Techland has released a new trailer for upcoming standalone title, Dying Light: The Beast, which is called “Blood & Guts”, which gives you a clue at what to expect.
The developer (and publisher) wants to warn you before you watch, then, saying: “The video contains extremely brutal and graphic violence – watch it at your own risk!”, and adding: “From the first frame to the last, it delivers a non-stop montage of the most brutal moments of Dying Light: The Beast – including decapitations, bone-shattering slashes, blood-quenching stabs and cool finishers.”
So with that warning out of the way, here’s the (very much red-band-adjacent) video:
Dying Light: The Beast was recently pushed back a few weeks from the originally planned August release date. It’s now coming on September 19th, and having watched the preview it genuinely looks darker, and perhaps more like the original Dying Light experience. That said, I’m playing through Dying Light 2: Stay Human now, and really enjoying it.
“We’ve dramatically increased the body horror to give you this feeling of fighting for pure survival and Kyle’s hunger for revenge,” says Tymon Smektała, Dying Light Franchise Director. “It’s one thing to see a health bar go down; it’s another entirely to see the flesh peel away from bone or have a burnt and destroyed faces only inches away from you – that’s how nightmares are made!”
“We’ve overhauled the body damage system,” explains Nathan Lemaire, Game Director. “We doubled the number of places on enemies – we call them Gore-Nodes – where players can inflict damage and the number of wounds or injuries that are visible on one single enemy. And we improved the precision of melee attacks – so the angle and trajectory of your strike defines what you hit and how your enemies react to it. So you can target and cut off limbs more precisely than ever!”
A few weeks ago, the team also released a video showing “The Art of Blood”, which you can also check out below, since we’re leaning into the “Gore” here.
“We’ve improved all of the visuals of wounds and injuries and match them with all of the body types. The research was extensive – I just hope no one ever looks up my browser history,” says Dominik Wasieńko, Lead Character Artist. Katarzyna Tarnacka-Polito adds: “Nothing out there provided us with the reality in blood splatter that we were looking for. So we bought a lot of fake blood and recreated what we needed in real-life with an actor.”
Dying Light: The Best is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X on September 19th.
