Dying Light: The Beast
by Techland · 18 Sep, 2025
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About the Game
Dying Light: The Beast is the next AAA Dying Light game and the best-reviewed entry in the franchise’s history. Packed with more than 40 hours of survival adventure, both in single-player and shared progression co-op, it delivers the most ambitious, modern and content-rich Dying Light experience ever created. Immerse yourself in the expansive open world of Castor Woods and get lost in the scope, atmosphere and innovation of this must-play survival horror.
A terrifying new chapter in the Dying Light universe begins. As Kyle Crane, explore the vast and unpredictable wilderness, uncover a deadly evolution of the infected, and learn to control the beastly powers awakening inside you.
"The Beast really is Dying Light 3.” - GamesRadar+
The highest-rated Dying Light game ever, shaped by a decade of Techland’s experience with the series. Everything fans love - immersion, exploration, physical FPP melee combat, grounded parkour, and the iconic day–night cycle - refined and elevated to the next level. A perfect return for veterans, and the ideal entry point for newcomers.
"Kyle Crane Steals The Show And Gives Dying Light Its Best Story Yet" - The Gamer
Dive into a gripping tale of vengeance filled with twists, shifting alliances, and characters you’re never sure you can trust. Follow Kyle Crane’s powerful journey as his fight for justice uncovers reveals dangers far greater than he ever imagined.
"Techland perfectly nailed it, the Beast Mode really makes you feel like you could tear through anything" - WCCFtech
Play as Kyle Crane, a hero with the DNA of both man and beast. Freely switch between two playstyles and face a fierce conflict that lead to the acceptance of the monster within.
"Melee combat is once again a highlight of the game, with heft behind every attempt to take out a zombie, and so many different weapons and modifiers to choose from" - Gamespot
Feel the full force of Dying Light’s most physical combat yet. Your blows land with real momentum, enemies react believably, and your emerging beast-like abilities add intensity without losing the challenge and immersion.
"The night continues to be one of Dying Light’s greatest gameplay" - GamingBIBLE
The distinct experiences of night and day, a signature of the Dying Light series, merge into one unique whole. Explore and scavenge by day, but remember the constantly ticking clock. Because once the sun sets, the night unleashes horrors that leave you with just three choices: run, hide or fight for your life.
"Running, sliding, jumping, climbing, and hopping around Castor Woods is a treat" - Kotaku
Feel the adrenaline rush of best-in-class first-person parkour. Jump from rooftop to rooftop and overcome any obstacle. And when that’s not enough, grab the wheel of an off-road vehicle and ruthlessly tear through hordes of zombies.
"Techland brings its A-game when it comes to crafting a densely interactive, photorealistic world that frequently takes my breath away" - GamesRadar+
Next-gen visuals bring the hand-crafted zombie apocalypse to life. Every detail tells a story of survival. Lose yourself in the majesty of Castor Woods: explore the tourist town, industrial area, national park, farmland, swamps and more. All full of beauty… and decay.
"Playing the game with friends is creating a different kind of experience" - GameRant
Band together with up to three other players in co-op! Brave the dangers of Castor Woods, where you can experience every encounter, every discovery and every twist as a unit with shared progress.
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Official update history
Survivors!
[p align="justify"]Hotfix 1.6.3 just rolled onto the servers, so make sure to update the game![p align="justify"]Here are the list of fixes and tweaks:Added the Fast Travel feature - now players will be able to do so from a completed safe zone or hub. To fast travel to a different location, players need to interact with a dedicated Castor Woods map located in all eligible locations.
Added a toggle to Survival settings (i.e., depleting flashlight and hunger meter) in Restored Land. The setting is now off by default and can be enabled in the menu. Added two new Restored Land leaderboards to ensure fair score comparisons.
Fixed the issue with Suicider sometimes not exploding when hit twice in a row with certain weapons
Fixed the issue with Beast Modes actions not always dealing damage to enemies while playing NG+
Fixed the issue when the Player is unable to pick up quest item (Infected Gallbladder) if Consumables inventory is full with certain items
Fixed the issue when area with very low threat level might become restored after sleep
Fixed the issue with Taurus Gas Station in Villa Area might not be completed upon first visit
Fixed the issue with estimated position always showing the result one below of what is shown on leaderboard when data is updated
Survivors are less likely to spawn close to infected when region is safe in Restored Land
Fixed the issue with Virals and Volatiles clipping through the car's roof when falling from it
Viral reinforcements will no longer come after generating noise on safe regions when playing Restored Land
Fixed an issue with the Player receiving duplicate starter gear from Olivia during NG+
Starter gear from Olivia can now be sold to vendors
Hotfix 1.6.1 just rolled onto the servers, so make sure to update the game!
Here are the list of fixes and tweaks:
- Reduced hunger drain when sleeping
- Slower overall hunger depletion
- “Very Hungry” and “Famished” states now trigger later
- Vendors now offer improvised food bars
- Weapon Blueprints from DLC bundles can now be upgraded to Legendary rarity
- When receiving a new weapon during a cutscene with a full inventory, the lowest-quality weapon is automatically moved to the stash
- If both inventory and stash are full, the lowest-quality weapon is dropped on the ground
- “Better Be Safe” and “Peace Bringer” achievements no longer auto-complete
- Night chases rebalanced – Level 1 chases are now slightly easier to escape
- Increased chances to loot rags and bandages from Biters and Virals
- Fixed the crossplay connection between Steam and Epic
- Fixed the issue with amount of ammo that the Player can loot from ranged human enemies being capped
- Fixed the issue with Player dropping equipped weapon after entering Slasher arena
- Fixed the issue with hunger meter missing throughout the fight with The Beast
- Fixed the issue with Alpha Volatile sometimes not spawning during Chase sequences on Restored
- Land
- Fixed the issue with “Days Survived” being counted after starting a race
- Fixed the issue with Leaderboards sometimes missing
- Fixed the issue with message about Restored Area always appearing after loading a save
- Fixed the issue with some encounters being unresponsive
- Fixed the issue with Items Found values in the Leaderboard section
- Fixed the broken Night Cycle after quitting to the main menu during challenge
- Fixed a few collisions in new Roadkill Rallies
- Fixed the issue with item stacks being incorrectly subtracted while moved to the Stash
- Fixed the issue with Player receiving the achievement "Apex Predator" without killing a Volatile after a cutscene in “One flew over the Volatiles’ nest” mission
- Fixed the issue with SFX missing after failing to load a broken save file
- Fixed the issue with infinite death loop happening after Player gets out of map/playable area during
- Roadkill Rally
- Fixed various unresponsive NPC’s while playing in Coop
Restored Land is the definitive Dying Light: The Beast experience: a brutal, solo journey where the world reacts to your every move! These new rules mean that resources are finite, and every decision carries the weight of permanent consequence as you face the ultimate zombie apocalypse.
New rules of survival:
- [p align="justify"]Restore the Land: For the first time ever, turn the tide. Killed infected do not respawn, allowing you to fully cleanse regions and mark freshly-cleared areas on the game map.
- [p align="justify"]Manage Resources: Looted items are no longer replaced and shops offer reduced stock at higher prices. Supplies must be carefully managed, stretching your resource management skills to the max.
- [p align="justify"]Permanent World Progression: Benefit from your bravery. High-risk activities such as Convoys, Dark Zones, and Hives need only be completed once to be permanently cleared.
- [p align="justify"]Survival Mechanics: Limited materials and food means you must manage hunger and replace depleted flashlight batteries.
- [p align="justify"]One Life: An optional mode that introduces full permadeath for the ultimate ‘no second chance’ challenge. When death truly means death, how long will you last in the apocalypse?
- [p align="justify"]Roadkill Rallies: Competitive car challenges focused on incredible zombie-killing opportunities and optimizing your routes through the open world.
- [p align="justify"]Friends Leaderboards: Track your performance in both Restored Land and Roadkill Rallies to compete against friends for the top spot.
- [p align="justify"]High-Risk Encounters: Face deadlier species of infected for significantly greater rewards.
- [p align="justify"]Expansive New Content: 36 new quest encounters, seven new achievements, and new brutal finishers.
Immerse yourself in this stunning expansion of Dying Light: The Beast that includes all existing enhancements - such as Legend Levels, New Game+, and Nightmare Mode - alongside full Ray Tracing (PC) and hundreds of parkour upgrades in one complete package! Standard Edition owners receive this upgrade automatically for free.
Nightmare Experience is a new difficulty level for Dying Light: The Beast - designed for seasoned players looking for serious survival experience. It makes Human and Infected enemies stronger, smarter, more aggressive, reacting faster to your actions using their heightened senses. Some Dark Zones may now include Volatiles during the day and gameplay becomes more challenging as resources are limited and they need to be managed more carefully.
This update also introduces a new Alpha Volatile. This is the most powerful infected in Castor Woods, and the most intelligent Volatile in the history of Dying Light. It tracks your scent, ignores the UV light from your flashlight, and can hunt and follow you across the map until you reach a safe zone or manage to kill it. He’s smart and dangerous, enforcing a careful and strategic playstyle during the night.
On top of that Nightmare Experience brings new survival mechanics. The Hunger System affects your stamina, health regeneration, and combat efficiency. The longer you ignore hunger, the stronger the penalties become. Additionally the flashlight drains over time and will dim and flicker as the battery gets low, requiring you to craft or find replacements.
Completing the hardest challenges in this difficulty rewards you with exclusive items, including unique charms, and a special outfit, and a new vehicle skin.
NEW GAME+
You can now replay Kyle’s story in New Game+ while keeping all gear, weapons and character progression from your first playthrough. Enemy difficulty is increased, but you’ll also encounter higher-tier weapons and loot to match the challenge. New Game+ can be repeated multiple times - each completed run further raises the game’s difficulty level and unlocks access to even stronger and rarer weapons, as well as the toughest enemies in Castor Woods.
LEGEND LEVELS
Legend Levels is the classic Dying Light end-game progression system that extends your character beyond the main skill tree.
Once you reach Level 15, all earned XP is converted into Legend XP. Higher difficulty settings and higher New Game+ tiers increase XP gains, so the more you challenge yourself, the faster you progress.
Each Legend Level grants Legend Points that you can spend on passive upgrades such as increased health, improved combat stats and stronger Beast Mode performance. Every level also raises your maximum health by a fixed percentage, helping you stay competitive in higher NG+ tiers.
Legend Levels also introduce a large set of new rewards to unlock: 22 new weapons (melee and firearms, including vintage guns), 2 complete outfits (12 gear pieces) and new legendary vehicle skins.
RAY TRACING
Ray tracing is now available, bringing even more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections to the game, allowing you to experience our immersive and visually stunning world with enhanced atmosphere and depth.
How to enable ray tracing?
The suggested way to activate Ray Tracing is to set the Video Quality Preset in your game settings to Ultra.
If you need more tweaking you can also enable or disable individual Ray Tracing options in the Advanced Video Settings menu to balance performance and visual quality.
System requirements:
A Ray Tracing capable graphics card (NVIDIA RTX, AMD RX 6000/7000 series, or Intel Arc)
At least 8 GB of video memory
16 GB recommended for 4k
Performance and Visuals
The game is designed so that all settings - from Low to Ultra - preserve the same core look and artistic style.
Ray Tracing improves reflections, lighting, and shadows, delivering more realistic visuals, though please note this may impact performance
If your system has trouble maintaining smooth performance, try selecting a preset below Ultra and tweak individual Ray Tracing settings for optimal results.
Please note when Ultra mode is enabled, Frame Generation is automatically turned on to improve frame rate.
VRR, V-Sync, and Input Latency
For best results, use a VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) display with a refresh rate of 60 Hz or higher. VRR may be labeled as FreeSync, G-Sync, or Adaptive Sync depending on your monitor.
If VRR is detected, the game automatically disables V-Sync to ensure the lowest input latency and smooth frame delivery.
If VRR is supported by your setup but disabled, please try to enable it in your system, driver settings or display settings. If VRR is not working still, please enable V-Sync manually in the game menu (Intel and AMD cards) or try enforcing it in the driver (Nvidia) to prevent screen tearing (if observed)
Note: Using Frame Generation may increase input lag, especially if V-Sync is on.
If controls feel delayed:
Enable VRR and disable V-Sync
Ensure Latency Reduction is enabled
If lag persists, disable Frame Generation or switch to a preset below Ultra
NEW FINISHERS
We’ve added 3 new finishers to give you even more varieties of bloody execution on enemies.
1 for one-handed blunt weapons
1 for two-handed blunt weapons
1 for two-handed slasher weapons
CALL OF THE BEAST
With Update 1.4 just released, there’s never been a better time to jump into Dying Light: The Beast. New Game+, Legend Levels, a Double XP event, and an exclusive weapon waiting in your stash should already convince you to dive back in. So don’t wait - team up with the Dying Light community to tackle this week’s challenge, focused entirely on executing brutal finishers on enemies. And while you're at it, make sure to try out the new finishers added to the game!
Community Challenge: Executioner
Goal #1: Execute 1,000,000 finishers
Reward: Gutsbuster Car Skin
Goal #2: Execute 2,500,000 finishers
Reward: Rascal
Call of the Beast Week 9 runs from Thursday, November 27 at 4PM CEST until Thursday, December 4 at 4PM CET.
As always, rewards will be distributed to your in-game stash at the end of the challenge. To track the community’s progress and see how close you are to earning them, head to Dying Light Outpost.
[p align="center"]ADDITIONAL FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTSEnvironmental & navigational fixes:
Resolved over 200 parkour and environment navigation issues, including climbing and ledge-grab problems, as well as blocked traversal routes.
Adjusted multiple environmental elements - such as monkey bars, beams and scaffolding - to improve overall parkour flow.
Ziplines: fixed mismatched UI/action prompts for a more consistent gameplay experience, and addressed double-jump behaviour that could cause unfair falls.
Vault poles: added an interaction prompt to clearly indicate they can be used (similar to ziplines or ladders), and fixed double-jump behaviour that could lead to unintended falling.
Fixed a blocker in the High Noon quest that prevented players from progressing due to a specific rock formation asset.
Gameplay:
Reduced XP loss in Survival Mode through a global rebalance, with additional tuning focused on early-level XP loss and Night modifiers.
Streamlined early-game experience:
Reworked stamina curves to give players more stamina at the start of the game (total stamina remains unchanged), improving early combat encounters.
Added a rare weapon near the first campsite during the HUB1 quest to better reward exploration.
Introduced minor UI updates in the Skill Menu to make basic move sets more visible.
Reinforcements: adjusted reinforcement amounts when players chain noise-generating actions, especially when using firearms or explosions.
Vehicle challenges: improved obstacle destruction logic to prevent players from being blocked by objects that should be destroyed by the vehicle.
COOP fixes:
Resolved an issue where the host could get stuck on a black screen if another player cancelled and immediately restarted a COOP challenge.
Fixed several cases of Convoy activities spawning in front of players.
Fixed instances where AI did not exit the surrender animation.
Fixed an issue where the Banshee could float in the air when the biters she was standing on were killed.
Performance & Stability:
Improved overall game stability by addressing frame rate drops, crashes and asserts across multiple systems, with over 35 issues resolved.
Graphical improvements:
Addressed over 70 visual issues, including incorrect textures, floating assets, clipping models and misaligned architecture.
Improved lighting and shadow rendering across multiple environments, including fixes for improperly lit interiors and exteriors, as well as various graphical artifacts.
UI and Audio:
Fixed a pop-up screen appearing on game launch when Epic and Steam accounts were connected.
Resolved discrepancies between VO and subtitles across multiple languages, with over 12 localization issues fixed.
Improved Quest Marker functionality by addressing multiple incorrect or missing markers.
Corrected instances of debug strings appearing during gameplay and fixed several UI display errors across menu sections.
Audio: resolved over 20 issues involving missing or incorrect sound effects, including weapon collision SFX and ambient audio during various missions.
Fixed several co-op audio problems, such as missing VO lines and dialogue synchronization issues.
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