Dying Light: The Beast Patch Notes

## What changed - **Fast Travel** — now available from completed safe zones and hubs by interacting with the Castor Woods map at eligible locations - **Survival Settings in Restored Land** — toggle added for flashlight depletion and hunger meter (off by default); two new leaderboards added for fair score comparisons - **Starter Gear from Olivia** — can now be sold to vendors, and duplicate copies no longer received during NG+ ## Balance - **Survivors in Restored Land** — less likely to spawn close to infected in safe regions ## Bug Fixes - **Suicider** — fixed explosion failure when hit twice in a row with certain weapons - **Beast Mode actions in NG+** — fixed damage not always registering against enemies - **Infected Gallbladder pickup** — fixed inability to pick up quest item when Consumables inventory is full - **Restored Land threat level** — fixed areas with very low threat sometimes becoming restored after sleep - **Taurus Gas Station in Villa Area** — fixed not completing on first visit - **Leaderboard rankings** — fixed estimated position showing one rank below actual leaderboard result - **Virals and Volatiles** — fixed clipping through car roof when falling from vehicles - **Viral reinforcements in Restored Land** — no longer spawn after noise generation in safe regions ## Overall Fast Travel is now accessible from safe zones, Restored Land has configurable survival mechanics with dedicated leaderboards, and multiple enemy behavior and inventory issues have been resolved.

## What Changed ### Balance - **Hunger drain while sleeping** — reduced significantly - **Overall hunger depletion** — slowed across the board - **"Very Hungry" and "Famished" states** — now trigger later in the hunger cycle - **Vendors** — now offer improvised food bars as purchasable items - **DLC weapon blueprints** — can now be upgraded to **Legendary rarity** - **Inventory management** — lowest-quality weapon automatically moves to stash when receiving a new weapon during cutscenes with full inventory; if both inventory and stash are full, the lowest-quality weapon drops on the ground - **Level 1 night chases** — rebalanced to be slightly easier to escape - **Loot drops from Biters and Virals** — increased chances for rags and bandages ### Nerfs - **"Better Be Safe" achievement** — no longer auto-completes - **"Peace Bringer" achievement** — no longer auto-completes ### Bug Fixes - **Crossplay connection** — fixed Steam and Epic cross-platform play - **Ranged enemy ammo loot** — removed cap on ammo looted from human enemies - **Slasher arena weapon drop** — fixed player dropping equipped weapon upon entry - **Hunger meter during Beast fight** — restored visibility throughout the encounter - **Alpha Volatile spawning** — fixed occasional failure to spawn during chases on Restored Land - **"Days Survived" counter** — no longer counts after starting a race - **Leaderboards** — fixed periodic missing leaderboard data - **Restored Area notification** — fixed message appearing repeatedly after loading saves - **Unresponsive encounters** — fixed several encounters becoming unresp