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Things to Do First in Dying Light 2
This page contains tips for players just starting their zombie adventure in Dying Light 2 Stay Human. This guide will mainly focus after completing the Main Mission Markers of Plague. After completing that main mission, the game will open up to you. Here are some things to do first in Dying Light 2 Stay Human.
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Steal From the Dead
Whenever you kill a zombie or a human, it’s a good idea to loot their bodies. It’s always random on what you’ll get. It can range from money, materials or nothing at all. It’s still a good idea to loot the bodies of your fallen enemies because once the game fully opens up, you should already have a good amount of money and resources.
Craft as Much as You Can
The game is always telling you how important it is to craft. So much so it's even one of the first things you do in-game. Although it can be easy to forget to craft items like medicine or lockpicks, you should always take the time to do so because you never know when you're going to find yourself on death's door and in need of some health supplies.
Explore the Town
The first few missions are more about introducing you to the game's world and mechanics. Once the world opens up to you, go and explore the town to get a good lay of the land. You learn where all the Metro Stations, Windmills, GRE Anomalies, and other events in-game are. Not only will this save you a lot of time, but it'll also give you a good idea of what you should be doing first.
Activate a Windmill
Windmills are scattered throughout the map and will quickly become your best friend. To activate one, you’re going to need to do a bit of parkour to do so.
Once you have a Windmill activated, it’ll only help you in-game. Listed below is everything Windmills have to offer.
- UV Spot
- Rest
- Player’s Stash
What’s great about having a resting spot in-game is that it allows you to sleep at night, and when you wake up, it’ll be daytime. Or sleep during the night and wake up when it’s daytime. The UV Spot will also come in handy whenever you find Immunity is about to run out, all you need to do is bathe in the light, and your Immunity will refill.
Once you begin to unlock water or electrical facilities in Villedor, and assign them to a faction, windmills will be reinforced by that faction to include merchants, and nearby small settlements will pop up with additional rest spots, as well as new side quests and more!
Start a Fight
Throughout the whole game, you’re going to be fighting all sorts of people and zombies. So why get ahead of the curve and learn what works and what doesn’t work for you. Fighting is also the only way to earn Combat Points too, so in doing so, you’ll be able to unlock more perks.
You may spot random encounters as you explore - like Survivors getting attacked by Bandits, and helping them will also give you an experience boost. Fighting at night will also double your experience gained - just don't die or you lose it all!
Pay Attention to the Time
It’s easy to lose track of time when you’re living your best zombie apocalypse life, but you should always be paying attention to the clock because once it hits night time everything becomes a bit more challenging. Thankfully Dying Light 2 makes it incredibly simple to check the time, all you have to do is look at the bottom right and it’ll tell you what time it is and how close you are to sunrise or sundown.
Close to sundown or sunrise, you'll also see a small white bar on the clock to show how long you have left before the time of day officially changes.
Arm Yourself
Having a weapon is crucial to surviving. It'll do you no good as fun as it may be to fist fight other humans and zombies. Luckily, finding weapons in Dying Light 2 is relatively easy because weapons spawn just about everywhere. You can always find a decent weapon in many of the Rooftop Groves that are identified by yellow trees along the buildings, and more weapons can be found in rare chests found inside Dark Zones, or gained by killing enemies. You can even buy them from traders at different outposts.
But the only downside to using a weapon that you've taken a liking to is that it will break down after a while, so having more than one weapon equipped will save you a lot of time during a fight. You should also invest in buying and upgrading weapon mods, as applying a mod will also slightly repair the weapon as a whole, meaning you can keep using it for longer.
Suit Up
What you're wearing in-game may be the deciding factor in a fight. Not only do clothes change how you look, but it affects your stats too. For instance, if you're wearing medical clothes, you may be able to heal faster, but if you're wearing more worn-down clothes, your combat skills will increase.
As for the clothes themselves, you can equip up to six different items at once. You can wear headgear, gloves, body armor, wrist guards, pants, and shoes. You can purchase clothes from merchants, looting bodies, or in crates/containers.
Level Up
Leveling up in Dying Light 2 Stay Human is an umbrella term. Because there are a few different ways to level up, and it all depends on what you want to focus on. If you're going to increase your fighting skills, you'll want to upgrade your Combat Points, and the only way to do that is by fighting. On the other hand, if you're going to upgrade your parkour points, you'll need to run and jump around from place to place. Leveling up both Parkour and Combat points allows you to unlock specific skills that'll help you in-game.
But upgrading both of those stats will only take you so far. To unlock better skills, you'll need to find an inhibitor.
Find Inhibitors
Finding inhibitors is one of the most important things to do in-game. Inhibitors are known to spawn in random locations throughout the game in containers. But inhibitors can also be found in GRE Quarantine buildings and in GRE Anomaly locations too. You’ll know that you’re near an inhibitor when you hear a robot voice say “Inhibitor container detected” with a small picture of one and the distance of it on the bottom left.
- Check out the Inhibitor Locations page for more details.
Kill a GRE Anomaly
Killing a GRE Anomaly may be a little challenging to do and only come out at night. They’re mini-bosses that spawn in key areas, and once you kill them, they won’t spawn back. But fighting them is well worth the risk because you’re rewarded with a large amount of combat points and an inhibitor after killing one.
Explore a GRE Quarantine Building
Exploring a GRE Quarantine Building is both extremely useful and highly stressful all at the same time. You could explore the building during the day and night, but it’s best to do so at night because there’ll be fewer zombies around.
If you fully explore these buildings, you’ll be rewarded with a few inhibitors and a large amount of Combat and Parkour points.