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Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition is a big patch and DLC now available for Dying Light. I have tested it a bit and here's what I found.
My earlier confusion on their naming "Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition" has been cleared up, as it's all now one game for new purchases. It was confusing as Enhanced Edition is still technically a patch, and The Following is a DLC, but it's all put together.
My thoughts
The sad thing is that The Following is entirely separate to the original game, with it's own campaign. You need to click "Play" and then "The Following" which I can already see confusing plenty of people on the Steam forum.
The odd thing is, while it's an entirely new campaign with separate saved games, I started off with all my equipment from the main game. Not quite as seamless as it being an added area to the main game, but better than nothing.
Apparently they added a "Film Grain" option around the 1.6 patch (which I didn't notice, as it wasn't in their changelog). I suggest turning it off if you also didn't know about it, as the game is much clearer now.
Seems like it could be a pretty good update and DLC, but the texture issue noted below is ruining the experience.
Issues
The textures repeatedly mess up (On Nvidia 980ti, 355.11 driver), with some of them being on High (my setting) and some being super low, see some shots here:
Sometimes a reload will fix it, sometimes it won't. It happens in both Dying Light and The Following. Damn annoying. I have sent in a support ticket with all my system information, screenshots and logs. I have also tweeted the developers and the dying light twitter account with this article.
I've also seen the textures mess up like the pictures simply switching from The Following to the Dying Light campaign.
I've also heard multiple reports of the game crashing for people who try to continue a previous saved game.
Changelog - This is all in the FREE Enhanced Edition patch, DLC content is totally separate.
QuoteFeatures:
Legend system:
- New skill tree unlocked after maxing one of the base skill trees
- Nightmare difficulty level
- Bounties system
New weapons: firearms, melee, crossbow
New parkour moves animations added
Improved human enemy AI
Improved Volatile AI
New NPC models
Enhanced facial expressions
Post process effect customization - sepia, black&white, poster + other effects
Audio upgrades
Valve Anti Cheat support added
Select community created maps added into the game
#DrinkForDLC content:
- New quest in Old Town
- Water balloon item for more powerful electricity effect on zombies
- Two new water challenges
Support for Dying Light: The Following Expansion Pack
Fixes:
Various stability improvements, including co-op
Various balance tweaks: player development, economy and weapons / crafting balance
Improved fighting against human enemies and virals
It's free if you have the season pass, £39.99 for the entire thing together, or £15.99 for The Following DLC by itself. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mblackwell Feb 9, 2016
For the texture issue I found a fix forever ago:
Switch Texture Quality to Medium!
Medium actually still loads the high resolution versions of Textures. The High setting just keeps more textures in RAM and the game seems to have a problem where it hits a limit and stops loading in the high resolution mipmap when you get close. Medium appears to keep swapping out textures instead of trying to load more and more and failing and so doesn't run into this.
Last edited by Mblackwell on 9 February 2016 at 4:55 pm UTC
Switch Texture Quality to Medium!
Medium actually still loads the high resolution versions of Textures. The High setting just keeps more textures in RAM and the game seems to have a problem where it hits a limit and stops loading in the high resolution mipmap when you get close. Medium appears to keep swapping out textures instead of trying to load more and more and failing and so doesn't run into this.
Last edited by Mblackwell on 9 February 2016 at 4:55 pm UTC
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I also experienced that low-res-texture-problem with dying light (without DLC) on a GTX970 - but rather rarely; perhaps once in 5h playtime. Restarting the game usually helps.
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Quoting: MblackwellFor the texture issue I found a fix forever ago:That would explain why I don't have any issues. My highly overpriced Titan X has 12 GB of VRAM, I'm never going to run out unless there is a massive memory leak. All that extra VRAM actually came in useful for something. Not sure it justifies the premium in price over a 980Ti, though. :P
Switch Texture Quality to Medium!
Medium actually still loads the high resolution versions of Textures. The High setting just keeps more textures in RAM and the game seems to have a problem where it hits a limit and stops loading in the high resolution mipmap when you get close. Medium appears to keep swapping out textures instead of trying to load more and more and failing and so doesn't run into this.
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So, bought the DLC, installed. Textures are fine! While I've only descended from the mountains, I haven't seen any blurry lowres textures yet. I have GTX 770 @ 361.16, i7-2600, 32 Gb RAM. As I said, it was an issue for me when the game has just been released but now it's perfectly OK. I'll post updates if I see any bugs.
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Forgot to mention, I've set textures and everything else, excluding motion blur, to high. No blurries yet, got to the farm and everything is crisp and clear.
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Mountain Man Feb 9, 2016
The texture bug isn't new.
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So I installed DL again to see if the enhanced edition still proved to be unplayable and I was surprised to see that with everything set to high I was avg 40 fps, much better then the 2-5fps I started getting after last year's miracle patch. This could be related to the texture bug, the new Nvidia drivers or some changes to the game code. I have no idea but at the same time I don't care because for the first time since the May patch I can play Dying Light again!
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I updated the game, launched it and met the bug right away. The difference is that it always happens with the same texture on my system, which is grass texture near the Tower. I really hope they correct this as it is very distracting, the rest of the game being so detailed...
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I also have the texture bug... no problem before the DLC :(
i7-4790K
GTX970 with 361.18
Edit: setting textures to medium helpes a little, bit does not fix it...
Last edited by pete on 9 February 2016 at 9:59 pm UTC
i7-4790K
GTX970 with 361.18
Edit: setting textures to medium helpes a little, bit does not fix it...
Last edited by pete on 9 February 2016 at 9:59 pm UTC
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