Dying Light: Bad Blood Preview (Steam Early Access)

For our Dying Light: Bad Blood Preview we get competitive and get the blood on our hands in the all-new brutal royale experience. Enter a zombie-infested area and compete as one of 12 players to become the only survivor – or make a team and fight for survival together. Scavenge for weapons, destroy zombie hives to level up, and combine your advanced parkour mobility with brutal combat skills to outrun, outsmart, and outplay your opponents. It’s all in, one out in Dying Light: Bad Blood – a fast-paced and gory online game that creatively blends PvP and PvE combat while retaining the core of Dying Light’s iconic gameplay.

Dying Light: Bad Blood Preview Pros:

• Fantastic graphics.
• Controller support.
• Tutorial video.
• Graphics options- Resolution, Fullscreen, V-Sync, Texture quality, Foliage/shadow quality, View distance slider, AO, AA, Motion blur, film grain, and chromatic aberration effect.
• Battle Royale gameplay.
• You have to collect samples and then escape in the helicopter.
• Weapons- Grenades, Melee, Guns, axes, etc.
• Health and ammo loot to be found including mods and obviously weapons.
• When a weapon is equipped, If you hover over an item it will say if it is worse/same/better than what you have.
• Eye tracking support.
• Controller settings- Invert axis, Vibration, auto aim, sensitivity, and dead zone sliders.
• Can rebind keyboard.
• Post process filters-Red, Blue, Old movie, Macro, 1975, Color poster, Poster, Sepia, black and white, and normal.
• Crosshair on/off.
• Tense atmosphere.
• MODS- Find them and select your weapon press a button and attach the mod. Simples.
• Keeps the atmosphere of the original game.
• The full parkour system is back and works just as well, It’s really easy to pull off crazy window jumps to slides to scale buildings.
• Stamina bar system.
• 12 Players with PVE elements.
• Hives- A collection of Zombies will guard these areas as they house samples that you need to level up and escape.
• Minimap shows hive locations at all times.
• Full Nvidia implementation with game highlights, HBAO, and PCSS.
• Three character types- Runner, Athlete, and Engineer.
• Customize your character with clothes and weapon skins.
• In the game you earn EXP from samples, You level up which will heal you, make you faster, and increase your strength.
• Hunted! Once you reach level 5 (max level) you will appear on all player’s mini-maps and can be tracked.
• To win you need to escape via helicopter. The helicopter comes when someones hit level 5 or after the time limit expires.
• Multiple heliports and you never know which one is being used until the last minute.
• Huge Goon zombies which are tougher but give loot and samples. Risk reward.
• Stash- Premium loot boxes that you can buy or earn from leveling up. Three tiers- Standard, Epic, and Legendary. You get 3 items from a box and pick one to keep.
• Two currencies- Scars (in the game) and blood bucks (premium paid for)
• Two modes- Casual (private/solo and can still earn EXP) and normal (online)
• Can spectate upon death.
• Earn EXP overall and level up to earn loot and stash boxes.
• Can play solo in a private game and still earn EXP, You earn less but who cares.
• Loot has rarity levels.
• Addictive.
• Clever level design, Is as much vertical as it is big.
• Loot and hive locations spawn randomly in every game.
• Multiple ways to play.

Dying Light: Bad Blood Preview Cons:

• No duos mode only solos at the moment.
• No Steam achievements yet.
• A lot of hit detection issues.
• Clipping.
• The controller is definitely slower.
• Combat VS other players is very messy and feels more luck based than skill.
• Dubious climbing sections.
• Boring uneventful stash opening animations.
• Slow in-game box opening.
• Skins are for particular characters and that point is not made clear.
• Long matchmaking times.
• No weather types or night mode.
• You can die in the lobby area and lose all pickups.

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