The original Dying Light featured three core factions?Brecken’s group, Troy’s Embers group, and Rais’ gang. Techland aims to include even more factions in Dying Light 2. The key difference, though, will rest in how these factions function in the open-world and behave in the game’s narrative. Just as player choice has an effect on Dying Light 2’s setting and story, it’ll also prove essential to the factions’ progression.
In an interview with SegmentNext, Lead Game Designer Tymon Smekta?a explained a bit about factions.
…to be honest [Dying Light’s factions] were just groups needed by the narrative whereas in Dying Light 2 these are factions you can interact with using various game systems. For now we?re introducing two main factions?the Peacekeepers and the Scavengers. They?re an example of a few ?big factions? we have in the game; don?t want to spoil the number but rest assured it?s not just these two. The important thing is that each of those factions have their ideas how they want to survive this apocalypse; for example, the Peacekeepers believe that they can kill all of the infected, that?s the ultimate goal of these people. You can support them, but you?ll also see that perhaps their agenda doesn?t make sense?you can kill some, but more will come, right" And while working with them you?ll also realize that they have a different, darker side?they believe in their philosophy so much that they start oppressing ...