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Techland has announced that Dying Light and Left 4 Dead will be crossing over in a new collaboration, as revealed in a tweet from the game’s official account (via DualShockers).
Although Dying Light 2 is in development and will be arriving next year, the developer is not leaving the first game behind any time soon. Dying Light players enjoyed batches and bundles of free content throughout its time in the sun, like a battle royale, prison breakouts, and a full campaign expansion in The Following.
Survivors!
Are you ready for some serious zombie slaying? #left4dead2 style is coming! pic.twitter.com/Lv4XXyf8Jn— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) October 23, 2019
‘Supporting a game like Dying Light for such a long time allows us to be slightly more crazy, and slightly more creative with some things, and also test some ideas and gameplay elements that we're not sure about,’ said Techland lead designer Tymon Smektala, and that includes crossing over with Valve’s classic co-op epidemic eradicator. The developer hinted that the collaboration would be coming soon only a few days before announcing this new event, or mode, or …
At the time of writing, we don’t actually know what shape this crossover will take. Details are scant, and Techland has only cheerily stated ‘serious zombie slaying’ in the ‘#left4dead2 style’ is on the way, with an image of survivors wielding creative melee weapons. Like the previous content updates, this could imaginably be a timed mode to coincide with the spooky season, or players could receive themed Left 4 Dead 2 outfits, or maybe even a Dark Carnival level.
Right now, it’s all to play for, and we’ll update this as soon as we know more. Dying Light is out on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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Dying Light
- Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, RPG, Survival Horror
