The newly-announced Dying Light: The Beast is a standalone project in the franchise, but it wasn’t always that way. Speaking with Games Radar, Techland revealed it started out as DLC for Dying Light 2, but due to story details leaking, things changed direction.
Tymon Smektala, franchise director on Dying Light, revealed that a “very eager community” leaked key story details for the DLC, which set off a number of changes that eventually resulted in the game becoming a standalone project.
We have a very eager community to learn everything about Dying Light, and they managed to dig out some details – very juicy, basically crucial details about the narrative.
So this made us think, ‘OK, what can we do with this?’ We had a week-long set of meetings where we discussed different scenarios. The conclusion of those meetings was the idea to bring Kyle Crane back. At first, we weren’t sure because we weren’t sure if we could get Roger [Craig Smith, Kyle’s voice actor] back on it, and without the man, it would make no sense.
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When this decision was made, the whole project just exploded. Why? Because almost half the team has worked on Dying Light 1 or The Following. There are many fans for those games internally at Techland, so everyone’s suddenly so inspired. Every day, people came to the office like, ‘Hey, it would be cool if you do this, can we do that, where can we add this?’
Dying Light: The Beast is due out in 2025 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.
[Source – Games Radar]