Dying Light 2 is now available, and early metrics imply that the sequel has improved dramatically on the success of the original Dying Light. Part of that can be attributed to Dying Light's long-term success, due to its solid post-launch content support from Techland and its healthy modding community on PC. It looks like Dying Light 2 is going to continue that, at least in the case of modding. A Dying Light modder has already shifted their Extreme Nights mod over to Dying Light 2.
In an upload titled Extreme Nights v2 - The Return of the King, modder KING says that they've resurrected the "eternal ultimate extreme nights mid, fiercer than ever." Further, they say that the mod is only for the "utterly deranged masochists" playing Dying Light 2 out there. Suffice to say, KING has created something that they believe will offer up a genuinely difficult experience beyond anything Dying Light 2 players might find in the base game.
At its heart, the Extreme Nights v2 mod for Dying Light 2 only makes a handful of very straightforward changes. To start, the mod doubles the length of Dying Light 2's nighttime while halving the length of daytime. Players will be spending more time in the night as a result. The mod then doubles nighttime zombie density, ensuring traveling through the city is no simple matter. Additionally, starting a "chase," triggered by screeching zombie howlers will spawn substantially more zombies.
The mod clearly has confidence in Dying Light 2's individual zombie difficulty, as it doesn't appear to change the zombies' aggression levels or behavior. Instead, it simply adds more zombies to sections of the game where they're already found in quantity, adding challenge to sections of the game that are already challenging. It's a surprisingly intuitive way to escalate the difficulty of Dying Light 2.
One thing to keep in mind, however, is that adding zombies to any given part of Dying Light 2 is likely to impact hardware performance. For those already pushing their PCs to their limit with Dying Light 2, adding this mod is likely to cause further problems. That goes hand in hand with modding PC games, though.
Dying Light 2 does already offer difficulty options, of course. There are Easy, Normal, and Hard modes in-game. The Extreme Nights v2 mod, as well as other mods, is there in case Dying Light 2 players feel the need to spice things up. Odds are, since Dying Light 2 only just launched, there should be more exciting mods to come in the future.
Dying Light 2 is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: NexusMods