to have more fun, not an additional game mode that is a roguelike. Feels way out of place in this game.

I preordered DL2 and played it for 20h in a first week of the release. The game was bad and buggy but I know the game development has been spiting out half cooked games for years now so it wasnt a surprise.

3 years and 21 MAJOR patches later, I have returned to play this game with a fresh character and 2 friends. We loved DL1 coop so we figured were gonna play through the sequel together.

After 10 hours this game is nothing more but a cash grab. After all this time this game feels somehow even worse than 3 years ago. Its SUUUUPER buggy, parkour is clanky and floaty, combat is whatever, animations feel like a high school motion project, gliding is terrible, everything so far is poorly designed and not polished at all. HUD is terrible, overlaping changes, map in coop is bugy, teammate indicators are visible only for up to 100m so you have to watch the navigation.

Graphics, oh the graphics. This game would look goooood...in 2010. I wouldnt mind it except with such a poor graphics this game is very unoptimized therefore its very hardware demanding.

Lets talk about the story, DL1 had in my opinion poor story, not really interesting, but this, this is something else. Run > Cutscene > Cutscene > Cutscene > Run > Cutscene > Cutscene > 5 seconds combat > Cutscene. Like give me a break, in 10 hours of playtime I spent 5 watching cutscenes and thats not even an exaggeration. The writing is poor, acting is very poor and overall its just worse than DL1, but DL1 had amazing combat and amazing parkour which made me not care about the poorness of writting.

The only upside of DL2 is that its so bad in most of the aspects that it makes it funny when you play it in coop with a good group of friends.

This game is at most 30$ and I wouldnt call it AAA game even in 2010.

A very enjoyable game. Graphics and sound effects (especially at night) are fantastic. Responsive controls that make running from rooftop to rooftop seem easy.

The backpack/inventory has been updated, new items and weapons added, new zombies to keep you entertained or busy killing :)

Lots of places to explore, some are more dangerous than others.

Well worth a buy!

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. I have put ~25 hours into it with a lot of BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT and it started crashing non stop, having only max 30 mins of gameplay between each crash. I can not progress any more, even if I wanted to.

The game in general is bad. A downgrade from DL1 in MANY aspects. Reeks of generic AAA smell. Avoid it, please.

I have ~100 hours in DL1 and its one of my most beloved games ever. It's not good, but it's miles better than this pile of a nothingburger.

For me, Dying Light 2 is a natural evolution of the series. The gameplay feels significantly improved compared to the first game—especially with all the stats, builds, and customization options, which I absolutely love. However, sometimes the animations and Aiden’s movement feel a bit off. I’m not talking about technical issues, but rather the way targeting works and how certain parkour interactions can leave you stuck at the highest point with no way to move or react.

As for the story... it had its moments, but overall, it was pretty weak. Lawan is probably the worst character I’ve come across in recent years. The boss fights still look ridiculous, but at least there were no annoying QTE, which I’m thankful for.

Despite its flaws, the game is incredibly fun to play, and I’m looking forward to earning the Platinum Trophy.

UPD: The worst decision when it comes to achievements is tying collectibles to side quests. Dropped trying to get the Platinum Trophy.

ive played through dying light 1 countless times since release on xbox and PlayStation first on ps4 and this game is honestly disappointing the e3 to even now. even the story barely grasp me in. the story is slow and the characters feel meaningless. the cheesy flashbacks i feel like im playing a game from 2012 that was on sale at gamestop worth a try lol

in my honest opinion nothing compares to the memories and fun i had in dl1 back at launch, but dl2 is going to be an awesome continuation in the series. Been really enjoying it so far. The sun cycle must be improved tho..

Compared to DL1: Trash.

Playing coop: full of bugs, can't upgrade the parachute, shitty combat system, absolute insignificant trash and worst storyline, stupid repetitive side quests that serve no purpose but to waste time.

DO NOT BUY THIS TRASH GAME. DO NOT BE STUPID AND GIVE MONEY TO THESE DEVS. They obviously don't deserve it.


Wait for DL1 Next Gen Upgrade

More of a mixed review. My issue is that the bulk of the game has an exploration problem similar to Horizon. There is only a handful of places that reoccur. You don't do go in to discover, you go in to do the same activity: bandit camps to fight bandits, ruined store for parts, and so on. A lot of boards, challenges, bounties, and checklists which all feel like filler. It's a great blueprint for a game that could be fun

Don't like the story but the gameplay is good

Trash story
trash optimization
trash physics
the only good thing is parkour.

they completely butchered the climbing mechanics, if they would've copied and pasted them from the first game it'd be another top teir game, or at the minimum it'd be playable but the climbing and running is just god-awful when compared to the first one

There are no words to express the disappointment I feel.

Worse than the original dying light. The choices are misleading and there is usually no justification as to why you would choose them.

The parkour and combat is fun, but there is no other quality to the game.

Three years, and the game is still a buggy mess.

The game itself isn't that bad. It's quite decent, compared to all the others similar games on the market, but it's obviously way worse than the previous one, which is absolutely AWESOME.

This game lost a lot of the beautiful mechanics implemented in the first chapter, implementing new stuff that are absolutely terrible. In the first one, combat feeling was so much better, and also exploration and vaulting were so much more satisfying than what we have here. But there are TWO things I absolutely HATE about this game:

1) Keybinding: atleast for MK players, almost each move you unlock in the skill tree, is binded to a different key, resulting in a nightmare to remember which key to press to perform them! After 100 hours spent in this game, I still can't remember how to use most of them, resulting in using almost the same moves all the time.

2) Agents and firearms: after months of complaining of the player fanbase, who was asking for firearms (already included in the first chapter), they decided to release an update to give us those, which is awesome, if not for the fact that if you want to unlock them, you're forced to play dozens of particular missions that not only are suggested to be completed with OTHER players, but they have to be completed multiple times.. resulting to force the players to extreme grinding for hours and hours... and for what? Just to unlock them. This is absolutely the worse thing I've ever seen for a game like this.

On top of this, on a technical level, the game doesn't have support for the most recent technologies, like latest version of DLSS and FSR, or Frame Generation.

Concluding, the game isn't that bad, and it may be worth it for a very discounted price, but if you haven't played the first one, please. Play that one, because it's so much better in almost EVERYTHING.

Good game, but I'll leave a negative one until the game stops opening my browser to log into epic games. I want nothing to do with epic games, won't play this game with people on epic games.
It would be fine if it was a one time thing, but every time I launch the game it happens, and sometimes it opens several tabs of epic login.
This didn't happen at launch, been a while since I played it.

I am trying to enjoy this game, but everything from the movement, combat, crafting and npc interactions feels like a downgrade from the first title. It feels like a slog just going from point a to point b.
Tried playing a little longer, yeah still don't enjoy this one

its underwhelming and has no charm like the first game had. everything is artificially made harder to get to to play/grind more which makes it about as fun as a sore throat. wholly disappointing and not worth my time and money.

If you want a game where you can parkour while running away from zombies and live one of the most dangerous post-apocalyptic life then you can go ahead and buy Dying Light 1. If this game ever goes below 7-8$ you can go for it but otherwise I do not recommend it.

DL2 really feels passionless; it's so bland, while probably having one of the best atmosphere ideas in post-apocalyptic worlds.
Story is really weak, DL1 has bad story too but with this one they have upped a notch. After couple of hours in the game you start to skip dialogues because its boring.

Gameplay wise its really great parkour feels good parachute really feels awkward and pushed to your face when you get to the central city that's why old villedor feels much better because its like Harran from DL1.

very buggy, horrible writing, sometimes unbalanced
Part 1 was soooo good ... but Part 2 ... hm

This game can be fun in coop if you liked the original, have some friends to play coop with, and catch it heavily discounted. The full price is a rip off, this game feels like a shallow clone of it's original self. For starters, you can't play coop right from the start. There's an excessively long prologue and tutorial you have to get through and no that you have complete alone before you can play with friends for no good reason. On top of that, once you do get to coop it's rife with de-sync issues and little minor bugs that aren't gamebreaking, but noticeably and constantly detract from the experience. This game lacks numerous little gameplay and combat elements the first had that made it feel like the game it was, like being able to repeatedly kick zombie bodies, but in this one you just kinda kick the air. There are a lot of similar little touches that made the first game feel like the devs actually played and enjoyed their game, while this game got a new team who don't.

Lastly the writing is overall just boring and uninspired. The story isn't interesting, nor are any of the characters. The dialogue is equally boring and uninspired, and feels like it was written by a middleschooler.

Overall this game is a big dissappointment.

Dying Light 2 improves much on the gameplay of Dying Light 1 like its movement and parkour but its horror elements is found lacking from its previous entry. The writing and characters is boring and bland. The final boss fight is abysmal. They treat the night chase level like the police level from GTA, you can't get rid of the volatiles (no matter how many you've killed) until you reach a safe zone, hide till they're gone or die. The chase can be so easily activated the moment a volatile spots you and the devs litters the map with volatiles with no thought put into it. Which makes nights not scary, just frustrating and annoying even in the later stages with good gear it just becomes a hassle to do anything at night, but the night is where the fun begins.

The microtransaction in the game is atrocious, and its a single player game mostly. This sh!t should be fed to the violatiles and along with whoever cooked up these idea over at Techland. The graphics are good but makes the nights brighter for some reason which they need an update to make the nights darker like Dying Light 1. The Co-op portion of the game is a bit bland in my opinion and they didn't add the Night Hunter mode from Dying Light 1 which is sad. The Co-op is fun with friends who can laugh and talk rubbish with but with randoms, not so much.

One other thing. Why must I need to go to an external website, the Pilgrim Outpost to access the live services? Over there I can get skins, loot boxes, weapons and paraglider skins, which are free by the way. Why not add to this in-game where it'll be easier to access and for us players to track? It just seems odd to me and an hassle.

Overall I say it's a good game despite its many flaws. I rate it a 7/10, not great, not terrible. But Dying Light 2 doesn't hold a candle to Dying Light 1.

ended up just bored, so decided to speed through to the end so i could at least know what happens, only to have maybe the most ridiculous boss fight I've ever had (also if the game had given me one more boss fight where they don't actually die, i was going to kms instead). the combat in this game is rage inducing - wdym that i can see my throwing knife pass straight through the enemies torso, but they take no damage because they are 'predicting' my attacks?? I CAN SEE IT SLICING THROUGH YOU!

Game is nothing like the original. Movement and parkour is wonky and slow (who the actual f*** thought it was ok to not add Sprint??), the inventory selection makes zero sense. Combat is horribly designed. Story is hilariously mid and struggles to keep you interested. First 30 missions don't give you sh!t for rewards. Idk why people are saying the game has improved since launch, no the f it hasn't. How could this game have fallen so far from the original?

It's actually infuriating how game devs make such a garbage sequel with poor design aspects and sloppy craftsmanship in every way in the game, and think "This is fine. Release it." Nah. Get the f outta here Techland. Get good & rehire your OG workers. Go back to making games for the love of it and not just money.

Got this on a 70% sale and it just was not worth the money. Got my 6 1/2 hours worth and im just done. Refunding the garbage.

The second installment of the franchise honestly left me sour. I think this is just a shadow of its former glory. The co-op doesn't work for more than fifteen minutes it seems, the npcs feel dead (like Starfield), and I really don't feel satisfaction from the story. The parkour is what is carrying this game, in my opinion. Parkour and the Volatiles (they somehow have better personality than the npcs?)

This game is way better now than during its launch and a lot of issues have been fixed with reloaded edition,
story is mid though can't change that....

Boring game, buggy mechanics, dull story, and uninteresting characters. I played through the main story, hoping for a change, but nah, man. If it's on sale for under 10€, then yeah, go ahead. But overall, pretty disappointing compared to the first title.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition refines the exhilarating parkour and intense combat that made its predecessor a standout. Set in a vast, decayed city teeming with both hostile survivors and relentless infected, the game offers a dynamic open world where your choices shape the story.

The fluid movement system makes traversal a thrill, while day-night cycles heighten the tension, especially when facing terrifying Volatile enemies. Though the narrative has its ups and downs, the deep RPG mechanics and cooperative multiplayer enhance replayability. With the Reloaded Edition, players get additional content and improvements, making this the best version to experience Dying Light 2.

so the first part of the game was alright but crashed a fuck ton. When they introduced the paraglider i wanted to fucking shoot myself. The level design literally was cenetered around the paraglider so i no longer wanted to do the side missions and challenges. Just get the fucking game done. I liked dying light 1 but i think its safe to say I won't be in dying light 3

I'm not very far into the game yet, but I've played enough (28 hours) to know that there's no way I can give DL2 a positive rating, for now. It's not very far from being positive, but a few of the biggest issues are unfortunately deliberate choices and likely won't disappear over time like some bugs. It's worth playing (so far) if you mod it, though. I had to get rid of the incredibly unfair economic system to avoid uninstalling. There are some other quality of life mods worth looking into as well.

Compared to DL1:

+much better graphics
+The new environments have some advantages. Mainly in terms of verticality. The slums in Harran still win in terms of atmosphere. I do love the rooftop vegetation in DL2 though.
+many more exploration opportunities
+classes are a cool addition and they're implemented fairly well.
+color grading menu is cool. I chose the DL1-themed palette.
+better survivor factions. The way the three interact feels realistic and it's genuinely interesting.
+paraglider is sick
+some of the combat animations are even more violent than DL1
+new combat abilities are pretty sick. Many are brought back from DL1.
+tons of different kinds of arrows (not all good though)
+expanded weapon mod options are nice
+FPS optimization seems better despite the game being much more demanding. 1080Ti on DL1 is nowhere near as good as a 4090 on DL2. I get more FPS on 1440p high settings on DL2 than I did at 1080p low settings on DL1. Obviously the GPU upgrade has a lot to do with it, but the age difference between the games and the GPUs is pretty close.
+the way DL2 handles the protagonist being infected is more interesting. You have to manage your immunity in dark places and at night to keep from turning. UV light protects you from yourself now, not just volatiles. This beats the occasional seizures in DL1 and it turned what was mostly just shown in cutscenes into a cool game mechanic. It kinda gets ruined by the economy unfortunately, since you have to grind so much for supplies to manage your health and immunity.
+the antagonist experimented on himself and became insanely powerful. That's been done before (Wesker), but it works here, too.
+Increased zombie variety. The new ones are actually great.
+I moved parkour from the negative list to the positive. Despite the floaty jumping, which is a little goofy at first, the parkour is overall better after you upgrade it a lot. The grinding it takes to get you to that point is excessive IMO, but the parkour has grown on me.

-buggier AI. This applies to all kinds of AI. Enemy survivors sometimes won't approach you after being attacked from a distance. Friendly NPCs are always getting stuck on geometry and walking in place in the bases. Zombies and enemy survivors might stand next to each other throwing ranged attacks at you instead of attacking each other. Zombies might go through walls or disappear inside them. Same bugs zombies had while interacting with DL1 safe zones are back. I can't list everything here. Too many things.
-more collision bugs. I've already fallen out of the map. Never happened in DL1. Screen seizures from rapid, continuous collision bugs happen more than they should, though they're short and easily resolved by moving.
-visual bugs with ray tracing on totally broke the game for me. turned RT on in a tunnel and some of the environment turned a bright glowing red and had what looked like tube TV static in places.
-occasional crashes.
-random FPS dips
-MUCH worse economy. Items are insanely expensive and you basically donate weapons when you sell them. No more selling a bunch of enemy weapons to buy a shiny new one. Shopkeeper inventory is awful. This adds SO MUCH unnecessary grinding to the game, and I absolutely despise it. The game is borderline unplayable unless you install a mod that makes the economy like DL1.
-Weapon repair is dramatically worse. You have to pay a craftsman. No more repairing with scrap, and it's expensive.
-more fetch quests
-The attempts at funny NPC dialogue aren't as consistently good as DL1. Sometimes it works though.
-Much more grinding required before fighting volatiles is feasible. grinding. ugh.
-more aggressive viral spawns. annoying.
-time to complete the game is far too long. I'm not going for speed, but I can tell I'm less than halfway through at 28 hours. I skip a lot of side quests. At this point, I'm also about to stop exploring except when necessary to get supplies. The economy forcing you to grind a lot more adds fuel to the fire here, too.
-worse physics. gone are the days of sending zombie rag dolls flying with propane tank explosions. They don't get knocked over as easily when you throw tanks at them anymore, either.
-bows are insanely underpowered overall. Even some of the special arrows are trash. Fire arrows give enemies a mild fever. Using regular arrows means every enemy is a pincushion. Don't bother. There is a mod that boosts arrow base damage by 25%, which is absolutely necessary for the weaker arrows. This is a good time to emphasize, again, that you should mod this game.
-guns seem to suffer as bows do. I don't have as much experience with them yet, but their damage numbers so far are pretty weak.
-Music went a more cinematic route. It's still good, but I liked the more electronic vibe of the first game.
-The downside to the new environments is that they aren't as memorable as DL1. They're better-designed for parkour, but finding my way around Harran without a map was definitely easier.

=story quality in both games is meh.
=same squeaky clean protagonist personality. same voice.
=another attractive tom-boy ally who is a gigantic missed romantic opportunity for the protagonist. It's honestly funny how Crane and Aiden are both near-fearless superhumans who apparently have low testosterone. Goofy AF. It's an obvious flaw in the writing, but entertaining in its own right.
=they brought back the hazmat suit zombies that fly around and explode after their oxygen tanks rupture.
=fast travel

DL2 made a lot of progress in some places, but it also suffers from a crazy amount of self-inflicted wounds. There is a good reason why the ratings are substantially worse than the first game. Even years after release, it doesn't run or play as smoothly as DL1. I've seen positive remarks about the game's progress, but it desperately needs tweaking even in 2025. Since another title in the series is on the horizon, I'm not hopeful. My overall recommendation is to get the game ***CHEAP*** and then mod it. If you don't want to mod, avoid it entirely. The additional grinding combined with the longer story just doesn't work. Those two things plus the jankiness really wore down my patience. DL1 is one of my all-time favorites. The fact that I have to mod DL2 to even *consider* finishing it is a big letdown. The most important takeaway from this game IMO is more=/=better. More (dense) zombies (indoors especially). More (types of) zombies. More quests. More abilities. More exploration. More story. More NPCs. More customization. More equipment. More factions. More playable area. Some of this worked really well, but this approach had serious drawbacks. More grinding. More crashes. More bugs. More boredom. More frustration. They should've worked more on the technical aspects and story-telling instead of just making the game bigger in every way possible. I'd still give it a positive review if the grinding was toned down. All the other stuff is easier to look past with the economy overhaul mod. As much as I'd like this to be a positive review, I can't do that in good failth since the deciding factor in me continuing to play was a mod.