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PayPalTechland are moving on from the original Dying Light, after giving it 7 years of free updates and expansions. Not many developers support their games for that long, if they're not some sort of live-service thing. Techland certainly did well overall with it.
While it won't see any major updates now, they will still be trickling in a steady "reroll" of previous events into the game for people to play but their main focus is now shifting over to Dying Light 2.
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Dying Light also now only has two editions, to make it less confusing. There's Dying Light Enhanced Edition and the new Dying Light Definitive Edition, both of them on a heavy discount on Steam.
To go along with it, the Harran Tactical Unit Bundle DLC has been made free to claim for two weeks. People who owned the Platinum Edition were also upgraded to the Definitive Edition free. This is after they also gave away The Following expansion to all previous owners.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Loads of weapons in the various DLC's are not only cosmetic. Some character skins change gameplay as well. If you want the lowdown on the DLC's, I recommend AussieGG's DLC video to get a good idea what's what. Some weapons are definitely overpowered, but that's part of the charm of the game. ;)
Neither Dying Light game is GaaS, you can play single player offline if you wish, with the note that DL2 currently has Denuvo anti-tamper and it requires recurrent online connectivity to verify the license. Hopefully this crap will be removed in the near future.
Quoting: PhlebiacQuoting: LinasI was wondering if it makes sense to buy all those weapon / costume bundles? Do they make any difference in the single player campaign?
I was wondering the same; Hellraid looks cool, but the reviews on it are still not great. The rest of the Definitive Edition DLC all seems to be cosmetic stuff, as StalePopcorn mentioned. I don't mind picking those up super cheap, but even at an 84% discount that still adds up to more than I want to pay for skins.
Hellraid is for those who hate parkour and open world, but love combat.
OK, the parkour is still there, there's just much less of it. Which means it's not an option for avoiding the combat. Combat is luckily bit better than in the main game, mainly because there's more enemy variety in most combat encounters.
I played most of it on nightmare difficulty (last boss was too tanky, so I had to drop the difficulty a bit) and hacking whatever is closest is not a good strategy as there's bigger threats. I can imagine that having maxed agility skill tree helps a lot as otherwise getting surrounded is going to be issue all the time.
So if you don't mind bit of grinding, it's worth a try on sale.
Quoting: hiryuI haven't tried this game under Linux in years... What is its current state? Is the performance still terrible?
Should be fine enough, depending on the system of course. I get somewhere between 160 to 220 FPS when I did quick run around the slums.
Back when I had GTX 970, game was playable most of the time, though there were times where performance was horrible right from the menu. Don't remember why.
Quoting: hiryuI haven't tried this game under Linux in years... What is its current state? Is the performance still terrible?Like I said in an earlier post;
QuoteBy the way, the native version is still updated and works well today, though you would typically see better performance with Proton. :)
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