Dying Light 2 delayed for all the right reasons

(Pocket-lint) - Dying Light 2 has been delayed. Techland has made the hard determination to displacement the sequel's merchandise day to February 2022 to let for a longer and much thorough playtest period.

Anyone who sparked up Cyberpunk 2077 connected time 1 volition recognize that a crippled truthful hyped and of specified magnitude volition beryllium scrutinised heavy from the start. And volition apt person seen the fallout erstwhile it a litany of bugs and graphical issues were uncovered. Techland doesn't privation to marque the aforesaid mistake.

The developer sent Pocket-lint a connection (and posted the aforesaid connected Twitter): "The crippled is implicit and we are presently playtesting it. It is by acold the biggest and astir ambitious task we've ever done. Unfortunately, we've realised for america to bring the crippled to the level we envision, we request much clip to polish and optimise it," it says.

"That is wherefore we person decided to determination the merchandise day to 4 February 2022."

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— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) September 14, 2021

Dying Light 2 is overmuch bigger than the archetypal first-person parkour zombie title, with a immense unfastened satellite metropolis to research and aggregate narratives that displacement and alteration depending connected your actions. Playtesting each nook, cranny and result is undoubtedly a daunting task.

That's wherefore we don't caput waiting a spot longer. Hopefully you won't either.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 14 September 2021.