Dying Light 2’s lead game designer, Tymon Smektala, has revealed that the game is in its final stretch of development. Moreover, Smektala hinted at an incoming announcement regarding the game’s new release date.
While Smektala did not go into more details, he did say that a whole team at Techland works on the announcement of the release date. According to Smektala, Techland wants to surprise players, so we can expect an announcement soon.
As Smektala told TheEscapist:
“There’s a whole team at Techland that works on the announcement of the release date for the game and every piece of info that accompanies it, and I know they want to surprise players, so I don’t want to spoil it for them or our community. The only thing I can say is please trust us; it’s the last stretch for this project, and we need your support.”
In that interview, senior PR manager Ola Sondej also addressed the controversy surrounding Dying Light 2. Sondej claimed that the article from PolskiGamedev.pl had numerous inaccuracies. Sondej stated that the development of Dying Light 2 is moving forward according to Techland’s internal schedule.
Since there will be numerous game announcements in both June and July, we may also hear more about Dying Light 2. And, since the game is in its final stretch, we might get the game in our hands later this year. Hopefully.
Stay tuned for more!
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Don’t. Dying Light is a much better franchise.
every aspect of the game is superior to DI unless we are talking about comic moments which I am not a fan of, in that case Dead Rising would be a good replacement.
DL was visually stunning at times, it had a great OST, an appropriately grim atmosphere, and extremely professional voice acting for a protagonist.
Same developers guys! Dying Light is simply the natural evolution of Dead Island ….By the way, DL is one of the best games of this gen for me,and the very first title that showed the muscles of the next-gen (last-gen-current-gen … who knows? but we understood each other, right?) … at least the very first that I played, that did this IMHO
It’s probably about taste in that case. After a while i couldn’t take Dead Island seriously. When i play, i need to have the illusion of a “bigger message”, and the world should be carefully enough crafted so that details don’t break immersion. Plus, i’m a Mirror’s Edge fan, so Dying Light was perfect for me.
The only thing that i remember fondly of Dead Island are the setting. That was nice. []-)
“I don’t want to spoil it for them”…. Talking about it or mentioning it spoiled it. DUUUUUUUUUUHHHH!!! Seriously… after they announced the delay i pretty much just forgot about this game. Now that there is announcement pertaining to an announcement… well i know now. should have kept that mouth shut because it def would have been a surprise. oh well
It will be a great game, I’m sure
That’s not Techland anymore, that’s Deep Silver and their godawful management.
I don’t even know which dev is working on that anymore, honestly you should keep your expectations low the development of that has been a huge mess.
the first one had troubled development and suffered several delays before it was released but more than delivered on everything they had promised, and it’s still receiving support years after its release. they have earned my trust
I too remember that, but that was all on Techland, and they’re not working on Dead Island 2 ever since they sold the IP to Deep Silver, they’re working on Dying Light 2.
Like I said, keep your expectations low
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1PAz4lUZU
I can see bugs and thousand of DLc
“release date coming soon”
yeah a few months in to the future and then delayed again.
Naah,I don’t think so…
DL was fantastic and theyre STILL supporting it. Looking forward to seeing what theyve done with DL2.
after being “indefinitely postponed” , the game seems to have landed on its feet.
the first game was a pleasant surprise and now the second one is definitely on my list of the most anticipated games of the year.
I will buy this one day one, i am sure it will be great, it`s a great development team.
techland dev team makes one of the best optimized games out there
RESPECT
So glad to see some good news regarding this, I’m looking forward to that release date!
As long as you forego any trash like Bozak Horde in this entry, take as long as you need.
“a whole team at Techland works on the announcement of the release date.“ – he means the PR team most certainly. Those guys usually make promises that the developers can’t actually fulfill.
That volumetric fog messes up the look, imho it would look better without it