Dying Light - Good Night... You're Screwed! PAX 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series hey guys we're here with Tim checking out Dying Light and I
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just got to try the day and night playthrough that was pretty insane can
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you tell me exactly what happened in there well Dying Light is a first person
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open world action Survival game with day and night cycle and right here at PX
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Prime we focus on the nighttime part of the game so the game what during the day
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you are the haunted you you have that advantage over zombies that you are that
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intelligent human with a weapon in hand uh during the night the rules change
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because the zombies get more aggressive and uh they get more intelligent they
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can climb on top of things just as good as you they can chase you actively so
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you really have to bring your top notch game to the table and and that's what
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you experienced I think yeah definitely once it became nighttime the game
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evolves essentially one of the main things that I noticed is as you're
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running by the zombies they'll kind of get this little red Glow Explosion thing
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can you EXP expl to me what's going on right there well that's just just just
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to tell you that they evolve so when they evolve they turn into these night
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forms and they night forms well wow
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there are something that you don't really want to meet them in a dark alley
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or in a supermarket or whatever you just don't want to have nothing to do with
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those guys yeah seriously I I felt that you didn't want anything to do with
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anything basically at night time just get away and stay in your traps um the
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slogan that you guys have um good night good luck that's
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very yeah he said when it went night time he was like good luck you have to
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get back to your base and it's very applicable there's not too many slogans
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that are that applicable to the game what is your favorite part of this game
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well I think the natural movement system and I we get that from previous people
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like you play the game and they always tell us that hey the natural movement
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system it is something unique it is something that I haven't experienced
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before the fluidity of it that that that like it's very natural to you for you to
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Traverse the environment and we try to give you that freedom of traversing the
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environment so if if you see something that's within your reach that in real
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life you you would really could be able to reach grab and climb on top of it you
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can do it in our game and since you play as this athletic character sper
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specialist uh well you have those such
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such many options that uh it gives you that freedom definitely I noticed
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especially coming from more of a PC background when I touched the controller
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I was automatically out of my element but it wasn't hard to pick up by the end
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of the demo I could tell I was much better than when I first started and um
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some free movement style uh mechanics in
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games can be more handh holdy than others and some of them you just hold
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the button and it kind of does everything for you I liked this one was a little bit more interactive you had to
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kind of decide what you're going to do that was really nice to see um I know
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coming from Dead Island it's it's not the same game so what are the unique
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features of this game do you find well the natural movement of course the day
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and night cycles so these are the two things that really differentiate that
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one from Dead Island but I think that the well that Island really was a very
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basic game very very simple game it was hacken SL game with zombies with first
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person perspective right now we always try to give you these options so you can
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always either fight either run either
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try to be smart about it and use the traps that you just said maybe use some
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gadgets that you have in your inventory like the firecrackers you can throw
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firecrackers at one location and the zombies CR around it for a second so
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that opens up new ways for you so this is a game about Freedom about options
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about and about decisions and I hope that people will make the right
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decisions because because if they if they make a if they make a wrong
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decision then they screwed basically yeah talking about traps and the
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firecrackers and that kind of stuff what are some of the nice interesting Unique
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Mechanics that you have I know there was the the car trap that was probably my
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favorite one what other examples are there like well the car trap as you said
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the car alarm trap is really my favorite as well well what it does when you
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activate it the car alarm goes off and the zombies crowd around the car and
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then the car explodes so they're like flying all around the screen there's
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also this like say light STP light trap
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uh is like the survivors rewire the L
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lamp posts and when you're being chased during the night and you activate that
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that trap the whole intersection is like it's flooded with lights so the zombies
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get disoriented and you get this few precious second to few precious seconds
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to escape so that's to the there there's stuff like that and we have like a few
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dozen of things like like that in our game that's awesome and those few couple
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seconds that he said with the light trap are definitely needed it's not like a
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few couple seconds it's not a big deal it's that's a really big deal how would
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someone go about getting this game and what platforms can they get it on well
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the game comes comes out next year for PC PS3 PS4 Xbox 360 and Xbox one but
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what's what's important is that the whole game can be played in Co-op so uh
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you can play the game in four player co-op from A to Z but it it is drop in
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drop out so you can start the game solo then you play for a couple of hours then
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maybe your friend joins in you play together for a couple of hours but you
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don't have to stick together you're just in the same game world so you can go
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into separate directions you can do different missions and after he drops
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out you just continue solo uh like your main story and also a couple of days ago
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we've announced our new mode B the zombie is a PVP mode for our game so
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that's a mode that allows you to play as a zombie and invite
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in invade other people's games so uh and
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you also get that like special character
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progression systems like set of zombie skills that you build along the way so
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at the end of it you become that ultimate zombie and you can go mess with
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your friends games and that's something that really is cool that would be a lot
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of fun just screwing around with all my friends that's really cool and it's nice to see that you guys have co-op up to
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four players because I've noticed a trend lately is that Co-op isn't that
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big of a thing but a lot of people are looking for it so it's great to see a
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game like this which would work so well with Co-op to actually be implementing
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