The Dying Light Platinum Edition is available now, just in times for fans to get a refresher on the story of the first game before its sequel releases at the end of this year. While playing the game, there are any number of reasons why players might want to turn the difficulty down, and while some games opt to shy away from including a difficulty setting, this is not one of them. Players can change the game's difficulty easily, although it can't be done while playing the game and must instead be done from the main menu.
Dying Light 2 comes out this Christmas, and in celebration of that, Techland has put together Dying Light Platinum Edition. This bundles together the main game, its major expansion called The Following, and all of the other DLC packs that have come out for the game since launch at a reasonable price. What's more, players can get it for a great discount right now since it was just announced.
Since players can't change the difficulty mid-game, they will need to quit to the main menu. From here, choose Play and then choose Campaign. Instead of jumping right back in, navigate over to the Advanced menu to find the difficulty options. Players can choose between Story Mode, Normal, Hard, or Nightmare. Story Mode is effectively the equivalent of Easy in Dying Light, and makes everything much more manageable. Crane will be a lot tougher, deal more damage, find more supplies, and more.
Players may opt for Story Mode for any number of reasons, but it will probably see a lot more use at the moment. Some players simply want to play through Dying Light in order to get a refresher on the story, and it's understandable that these fans wouldn't want to deal with the standard difficulty of the game while doing so. Others may just find Normal a bit too challenging, and Story Mode offers an alternative that is still just as fun. Regardless of the reason, players using Story Mode will still get the full experience of the world building, exciting parkour, and even some of the scares when it comes to running away from Volatiles in the night time.
That's all there is to changing difficulty. On the flip side, players with a bit more confidence in their abilities could opt to take on Hard or even Nightmare difficulty, but be warned that this is very challenging, especially on the first playthrough. It may make more sense to play through the game on Normal and then up the difficulty to Nightmare during a New Game+ run.
Dying Light is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
