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In gaming, there are good Linux ports and there are bad Linux ports. I'm still trying to decide where Dying Light fits in. Dying Light was originally released January 2015 for Windows PC, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Dying Light is an open-world first-person survival game, similar in many ways to Dead Island, but different enough to stand on its own. It was developed by Techland and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. I had wanted to play Dying Light ever since it was first released on Linux about a year ago, but was afraid to buy it due to its extremely high minimum requirements. Late last year I was able to download and play a demo version of it through Steam, and it played just fine on my system… so, a few weeks later when I found it on sale for under $20, I bought it. The regular price for Dying Light on Steam is currently $59.99, and, by the time you read this, there should also be a Dying Light: Enhanced Edition already released for about $10.00 more.
I must admit that I've run into quite a few problems, but it may be due to the fact that it requires an AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz, and I only have an AMD FX-6100 @3.6 GHz. I meet all other requirements comfortably. The problems I've run into are that the game will make my entire system freeze. I can't go back to my desktop or even use Ctrl+Alt+F* to go to another virtual console and reboot normally, so I've had to manually hit the power button on my PC to do a hard reboot. However, I've also been able to enjoy it without the freezing. I had a session last almost two uninterrupted hours, and quite a few 45+ minutes uninterrupted sessions, while other times playing for only 5 minutes before a freeze. I can't explain it and it seems like it happens to others as well, not only on Linux but also on Windows.
In order to get the best possible performance, I ran the game at its lowest settings. If anything, it seems to me like having my web browser open would lend itself to more crashes than having the web browser closed. When the game plays, it is very enjoyable, but when it crashes it can be very frustrating. I played Dying Light with Nvidia's proprietary driver, version 346. Open source graphics drivers will not function properly with this game.
Dying Light is a first-person horror survival game where you're free to roam the open world and do whatever you want. However, it's advised that, for the first couple of days, you stick to the storyline – not only to get the hang of it, but also to learn new skills and upgrade your weapons. I used my Razer Onza game controller to play the game, which, for the most part, functioned properly. The only flaw with the controller was that my Start (Pause) button didn't work, so if I needed to pause or end my session, I had to resort to using the keyboard. When using the mouse/keyboard to control the game, everything went according to plan.
The controls are your typical first-person survival layout – with one main difference, which is what sets Dying Light apart from other similar games – the parkour element. The best and possibly only way to stay alive in this game is to make use of the parkour mechanisms introduced in this game.
As is typical, you learn how to move as you progress through the game. There are a few different mechanisms which you must learn and master to evade the enemy in this game. As the game begins, you jump off an airplane into a zombie infested Harran (Harran used to be a thriving city in ancient Mesopotamia, located in what today is Turkey). As soon as you make landing, you're bitten by some attacking zombies, thus your future is immediately doomed. After being bitten, you pass out and wake up in a makeshift infirmary where you learn you have been given a temporary vaccine which slows down the virus that will ultimately turn you into a zombie. From here on, you are given various assignments to help out the diminishing human population in Harran.
In the daytime, the zombies are slow – very much like in most other zombie games. But, at night, the zombies gain an unforeseen speed that makes the parkour skills you learned earlier essential for survival. Your first missions take place in the daytime and are basically about roaming around the city searching for other survivors, making preparations, and setting traps for the nighttime. To move about in the city, you immediately learn that it's best to jump on top of buildings, vehicles or other structures. The zombies are slow, and if you jump above them you are very much safe and out of danger.
Everything changes at night. As soon as it gets dark, the zombies can move about just like you can, which makes them much more dangerous. They are fast and can jump just like you. To make matters even worse, your vision is very limited by the darkness all around you – so you have to use your “survivor sense”, which, in a nutshell, helps you survive by helping you spot various different things in your environment. Your weapons, unfortunately, deteriorate very quickly as you use them to smash zombies, so you're forced to continually keep searching for objects to make better weapons. Initially, weapons at your disposal might include something like a hammer or a wrench, but as you gather other items, and pick up blueprints, you're able to craft better weapons which are more effective at fighting the undead. There are also firearms available but these are scarce and you don't get to use them until a bit later on in the game.
The graphics are awesome, even at low settings. When I took a risk and ran the game at mid-to-high settings, the graphics were even better. The infected who surround you, both living and undead, give way to a detailed concrete jungle full of lush green landscapes as a backdrop, and with an ever changing realistic sunlight which first fades away to darkness and then shines back with each new rising dawn. It isn't only the sunlight that changes, the weather also constantly changes with some days having perfect sunlight and others fog and even rain. The sound is phenomenal, especially if you can listen to it with stereo surround speakers or headphones.
All in all, it's a great game to play, and one which I would definitely recommend to anyone whose system meets the minimum requirements. If your system doesn't meet the requirements, then you can forget about playing this game as you'll definitely struggle getting the game to play properly. It is because of the high minimum requirements that I am forced to take a star and a half away from the game rating since it quite possibly deprives a large portion of gamers from playing Dying Light.
Minimum Requirements: Ubuntu 14.04 or newer CPU: Intel Core i5-2500 @3.3 GHz / AMD FX-8320 @3.5 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM DDR3 Hard Drive: 40 GB free space GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 / AMD Radeon HD 6870 (1GB VRAM) Additional Notes: JFS & XFS file systems are not supported
My gaming box: AMD FX-6100 3.3GHz CPU (over-clocked to 3.5GHz) Gigabyte Windforce GeForce GTX 960 graphics card with 346.72 proprietary driver 16GB of Kingston Hyper X RAM Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with Unity desktop
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