Dying Light: The Beast Gets Update with New Game Plus and Ray Tracing

Key Update Features

• New Game Plus mode — players can re-experience Dying Light: The Beast's story while keeping all equipment, weapons, and character progress for the new playthrough. Difficulty level and enemy aggression increase, along with loot value and weapon power. Multiple NG+ runs can be stacked on top of each other.
• Legend skill tree — the classic endgame progression form for Dying Light, allowing players to push character capabilities beyond the regular skill tree. Upon reaching level 15, all experience points go into the new tree. Legend contains passive upgrades like increased health. Additionally, more rewards can be unlocked: weapons, outfits, and legendary vehicle skins.
• Ray tracing on PC — lighting, shadows, and reflections in Dying Light: The Beast now become even more natural. To activate ray tracing, set the "Video Quality" preset to ultra, though the technology works with other presets. Separate ray tracing settings are also available. Ultra settings automatically enable frame generation to improve frame rate.
• Three new finishers — one each for one-handed and two-handed blunt weapons, plus one for two-handed slashing weapons.
• Fixes for over 70 graphics-related issues, 200+ bugs occurring during parkour and movement, and more.

Ray Tracing Requirements

• Graphics card with ray tracing support (NVIDIA RTX, AMD RX 6000/7000 series, or Intel Arc)
• At least 8GB VRAM
• 16GB VRAM recommended for 4K resolution

Community Challenge and Double XP Event

Developers announced the Executioner community challenge. Players are tasked with performing 1 million finishers, then 2.5 million, to earn rewards. Additionally, a double XP promotion runs until November 30. Everyone who logs in before December 2 receives an exclusive knife.

Dying Light: The Beast is available on PC (Steam, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.