Restored Land Edition - Release Notes (1.6)

Prepare yourself for an intense and emotionally charged journey with the latest release update for Dying Light: The Beast! This release introduces the high-strung Restored Land experience alongside a series of exciting game enhancements, designed to test your resilience and strategy. Restored Land is a brand new game experience that changes the rules of survival in Castor Woods!

Restored Land - survival like never before

Explore an exhilarating new experience with Restored Land - revolution of survival in Castor Woods. Available through a dedicated section in the main menu, this solo-only experience offers gameplay on Survivor or Brutal difficulty levels. You’ll navigate a persistent world where enemies remain defeated and loot can only be collected once, highlighting the heightened tension of every heart-pounding decision.

In Restored Land, open-world activities such as Convoys, Dark Zones, and Hives can be completed only once. To keep a clear track of your progress you can use special map markers. The Regions Threat Levels on the map empower you to strategize in reclaiming areas, clearing them of enemies and paving the way for remaining survivors so they can start revitalizing the region. Survival mechanics like hunger and flashlight management add an extra layer of challenge, while inventory limits require you to gather funds for specialized backpack upgrades from in-game vendors.

Manage the nighttime difficulty by clearing Hives to reduce numbers of the roaming Volatiles, but be careful as the Alpha Volatile will still hunt you during the nights. To help you a little with your task, we hid two items that might just bring you back from the brink. If you want the ultimate challenge, you can intensify your Restored Land experience with One Life Mode, where each death resets your journey! Check leaderboards to measure your survival days in Restored Land and unlock seven new achievements as you progress. Engage in dynamic and refined battles against special infected, and uncover over 30 new random quest encounters with enhanced rewards - and that’s also available in the regular game mode!

Completing Restored Land rewards players with an exceptional outfit accessible across all save files. Those who conquer Restored Land with the One Life challenge are granted an additional outfit, receive special recognition in co-op play, and uncover unique surprises within Town Hall. Numerous gameplay and performance improvements ensure this immersive experience tests your skills in the relentless world of Restored Land. Dive in and navigate the ultimate challenge, where the world itself becomes a visceral reflection of danger and desperation. Are you ready to emerge victorious?

Roadkill Rallies

Update 1.6 expands the action with the introduction of Roadkill Rallies - five new racing challenges, offering time-based missions that test your skills in eliminating infected and perfecting your driving routes. To win gold in each race, you must kill a specific number of infected and reach the finish line within the time limit. Each track has its own theme; some feature threats like Suiciders, but in all of them, finding the optimal route is key to winning gold. The challenges introduce a new car model, the Roadkiller - a tougher vehicle that you can unlock by earning gold in every race in this series. Did we mention you can compete against each other?

New feature - Leaderboards

Track your performance in both Restored Land mode and the new Roadkill Rallies, and see how you stack up against others:

• Friends Leaderboards - Players can track their performance in both Restored Land mode and Roadkill Rallies, and compare their results with friends.

• Global Leaderboards (Consoles Only) - Additionally, on consoles we also introduce global leaderboards for both Restored Land mode and Roadkill Rallies. We decided to implement them only on consoles to help ensure fair competition, as the current client-only PC implementation does not allow global rankings to be fully protected from potential exploits.

Gameplay Tweaks and new finishers

With resources drastically limited, players experience solitude as they navigate shops with reduced stocks at higher prices. XP is increased to counterbalance the rare enemy encounters, while player levels cap at 15. Hunger must be managed, and flashlight batteries replaced, to avoid succumbing to exhaustion and darkness, where the fear of making one wrong move heightens anxiety. Moreover we’ve added 5 new brutal Fury finishers for special infected:

• Banshee

• Charger

• Demolisher

• Goon

• Volatile

UI Enhancements

Enhancements come with a fresh perspective: explore a specialized entry in the main menu, thematic loading screens, and updated death and completion screens that match the emotional intensity of your journey. An improved HUD, accompanied by personal map markers, offers valuable assistance in exploration and resource gathering - tools for those facing solitude and danger head-on. Additionally we've added a ping system for co-op play that allows players to quickly mark locations and improve communication during shared gameplay.

Game Updates

Along with the event, Update 1.6 introduced many fixes and game improvements. You can find the full list of changes HERE: https://dyinglightgame.com/news/restored-land-release-notes-16