With the final quarter of 2021 in full swing and the rest of the year's big releases such as Halo Infinite, Battlefield 2042, and Call of Duty: Vanguard quickly approaching, it's understandable that a lot of titles are seeing delays into 2022. One such game is Dying Light 2, which was originally slated for early 2020 when it was first revealed in 2019. Now that the game has had its seemingly final push into February 2022, fans who were eagerly anticipating the game's release are craving a return to the survival horror action world of Dying Light. Thankfully, a next-gen version of the 2015 original appears to be on the way.
Last week when responding to a fan on Twitter, Dying Light developer Techland casually revealed that it was developing a next-generation version of the 2015 action-horror title that went on to sell over 17 million copies. This comes after the developer launced Dying Light: Platinum Edition for Nintendo Switch earlier this week, which brought the original game along with all of its DLC to Nintendo consoles for the first time ever, in anticipation for Dying Light 2's cloud version that is planned to release in 2022.
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The announcement that Dying Light would be receiving a native port to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S was instantly met with praise from fans, who have been asking Techland to release a next-generation version since the release of the consoles in November 2020. Despite this, the developer provided no comments on when these versions would be delivered other than that there would be information "soon."
Well, it appears that it could be as early as this week as fans have discovered that the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) has rated the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game, granting it an "Mature 17+" rating. Interestingly, this version was rated alongside the Nintendo Switch release, implying that all three versions are intended to be released at once. While unconfirmed, games leaking due to being rated by the ESRB has happened quite a bit.
While Dying Light was added to Xbox's FPS Boost program earlier this year, pushing the Xbox One version of the game to 60 frames-per-second performance on Xbox Series X consoles, this hasn't stopped fans from requesting a true next-generation version of the game, given that the game didn't receive any 4K visual enhancements for the PlayStation 4 Pro or Xbox One X, and the PlayStation 5 backwards compatibility playback remains locked at 30 frames-per-second. Since ESRB ratings usually come at the very end of a game's development cycle, it's not hard to believe that Dying Light's next-generation version could launch as early as this week. Unfortunately, there has not been any information on if it will be a free update for owners of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions.
Dying Light 2 will release for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 4th 2022. A cloud version will also release for Nintendo Switch.
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Source: ESRB