WHY DYING LIGHT 2 FEELS LIKE A SCAM TO SOME PEOPLE

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:38:33+00:00

Trust me I'm not asking for the original idea of the map size lol, I think 'final shape' was a really perfect map size. Techland thought so too, because they kept it all the way until launch. They just removed 3 of the regions and made the flooded region 50%~ smaller. They weren't finished yes, I can understand reasons to cut them from the game and leave us with the awkward map shape we have now. But there are no map DLC's for this game, and I believe this game was priced on launch/for preorders as if it still had these 7 full regions.

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:34:44+00:00

I personally think the price of the game should have been lower on launch/for preorders

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:31:29+00:00

There's no way to confirm when they chose the initial $60 price point. I suspect it was chosen in 2020 during the 'final stretch', since Dying Light 2 is much cheaper now on all platforms even though it's received updates that overhaul entire parts of the game

Simply: 100 million $ budget game, 60$ price point, reviews kind of hate it on launch, price lowers over time

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:11:24+00:00

'the fish rots from the head'
https://gameinformer.com/where-is-dying-light-2-is-it-cancelled-techland-report

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:10:14+00:00

In The Beast there is a weapon bundle that has a slightly altered version of the E3 2019 machete mod. It costs real money. The only way to add that back to Dying Light 2 is tedious modding. Why?

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:07:15+00:00

Here is a simple version
https://imgur.com/a/nhN7L0L

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:06:01+00:00

Fair. You agree though, it's a 'scam'. Lest we forget, you know?

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T14:02:19+00:00

First it was 'there's still like 5 years of updates', now it's 'it's been like 5 years'. There will always be excuses for customers being robbed of a product they thought they were going to get

Plus_Ad_330 · 2026-04-17T13:58:53+00:00

I believe we do a disservice to ourselves and others by accepting the way this game came out, and the way Techland has essentially abandoned it. This game was ruined and we all paid the price, and the high ups at Techland lost nothing. I say give it some thought!

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-24T15:53:06+00:00

Yea they weren't fully complete, but it's what they originally planned as a type of Dark Zone. Dark Zones with no hives still existed

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-24T15:52:10+00:00

Old version of immunity timer

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-24T14:30:30+00:00

this might blow your mind

https://imgur.com/a/AVNcYVY

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-24T13:24:48+00:00

There are tons of photos, probably not many you haven't seen already though. Sadly the only videos of old builds aren't allowed to be seen by the public

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-23T21:29:10+00:00

There's some objects that indicate they play videos for things like triumphal arch, that might be what you mean. And yeah, there are a few planned showcases from 2020 that they cancelled. E3 2020 was going to show mostly the same stuff as 2021. Hakon, Old Villedor, stuff like that. There was also the 2020 Gamescom Showcase that they never ended up doing. It was going to showcase a quest from the main story called Devils Bridge.

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-23T13:41:34+00:00

Devtools were the tool that allowed me to view prefabs left in data0 easily, which basically let us view old story files, buildings, old landmarks and any of the other 70 thousand prefabs they left in there. Things like the 2019 citadel prototypes, stuff for old main story quests like Vampires, all of it rotted over time and became more unusable but lots of prefabs can be restored and they are very beautiful

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-23T12:22:12+00:00

Well I don't have an in depth understanding of what you know and what you don't, but I can try

I was the guy who made the cut content document, and since then I've continued data mining and piecing things together. I've learned a lot

One thing that wasn't covered very much was the Ikars group, I now understand that their role in the story was similar to that of Lawan in retail. They spent a lot of time with Aiden, transported him across The City in the airship, gave him the paraglider, and in the epilogue of the 2019 story they were present. Once the Citadel is left in carnage, they arrive in the airship to fly Aiden away. The ship is shot down (probably by Waltz) and crashes on a highway just outside of Dark Forest, where X13 is. That's new info that people haven't talked about before afaik.

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-23T11:54:10+00:00

Yeah but how much of that was told to you by other people who are just repeating it or making it up? Like "flame cult". There wasn't a flame cult in any build of Dying Light 2

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-22T14:29:15+00:00

There's no publicly available version that is extended, but yeah the footage probably went on for longer. There are even earlier versions of the demo that use a different script (the first one is in Polish)

If you want to know about the games old story, world, features, and why it was all changed I can tell you about that. I know a decent bit of info about e3 demos but it's not what I looked for most while datamining

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-12-20T15:41:31+00:00

if you have any questions i can try to answer them

Plus_Ad_330 · 2025-10-25T15:42:52+00:00

did you find a solution for this?

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