Techland has unveiled Dying Light: The Beast’s massive 1.5 update, a sizeable patch that guarantees to make the game much harder, if that’s your kind of thing. The heart of the 1.5 update is built around the Nightmare Experience, an all-new difficulty grading for Techland’s most recent post-apocalyptic slasher.
With Nightmare Experience, players will be faced with stronger, smarter, and more aggressive human and infected enemies, and even daytime becomes more oppressive. That’s not all, as this update includes stacks of changes.
Introducing the Alpha Volatile
Techland has tweaked Dying Light: The Beast’s difficulty grading in the 1.5 patch, allowing users to get a more visceral, gritty end-of-world experience. This includes Nightmare Experience:
Nightmare Experience is a new difficulty level for Dying Light: The Beast – designed for seasoned players looking for serious survival experience. It makes Human and Infected enemies stronger, smarter, more aggressive, reacting faster to players’ actions using their heightened senses. Some Dark Zones may now include Volatiles during the day and gameplay becomes more challenging as resources are limited and they need to be managed more carefully.
It also includes the brand-new and terrifying ‘Alpha Volatile’, an immensely threatening enemy that will chase you to the ends of the map:
This update also introduces a new Alpha Volatile. This is the most powerful infected in Castor Woods, and the most intelligent Volatile in the history of Dying Light. It tracks the player’s scent, ignores the UV light from the flashlight, and can hunt and follow them across the map until they reach a safe zone or manage to kill it. He’s smart and dangerous, enforcing a careful and strategic playstyle during the night.
To make Castor Woods much more immersive, Techland has also added fresh survival mechanics. They give a neat edge to Dying Light: The Beast, making it so that food and beverage items are much more valuable:
On top of that Nightmare Experience brings new survival mechanics. The Hunger System affects stamina, health regeneration, and combat efficiency. The longer players ignore hunger, the stronger the penalties become. Additionally the flashlight drains over time and will dim and flicker as the battery gets low, requiring players to craft or find replacements.
It’s not for nothing, though. The team at Techland has advised that completing the game’s toughest challenges will unlock exclusive items, charms, a unique outfit, and a new vehicle skin.
Finally, the Call of the Beast challenge streak is still running, and the next bout will commence on December 18. If you’re working your way through the challenges, you’re still building towards that legendary reward that waits at the end of the line.
In recent news, Techland confirmed that Dying Light 2: Stay Human is back on track and will start receiving sizeable updates soon.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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