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Dying Light’s season pass is mostly free, pre-order DLC

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Dying Light is a pretty fantastic game. It’s fun, long and full of undead dismemberment is all sorts of beautifully gory ways, and it kicked off the gaming year with a bang. It is also, however, pretty terrible when it comes to additional DLC. Take the game’s season pass for example, which comprises almost entirely of pre-order incentives.

Dying Light, like most other titles, has a $20 Season Pass which starts paying out today. The pass includes three pieces of DLC, which add new missions, weapons and a brand new area for you to run around in and never explore at night. At face value, the sum of the content doesn’t exactly look like a lot, especially when you consider how much you get with other, more rewarding season pass. It becomes even worse when you realise that the content being sold is actually free right now in any case.

Here’s what the Season Pass gets you:

  • Cuisine & Cargo (February 10th) – Available exclusively as a part of the Season Pass offer, these two hardcore missions let players investigate buildings sealed off in the very first days of the outbreak. Explore the ominous corridors of once the most famous restaurant in Harran, and employ both stealth and combat to ransack a zombie-filled loading bay at the abandoned railroad yard.
  • Ultimate Survivor Bundle (March) – Players will receive seven unique in-game items that will bring fighting zombies to a whole new level. Grab three special outfits and four blueprints for over-the-top weapons to make your adventure in the quarantine zone even more fun.
  • The Bozak Horde (May) – The final Season Pass drop will deliver a new map and gameplay, playable in single-player and co-op. Go inside the Harran Stadium and test your combat know-how against relentless hordes of the Infected. Fight increasingly stronger enemy waves as you oppose a mysterious psychopath called Bozak.

Let’s look at Cuisine and Cargo, as well as the Ultimate Survivor Bundle. These two pieces of DLC add in some new weapons, outfits (which are fairly useless) and two hardcore missions. They’re also free if you pre-order the physical edition of the game, specifically at BT Games and Kalahari. The third package, The Bozak Horde, seems like the meatiest of the lot, but is it worth the full $20 asking price?

Games like BioShock Infinite and Borderlands 2 offered massive, near full length campaigns in their season pass, while Dying Light is content on pushing pre-order incentives and a small wave survival addition. I still think the game is great, but based on this I can’t find a reason to suggest picking up the season pass – no matter how much you love the game.

We contacted Techland to ask why they were selling content that they’re also essentially giving away for free to Europeans. Here’s what they said.

“The delay of the physical release outside of North and South America was unfortunate and we wanted to please those fans who got affected by this. Hence why we gave them 2 DLC’s.

We’ve now got two sets of fans in the delayed territories we need to consider. Those who waited for the physical discs and got extra content and those who have the digital release go as planned and have already been enjoying the game and can now decide if they want to get the extra DLC content.

We simply want to appease both of them and still ensure our North and South American fans feels looked after, hence why we’ve got plenty of plans to add content to Dying Light – additional DLC, content updates, modding tools etc.”

Last Updated: February 10, 2015

16 Comments

  1. Seeing as the game is R699 on PS4 AND there is a R100 Kalahari voucher going around, picking this game up and two DLC for R599….not bad at all. You can always just buy the 3rd DLC piece separate or on a sale.

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    • nortee

      February 10, 2015 at 21:27

      i got it fot R499 on kalahari for pc Basil… for the li’l lady and me 🙂

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  2. nortee

    February 10, 2015 at 21:22

    wtf can i not login with discus?!?! Either way, does this mean that I get the DLC for the game for buying the physical disc?

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    • nortee

      February 10, 2015 at 21:23

      nope… still not working…

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      • nortee

        February 10, 2015 at 21:24

        okay… third time flippen lucky… what do i need to do to get discus to work on this damn thing?

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    • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

      February 10, 2015 at 21:35

      Yeah, if you pre-order the retail game from Btgames, you get two thirds of the season pass content.

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      • nortee

        February 10, 2015 at 21:50

        I got it from Kalahari Geof… does that count? (this after my 10th attempt at logging in with discuss) 😐

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        • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

          February 10, 2015 at 22:06

          It doesn’t actually look like it. Kalahari doesn’t list the extra content. Could be wrong, but it’s not listed.

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          • nortee

            February 10, 2015 at 22:10

            the kalahari one does the whole “special weapon” thing… not anything about anything else… I will keep you informed about that… I’ve been waiting for almost a month now for this thing so yeah…

      • nortee

        February 10, 2015 at 21:54

        btw Geoff.. my li’l lady says she know you (from irc)… and I know I’ve met you before (I think I was the drunk coloured guy but I don’t know how much that narrows it down)… When is the next gathering so she can finally say hi to you? (no #7s and no teabags)

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        • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

          February 10, 2015 at 21:59

          It narrows it down not one drop, I’m afraid.

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          • nortee

            February 10, 2015 at 22:02

            no worries… when the next meetup happens… we’ll be there.. :)… any idea as when the next one is? or is that still in the pipeworks?

          • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

            February 10, 2015 at 22:06

            Not a sodding clue! 🙂

          • nortee

            February 10, 2015 at 22:11

            ons sal nou maar net sien :P… i’m sure it will be soon though 🙂

      • Hammersteyn

        February 11, 2015 at 07:38

        haha sweet!

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  3. Kensei Seraph

    February 11, 2015 at 07:46

    So instead of pleasing fans they decided to rip them off instead?
    I think I felt some brain cells dying just from reading that quote.

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