The Official Dying Light 2 thread

mrk · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:01

https://techraptor.net/gaming/reviews/dying-light-2-stay-human-review

The choices part of the game dictating how the game pans out looks to be lacking compared to what we were told/shown, faction indication has been simplified too. It's more Dying Light+ by the sounds of things so nowhere near the value of £55 on Steam. I will pick it up at £25 I reckon as I don't think it's worth £35 due to the cut stuff either. They have said there's years of support for the game though so no doubt in a year it will be a lot cheaper and new content updates will be out.

Edit*

Having said that, once I watch a few reviews I will decide whether £35 is worth it just for the graphical entertainment. I got this 3080 Ti for a reason so at least get the most out of it

TNA · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:06

I was worried what they promised about the world changing a lot based on your choices may not pan out based on delays and what CDProject did.

Anyway, Dying Light+ seems good to me

Thumpsta · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:07

Don't trust pre-release reviews anymore. It's all about the hits for adverts.

I will buy this at some point but since CDKEYS let me down I won't pay £41+ for it. My wife does correctly say I spend more in coffee shops in a day than the asking price though.

Hmm.

TNA · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:09

Thumpsta said:
Don't trust pre-release reviews anymore. It's all about the hits for adverts.

I will buy this at some point but since CDKEYS let me down I won't pay £41+ for it. My wife does correctly say I spend more in coffee shops in a day than the asking price though.

Hmm.

Will let you know over the next few days/weeks how it is for me. But keep in mind I did enjoy the first game which was a solid 9 out of 10 for me.

Tombstone · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:19

Thumpsta said:
My wife does correctly say I spend more in coffee shops in a day than the asking price though.

Yup and thats just for something which is gone in less than an hour and comes out of your backside later on !

Kainz · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:20

Well I'm shocked by the reviews. Haven't read them yet but the initial opinions don't sound good.

Kelt · 2 Feb 2022 at 19:21

I really enjoyed the first game, but as ever for me, will wait until it's patched and price dropped before buying.

LtMatt · 2 Feb 2022 at 20:05

Kainz said:
Well I'm shocked by the reviews. Haven't read them yet but the initial opinions don't sound good.

The graphics look bad, but as long as the gameplay is good I don't care. I'm not overly impressed with what I've seen so far, but really hard to tell by watching a few canned clips from a trailer.

Andr3w · 2 Feb 2022 at 20:06

Most reviews are saying it's an ok story but really fun gameplay. Preordered.

Tombstone · 2 Feb 2022 at 20:20

Andr3w said:
Most reviews are saying it's an ok story but really fun gameplay. Preordered.

Which sounds fine to me, ultimately as much as I like a good story I enjoy fun gameplay all the more. After all, I have books for stories, games are for fun

TNA · 2 Feb 2022 at 20:52

LtMatt said:
The graphics look bad, but as long as the gameplay is good I don't care. I'm not overly impressed with what I've seen so far, but really hard to tell by watching a few canned clips from a trailer.

Can't be any worse than Far Cry 6 :cry:

LtMatt · 2 Feb 2022 at 20:58

TNA said:
Can't be any worse than Far Cry 6

Looks worse so far looking at the textures. Gameplay is all that matters though, Dying Light 1 graphics weren’t up to much either but it was still fun.

Nexus18 · 2 Feb 2022 at 21:04

TNA said:
Can't be any worse than Far Cry 6

Does look awful without RT tbf

https://www.benchmark.pl/testy_i_recenzje/dying-light-2-recenzja.html

https://www.dsogaming.com/pc-perfor...2-nvidia-dlss-amd-fsr-ray-tracing-benchmarks/

Visually stunning overall with all the RT goodness turned on though imo, not to mention, the sheer density and variety of assets/objects in the city unlike a big bland open world of FC

Essentially looks like the city was actually lived in at one point.

Textures are a bit poor on it but all the other graphical effects more than make up for that imo and in a game like this, lighting, shadows etc. is damn important to providing that immersive atmosphere, much like how metro enhanced enjoyment/immersiveness was "enhanced" tenfold.

LtMatt · 2 Feb 2022 at 21:12

Is it true it has no HDR? That’s a real shame if true since that’s just a standard feature these days.

Nexus18 · 2 Feb 2022 at 21:17

LtMatt said:
Is it true it has no HDR? That’s a real shame if true since that’s just a standard feature these days.

Seeing mixed reports.

Apparently no proper HDR options except a gamma slider so will probably not be great, I'm expecting fake HDR i.e. SDR still just with brightness upped, although maybe w11 auto hdr will work well.....

willhub · 2 Feb 2022 at 21:18

Why is performance so harsh compared to Farcry 6?

Nexus18 · 2 Feb 2022 at 21:20

willhub said:
Why is performance so harsh compared to Farcry 6?

With no RT? Game could do a lot better given the visuals but with RT performance, this is why:

i.e. a considerable amount of RT

There is a day 1 patch so maybe perf. will improve with it....

peahead · 2 Feb 2022 at 22:27

Loved the first one played around 66 hours in total so hopefully more of the same with this one and i am not listening to reviews.

mrk · 2 Feb 2022 at 22:31

UGN's gfx comparisons:

TNA · 2 Feb 2022 at 23:01

LtMatt said:
Looks worse so far looking at the textures. Gameplay is all that matters though, Dying Light 1 graphics weren’t up to much either but it was still fun.

Yea, I was referring to the game, not graphics

Standard textures should mean 8gb is fine though

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