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Dying Light IOTI A dead island on the mirror's edge.
- Thread starter jond76
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Exploding throwing stars are your friend for this - Instant death for Humans
I'd go with Molotovs. They make melee humans a complete pushover. Don't even need to engage with them.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
I'm honestly worried hard mode will just up the defense and make your weapons less effective. And they call it a day.
They should've put more thought into blunts. Instead of them just completely disappearing 1/3 through the game in favor of slice n' dice.
Especially since the animation for the baseball bat maybe is the coolest in the game. Give blunts a role. Some utility. Easy answer is to let them stun the shit out of everything. Then you could move in for the finishers.
I play the game bare knuckle now. Sucks you can't actually kill anything with your fists... but it's more fun to play that way than killing everything in the game with one blow from your katana. Grapples and finishers. The bare-hand stuff is honestly just as OP as anything else, but it seems slightly less mindless when you actually find yourself in the rare pinch.
They should've put more thought into blunts. Instead of them just completely disappearing 1/3 through the game in favor of slice n' dice.
Especially since the animation for the baseball bat maybe is the coolest in the game. Give blunts a role. Some utility. Easy answer is to let them stun the shit out of everything. Then you could move in for the finishers.
I play the game bare knuckle now. Sucks you can't actually kill anything with your fists... but it's more fun to play that way than killing everything in the game with one blow from your katana. Grapples and finishers. The bare-hand stuff is honestly just as OP as anything else, but it seems slightly less mindless when you actually find yourself in the rare pinch.
perineumlick
Member
I've been playing this with my cousin's account on my PS4. Sucks that I don't get any trophies for it, but damn I'm really contemplating buying it for myself. I didn't like Dead Island, but I'm really feeling this! Everything just clicks; I love the progression of the parkour from clumsy to nimble, they really nailed it. Sliding and breaking legs and throwing zombies off of roofs never gets old. I've even pulled a zombie off a roof with the grappling hook down onto a rack of spikes lol. Definitely a surprise hit. Word of advice, don't use those duping glitches and infinite upgrade cheats; it's nowhere near as fun when you are just powering through everything the first time out, as my son discovered.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
I've done everything but I'm stuck at 42/44 side quests and I'm even missing a safe house apparently, is the house with the red smoke bugged? The icon never turned into a safe house even though it is one. I'm so close to 100% completion this sucks...
sixpackrules
Member
respecting the safe house i don´t know,
edit added spoiler tags, hope it´s not too late, sorry
but did you drink the potion from the witch in the slums? you need to do it to unlock a couple more of sidequests
edit added spoiler tags, hope it´s not too late, sorry
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Yeah...
just keep drinking her stuff. It's a recurring thing. And each time you have to go back to her.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
100%/100% after about 40 hours.
The_Hitcher89
Member
No Platinum for me then, Toygar is glitched 
SolidChamp
Banned
Just finally got to the second half of the game with over 40 hours of gameplay. This new
is something else! Game is easily one of the best games of the year for me.
area of Haraan
klownboots
Member
Just picked this up this month. I have not gotten far (maybe an hour past the tutorial). This game gives me the same feeling Dead island did when I first played it. The combat is better though, movement more fluid, hell the whole game is just less clunky. Really loving it so far!
michalmarek77
Member
Okay, i'm about 37 hrs within game and i'm lovin' it. Right now it's my second best game i've played this year...and i still can't get enough of it. In fact, i may be addictet to Dying Light right now...Can't play anything else..
Game has a very rough beginning, and to be honest i didn't like it at all during first couple of hours...but when i understand game, its mechanics, world...Then i fall in love with it.
Fucking great game...
And that parkour with graplling hook...
Dying Light Parkour with grappling hook Old Town
Pure, endless joy...
The best still is Alien Isolation, but that's my GOAT, sooo...
Fucking great game...
And that parkour with graplling hook...
Dying Light Parkour with grappling hook Old Town
Pure, endless joy...
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
The trailer: http://youtu.be/AmXtZ8Q1mnE
Grabbed this last week, physical release.
Really enjoying it so far, its like all the best bits of Dead Island but in a much more interesting environment and with better combat, traversal etc.
I'm perhaps 3 hours in, so a way to go yet but am feeling terribly underpowered though, really need some better weapons and a big improvement on stamina. At the moment I just can't do much damage as I run out of puff a bit quick - especially to those damn speedy viral zombies that appear if you make too much noise, I'm generally dead pretty swiftly when they show up. I'm assuming I just need to keep playing and level up.
One of my favourite bits though is the tonal shift at night time, it becomes a totally different place once the sun goes down and the bad mother fuckers come out. Makes for some real tense sneaking stuff.
Overall, a great game with a lot to get stuck into. And I think it really looks gorgeous (on PS4), screenshots don't do it justice really. The whole world is in motion with the wind in the palms, smoke, leaves etc blowing around, its really quite spectacular.
Really enjoying it so far, its like all the best bits of Dead Island but in a much more interesting environment and with better combat, traversal etc.
I'm perhaps 3 hours in, so a way to go yet but am feeling terribly underpowered though, really need some better weapons and a big improvement on stamina. At the moment I just can't do much damage as I run out of puff a bit quick - especially to those damn speedy viral zombies that appear if you make too much noise, I'm generally dead pretty swiftly when they show up. I'm assuming I just need to keep playing and level up.
One of my favourite bits though is the tonal shift at night time, it becomes a totally different place once the sun goes down and the bad mother fuckers come out. Makes for some real tense sneaking stuff.
Overall, a great game with a lot to get stuck into. And I think it really looks gorgeous (on PS4), screenshots don't do it justice really. The whole world is in motion with the wind in the palms, smoke, leaves etc blowing around, its really quite spectacular.
Weird i swear someone joined my game who already had a ninja outfit - i think i have one too , pre-order crap maybe.
Beat the game and new game + already.
Great fun in coop , look forward to hopefully decent dlc , i usually avoid dlc but ill pay for a bit more dying light anyday
hospitaldriver
Member
Can someone who has got the Whole Story achievement check how many side missions they did to unlock it? So far I've done 51 and after Googling a list of them it seems that is all there is to do.
Is my achievement glitched?
Is my achievement glitched?
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
For me it's 42/44 with 100% completion, where are you getting 51 from? The achievements seem buggy on PC.
hospitaldriver
Member
If I count down the number of completed side quests it is 51. I'm stuck at 91% completion which is a couple of safe zones I haven't unlocked yet
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
Don't forget the 8 quarantine zones.
Summer Haze
Banned
I''m putting together lots of small clips for a montage, just something for fun nothing serious, and I'm in need of a fitting song to play over the top. Preferably metal. There's gonna be lots of decapitations and slow-mo, so I'm gonna need a song that fits that theme.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
hospitaldriver
Member
Got all of those as well. Just as well I love the game or I'd be bummed out after putting all the time in only for it to not unlock everything
sixpackrules
Member
The parkour is incredible in this game, really, really good, the first hours are rough combat wise, but i finished the game with a moded sword with 2k damage so i pretty much could walk around at night without worrying to much about anything, i still have to unlock some of the achievments for co-op, i pretty much don´t care about achievments these days but is a good excuse to play some more dying light
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
I won't lie, I'm pretty bummed about the achievements not unlocking after putting in extra effort to finish everything.
Portugeezer
Gold Member
Shame that the side missions are so shit, I normally listen to dialogue in most games but I simply don't care in this game about the side quests and just skip everything (thankfully skipping dialogue is quick) I only go to non-story quests if they happen to be on the way to the main story quest. Other than that, I enjoy this game a lot more than I would have thought. Definitely came out at a good time.
BrassDragon
Member
I appreciate that they've worked hard to make sidequests a lilttle more meaningful through narrative but the clunky dialogue (overlong with lots of repetition, flat jokes and unnatural exposition) and poor voice acting can't sell it.
They really need to get a better writing team for the next one. Still a supremely enjoyable game.
Alkastelca
Member
Vindicator
Member
+ new fixed trophies hopefully
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Yes. This is the side mission that killed my interest in side missions. Deplorably long.
perineumlick
Member
Just Like You've Imagined by Nine Inch Nails. Can't go wrong.
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Deleted member 325805
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So they're adding new weapons on top of the DLC ones, nice. I hope we get some firearms.
Just beat the story mode, really enjoyed it. A few I did co-op story missions and it was pretty fun, most people were cool, there were a couple dicks who held up progression though.
Going back in free roam and doing the missions now. I was most disappointed in the final "boss fight" as others were.
Going back in free roam and doing the missions now. I was most disappointed in the final "boss fight" as others were.
ClaptoVaughn
Member
I don't think so. Every description I've read seems to only be the blueprints that were previously given out.
I think new weapon rarity level will just be weapons we've already seen, but upped in damage and maybe placed in a new color category. Otherwise wouldn't they come right out and say new weapons?
Jawmuncher
Member
Have they said what the skins are?
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Ninja, business suit, and an urban/military type of outfit.
All were available previously for preorders or something.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
It says new weapons right on the picture. The only new weapons I've seen mentioned up until now are the 4 blueprints from the season pass but these are separate from those.
So i've been playing this game co-op with a friend and hit a problem. So we both only play the game in coop together, we are not playing it separately at all.
I have hosted the games so far. Yesterday he went to host instead and his game as showing up as 0% progress (we'd both completed 11% together).
I then went ahead and hosted and invited him. He got in and had one of his weapons or gear at all. We played for a few hours then left. His game then booted back to the mission where it says "coop now unlocked!" - back to 0% progress...
What is going on here? Why isn't his progress, gear and stuff saving as it should be?
I have hosted the games so far. Yesterday he went to host instead and his game as showing up as 0% progress (we'd both completed 11% together).
I then went ahead and hosted and invited him. He got in and had one of his weapons or gear at all. We played for a few hours then left. His game then booted back to the mission where it says "coop now unlocked!" - back to 0% progress...
What is going on here? Why isn't his progress, gear and stuff saving as it should be?
The Dear Leader
Banned
Did you fix it? I have the same problem with 43/44. What did you do?
the_batman
Banned
so non stop amounts of runners can bombard you?!
My game says I beat all of them, but I'm only showing 6/8 on the cheevos board. Maybe 'cause I did some in MP?
akilshohen
Member
I just need a skip for the arena... I'm still stuck.
the_batman
Banned
might as well start a new game.
I absolutely love this game. Its all I want to play at the moment, its completely captivated me in so many ways.
Scared myself last night though, was in the middle of a mission (hunting for a book in a building) and wasn't really paying attention to the time, only vaguely aware of the 'night times a-comin' radio messages. Found what I was looking for and realised it was dark, so thought I'd be brave and head for a nearby safezone in the dark. Went up to the roof, leapt off to the lower level which turned out to be made of wood so I SMASHED straight through it and IT WAS VERY LOUD and then there was lots of screaming and tentacle zombie monsters running at me and I fell into a gorge in my panic to get away. Which actually helped, but by then I was a bit lost and in the pitch black so had a bit of a nervy trip back to the safe house. When the sun came up it was just a great gaming moment.
And then it started raining and I realised that electric weapons work much better on wet enemies.
Its just a brilliant game.
Scared myself last night though, was in the middle of a mission (hunting for a book in a building) and wasn't really paying attention to the time, only vaguely aware of the 'night times a-comin' radio messages. Found what I was looking for and realised it was dark, so thought I'd be brave and head for a nearby safezone in the dark. Went up to the roof, leapt off to the lower level which turned out to be made of wood so I SMASHED straight through it and IT WAS VERY LOUD and then there was lots of screaming and tentacle zombie monsters running at me and I fell into a gorge in my panic to get away. Which actually helped, but by then I was a bit lost and in the pitch black so had a bit of a nervy trip back to the safe house. When the sun came up it was just a great gaming moment.
And then it started raining and I realised that electric weapons work much better on wet enemies.
Its just a brilliant game.
Finished Dying Light last night actually and enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than I thought I would. Which I've said before but still...I honestly expected pretty much nothing from this game.
- Parkour System is really fun, and the way it levels up makes you go out of your way to try and parkour around. I never really found myself lamenting a lack of fast travel, it was fun to just move around, and there are so many modeled interiors in this game that pretty much wherever you are there is somewhere to go check out and explore.
- Melee system is serviceable and really great fun in the beginning. I like the progression of going from 2-3 zombies being a threat to eventually slaughtering everything in 1 hit. Though it seems like you get to that point a bit too quickly, I spent the last 5 hours or so of the game basically invincible. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly fun to hack down hordes of zombies - but I wish that there was SOME challenge remaining as the game progressed.
- I thought the main quest/story was interesting enough to pull me through the whole affair. The way I saw some reviews absolutely going in on the story I thought it would be complete shit but I didn't get that at all. The writing wasn't great but I loved Crane and his pure assholeish comments at points.
- Coming off of Dragon Age: Inquisition and AC: Unity it's nice to see an open world game put some effort into it's side quests for a change. Are they ground breaking? No, and a lot of the tasks you do aren't anything special, but they do a good job of creating little narrative arcs that get you interested, and the quests bring you to some unique locations and usually have very decent rewards. I really, really enjoyed these.
- The soundtrack was god damn awesome. I only wish that I had heard more of it as it didn't pop up as frequently as I would have liked while just running around the world.
So yeah, I was very impressed with this game. I didn't get to ALL of the side quests, but I intend to go back...even still the game clocked in at a solid 30 hours for me and overall it was just a blast to play all the way through. I'm glad to see this game is doing well sales wise because I think this game definitely deserves a sequel.
- Parkour System is really fun, and the way it levels up makes you go out of your way to try and parkour around. I never really found myself lamenting a lack of fast travel, it was fun to just move around, and there are so many modeled interiors in this game that pretty much wherever you are there is somewhere to go check out and explore.
- Melee system is serviceable and really great fun in the beginning. I like the progression of going from 2-3 zombies being a threat to eventually slaughtering everything in 1 hit. Though it seems like you get to that point a bit too quickly, I spent the last 5 hours or so of the game basically invincible. Don't get me wrong, it's incredibly fun to hack down hordes of zombies - but I wish that there was SOME challenge remaining as the game progressed.
- I thought the main quest/story was interesting enough to pull me through the whole affair. The way I saw some reviews absolutely going in on the story I thought it would be complete shit but I didn't get that at all. The writing wasn't great but I loved Crane and his pure assholeish comments at points.
- Coming off of Dragon Age: Inquisition and AC: Unity it's nice to see an open world game put some effort into it's side quests for a change. Are they ground breaking? No, and a lot of the tasks you do aren't anything special, but they do a good job of creating little narrative arcs that get you interested, and the quests bring you to some unique locations and usually have very decent rewards. I really, really enjoyed these.
- The soundtrack was god damn awesome. I only wish that I had heard more of it as it didn't pop up as frequently as I would have liked while just running around the world.
So yeah, I was very impressed with this game. I didn't get to ALL of the side quests, but I intend to go back...even still the game clocked in at a solid 30 hours for me and overall it was just a blast to play all the way through. I'm glad to see this game is doing well sales wise because I think this game definitely deserves a sequel.