Dying Light 2 Update 1.47 Patch Notes (New Nightmare Mode)

Nightmare Mode:

• Highest Difficulty: Nightmare Mode offers the ultimate challenge for those seeking the toughest experience in the Dying Light universe.
• Enhanced Enemies: Enemies are smarter and more aggressive, providing a relentless challenge.
• Limited Resources: Survival is paramount with reduced information and UI elements.
• Real-Time Crafting: Crafting items now occurs in real-time, adding to the intensity.
• Flashlight Challenges: Flashlight usage is more strategic as it dims and flickers, potentially cutting out.
• Stamina Management: Stamina regeneration is slower, and exhaustion limits actions until stamina refills.
• Survival Focus: Health doesn’t regenerate automatically, emphasizing the importance of cautious gameplay.
• Progression Changes: Players receive a larger amount of Legend Points, but lose all Legend Level XP upon death at Level 50 and above.
• Exclusive Reward: Completing the game on Nightmare difficulty unlocks the exclusive Waltz Outfit.

Night Changes:

• General Adjustments: Reduced numbers of Volatiles and Spitters across all difficulties.
• Vision and Hearing Nerfs: Lowered Volatiles’ vision arc and hearing range, and reduced Biters’ visibility of flashlight.
• Difficulty-Specific Tweaks: Easy and Normal difficulties receive additional adjustments to enemy behaviors and spawn rates.

Co-op for Community Maps:

• Community Collaboration: Join forces with friends to explore and conquer community-created maps.
• Endless Possibilities: Experience new challenges and scenarios designed by players, adding variety to your gameplay.
• DevTools Enhancements: Creators gain access to additional tools, including visual filters, prefabs, gameplay scripts, and more.
• Creative Freedom: Expand your creative horizons with colorful rubber skins, bloody ties assets, and other new additions.

Gear Loadout System:

• Customizable Loadouts: Switch between four customizable loadouts in the Inventory menu to adapt to different situations and playstyles.

Cutscene Improvements:

• Enhanced Visuals: Over 70 scenes and dialogues have been updated for improved animation, lighting, and special effects, enhancing cinematic quality.

Power Shot Skill Rework:

• Player Agency: The Power Shot skill now rewards precise timing, with a shrinking reticle indicating optimal release timing for increased damage.

Tactical Stamina Management Mode:

• Strategic Stamina Usage: Stamina regeneration is slower, and exhaustion limits actions until stamina refills. This mode cannot be disabled on Nightmare difficulty.

Main Menu Redesign:

• Improved Navigation: Refreshed main menu design with better presentation of character outfits and easy access to events, offers, and community maps.

Scalable Player FOV Correction:

• Enhanced Flexibility: Introduces a slider to adjust player character scaling based on field of view settings, offering more visual customization.

Grappling Hook Customization:

• Unique Skins: Introduces bespoke skins for grappling hooks, including the First Pilgrim Grappling Hook skin available at the Pilgrim Outpost.

Game Updates:

• CO-OP Fixes: Addressed issues with multiplayer functionality and various gameplay tweaks and improvements for a smoother experience.

CO-OP Fixes:

• Fixed the issue disabling joining multiplayer via Quick Join.
• Fixed the issue in the “Ferry Tale Endings” quest causing the generator to turn off and on when attacked by multiple Biters, resulting in failing the mission.
• Fixed the issue where blunt attacks to the head counted towards the “Off With Their Heads!” Survivor Mission Bounty.
• Improved accuracy of online status information in the Friends section of the Online menu.
• Player icons on HUD are now differentiated with different colors.
• Player icons on HUD are now properly hidden if the Immersive HUD option selected.
• Player icons on HUD are now visible while using the extended HUD option.
• Fixed and tweaked several TPP animations.
• Fixed the issue with the “Boss Raid” bounty only progressing for the player who last hit the boss when in a full party in any Elite Survivor Mission.
• Fixed the animation for Wall Run Kick in TPP.
• Fixed the animation of swinging the weapon while the camera is pointed towards the ground.
• Fixed the missing swing animation upon attacking with the Grubby Bat.

Gameplay Fixes:

• Fixed Virals being able to successfully perform jump attacks by turning in mid-air towards players, even if they dodged. Additionally, the frequency of Viral jump attacks has been lowered.
• Increased Firearms damage values: +25% of base damage on all Firearms.
• Sniper Skill (Legend Levels) will now give +2% damage per each point, instead of +1%.
• Addressed the issue with the Bounties tracker being stuck on 3/6 or 6/6 Bounties.
• Fixed the Renegades not spawning properly during the “A Place to Call Home” main quest, blocking further progress.
• Fixed the blocked by a car transition to the Central Loop.
• Fixed the camera while unlocking a windmill cutscene.
• Fixed the game still running underneath the credits after the alternate ending from the new story path.
• Fixed the Adaptive Triggers sometimes not working unless a weapon with Adaptive Triggers was held just before.
• Fixed the issue causing kills with explosive knives counting towards the Improvised Weapons Bounty progression.
• Fixed the Alpha Demolisher not having damage resistance to headshots.
• Fixed the issue with the “Drive By” Bounty completing by hitting Infected instead of killing them.
• Added Combat and Parkour XP to the Firearms quest rewards.
• Fixed the issue sometimes blocking the player from climbing the lamp poles.
• Fixed the missing VFX fire for Molotovs when thrown from higher places in a certain location.
• Fixed the prolonged black screen sometimes happening at the end of the “Now or Never” quest.
• Fixed an issue where animations sometimes did not blend correctly after performing a vault jump with a crossbow equipped.
• Fixed the issue with Lawan sometimes changing her position right after the dialogue in the “A Place to Call Home” quest.
• Fixed the issue where the Banshee’s jump attack cannot be dodged in the Prologue.
• Fixed the issue where perfect dodge sometimes didn’t work during fights with Demolishers, causing the player to get stunned.
• Fixed the despawning NPC after finishing “The Black Widow” quest.

Technical Fixes:

• Fixed several rendering issues present on the ground, concrete, and lights in the Prologue.
• Fixed the error that sometimes failed to load the audio voice-over metadata file after launching the game in the Bazaar.
• Fixed the bug causing internal memory running out after a few minutes of gameplay.
• Fixed the improper rendering encountered during ‘Priceless’ Elite Survivor Mission.
• Fixed the graphical corruption occurring when several HUD icons aligned.
• Fixed the graphical glitches that sometimes showed after changing video quality and the upscaler.
• Fixed the textures that sometimes improperly rendered in a specific room of Central Loop.
• Fixed the mural collectable clipping through the roof of a kiosk in Central Loop.
• Fixed the projectiles’ trails sometimes being improperly displayed.
• Fixed the game sometimes crashing on the loading screen when starting NG+.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes did not play death screams on enemies’ deaths.
• Fixed the inconsistent LOD0/LOD1 materials in R02 overpass.
• Fixed an issue blocking the selection of any sfx in audio prefabs in the DevTools Editor UI.
• Redesigned the Audio Output menu to make it more clear.
• Fixed the text on “Bacon’s Cipher” going outside the UI frames.
• Added the “Buy Max” feature, allowing players to buy all the available items without choosing the amount.
• Corrected typo in the “Split The Marrow” Bounty description.
• Fixed the issue sometimes incorrectly showing negative values or previous statistics during the Survivor Missions ending screen.
• Fixed an issue sometimes incorrectly showing a death screen when dying by leaving the mission area and due to lack of immunity.