This leads to a mission structure where the side quests must be completed in order to progress in the main story. Instead of being a scary group of folks that are out to kill you, you’re tasked with earning their trust so you can learn their secret. This time, Techland is less interested in trying to make you care about certain characters and more interested in getting you to find out more about the cult. Usually you’ll find these Freaks when you’re on another mission, and suddenly a health bar will appear on the top of the screen a kick-ass John Carpenter-esque song will start pulsing.Īs far as the missions and story go, they’re handled much better than the original game. They offer special blueprints to create ever-more-vicious weapons. The game recommends that you only try to fight these jerks with friends in co-op sessions, but if you find their weak point (or bring a really good gun like a cheater ), you can take them out solo. Going during the night is the safer bet, but I found it less thrilling when the odds weren’t stacked against me.Īnother welcome addition is the Freaks of Nature, giant versions of the more devious types of infected strewn throughout the Countryside. If you go in during the day, the caves will be littered with these bastards, and sneaking through with a crossbow was about the most tense this game can get. In The Following, you can go directly to their nests to try to thin out their presence in certain areas. In Dying Light, Volatiles are the creatures that only come out during the night and can kill you within seconds if you aren’t paying attention. I generally stuck to the normal arrows, especially when I snuck around the new Volatile caves. There are four different bolt types that you can use: normal, toxic, impact, and stun.
I’m a sucker for driving in first-person games as it is, and driving in The Following might be the best incarnation I’ve played to date.Ī crossbow has also been added to your arsenal, which is a nice way to take out biters without attracting a horde. You can craft better tires, brakes, engines, and the like to make it faster and more responsive. The buggy starts off entertaining, and gets better as you tinker with it. Since there are always zombies to squash under your wheels, this tree levels up rapidly.
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Using a new Driver skill tree, which you level up by doing racing competitions, ramming zombies, maintaining top speed, and jumping off of ramps, you’ll be able to improve your ride and add gadgets such as electrical pulses and UV lights. With a larger map, the customizable buggy goes from novelty to necessity rather quickly. It’s not all open, either: you’ll go from farms, to beaches, to graveyards, to caves, to factory areas, so you’re constantly being stimulated in a new way. Since there are numerous open fields, it’s not quite as packed as the urban environments in Dying Light proper, but I found this to be welcoming. Techland claims that it’s larger than the entirety of the original game, and I’d agree with that after playing to 100% completion. The new area, called the Countryside, is huge. As this would benefit your cadre of survivors, you set out to investigate. In this wild outback area, there’s a cult that claims to have found some kind of immunity to the zombie virus. Once you begin, a short cutscene cuts to the chase: your character, Kyle Crane, has become aware of a route leading out of Harran. You can drag your character’s progress and inventory back and forth between the two campaigns at any time, but you can’t just go to a fast travel and warp from one to the other. To start the expansion, you choose it separately in the main menu. The Following doesn’t weave into Dying Light‘s main campaign. I wasn’t immediately convinced that adding a dune buggy to a parkour-focused horror game was the best idea, but The Following proves that Techland didn’t just get lucky with Dying Light.ĭying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
While I mostly agree with Chris about the various faults and clichés found within (you can read my thoughts here, from back in my before-Destructoid days), it was well-made, and I found myself eager to return when an expansion was announced. Dying Lightsurprised the heck out of me last year.
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