Dying Light: The Beast’s 11-week roadmap features a plethora of upcoming events and updates. Read on to learn more about what the developers have in store for the coming weeks and how they incorporated fan feedback from previous titles into the game.
Dying Light: The Beast 11-Week Roadmap
New Game+, PUBG Mobile Collab, and More
Dying Light: The Beast revealed its 11-week roadmap that features new content coming for the remainder of the year. In a Steam Blog post on October 16, developer and publisher Techland shared details on what’s in store for fans in the next few months.
According to the post, the upcoming updates aim to increase the game’s replayability with the addition of New Game+, Legend Levels, and Nightmare Difficulty. Additionally, it will also have various visual and quality-of-life improvements, including ray tracing on PC.
There will also be 11 weeks of community challenges, where players can earn 22 exclusive prizes and 1 Legendary reward. The game is currently in its first week of community challenges titled "A Season to Dismember."
From October 16 to October 23, the whole playerbase must cut off 30,000,000 limbs to earn a Lumberjack Car Skin, while cutting off 60,000,000 limbs rewards them with a Woodchopper Axe. As of writing, based on the official Dying Light Outpost, players have severed around 25,000,000 limbs, with about 3 days left for the event.
Aside from new features and QoL improvements, there is currently an ongoing crossover with The Beast and the popular battle-royale title, PUBG Mobile. This crossover brings Techland’s latest survival horror to PUBG’s battlegrounds, introducing The Beast-themed weapons, cosmetics, items, and an exclusive map based on Dying Light’s Castor Woods.
PUBG will also have a World of Wonder mode event themed around Dying Light: The Beast, where players can build their own battleground using their own rules. The Dying Light: The Beast x PUBG Mobile collab began on October 16 and lasts until November 4.
Dying Light: The Beast has been well-received by fans ever since its release a month ago, having "Very Positive" reviews on Steam. With more content coming in the next 11 weeks, players are sure to spend more time roaming around and surviving in Castor Woods.
Here at Game8, we gave Dying Light: The Beast an 82 out of 100 for refining the already established identity of the franchise, creating the ideal open-world horror survival game. To know more about our thoughts on the game, check out our review below.
Lessons Learned From Dying Light: Stay Human
During last week's Dying Light: The Beast media briefing in Bangkok, Ungeek spoke with Franchise Director Tymon Smektala, who shared some insights regarding The Beast’s development. One of the highlights of the conversation was how the team took fan feedback from Dying Light 2: Stay Human to improve the series' sequel.
For context, The Beast was initially planned to be a DLC for Stay Human until Techland decided to expand the concept and bring series protagonist Kyle Crane back to bridge the gap from previous titles of the series, as well as open a new window for the franchise.
Smektala stated, "We took every lesson from the first two games and took the best ones and listened to our community about the not so good ones – where players were telling us: this doesn’t work, we don’t want that in a Dying Light Series."
As an example, he noted that the team focused on making The Beast’s nighttime scary and difficult once again after toning it down on Stay Human, as some fans found it "too scary." They adhered to the request, but were immediately called out for making the night "too easy," which is why they wanted to bring the "hard" night back.
Smektala elaborated, "And what we realize is that even if players don’t play the [harder] Night, they want to know it’s there. They want to have that feeling that maybe one day I will be brave enough, and strong enough, and develop my character to face the Night. That’s why we decided to make the Night again super scary, super dark, super challenging in Dying Light: The Beast."
He also confirmed that there will be more Dying Light titles in the future, and highlighted the importance of having a consistent and continuous gameworld."So for sure, in the future, there would be a continuation of Dying Light: The Beast. I don’t know what form that will it will take, or when it will happen. I’m not revealing that this is the next Dying Light Game, because we don’t know that to be honest, but at some point, definitely we will get back to those characters and this universe, and we will continue it," Smektala said.
Dying Light: The Beast is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. To stay up to date with the latest information about the game, check out our article below!
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Dying Light: The Beast 11 Week Roadmap Steam blog post
PUBG Twitter (X) post on PUBG x Dying Light: The Beast crossover
Dying Light franchise director talks about what they learned from Stay Human and how it transformed The Beast
