Dying Light 2 - Delayed to February 2022
 

DSOGaming reports on a delay into February 2022 for Dying Light 2.

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Real reason to much competition this holiday season and there not confident. Anyway it's already a year late since the developer went quiet last year missed the 2019-20 date.:)

Not an RPG, but I'm looking forward to this. I really enjoyed the first game. I hope this is the last delay.

I'm more surprised these days when a game isn't endlessly delayed.

what competition? this xmas is a desert in games, all games moved to Q1 2022 or 'early 2022', they have a hell of competiton in february

Elden Ring (Jan 21)
Pokemon (Jan 28)
Rainbow Six Extraction (Jan)
Dying Light 2 (Feb 4)
Horizon Forbidden West (Feb 18)
Destiny 2 Witch Queen (Feb 22)
Sifu (Feb 22)
Saints Row (Feb 25)
Gran Turismo 7 (Mar 5)
Tiny Tina (Mar 25)
GTA V (Mar)
Stalker 2 (april 28)
Uncharted remaster PC & PS5 'early 2022'
Total war warhammer 3 'early 2022'
Forspoken spring

Is that some kind of remaster, or did you mean GTA VI?

Oh look at all those games and I'm not interested in most of them.

So they have my money already.:cool:

Anyway hey I was trying to be nice there mostly not confident and it's warranted due to various delays. All I'm expecting is an upgraded Dying Light on it's release.

Till then they can keep milking the original game.:)

Truer words have never been spoken.:salute:

I'll use the tired old trope and blame Co-vid again.

Not sure about that one, I copied the list, I guess that must be the nth remaster

but still what competion THIS year? :biggrin:

Just a bunch of just released RPG's you might have missed and Far CRY 6 soon.

Link - https://www.metacritic.com/feature/m…-ps4-pc-switch

I don't think there's a significant difference tbh, nor do I think it matters. None of those games are very similar to Dying Light.

You are trolling right? :biggrin: Pathfinder and FC6 are no competition if the year 2022 list was not….

Am I well that's for me to know and you to find out.:p

I think the time window thing does not matter that much in the great scheme of things for niche releases. Sure Pathfinder and Encased were recently released, but a lot of people will wait until the bugs are ironed out, which may take a good while. Most people who cared about those games have already been playing different Early Access/beta stages for months, so the release date was anecdotal. Others have already finished either of those games and and are looking for something else to play next (:raises hand!:).

In the end, a game doesn't have to be played exactly the day it releases either. If it was a big blockbuster that sells millions of copies in a directly competing field, it may be worth pushing the release a bit further, but at the same time it shows character to not alter your plans because just about any other game releases close to yours, there is always games being released, every single week.

As far as we know, the makers of Atom might think it's Pathfinder/Encased who need to be afraid of releasing close to them, not the other way around.

Not me I hate Early Access and won't touch it, Eww it'S like cooties all over again.:cool:

Still all good points I'll give you that.:nod:

At least mainstream games don't use Early Access yet.:biggrin:

Halo Infinite will be released this December. This is at least one game. ;)

for those with weaker pcs, this will be on geforce now at launch

if you count every brick and leaf… :lol:

I think they should delay it till November 11th, 2022. No competition then. Nut, who is sad that he can't really do parkour moves.

If that's even close to being accurate, I won't be doing my usual completionist style playthrough with this one.

I can only imagine the amount of filler quests they've jammed in there to make it this bloated.

:roll:

Well it was delayed for two years so they had plenty of time to pad the game length.:p

Here's something I had no idea about. Apparently Dying Light 2 has co-op? Did the original have it also? For some reason I never even entertained the thought of co-op in this game.

I hope they manage to have a succesful release, and as little issues and bugs as possible.

The original had it too, but I've never tried in co-op. I can imagine it's quite fun to take a walk at night with friends and evade or kill those nasty things. :)

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Who cares? They have the right to protect their game from piracy. Makes no difference for anyone who plays the game legally.

Yeah, I think Denuvo is to be expected at this point for most AAA releases. Personally, I've never had any issues with games that used it.

reviews are out

Reviews are indeed out, but those are system specs.

I got whiplash from seeing how poor the reviews are, particularly for the story elements. I had been getting more excited for the release over the past couple of days and my enthusiasm is considerably dimmed by the response. Of course I can make up my own mind, but with Horizon and Elden Ring coming in only a couple of weeks, I may postpone purchasing DL2.

I won't be paying any attention to the reviews, and I don't care much about the story elements anyways. No one played Dying Light for the story. Fwiw though, the only review I've seen so far was Kotaku's, and it's very positive.

I'm way behind schedule gaming-wise though, so I've decided to wait until after I finish Elex 2 before getting DL2. I'm also replaying DL1 right now, and I don't want to play both games back to back.

I've seen more reviews and while many of them are negative, there are a lot that are also highly positive. There are about as many 8's as there are 6's. It's a polarizing game, evidently.

Fair enough to play DL for the gameplay, but it's absolutely the case that Techland made a big deal out of their increase emphasis on story stuff (writing, characters, c&c, etc) in the sequel. Even a lot of the otherwise positive reviews (though by no means all of them) say that the story/writing/characters aren't very good.

I don't ever not value the story in any game I play that has a story, so it's a disappointment to me if the story is not very good. But I'll be finding out for myself this weekend.

In fact I decided to start my DL gameplay not because of its story, but because of action plus (some dose of) parkour. But there are some side quests that are IMHO good, even emotional like "Where's My Mother?".

Also: I surely will buy DL2 sometime ahead but only on a discount :)

I recommend: Dying Light 2 - Stay Human (Review)


A more balanced and positive overall review. Still acknowledges the bugs and issues with the story apparently, but still comes away positive overall.

I didn't say they didn't emphasize those things. It's just that those aren't the aspects that really matter to me in this kind of game, so I didn't pay much heed to when they were hyping them up.

Look forward to hearing your impressions. I won't be trying it until late next month at the earliest.

Yeah, I wouldn't say the writing is "bad", it just doesn't stand out most of the time. It's perfectly serviceable for a game like this.

Dying Light has aged remarkably well. I think I'm enjoying this playthrough even more than my original. Can't wait to play 'The Following' since that will be new to me.