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Dying Light has a Left 4 Dead crossover event happening right now

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From now and running through until October 28 at 6PM UTC, Techland have given Dying Light a bit of Left 4 Dead flavour.

Two worlds are colliding, giving you a chance to run out into the wastes and smash up some Zombies in style. Techland are doing this crossover as a homage to Valve's shooter. To do so, they've adjusted the gameplay a little during this event. There's a lot more Virals (the fast angry Zombies) to give you a feel for the vast hordes seen in Left 4 Dead, along with a much more generous amount of guns and ammo to find.

Additionally, Techland put up a free DLC for Dying Light to add in some Left 4 Dead themed weapons including the Electric Guitar, Frying Pan, and Golf Club. Everyone can get them but you can also earn special variants of these weapons by completing some new challenges for the event too.

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If you're up for the hunt, see the Quartermaster in-game to get some free guns and Safe Zones will dish out ammo like it's Halloween candy directly into your inventory when you enter them. However, if you don't want to join the event you can turn it off in the Options (Options -> Online -> Community Event Participation).

Techland certainly aren't messing around when they said there's a lot more Virals, I spent a few minutes running around with an assault rifle in it earlier and I was constantly facing mini-hordes of them. They're practically everywhere, so if you do love a challenge it's going to be good fun. Just don't expect to actually get any quests done…

To celebrate, it's also on sale. With 66% off on Humble Store and Steam.

Oh, they also put some Dying Light weapons into Left 4 Dead 2 as a Steam Workshop mod. They're just fancy skins though but the idea is certainly nice.

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dpanter Oct 25, 2019
Quoting: seamooseI'm afraid my old rig won't run it
You'll do way better than my crotchety old AMD laptop with feeble A10 APU and GCN1 GPU. :)
It can run Dying Light with Proton/Vulkan, 720p lowest settings 20-25 fps... and this craptop is way below minimum spec.

Plenty of 'Can I run it' threads in the DL Steam forums if you want to check it out.

Quoting: g000hI hope it is just a name-change and this doesn't mean my actual owned game has lost graphical fidelity or its "enhancedness".
If you bought 'Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition' that is what you should own. AFAIK there hasn't been a name change. The game is still the game, the 'enhanced' part is simply a bundle with The Following expansion, Season Pass and select DLC's (Bozak Horde, Ultimate Survivor, Crash Test Skin).
lejimster Oct 25, 2019
Quoting: seamooseI'm so close to buying Dying Light but I'm afraid my old rig won't run it. I'm still on an i5-3570K CPU and a GTX660 (not even TI...) GPU. Can I run this game even on medium settings?

Probably struggle with native Linux version. With proton version you might be OK.

Buy it and get a refund if its not good enough (assuming your getting steam version)


Last edited by lejimster on 25 October 2019 at 2:57 pm UTC
SlickMcRunFast Oct 31, 2019
My audio is busted in an odd way. Intro vids have sound but the menu screen and in game are silent. Pulse, why hate me?
dpanter Nov 1, 2019
Quoting: SlickMcRunFastIntro vids have sound but the menu screen and in game are silent.
You could try launching with -nologos to skip the intro, maybe something borks when it should hand over audio to the actual game.
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