Dying Light [Steam, Humble Store] is easily one of my favourite Zombie games ever made, Techland did well with it and they've continued adding free content.
The latest addition, Content Drop #4 adds Prison Island, a new area that gives you access to the Prison Heist game mode. A time-based challenge that sees you attempt to break into the armoury as fast as you can. It's available in single-player and co-op too! It's damn difficult as I found it. I tried it and failed many times, but it's seriously good fun. You're not just against normal zombies, but heavily armed soldiers as well and there's a lot of them, there's also some special infected too. Going in rather unprepared as I did was not the best of ideas!
Some advice for those taking it on—Craft a lot of medpacks, lockpicks, get some decent ranged weapons and throwables and…pray. Here's a few cuts of me attempting parts of it:
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To get there, you need to be in the original area shown at the start of the video (not The Following's countryside) and pick the quest to find the boat.
Content Drop #5 is also now available, which adds a new enemy variation. Sgt. Deathrow, a previously unknown Demolisher mutation (the big guys) into Old Town. He's strong and a bit crazy, but the XP reward is pretty big for taking him down.
They've said the next content drop is due in April and they said "we strongly recommend getting good at Prison Heist - it might come in handy soon..." so it sounds like the next free content update is going to be interesting.
On top of that, there's an Easter event going on which sees you hunt down a zombie easter bunny, if you manage to collect enough eggs you will unlock a new outfit.
Still don't own Dying Light? You can grab it with the big The Following expansion from Humble Store using our affiliate link to support us.
Also, for those wondering, Dying Light: Bad Blood the new standalone game from Techland is currently going to be Windows-only during the Beta period. When I last spoke to Techland, they weren't sure if it will see Linux support later or not.
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Does anyone know if they fixed the "Your game appears to be using modified data" bug? Last time I tried I could not play multiplayer games with Windows-users. I was really looking forward to that gaming session...
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Fantastic game, will be having a crack at this very shortly. I'll also chase that bunny for a bit, although I'm not too bothered about the outfits in general.
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I'm not sure I'd want to reinstall the game (and relearn the ropes) for timed challenges, new baddies or outfits, but actual story content or a new area to explore would be very welcome.
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I would love to play the game but have the same issue with mesa being out of date (bug). I would love to see them put the effort in to fix this and or get vulkan support in.
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Quoting: Al3sCall me when they fix it to work with mesaAccording to this wiki page it already does if you force the OpenGL version with "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.4 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=440". Annoying but not difficult to work around.
Problems launching the game on rolling distros like Arch seem unrelated. Check the long thread on the GOL forums.
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Quoting: frykDoes anyone know if they fixed the "Your game appears to be using modified data" bug? Last time I tried I could not play multiplayer games with Windows-users. I was really looking forward to that gaming session...
Multiplayer has been fixed for a while dude
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Quoting: tuubiQuoting: Al3sCall me when they fix it to work with mesaAccording to this wiki page it already does if you force the OpenGL version with "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.4 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=440". Annoying but not difficult to work around.
Problems launching the game on rolling distros like Arch seem unrelated. Check the long thread on the GOL forums.
It works fine on ubuntu, any other it plain refuses to regardless of what you try to force
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Quoting: GuestHint: use exploding arrows instead of impact bolts. Also consider resistance boosters instead of medkits.Hah yeah, admittedly it's been a while! Many months since I played properly :)
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DamonLinuxPL Mar 29, 2018
QuoteDying Light: Bad Blood the new standalone game from Techland is currently going to be Windows-only during the Beta period. When I last spoke to Techland, they weren't sure if it will see Linux support later or not.
I would like it to happen. I need it on Linux :). Unfortunately, when browsing some forums, whether it's steam or reddit etc, I see another wave of hate from (angry) Linux community on Techland developers for DL and DI ports...
If these two young Techland developers responsible for the Linux/OpenGL port read this wave of hate, I would not be surprised if they decided to not port it to Linux, same as a CDPR with Witcher 3 ...
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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLYes, it's a repeating problem. The thing that bothers me, is I speak to developers literally every day, people like to think that hate goes in one ear and out the other at bigger companies, but it really doesn't. Our market share is too small to deal with hateful shits giving developers hate, because higher-ups hear this tiny market share is causing them hassle and then end up not doing it again and believe me, it's happened a few times (I can't say who due to NDAs). Be polite to developers, even if you have issues.QuoteDying Light: Bad Blood the new standalone game from Techland is currently going to be Windows-only during the Beta period. When I last spoke to Techland, they weren't sure if it will see Linux support later or not.
I would like it to happen. I need it on Linux :). Unfortunately, when browsing some forums, whether it's steam or reddit etc, I see another wave of hate from (angry) Linux community on Techland developers for DL and DI ports...
If these two young Techland developers responsible for the Linux/OpenGL port read this wave of hate, I would not be surprised if they decided to not port it to Linux, same as a CDPR with Witcher 3 ...
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: DamonLinuxPLYes, it's a repeating problem. The thing that bothers me, is I speak to developers literally every day, people like to think that hate goes in one ear and out the other at bigger companies, but it really doesn't. Our market share is too small to deal with hateful shits giving developers hate, because higher-ups hear this tiny market share is causing them hassle and then end up not doing it again and believe me, it's happened a few times (I can't say who due to NDAs). Be polite to developers, even if you have issues.QuoteDying Light: Bad Blood the new standalone game from Techland is currently going to be Windows-only during the Beta period. When I last spoke to Techland, they weren't sure if it will see Linux support later or not.
I would like it to happen. I need it on Linux :). Unfortunately, when browsing some forums, whether it's steam or reddit etc, I see another wave of hate from (angry) Linux community on Techland developers for DL and DI ports...
If these two young Techland developers responsible for the Linux/OpenGL port read this wave of hate, I would not be surprised if they decided to not port it to Linux, same as a CDPR with Witcher 3 ...
Well i am not bound by NDA so its Project red they pretty much refuse to port anything else to linux because they actually got death threats for the port of witcher 2 which is pathetic to highest degree.
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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Well i am not bound by NDA so its Project red they pretty much refuse to port anything else to linux because they actually got death threats for the port of witcher 2 which is pathetic to highest degree.In this case, I'm not talking about that one as we only have the word of the VP dev we wrote about before. Nothing's ever been confirmed on that one.
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Very pleased about the extra content for Dying Light. Yes, it's one of my top favourite games on Linux. Many thanks to Techland for all their work. I own Dying Light with most of the DLC, Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide - Please keep it coming!!
Really like the fluid fighting and parkour movement in Dying Light. The game graphics and animation really wowed me too. Finished the main campaign, and intending to return for much more. I think my character is Legendary Level 5, but I can't be sure without firing it up now.
Really like the fluid fighting and parkour movement in Dying Light. The game graphics and animation really wowed me too. Finished the main campaign, and intending to return for much more. I think my character is Legendary Level 5, but I can't be sure without firing it up now.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: Whitewolfe80Well i am not bound by NDA so its Project red they pretty much refuse to port anything else to linux because they actually got death threats for the port of witcher 2 which is pathetic to highest degree.In this case, I'm not talking about that one as we only have the word of the VP dev we wrote about before. Nothing's ever been confirmed on that one.
I can dig it up but i have a quote from pr twitter rep that pretty much confirms it accept he says communuity backlash and negative unacceptable social media harrasment certainly did not help the cause
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Quoting: GuestYeah, it's sad a tiny vocal minority can give a bad image of the Linux community as a whole. Insulting developers for games, what a shame ! Some people need to grow up :)
I agree 100 percent I do genuinely believe that the people being vocale are the ones that code themselves they see linux as a open easy to develop for platform and anything that does not run flawlessly at release is obiviously down to incompetence or lazyness. I have noticed that the linux community is very militant about many things but linux gaming is one of them just seems to bring out the worst in the harcore linux for life crowds. I get being annoyed a game you paid for doesnt play well with your system at least we have steam refunds, bottom line error reports with crash reports being sent and a description of the game error helpful. Long ramble rant about learning to linux brah not so much.
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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Quoting: GuestYeah, it's sad a tiny vocal minority can give a bad image of the Linux community as a whole. Insulting developers for games, what a shame ! Some people need to grow up :)
I agree 100 percent I do genuinely believe that the people being vocale are the ones that code themselves they see linux as a open easy to develop for platform and anything that does not run flawlessly at release is obiviously down to incompetence or lazyness. I have noticed that the linux community is very militant about many things but linux gaming is one of them just seems to bring out the worst in the harcore linux for life crowds. I get being annoyed a game you paid for doesnt play well with your system at least we have steam refunds, bottom line error reports with crash reports being sent and a description of the game error helpful. Long ramble rant about learning to linux brah not so much.
Yep, the Linux community can be the best, but unfortunately sporadically also the worst to deal with.
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