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Dying Light 2 Won't Feature Crossplay, Cross-Gen Not Available at Launch, Story Can Be Completed With Up to 4 Players
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My only concern (as a huge, huge fan of the first game--I bought it day one and have loved it for years) is that the focus in the sequel *looks* to be more on human-on-human combat, which was far less enjoyable in the first game than fighting zombies was. I really hope they've improved the enemy human AI combat mechanics.
ID: hsnxozuID: hso7gu1Yeah like how the walking dead had become after the negan arc and Rick disappeared.
ID: hsnrkukZombies were way too easy in the first game (at daytime at least)
ID: hsnyeknThat's pretty much on purpose and I hope they don't change that. People who want dumb zombies can play daytime, people who want challenges can play night time.
ID: hsodctsIt’s an exploration game, if the daytime zombies were too hard it would inhibit exploration for a majority of players and make it less fun. It’s not survival horror it’s an action adventure game with a horror theme.
ID: hsnag8pYeah, I noticed that as well. We've seen very little of the zombies in most of the promotional stuff. It does seem like the focus is more on humans here, and the zombies are more of a mild inconvenience between points on the map.
ID: hso418qThey’re focusing on humans because they’re leaning into the story and how it’ll have “choices” and faction alignment. In the most recent trailer, they show zombies and what looks like a beefed up volatile.
ID: hsne2fqHave you not seen the gameplay trailers the human combat was VASTLY improved like way better so it will actually be fun fighting them to
ID: hsnf3zcI've seen quick cuts in the trailers, but very little sustained combat. I'm just saying, I *hope* it's really good. I dunno either way. It's hard to say based on trailers.
ID: hsonl5hIsn’t this how most zombie games end though? You always start fighting zombies and by the end you’re usually taking on mercs for…reasons. It was certainly true for Dying Light and I think even Dead Island. Dead Rising did it too.
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I feel like 2 player co op is the sweet spot. Will play with a buddy for sure.
ID: hsmyh8yIt harkens back dead island. 4 player coop was harder to organize than 2 player sure, but it was fun.
ID: hsntexaI had a three player co op on dead island going. God it was so much fun
ID: hso0adyI miss that game. I always stay up really late so I managed to match up with some Australian guys. They were so funny I lost hours playing with them. Anyways dead island had an endless zombie mode and we knew all the glitches so we would get far enough where it would crash the game. Good times
ID: hsno2qfI have 2 siblings so it’s really easy to sit down in the same room and play it all together in 3 player coop. I can never coordinate anything with my friends let alone play a whole story campaign lol. Definitely looking forward to this game! I hope there’s no restrictions for now coop works vs playing single player.
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Will Dying Light 2 have cross-platform play?
"No, not at this moment..."
How about cross-gen play?
"This won’t be possible at the launch of the game, but we are working to make it possible after the launch..."
ID: hsnhrgmThat’s a lot of “won’t be “ at launch lol
ID: hsnkjt3This worries me a bit. Kinda how Battlefield 2042 said they wouldn’t have features at launch. The game still doesn’t have many features and has been crap since.
ID: hsnnpia1 = 'a lot' ?
ID: hsodlqeI'm pretty bummed to hear this. I still only have the Xbox One X, but my online friends have the Series X. We've been able to keep playing no problem and we're very hyped for this. I'm bummed to hear we won't be able to play together unless I upgrade consoles. :/
ID: hsp9pnqYou would think playing between Xbox generations would be easy to enable as well since theyre supposed to be quite similar. I guess they either didn't work on the feature much at all or they only want to do both platforms at once
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So let me get this right, two PS5s can play with each other, but not PS5 with a PS4? The person I will be playing with has a PS5 and I do too.
ID: hso1511correct
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Why now tell us this ?! It’s been said it was crossplay forever now. So your telling me as a pc user I can’t play with my friend that has a ps5. It’s 2022 get with the program. Please :/
ID: hsr5juiIt's a huge dealbreaker in my opinion and crossplay is something one can easily expect from a game in 2022.
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I use the PS5 and the wife uses the old PS4...so this is a bit disheartening to learn...
ID: hsn8qd2Play the PS4 version on the PS5 using BC? That might get around this bizarre "no-cross-gen" limitation.
ID: hso0ljrKinda defeats the point of buying a Ps5 if I’m forced to use Ps4 versions. I bought it to play the better versions of games. Does this game even have cross save?
ID: hsn45ibExactly the same with me and my gf. I guess I'll buy the game until they add the cross-gen, at least the game will have some discount by that time.
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How will this affect achievements?
ID: hsn0vpxTHIS. If you can earn trophies and save the story progress when you are not the host, this is day one for me.
ID: hsn1j73That's the way the previous Dying Light worked, and that's also how Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide (Dying Light's predecessors) worked. I see no reason why this won't be the same.
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If there's no cross-gen play, I hope that they at least uncap the framerate on the PS4 version via Backwards Compatibility. Playing the PS4 version at 30FPS on PS5 for the sake of playing with friends (that don't have a PS5), is for sure not the greatest of experiences.
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Is couch coop an option? I feel like no one asked for that.
ID: hsmm0jbThe first one didn’t so I feel like this probably won’t either.
ID: hso169dExtremely doubtful
ID: hsn8dg3I hate that that is so rare sometimes.
ID: hsodsnjIts just too difficult to make it good. Hell even back in the PS2 days when Split screen was everywhere it was delegated mostly to multiplayer death match modes and simplistic games.
Its just too hard to render these massive high quality games twice on a single console.
I would rather them focus on making online as good as possible since if they did have splitscreen it would almost certainly mean having some sort of tethering mechanic which keeps the cooperator close to the main player.
Far Cry 4 and 5 had split screen but you couldn’t walk more than a dozen yards away without being ripped out of the action and teleported back to the main player.
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No crossplay turns this from a day one buy to a buy when on sale.
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Weren't they going on about how crossplay would be a thing, and then a few weeks back said that crossplay wouldnt be in at launch. And now its just not coming at all? What the hell. I wanted to play with my pc friends
ID: hsmydkrAlways seek the original source. Smektala's answer "not at this moment" suggests it's something they will peruse after launch.
ID: hsnmwa6now it’s not coming at all
They’re trying to make it happen after launch. Read the article.
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No cross gen is unforgivable at this point.
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Oof, no crossplay? Tough sell for me and my fiance, damn.
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As long as I'm able to drop kick zombies off bulding with my pal, I'll be fine.
Sucks a bit to not see such features at launch though, it's always good, especially in a non-competitive game
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I really hope they stop doing cross gen games. Imagine buying a ps5 and having to wait for people on your team ps4's loading times. I wish there was a way to crossplay without crossplaying with older generations.
ID: hsnl6iaI always think about this when playing Hunt Showdown. Im always the first to load in & i have to wait a couple minutes for the others to join in.
ID: hsnazr4Uhhhhhhh this already happens on pretty much every online PlayStation game and it’s hardly a big deal
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why would it be hard for them just to make it cross-Gen?
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I'm totally taking a stab here, but it seems like the story is adapting more to the "civilization after the outbreak" kinda deal since it's 25 years after the first game (I think?), where the focus is more on how people survive day to day and the dealings that happen in that civilization, rather than dealing with zombies popping up everywhere out of the blue, thus why we see much more human to human combat. Don't know if it has any real merit or if I'm completely off base, but that might at least explain why the focus isn't as much on the zombies this time around. Again, total guess.