The developers of Dying Light The Beast recently decided to talk about the combat system and explained that players should not judge the game solely by screenshots:
“The Beast is a smart survival game, so even if you look at the screenshots and think, ‘Oh, here is a machete, here is a zombie, so this is hack-and-slash’… think again. Gory dismemberment is present, but combat is challenging, resources are scarce, and sometimes it is better to use your own legs to avoid a fight rather than mindlessly run into one.”
They also noted improvements to combat:
“We increased the precision of our weapon arcs — the paths that trace how weapons slice — so enemies can now be severed in more places than ever before. And of course, all the visual representations of cuts and wounds are rendered using the full graphical power of current-gen consoles and PC.”
The release of Dying Light The Beast is scheduled for August 22, 2025.
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