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Techland to Continue Adding DLC to ‘Dying Light’, Even With ‘Dying Light 2’ in Development
In spite of Techland’s E3 announcement that Dying Light 2 will be coming next Spring, the developer is still working on DLC content for the original game.
In a Gamesindustry.biz interview, Techland Lead Designer Tymon Smektala reveals that after meeting just prior to E3, the team decided to add more content to the first Dying Light.
“But we had a meeting right before E3 where we said we still wanted to add things to the first one. And there’s now a small team which is working on additional stuff that will happen in Dying Light.”
Smektala also touched on the team’s original ’10-in-12′ strategy, where the team released 10 pieces of DLC over the course of 12 months in 2018. This translated into increased sales for the game, which had increased each year since the game’s original 2016 launch.
“We supported the game for two reasons,” said Smeltala. “The first is that we believe in our community, and we really believe they will be the most essential part for us getting the word out about Dying Light 2. The other thing is that supporting a game like Dying Light for such a long time allows us to be slightly more crazy, and slightly more creative with some things, and also test some ideas and gameplay elements that we’re not sure about.”
“If we had an idea we’re unsure about for Dying Light 2, we could mimic that idea to some extent in support of the first game and see how it works,” Smektala continues. “We can see what people find attractive and what’s unattractive to them.”
Dying Light 2 launches Spring 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.