Dying Light turns 10 and celebrates by reviving some of its best in-game events

How the time flies, eh? It actually doesn’t really feel like a decade since Dying Mild got here out, placing some new spins on the zombie recreation formulation with its slick parkour motion and day-night cycle that made it an actual gauntlet when the solar went down. In celebration of its tenth birthday, developer Techland is giving Dying Mild a shock replace that additional enhances the sport’s visuals and its soundtrack. It’s additionally bringing again a few of followers’ favourite in-game occasions for a four-week fiesta.

Whereas they’re not precisely award-scooping, critically acclaimed zombie video games, each Dying Mild and its sequel are beloved by those who love to show the undead into pulp. Layering on that superior motion, they actually stand out from style rivals like Lifeless Island, and Techland will quickly try to go three for 3 when the Dying Mild The Beast launch date arrives in the summertime. For now although, the main target is on celebrating that milestone anniversary of the primary recreation, and the collection as a complete.

Each Dying Mild and Dying Mild 2 will obtain free updates very quickly, with the unique recreation getting some enhancements to its graphics and a remastered soundtrack that additionally has some new tracks from composer Pawel Blaszczak. Over the following 4 weeks, gamers may relive a few of the recreation’s finest occasions. Issues kick off at this time with Hypermode (plus some double XP) earlier than Low Gravity, Tremendous-Crane, and Viral Rush arrive within the following weeks.

Over in Dying Mild 2, some particular gadgets from the primary recreation are being added as Pilgrim Outpost bounty rewards. In the direction of the top of this month-long celebration, its co-op roguelike mode, Tower Raid, may also be absolutely and completely added to the sport. Some extra enhancements to DL2’s prologue are additionally arriving with its large free replace.

A roadmap waiting for the remainder of 2025 additionally particulars a few of the future adjustments coming to Dying Mild 2, together with a brand new weapon class, new Tower Raid characters, and group map help.

When you’re a lover of stats, Techland has additionally launched a video going over some ridiculous numbers which were accrued by the 45 million people who have performed both or each video games. For instance, should you’re ever grilled with some gaming trivia and requested the query ‘what number of zombies have been killed in whole throughout Dying Mild and Dying Mild 2?’ now you can confidently reply: ‘75,926,162,940.’ When you’ve memorized that quantity, in fact… Techland additionally reveals that over 30 billion limbs have been severed, 20 billion heads have been eliminated, and that gamers have collectively died over 3 billion instances.

To search out a few of the similar thrills that you just discover in Dying Mild, take a look at our guides to the perfect open-world video games and the perfect parkour video games.

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