14 DAY TRIAL // Dying Light is going to run in 1080p resolution, at 30 frames per second on the PlayStation 4 home entertainment system from Sony. No word yet on Xbox One.
Maciej Binkowski, the lead game designer for Dying Light, decided to spill the beans on the promising project, making a bunch of reveals during a Q&A session on ask.fm.
The upcoming game deals with the zombie apocalypse, a subject that's been done to death, but not in the way Techland is doing it.
The gameplay will be a mix of using parkour to get around zombies and navigate the rooftops of a crumbling metropolis and employing lethal melee combat to deal with the undead fiends and some of the living ones.
Dying Light puts you in the shoes of a special agent tasked with infiltrating the quarantine area of a city under siege, and you have to do your best to permeate the slum's power structures and rescue the innocent victims of the unknown virus.
You will have to undertake a series of missions and to scavenge the remnants of civilization in order to find supplies and craft makeshift weapons, traps, and distractions for the hordes of the ravenous undead.
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Players won't be able to adjust the time of day or night, and although night time will only spread to about seven actual minutes, it's going to be an experience that will severely test your abilities to survive and willingness to venture out ever again.
You won't be able to build any home base, but you can secure safe houses during your adventures, which will help you when night falls, as you will respawn there. Additionally, you'll also be able to cower and whimper in there while night passes.
Gamers will be able to "level up" and invest skill points in various new abilities or make existing ones more versatile, and they will also be able to unlock each and every one of them when they reach the maximum available rank.
Firearms will be quite rare but very powerful. To balance this, ammo will not be abundant and the noise they make will attract many nearby infected.
For the time being, the team hasn't decided on whether there will be any future DLC that will increase the level cap or anything like that.
Unfortunately, the game won't support mods, as the way the Chrome Engine the title is built on is implemented would take a considerable effort to modify in order to allow it.
Although designed as an open-world game, the survival game won't allow players to explore all the map from the get-go, as some areas will become available only after certain story events are triggered.
Dying Light will be out for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at the end of January.
