Dying Light 2 New Game Plus Update Out Now, Patch Notes Detailed

Techland revealed patch notes for Dying Light 2’s New Game Plus Mode Patch. It brings many changes to the game that go beyond the mode. 

Revealed earlier this week, the new patch is now live in Dying Light 2 and New Game Plus should be available to any and all players who have completed the base campaign of the zombie parkour title. What can you expect from this mode? There will be new obstacles to discover, Platinum objectives for parkour challenges and much more. 

“After finishing it once, the game can be replayed again, only this time with modified game parameters in place to encourage a second playthrough by the implementation of a unique system and experience,” the patch notes read. “The player can now go through the story with revitalized mechanisms. These include new enemy behaviors, more difficult encounters, new objects within the world – namely the newly-added inhibitors – and many more changes that will significantly alter gameplay style and allow the player to developer their character further.”

These features are only available in New Game Plus: 

• 30 brand new inhibitors
• For parkour challenges, there are new platinum objectives
• Actual distribution of enemies (i.e. The night is when Volatiles, Banshees, and Banshees are spawned. This allows for a greater number of encounters with enemies.
• New legendary weapon tier
• Add gold encounters
• The difficulty of enemies scales with player level

As for the rest of the patch, it comes with a lot of co-op updates and fixes, as well as a new Mutated Infected enemy type that can be encountered by starting the “Something Big Has Been Here” quest in-game. There are a lot of other updates, fixes, and improvements to Dying Light 2’s gameplay, quests, UI, and more, too.

The complete patch notes can be found below.: 

News from the Co-op

• Co-op has stability and fixed connection issues
• Connection issues fixed for players further along in the story
• Performance of co-op games has improved
• Blocks of Co-op stories
• After a session with co-op, an issue caused a block in single player mode’s progression
• Few remaining death loops were fixed in co-op
• In a co-op session, fixed an issue with the Missing People quest NPC
• Co-op quality
• Increased visualization of weapons in the online inventory and menu
• Improvements in the handling of co-op challenges
• While players remain in the bandit camps, fixed random bandit respawns
• Problems with inventory and map access being unavailable to the player after dying in co-op
• Corrected blocked story progression using “enemies close” notification
• Rare issue where players can’t move when revived
• The host respawns fixes to far-away peer and respawning in geometry
• AI jitter fixed in random cases
• Improvements to various animations of co-op Crouching, throwing and using the bow are some of the new animations in co-op
• In co-op, fixed sound duplication
• Fix rare instances of non-responsive quest radio dialog in coop, which can cause story blocks
• Corrected incorrect icons displayed on the map following a coop party
• Fixed “call for help” when the player is being summoned during a gather in co-op
• In certain cases, fixed black screens could be used to prevent progression from occurring during co-op.
• Fixed unnecessary “skill requirement” text-glitch in the description of a challenge in a co-op session
• During the co-op sessions, the tutorial window time was increased to 30 seconds
• A bug was fixed that enabled players to be active on multiple story quests 

Recent Content

• Mutated Infected- A New Quest was added. Something Big has Been Here also included variants of the elemental Goon.

Gaming Updates

• Enemies with bows are less annoying — decreased damage output
• When achievements have been completed, they are properly awarded. It also works for achievements achieved before the update.
• Fixes a bug which made Howlers and Screamers invulnerable for damage
• After completing several quests, there is now a way to quickly travel between different map regions.
• Resolved an AI bug that Human encountered randomly
• Fixes infected are invulnerable to arrows
• Fixed missing rewards after Bandit encounters
• GRE facility Virals Patrol movement fixed

Quest Updates

• Fixed a bug related to wall-clipping during the Let’s Waltz quest
• Fixes a bug that caused the player to get stuck when using an inhibitor or after opening their inventory following the Markers of Plague quest.
• The Only Way Out quest fixed the map display bug
• Corrected the disappearance Hakon’s quest Into The Darkness after being in co-op
• Fixed Sophie’s inaccessible position in The Raid quest

The latest UI/UX updates

• Added FOV slider to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X
• Optimized UI textures
• Switching between controller and keyboard has been fixed
• Pop-up message from Markers of Plague containing a fixed inhibitor
• Fixed quest display in journal
• Fixed Tutorial Window Display
• On the ASUS ROG Zephyrus Dual display second, you can see fixed weapon durability and quest tracking. You can also manage inventory on ASUS ROG Zephyrus.
• Aiden must no longer be T-posing in the main menu
• Fixes for crashes caused by launching the game at 5760×1080 resolution
• Incorrect numbers displayed on Immunity Bar fixed
• Modifications to key bindings for the PC

Technische Updates

• Stability of the game has been improved
• Several crash sources fixed
• Improvements in stability and frame rates at various points on the map
• Numerous bugs were fixed which allowed players to not see or fall beyond map texture.
• Fix occasional texture errors in several places on the map
• Fixed various audio glitches
• …and numerous additional bug fixes and quality improvements.

You can read the following while you wait for Update 1.3.0. Game Informer’s Dying Light 2 review, and then check out this interview with the game’s lead designer about what’s in store for the game’s future. After that, read about the recent new-gen patch that hit Dying Light 2.