Highlights
- Techland plans to continue supporting Dying Light 2 with new content despite a decline in daily active players.
- The content roadmap trailer reveals upcoming additions to the game, such as new enemy types, weapon categories, character customization options, and quality of life improvements.
- Release dates for these changes are not specified.
Techland updated its Dying Light 2: Stay Human content roadmap with some fairly ambitious plans, confirming that the post-apocalyptic action RPG will continue enjoying extensive support for the foreseeable future. The studio's content preview arrived shortly after Dying Light 2 update 1.12.2 introduced a number of bug fixes and even some in-game store changes based on player feedback.
October 4 will mark the 20-month anniversary of the Dying Light sequel. Much like its predecessor, the second installment in the franchise can be played solo, or with up to three other people. The game's cooperative mode is widely believed to have been a big contributor to its early success, which was best underlined by the fact that Dying Light 2 hit three million players during its first weekend. But that momentum turned out to be unsustainable, with the game nowadays having fewer daily active players than its 2015 predecessor, at least on Steam.
Nevertheless, Techland is still planning to keep supporting Dying Light 2 for a long time to come, having said as much in a late September content roadmap trailer for the game. The three-minute video details a number of major changes coming to Dying Light 2, including new missions, additional board requests, and a Nightmare difficulty mode. The developer is also planning to include an option of replaying any of the game's 12 GRE Anomalies, on top of introducing a new Tower Raid mode.
Furthermore, the trailer reveals that brothers Tolga and Fatin from the 2015 original will soon appear in Dying Light 2, as will the ability to adjust the camera's field of view in the Xbox Series X/S version of the game. Some other graphics settings governing things like bloom and motion effects are also in the pipeline, as per the trailer.
Beyond that, the promo revealed that Dying Light 2 will soon benefit from new enemy types, more executions and finishers, and a number of additional weapon categories, including knives and polearms. Quality of life improvements to the game's weapon and mod crafting system are also in the works, together with more character customization options and text chat functionality. Finally, Nightrunner Tools will soon start carrying over to Dying Light 2's New Game Plus mode, thus addressing a fairly common complaint among the fandom.
Techland's trailer did not commit to a specific release window for any of these upcoming changes. Nevertheless, the first wave of the newly outlined additions already appears to be on the horizon, not least because the latest Dying Light 2 roadmap also includes Halloween and Winter events, the former of which will presumably be out by late October if it aims to live up to its name.
Dying Light 2 is out now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. A Switch cloud version is also in development.
