Dying Light - The Story So Far

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Dying Light and its expansion, The Following.

With Dying Light: The Beast, a continuation of the protagonist’s communicative from the archetypal game, shambling onto console and PC successful the precise adjacent future, it’s the cleanable clip to refresh your representation connected Techland’s epic parkour zombie adventure, Dying Light, and its monolithic expansion, The Following. With 10 years having passed since the archetypal Dying Light, you’d beryllium forgiven for being a spot foggy connected the details. Lucky for you, IGN took impeccable notes, truthful here’s everything you request to cognize astir Dying Light’s communicative earlier playing the upcoming sequel.

Oh, and this should spell without saying, but spoilers prevarication ahead.

The archetypal Dying Light rather virtually drops you close into its fictional Middle Eastern setting: the metropolis of Harran, which unluckily has go crushed zero to a devastating viral outbreak that transforms radical into perfectly terrifying, flesh-eating creatures of acheronian – besides known arsenic zombies. You play arsenic Kyle Crane, an undercover cause for the Global Relief Effort (GRE), a humanitarian organization. You participate the metropolis nether the guise of aiding survivors, but your existent ngo is to way down Kadir Suleiman, a governmental fig who has stolen a record captious to the GRE. If you’re already reasoning that possibly the GRE is not precisely squeaky clean, you’ve got large instincts. Follow your gut.

Your ngo rapidly goes sideways erstwhile you’re attacked by goons acting connected behalf of a warlord, past bitten by a zombie and infected with the virus, each wrong your archetypal fewer moments successful the city, ‘cause you’re ace bully astatine your job. With your screen instantly blown and already experiencing the seizures that precede afloat zombification, you articulation up with a subsister enclave called The Tower, led by the lone idiosyncratic qualified to beryllium successful complaint during the apocalypse: a parkour teacher – successful this lawsuit a truly chill 1 named Harris Brecken. You travel his lead, learning the ways of parkour, and undergoing attraction with an experimental cause susceptible of staving disconnected the effects of the zombie microorganism called Antizin.

You besides conscionable Jade Aldemir, a freerunner and combatant who has a bosom of golden and would bash thing for Dr. Imran Zere, a idiosyncratic moving connected a cure to the zombie virus, and, of course, her brother, Rahim Aldemir, a reckless feline who you tin archer close distant isn’t going to marque it to the credits.

Rais Against The Machine

With your unit of allies established, it’s not agelong earlier you’re decently introduced to Dying Light’s villain and the antheral who stole that GRE file. Kadir “Rais” Suleiman is simply a self-styled warlord who resorts to ruthless tactics and has a inclination to screw implicit those who marque deals with him – each qualities that framework him arsenic the cleanable baddie you conscionable can’t hold to punch close successful the face. His unit has been hoarding Antizin and controlling Harran’s achromatic marketplace done intimidation and violence, truthful you and your unit statesman to sabotage his operations and rally survivors against him. Naturally, helium bites backmost by sidesplitting Rahim (who again, was precise evidently going to die) and kidnapping Doctor Zere.

You spell to rescue the bully doctor, but get caught and thrown into a pit wherever you’re forced to combat loads of infected. After surviving the battle, Rais reveals that not lone does helium cognize that you’re moving for the GRE, but he’s got ungraded connected them that he’s acceptable to publish. The crippled twist? The GRE was complicit successful the outbreak and has plans to weaponize it against its enemies. Yeah, see? Your bosses truly weren’t precise bully people.

You negociate to flight from Rais’ clutches and chop disconnected the guy’s manus by abruptly showing disconnected immoderate superior martial arts skills, but Rais manages to flight with his beingness and Dr. Zere is killed earlier you tin rescue him. Luckily, the fading idiosyncratic tells you that he’s fixed his probe to Jade and wants it delivered to a caller character, Doctor Camden, successful the aged portion of town.

GRE-AT astatine Doing War Crimes

Now having seen the GRE for what it is, you realign yourself with the radical of Harran and the friends you’ve made astatine The Tower. You larn that the defence ministry, moving alongside GRE, plans to firebomb the full city, past assertion determination were nary survivors to statesman with.

You conscionable up with immoderate caller friendlies successful aged municipality and concoct a program to fto the satellite cognize that you’re successful request of assistance by mounting disconnected a bid of charges successful a skyscraper successful the signifier of a burning frowny face. But a combatant pitchy sinks it close distant to screen it each up. You past pivot to climbing to the apical of a communications operation and sending retired a connection to fto the satellite cognize you’re there. This forces the occurrence bombing program to beryllium halted, but the GRE contacts you with a caller proposal: bring it the cure Dr. Zere was moving on, and you’ll beryllium extracted.

Unfortunately, you find retired that Rais has kidnapped Jade earlier that happens – abduction surely seems to beryllium this guy’s favourite move. You scope her, but find retired she’s been bitten and is turning into an infected. Rais gives you a azygous dose of Antizin and makes you some take who volition survive. Jade insists you instrumentality the cause and you’re forced to termination her aft she afloat transforms into a zombie.

Payback Time

After mourning your nonaccomplishment and getting adjacent with 1 of Rais’ goons, you bring the cure samples to Dr. Camden, but you inactive request to get the remainder of Zere’s information from Rais. You spell aft him and larn that Rais, ever the instrumentality of making the worst deals imaginable, has struck up an statement with the GRE to beryllium extracted from Harran successful speech for the data. Naturally, you face the feline connected apical of a skyscraper, and marque him 1 last connection helium can’t garbage by stabbing him successful the cervix and letting him autumn to his death.

The GRE shows up looking for the data, but you heroically crook your backmost connected the accidental to prevention yourself, alternatively giving the information to Camden to prevention the radical of Harran. A cure seems to beryllium successful sight, and it’s astatine this pivotal juncture that the communicative of Dying Light draws to a close. But Kyle’s communicative is not over, and things instrumentality a crook for the highly weird successful the game’s expansion...

The Following

After staying successful Harran to assistance the city’s people, you perceive a rumor from a crazed subsister that determination are radical retired successful the countryside who are immune to infection. The cure Dr. Camden is moving connected hasn’t made immoderate advancement yet, and Antizin is moving low, truthful naturally, you caput retired to investigate. You rapidly observe that the full portion beyond Harran has go enthralled to a cult called The Children of the Sun, who worship a mysterious fig known arsenic The Mother. They execute bizarre rituals and look mode excessively comfy getting up adjacent and idiosyncratic with zombies, but besides look to unrecorded without fearfulness of the undead.

You commencement moving alongside this cult hoping to larn more, and yet summation the spot of its ace creepy masked officers called The Faceless, agreeing to bash their bidding successful hopes of bringing their cure backmost to Harran with you. You yet larn that bully ol’ Rais’ set of thugs are operating successful the area, trying to get their hands connected the cure themselves. You way them to a dam wherever The Mother is hiding, but by the clip you get each of Rais’ men are already dead.

And here’s wherever things get truly weird: you yet conscionable The Mother, and erstwhile she takes disconnected her creepy cult mask, you spot that she is afloat infected – having been transformed into the astir unsafe of infected: a Volatile. But bizarrely, she’s not feral similar mean zombies, possessing sentience and the quality to talk contempt looking similar a horrifying corpse monster. She reveals to you that her cure isn’t truthful overmuch a due remedy arsenic it is simply a compromise: she’s capable to support her zombie urges astatine bay during the day, but astatine nighttime goes connected sidesplitting sprees. In different words, she’s a zombie werewolf, much oregon less. Yikes.

The Bitter Ends

The Mother proposes however you could extremity the corruption erstwhile and for all: summon the Sun God. Spoiler alert – she’s talking astir a atomic bomb, which, to beryllium fair, is definitely, technically a cure of sorts. This is wherever you’re fixed a choice: hold to assistance this perfectly insane lich with her program to termination everyone, or, y’know, not bash that. Pretty pugnacious call.

If you determine to broadside with The Mother, you’ll usage her atomic codes to motorboat a rocket into Harran to purge it cleanable of survivors and infected alike (dope), but successful doing truthful bring astir a due extremity to the outbreak. This is surely the much metallic of the 2 options, but fixed that The Beast volition diagnostic Kyle arsenic its protagonist, I’m gonna spell up and accidental that possibly this enactment isn’t precisely canon. Who knows, though. Knock yourself out, king.

Alternatively, you tin archer the monster to instrumentality a hike, but she forces you to portion the elixir, turning you into a sentient zombie. You combat and termination her, cod the vials, and flight the dam. After suffering blackouts, you find yourself extracurricular the confines of Harran and travel upon a household playing successful a park. It’s astatine this constituent you recognize you’ve been afloat transformed into a volatile and fto retired a scream, hinting astatine an impending planetary apocalypse. Whoops.

And that’s wherever Kyle’s communicative ends, astatine slightest until Dying Light: The Beast arrives. Now, you mightiness beryllium thinking, “how successful the heck could they perchance marque a sequel to this?” and it’s a just question. This sequel picks up years aft The Following, and you erstwhile again play arsenic Kyle Crane, who was seemingly captured aft the events of The Following by a sociopath called The Baron who experimented connected him for 13 years. Now having escaped, helium seeks revenge connected his erstwhile captor and, arsenic the rubric suggests, has immoderate non-human DNA successful him that seems apt to play a important relation successful the story.

I’m not rather definite what Techland volition bash to code the branching determination successful The Following, oregon however the heck the workplace plans to capable successful the 13-year gap, but I can’t hold to spot the undoubtedly weird absorption it each takes erstwhile Dying Light: The Beast arrives connected September 19.