Techland has once again proven that Dying Light: The Beast isn’t ‘just a DLC’ and offered up a stunning 11-week-long roadmap packed with content. We knew ahead of launch that this wouldn’t be a fire-and-forget game and that Techland had things in the pipeline, but now we know exactly what those things are.
Nestled amongst the coming updates sits New Game+, ‘Legend Levels’, Nightmare Difficulty, and almost a dozen week-long challenges under the ‘Call of The Beast’ title.
Dying Light: The Beast Doesn’t End with the Release
Dying Light: The Beast has stacks of content coming in a series of updates, as revealed today by Techland.
It begins with New Game+, Legend Levels (like the games that came before), and Nightmare Difficulty, for those who want a more tantalizing challenge in the open-world environment of Castor Woods.
Beyond that, there’s a PUBG Mobile collaboration (didn’t see that coming), a ray tracing update for PC, new weapon executions and animations, and visual and quality-of-life improvements.
The Call of the Beast community challenge pipeline was also unveiled, with eleven weeks of challenges scheduled to run from today, October 16, to January 7. Each week, players will be able to complete a series of challenges, with special, ‘legendary’ rewards being added on weeks four, eight, and after the final week ends.
Techland said in a new release:
Throughout the campaign, players around the world will take on weekly goals that celebrate teamwork, persistence, and the power of the Dying Light community. Each challenge offers exclusive rewards that appear directly in participants’ in-game stash once objectives are met. From new weapons to unique car skins, every week brings fresh surprises and reasons to celebrate the collective success of the community.To get the weekly rewards, players will need to contribute to the goal that week.
Sticking together with the community to complete at least 17 of the 22 goals will unlock a secret Legendary Reward, which players will receive at the end of the event. Additionally, if the community completes 20 goals, everyone who participated in at least one challenge will receive all the rewards, regardless of when they began taking part in Call of the Beast!
This breathes more life into the game that some wrote off for being ‘too short’. In my review, I put that to rest and stressed just how much meat is on the bones of this game.
Let me know on the Insider Gaming Discord server if you intend to complete all the coming challenges in Dying Light: The Beast.
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