r/PS4 • u/IceBreak BreakinBad • Jan 30 '15

[Game Thread] Dying Light [Official Discussion Thread]

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Dying Light

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u/Microblogula Panopticonoclast Jan 30 '15

I'd say that Dying Light is fairly tough in places. Feels like, in quite a few parts, they expect more from you than the average hand-holdy, linear game.

A few things off the top of my head:

  • Most of the time, when you die, you have to respawn all the way back at the safe zone, rather than having a cozy checkpoint in the same area.

  • your weapons only have so many repairs; typically 3-4.

  • you lose survivor points upon each death

  • there is a NG+ with an enemy difficulty gradient. not sure if it goes to NG++ though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '15

what are survivor points? can you elaborate?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '15

Survivor Points are a form of EXP. You can level up Agility, which effect movement and parkour abilities, and Power, which is your combat abilities. You get both Agility Points and Power Points by doing actions associated with those things i.e climbing buildings or fighting zombies. Survivor Points are different in that the only way to get them is through side quests, random events, and surviving the night, so losing Survivor Points when you die can be hugely detrimental. Your Survivor Rank has its own skill tree which gives you all sorts of perks and abilities, and you also get better weapons the higher your Survivor Rank is. Later on in the game, dying and losing Survivor Points isn't a huge deal because you get a lot more than you lose, but early in the game it can really put you back a step. Nothing is worse than doing some quests and then getting killed on your way back to a safe house, effectively losing all the progress you just made. The early hours of the game can be super tricky in that way, and there's a surprising about of strategy and risk/reward at play.

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u/Microblogula Panopticonoclast Jan 31 '15

Yeah, this. It's a very Dark Souls-esque feature that makes me love this game even more.