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Dying Light: The Following Beginner's Guide - Early Tips (No Spoilers)
Dying Light: The Beast tips for early gameplay, covering area exploration, Dark Zone farming, skill utilization, crafting and equipment usage, encounter participation, side quest completion, and night survival strategies.
1. 🗺️ Early Area Exploration and Level Design Understanding
- ✅ After starting the game, you can freely explore the map upon entering the open world.
- ⚠️ However, since levels are set for each area, it is recommended to explore the Old Town and National Park areas in the early stages.
- ✅ These areas are suitable for early levels and have everything you need.
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1. 🗺️ Early Area Exploration and Level Design Understanding
- ✅ After starting the game, you can freely explore the map upon entering the open world.
- ⚠️ However, since levels are set for each area, it is recommended to explore the Old Town and National Park areas in the early stages.
- ✅ These areas are suitable for early levels and have everything you need.
00:56 - 01:40
2. 🔦 Dark Zone Farming and Stealth Utilization
- ✅ It is recommended to farm in the Dark Zone before proceeding with the story to prepare for your journey.
- ✅ The Dark Zone is scattered throughout Old Town, and you can obtain many resources needed for crafting.
- ✅ In the Dark Zone, you can obtain blueprints that provide armor and equipment with useful stats, and increase the chances of weapon modification.
- ✅ The Dark Zone can be found through binoculars or question marks on the map, and you can hover the cursor over the map to check for possible loot, armor, and blueprints.
- ✅ Invest your first skill point in Stealth Expert to easily explore the Dark Zone.
- ✅ Stealth Expert makes it harder for infected to detect you.
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3. 🦸 Utilizing Kyle Crane's Basic Skills
- ✅ It is important to be familiar with Kyle Crane's basic skills.
- ✅ You can check the previous skill set by hovering the cursor over Kyle Crane in the skill tree.
- ✅ Key Skills:
- ✅ Grapple Throw: A counter attack that throws infected off the roof
- ✅ Ground Slam: Deals significant damage to a group of infected by jumping down from a high place
- ✅ Air Kick: Reduces fall damage and attacks enemies when jumping from a high place
- ✅ Flame Jump: Jump further over obstacles
- ✅ Double Jump: Jump over obstacles or jump higher
- ✅ Wall Run: Move to avoid infected in certain situations
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4. 🛠️ Crafting and Equipment Utilization Strategies
- ✅ Crafting and equipment help overcome difficult situations.
- ✅ Molotovs, grenades, and throwing knives are useful gadgets in the early stages.
- ✅ You can find resources in the Dark Zone and open world buildings.
- ✅ You can easily find nearby loot by using Survivor Sense.
- ✅ You can obtain supplies by defeating infected enemies, opening locked containers and doors, or purchasing items from merchants.
- ✅ It is always a good idea to buy resin, cloth, alcohol, and feathers from merchants.
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5. 🔥 Flamethrower and Vehicle Trunk Utilization
- ✅ It is recommended to obtain the flamethrower blueprint from the skill tree.
- ✅ The flamethrower is powerful but uses a lot of fuel, so you need to check the fuel in the vehicle.
- ✅ You can find ammo or guns in vehicle trunks and police trunks.
- ✅ Carry a lock pick and keep an eye on police cars.
05:37 - 06:58
6. 🤝 Encounter Participation and Experience Acquisition
- ✅ Encounters are random events scattered throughout the map where you can earn experience.
- ✅ Encounters include rescuing survivors from infected, looting items, or surviving ambushes.
- ✅ Encounters are marked with a blue symbol on the compass.
- ✅ Some encounters are time-limited, so you must achieve the goal on time.
- ✅ Abandoned convoys require a key card, which can be found on an armored corpse near the convoy truck.
- ✅ The side of the truck has unlockable containers that may contain ammunition.
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7. Quest Completion and Leveling Up
- ✅ It is important to do side quests.
- ✅ If you proceed directly with the main story, the game will become more difficult as the enemies' levels increase.
- ✅ You can level up at an appropriate pace by exploring side quests and the Dark Zone.
- ✅ You can obtain unique loot that can only be obtained from side quests.
- ✅ You can also gain the ability to utilize traps installed in the environment.
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8. 🌙 Night Survival Strategies
- ✅ The night is very dangerous, and powerful infected such as Volatiles appear.
- ✅ It is recommended to restore power to safe houses to prepare for the night.
- ✅ Use Survivor Sense at night to detect and avoid Volatiles.
- ✅ Volatiles are on buildings and on the ground, and you should be careful of lanterns.
- ✅ Be careful not to make noise.
- ✅ Sleeping in a safe house is also a good option.