Dying Light 2 has a fresh Halloween event live today with new event challenges, seasonal enemies, and rewards across Villedor. This year’s Halloween runs as a three-week competition called the Halloween Showdown, where players pick a faction each week and contribute event currency to push that side toward milestone rewards. Seasonal decorations and Halloween-infected roam the city, dropping a new event token called Halloween Candy when defeated.
How the Showdown works
The event is structured as three consecutive week-long faction face-offs. Each week pits a different pair of themed rivals against each other:
- Week 1: Plague vs. Scarecrow
- Week 2: Van Aiden vs. Count Skull
- Week 3: CyberRaider vs. Cursed Pirate
Halloween Candies are earned in different ways depending on the week: killing Halloween enemies across Villedor in week one, playing Tower Raid in week two, and completing bounties on Community Maps in week three. Players trade candies with the event vendor, Baka the Unfortunate, to add points to their faction’s tally. When a faction reaches its target, all participating survivors receive themed weapons tied to that matchup; contributions continue throughout the week for a chance at additional rewards.
Tower Raid changes and playable characters
Tower Raid receives new layout variations, random modifiers, and a Halloween-themed rooftop arena that ends in a unique boss fight. Familiar faces like Scarecrow, Plague, Van Aiden, and Cursed Pirate return as playable characters and remain unlockable after the event ends. A new entrant, CyberRaider, joins the roster with a high-mobility, futuristic playstyle. Weapon and item sets for those characters will be updated weekly so each playthrough feels different.
While this update arrives, Techland also published notes for the patch and flagged a multiplayer problem on consoles. Co-op is temporarily disabled on PlayStation and Xbox while the developer works on a fix; more details are available on the Techland update page.
Patch Notes – Dying Light 2
Co-Op
- Fixed the issue with ropes being improperly attached when another player is using them
- Fixed the issue when adding a Steam player to favorites on Epic marks them as offline
- Fixed the issue with the “Hope Sprouts” quest, where enemies respawn again after killing them when one of the players comes to the quest location
Tower Raid
- Fixed the issue with “Faulty Provisions” modifier making medkits (military and crafted) heal for nothing
- Fixed the issue with zombies spawning in front of players after opening various doors
Gameplay
- Fixed the issue with combat sometimes not consuming stamina
- Fixed the issue with stamina requirements still being visible for some activities
- Fixed the issue with Slide Jump still consuming stamina
- Fixed the issue when, under some conditions, stamina was still consumed while climbing
- Fixed the issue with Dash and Dart skills not using stamina
- Fixed the issue with the objective marker in the Prologue failing to load if the player jumps over the fence and gets to the house before Spike
- Fixed the issue where the interacting prompt appears delayed while searching the roof groves
- Fixed the issue with the malfunctioning PK cannon in the Colonel’s bunker
- Fixed the difficulty level of a Quarantine Standoff challenge, where weapon scaling with low level players makes the challenge almost impossible to complete on Hard difficulty
- Fixed the issue with the flashlight turning off when the Player starts various conversations
Technical
- Fixed the issue with game crashing after using the Grappling Hook on enemies
- Fixed various lamps sometimes floating above the ground
- Fixed the flickering sometimes being present on the ground near VNC Tower in the Garrison region
- Fixed the issue with no subtitles showing in the starting cutscene of the Prologue
- Fixed VO and subtitle discrepancies during the Prologue intro
- Fixed the issue with the very first cutscene in the Prologue being unskippable
For related coverage, Techland also issued an update for Dying Light The Beast adds Gift, and the team published additional notes on the event on the Techland update page.
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