Publisher and developer Techland has confirmed that Dying Light 2 will benefit from a Day 1 update, sharing a number of changes and fixes that will be part of its lengthy patch notes.
Dying Light 2’s Day 1 update adds “another thousand tweaks” to the studio’s ongoing efforts of polishing the open-world game prior to its launch later this week.
They include a number of fixes targeting crashes, an infinite respawn bug that could render players unable to progress through the main story, and items sinking into the ground on flat surfaces.
The Day 1 update will also enable DLSS while improving the feature’s default sharpness. On top of that, a handful of issues that resulted from temporarily lowering difficulty have also been resolved.
Here is a partial list of changes you can expect form Dying Light 2’s Day 1 update, as highlighted by the developer in a set of emailed patch notes:
- Fixed the Broadcast infinite respawn story block
- Fix for dialogues that block story progression
- Re-signing to the coop session doesn't fail in case the user is logged in
- Fixed crash when handling electrical parts to Carlos in Bazaar
- Fixed problems with temporarily lowering the difficulty level - improved adaptive difficulty for AIs
- Fixed crash caused by background renderer during the transition between menu and loading screens
- Increased Wwise overall memory limit - fix for missing sounds and voice-over
- Resolved problems with objects and AI sinking into the ground on a flat surface.
- DLSS enabled. Improved default DLSS sharpness.
- Fix for AI sometimes freezing/becoming immortal when the owner changes during death
- Fixed the gamepad isn't detected by the game before any movement or action will be conducted using a keyboard or mouse
- Added protection against potential crashes.
- Updates for ES, CH; DE intro.
- Added missing game actions fixing the game's unresponsiveness.
- Fixed streamer mode option that(was not working properly).
- Fixed crash on opening the secondary screen.
- Fixed disconnecting coop sessions after a certain amount of time.
- And many more…
Dying Light 2 is slated to launch on February 4, 2022 and headed to PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4. Its Nintendo Switch version arrives at a later point in 2022.
If you’re still on the fence about purchasing the game or simply want to know what we thought of it, check out our review, which is now live.
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