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  1. Feb 21, 2022
    4
    Sound bug ruined my experiense, came around way too often. Little bit dissapointment.
  2. Feb 12, 2022
    4
    Почему 6 ?
    •Ухудшили освещение по сравнению с "E3"
    •Крайне мало внимания уделили оптимизации •Обещанного влияния выбора на мир - как такового нету •Лишние значки и эллементы подобного рода •Отсутствие огнестрела или им подобное •Почти такой же состав зомби как и в первой части - малое разнообразие монстров •Неоправданное растягивание прокачки снаряжения - гринд ни к месту •Слабый
    Почему 6 ?
    •Ухудшили освещение по сравнению с "E3"
    •Крайне мало внимания уделили оптимизации
    •Обещанного влияния выбора на мир - как такового нету
    •Лишние значки и эллементы подобного рода
    •Отсутствие огнестрела или им подобное
    •Почти такой же состав зомби как и в первой части - малое разнообразие монстров
    •Неоправданное растягивание прокачки снаряжения - гринд ни к месту
    •Слабый искусственный интеллект врагов
    •Слабая физика
    •Denuvo которое ухудшает и без того плохую производительность
    •Некоторые сспособности должны были быть с самого начала и не включать их в таблицу прокачки
    •Нам выдали Сырой, неоптимизированный и по сюжетной линии слабый продукт - выдали как готовый! Что очень обидно.
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    Why 6?

    •Worse lighting than "E3".
    •Extremely little attention to optimization
    •Promised effect of choice on the world - as such is not present
    •Superfluous icons and similar elements
    •No firearms or similar
    •Weak physics
    •Almost the same composition of zombies as in the first part -lack of variety of monsters
    •Unreasonable stretching of equipment upgrades = grinding
    •Weak enemy AI
    •Denuvo which worsens already poor performance
    •Some abilities should have been there from the start and not included in the leveling table
    •We were given a Raw, unoptimised and storyline-weak product - given away as a finished product! Which is a shame.
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  3. Feb 21, 2022
    4
    the problems I have are that every cutscene has a audio glitch where I can't hear them at all, the subtitles flash for a half of a second, this is very hard to manage with since this game is a "every choice matters" game. The animations is down right horrible when fighting anything the bodies twist and contort unnaturally and sometimes they don't move at all switch makes combat extremelythe problems I have are that every cutscene has a audio glitch where I can't hear them at all, the subtitles flash for a half of a second, this is very hard to manage with since this game is a "every choice matters" game. The animations is down right horrible when fighting anything the bodies twist and contort unnaturally and sometimes they don't move at all switch makes combat extremely difficult when you don't know when to parry or dodge. The story is the run of the mill find relative and revenge story. Also they reused getting infected instantly from the first game. Expand
  4. Feb 22, 2022
    4
    Why is it the norm now for all video game companies to sell you a broken game now, and maybe they'll fix it later. This game is so buggy. Voices disappear along with subtitles. I've watched enemies teleport around the map, some running through the air, humans getting hit in the head and their head will turn completely around or hang while they still have health and continue to fight.Why is it the norm now for all video game companies to sell you a broken game now, and maybe they'll fix it later. This game is so buggy. Voices disappear along with subtitles. I've watched enemies teleport around the map, some running through the air, humans getting hit in the head and their head will turn completely around or hang while they still have health and continue to fight. Falling through objects, compass disappearing while heading to objectives, roaming people of the faction you are allied with suddenly turning around and attacking you, and on and on.

    And why are they using the exact same main character voice actor from Dying Light 1 to voice a completely different main character?
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  5. Feb 20, 2022
    3
    What has happened to the Gaming Development industry? Is this what they call a finished product? Are they proud of this? Did they just make this to make money and forget about it?

    The graphics are OK, the sounds are OK, the gameplay..ehh..the story.. what story? It's as generic as it gets. The game is super glitchy and unfinished. The enemies and friendly NPCs all move around awkwardly
    What has happened to the Gaming Development industry? Is this what they call a finished product? Are they proud of this? Did they just make this to make money and forget about it?

    The graphics are OK, the sounds are OK, the gameplay..ehh..the story.. what story? It's as generic as it gets. The game is super glitchy and unfinished. The enemies and friendly NPCs all move around awkwardly and unnaturally and the writing is made by elementary school children.

    Is the game fun? Kind of? As long as you can make fun of it and just follow quests WITH A FRIEND. By yourself? Go play Days Gone or almost any other BETTER open world and/or zombie game.

    I also do NOT understand why devs feel the need to add the work f**k into every sentence either. Good writing requires a bigger dictionary.
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  6. Feb 19, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i'll get right to the point. The storyline is good and the sandbox gameplay is fun WHEN WORKING. that being said this game BARELY runs good at all. When I play with friends, gameplay audio is never synced up between all of us, someone is always getting caught in the death loop, and there is no cross-gen gameplay as of writing this review. Single player bugs are constant ranging from rendering issues to where i'm always falling through the map, audio and sub-titles issues that break the game and make you miss entire storyline segments, and of course the constant death loop. I'll fall through the map because of rendering, reload into the game and fall and die. repeat. This is unacceptable to gamers who purchase your game at full price and saying that we should be patient because a patch is on the way is a crock too. How about you delay the game so it can be polished of these game breaking bugs. oh wait, money comes first. Did no one play this game before it was released?? i would love to rate this game higher but i cannot accept the growing trend of releasing games first and fixing them later, for that it gets a 3. Here are clips of the issues I am referring to and they happen all the time.
    Rendering issues: https://youtu.be/3I1J9ZuZKyg

    Death loop: https://youtu.be/U5FDGSWv_xo
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  7. May 8, 2022
    3
    Dying Light 2 brings shame to the good name of Dying Light, as Dying Light 1 was one of my personal favorite games with some of the best gameplay and weapons. Somehow Techland managed to downgrade the game, by releasing a product thats obviously unfinished, with bugs and glitches making the game unplayable, either its all characters and textures becoming grey, the infamous audio bug,Dying Light 2 brings shame to the good name of Dying Light, as Dying Light 1 was one of my personal favorite games with some of the best gameplay and weapons. Somehow Techland managed to downgrade the game, by releasing a product thats obviously unfinished, with bugs and glitches making the game unplayable, either its all characters and textures becoming grey, the infamous audio bug, dialogue skipping itself, I literally didn't experience one normal cutscene in the game, Let alone the game breaking bugs that eould literally have you restart the game. The story is so weak, badly written and the whole post apocalyptic setting feels extremely boring and unneeded, just because the last of us did it dont mean you have to as well. I replayed DL1 over 4 times over how much i loved it. But this here feels like a chore to finish only once. I honestly hope they fix it but i don't think its fixable and i sure hope DL2 doesn't kill the Dying Light IP because i wanna see Techland do better Expand
  8. Feb 17, 2022
    3
    Dull, uninspired and repetitive. I was a big fan of the original, but then again I didn't pay $60 for it. This is everything wrong with copy and paste, pad the fun with unlockable skill-tree nonsense, Ubisoft-energy game design in 2022. I found myself hanging in there hoping things would improve -- nah, it somehow manages to get even more boring. If you want a real kick in the ass game,Dull, uninspired and repetitive. I was a big fan of the original, but then again I didn't pay $60 for it. This is everything wrong with copy and paste, pad the fun with unlockable skill-tree nonsense, Ubisoft-energy game design in 2022. I found myself hanging in there hoping things would improve -- nah, it somehow manages to get even more boring. If you want a real kick in the ass game, check out Sifu and remind yourself why you play video games in the first place. Expand
  9. Feb 7, 2022
    3
    I'm amazed at all the positive reviews for this game. It's far inferior in almost every way, save a few. That's the only reason I could bring myself to bump up my review score a notch or two. The story is absolute trash, but I expected that. The first game was the same. If I want a killer story, I'll go replay Bioshock Infinite. That's not why I loved the first game. I LOVE the mix ofI'm amazed at all the positive reviews for this game. It's far inferior in almost every way, save a few. That's the only reason I could bring myself to bump up my review score a notch or two. The story is absolute trash, but I expected that. The first game was the same. If I want a killer story, I'll go replay Bioshock Infinite. That's not why I loved the first game. I LOVE the mix of parkour and zombie survival. This game botched it. Big time. The zombies don't feel like a threat at all. They feebly claw at you and you take damage every time their cartoony fingertips touch you. That's it. No biting. No grabbing. Except when one falls to the ground and just decides to stay there, grabbing at your toes. And the human combat? Absolute garbage. I'm on the hardest difficulty and only die when one of the human enemies glitches and freezes but still magically hits me somehow. This game is laughably easy on hard. The enemies each wait their turn to attack you, allowing you to effortlessly block and attack over and over and over. No adaptation. No decent AI. Trash. The only thing that made nighttime scary in the first game is largely absent, volatiles. Prepare to have nighttime feel EXACTLY like daytime (except for an annoying ass immunity timer) and get ready to be constantly spamming your survivor sense so you can differentiate which of the items are grabbable. The outline of the enemies through walls makes them look like a child's drawing. I could go on and on. Expand
  10. Feb 17, 2022
    3
    It could be a great game. But its not. Its full of bugs! Another unfinished AA(A) title, that need months more of progress. Hard Sound/Audio bugs, gameplay ist unfinished and rly not smooth. Sometimes buttons are in another language. Really pls trust me. Graphics bugs are okay. But these are Sound/Dialogue and Gameplay bugs. I have the Feeling no one ever tried that Game before publishingIt could be a great game. But its not. Its full of bugs! Another unfinished AA(A) title, that need months more of progress. Hard Sound/Audio bugs, gameplay ist unfinished and rly not smooth. Sometimes buttons are in another language. Really pls trust me. Graphics bugs are okay. But these are Sound/Dialogue and Gameplay bugs. I have the Feeling no one ever tried that Game before publishing it. Trust me right now, DONT BUY IT.
    sorry 4 bad english
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  11. Feb 5, 2022
    2
    I was hyped AF  for Dying Light2, I played through the first game 3 times..But then I saw Rosario Dawson and what this studio did to her, and I realised,  this was another woke studio averting the male gaze and that meant the people that made this game,  hate us! ...
    Rosario Dawson is a stuning exotic beauty, with a kick arse body,, and a chill playfully attitude,  so what do they do to
    I was hyped AF  for Dying Light2, I played through the first game 3 times..But then I saw Rosario Dawson and what this studio did to her, and I realised,  this was another woke studio averting the male gaze and that meant the people that made this game,  hate us! ...
    Rosario Dawson is a stuning exotic beauty, with a kick arse body,, and a chill playfully attitude,  so what do they do to her? they turn her into an androgynous, angry, frankenwahmen. Why would they do this? Well the same reason every other modern studio make woman unattractive!. Its done the ridiculas effort to "avert the male gaze", like their priestess and savior (Sarkesian Anita) demanded.
    We have seen it before and if there is a pinch of progressive Sjw activism on the surface, then there is a pound lurking below..And that's all well and good,  but what I can't get over or suport is who these developers are..They are people that hate us!, hate us for our sex, skin colour  and consumer practices..They hate us on Twitter, in the forums and in their progressive journalist interviews. They hate us and I will never pay people that hate us ever again. So I'm gonna throw the " Ultimate Spiderman "disk in my OG Xbox an play that instead, a game that was made  by people that didn't hate us and had only one goal, to make a game we would enjoy.
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  12. Mar 18, 2022
    2
    This game runs like poop soup. The only thing consistent about it is that it crashes at least once or twice every game session (approx 2 hours). I play with friends that are on PS5 for this game, but I'm the only one that is kicked offline during gaming. Loading up takes about 3-5 minutes, so the crashing can ruin the gaming experience real quick. Not to mention that you have to sitThis game runs like poop soup. The only thing consistent about it is that it crashes at least once or twice every game session (approx 2 hours). I play with friends that are on PS5 for this game, but I'm the only one that is kicked offline during gaming. Loading up takes about 3-5 minutes, so the crashing can ruin the gaming experience real quick. Not to mention that you have to sit through the unskippable intro EVERY damn time you re-load the game. Expand
  13. Mar 12, 2022
    2
    The parkour is fun! Unfortunately that is where the fun begins and ends. Combat is awful, and not just because all weapons break, it's super glitchy
  14. Mar 29, 2022
    2
    Games is borderline unplayable, first 3 weeks my save was stuck in a “out of bounds death loop” (which has since been patched) later I got stuck in a save where my character would load before the ground would and was stuck in a falling death loop (this one happens a lot) assets load in as artifacts and clip thru each other, so something can be hundreds of feet away but you’ll see it asGames is borderline unplayable, first 3 weeks my save was stuck in a “out of bounds death loop” (which has since been patched) later I got stuck in a save where my character would load before the ground would and was stuck in a falling death loop (this one happens a lot) assets load in as artifacts and clip thru each other, so something can be hundreds of feet away but you’ll see it as tho it’s infront of objects that are closer to you, even now months after the games launch combat is still 100% broken cuz enemies freeze and stutter everytime they try to preform an any action, huge frame drops, extreme texture pop in, everyone’s face is grey cuz the textures never load, just an overall broken mess. Outside of technical issues the game is very copy paste, climb 1 building and you’ve climbed them all, they basically all have the same routine and same assets, just overall wish I could refund the game. Expand
  15. Feb 5, 2022
    2
    O jogo em si é bom mas veio cheio de bugs que tornam a minha experiência uma grande decepção
  16. Feb 7, 2022
    2
    This site is extremely unfair and hypocritical, people who pointed out that Denuvo is a problem, got all their reviews removed, yes you read that right, all their reviews for other games as well, no matter if they were well written positive reviews or not. At the same time there are 100s of games that have thousands of bot reviews, like Cyberpunk 2077, but do they remove these? No theyThis site is extremely unfair and hypocritical, people who pointed out that Denuvo is a problem, got all their reviews removed, yes you read that right, all their reviews for other games as well, no matter if they were well written positive reviews or not. At the same time there are 100s of games that have thousands of bot reviews, like Cyberpunk 2077, but do they remove these? No they don't, because this site is extremely hypocritical. This shouldn't be happening. I will film this and put on Youtube, if anyone dares to remove this review, i have so many videos of bots upvoting Sony games with 1000 positive reviews in 1 hour (clearly bots from Asian region, who never even played the game and sometimes they forget to translate their review, sometimes they post so fast that instead of 10/10 that they wanted to give they give 0/10 and so on. I have so much evidence that this kind of manipulation with user scores is happening here, so i say it again, dare to remove this review and will post ALL THE VIDEOS, i have over 500 000 subscribers, it will be very easy to get the word out. Expand
  17. Feb 12, 2022
    2
    I don't usually write reviews, but it's so bad I felt the need to. They recently patched 1.05 for PS4 and the audio and dialogue skipping is worse than it was at launch. For a story driven game, this is game breaking and unplayable. This is Cyberpunk levels of clownery and should be absolutely avoided at all costs.
  18. Mar 3, 2022
    1
    This game could be good if it was organized better. Leaving the bugs aside for a moment, I am a completionist. I try to get most of the abilities and items as I get into the game, but I feel like the story is forcing me to leave huge amounts of content behind. I had barely scratched the surface of the facilities, windmills, and side quests and nighttime activities in Old Villedor,This game could be good if it was organized better. Leaving the bugs aside for a moment, I am a completionist. I try to get most of the abilities and items as I get into the game, but I feel like the story is forcing me to leave huge amounts of content behind. I had barely scratched the surface of the facilities, windmills, and side quests and nighttime activities in Old Villedor, before I started a story quest and was forced into the Central Loop. There are no metro stations unlocked on my map for Old Viledor, so I cannot get back. "How do I go back?" is just one of the questions the game never answers, in addition to, How do I get to the military drops? Ive seen at least 2 where there is no way to get to the top of the building for the drop. I assume it is locked into a story quest, but no where does it say anything about that. You just waste your time running around a building looking for a way up, and there is none. There are a LOT of buildings like that. What is the use of an open world that I can't get to, and the game does not tell you it's locked?

    I keep getting the message inventory full, but under my inventory it does not display what I have too many items of, if there is a limit for each type of item, or if it's a global limit, what IS that limit? The settlement/facility/windmill thing is a complete mystery. WTF? How are they different, and why are they different? it seems windmills unlock items on the map, but maybe facilities do, too. It's just a jumbled mess. A lot of the time I feel overpowered compared to enemies, yet I am lacking most of the items needed to do the side quests. Im probably going to finish this stupid story mode I can't get into because im fruitlessly chasing upgrades that cannot be accomplished, with tons of content that I havent even touched. I've played 20 hours or so and feel like I wasted at least half of it trying to do things i am apparently forbidden to do in an "open world" game. The list of things to track in this game is endless, and the crafting is stupid. I need UV flashlights. Do I have what I need? Who the F knows?. infected parts (common, uncommon, rare, military tech, nightrunner hideouts , regular hideouts, facilities, checkpoints, windmills, metro stations, and many, MANY more. Make TWO different types at most, then let us fast travel to half of them. It is just a confused and jumbled mess.
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  19. Feb 21, 2022
    1
    No audio on 70% of interactions aswell as subtitles not showing. Couldn't continue even after reinstalling, traded in at the first opportunity.
  20. Mar 27, 2022
    1
    думав поляки зробили нарешті хорошу гру, але вийшло як завжди. більше не намагайтеся
  21. Oct 31, 2022
    0
    WARNING !!!! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ON PS4 PRO, IT'S FULL BROKEN

    i don't count the crash / freeze occured during my run... it"s a shame... Even cleaning the cache of the console doesn't work... i hate Technland, they're a bunch of thieves.
  22. Feb 8, 2022
    0
    Worst buggy mess ever. No speech during cutscenes, not able to speak to the people required to continue a mission, suddenly fall to your death falling through the map to your death, keeps crashing and lastly the deathloop bug where it says you are out of mission are and keep dying every 4 seconds. This will be the last game ever I preorder completely unfinished pile of crap which shouldWorst buggy mess ever. No speech during cutscenes, not able to speak to the people required to continue a mission, suddenly fall to your death falling through the map to your death, keeps crashing and lastly the deathloop bug where it says you are out of mission are and keep dying every 4 seconds. This will be the last game ever I preorder completely unfinished pile of crap which should have been delayed instead of selling alpha build to us. Expand
  23. Feb 15, 2022
    0
    This game is completely overridden with game breaking and loss of immersion bugs. 30 hours into the game, my friend and I received a glitch where we received Developer Quests and high level gear but it ruined the progression and maxed out certain things about the story... wtf!!! DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME UNTIL THEY FIX THIs
  24. Feb 8, 2022
    0
    I own a ps5, but I'm forced to play the ps4 version of the game if I want to play with friends that's still stuck on last gen. If at any point I want to switch back to the ps5 version, my save data DOES NOT carry over between the 2 versions.
  25. Feb 7, 2022
    0
    Abysmal writing, cardboard NPCs with 0 charisma, awful narrative, boring main storyline and repetitive Ubisoft-esque sidequests. Instant refund.

    Such a shame, I was really hyped with the whole "narrative focus" and "decisions with consequences" thing... It could have turned out so differently if Avellone had been at the helm... Next time you try to turn a sandbox game into a
    Abysmal writing, cardboard NPCs with 0 charisma, awful narrative, boring main storyline and repetitive Ubisoft-esque sidequests. Instant refund.

    Such a shame, I was really hyped with the whole "narrative focus" and "decisions with consequences" thing... It could have turned out so differently if Avellone had been at the helm...

    Next time you try to turn a sandbox game into a narrative RPG, please consider NOT firing the best writer in the gaming industry.

    Just another instance of "Get woke go broke", I guess.
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  26. Feb 17, 2022
    0
    The game runs like absolute garbage on the PS4:

    1- There is a desync of the gameplay audio and the SFX are all gone. 2- No dialogue audio and no dialogue subtitles. 3- Aiden runs in fear with 2 voice acting even when a chase is over. I have to reload the game and still it can happen again. 4- Survival sense doesn't register properly, and the L3 button sometimes acts like a jump
    The game runs like absolute garbage on the PS4:

    1- There is a desync of the gameplay audio and the SFX are all gone.
    2- No dialogue audio and no dialogue subtitles.
    3- Aiden runs in fear with 2 voice acting even when a chase is over. I have to reload the game and still it can happen again.
    4- Survival sense doesn't register properly, and the L3 button sometimes acts like a jump button.
    5- The game stutters and freezes when free running, jumping and in combat.
    6- The menus take forever to load.
    7- Character textures take forever to load and turn gray.
    8- The game compass is not constantly displayed, it comes and goes as it pleases!
    10- The game crashes randomly and I have to restart it over and over again!
    11 -You just fall through the world every now and then, when respawning it is the same, you have to restart the game.
    12 - playing with friends from the story mode doesn't work either, there is always an error, you have to restart the game.

    If you look at the whole game it is a complete ****

    The graphics are from the day before yesterday (look at comparisons to the first part, just the water).

    Here a company has not thought at all.

    Fewer weapons than in the first part, worse controls, it's just a horror and for that you spend so much money? Ridiculous!
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  27. Feb 9, 2022
    0
    Not multilingual game! Crap game! The zombie seems do karate, give you slaps and punch!
  28. Feb 5, 2022
    0
    One the worst gaming experiences I've ever had.
    1. Co-op is completely broken (literally can't even click the button)
    2. Controller buttons/actions just stop working randomly
    3. Practically every mission has game breaking bugs forcing you to start a new save
    4. The amount of motion blur is ridiculous. Horrible graphical glitches. Horrible performance.
    5. Entire game is a downgrade from DL1
  29. Feb 7, 2022
    0
    Completely unacceptable. False Advertisement like never before. Unoptmised mess.
  30. Feb 11, 2022
    0
    The bugs are absolutely unbearable. I literally can’t go 30 seconds without missing audio, frame drops, the game crashing or me seeing npc’s frozen in time. Without the bugs, the game is awesome, but the amount of bugs here is absolutely unacceptable. I spent 60 bucks on this game and at least 3 hours waiting for the game to load back up after closing because of some stupid glitch, and inThe bugs are absolutely unbearable. I literally can’t go 30 seconds without missing audio, frame drops, the game crashing or me seeing npc’s frozen in time. Without the bugs, the game is awesome, but the amount of bugs here is absolutely unacceptable. I spent 60 bucks on this game and at least 3 hours waiting for the game to load back up after closing because of some stupid glitch, and in coop it’s even worse!

    Would definitely not recommend this game! Not right now at least. Maybe they will be able to fix it up with some patches in the future, but right now it sucks…
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  1. Mar 2, 2022
    70
    Dying Light 2 is a delightfully fast paced game, which has a few persistent issues bogging it down. Most issues have already started getting fixed, such as the audio bugs and auto save issues, but enemies being frozen in place and some quests having NPCs make odd choices still drags it down a bit. Still, even on the older console the game runs pretty great and load times are surprisingly not noticeable. The main story ramps up well with characters that matter and moments that vary from harrowing escapes to fun fights. Every moment of parkour is a treat, and combat does just well enough to stay out of the way, with a day/night cycle that varies, meaning there’s always something new to do. Here’s hoping those issues continue to get ironed out and leave the game to be what it’s best at, a harrowing fast-paced survival RPG with plenty to explore and loot.
  2. Feb 23, 2022
    78
    Developer Techland accumulates all they’ve learned from their action-horror catalog, delivering solidly fun zombie-slaying in this sequel. Its long-winded story may miss the mark in keeping you captivated, but the fun to be had more than makes up for that. And the PS4 version is a great option to play, running at very stable performances and maintaining very acceptable visual fidelity.