During your time with Dying Light 2, you’ll face an abundance of infected and bandits, so it’s a good thing that the game doesn’t hold back when it comes to the weapons you get to wield.
But regardless if you’re an adept of axes, hammers, or anything else, you’ll want to know how weapon types work, how rarity impacts durability, and how you can equip mods to squeeze a bit more damage out of your tools.
Dying Light 2’s weapons are obtained from quests, loot drops or purchased from vendors in the world. They come in many types, from humble wooden planks, to sharp or rusty scythes, knuckledusters, hammers, axes, and others.
Each weapon type has its own look, sound, and feel, as well as one of two damage types: slashing and blunt.
Two-handed weapon attacks tend to hit enemies in a wider area, making them better when dealing with hordes of infected. Against fewer opponents, you may get more mileage out of one-handed weapons, but you’re free to ultimately experiment.
Dying Light 2 Weapon Rarity and Rank
Dying Light 2’s weapons also have a rank and a rarity attached to them. You get stronger gear by increasing your Player Rank but should be able to find tools of all four rarities from early on in the game.
Gray points towards common rarity, green marks uncommon items, blue means you’ve got a rare death-dealing tool on your hands, purple highlights unique items, while artifact is the highest level of rarity available.
Dying Light 2’s weapon rarity affects a weapon’s durability – the higher the better – as well as the number of additional bonus stats it comes with. Generally speaking, blue items have one additional bonus, epic items have two, artifact items have three bonuses.
You can carry a total of 24 weapons with you at any time, so you should always have spares on hand when some inevitably break. More slots are also available in Aiden’s stash and quest rewards usually get sent there if your inventory is full.
Dying Light 2 Weapon Mods
If you look closely at some weapons’ icons, you’ll notice a few small circles on their right side. Those represent available mod slots and you can get a better look at them by pressing the C key. Dying Light 2’s weapons can have up to three mod slots – tip, shaft, grip – alongside a fourth cosmetic slot for a charm.
As long as you’ve purchased their blueprints from craftsmasters – which also upgrade them – and have enough resources, you can craft mods on the fly. Their main role is that of imbuing your weapon with different types of damage. Flame mods set enemies alight, being particularly useful against higher numbers of opponents.
Frost mods slow enemies, blast mods send them flying, while venom mods temporarily turn them into ramps that Aiden can use to launch into one of his acrobatic kick attacks. Their effects can be triggered either by critical strikes or after hitting opponents a set number of times, depending on the installed mod.
Upgraded mods have more potent effects and trigger them more often. In addition, every time you add a mod to a weapon, you repair a portion of its durability, so it can also be a tool that prolongs the life of your favorite weapons.
These details should give you a good footing when it comes to Dying Light 2’s weapons. For more on the game, check out our guides on GeForce Now and Xbox Game Pass support.
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