Due to popular demand we’re extending the Tower Raid Open Beta for two additional weeks until August 1 with all previous content unlocked. Grab your friends and storm the tower to unlock lots of loot!

When you’ve played Tower Raid Open Beta, consider sharing your feedback with us and help us improve Tower Raid. What did you enjoy the most, what were you missing and what would you suggest to improve Tower Raid further? Let us know!

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Calling all wannabe Ricks, Michonnes and Negans, this is your last chance to get your hands on the The Walking Dead Bundle! Grab Lucille, Michonne’s iconic katana and much more before they leave the Store for good!

Also, this is your final opportunity to claim the The Walking Dead Memento, the Sheriff’s Hat and all 7 collectible comic covers! All of them will be available for Pilgrim Tokens until July 25. Now, let’s get back to the bundle!

This bundle contains:

• Lucille + Blueprint — this bat is abso-...-lutely deadly, and ready to crack some Infected skulls.
  
• Michonne's Katana + Blueprint — tap into your sword-wielding ways, arm yourself with this katana and the deadly skills to complement it.
  
• Negan's Knife + Blueprint — to be used only when Lucille isn’t looking.
  
• The Walking Dead Paraglider — if the streets are ruled by the undead, it’s better to stay above them.
  
• Rick Grimes Outfit — every law-abiding individual should respect this uniform. Even the undead ones.

Pilgrims!
We are releasing Hotfix 1.17.2, which should address a number of issues on all platforms. Here are some of them:

• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred in co-op, when one player throws an explosive and another fires the Spitfire Shotgun at the same time
  
• Fixed the issue with some POI icons for Downtown and the Floating Fortress Metro Stations disappearing from the map after sleeping in any bed
  
• Fixed the issue blocking the Player from purchasing the Scorpio from Jai
  
• Fixed the issue blocking the Player from claiming free items if the account never had any DL points
  
• Fixed the occasional issue where dropping from a co-op session might lead to game progression not being saved until the save is reloaded
  
• Fixed Jai's ending dialogue cutting off after completing a Tower Raid
  
• Fixed the VO translation of the floor number in Tower Raid for several languages
  
• Fixed several problematic bounties for Tower Raid
  
• Fixed the issue with the Tower Raid intro quest missing localization in the journal in multiple languages
  
• Fixed the incorrect description of The Black Scarab accessory (regarding its charging methods)
  
• Fixed the issue with the guns that the Player finds in Tower Raid dealing the same damage as the ones that they can buy from Jai
  
• Fixed the issue that caused the Black Scarab's status VFX to be different than the VFX for the Talon of Horus
  
• Fixed a glitch that allowed to loot Tower Raid chest endlessly
  
• Fixed the issue with the Tower Raid where sometimes the elevator doesn't stop its sound for the peer
  
• Fixed the issue with players sometimes not being able to join each other using Quick join option in Main Menu on Xbox platforms
  
• Fixed the issue with sometimes missing modifier on HUD in Tower Raid
  
• Fixed an issue with Tower Raid extinguishers dealing too much damage
  
• PK Hammerbasher now has the proper skin reflected when using 3d preview from the inventory

Now you know what’s been changed, make sure you update to the latest version of the game!

We are unlocking the doors of the Tower as Tower Raid debuts with Update 1.17! Are you ready to venture into its abandoned floors to find long-forgotten riches? But that’s not all, you can also expect some changes to Jai and the in-game economy. So without further ado, let’s see what we’ve cooked up for you!

Tower Raid Open Beta
Tower Raid is a new type of activity, inspired by the VNC Tower mission in Dying Light 2 Stay Human. The goal is simple: reach the top and grab the special loot waiting for you there. Each time though, you’ll have to traverse different floor combinations with different obstacles and goals. To additionally spice things up, you’ll have different modifiers for each run. It will affect (positively or negatively) the Player, the enemies… or both!

Tower Raid can be started via Jai’s Board, which can be unlocked through the side quest “Lost Armory” (available automatically once you reach the Central Loop). When the Tower Raid is started, you (and your friends if you’re playing in co-op, which we highly recommend) are spawned inside the lobby of the Tower. Your adventure will take you from the ground floor all the way to the roof (if you make it that far)! It’s up to you how you deal with various encounters and if you search each floor for loot. The ultimate goal is to find your way to the roof, and what’s there? We won’t spoil the fun, you’ll have to find out for yourselves.

For completing the Tower Raid, you’ll be rewarded with Jai’s Reputation Points and Tokens, which can be used to buy new stuff from him (including the Tower Raid chest). Moreover, on top of the Tower, you’ll find an Airdrop that contains a large amount of loot and an Exotic Weapon. Additionally, when you complete the raid for the first time each week, you’ll get bonus Reputation Points and Tokens.

Important: This feature is still in development. We are releasing it for the next three weeks (June 27 - July 18), so you can try it out and give us feedback on how to make it the best experience possible! Each week, we’ll be adding some new things for you to try:

Phase 1: June 27
12 floors
20 modifiers
5 more levels at Jai’s to progress through and 5 new rewards to get

Phase 2: July 4
3 new floors (15 in total now)
10 new modifiers (30 in total now)
4 new rewards (up to a total of 9)
New "Elite Mode" difficulty - complete 4 (up from 3) floors against harder enemies and with tactical stamina on, but for better rewards

Phase 3: July 11 (till July 18)
6 new modifiers (up to a total of 36)
3 new rewards (up to total of 12)
2x Jai RP reward for completing Tower Raids

After July 18, Tower Raid will be removed as we dissect and analyze your feedback, so make sure to let us know what you think!
https://www.webankieta.pl/ankieta/1271634/tower-raid-open-beta-feedback.html

Economy Rebalance
Alongside the Tower Raid Open Beta, we are rebalancing the economy a bit. From now on, you’ll be able to earn more scraps and trophies from almost all sources. We want to make crafting more accessible and reduce the amount of time you'll spend rummaging for crafting parts. However, you’ll find more scraps on human enemies. We've also tidied up the blueprints to make them clearer in terms of resource variety!

Jai’s rework and new items
With this update, we’ve also reworked Jai’s Reputation and fixed the issue with progress going back to 1 in NG+. All sources of Jai’s Reputation Points now give more than before, and leveling is now more dynamic and streamlined. Moreover, we’ve also added 5 new levels, thus expanding his rewards. Now, you’ll be able to get some of your favorite weapons from him, like the Scorpio and the Tribal Machete!

Co-op Improvements
In this round of Co-op Improvements, we focused on 3 features and enhancements for the co-op experience:
Joining Players from the Main Menu: To join from the Main Menu, you need to have unlocked co-op on your last save and can only join people that are currently in-game.
Quickly rejoining a lost session: Whenever a Player loses connection to a session, we have two ways to help them reconnect quickly. Remember this is only possible when the reason Players got disconnected is not directly caused by the host’s session dismissal. You can either reconnect directly through the “Lost Session” pop-up or “Join Last Player” option in the Online Menu.
Improving UX and UI of co-op sessions: When joining a game for the first time, you will receive an explanation on what to expect in terms of story progress saving and character progression saves. We have also added an on-screen notification informing when Players join or leave the session, and updated the visual representation of each Player (now in color). Moreover, you can now join sessions with your friends without them being on your favorites list.

New Level 5 Chase Music
The Nightmare Mode update introduced us to Level 5 chases, which are pretty hardcore by themselves! To make them stand out a little more, we decided to give them their own musical theme. So every time you hear this new tune, you'll know it's a little late for caution - time to run for your life!

Free Content
With this update, you must go and check out Pilgrim Outpost https://pilgrimoutpost.techlandgg.com/goodies/tower-raid/ as we have some awesome stuff for you there! First up - Vola-Toy! Yes, the charm you voted for during our Second Anniversary is finally here! Attach it to your weapon to decrease stamina consumption on attacks and have a handy counter for how many Volatiles you’ve killed with that weapon. It’ll look particularly charming on the other free item - the Pilgrim’s Weed Whacker available from July 2. Don’t wait around though, as the Pilgrim’s Weed Whacker will be free only until July 11. After that date, it will be sent to the Armory where it will be obtainable for Pilgrim Tokens. Last but not least, we’ve prepared a Peacekeeper’s Hammerbasher as a Twitch drop. Watch any Dying Light stream for at least 120 minutes by July 4 to get this new weapon!

Game Updates
Aside from all the big news from Update 1.17 above, we’ve also introduced the following fixes and improvements to the game:

Co-op

• Fixed multiple issues with AI not working properly in co-op sessions - eg. doubling, idling, disappearing
  
• Fixed the issue with Moe’s model still being present and improperly displayed in the Dark Zone after progressing the “True Friends” quest
  
• Fixed the zipline audio loop sometimes not stopping in co-op
  
• Fixed the issue when tapes only play under specific conditions in co-op
  
• Fixed the issue where Players downed by 0 immunity are revived with 0 HP
  
• Fixed the issue where the Water Tower unlock cinematic sometimes became blurry in co-op
  
• Fixed the issue when Players can sometimes lock each other in unescapable locations
  
• Fixed the issue with Dude still visible after the cutscene in the “Double Time” quest

Gameplay

• Fixed the issue where ammo was sometimes blocking the inventory. Player can now drop ammo, bolts and arrows from their inventory
  
• Fixed the issue with Hakon being idle if the Player dies and respawns during the chase in the “Getting Stronger” quest
  
• Fixed the disappearing objective marker for “Track Down Renegade Officer” in the “Spy Game” quest, when the Player is more than 120m away from the church
  
• Fixed the doors sometimes not opening after defeating Damien in the “Missing Persons” quest
  
• Fixed the issue where the next group of board quests would not unlock after finishing the first four all at once
  
• Fixed the issue with the objective location marker sometimes disappearing from the radar and map when approaching it from specific places when being asked to "Report to the PKs' HQ"
  
• Fixed the issue with quest objective marker disappearing when the Player is less than 100m form the container during the “Den For Brigitte” quest
  
• Fixed the issue where the objective location marker is missing from the radar and the map after talking to Horace for the first time during the “Perfume” quest
  
• Fixed the challenge pop-up sometimes remaining displayed if the Player is killed and respawns while being AFK after completing the challenge
  
• Fixed the issue sometimes showing multiple loading screens during all Water Tower activation cutscenes
  
• Fixed the Infected disappearing when the Player turns around during the “The Only Way Out” quest
  
• Fixed the exploit allowing the Player to take the weapons out from the Firearms challenges
  
• Fixed the Poison Alice resistances for melee weapons not working in the “Toxic Work Environment” Survivor Mission
  
• Fixed the issue with AI not reacting when the Player shoots next to them
  
• Fixed missing blueprints for the Nutcracker, Chicken, and Brecken Bundles, and the Dead of Winter bow and Deep Freeze arrows
  
• Fixed the crossbow firing rate sometimes lagging
  
• Fixed the issue with two Sophie models sometimes appearing in the Bazaar during the “Veronica” quest
  
• Fixed the issue where too many Volatiles are spawned in the 2nd Dark Zone in the “Twin Brothers” quest
  
• Fixed the issue where Volatiles sometimes are sliding on the ground instead of walking/creeping
  
• Fixed the issue where Volatiles in Dark Hollows are still present during the night in the “True Friends” quest
  
• Fixed the issue with blocked or disappearing exits in GRE Quarantines after looting all inhibitors
  
• Fixed the issue which blocked access and prevented fast travel to the Quarry End Metro Station
  
• Fixed the issue where the Player is unable to pick up loot from the water in the “Prince of Thieves” quest by allowing reset of all heavy objects
  
• Fixed the issue with improperly placed bars on the military barricade near the Fish Eye, making it impossible for the Player to use it
  
• Fixed the issue with the disappearing book during the “Book Club X” quest
  
• Fixed the hit reaction and knock down possibility on Renegades with two-handed weapons

Technical

• Fixed the improper rendering sometimes encountered for a few seconds during the “Priceless” Elite mission
  
• Fixed the missing texture of bars visible in Online menu
  
• Fixed the issue with the Sturdy SMG icon sometimes not showing properly
  
• Fixed the pistol reload animation sometimes not working
  
• Fixed the misplaced occluder which sometimes can be observed from a building in a Central Loop
  
• Fixed the crash that sometimes happened during a GRE Aberration encounter
  
• Fixed some performance issues sometimes happening in Old Villedor when Ray Tracing is on
  
• Fixed the issue allowing the Player to get inside a specific building near the VNC Tower Metro Station
  
• Fixed the missing texture of stairs on the other side of the lake during the Prologue
  
• Fixed the issue with losing remaining ammo when the Player fills the entire ammo stack by moving the ammo from their stash to their inventory
  
• Fixed the flashing lights sometimes present in the destroyed Bazaar
  
• Fixed the incorrect lighting in parts of Colonel's Fortress during the “Assasination - Epilogue” quest
  
• Fixed the high GPU render sometimes occurring when fighting a group of enemies under a status effect
  
• Fixed the stage in the Fish Eye sometimes disappearing in free-roaming mode
  
• Fixed the missing LOD on the Office Tower
  
• Fixed the display of the Power Shot’s tooltip
  
• Fixed the missing SFX of turning on or off flashlight during cutscenes and dialogues
  
• Fixed the issue with lightning sometimes being tinted gray in various places
  
• Fixed the issue with “Book Club” quest not being marked as a night quest
  
• Fixed the issue with certain swing plate overlapping building in Central Loop
  
• Fixed the improper rendering of Lower Dam Ayre
  
• Fixed the issue with Sophie sometimes clipping through the table in “The Raid” quest

UI

• Fixed the issue with the UI information about the bonus experience during the night sometimes does not change when affected by the Hypermode Alteration
  
• Fixed the issue with the lack of information about consequences of switching difficulty mode from Nightmare to a lower level
  
• Fixed the issue with Bounties sometimes not being displayed on the HUD when tracked

DevTools

• Added Developer Menu for modders in DevTools
  
• Added visual mods for Custom Maps
  
• Minor fixes for the Community Maps menu
  
• Added more prefabs to DevTools
  
• Added Olympic Stadium meshes to DevTools - now you can create your own Stadium!

Where are you heading this summer: Harran or Villedor? Why not both with the Dying Light Franchise Sale! With up to 80% discounts, it’s a lot cheaper than a summer holiday!

And for the first time ever, we’re offering 60% off Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition, so there’s never been a better time to jump in!

Whether you decide to become the Hero of Harran or go in search of your missing sister, there’s plenty to do when the weather lets you down.

The Dying Light Franchise Sale runs until July 15th, so don’t wait around!

So anyway, I started blasting!” This weekend, keep pulling that pistol trigger without using any ammo! It’s as if every time you reload, the bullets magically replenish. Good thing there’s an influx of Virals currently in Villedor! Take aim or just fire at will, it’s up to you! And if you don't have a pistol, have no fear: the Harran Pistol is waiting for you in your stash! Grab it and it'll be yours forever! Please note: The Harran Pistol will only be in your stash if you didn't claim it previously.

The Viral Rush: Fully Loaded Alteration will have the following effects:

• Unlimited Pistol ammo
  
• Viral spawning chance has increased
  
• Some Special Infected, like Suiciders, Banshees and even Chargers, might join the Virals trying to take you down

Send your enemies flying all weekend long with the Hypermode Alteration. Hit, blow up and kick anything that stands in your way and watch these ragdolls go flying like a home run ball out of the park. Plus, we’re increasing the XP you earn through the night, so you have even more reason to head into the darkness.

The Hypermode Alteration will have the following effects:

• Ramped-up ragdolling
  
• 2x multiplier for Night XP (instead of 1.5x)

The Hypermode Alteration will run until 12PM CEST on June 10th.

Mobs of Renegades have stormed The City and you need to put them back where they belong: the ground! Make sure you loot everything they’ve got on them as this weekend there’s a higher chance they’ll drop rarer weapons!

The Enhanced Renegade Drops Alteration will have the following effects:

• More renegades on the streets
  
• Higher rarity items dropped
  
• An ultra rare chance the item dropped will be Exotic

The Enhanced Renegade Drops Alteration will run until 12PM on May 27.

Hi, it’s Tymon here,

I’m going to be sentimental again today. This time, I’ll cast my mind back a little further, to over 10 years ago, when I was still young and beautiful.

As you know we recently reintroduced Dying Light Standard Edition, which is still available for a couple more days at an uber-attractive price on Steam and Xbox Store. In preparation for this, I started playing the game again, and it brought back many wonderful memories. What a great blast from the past! I would like to let you in on the fun we had working on the first Dying Light by inviting you to take a peek behind the scenes.

In my recent solo playthrough, I explored our take on open world parkour and it reminded me of how fresh it felt in the wide field of FPP genre. The mastermind behind Dying Light’s approach to traversal is my friend, Bartosz “Glova” Kulon. Bartosz, together with the gameplay and animation teams, pulled off one hell of a task, making sure the movement is smooth – it sure took a long, long time until everybody was happy with it.

When I joined Techland over a decade ago, parkour was already in place. Adrian “Pyza” Ciszewski, who was our Creative Director back then, and Glova himself – already a Senior Gameplay Programmer – had a chuckle on my behalf when I tried to use A on a pad to jump in Dying Light (like in every other action game I played before). It took me ten minutes, or maybe even more, to realize that in this game, jump is actually bound to the right bumper – for a reason, as I later found out, because it allows you to jump and still keep your right thumb on the stick, to control the camera as well as the direction of the jump itself. This didn't stop the guys mercilessly roasting me from the sidelines. But it was already then that I realized Dying Light would become something new and unique to the players, and the smooth traversal was what convinced me.

As far as I know, the beginnings of parkour were totally different. Level Designers used to place special “hooks” in the world, which were the spots a player could hold on to when moving around Harran. And it worked all right, but the team kept adding more and more of them (at one point there were several thousand on the map) to increase the freedom of movement. It was Bartosz Kulon who finally stopped the hook invasion and came up with an alternative plan. The new idea for parkour programming was based on the game itself analyzing the geometry in front of the player and letting it decide whether a given ledge is reachable. It was a game changer, for sure.

Playing Dying Light today, I’m still amazed how good the game looks almost 10 years after it was released! I remember the day I first experienced the quality of these graphics. Maciej “Keoz” Jamrozik, our Technical Art Director, just introduced a new lighting model to the game – and he had been working on it on the side, keeping his cards close to his chest. During the morning stand-up meetings, he used to say that he had been tinkering with the chaparrals, or the bushes, or the vegetation in general (obviously, I had to google the chaparrals, but for a good chunk of time I thought it's some tech-lingo for... a rendering technique perhaps?). Then, one day he comes and says that he’s uploaded the plants already, oh, also a new lighting system, by the way. When I launched the game, I paid zero attention to the damn chaparrals, but I was blown away by the lighting, how beautiful Harran looked, and I was especially amazed by the sunset. And alright, the plants were nice too, I guess.

Working on combat was an emotional rollercoaster. Obviously, the fights in Dying Light are very brutal, bloody, and immersive. To have that impact reflected in the game, we recorded a lot of combat moves in mo-cap, and I cannot say that no developers were harmed in the process. The aforementioned Pyza Ciszewski once set out to show the animators how he wanted the heavy, curb-stomping kicks to look like, demonstrating them on a mattress and… he broke his leg. It might be funny now, but believe me, no one was laughing back then. In hindsight, it was probably karma for the "jump with A button" roast.

What was genuinely funny, though, were the reactions of the journalists during E3 in 2013. We prepared a demo of Dying Light, which consisted of a daylight playthrough, plus literally only a couple of minutes of nighttime. It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, the game was still in production, but we wanted to show it to a couple of chosen editors. Our guests could run around at night, evading Volatiles during a chase, but it turned out to be a bit too much for some. There were a couple of journalists who threw down their pads mid-playthrough, saying that the experience was too scary and intense for them. Did we mind? Not much, I suppose, because we turned up the night difficulty even more for the final product.

Dying Light is defined by the physical parkour, scary nights, and immersive combat. But it also has a couple of secrets up its sleeve. Some of them are linked to easter eggs, of course. The driving force behind those was none other than our Lead Level Designer Piotr “SiCK” Pawlaczyk, who personally loves uncovering them in every game he plays, so obviously he wanted us to have some in Dying Light. He managed to negotiate with the higher-ups to let him organize a couple of so-called Easter Egg Days towards the end of production, so that the team could focus on cooking up and implementing some surprises.

One of the fan-favorite easter eggs was Korek Machete, named after our then Optimization Lead and current Senior Producer, Kornel “Korek” Jaskuła. Originally, he created this machete for the QA testers, so that they could have a one hit kill weapon. Together with Piotrek, they concocted a plan to also give it to the players – by hiding it on the map, in a box that you have to kick 76 times to open. Why 76 times? Good question, but no fancy answer, I’m afraid – it was the first number Korek came up with (literally, when he was asked by SiCK how many kicks were needed, the quote was "Dunno, 76?"). Thank heavens he didn’t think of a larger one…

As I’ve mentioned, working on the first Dying Light was a real blast. The entire team had fun, we were challenged, and it definitely tested our creativity. We came up with a lot of unique ideas, which made it easy to continue the adventure in Dying Light: The Following, and later in Dying Light 2 Stay Human. I wholeheartedly encourage you to play the first game, it’s a great entry point to the franchise and a neat lead in to the second release that we are currently supporting – and the Dying Light universe in general.

Good night, good luck and… Stay Human!