Dying Gentle: The Beast can have a larger give attention to weapons being simply as viable a fight possibility as melee weapons, regardless of the series’ give attention to hand-to-hand fight.
To say the Dying Gentle series has had a sophisticated relationship with weapons is not an assumption on my half; it is actually the phrases of the series’ franchise director, Tymon Smektała. Talking to GamesRadar+ throughout Summer season Sport Fest 2025, Smektała walked us by Dying Gentle’s messy historical past with weapons and pew pewing.
Smektała (half-) joked that “if Dying Gentle and weapons have been on Fb, their relationship standing would be, ‘it is sophisticated’.”
He defined that Techland obtained a lot of suggestions from individuals enjoying the authentic Dying Gentle and asking “why did you even trouble to have the weapons” in such a melee-focused sport, and so “in the second one, we did not.” But then, naturally, “the very first thing we heard after the launch [of Dying Light 2] was ‘but, the place are the weapons?’”
Future Dying Gentle 2 updates would finally add weapons, although this introduced a distinctive “lore and narrative problem” as a result of “we even particularly put that in the world constructing, in the lore, that there are no weapons on this world.”
Though Techland in some way “managed to squeeze them in,” there are nonetheless fairly prevalent narratives on-line that weapons in Dying Gentle 2 are both not as viable as melee weapons or just plain don’t belong.
You’ll be able to in all probability perceive then that Techland determined to place a greater give attention to balancing firearm fight in Dying Gentle: The Beast. “For Dying Gentle: The Beast, we determined, ‘let’s give the gamers the weapons if they need, but additionally let’s give attention to the weapons in order that they actually really feel on par with melee fight in phrases of how bodily they are, how brutal they are, but additionally balanced they are, so they do not really feel too overpowered.”
I genuinely really feel for the workforce at Techland on this, as sure, the Dying Gentle series is constructed round fast-paced parkour traversal and, mainly, the comically grotesque slicing and dicing of zombies, significantly towards the endgame when you can begin crafting wildly foolish killing machines that make mincemeat out of the undead.
Weapons have all the time felt a little out of place, but with Techland making this public dedication to bettering them, there’s purpose to be looking forward to a extra balanced assortment of weapons general.
Techland introduced throughout SGF that Dying Gentle: The Beast is launching on August 22 throughout PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.
“For us, it truly is Dying Gentle 3”: Techland admits Dying Gentle 2 “misplaced the horror, misplaced the pressure,” but says The Beast is “the finest Dying Gentle that we’ve got ever made”
