Anyone else playing the Dying Light The Following DLC?

[Frag Maniac]

They really ramped up the challenge on this one. Infected hopping on your buggy, volatile hives that can be hard to find, let alone clear before night ends, toads spewing at you, and exploders and hazmat zombies causing more infected to come.

I've unlocked the safe zones in the north end of the map, but it's hard to even find a lot of the ones in the south, and it's not easy traversing the terrain at night if you get caught out late.

I started a bit too soon maybe, at Survivor level 10, vs the suggested 12, but still, despite it all, it was just what I was hoping for. This has given the game a renewed sense of desperation and horror, and at the same time it's a gas, literally.

 

[AsRock]

Well we near just finishing the game again, be probably playing the Following within the next 2 days , just need to get to and kill RAIS. My char is lvl 22-25 with 2 legend lvls.

Glad to hear your having fun getting a little eager too .

 

[AsRock]

They just released a 770MB patch for this.

Patch 1.11.0 release notes: ​

Added new community created maps ​

Various stability improvements, including co-op ​

Fixed quarantine zones not being playable more than once ​

Removed common duplication exploits ​

Minor tweaks and fixes improving the game ​

Added NVIDIA Percentage Closer Soft Shadows (PCSS) ​

Dying Light: The Following fixes: ​

Fixed quest progression issues in certain situations ​

Balance and progression tweaks​

 

[Vayra86]

Definitely playing it, just not yet, I've got 80% of progress to chew through in MGS PP first It's so damn addictive.

 

[erocker]

I tore through it pretty quickly. I really enjoyed it!

 

[AsRock]

I tore through it pretty quickly. I really enjoyed it!

Seems easy to do, talked to 3 people in the add on and 22% though it lol. Looks like most of it's crappy challenges and stuff ( console fluff ).

 

[Frag Maniac]

Seems easy to do, talked to 3 people in the add on and 22% though it lol. Looks like most of it's crappy challenges and stuff ( console fluff ).

Not all the challenges are what I'd call "crappy", esp the buggy races. The main game was what had crappy challenges if you ask me, like constantly throwing the break zombies legs, etc stuff at you. At least here they put more into it.

 

[AsRock]

I don't care about challenges, as i said it's console fluff. Done 3 missions now and 54% though.

Would enjoy it much more if story was more of a focus. That said love the map but all so hate some of the restrictions on when you can and cannot use say the grappling hook.

All so hate how they made the races use exclamation marks as these were strictly for side quests so it's more ooh whats over there and O it's a challenge again.

But yeah they put more effort in them but has 0 benefit to me.

 

[the54thvoid]

Has the best loading level music ever..... Feels like John Carpenter.

Playing The Following on hard and it bloody is. Almost finished though.

Finished it now. DO NOT OPEN THE LAST SPOILER FIRST.

Spoiler

No really, this will be a spoiler

Spoiler

last warning

Spoiler

there are no happy endings

 

[Frag Maniac]

I don't care about challenges, as i said it's console fluff. Done 3 missions now and 54% though.

Would enjoy it much more if story was more of a focus. That said love the map but all so hate some of the restrictions on when you can and cannot use say the grappling hook.

All so hate how they made the races use exclamation marks as these were strictly for side quests so it's more ooh whats over there and O it's a challenge again.

But yeah they put more effort in them but has 0 benefit to me.

Yeah it's probably not the DLC for you then. I do mostly side quests/challenges as I go, because I know most RPG content games are heavier in those than they are in main quests, just the way it is. You CAN however use them to build your upgrades.

That said, I was kinda shocked at how fast the end of story main quest came, but it was a good one.

 

[AsRock]

Yeah it's probably not the DLC for you then. I do mostly side quests/challenges as I go, because I know most RPG content games are heavier in those than they are in main quests, just the way it is. You CAN however use them to build your upgrades.

That said, I was kinda shocked at how fast the end of story main quest came, but it was a good one.

Glad to hear it's a good ending, the side quests are part of the main quest lol.

 

[Frag Maniac]

...the side quests are part of the main quest...

???

 

[AsRock]

They progress the story.

 

[Frag Maniac]

They progress the story.

Not always the case. Radio Boy for instance clearly does not. In fact most that have anything to do with the main story don't really do anything to help you find out about the true source of the actual following.

 

[AsRock]

My story progress is now 84% and still only done 3\4 missions, helping people progresses the story percentage.

 

[Frag Maniac]

...helping people progresses the story percentage.

Story "percentage" of completion is one thing, but you said the story itself. All you're really talking about is the trust system. Hell, you can gain trust points just from using the wrench to tighten leaking spots in the water pipeline, but does it add to the "story" quests, not really. It's just filler side stuff.

Techland aren't really that good at minor details. Like the fact that literally NONE of the buggy challenge icons change or show any info once you've beaten them. So you have to rely on memory alone, or go to them and click on them to see if you've beaten them.

Same with any of the random sub challenges that have onscreen prompts as you're driving along.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Well, finished up my Normal run of The Following. Pretty much did everything but a few of the random road challenges that pop as as you're driving. I did leave a lot of collectibles like some racing trophies and most flags, but I plan to continue via New Game+, so I'll keep accumulating them.

I managed to get through all the hives using no UV flares, so I have them if I need them for Hard and Nightmare runs. I'm finding Camo II is as useful as UV Flares in Hives, and helps get through them before night even ends.

I WAS kinda freaked out by two hives that were sort of in a connected tunnel area though. Apparently they do not qualify as same type hives as caves or deep tunnels, because the volatiles didn't leave them at night.

In retrospect I suppose it would have been easier had I done those in the day, but I only died a few times between the two of them, so not too bad, especially considering how many volatiles there were in such a small place with not many places to hide, and using no UV Flares.

I'm not entirely sure how to do a NG+ for The Following, since there's no such option in it's Advanced Play menu, but I assume I can just start a NG+ for Campaign, then play through the Prologue again, then start The Following on Hard with all my gear and skills carried over. Anyways, going to try that after backing up my savegame.

Good night, good luck.

PS, I found out recently Techland is working on another DLC for the game. Also, by next patch they plan to have a toggle for Chromatic Aberration, which many have requested ever since the game came out a year ago.

 

[AsRock]

Sweet, another DLC is always welcome when you already paid for it , if only they could get on board with Obsidian making a in depth story .

 

[Frag Maniac]

Just beat the main game on Hard. The fight with Tahir was a pain, lost lots of Legend points. I'm going to play The Following again, this time on Hard via New Game +.

 

[AsRock]

Good luck, i just got bored of it and gone back to Divinity Original Sin EE \ XCom2 as it makes you think more, i will play it again for sure.

 

[Frag Maniac]

In case anyone else has the same problem as I did, having Bozak Horde enabled as a quest will not allow you to start a New Game +. NG+ won't even show in the menu unless you track or start another quest.

I had finished the game and all main and side quests, so I thought I was screwed, but I had not done the Quarantine Challenges. Having a Quarantine Challenge tracked allows NG+, which I found out by reading a forum response after Googling.

I've also been running VSync through the AMD Crimson panel lately. It produces better visual results than the in-game Vsync, and is more optimized.

 

[Jaffakeik]

I finished main game yesterday and deleted it. But it didnt gave me the hype to get DLC tho. But it sure looks with lots of good stuff in it.

 

[Octopuss]

I don't like the story of the DLC one bit, so no :/