Dying Light: Retouched Update Rolls Out June 26, Bringing Graphical Enhancements

Dying Light, the acclaimed 2015 survival horror title from Techland, is getting an replace that includes graphics and audio enhancements. Dying Light: Retouched Update can be launched June 26 throughout PC and consoles. First introduced in January, the replace will embody enhancements to textures, lighting, draw distances and shadow high quality, alongside a remastered soundtrack. Techland is gearing as much as launch Dying Light: The Beast, the third entry within the collection, in August. 

Dying Light: Retouched Update Coming This Week

The studio revealed the discharge date for Dying Light: Retouched Update and detailed the enhancements included in a weblog put up on Tuesday. Dying Light franchise director Tymon Smektała clarified that the replace, which marks 10 years of the cult traditional recreation, was a not a remaster of the sport and solely featured particular enhancements to visuals. 

“Quite a few of you were expecting a full remaster of some sort,” Smektała mentioned. “So, let’s set the record straight: the Retouched Update is about squeezing out even more from the Dying Light you already love. It’s not a complete overhaul or remaster.” 

Dying Light: Retouched Update will characteristic improved and upscaled texture high quality of environment, bringing a sharper look to belongings within the recreation. The replace additionally consists of improved lighting and physics-based rendering that improve reflections from metallic surfaces within the recreation. 

“Over the past couple of years, we’ve added a lot, customized a lot, and learned how to squeeze more from the tech we already have. One day, someone just started applying those learnings to some old assets – and it just clicked that we could do that across the whole game,” Grzegorz Świstowski, franchise technical game director, explained the idea behind the Retouched update. 

A before and after image, showcasing visual enhancements to surfaces, reflections
Photo Credit: Techland

Techland has additionally boosted the utmost LOD (degree of element) vary from 260 p.c to 340 p.c within the view distance menu within the recreation choices. This will enable gamers on fashionable programs to extend the gap of detailed belongings within the recreation, the developer mentioned.

Additionally, flooring, partitions and another surfaces in Dying Light will obtain a brand new 8K extremely shadow high quality and improved lighting so as to add element and depth to them. 

All these visible enhancements, nonetheless, don’t change the system necessities for the sport, Techland confirmed.  

Finally, Dying Light composer Paweł Blaszczak has remastered the sport’s total soundtrack and added new tracks and ambient sounds within the recreation. Audio suggestions throughout fight has additionally been beefed as much as sound crunchier and extra impactful. 

Dying Light: Retouched Update will arrive as a free obtain for all Dying Light house owners on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X on June 26.  

Techland’s subsequent recreation, Dying Light: The Beast, will launch on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X on August 22. A previous-gen console model of the sport can be launched later this yr.