Dying Light: The Beast developer Techland has revealed a free update for its open-world zombie apocalypse game. Launching today, the Restored Land puts more emphasis on survival and how your choices will have a permanent effect on the world around you in this new solo experience.
Essentially, the focus is on clearing zombies from the map, once and for all. Infected enemies will no longer respawn once they have been dealt with, and people will start to filter back into zones once they start to become safer. The catch here is that supplies will be harder to come by, as items also no longer respawn, containers will provide fewer supplies, and shops will offer reduced stock at higher prices. On top of those challenges, players will also need to manage hunger and replace depleted flashlight batteries with their finite stock of resources.
And if you're feeling masochistic, you can even tackle the mode with a permadeath option toggled on. Enabling the One Life option gives players a single chance to complete the entire Restored Land experience, and if they fail, all their progress will be wiped clean, and they'll have to start all over again. Taking on this challenge will reward players with special rewards, and Techland says the Restored Land marks a turning point in the Dying Light story where, for the first time, hope can return as areas are fully cleared of the infected.
Other new content coming in the update includes 33 new quest encounters, new finishers, five new hidden stashes, high-risk zombie encounters that offer greater rewards, improvements to special infected fights and co-op, and dozens of gameplay and performance enhancements. Players who already own Dying Light: The Beast will automatically receive a free upgrade to the Restored Land Edition.
Like the previous Dying Light games, this new add-on follows Techland's pledge to offer post-launch support for the spin-off game. A recent update added the Nightmare Experience for players to test their skills in, as well as a whole host of improvements to the core experience.
"Techland's expansion turned standalone sequel winds up being the most enjoyable Dying Light so far, because it dials back the power fantasy," Mark Delaney wrote in GameSpot's Dying Light: The Beast review.
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Essentially, the focus is on clearing zombies from the map, once and for all. Infected enemies will no longer respawn once they have been dealt with, and people will start to filter back into zones once they start to become safer. The catch here is that supplies will be harder to come by, as items also no longer respawn, containers will provide fewer supplies, and shops will offer reduced stock at higher prices. On top of those challenges, players will also need to manage hunger and replace depleted flashlight batteries with their finite stock of resources.
And if you're feeling masochistic, you can even tackle the mode with a permadeath option toggled on. Enabling the One Life option gives players a single chance to complete the entire Restored Land experience, and if they fail, all their progress will be wiped clean, and they'll have to start all over again. Taking on this challenge will reward players with special rewards, and Techland says the Restored Land marks a turning point in the Dying Light story where, for the first time, hope can return as areas are fully cleared of the infected.
Other new content coming in the update includes 33 new quest encounters, new finishers, five new hidden stashes, high-risk zombie encounters that offer greater rewards, improvements to special infected fights and co-op, and dozens of gameplay and performance enhancements. Players who already own Dying Light: The Beast will automatically receive a free upgrade to the Restored Land Edition.
Like the previous Dying Light games, this new add-on follows Techland's pledge to offer post-launch support for the spin-off game. A recent update added the Nightmare Experience for players to test their skills in, as well as a whole host of improvements to the core experience.
"Techland's expansion turned standalone sequel winds up being the most enjoyable Dying Light so far, because it dials back the power fantasy," Mark Delaney wrote in GameSpot's Dying Light: The Beast review.
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