You Might Get To Play Dying Light: The Beast For Free

During Gamescom's Opening Night Live, Techland announced the latest entry in its zombie franchise. sees the return of the original 's protagonist, Kyle Crane, a former member of the United States Armed Forces who was hired and trained by the Global Relief Effort (GRE) to infiltrate the zombie-infested city of Harran. Crane was only mentioned by name in, which told a different story following Aiden Caldwell, a member of an outcast group known as the Pilgrims who was on a mission to find his lost sister, Mia, instead.

was teased in a live-action trailer the day before Gamescom titled " "

[Warning: The following story contains spoilers for and .]

The last players saw of Kyle Crane was during 's story expansion,, where he met a sentient Volatile called The Mother, who was tranquil in daytime and feral at night. The Mother used an airborne serum that very slowly began to transform Crane into what she is, and by the end of the expansion, players were presented with two options, to either help the Mother bring about "" and ending the Harran virus by detonating a nuclear warhead at the cost of thousands of lives, or he can refuse the Mother and try to take the remaining serum in liquid form, stubbornly believing it to be a cure.

From here, there were two endings, one in which the screen went white and Harran was destroyed, and another, more sinister one where Crane seemed to escape Harran as a sentient Volatile as the sun was beginning to set. Seeing as there's no way in which Crane could have survived the former option, it's clear which ending has deemed to be canon, and Crane will be able to use some of his newer mutated abilities in the new adventure.

Although mentioned by a recurring character from the previous game, Dying Light's Kyle Crane does not make an appearance in Dying Light 2: Stay Human.

While will be available as a standalone story with 18 to 20 hours of gameplay, an official press release from developers Techland confirmed that it was originally