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My hand has been forced The absolute inaction from the devs is appalling 30+ crashes in 4 days is absurd They have broken their game as of june 2024 DO NOT BUY THIS DUMPSTER FIRE (Tried again in 2025 out of good faith and it crashes after less than 10 minutes of gameplay, this has become literally unplayable to pre gen players since the latest updates and the devs need to be held accountable for allowing sony to push them into a corner with maintenance, exploits don't matter when nobody can actually play)

It would be absolutely fantastic if the Devs could take some more time per update to actually bug test their work EVERY SINGLE UPDATE breaks something and it's become insanely tiresome Just wasted a whole two weeks of my time because walls and gates mysteriously vanished with today's update Almost every single base is now just accessible because the Devs simply don't bug test enough STOP WASTING OUR TIME AND DO YOUR DAMN JOB EFFICIENTLY ALREADY, IT'S BEEN WELL OVER 15 YEARS, YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED HOW TO DO IT BY NOW

Awesome game but they really overestimated players with timed sections, including the prison 4 Hard lockpicks in 30 seconds is absurd and unrealistic, you're wasting people's time for a single box and the opening of another -edit- Returned after a while to see if anything has improved and honestly, nothing has been done Its like the devs completely abandon each title when a new one is announced They don't know wether they want to make dead island or dying light and it shows The parkour is laughably bad, very inaccurate grappling and the player is capable of surviving falls that would break a person's legs without rolling or falling The gunplay is genuinely dull as hell The melee emphasis is just irritating bc we have a limited amount of repairs per weapon (dumbest idea ever) The skill tree was barely ok with most of the abilities going unused for the entirety of my playthrough Special infected are just annoyingly frequent with bombers being able to detonate from miles away which alerts the infected to you, not the explosion so there's no escape, you have to stop and fight them or hide in a safe zone to move on, makes trying to do dialogue an absolute chore Dlc is average at best with most of it being cosmetic minus a couple guns like the volkan assault rifle and the ox cannon The dlc campaign was short winded and find numbingly poorly written It doesn't really answer any of its own questions at all All round My answer to "is dying light worth buying in 2025" The answer is no There's much better games to get now and its ok to let this dev reap the consequences of abandoning titles

The entities are intriguing at best and irritating at worst -conclusive edit- After completing the game and trying "new game+" I have some major criticisms and suggestions The first, new game plus should give us our medical items at the start at the very least, to budget 2 healing items for several enemies that all kill the player in less than 4 hits a piece is just tedious and frankly a huge hit to replayability Give us a goddamn flashlight, that's a no brainer Give us a sprint button, to have a default "sprint like" run, hinders the players movement significantly, forcing them to rely on dodging and running in circles to survive Reduce AI heavy attack rate by 15% Every second swing is heavy, disallowing the player from doing much at all and stretching fights out with pointless chasing Increase energy recharge by 10% It charges so slowly, even when upgraded, that its almost pointless to use against anything but a plyusch (however the butthole monster is spelled) Allow us to explore, this is so linear it felt insanely boring There's absolutely no emphasis on exploration whatsoever outside about three mentions of gearing up Add a hint system so that after 10min on a puzzle, your ai companion helps out with highlighted areas This will promote playtime and help players solve your puzzles without the need for guides Increase the rate at which you recover from knockback, this stupidly sluggish movement is not befitting of a trained soldier and allows enemies in new game+ to kill you before you can do anything at all OR, stop AI from attacking the player during the knockback animations Drone dispensers should not be able to spawn more after the icon is depleted, even if the player zaps it Several bots are by default, passive and while fun to look at, just become a basic obstacle like any other crap platformer Fps parkour is nice but this is a tech game with bio enhancements, we should be able to increase jump height or length at the cost of some of our body The guns fire slowly and reload even slower They dont completely reload either, you will have to reload twice to fill your mag as it will add all but 1 bullet, this is especially annoying with the shotgun as it, for the most part, only has a 4 round internal mag The melee weapons all feel the same, really no point in using most of them The energy weapons should have their own battery, once the energy is depleted you lose the use of up to 3 guns for a very long time (at least 25min) The game likes to crash when you get a new gun and want to build it, that kinda sucks and can cost you hours of progress All in all, its ok but only for like a day Being someone into most apocalypse type scenarios, i looked forward to this I am disappointed to say that this game is NOT what was promised and isnt at all a survival game It felt more like I was playing freaking bioshock Save your money folks This isn't a good game and frankly, i understand why the soviets hate it, it paints them to be cruel, warmongering lunatics

Never, ever release a game like this on console again The controls alone make it unnaturally hard to play, its insanely clunky and the dialogue is just crap I couldn't play it for more than a few minutes Be glad I'm not asking for a refund for sake of supporting the pc players Be glad i can't give this zero stars If you're on console and don't have mouse and keyboard adapters, save your money If you're on pc, have fun

I can't even play it Bought it today and it simply refuses to load past 44% despite testing all possible fixes Shame, was looking forward to this Ps4 for reference, though I doubt the devs care enough to actually make their game playable This will probably get blacklisted eventually

This is by far NOT what Dead Island is supposed to be Medkit cap desperately needs to be higher than 5 Zombie damage is stupidly high and needs to be drastically nerfed Damage needs to be buffed or zombie health needs to be drastically nerfed Zombie immunity is unrealistic, the devs don't understand what firefighter gear and barbed wire does And, to top this dumpster fire off, the miniboss type enemies are literally everywhere, you WILL NOT be given a break without purposefully seeking it out The game has some redeeming qualities but they really aren't worth mentioning You had one job Make a Dead Island game This crap is way too close to what you wanted for your other, frankly basic zombie game that isn't even worth remembering the title of Ive given you 10+ years of my life, for this. Do better Dead island 2 is as much of a waste of time as Dead Matter Just devs wasting company time and resources on their pet projects and releasing the absolute bare minimum so they aren't fired -edit- I decided to give this game some more time (1 week) as i felt my review was a little unfair BUT After the most recent patch (10 or 11/12/24) I am standing by my statements Your recent attempts at fixing bugs has only caused them to appear more often The pro service is also very buggy and barely connects or updates 90% of the time (rewards for it are NOT worth your time) The sola dlc is slightly refreshing but all it did was give us new bosses and fetch/defend quests I was yawning throughout most of it The characters lack backstory and a lot of personality, seemingly conversing with themselves more than the actual NPCs Half of what they say makes absolutely no sense and is just different cultures dad jokes at frankly the wrong moments I strongly recommend leaving this title in the pre-owned bin folks Don't believe the 5* reviews either, they're mostly written by AIs that have been coded to write something nice about as many things as possible

Downloaded this last night on ps4 for only 7$ so that's instantly a star lol Its R rated here so it understandably has some confronting themes I would like to ask that future titles not include dogs with bomb vests strapped to them, even the German reich wasn't quite that mean, they used rodents for that more often historically

Frankly This is ok for a live service despite the blatant sexualisation, way overpriced microtransactions and poorly thought out boss mechanics Sure, give us something to shoot to pull a boss out of immunity phases, DONT put that object on the most erratic part of the most erratic boss in the game Found I had to turn aim assist off because it actively fights you as you try to aim from chest to head As for people not recieving their purchased funds, they stupidly added a second message inbox at the bottom of all the shop tabs, you'll claim your money there Paying 105+ for the most common bundle is absurd, definitely taking advantage of exchange rates to feign boosted sales for marketing The ai is where it should be for something this stitched together All in all This feels more like an arcade shooter than an rpg of any kind Unfortunately I don't see this surviving unless they reduce their prices on microtransactions and tone down on the sexualisation Literally every second female character is in a body suit that fully accentuates their figure, all are the same underdressed, skinny girl the last was which makes no sense given how cold many of the in game areas are The voice acting is dry with the guide, a main role, being the literal worst Whoever voiced her for English needs to figure out what accent they want to do and when, they also need to learn to be a little more expressive, even Google translate has more spice The characters all felt like they're trying too hard to be edgy too It feels like these are less a team and more just a group of people inadvertently stuck together Story has little to no direction and the points it does actually have aren't really all too interesting If this wasn't so blatantly a cash grab and wasn't immediately catering to porn addicts, it'd be much better though One can't expect much from companies like this, if they slap the ladies in a swimsuit or maid outfit, run far and fast