Very nice game indeed.
I'm not too much into top-down shooters and didn't planed to play it all the way through (I was just testing it) but I ended up playing it few times.
The gameplay is really nice and satisfying, while sound and lightning are awesome.
Exploration is rewarded (don't forget to break all those crates) and you get more powerful weapons and upgrades as the game unfolds, keeping you glued to the screen.

The only thing that I sorely missed is force-feedback for my gamepad, it would've been a great addition if implemented.
But hey, have I mentioned that it has great lighting?

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I'm happy to see this and at the same time arguing too much about it is a waste of time.

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Quoting: GuestEdit: worth noting that when I started the game the menu background was black, and then the game itself was black too (I could only see the HUD) until I fell from a bridge and then I could see the world.

I have seen this few times before using DLM, more exactly when I disabled Film Grain (or whatever is called).

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Quoting: dubigrasuFor those willing to get some performance back and get rid of some of those pesky effects I would recommend to use the Dying Light Manager

Big thanks! I’ll try removing the chromatic crap ASAP. Does your "out.zip" change anything else than blur and chromatic?

Not sure if the chromatic aberration is really removed actually, you need to test it.
You'll find in the zip a screenshot of the settings I used.

BTW, I can make some specific settings if you want, and upload them.

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For those willing to get some performance back and get rid of some of those pesky effects I would recommend to use the Dying Light Manager: http://www.nexusmods.com/dyinglight/mods/18/ [External Link]?

Be sure to use a 64-bit wineprefix and remember that the manager wasn't updated for a while, so some settings might not work after recent DL updates.
I'm not sure anymore about chromatic aberration fix, but at least it can still remove the motion blur effects (see video).

The app will create a "DyingLight" folder in your "/home/user".
Copy the "/home/user/DyingLight/out/data" folder to
".../steamapps/common/Dying Light/DW/out" folder.

Before and After:
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Or try mine: out.zip [External Link]

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Well, there is a performance improvement and it does look better.

Thing is, whatever performance we gained is consumed by those effects previously absent, so in the end (for me at least) the performance is indeed increased, but not by much.
I have now around 80-120 FPS with brief dips to 55-60 in the Old Town, which is very similar with what I had previously.

All in all though I'm very satisfied by this update, we got SSAO back (yay) and some other nice touches like rain drops on cars/walls etc.
(the sixth sense distortion wave is still absent though)
What can I say, the game looks awesome now and is totally playable.

I'm now running everything on max except Distance and Antialiasing.
The annoying thing with Antialiasing is that it creates a ugly blur (it does it on Windows too) so I prefer to force FXAA from the Nvidia control panel.

Oh, and I'm also not crazy about motion blur and chromatic aberration, so I got them removed.

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Thanks for the heads up, looking really good and working very well too.

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I think this would be a interesting unique question for the monthly survey; do you use a gamepad & what model?

Or was it already?

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Well, until this patch is out (I'm really waiting/hoping for SSAO) I have the game on hold and filling my time with DL maps from the Workshop, such as this one:

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Quoting: tuubiThere must be different versions of the F310 then. Even Logitech's website or my copy of the manual have no mention of this feature. As I wrote before, the lack of force feedback was the only real difference to the more expensive F510 back when I bought mine. Maybe they simply sell the F510 rebranded as F310 now, and it was the old F310 that was discontinued instead?

No idea, this one that I have is branded F310, it looks like a F310 and identifies itself as such (046d:c21d Logitech, Inc. F310 Gamepad [XInput Mode]).
It could be a different animal though since I bought it from Ebay, and you can find all sort of weird clones/fakes there.

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