Dying Light The Beast is here, and with it players are getting to grips with what’s new in the game. With all the new changes, there’s a lot to go through. There are new weapons, the movement has changed, and nighttime is certainly deadlier than ever. To help you through the game, here are some of the best Dying Light The Beast tips and tricks we can give you to assist with getting to grips with the game.

Dying Light The Beast Tips and Tricks¶

The Dying Light The Beast tips below will range from a mixture of getting you up to speed with the game, and helping you with main gameplay features.

Tip 1: Parkour Tips¶

If you’re an experienced Dying Light fan, you’re probably used to playing the game and having to level up your parkour feats all over again. However, that has largely gone in Dying Light The Beast. When you open up your skills menu, you will find a button that says “previously learned” sub menu.

The menu features a lot of the old parkour skills. These include features like wall running, different button combos to get higher jumps or longer reaching jumps. It’s best to take a look at that and learn what innate parkour skills you have this time around.

Tip 2: Nighttime Survival Tips¶

Okay for real, nighttime is harder than ever. Perhaps the hardest in the series.
The darkness during nighttime gives a lot less visibility, forcing you to turn the flashlight on. But be careful that the flashlight rays can be spotted by Volatiles, giving them a clue where you are to investigate.

Furthermore, the maps in Dying Light The Beast have much fewer safe zones and no UV traps and things of that nature. You’re going to have to learn to hide much more often, or give the Volatile chases the slip when you can with sharp turns, hiding in cover or long grass, and diving through open rooms in buildings.

We strongly advise grabbing some of the early game safe zones when you can. This should help make some of the more awkward chases much more manageable.

When nighttime is on the way, it’s worth keeping a high Beast Bar. When Volatiles do inevitably chase you, Beast mode is the only real thing you have to take on Volatiles in one-on-one combat. Either that or have a very good weapon or gun with lots of ammo to deal with it.

Tip 3: Throwing Knives are Useful for Grapples¶

One of the new features in Dying Light The Beast is the throwing knife grapple feature. Rather than just being a silent throwing gadget, you can use them in grapples. This will attempt to one-shot the creature by piercing its cranium and freeing you from its grasp.

It’s a great option when you’re low on health or are being swarmed and need a get-out-fast card. Keep a few on you for those reasons. But don’t overdo it and waste your crafting blades.

Tip 4: An Early Legendary SMG Location¶

Guns are a much more viable feature in The Beast, and there’s also a new Treasure Hunt system in the game too. They’ve probably got this one from Dead Island 2, but that’s fine.

If you head southeast from the Monastery and explore the woodland, you should come across an overlooking picnic terrace area. By the bench should be a treasure hunt map called A1 Treasure Map. From there, go south, and you should find a Ranger Station with two garage doors. Go to the small shed next to it, enter via the roof, and drag the power cable to the fuse box next to the garage wall facing this shed. It will slowly power the garage up, and you will need to defend against a few Virals.

Once it’s open, you can enter, take care of a few more zombies, and then unlock a hard lock door. Inside is some SMG ammo, and a legendary SMG called the Needle. It’s pretty potent and has some suppressed noise (but it is not actually suppressed). Ammo is scarce, but it should help you nuke a Volatile or one of the big Goon enemies with the sledgehammers knocking around in the early game.

Tip 5 Staggering Foes Strategy¶

Executions in the game are still a thing, and you don’t really need to sneak on enemies to do it. If you can sort of get behind enemies while they are just aggroing to you, and stagger them a bit, you can execute them.

There’s also some nuance to normal combat too. If an enemy is rather weak, and you cripple them in some capacity, you can later execute them. Try swinging for legs and buckling them as a means to do it, for example.

Tip 6: Dying Light 1 scavenging is back¶

One of the things people criticized about Dying Light 2 was its largely random loot containers. Well, it seem the deign of the lotting has gone back to the more thematic loot tables

If you find yourself in a workshop, chance are you’re getting more scrap, blades, weights. If you’re in a store, then old world money, rags, snacks and drinks, and wiring and electronics are more common from the tills and receipt machines.

There’s also something about regional drop chances increase. If you’re a bow player, then Feathers seem more common when looting buildings and zombies from the National Park. You know, nature and all that. The same goes for Resin, which is a natural resource produced from trees. Whereas feather and resin feel a lot rarer from zombie loot in Old Town. It;s something you might want consider if you have special crafting materials you want to get your hands on.

Tip 7: Respawning Loot¶

Loot can respawn in this game (to no one’s surprise). But what is surprising is how you can abuse it. The Dark Zones from DL2 is making a come back, and wit it, you can farm them repeatedly. Both these and the convoy have a “recently looted” status. However, you can reset these by looting over Dark Zones, Convoys, or even logging off and back on. So, these should help you farm key crafting items like ammunition, Oxidizers for mods, or other things.

Tip 8: Throw Weapon¶

By now you’ve probably seen some weapons with a throw weapon damage perk on it. The game doesn’t tell you can throw weapons. To do so, simply charge a weapon attack and then press either F on PC or the use button on your controller. You can now throw weapons, helping to diversify some of your combat strategies up a bit.