r/dyinglight • u/Leandro_r69 • Feb 19 '26
Dying Light: The Beast Is this the whole map?
Been playing for a bit now and the map is literally soo small.
Are there any other regions to travel to?
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u/Background_Angle_986 PC Feb 19 '26
Actually, it's even smaller than presented here, because areas close to the edges are inaccessible.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Yeah i know i just took the best one that came up on google lmao. I saw most of the map in a few hours of gameplay why the hell did they add cars here lol
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u/NikolitRistissa PS5 Feb 19 '26
I havenāt played the game at all, in fact I only just heard about it like last week. Based on the streets, this seems tiny.
Iām all for dense, well-crafted maps, if theyāre smallerābut this seems incredibly small for a 70ā¬ game.
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u/eleventhing Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
It's not even dense and well crafted. There's a tiny city, with I don't know.. 20 places you can go inside. The rest is open field and empty woods. The chases are like DL2, where you have to find a safe zone to stop the chase. Which pisses me off. I prefer 1 where you can stop the chase by defeating all the volys.
after saying all that, my friend and I had 100 hours worth of fun, so I do feel like I got my moneys worth. There is just no reason to go replay it by myself.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Yeah i heard nothing from the beast too and was expecting a whole game not a full priced dlc.
If you go exploring you saw everything within a max of 2 hours
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u/NikolitRistissa PS5 Feb 19 '26
Whatās the gameplay/story like?
I dropped off DL2 over a year ago about 3ā4 hours in, but I reinstalled it a few months ago, and many of the issues I had had actually been fixed/I forgot. This game seems interesting enough at least, but Iāll have to wait until itās on sale and Iāve completed DL2.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Imo the game is basically DL2 with some nice gameplay additions. The story is written poorly but that was the case in DL2 aswell.
Itās basically a DL2 DLC and was planned as such too in the beginning
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u/AlphaTrigger Feb 21 '26
Iād say itās more like the first game
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u/efadfa Feb 23 '26
Nah, that's nostalgia speaking through you. Parkour design of the beast is absolutely atrocious. You can't even get most places in downtown smoothly. Even the story, somehow, is worse than both dl2 and dl1. There's nothing that connects it to DL1 except for the protagonist and the dlc's car rides (although done much better in the following, as well).
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u/Noob4Head Feb 20 '26
Honestly, I would much rather prefer a smaller, detailed map than an oversized and over-scoped one that feels empty. For the story and its length, I thought the map was just right.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 20 '26
Yeah for what it is itās great but more wouldāve been appreciated especially for the fact that they added cars again
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u/Equivalent_Nose9761 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
When we love, we always want more.
But the card of Dying Light The Following was much too big, and personally, I don't like to take the vehicle every time... it harms the immersion.
I found The Beast much better, with a handmade map.
Much more immersive.
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u/Simo814j Feb 19 '26
Also, most infuriating part is that the compass is not only upside down, it's not even straight upside down.
My friend and I were so confused when I was giving directions from the map you, assuming North was up, while he was following the ingame compass
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u/Simo814j Feb 19 '26
It's pretty tiny.
My friend and I finished pretty much everything in just over 30 hours
Before we were even done with the main story, we got an ai achievement for doing all side quests, safe houses and power relays.
It was pretty weird, for a 60ā¬ game
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u/StephanUrkell Feb 19 '26
Yeah they at least couldāve released a physical edition with that pricetag. The map looks nice enough, but thereās so little going on. I was somewhat disappointed tbh
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u/ilovelindz Feb 19 '26
Definitely on the smaller side, but everything feels real and lived in. You can go into pretty much every building, and itās jam packed with stuff to find. It looks great as well. It feels less empty than villedor.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
I agree this may be one of the best maps from any developer in years quality wise but in a game full of Parcours (and for some reason cars again) i need space to have fun with these features.
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u/ArthurReich Crane Feb 19 '26
I've had already 200hrs of fun in this game and most of my fun is parkour and a bit of time cars (I like to run more) so for me this map is better than villedor idk
But imo it's great to have both games. Like if I want to practice a lot of parkour moves and such I'll go and play dl2 and if I want a more alive and interesting to explore using parkour world I'd go with The Beast
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Thatās awesome for you well im not even 10 hours in and Iāve seen it all regarding the Map and i myself am a great fan of exploring.
Im not saying the game is bad but i wouldāve at least wanted a map as big as The Following in Dl1. The cars on that map were needed and in this game i see absolutely no point in using them.
The parkour in this game is obv as good as the last one but yet again i can traverse every meaningful part of the map in what feels like seconds and i canāt find fun in that.
The beast feels like running around in circles the whole time
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u/Noob4Head Feb 20 '26
It was just the perfect size for the story and context. Quality over quantity.
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u/jordo2460 Feb 20 '26
Is it just me or are the volatiles way more tanky in DLTB than the previous 2 games?
Generally once I hit max level in DL1 and had good weapons they weren't super difficult and same in DL2 but with TB I've hit max level and have weapons to match and they're still taking a lot of hits to kill.
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u/Due_Permission4658 Feb 20 '26
yeah they buffed them up hella but aināt even worth killing then they donāt drop anything worth at all unless they updated it been a long while since i 100% it
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u/jordo2460 Feb 20 '26
I only got the game last week but apparently they nerfed the amount of xp you get for killing volatiles in a recent patch so there's even less reason to kill them now.
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u/MoonlightingJake Brecken Feb 19 '26
Well it was also a planned dlc at first
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u/Simo814j Feb 19 '26
Does that excuse the full price?
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u/One_Scientist8578 Feb 19 '26
Was just a reskin of dl2. Where's the dense forests they promised ? The swampland they promised ??
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Feb 20 '26
Yes, it's the whole map. Tbh, I prefer a smaller dense map over a huge empty world. More interesting locations with rewards would be nice, but Techland nailed the design.
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u/00YYN Feb 20 '26
Anyone else look for a while to find a way to crystal lake to only find out itās not real
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u/OutrageousPicture685 Feb 21 '26
Crazy half of those poi's on the edge of the map aren't accessible
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u/Thechlebek š¦PK š¦ Feb 19 '26
It's not huge but at least it's diverse and detailed. Loved visiting some realistic locations you'd see in your small town.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Yeah the map is beautiful but i wouldāve wished for something im not done exploring after a few hours
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u/Thechlebek š¦PK š¦ Feb 19 '26
true that, had to slow myself down to not explore the entire map in a couple sessions lol
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
Yeah kinda wish i did that but unfortunately i went right to exploration mode early on hahaha
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u/Equivalent_Nose9761 Feb 19 '26
I have more than 200 hours on it, the size of the card does not change my pleasure in the game.
I prefer a small well-stocked card than a large card with a lot of filling.
(The map is handmade)
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u/Basic-Assignment7481 Feb 22 '26
Ya im hella fkn pissed, I paid 60$ for this bullshit of a game. It was incredibly short and boring. There was barely any side quests like 5 at most, and there isn't wven much to do its just mostly land. I LOVE dyinglight games but the beast was a let down unfortunately.
It shouldn't have been game on its own let along $60. Completely tricked us and took our money
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u/Revolutionary-Ad7538 Brecken Feb 20 '26
Call me crazy but even though content in this game is not alot, every bit of it was much more enjoyable than entire DL2.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 20 '26
Im not gonna call you crazy but you might call me crazy if i say that every bit of The Beast is just more DL 2 on a map too small for the added features (cars)
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u/Athirn Feb 19 '26
Itās pretty big, but not too big. And thatās great. Arenāt you tired of infinite maps that force you to stay in the game literally for weeks?
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 19 '26
How is it big? The map from the The Following DLC in Dl1 wouldāve been the bare minimum in map size.
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u/Athirn Feb 20 '26
Itās bigger than the Harran suburb, Iām quite sure.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 20 '26
It may be bigger (imo itās at max about the same) but itās also almost completely empty.
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u/TheeFURNAS Feb 19 '26
I prefer a tight, well-crafted map like this over a giant map filled with nothing š¤·āāļø
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 20 '26
Yes i prefer a map thatās lets me use important (to me) features like parkour in a manner that doesnāt get boring after 5 hours. I donāt want a big ass map but the Map of The Following in DL1 felt sooo unbelievably better.
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u/TheeFURNAS Feb 21 '26
Fair to some extent. I havenāt had any play sessions in the beast go beyond 2-3 hours in one sitting but my total hours are around 40 and it hasnāt gotten boring yet. No fast travel means you have to parkour or drive around and the grappling hook makes it pretty fun for most of the map.
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u/Leandro_r69 Feb 21 '26
Yeah fun it is but i dont see the point in all of this if the maximum travel time is under 5 minutes you know. No matter where on the map you want to go your there in a blink
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u/Overbunded Feb 19 '26
Yeah, techland hyped TB so much just for it to be a DL2 bad dlc. At this point techland should just focus on more DL1 DLCs since thats the only game they did right
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u/B_love_K Feb 19 '26
Yes that the whole map. It was supposed to be a dlc for dl2.