Update: Techland recently shared a number of patch notes for the Day 1 patch. It’s added below the story.

So much for following street dates.

Retail copies of Dying Light 2 have surfaced ahead of the game’s 4 February release date, according to developer and publisher Techland. The studio has requested on a recent message for players to wait for the game’s official Day 1 patch that’s due on 4 February. As of now, the retail version of the title is in an incomplete state as of now, but will be updated on launch.

“Fellow survivors, we see that some of you got an access to the retail copies of Dying Light 2 before the release date (it’s this Friday, only 3 days left!). We understand you want to start exploring the City ASAP and we couldn’t be happier!

That being said, we kindly ask you to wait until Feb 4th as by that time you’ll also get access to all improvements and fixes we’ve implemented within last weeks and will introduce with the day 1 patch. That’s the way to experience Dying Light 2 the way it’s meant to be played.”

That being said, we kindly ask you to wait until Feb 4th as by that time you’ll also get access to all improvements and fixes we’ve implemented within last weeks and will introduce with the day 1 patch. That’s the way to experience Dying Light 2 the way it’s meant to be played.

— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) February 1, 2022

[Update] Here are the patch notes for the Day 1 console update:

• Fixed the Broadcast infinite respawn story block
• Fix for dialogues that block story progression
• Re-signing to the co-op session doesn’t fail in case the user is logged in
• Fixed crash when handing electrical parts to Carlos in Bazaar
• Fixed problems with temporarily lowering the difficulty level – improved adaptive difficulty for AIs
• Fixed crash caused by background renderer during the transition between menu and loading screens
• Increased Wwise overall memory limit – fix for missing sounds and voice-over
• Resolved problems with objects and AI sinking into the ground on a flat surface.
• Fix for AI sometimes freezing/becoming immortal when the owner changes during death
• Added protection against potential crashes.
• Updates for ES, CH; DE intro.
• Added missing game actions fixing occasional unresponsiveness.
• Fixed Streamer Mode option which was not working properly.
• Fixed crash on opening the secondary screen.
• Fixed disconnecting co-op sessions after a certain amount of time.
• DLSS enabled. Improved default DLSS sharpness. [PC version]
• Fixed the gamepad not being detected by the game before any movement or action is conducted using a keyboard or mouse. [PC version]

The latter 2 PC updates will be ready over the next 48 hours.

Dying Light 2 will be out this week on PC, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS4, and PS5. Stay tuned to KKP for our review.