INTERVIEW: Techland’s Tymon Smektała On Supporting Dying Mild 2 Till 2027

Techland had one of the profitable reveals throughout Gamescom, debuting the primary trailer for Dying Mild: The Beast in the course of the Opening Evening Reside showcase. I then adopted up with Techland twice, as soon as to take a look at an unique prolonged gameplay demo and once more to meet up with Tymon Smektała, the franchise director engaged on the Dying Mild collection.

Dying Mild: The Beast is an all-new, standalone journey that began life because the second paid DLC for 2022’s Dying Mild 2. I had the chance to ask Tymon a couple of questions in regards to the enlargement and the way forward for Dying Mild 2.

Is This The Finish?

Dying Mild 2 followers have been awaiting information concerning the second DLC for the sport for fairly a while. This isn’t what they anticipated, however in so some ways, it’s a lot better. Dying Mild: The Beast brings again Roger Craig Smith as Kyle Crane, providing gamers an 18-hour story that explains the prolonged hole between the primary two video games within the collection.

I used to be curious to find out about Techland’s plans for Dying Mild 2 now that the second (and assumedly ultimate) DLC has turn into a standalone venture:

We needed to decelerate issues slightly for the essential preparation of The Beast for Gamescom, however even on the day of the announcement we launched an replace to Dying Mild 2. We promised 5 years of help and we’re sticking to that promise. Anticipate new content material updates, additionally coming this 12 months.

As we seemed again on the success of the collection, Tymon admitted that Dying Mild’s (2015) main enlargement, The Following, might even have been a standalone title, however ‘this time round it’s totally different’.

He suggested that The Beast will reply a whole lot of lingering questions that agency up the collection’ lore – together with making the latest entry within the Dying Mild collection rather more accessible to all gamers. As Tymon harassed, now you can play The Beast with out having to ‘convert’ to Dying Mild 2.

Talking retrospectively, Tymon admitted that if they may do Dying Mild 2 over again, they’d let the sport ‘mature’ first earlier than saying it:

In some unspecified time in the future in 2021, we began feeling strain to get it out of the gate, particularly as we introduced it actually early. If I might change naything I’d just do that, permit the sport to mature slightly internally, permitting us to focus and polish the main points that make a great recreation and an distinctive one. A lesson discovered, I assume.

We then seemed ahead, and Tymon revealed his need to make Dying Mild the zombie expertise. He hopes that at some point when somebody asks what the perfect zombie recreation is, the primary title on everybody’s thoughts will probably be ‘Dying Mild’.

I say it’s already there.

I couldn’t have ended the interview with out asking about ‘Dying Mild 3’, and whereas Tymon harassed that there are ‘many potential concepts’ for the sport, he couldn’t disclose any info.

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