You can join the Early Access period for $20 which developer Techland is referring to as a Founder's Pack. The game itself, when it launches as a full release, will be free-to-play with micro-transactions. I'm hoping to dip my toes into the game in the coming days and report back, but I assume it's still rather rough around the edges as Early Access games tend to be, especially right at launch.
Parkour is a big part of the game.
Credit: Techland
Dying Light: Bad Blood is a 12-person battle royale game that takes the mechanics and setting of Dying Light, replete with fearsome zombies and cool parkour mechanics, and turns it into a PvPvE mode where 12 players enter and only one survives. You do that by eliminating other players and making it to the evac helicopter, though the zombies can help or hinder along the way.
Here's the trailer:
Looks pretty sweet. I've mentioned how much I like the zombies in Call of Duty's Blackout battle royale mode. This amps the number of undead up to eleven. I also like that this at least appears to focus primarily on melee and ad hoc weapons rather than a full arsenal of guns. We have plenty of gun-forward battle royale games already.
You can join the Early Access period for $20 which developer Techland is referring to as a Founder's Pack. The game itself, when it launches as a full release, will be free-to-play with micro-transactions. I'm hoping to dip my toes into the game in the coming days and report back, but I assume it's still rather rough around the edges as Early Access games tend to be, especially right at launch.
That is one huge, freakish zombie.
Credit: Techland More on this and on Dying Light 2 soon. Thanks for reading!
Here are the PC specs for those of you interested:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS:Windows 10,8,7 (64 bit)
- Processor:Intel® Core™ i5-2500 @3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz
- Memory:4 GB RAM
- Graphics:NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560 / AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 (1GB VRAM)
- DirectX:Version 11
- Storage:40 GB available space
- Sound Card:DirectX® compatible
Melee combat in Dying Light: Bad Blood.
Credit: Techland - Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS:Windows 10,8,7 (64 bit)
- Processor:Intel® Core™ i5-4670K @3.4 GHz / AMD FX-8350 @4.0 GHz
- Memory:8 GB RAM
- Graphics:NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
- DirectX:Version 11
- Storage:40 GB available space
- Sound Card:DirectX® compatible