Dying Light 2 - Story Explained

[@GamingHarryYT]

PLEASE NOTE... There are many things left unexplained in this video. Such as Hakon, the Bazaar and Survivors, etc. These will be covered in smaller videos in the near future. Just an example of how much this world contains in terms of lore!

[@SomeDudeInYT]

This video makes the storyline feel much shorter

[@nickbriggs8059]

The story is super short. Hoping the dlc delivers because after TL made a come back in the last few months they seemed to have dropped the ball again w their newest partnership. Btw love your channel!

[@awesomesource12]

You forgot that the walls weren't built to keep the infected out at all, villedor was one of the first cities with outbreaks so the gre and the military built huge walls around the city to keep infected and people in quarantine. The funny thing is, the outbreak in the rest of the world became worse than the one in villedor and the walls ended up keeping the hoards out of the city, thus huge amounts of refugees made their way into the city. This initial quarantine is also why the majority of the villedor citizens are actually infected, and why everyone has biomarkers. This is also why there are so many gre labs and facilities in the city as they tried to use the first city outbreak to try and create a cure. Another interesting thing is that there are many times in the game where it is implied that many other cities were also quarantined with this walls, yet they either fell or haven't been heard from.

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

It's not implied it's stated. The other 19 cities didn't have their missile sequence halted, meaning they were razed

[@awesomesource12]

@@louiesatterwhite3885 that's really cool I knew I heard them mention something about it but I didn't know about the missile sequences, it would be cool to have a dlc in one of the devastated quarantine cities

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@awesomesource12 Yeah in the Epilogue I think it's mentioned. There would've been more remaining cities but they were all obliterated from the failsafe. Villedor would've met the same fate had it not been for X13 being shut down.

[@Subject_Keter]

@@awesomesource12 I remember before you go into X13, the Butcher is like "Idiot! When he turns on the power and gets it up and running, it will activate the protocol to bomb us all!"

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

That makes sense. I was wondering why they'd established a failsafe mechanism to destroy a city that was 'healthy'. But why would the council go there? Was Villedor really the best option for a world government HQ?

[@elitegamer9310]

Tbh, I don't really like any of these endings. To me, it's just a downwards spiral from "not bad, but not great" to "We're fucked". The Survivors ending is just that the Free Folk are in charge and that the Night Runners are back in force, but we don't see how any of this really affects the City. All you get is "Hey we got a soup kitchen, also some people died last night." Nothing really happens here, which is really the only thing that makes this the "good" ending. The Peace Keeper Ending is that they have turned Villador into a totalitarian police state, where crime is punishable by death for the perpetrator and their family. Which obviously makes this a fairly bad ending. Renegade Ending is kinda the same except that Juan and Williams are in charge, and that far more people seem to die. And of course the X13 Missile Ending is the worse for obvious reasons. The problem with these endings is that there isn't enough information to go off of. You only get a few snipets of information that don't paint a clear picture. Like, the least they could've done was say that each of the Factions handled problems in their own way. Here's some examples: Free Folk: the Leaders of Villador form a council where representatives of the Bazaar, Night Runners, PKs, and maybe even Renegades, work together on major issues that affect all of them. However, all Factions are free to do what they want, as long as they don't threaten or harm the others. They could've also add in that fewer people are killed by the infected at Night, thanks to the efforts of the Night Runners. PK Ending: The PKs turn Villador into a stratocracy, where everyone works hard to ensure law and order are upheld and the City becomes more akin to a Fortress. The rules are still harsh, but bandits are no longer an issue, and even some Dark Zones have been cleared out, making the City safer at night. Jack Matt is idolized and revered as a great man in PK propaganda, and citizens are expected to give there lives for the New Order. But, hey. I'm not a story writer. I just think that there should at least be more context in these endings so we fully understand what our choices have led to.

[@tranquilchaos6980]

I wish you could have ended up on lawan's "hit list" by rejecting her friendship(Drinks, party meet up ect) and giving the tower to Jack Matt.

[@atnguyenquy1331]

Jack Matt died weeks after the ending due to lungs cancer, Meyers became the new PK Commander. But yeah, I like this idea.

[@elitegamer9310]

@@tranquilchaos6980 Yeah, that could've made things more interesting.

[@just_a_firefly3354]

You know this is a complaint that I have with a lot of story oriented games like this such as "Fallout, outer wilds, etc." Where they only give you bad or extreme choices for factions to side with, which harms the story since is there is nothing interesting about choosing the lesser of 2 evils. It turns the story into a slog that you just can't stand to listen to. I hate having to choose between one faction that is either completely inept at achieving their goals or another faction that goes too far and borders on becoming a totalitarian police state like the PK's.

[@bayarea4153]

Yeah I think I made the wrong choices towards the end of the game and it gave me the ending where the city blew up and everyone died 💀 after 60 hours + , I was hella pissed 😂

[@hatersgonnarate3973]

I hope Aiden brought some UV lamps when he left the city or he’s screwed

[@chrismckay8811]

Well he should be ok seeing that he can transform

[@Grime101]

@@chrismckay8811 he can't control it though

[@sussybussy4806]

He has an uv flashlight

[@ocatazzip124]

Man been traveling the wastes for over 4 years man gonna be fine until BAM he dead

[@xghunt3r551]

True plus at least he’s good during the day because of the sun

[@KaijinZSurohm]

To be fair for the "Controversial freedom ending", you give control over to the Night runners, whom are not the same group as The Bazaar, the group that tried to hang you. They all just end up on an "Alliance" scale for gameplay reasons.

[@treysonbates6110]

Yeah siding with the night runner is much more logical then siding with the bazaar

[@Lonkshi21]

Stop the bazaar slander

[@seajellymilk3543]

@@Lonkshi21they made the bazaar so unbearable and made the PK the better choice only for the PK in the ship to be utter twats and survivors the better choice. God what a shit. You have to make both faction likeable not split each faction in two and have one be shitty and the other be nice

[@Lonkshi21]

@@seajellymilk3543 im sick of this bullsh*t where people think aiden is so important that his life matters more than other survivors, you're just blinded by anger because you won't accept that aiden forgives the bazaar

[@seajellymilk3543]

@@Lonkshi21 straight up nothing to do with Aiden. If I was in there position I would hang him too. Only the player knows he can return from turning. It’s that they make the characters in the bazaar so unlikeable and their actions never make sense. Sophie for example. She is in charge of protecting the people of the bazaar and yet she says the most stupid of things have ever heard and actively puts the bazaar in danger. She has somebody who has no connection to any faction and instead of using him as a bridge between the bazaar and the PK she instead ignores when he says the PK don’t want to fight and says to Aiden that nobody can be neutral. BITCH YES HE CAN. He has no connection to the PK and all you have done is be aggressive and her brother omg Barney has to be the most annoying character right beside Jack Matt. He is needlessly aggressive, confrontational and unreasonable and actively does shitty things like using his dying friend as bait because he doesn’t trust Aiden a character he has seen before and helped the bazaar. The PK outside of the central loop are 100x better than the bazaar as they are reasonable and understanding. They only get shitty once in the central loop because of the worst leader ever Jack Matt. The only way I ever help the bazaar and not the PK is because I want to make out the survivor faction aka the nightrunners and you get to save Aitor

[@PresAlexWhit]

Few things: 1) Harran and DL1 didn't happen in 2015. It happened in Spring of 2014 1:00 2) Lucas was just a commander, not THE leader. That's why Aitor takes his position. Jack Matt is the leader. 3:33 3) This decision doesn't change much at all. It only changes what you see in that specific quest itself and who guides you through the water tower. What REALLY changes things is who you give the water tower to. You can choose Aitor, but still give the tower to the Survivors and vise versa. 6:00 4) It's population pre outbreak was 4 million. We know this because people both say half of Villedor died and 2 million people died in Black Monday. 13:36 5) also it's more likely that Peacekeepers weren't disguised as Renegades as they're loyal to the cause. Prisoners or Bandits were probably used as an excuse while being given weapons and told to shoot frank in exchange for money or freedom. But...of course... you always do a great job with the lore with only minor discrepancies. Keep up the great work Harry! Did OniZombies contact you?

[@GamingHarryYT]

Thanks! But I’d like to rebut a couple of things. 1) No one really knows EXACTLY when the Harran Outbreak started. Even Techland don’t seem to know 😂 they state on their own ‘which monster are you?’ site that the Harran Outbreak took place in 2013! And then in Nightmare Row it places the Harran Games as taking place in 2015! Some people say 2014. Who knows! 2) Yeah Lucas wasn’t THE leader but he was leader of the Peacekeepers in Old Villedor, whilst Jack Matt was their main leader. A commander is technically still a leader. 3) I never said it changes much, but it does potentially send you down two possible routes which lead to the same destination (a central narrative if you will). I guess I was wrong in my timing as the main choice comes in terms of who you choose to believe when you find the skin in Barney’s room. This determines whether the PK are hostile towards you in the tunnel where you meet Waltz. 4) That would mean there are still around 2,000,000 people living in Villedor at the time of the game. There are definitely NOT 2,000,000 people in Villedor. I believe they say ‘half the city was bombed’, not half the population was killed. 5) Lawan tells you on the radio when in Williams’ base that they were Peacekeepers disguised as Renegades. There would have been people loyal to Matt higher up in the PK But thanks for your comment! No, not been in contact yet.

[@michael2661]

@@GamingHarryYT it is indeed spring 2014 per the history quiz quest

[@pro_154]

@@GamingHarryYT it was actually decmebrr 2019 as per covid knowledge duh bromie

[@TheGravityShifter]

It did happen in Spring 2014, but I think he was referring to the events of DL1, not the initial outbreak and he wasn't explicitly saying so. Whether 2015 or 2014, if I recall correctly, there was something about the game prior to release that the events of DL1 take place 3 or 6 months after the initial outbreak but whether that's true or not will likely remain unknown. So if it's in 2014, it would have to be Summer or Early Fall, which would put it close to 2015 at least. DL2 in some fashion seemed to imply that Harran was still infested even years after the events as it was considered an exclusion zone in 2015 which is shown on a Newspaper you can find, which is likely why our guy here was thinking 2015 as the 1st game's year. It's certainly possible. We could say it's either Summer/Fall 2014 or Spring/Summer 2015.

[@PresAlexWhit]

@@GamingHarryYT I'll rebut. 1) We know for a fact that Dying Light 2, the main source for info, has a History Quiz side quest that asks "When was the Harran Outbreak" and the answer is Spring 2014. But yes Techland is very inconsistent. 2) You right. 3) You right. 4) Not necessarily true. Black Monday created a ton of infected and killed many people. We hear in game through sound effects and random encounters that dozens upon dozens of people die every day and night. That was In 2025. It's been 11 years. A lot of people can die in that time. Especially when the military was ousted during The Revolution/Civil War in 2025. Plus you know that Carl said in his tapes that he specifically says half of the people died. 2 million. 5) You right. I didn't get that dialog my first 2 playthroughs. Again. I really appreciate your content. You're one of my favorite creators by far.

[@inditexijoo]

I'm not sure if has already been discussed or not, but what if the virus in Dying Light 2 is sort of, I guess you could say different strain than the virus that was based in Harran. Remember at the end of The Following DLC in DL1, Kyle is forced to drink the blue liquid by the mother. Him already being infected and the effects of the blue liquid may have had reactions with each other and the properties of the mother, because she had ingested the blue liquid too (like her being sentient in the daytime and not being able to control the nature of the volatile at night.), so that gives us some idea of light coming into play with the new strain that Kyle Crane introduced into the uninfected world. Like sunlight and UV light have to do with how long it takes to turn if you're already infected in DL2 because the darkness makes the virus take effect very quickly. So what if Kyle drinking that liquid and already being infected created a different strain of the virus than the one in Harran and that's why it's much much different compared to DL1's Harran virus. Thanks for reading this, I was just watching the video and I had a random thought all of a sudden. Maybe I should've gone into more detail but I tried my best to explain with most of the stuff I recalled from the first game lmao

[@rolandplumer4648]

Well it was actually just a new virus made by the GRE.

[@SorinPetre-ir1wf]

Ah but see, in the beginning of the game, in the short little introduction, they literally say they’ve cured the Harran virus, but the GRE kept running tests on it and eventually a new strain, the one we see in DL2, escaped a GRE lab. So the virus in DL2 already is a different strain of the OG virus, but with a somewhat less interesting origin than the one you provided.

[@neoxima706]

One of my favorite parts of the original dying light was that it was a contained event. It made each location feel more impactful. Knowing that the entire world was gone in the second one just kinda sucked. Dying light was unique in that way.

[@coraldiamond1922]

On the one hand I like that it implies they threw their chance away after already having created a vaccine but on the other hand it really makes you wonder what they will do for potentially a third game.

[@uraveragewiteguy]

Whomp whomp, shits boring if everything is A-Ok out side. Boring ahh

[@commie_remover]

@@uraveragewiteguy NPC

[@uraveragewiteguy]

@@commie_remover I'll touch you vigorously

[@thedeserthut5067]

Man would be interesting seeing techland fleshing out Aiden's story as a pilgrim although it might seem simplish due to that they just travel the world but learning how did Aiden came to be one sounds cool. Enjoying the lore videos! 🤘

[@sageempires1232]

I smell a DLC opportunity!

[@TheGravityShifter]

It would make for an interesting prequel to his story. But Idk how all that would work.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

I really liked the Peacekeepers, the Bazar people felt really needy.

[@haleykay163]

Bruh, the two evil kids are in the bazaar too

[@Saulcrackman]

Yeah the PKs actually have a goal in mind, not just some crazy pot smoking anarchism.

[@dagreendragon6393]

i think techland did a really bad job at the story and the endings where its all bad or all good they where just so incredibly biased it kinda sucks

[@dataunknown3060]

Likewise. Almost every encounter I had with the bazar/free people they were assholes to aiden. Every encounter I had with the peacekeepers was friendly and the sheer fact that they offer security and order to a lawless abs cruel world.

[@dagreendragon6393]

@@dataunknown3060 i wish it was like new vegas where factions both have good and bad part idk the maybe the peacekeepers are corrupt but protect the citizen really well something like that would have made the choices way better

[@davisjr9410]

The amount of hours of research and time you put into these series are amazing bro. Keep it up

[@N7Agent]

What a video, so much detail, interesting plot lines, the characters explained in depth ect. I really enjoyed watching this video and after finishing dying light 2 and looking and the explained video in depth I understand more of the world and backstory on how mankind reached to this point its definitely one of my favourite videos of yours not because how long it is but how much research you done and the effort of the video overall, and now with more context thanks with your video I personally think that dying light 2 overall has such an interesting story, backstory, characters and lore, thanks for making this video it was worth the wait.

[@4shadow894]

DLC Suggestion: Dying Light 2 Reawakening Plot: 25 years after the Harran Virus Outbreak, Kyle Crane was in a state of stasis, having him nested on one of the Volatiles' Nests and is now partially one of them. This time is different, he regains his humanity and seemed to be half volatile and human. Main missions: 1. Escape the volatile nest - after awakening inside a torn down flesh pod, Kyle Crane survives and naked. He is now trying to escape the nest. This is where something happens to him. He has the abilities of the special infected, and seemed be highly dangerous than he thought about. After escaping the nest, he went for a hundred kilometer walk, eventually getting saved by a survivors. Skill Tree Unlocked The new Skill Tree has something to do with his Agility, Power, and the new one, Mutation. Agility is based on the speed, stamina, and parkour tp maintain the balance of sneak, evasion, and escape. Power is based on combat mechanism, executions, highly dangerous tactics, and also craftsmanship. The new skill tree is Mutation. This is based on his new found powers, as a demi-mutated volatile. Under the sun, he will receive a massive weakpoint due to him being half volatile . But at night or out of the sunlight or UV light, he awakens his new found powers. Mainly, the powers of the new special infected. This also gives him the option to consume them in order to upgrade his ability or their abilities to become his own. 2. Night Runners - after he was rescued by an old couple, they told hm about the new safehaven on Earth known as New Villador. When Kyle asked about what happened to Harran, they were surprised that it has been 25 years sinve the first outbreak. Everything comes clear when they told him everything. It seemed that Kyle Crane was in a comatose state for the past 25 years. Because of this encounter, they were in a verge of being outrun by the new volatiles that seemed like virals, they are being called as Night Hunters. The old woman was torn into pieces, causing the old man to her rescue but fails. This made Kyle Crane bursts in a fit of rage, unlocking his volatile state, the same aspect of Aiden and Waltz, but his is similar to the full transformation of Waltz as a half volatile, causing destruction against the Night Hunters. After that, the sun rises and reverts hum back to his old self again, and travels lightly in dark places or caves so that he can run faster with his half volatile state, to the New Villador. He is welcomed by one of the Night Runners, and consults him to use an inhibitor. When he asoed about suppressant, he was laughed at since it has been decades since they all ceased to exist due to the new mutation. As soon as he took one of the inhibitors, it caused a side effect into him, having him forcefully turn into a volatile. He is soon hunted by the Night Runners but desperately escaped on the sewers where he recovers and seemingly found his way to the Bazaar, where he is greeted by the new leader, Kinai. 3. Reparation - he introduces himself as Kyle Crane and the bar owner scoffs at him. Kinai is also a Night Runner and also a Pilgrim. He actually knows a man thesame name as Kyle but he don't know who he really is since he was still young back then. When he was informed about the new safehaven city ran by Night Runners, he went in as one of the night guardians of the city, giving him a feat and hailed as a shadow leader of the Bazaar. He got bummed because the tasks are really hard, concerning about fixing windmills, an old sewage, and the broken dam. Kyle is up for the task, and finished these insane tasks that gave him more upgrades to his abilitiew, giving him his old kick back to his senses. Kinai welcomes him like a brother, and during their celebration, the night runner who has seen Kyle's face came upon the party, turning out to be Kinai's elder brother, Ricco. Kyle is captured. 4. The Truth - Kyle is taken to an abandoned building only known or reffered to as the Dome, and seemed to be infested with volatiles. Ricco ran a test of Kyle's abilities and have him fight for his life. After defeating countless of specials, Ricco deemed him worthy enough to be tasked on a very dangerous mission in order to gain his and the night runners' trust for good. 5. Drowned - Ricco tasks Kyle to take down a new nest known only as Drowned. These are specials that lives on the chemically mutated waters on the Flooded Area. There are 6 buildings infected of them, and 3 sewage tunnels infested of them. The task is simple, destroy the nests and gain thei utmost trust, even hiding the fact he resembles a volatile when inject with an inhibitor. This just means he is more of a weapon than a human or viral. And so, Kyle managed to do the insanely dangerous tasks and gains the trust of Ricco who just contacted of Spike, about Kyle Crane. Turns out that Ricco knew all along who Kyle Crane was because he was one of the kids of the Old Bazaar from Harran, who knows Crane as the hero of Harran and a respected Night Runner. The only thing is, Crane's appearance never changed one bit. 6. Remnants - Spike was about to meet Kyle Crane but he contacts Ricco 3 nights later, telling him that he is being hunted by the Remnants, the new renegade grouo causing mayhem within the city. Kyle went onto his rescue, only to save him using his volatile form. Spike was mad and even scared of him. Eventually, he accepted it and asks Kype what happened to him, and was replied about being awakened in a volatile nest. After killing a volatile woman known as the Mother, he went black out and next thing he knows is the nest he awakened from. Spike is still grateful that he survived but then, Ricco informs the night runners about an ambush of the Remnants. During the battle, it turns out that Ricco was the spy and the main leader of te Remnants, as he kills his brother Kinai. Kyle is captured and has nothing to do since if he transforms now, he will be deemed as a volatile than a human. 7. Choice: A. Become Human - transform into a volatile to save Spike and the night runners. This will be lcome influential that new characters will be known in the game, including GRE spies, the United Nations spies, and other tasks concerning the possibility of getting fame as the hero of New Villador. B. Become A Hunter - transform and kill Ricco and the remnants. With this, Spike will lose trust of Kyle Crane and will be hunted down as a Daywalker, a volatile that can walk under the sun. There are far less missions but very dangerous. The is also a possibility that Spike will forgive Kyle Crane and him leaving the city for good. C. Become A Monster - do nothing and be captured by Ricco, to cover up your secret. Ricco will order his men to kill the night runners, but they wipl escape with Spike's help but he will lose his eye in the process. Kyle Crane is now living inside the Dome as a Champion. After so many battles in the Dome, he later soon to change as a new powrful volatile. After one of the breaches led by Spike with the night runners, they will breakfree the Kyle's collar and take down Ricco and his men. Also, Spike will meet his end from Kyle's grasps. After regining his consciousness, Kyle becomes broken and leaves the city in ruins and evactuation is eminent because of virals breaching the city in large swarms.

[@Someonelol723]

*Damn*

[@BikerGirlZ5]

That's a AWESOME idea

[@xhasemcdonald5255]

You should be a game storywriter

[@4shadow894]

@@xhasemcdonald5255 thanks

[@raegardens8339]

You were pretty accurate abt dying light 3 overall

[@mynameisawesomeman]

I don't know what people were complaining about. The story is actually pretty good. It's just very deep and complex and you need to listen to the tapes to fully understand it. I found when I first completed the game I was very confused, but this video helped immensely!

[@NameHere2243]

A main story that the game heavily relies on being expressed through tapes is a bad story

[@GamingHarryYT]

No, that just means it’s poorly implemented. Doesn’t make it a bad story.

[@zikof5646]

​@@NameHere2243That gives me MGSV flashbacks

The only thing that fails, in my opinion, is the fact that you can betray any group, PK or Survivors and they will not agro you during the open world and you can still use their bases to sleep or buy things. It's stupid. I betrayed Matt and was able to enter the ship like nothing happened. Hope they do something more imersive about this in the future. But, i played the game in February (hated it, huge fan on DL1 and The Following) and i've decided to try DL2 again a week ago and jesus, the game is so much better atm. I believe it will improve even more. Great video!

[@Chonkems]

For anyone who's on a second playthrough, or has gone through the Peacekeeper route: The Survivors are genuinely better for Villedor in the end, despite their actions being less than savory.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

Don't care, they're assholes. PK all the way.

[@Demicleas]

Maby short term but it dosent seem like they have any long-term goals especially since they don't have any intention of militarizing or expanding or pushing the undead out of the city so evenchualy they will most likely degrade into some kind of stone age.

[@Cyberpsychos_Dirge]

Yep, destroying a large source of power in the local area is definitely the better route. Not just taking it over The endings seemed extremely shoehorned. PKs super bad, Survivors super good. Doesn’t matter how they acted in game or what you did, this is the end. I killed Jack Matt in my play-through, but still sided with the PKs. Seeing as Matt was a big issue, they should have mellowed out a bit. NOPE, still ultra authoritarian dicks for absolutely no reason.

[@Cyberpsychos_Dirge]

@@notagenjimain3699 you can pick anyone you want! But it better be the survivors or else you’re an authoritarian bootlicker who is ok with families being murdered! Ffs

[@BIOHAZARDRUSGaming]

I think the survivors are only better from a purely gameplay perspective

[@darrylsmith5562]

Thank you so much for this! I am 19 hours into dl2 but haven't played it in months. Forgot most of the plot and didn't want to start again. This is just what I was looking for!

[@giodiluigi872]

I really want to see with the upcoming dlcs if our choices change the way that goes, like I saved Frank in my play through so I wonder if he is gonna be present through the dlc story or how that's gonna turn out

[@TheGravityShifter]

Given how choices didn't really matter too much, this would be really nice to see. It would be a perfect opportunity to give us a chance to not only see our choices post-campaign but for us to live with those choices in that post-campaign. I'm scared they'll do a pre-ending DLC to keep those choices contained in the campaign. But I guess we'll see. Wouldn't hurt to play as Lawan though!

[@sanfordrussell8549]

For real, the story is rough but I feel like there's a good game in here, just waiting to claw its way out. Can't wait to see what happens next.

[@ampersandyyy]

Very good way to describe the story. There is so much to work with here to create something really juicy and engaging but what Techland did was fumble the story HARD. The worst of the writing was when Aiden unmasks the assassin and sees *gasp* the assassin is a woman! Like what the hell was that? The writers really couldn’t think of anything else to stop Aiden from blindly killing her? Nothing? Not the marks on her wrist that indicate she used to be Waltz’s experiment?

[@ampersandyyy]

@@notagenjimain3699 For real, like imagine if when you caught up to her a boss fight ensued that ended when either of you got to half-health.

[@voodoo2006]

It is a good game, it just has a boring story

[@adventofknowledge]

@@ampersandyyy Its small things like that, and then its the inexplicable reactions from Aiden either being randomly angry or otherwise deeply upset for seemingly erroneous reasons. They wrote Aiden so poorly, its like he is emotionally stunted and immature to an absurd degree. Then there is his whole reason for hunting down waltz, like what waltz tells him is such a critical character building thing, but how on earth did he end up forgetting ALL of that, that seems a bit absurd tbh. And then the whole "we were kids!" lines, like fucking hell, its a global apocalypse and some how the idea that experiments on children due to their immune systems being more plyable is somehow the most important thing to bitch about. Even someone with a rudimentary understanding of biology could understand why that was necessary. Hes just incomprehensibly whiney and it doesn't suite his feats of strength and ability. And then this near extreme reaction to trying to find his sister, it makes no sense, sure hes waited a long time but he doesn't even know if she's alive. He should of been calmer and more collected. Especially considering hes a pilgrim and you need a shit ton of mental fortitude to make the Journey he has. And then there is Lawan, dear lord, like they had to write in a "strong independent woman" and make her his blatant love interest with the most frustrating and annoying personality on the planet. More over its weak to make her the only capable woman in the game as well lol. Sophie doesn't count, shes just power hungry and then gets everyone to do everything for her you never see her fight or anything lmao and then there is the most unnecessary death in the history of video game writing, Veronika Ryan. She didn't need to die at all, and she was a freaking high level GRE doctor, she would be critical to finding a cure and they write her death in and not only that, do it in a massively ridiculous way for shock factor urghhh. Then there is the factions and then how this mess all started, good god, the general...how did he even command forces without having his head blown off for sheer incompetence? Ridiculously bad writing. dsjfkljasdfkljas Sorry, I've completed the game so many times now but my god these things piss me off I needed to vent lmao

[@ampersandyyy]

@@adventofknowledge No no, don’t be sorry. Lots of valid criticism here.

[@otisl.1422]

The hatred/fear of Pilgrims is so confusing to me. Here are people who willingly travel across dangerous, open land delivering messages/information from settlement to settlement but because they might have to kill other humans (definitely not something that people are doing inside of Villedor 🙄) they're hate and feared.

[@arik2216]

There are several reasons to come up : 1) the common are jealous over Pilgrim's survivability 2) it's human's nature to be affraid of stranger outside from our community. 3) we have a suspicion of something different or unknown We don't know the Pilgrim could work as spy to other hostile or they are being infected to bring disease. 4) since the Pilgrims are used to living outside the community without being bound by your rules they can be considered a danger to the entire community.

[@Joshe08]

Ikr. Could you imagine people hating veterans and soldiers in the military who fight for their freedom all because they had to kill some people along the way?

[@YuryKarutin]

Love your videos man, so happy any time these Lore and Order (good title btw) videos come out, keep it up. Been watching these since the Outlast explained one.

[@psychomonkey1659]

I think aiden is destined to end up in Harran eventually. I think the new story dlc will take us to harran where we can see aiden learn more about Kyle and the survivors of the tower. It would be really cool to have aiden running around kyles stomping grounds and give us some nostalgia

[@RoyalRooster-xyz]

Unlikely, it's implied that harran was destroyed by flooding

[@IChaseIYouTube]

Aged like... something.

[@RosesBottom]

Just redownloaded dying light 1 again and decided to mess about as usual. By far the game which I put the most hours in. Can’t wait to play dying light 2 whenever it goes on discount.

[@panini8711]

have about 64hrs in and i played the hell out of dying light 1, i liked the blueprint system in 1 but dl2 is a good buy nonetheless. even better with co op. the combat and parkour is very satisfying

[@Autistic_Tarkov_Guy]

​@@panini8711bro what? Satisfying? It felt really floaty and not weight at all to me. Really underwhelming compared to the first game when I played it

[@Jamk14]

Great video. I love both dl1 and dl2 and u broke it down with everything. God I love me a good story game

[@imperialspy7204]

In a nutshell, one superhuman nomad helps a lot of people so they can help him find his sister who is only known by one GRE scientist named Waltz

[@JA3_J-A3]

Spoilers: Am I the only one who really finds all endings to be really bad? Like all that work to save Mia just for her to die anyway, and Aiden leaving with Hakkon or Lawan? Throughout the entire story I really didn't care about anyone but Mia. I didn't care with whom I sided as long as I can get to Mia. She dies anyways so what's the point? DY2 failed to get me emotionally attached to any character other than Mia since she is the main reason why Aiden is doing all of this to begin with. Even with all that, they ruined the "Brother/Sister" when she turned out to be not really our sister and she is Waltz daughter???? Bruh....what a HUGE disappointment. I thought to myself, maybe Waltz was trying to make more advanced and powerful humans that can withstand the virus and become almost supernatural in a way that the infected are no longer a threat. It would be a lot more stratifying if Mia herself had some sort of immunity that made us reach to the cure and save everyone, but no the city will either get controlled by 1 of the 3 factions each with their own flaws or get fully destroyed . I am disappointed but I have to say that the coolest moment in the game was when Aiden turned for the first time. It got boring and repetitive after the 4th time though . I wish this type of gameplay was on focused more.

[@Fff-ek3qy]

Same fr, my first objective was to save mia so i sided with the pk all the game ( except the end where i picked the butcher ) but then mias not actually his sister?? I wish they hadnt done that ..

[@albros1208]

I always watch videos like this when I decide to finish a game I started a long time ago.

[@FaiyaRay]

After playing the game. I can safely say that there is a noticeable shift after the vnc tower missions in terms of writing, the way story missions are constructed. Post vnc tower felt like the original dying light while pre vnc felt like something else. It is also noticeable that they way the story works does not make much sense. I mean as bad as Dying Light 1 in terms of story telling, it felt like a Dead Island game, sprinkled with parkour. Dying Light 2 felt like Far Cry: New Dawn with zombies. I am very sure early in development they wanted to make something like Renegades vs PK vs survivors. This is apparent when upon entering the Renegades HQ, they showed us children playing, basically showing that maybe the Renegades aren't so bad after all. Then again they were full of Renegades psychos within the game which doesn't make sense other than Waltz took control of them. Not to mention the continuos Book searching 1- 10 and zombies killing. I don't remember much memorable place in Dying 2 eventhough they tried to implement it. Dead Island did it better for me tbh. Overall, other than the better parkour which is also debatable, even combat is significantly worse than Dead Island. Techlands seem to revert backwards. Here's hopinh Dying Light 3 will do better

[@Danie1_l]

I wonder what made Aidan believe Mia was his sister?

[@Adog00]

Loving the grind dude.. you’re awesome

[@8joshstol0329]

He’s like my favorite for lore videos now

[@big.dinkledorf]

Aidan being born in 2013 is so funny to me for some reason like I’m older than this man

[@HermlinLamba]

If you pay attention to hakons chest, you can see the scar when you first meet him

[@for_barze]

I'm not into dying light (not my type of game) but the story looks really interesting thanks for the video 😁

[@kendonl.taylor5111]

@7:16 The sniper escapes, after giving Aiden a threating "I'll be watching you" gesture.

[@KemonoPriestessHazuki]

Mister Olivier Deriviere did it again with the fantastic music ❤❗ The VNC climb is the most memorable part of the game for me. I love their works since Obscure, Vampyr and A Plague Tale.

[@TheCrazyCh1ckenJR]

Same, I found the VNC climb and parkour in general to be more fun and memorable throughout the game. The music on the VNC climb was amazing.

[@kemonopriestess]

​@@TheCrazyCh1ckenJR Yeah!

[@Wallbangedbyme]

"Being beaten by a thug named tahir" -seems familiar, this happens at the beginning of the game. "Crane, lands gets beaten by tahir and thugs"-also happens at the start of the game. Then in DL2 Dylan sacrifices himself for Aiden then is chased by enemies-seems familiar In DL Amir sacrifices himself for crane and jade then is chased by enemies then blacks out....hmmmm

[@SteveEchelonanon]

Just explain to me how Aiden managed to traverse thousands of miles and never once see a bolter until he saw one in the game and called Hakon over the radio to describe what he saw.

[@edgar882]

Dying Light 2's biggest problem was that every option you got felt stupid, and everyone was easy to hate. I had to check the outcomes for the radio tower choice to make sure I got the best options since I didn't want to give it to either of the factions. They were all so unlikable and none of them made any good points to me. I think I went with the nightrunners because they had abilities that weren't all about combat which the PKs were (also its weird a game which doesn't really want you to fight gives you fighting abilities)

[@ems8717]

After playing this game for hours I had a crazy zombie nightmare just like the game with side characters that ended up dying 😂

[@italovidigal1990]

Me too

[@thebatmanofneo-gotham5667]

It honestly sucks that there's nothing you can do to save Mia, because no matter what ending you choose, she dies anyways.

[@kajetanbiechonski7214]

thank you for saving me from buying this game. 2:02 We got a superhero.... The best thing in first gme was the semi real zombie apocalypse: Lots of zombies, the biggest monster is another human, parkour!. Overall video nice! thumbs up

[@Brokeahhboi]

Rowe had to be the most real pk in the whole story. A unit, and a best friend till the near end. 😭 😭 😭 he should've gotten more screen time

[@kestrel1917]

Just completed a second playthrough. For me, siding with the PKs never made sense because you don't actually really ever see them help anyone. All of the rank and file you interact with basically fail their missions and leave Aiden to pick up the slack, abandon civilians e.g. pulling back from St. Paul Island against the wishes of townsfolk, Matt isn't trustworthy (especially for those who collected the notes related to his backstory), and overall they're a faction who only cares about control and can't even do that correctly as they're slowly losing ground to the Renegades throughout the game. I totally understand and even agree with most of the complaints about the Bazaarians especially characters like Barney, but at least their stated goal is to help common folk.

[@zay_tiggygaming]

I love how you have to search for what happened thru tapes and documents. I love this trend inin gaming. Really fleshed out what i thought was a shallow game

[@NoradNoxtus]

I gave every zone to PK but ended up with Survivor banners in the cutscene lol maybe the choices are what truly matter in key points.

[@IconiaAngelos]

does the game ever explain why some tiny human made UV lamps are so effective yet the Sun, the strongest UV lamp we have, isn't?

[@zedkiller112]

Maybe the uv lamps present in the game are specifically made to combat the virus, as the installations where you find the lamps in Juan’s quest were stored in a quarantine zone, and they would know about how us effects zombies from Harran

[@Empire_JeSzO]

I didnt even get to save hakon or kill him since its a side quest. Made the story seem so non sensical, along with the fact that giving the pks the radio tower means no citizens get any danger warnings. Honeslty a lot of it was frustrating and illogical

[@Cyberpsychos_Dirge]

Yeah, why wouldn’t the PKs warn the people? They have every reason too. It’s stupid, just like their ending.

[@sarakennedy1592]

Your videos are excellent! Thank you for your hard work.

[@Jarod-te2bi]

1:23 of course booze will survive the end of humanity.

[@SoterDave]

Comprehensive and well made!

[@crypto40]

Just think about it lawan never shot her bow at waltz it would of saved us hours of a really bad story. I mean once he realized it was Aiden he probably would of brought us right down to his lab and he would of met his sister again

[@regular_being]

Mia isnt his sister, only Waltz's daughter. Aiden was only experimented on by Waltz.

[@roboczop2192]

Everyone at the start of the game: PKs cant be that bad. Everyone near the end of the game: Fuck PKs.

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

Yeah. During my NG+ I slaughtered the PKs

[@Cyberpsychos_Dirge]

While I enjoyed DL2 I have to say I hate one of the endings and some of the choices. For example if you give the tower to Jack Matt and the PKs, despite having the ability to warn Jack Matt and tell him to use the broadcast system to warn the survivors of the incoming missile strike, Aiden doesn’t, so the Bazzar gets fucked up. Yet if you choose the Survivors Aiden will warn them. This is super annoying because despite being at odds at times the PKs do care about the well being of the people in the city. Not to mention they also go the Bazaar themselves. The PK ending is also out of left field. While the PKs are authoritarian in the military sense, they care about the people in the city. The send out squads to help survivors, kill infected, protect settlements, etc. Hell many of them are ex-soldiers who turned on the military when they, the military, wanted to kill a whole bunch of civilians. By all accounts the PKs truly do care about the city and it’s people. They are strict, yes, but not overly so. BUT in the ending they go full regime. You steal water? Whole family, dead. Food? Dead. Considering they control the city water and food shouldn’t be an issue. Yet when they didn’t control it the penalty for stealing was losing a hand. Brutal? Yes, but many steps better than killing an entire family. So the PKs have been shown to be brutal and authoritarian, but also caring and considerate. But their ending just throws all the stuff away and makes em turbo assholes. It’s off putting and blind siding. Feels more like a punishment for choosing them than an actual ending. “Oh, you liked the PKs? Well you sided with ultra dickheads, gotcha!”

[@Lstead15]

I haven't continued the search for my sister in a LONG while.....too many side quests and shit to farm....LOL

[@A-TRA1N]

Thats good tho you dont want to rush through main story that fast otherwise some of the side quest that u unlocked will disappear and you wont ever get the chance to do some of the side quests again if u just focused on main story missions, its good to take your time with the story and explore and do heaps of side missions along the way

[@Lostintranzlation_OG]

I actually hate the gameplay aspect of DL2 but the story is unbeatable we need a DL3 or a revamp of DL1

[@fighter5583]

Honestly, best ending is with the survivors. PK ending is just more hardship and authoritarianism.

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

And renegades doesn’t even mention the colonel despite him being ones of the dudes in charge

[@FirstnameLastname-qc3xx]

I loved everything about this game except the ending. My god the final 16 rounds of fighting waltz was fucking stupid. However the game play is fun as hell…. Also your videos are amazing bro!

[@Ghost-lk1cw]

Did no one noticed the bandits name was “tahir”

[@Reliant1864]

I was wondering why they chose that. I thought Crane didn't leave a loose end like that alive?

[@morgankennedy4744]

@@Reliant1864 I'd say it's just an Easter egg for people who played the first game.

[@Reliant1864]

@@morgankennedy4744 agree. I wish someone mentioned the loose ends comment though for more of an Easter egg

[@kennyserrano4806]

I’m just confused why Waltz had to blow up the city in order to save Mia

[@Anonymous-dw8qp]

DAMN THAT VIDEO IS LONG. GUESS I AM THE FIRST TO COMMENT!!! Btw keep up the good work

[@GamingHarryYT]

Yeah, thanks! I need to sleep for a while now...

[@Anonymous-dw8qp]

@@GamingHarryYT take a good nap! You earn it

[@swup_1506]

How do you only have 100k subs? You should have atleast 1 million because You deserved it :) ty for the videos fcking entertaining

[@erikaerika9112]

entire story aiden looks for his sister thats it in 10 seconds

[@Anti9022]

Please make a hakon video I just love his character

[@vBUMPERv]

Can't wait for New Game+ so I can get Peacekeeper weapons AND the good ending.

[@A-TRA1N]

Same the crossbow is the only reason why i chose to side with the pk's but regretted it when I got the bad ending

[@UwUOwl]

Oof

[@mr420jay]

Simply put… well done.

[@kodajames6955]

Why is Aiden 2000 km away when he was being experimented on as a young child in the city were lead back too? Villedor.

[@grimmybooarts3731]

Probably got taken away after he got out of x13

[@zay_kash]

Had to escape

[@johnphillips2204]

honestly, i played both games and the second game was just... it just didn't have that little "something" that dying light one had. i played dying light 1 trough and trough 100% every single side/main quest tested all the weapons and found all the easter eggs got trough the game on every difficulty even did a no death challenge with thousands of hours in the game dying light 2 got me bored in around 10-15 hours

[@lefunnyN1]

honestly i feel like DL2 story is a weak sequel, wasted potential

[@andreyutz2133]

I honestly never knew Spike is in DL2, which is awesome for me, because i loved Spike a lot

[@keith9129]

I remember how scary night travel was for dying light 1. 2 lacks that scary tension completely

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Villedor seems like a fairy tale dreamland compared to Harran. Everything made sense in Harran. It seemed real. In comparison Villedor comes across like a zombie theme park. It’s a shame, because it looks very good.

[@SyIis]

.....just turn your gamma down to 18-20 and only run on ground level Lmk how that goes Just see a bunch of people play on high gamma and stay on rooftops then complain about night time

[@keith9129]

@@SyIis you missed the point completely and I’m more upset I took time to address this

[@SyIis]

@@keith9129 I love when people tell me I missed a point when the point is so fucking simple a child could understand it but then fail to prove how I missed it. If you don't think being chased in pitch black by virals and volatiles is scary in DL2 but you thought it was in 1 then maybe you're just blinded by nostalgia I played dl1 for the entire 7 years lol I can't understand people

[@keith9129]

@@SyIis I didn’t have to “work” to get volatiles and virals on me. Once night hit they were just THERE, and the slightest misstep would alert them. I didn’t have to adjust settings to create tension and fear. It was already there. So yes. You missed a point so simple a child could get it. Congrats.

[@VoGnos]

I know it doesn’t make sense at all but I stand by the fact Kyle crane is aidens dad

[@Aucard]

Can you please tell from where you get the awesome background music from ? And how you decide the best track for your video ?

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

I chose to bug the transmitter for Juan, but when I got to the top of the tower the game made me choose between Jack and Frank. So what happened there?

[@SyIis]

Juan didn't want control, he wanted the ability to snoop on who's in control or mainly to snoop on JackMatt

[@ashleejones586]

I just beat it for the second time, and got the best ending. I didn’t think Matt would’ve done that. When the “Renegades” killed Frank, I knew something was up. I’m glad to see that Cillian convinced Matt’s men not to listen to him.

[@russianoftheinternet8907]

My head cannon lore is dropkick

[@R3TR0J4N]

I learned visual direction w/ Dying light UV lamps.

[@Cardinal_Hordriss]

I feel that by jumping from the events in Harran to the post-apocalypse they've sort of painted themselves into a corner. It's like post-apocalyptic zombie films, for me they've skipped the more interesting part of the story, the outbreak and the attempts by the government, military and scientific community to fight back during the slow collapse of society. They could get a whole series of games out of telling that story but instead they've jumped to a setting we've seen a million times before.

[@gospel9875]

I liked my ending of the game, Hamon and aiden went to the beach and learned to surf

[@tomrob0697]

I think volatiles got a massive buff in this game I used to be able to go to a volatile nest in daytime and clear it easy but now I can barley take 1 volatile on nevermind a horde so I think I’ll be stuck being unable to clear the gre hospitals

[@oreos922]

Try uv bars upgraded, and strong bows profit

[@ThunderCaster333]

Max out resistance boosters

[@yourfriendspal]

Use upgraded uv bars. Start off by taking on the GRE monsters at night. Find a windmill nearby the gre monster sites and unlock that so you have a place to go to after killing them. I got so many inhibitors before actually hitting the gre hospitals with upgraded weapons, the uv bars, grenades and molotovs even. Definitely helps when going into the hospitals then.

[@jxqia4829]

Ong I’d be lucky to kill just 1 in dying light 2

[@mr.2cents.846]

I'm secretly hoping that Techland will be smart and give us quasi a second game like the following dubbed "Beyond the Walls". But since I found out that Dying Light 2 is by far not the game we all expected because it's a different team working on it than the one from Dying Light, I fear well just get a slew of thin dlcs.

[@justinbayless8284]

You know. I played through the entire game and not once have I ever heard someone call it New Paris. They always called the city Villedor. Villador? And I get why the people in the first area call it that, since that area is Old Villador. But people in the city area also called it Villedor. It’s weird because even watching videos of it, they never call it New Paris. It wasn’t until about 4 weeks ago when I heard the city be called New Paris. Am I crazy?

[@frankhorriganfromfallout2]

New Paris is a much smaller settlement

[@arinleoczko1250]

Went from one of the best games I've ever played with DL1 to something as goofy as this. Not often do I regret buying a game but I have Dying Light 2 on disk forever now and idk if i can live that down.

[@IChaseIYouTube]

You know you could sell it, right? Or trade it at GameStop. Or throw it away.

[@deznuts6028]

Aye another banger

[@catdean828]

love these videos!

[@landondean1388]

It would of been cool if lawan was Mia a cool plot twist

[@som3thin9]

Thank you for making this

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Amazing breakdown 👌🏿🔥

[@summerweddingfeld4442]

Dying light 1 & 2 story is good and the gameplay is good too.

[@althedude5318]

I Lawan as the nightrunner and got her in the ending when I beat the game for the first time and it was the day before they changed the ending scene

[@mohammedal-dleimy2175]

No not like this! We want a timeline , we get confused between the voicemails and newspaper articles dates

[@MiniatureMasterClass]

So why do manmade UV lamps work, yet the largest UV source we have, you know, THE SUN, does nothing? LOL! Bad writing.

[@Monter6]

there is a difference between the sun and UV lights

[@jaythered420]

The sun does do something. Volatiles can’t go out during the day out in the SUN. Nor can virals. They literally combust into flames.

[@Guy6759_you]

When spike said I wish Krane was here to see this I kinda cried

[@boompow_]

this video is bound to get views

[@yharnamiyhill787]

I wish the darn game just have a new game plus campaign where you don't leave the city as canon...

[@AJ-et3vf]

Great video! Thank you!

[@ahmadfitri7976]

They made 'Peacekeepers' the bad guy if you choose their path, and good guys if you choose the Bazar. But with that path though, the peacekeepers are no longer the one controlling the peace.

[@maciejbanasiak2619]

As an Iaden, I want go to the Elysium part of Villedor, but i don't know how story will explain this

[@IChaseIYouTube]

So...your choices don't matter. Aiden is in the exact same position as when he started. No Mia, no home, all alone. Nothing. He's just as screwed as when he started. Great.

[@jackcarrington1913]

I love Dying Light and while I did like DL2 I couldn’t help feel a little disappointed, I feel like pretty much all the characters are underdeveloped and Waltz having superpowers was just really goofy

[@richieboy1997]

Should I trust the colonel or no I'm not too sure what's the best decision to make