Techland finally has a date for the Dying Light: Retouched update, and it’s coming very soon. At the start of the year, the team revealed the impending release of this major update for the ten-year-old game, but many fans believed that it would be ‘2.0’ of sorts, or a total remaster.
In a blog post penned by Techland’s Tymon Smektala, it was explained that this isn’t a complete overhaul, but instead, it’s an update designed to ‘squeeze out even more from the Dying Light you already love.’
‘Set the Record Straight’
The Dying Light: Retouched update modernises the base palette of Dying Light, optimising and enhancing textures, lighting, and some physics-based rendering elements. The maximum LOD range has been boosted from 260% to 340%, which means players can boost their game to epic proportions and see further than ever before, and in more granularity.
Techland has introduced an all-new ‘8K Ultra’ shadow quality level and improved the lighting on flat surfaces to give them more depth.
It’s not all visual, though. The Dying Light: Retouched update also upgrades the game’s audio, with the original composer, Paweł Blaszczak, returning to remaster the soundtrack and add new tracks into the mix.
Here’s why it took ‘so long’ to deliver this update, according to Techland:
Let’s set the record straight: the Retouched Update is about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love. It’s not a complete overhaul or remaster.
A lot of you have been asking in the last few months about the Retouched Update – where it was, why it was taking so long. The honest answer is this: We were working with 10+ year old technology. Even with all the new experience we’ve gained over the years, figuring out how to apply those learnings to the original Dying Light engine while keeping everything stable was a challenge.
The Dying Light: Retouched update is free for all existing owners of Dying Light across PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series XS. It’s dropping universally on June 26, forever changing the face of your version of Dying Light.
Are you still playing Dying Light? Let me know if you’re looking forward to seeing the Retouched update on the Insider Gaming forum.
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So..not for the Switch. Glad I have it on PS5 too. Switch always gets the shaft lol.