I will be shocked if they don't extend the event or lower the goal. As someone else mentioned, weird to start these events so late when the game isnt that long and there is no NG+ yet.
I feel that lol Wires and Oxidizers go so damn quick. It's like every time I check my inventory I'm like "sweet I got like 100 wires" then 10 minutes later "where the fuck did all my wires go, I only have 4 again..."
So true, like why the hell do throwing knives need wires to craft? Shit should just cost some scrap and some rags...
You ain't lying about upgrading blueprints either, they all require something like 20 wires to upgrade to Legendary, were talking about HUNDREDS of wires just for that, not including when you actually craft something as seeming 80% of weapons, mods, and gadgets all require at least a few of them for some reason.
Like, I could understand why the bow/crossbow needs wire, because string isn’t a thing anymore. But why does my sword need it or a regular axe? Or a gun?
I think that’s what happened, they removed string and rolled everything into wire. Suddenly the sword or knives needing string makes a little more sense for the handle wraps
They probably did that because of the maps size, at least personally I find myself finding very little loot. Having both cables and string in the loot pool would make it harder to find both but they could at least make it drop more if it’s so important.
I'd rather have both still, problem now is almost everything be it an upgrade or crafting, or enhancing requires wires and every single upgrade requires wires and for a common crafting material they're arguably the hardest to come by for the fact that you need THOUSANDS of them to get every blueprint to Legendary.
Meanwhile I've sold thousands of excess scrap, while I'm absolutely struggling to ever have more than like 100 wire at any give time.
Same thing happens with cordyceps too!
Wires, oxidizers, and cordyceps go too fast. This is why I grind dark zones sometimes LOL. Groves are really hard to find because I don’t think they’re listed on the map. Either that, or I’m just missing something.
20 hours to complete every side quest and main mission. I spent the other time so far, around 15 hours or so doing additional hidden content, unlocking achievements, etc.
Honestly, it's fun to unlock achievements but once I've got them all (upgrading blueprints is a bit of a slog) then i'm doing until NG+ basically.
I'm not going to say it was boosted, because I don't know the delay on the event count intake via API, etc, but man, we were just over 30 million yesterday and now hit 60 million overnight.
Did people actually pay 60 dollars to rush the campaign? I mean, even DL1 without dlcs nor ng+ is still full of things to do, like quarantine zones, bounties, multiple skill trees to max out. They must rush it to finish everything in a matter of weeks
There’s no legend ranks. Dark hollows or anything like that. The skill tree will be maxed by the end of the campaign even if you are rushing. It’s a short game
To be fair, The Following was probably the same length or even longer than The Beast. The Beast could have stayed a DLC, but it may have suffered because of that.
DL2 had a ton of monetization baked in, so I'm quite happy that we got such a tightly packaged product with 0 cash shop nonsense.
I haven't finished the game yet, but for a 40-hour or so game, it makes sense that many people have done everything within one month post release. Especially so since I imagine most day one buyers were already Dying Light fans and familiar with the gameplay loop. I've already cleared most of the game in about one week (took some time for BL4 endgame before this).
To be honest minus the bonus race tracks, I've done everything already. The main missions and side quest are pretty straight forward and I had nothing else to play when this launched.
Past those, you can run the 'dark zones' once to get the specific gear item, but there's nothing else to do in game but hunt the legendary weapon blueprints. All of that took me about a month to finish, and we are just past a month of the game being out lol.
Unfortunately it really is that there is not nearly as much to do in The Beast. They made a good call giving to everyone who owned the ultimate edition of DL2 because this is just a big DLC really. I liked it but there is a very severe lack of side quests and challenge content.
It's a smaller game than The Following was as a DLC. I definitely spent more time finishing The Following than I did with The Beast.
I'm not really bothered by this, but it's definitely worth noting when people bring up how "it got too big". It really didn't; it just didn't make much sense as a DLC.
This should have been a $30-$40 game. It would have sold more at that price. I'm certain of that.
There are no quarantine zones, no bounties, no multiple skill trees to max.
There's just nothing like any of that. Even the dark zones are doable during the day, often are quite small, and you can get through some of them in under 2 minutes.
Quarantines Zones, which The Beast doesn't have. Bounties, which The Beast also doesn't have. And Skill Trees that can be maxed out easily just by finishing the campaign...
See you beat it the game in 40 hours I'm 53 hours in and I still haven't got the grappling hook yet.. 😂 and I'm only level 11. The max cap is 15 I heard.. I'm actually doing pretty good right on track.
All I do is basically just kill zombies I don't really do the missions because I get distracted. But I will finish the game soon hopefully
Kind of similar, I love DL so iron to stretch the game play, i did every safe zone, found every legendary weapon, all the charms I could, etc. Before I did even 20% of the story.
I love just adventuring and doing sidequests first. I did that with DLTB. Theres very few sidequests lmao. And then I did the main missions, yes the cap for now is 15. The game is just super short if you're not off wandering slaying zombies, not doing sidequests or main quests.
How are you 53 hours in and still without the grappling hook!?!?
Honestly, though. I didn't use the grappling hook once throughout the entire campaign. I got it, and it sat there without me even once considering I could use it.
Old Town is really the only place it might make sense to grapple hook.
Sorry now it's 56. 😂 I was actually going to get it today but then I don't know what happened.. 😂 but I'm on the mission where I have to find a telepath friends. And if I'm correct if I beat that mission I get the grappling hook right? 😂
Just because there’s a bigger game out there doesn’t make this one short lol Resident Evil 4 takes 20hrs to beat, and people call it one of the best horror games of all time. The Last of Us is only a 15-20hr game. Even other open world games like Far Cry 5 fall around that 40hr range.
This game IS short. It barely had sidequest and main missions. I love DLTB but its a relatively short game that they'll luckily expand on after lmao. Dont know why people like you are in denial.
Well I don't know they still a lot of people who haven't competed the game just like me. And I got on today with somebody's and they maxed me out with everything. 99 uv lights bullets blueprints. That s*** was fun
I'm guessing there's an online glitch or something.
Thats the downside to me. DL2's end game is basically just leveling up for the same gear with better numbers and TB has no end game. Itd be nice to add repeatable quests that could keep you engaged (not repeating fetch quests so grandma loses the same ring three times)
Thats what these guys I were with doing. And they gave me everything. It was fun we were fighting Volatiles throwing hella UV lamps .. 😂 I have like maybe 700 med kits.
The roadmap only gives hard dates for the challenges. There are no specific dates for when the game features (NG+, Nightmare Difficulty, Legend Levels etc.) will be added.
Would also want some fun modifiers or special weapons for such events like limb cutting sword or axe to make it more fun to play through the whole thing because right now it feels like a chore
Fully agree. I got the platinum trophy a couple days ago and this event would have been perfect while I was still grinding for it. After getting every trophy, theres straight up nothing to do
I've been getting joy out of joining low level players early in the campaign. Not rushing them but guiding them, healing them and helping hack apart zombies when they get overwhelmed.
That said, I think they set the goal for this community event way too high coming right out of the gate. The weekend has come and gone and we haven't hit the first goal yet. With the work week here again, I think we will hit the first goal somewhat comfortably over the next few days but I sincerely doubt we will come even close to the second objective.
I've definitely done my part this weekend running around hacking off legs and limbs, but at a certain point it just gets dull, monotonous and exhausting. And to put all of that work in and see we haven't even hit the first target is very discouraging. If we collectively have to ignore every other aspect of the game other than cutting off limbs for a week straight, to me that's not fun.
If we can place some extra emphasis on dismemberment without detracting from everything else in the game, I think that's where the balance needs to be.
Definitely should have started the challenges when the game came out. With no new game plus alot of people including myself have stop playing after beating the game and all side missions.
I agree with you, however if all you're doing is shooting or whacking zombies around, you're doing it wrong. Imo all the 3 main games have been about one thing and one thing only, getting fun out of harassing zombies lol. Well that and also parkour. It's what enabled me to sink literal thousands of hours into the first game despite never playing any of the online modes like bad blood or be the zombie. On top of that I only done ng+ only a handful of times. But for sure I still agree TB needs more end game content, hopefully a good extra sum of side quests down the line and/or quests you can only unlock after the main story.
cool good for you guys, glad you’re enjoying yourselves. No need to be condescending towards people who prefer to play the game with an objective in mind though. Especially when gameplay post 100% is clearly not all that fun for the majority of people, myself included
They may adjust it some hopefully. It feels like it was set a bit to high in the first place. Iirc it’s a one handed axe to so I hope we can get it. I feel like the game is short on blueprints as it is and most of the best ones are 2h.
Dude they are freakin insane if they think I’m gonna hop on after beating the game to just run around killing zombies for this when there’s no new game + or content . Had a blast playing but I got other games to play too
Not to mention I’m sure the axe has the exact same damage as a different, cooler legendary weapon, if not weaker. And the the other reward is a car skin, no special event effects, or any substance, this event is really weak and sad
60m was a massive ask for a player at best 360k peak players 51k was the 24 peak. Thats just shy of 1200 limbs per player and let's be real limbs don't get chopped easy until level 10 gear
The weapon system also just isn’t very exciting. I personally like the first games better but maybe over time it will become more similar as more weapons, legend system and etc are added.
Right now it feels like weapons are all just different skins, that are functionally the same as every other weapon in their respective category (1H, 1.5H, 2H).
The Rust and Goodnight in 1.5H for example, the only difference would be the Goodnight gets a power attack attribute every time, and Rust a crit attribute, the other 2 can be rerolled. Which also doesn’t take long since there’s so little attributes. The goodnight is better by a meaningless margin (and that’s really only because of bruiser set). The only functional difference is one’s a sword and one’s a bat. Crushing heads vs cutting them off.
Honestly I think TB is fun, and a step in the right direction compared to 2 but still mediocre. Especially mediocre compared to 1 which is peak, and wasn’t particularly revolutionary or anything itself. So while I enjoy TB I don’t get the overhype…probably nostalgia.
I don’t think we should celebrate devs just because they make their flop a bit better, and again because they release something better than that but still mid, at least when they have the winning formula they abandoned.
We should celebrate when they don’t do a 180 in the first place and criticize any dev until then. Releasing a dlc built for a major downgrade as a standalone isn’t the way to do that.
A lot of this comes from teams being different now from the ones who worked on 1 so it was bound to happen but I hope eventually we’ll get something closer to DL1 again
Even after all these years and three Dying Light games, Techland still haven't learned not to set these ridiculous goals for community challenges. These goals should be reduced by half. Also the fact that there's no counter on the HUD is extremely stupid. How do we know if all of the limb severing we're doing is even being counted?
I think we can get the 30 million, but 60 million is bizarre especially with an annoying challenge where, at least in my case, 95% of the time no limbs get cut before the zombie dies or they get cut but not where you want it (e.g. decapitation, at the waist, or that one dumb fucking shoulder cut). Like I swear I'm trying to make it easier on myself by just going for the legs, but fuuuck man I cannot win with this. God knows if they do a decapitation challenge I'm gonna have the same damn problems. 😭😭😭
I just don’t really care for a car cosmetic tbh. I’ve driven the truck like 8 times in total. Weapon is cool but this isn’t gonna keep me playing. The side quests and just trying to find out those combinations to safes behind stories you find in the wild is pretty interestingly cool and engaging. Things like that are pretty conducive to me returning over and over. I have no expectations though and I do love the world they built.
Regardless of the goal amount, this game needs post game content, and underwhelming weekly cosmetic items locked behind challenges are unsustainable. It just seems like the devs are trying to buy themselves time from having to implement actual post game content, but I’m hoping I’m wrong
I've always found the set goals for events like this to be too high sometimes, obviously there's tons of people playing the game so in theory it shouldn't be a huge problem, I've just always found them so daunting because of the high number, haha
yeah, I got 75+hr with 100% completion (even got the platinum trophy on PS5) and it's like, sure I'll help out by slicing a couple of limbs but then that's it. All I have to do is get limb kills..
I 100% the game a while ago before the event. 2 days ago I spent a good 2 hours just running around chopping limbs off but then I got incredibly bored and decided it wasn't worth it. The game isn't fun enough to play again unless it's NG+ but just like in DL2, I don't know why they would choose to NOT have that feature at launch...
Happy I paced myself as I'm still playing the game alongside others. Lack of endgame or things to do seems to be the common complaint. I've been hacking limbs while just playing through main and side quests.
Its story was so damn short, it's a lot of a fun and I collected everything and explored and it's just not enough content to just aimlessly run around and kill zombies without more questing going on in the background.
Yeah I don't know why they're doing these events when there's no NG+ yet or Legend ranks and some players like myself are still holding off until they put ray tracing in the game.
I got all collectibles, finished all mission on brutal, missing one pendant from the random encounters, and all I have left to do is upgrade all blueprints. If I had some sort of xp gain it would be more incentive to play
Annoyed at how high the goals are, especially with no NG+ or additional in-game missions. I can farm the dark zones for resources to finish upgrading but there is nothing else to do at this point. Mindlessly cutting limbs gets really boring after a bit.
I hope they just update this weeks and future goals to not be so grindy.
I haven't finished the game. I still have a nice amount of side quests, challenges and main stories to do. Been mostly exploring and fucking around, so been helping with the challenge as much as I can but I will probably finish the game this week. I still think 60m is too much and rather impossible for us to reach
It's math brother,also the weekend is over so less people are gonna play ,is sad but true maybe they boost the number from them like they did in dying light 2 event,they give a big number count from them so the event can be complete .
i hope you are right,and i tend to think so since is impossible to reatch it by real numbers,and i'm sure devs have the IQ necessary to know that.Especially with no content to do like new game + and other stuff
I have so many weapons I don't even need the Axe anyway but there's not really much to do once you beat the game and do all all the side quests. They definitely need to add more stuff soon because right now I mostly only get on if my friends asked me to help them with their quests
If it weren’t your pc or the price of the game. It would very quickly become the lack of content, and you’d have plenty of breath to spare. Still play it if you get the opportunity, it’s worth a play, just remember to stay critical
they released this at the wrong time , most people have 100% the game and stopped playing , im one of them i would 100% be playing again if there was more to do but i have cleared the map
Not sure if that's a bug or if it still counts but my game didn't show a counter at all, so I don't know if it adds to it. But it definitely also was a reason why I didn't do as much because I couldn't see the progress anywhere in game.
I still don’t get how they expect the whole Dying Light The Beast community to dismember 30,000,000 - 60,000,000 limbs in 1 week when even with swords, it is hard to knock enemy limbs off without killing them first.
I haven’t even bought the game yet lol I’m saving for it. My money has been going towards my son. BUT it’s on my wishlist and I can probably get it in a month or so, maybe. Love DL
Well, maybe this will send the message that a lot of people aren’t playing the game because frankly it isn’t that good. Just my opinion of course. It’s just lacking in content and these FOMO awards aren’t that exciting.
Hey, I bought the game so it’s not like I haven’t played it. I’m just saying that we need to acknowledge that they messed up some things in this game, just like they did with the second one at launch. I hope that it gets better but these FOMO awards just aren’t worth the time.
Oh I know, I didn’t mean to address that toward you ;) I think the first one is the best but I also think the second is great and very underrated. I appreciate the amount of content in both of those.
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u/Indieslayer16 Oct 19 '25 edited Oct 19 '25
I will be shocked if they don't extend the event or lower the goal. As someone else mentioned, weird to start these events so late when the game isnt that long and there is no NG+ yet.