HoC experiences Dying Light: It's not an addiction

It's not!

Whatever you do, don't look down. Dammit!

In Dying Light, more than ever, it is a case of being too busy playing it to write about it. I am really hoping to play co-op but I am concerned. Every time I suggest, even hint, that clan members should buy a game I get inundated with complaints about how I made them buy it. Even after they have put in fifty plus hours playing it. You guys are complicated.

But I still need co-op partners and Dying Light does match the following Herd of Cats Criteria:

• 4 player co-op
• zombies
• lots of collectibles and searching
• open world
• shotgun
• quests, quests, and more quests
• ooh shiney

Lots of climbing and much optional parkour. I say optional because I still haven't figured it out. I go well for about two roof tops then I miss, fall to the ground, lose half my health, and I am sharing the tiniest space possible with a whole bunch of zombies.

But apparently some people can do it. Just not me.

Which button makes my character spit?

So the two photos I have included are from the top of the giant bridge. One during the day and one at night. My climbing excursion may have taken two days. It may also have taken more. Each time you plummet to your death you lose some time. I plummeted to my death a lot. The jump button and the "use to climb" button are the same (right bumper) but the timing seems iffy. Plus not all the jumps are obvious. Jump, grab, grab again, plummet a little, grab again, catch a ledge, detach from ledge, mash right bumper, hit bottom with smacking sound, watch screen go black.

For some reason I need to replace the right bumper on my primary controller.

My favourite part of climbing to the top of the bridge was once I finished the quest Searchlights (at night - go to the bridge and recover any of the bulbs in the special lights that are still working and bring them back) I got called by Tolga and Fatin for the quest Hardware (zipline across the broken portion of the bridge to a military Field HQ to retrieve a military grade sonar set) and sent right back up the bridge. Because I hadn't plummeted to my death enough already.

You would think I would have been getting better at it but apparently not.

Yet I am still playing Dying Light incessantly. It really is a improved open world zombie game demonstrating just how much Techland learned from developing Dead Island.

So, open invitation, pick up Dying Light and join my in my quest(s) to free Harran from the zombie horde.




Previous Entries:

• Taking one for the Team: co-operative Zombie style (#3)
• HoC experiences Dying Light: the first entry

Bonus Random Dying Light video:

P.S.- Right now I am wearing pants but the way my tighty whities are riding up that may not last long. I lie... it's a thong. Get that image out of your head Stormblade. (I pick him cause he's seen it).