During GDC 2018 I was invited behind closed doors to take on some of the developers in their upcoming stand alone expansion Dying Light: Bad Blood, and this battle royale takes you from zero to crazy in a short amount of time. Each round consists of up to 8 players, randomly dropped onto an open world map, each tasked with gathering enough blood samples from dead zombies to fill up their blood meter, and then summon the extraction chopper. Sounds simple enough, but don’t expect an easy win.
It Started Out so Quiet
The game started out by putting us in a staging area where we could find weapons and attack each other, but this was just a staging area and had no relevancy to the upcoming match. You could grab hammers, machetes, and pipes and such, and even bash each other on the head, but it was just a warm up session while waiting for all players to get ready. Once you are actually dropped into the match, any weapons you may have picked up are gone and you’ll start out unarmed and unscathed, ready to scavenge and hunt. Each round stated out pretty slowly, as I had to hunt for weapons and avoid those pesky, run of the mill, zombies. Fans of Dying Light?and there are still many?will instantly recognize the Dying Light game world and the controls came back to me pretty quick. Clicking L3 showed me there was a gold weapons box nearby, so I scaled a building and found a nice baseball bat with some nails protruding from it. I also found some grenades and a couple of Mo...