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I Dare You to Play ‘Dying Light’s Nightmare Mode
Techland has shared the third, and final, video in their video breakdown of the free enhancement update that’s expected to arrive at the same time as the game’s largest expansion to-date, Dying Light: The Following. The latest video focuses on the intimidating Nightmare Mode, which cranks up the difficulty considerably by taking everything about the hard mode — longer nights, stronger enemies, weakened senses — and adds stamina-depleting active skills and every time you die, you’ll lose all experience accrued above your current level.
It makes up for this by making those awesome gold weapons more common and it significantly increasing the amount of XP you get, especially when you play the game with friends, where it adds another 10% XP bonus for each in-game partner.
Techland also confirmed “certain community custom maps” will be coming to consoles. If you missed the other videos about this free update, they detailed the bounties and meta-levels.
Dying Light: The Following and the enhancement update hits the PC, PS4 and Xbox One on Feb 9.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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