Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Bloody Ties

I love Techland and all the hard work they put into the dying light series, but omfg this dlc actually sucked phat zombie balls and would refund this crap if i could.

Bloody Ties feels like filler content that tries to stretch a basic arena mode into something bigger than it is. The story had potential but gets buried under repetitive challenges, clunky combat, and THE FACT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN USE THE WEAPONS YOU HAVE. For a DLC that’s supposed to add excitement, it ends up feeling like a chore. 4/10

I can now confirm that, after beating this DLC, every complaint about it is legit and I truly don't think it has very many redeeming qualities: - You get some REALLY solid gear, BUT you are better off just max upgrading weapon blueprints you already have - Challenges can be interesting BUT lack replay quality and, in more than one occasion, I couldn't win a stage cause the game just refused to continue on, INCLUDING in a story advancing round. Also the challenges are super repetitive, not fun and effectively, instantly lose their luster. The most interesting missions are theme'd story missions where you play as say Robin Hood stealing from the Sheriff in the zombie-plague, but being allowed to play those is basically a privelege and not the quality of the rest, with one entire category being rather lame parkour, another being a single 1 on 1 with a "Strong" boss, a vague survival thing. Basically, just not very good variety for the main thing here which is challenges. - Interesting characters BUT none of them get any type of conclusion with the raw exception of the main villain, kinda. For instance there is an assistant character who wants Astrid to remember "The good old times" who requests you to go and grab pieces of info about her to jog her memory of the good old days. You do her fetch quest, come back and find out she was effectively, unceremoniously off-screen, and knowing this game, if you likely didn't complete her quest she'd just permanently stand there even after the ending of the DLC which is just... Not great. You learn very little about her as a character, but there's something interesting there literally never explored, nor is much about what happened to Astrid explained. If you can see a character in this store page, rest assured, that character WILL show up, you WILL be a little invested, and they WILL have no conclusion that's fulfilling in any way at all and that is just bonkers. - The shield glove is interesting in terms of permanent equipment BUT you only get it AFTER you beat the DLC, making what could be your interseting ace in the hole nonexistent. - You unlock a recipe from the original Dying Light finally but, again, it's implemented SO POORLY that by the time I got it I was basically max level on New Game meaning I had no more room to grow, which is good cause - The DLC missions all suck, all force you to use specific weapons, all remove your armor, etc, so you have to have gotten pretty far to beat the DLC, but if you've gotten far enough to beat the DLC it'll be far too easy cause nothing in the game scales very well at all. - You can't grind out any rewards, not like you'd really want too, until AFTER you beat the DLC making it redundant. - Similar to the other, weird arena DLC from Dying Light 1, this DLC is just kinda boring with somehow even less gameplay than the one in the original, with a setting that's vageuly cool ruined by just zero followthrough with characters. - Confusing purchase structure: I bought the deluxe whatever edition ages ago so I don't have to worry about it but I'm just LOOKING at the fact you can't buy this solo just makes me confused. EDIT: I forgot - Forces you to fight a LOT of human enemies who can't be parkour'd or stunned or anything, meaning you get to do the very lame "Dodge back, run in, hit twice, dodge back" dance. I have no clue why THESE human enemies have that issue but the ones in the base game work properly. Part of me wants to say it's worth like 5$ or 10$ but honestly, since I don't even understand how you buy it I'm just gonna go with this: The DLC, even at free, feels like filler content that somehow misses the mark on every single target it has, either due to changes made retroactively [Weapons are easier to keep around so buying tons of weapons for cheap isn't really relevant] or things that were true by default on this DLC's launch [The story is just not there and the content is not fulfilling on basically any level.] Techland, Dying Light 2 is a clunky mess at the best of times, even now, but this DLC is a portal back to a time when the game was in an even worse state, so that's maybe the one bonus it has.

Absolute f*cking dogsh*t. Dull story. Boring gameplay and stupid challenges. Worst part of it: forced stealth that DOES NOT F*CKING WORK.

To even do the DLC you have to play one of the worst if not the worst part of the entire game. A parkour challenge which you will do dozens of times if you play on high difficulty and may win by pure chance if you are lucky. I am all for difficulty but this was just shit. No idea how bad the rest of it is going to be because I am losing my patience with this shit and all I read about it is that it sucks. So I guess I am going to skip it yet again. This is horrible. Absolute garbage. Take the worst parts of the game, make them mandatory and as difficult as possible for no fucking reason. You want open world, free play? Fuck you. You are getting set weapons, linear challenges and everything as difficult as possible of course. If you buy this on your own, then you wasted your money and if you play this at all you will waste your time. Just ignore it. There is nothing worth while in Bloody Ties.

One of the worst DLCs I have ever bought across hundreds of games. The typical "arena" DLC that is repetitive bullsh!t. Horrible weapons given to you that take forever to beat challenges and make it a snooze-fest to get through. Story also is a horrible mess that is an excuse to come to the arena. For the love of god, Techland how do you screw things up so horribly. Try not firing the most important people on your team.

Mankind on extinction most of zone are dead and cant access, people try to survive, suddenly there a place where people play gladiator game If this happen on dying light 1 it more logic than 2

This dlc's story is cliche and dull, the events are fun gameplay wise but SUPER repetitive, especially the spectacles where you need to throw things into an area, and compared to the love and care put into The Following from the first game, this feels so lazy.

Mid DLC after the base game. Still playable, though. I'm not saying that because I got this for free, but it's a little bit good for playing if you feel empty after finishing the game.

forces you to use the most weakest weapon against a zombie with enough strength that it reminds me of hulk didnt like this dlc

Everything about this DLC is bad only reason for playing it is for the achivements

If you guys sell on the beast as much as you did with this atrocious ass dlc I will absolutely 100% lose it.

what a stupid DLC, force the player to play with bad weapons. force the player to do timed stuff. why the force? why not give the player his options and his weapons?

Worst dying light DLC and the story is kinda bad

I literally don't know how to select this game mode/DLC. I see the Devs kindly asked that it no longer be sold on Steam, a great sign of a job well done. It's very weird to me that the same group that made the game Dying Light and Dying Light 2, could come up with a DLC sooo awful that it has the worst reviews ive seen on Steam. Who was at the round table board meeting and pitching this idea, and even after all the testers tried it out there, they still said yep, people are going to love it..Run that. If someone could help me get into the game mode id love to see for myself. Ive come to the DLC page and hit PLAY NOW, still just loads up the main game.

Both the individual who approved this nonsense and the one who created it should be dismissed from the company

Not difficult just making it unbalanced.

strong black independent woman dlc.

ASD

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