So, I played this DLC about two months after playing the base game. I played it for about 33 hours, more than half of the time I spent in the base game.
So, this DLC takes dying light in a very different direction. What do I mean by that?
In the base game, there is a very strong focus on parkour and the things you can do with it. Instead of just slicing up zombies with your sword or bat or whatever your favored weapon is, you can drop kick, or you could vault over a zombie, or you could just charge into a zombie, knocking them down. The parkour was the main feature, around which the map and the combat revolved.
The DLC is very different. In the following, there is much, much less focus on parkour. Instead, you get the buggy. And in my opinion, the buggy is absolutely better than just raw parkour. The map is much larger, but also much more open, which allows you to drive absolutely anywhere, though I personally preferred staying on the roads, planning my route through those roads.
The story in my opinion is much better than in the base game, and it genuinely had me sitting there wondering what could possibly be the ending. Though I was spoiled about a very specific thing in the ending, I didn't actually know as much as I thought.
My only problems are the same ones there were in the base game. Virals, and guns.
Virals are genuinely not a threat. They take a single hit, easy to hit and dodge, and are just not very dangerous. But I don't mind virals themselves. The problem is that virals spawn every time there is a loud sound, such as an explosion. And on the road, as you might notice, are a lot of exploding zombies. And I mean a lot. And every time you pass one while driving on the road, it might just go off, and spawn in virals around you. To be fair though, you can just keep driving for a couple seconds until the virals are out of your range, and they will just dispawn. But yeah, I do wish they made the exploding zombies much rarer on the roads. They don't even deal that much damage while you're in the buggy, at least not on normal.
And guns are another story. When you fight bandits who have guns, it sucks. They can just delete you health bar in like, a second. And I just don't like the guns in this game, and it feels like the developers themselves did not really want you to use, though that's just a personal feeling. Feel free to play however you want!
So yeah, if you enjoyed the base game, and you genuinely want to play more of it, I would recommend this highly. Just be aware this is less of a parkour game and more of a driving game with occasional parkour :>
