Dying Light 2is now available, and early metrics imply that the sequel has improved dramatically on the success of the originalDying Light. Part of that can be attributed to Dying Light’s long-term success, due to its solid post-launch content support from Techland and its healthy modding community on PC. It looks likeDying Light 2is going to continue that, at least in the case of modding. ADying Lightmodder has already shifted their Extreme Nights mod over toDying Light 2.
In an upload titled Extreme Nights v2 - The Return of the King, modder KING says that they’ve resurrected the “eternal ultimate extreme nights mid, fiercer than ever.” Further, they say that the mod is only for the “utterly deranged masochists” playingDying Light 2out there. Suffice to say, KING has created something that they believe will offer up a genuinely difficult experience beyond anythingDying Light 2playersmight find in the base game.
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At its heart, the Extreme Nights v2mod forDying Light 2only makes a handful of very straightforward changes. To start, the mod doubles the length ofDying Light 2’s nighttime while halving the length of daytime. Players will be spending more time in the night as a result. The mod then doubles nighttime zombie density, ensuring traveling through the city is no simple matter. Additionally, starting a “chase,” triggered by screeching zombie howlers will spawn substantially more zombies.
The mod clearly has confidence inDying Light 2’s individual zombie difficulty, as it doesn’t appear to change the zombies' aggression levels or behavior. Instead, it simply adds more zombies to sections of the game where they’re already found in quantity, adding challenge to sections of the game that are already challenging. It’s a surprisingly intuitive way to escalate the difficulty ofDying Light 2.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is that adding zombies to any given part ofDying Light 2is likely to impact hardware performance. For those already pushing their PCs to their limit withDying Light 2, adding this mod is likely to cause further problems. That goes hand in hand withmodding PC games, though.
Dying Light 2does already offer difficulty options, of course. There are Easy, Normal, and Hard modes in-game. The Extreme Nights v2 mod, as well as other mods, is there in caseDying Light 2players feel the need to spice things up. Odds are, sinceDying Light 2only just launched, there should be more exciting mods to come in the future.
Dying Light 2is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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