- Dying light: the beast The director says that the delay in the game allowed more time to polish the game
- The main features and main content have been improved, including animation, user interface and locations
- Nathan Lemaire said that the delay was a “conscious decision”
Techland commented Dying light: the beastThe delay, calling it a “conscious decision” which allowed the development team to polish the game in almost all aspects.
In case you missed it, the next entry of Dying light The series was delayed by four weeks from its original release date on August 22 and will now arrive on September 19.
When asked in an interview with Techradar Gaming in Gamescom 2025 which the studio was able to achieve in the weeks that followed its delay, the director of the game Nathan Lemaire said that he was mainly focused on the correction of bugs and the polishing of major features and main content.
“A great thing that we push is all that concerns, you know, the reaction of Pitch, physicity and gore,” said Lemaire. “So really like the idea that the reaction of the blows is well connected and the output [has] Satisfactory results and realistic results … We have also improved the quantity of gore and we have in our system of body damage. We have therefore improved the quality and the number of assets triggered by bodily damage. So what is [we] Do, a lot of improvement in user interface animations also. “”
He continued, saying that the delay also allowed the team to polish additional locations that he could not have done otherwise because they were not a high priority.
“But we have time to do so,” said the director. “So we will do it because we want to polish everything in terms of, you know, when we play, it balances polishing, get this system to have a gameplay [that is] Even more balanced.
“There is always something to do, because nothing is really perfect, right? There is always something we can do. So, anything, but as the mentality is like this: pushing as much as possible to do the best as possible.”
When Dying light: the beast Launch next month, you can play it on PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC.
