Dying Light: The Beast's "360 approach" to stealth combat is "maybe better" suited to this series than Far Cry, according to Techland's ex-Ubisoft game director

Dying Light: The Beast screenshot of The Baron raising Kyle's chin with a knife — (Image credit: Techland)

Dying Light: The Beast's open ended approach to combat lets you tackle encounters a variety of ways, from full-on stealth to fire and brimstone – and Techland director Nathan Lemaire reckons this freedom of choice is even better suited to Dying Light than Far Cry, which he also worked on.

In a sit-down with GamesRadar+, Lemaire gives a couple of examples of how Dying Light: The Beast lets you approach dangerous situations in your own way, and inevitably, on the fly. In other words, the "360 approach."

"From the beginning of the castle, from the garden, the moment that you open the door, you can do this whole situation [in stealth] instead," says Lemaire. "And like, the whole situation has been made for that if you break the stealth, you have reinforcements and so on. It was only in specific activities that were like outposts or bandit camps, you know, and it's critical to do it when you are in the context of the main quest, because you create the grounds for player expression."

Even in the nighttime sections of the game – typically when you would want to be stealthy, as it's when enemies are most dangerous – there are, uh, alternative methods of dealing with threats.

Lemaire spent seven years at Ubisoft from 2016 to 2023, during which he was game economy designer on Far Cry: New Dawn. He tells us he was "mentored" on this kind of open-ended combat approach while he "was working on Far Cry [New Dawn]'s open worlds and so on," adding, "But it suits Dying Light very well – maybe better actually, if I can say that – but this is why it's one thing that would be interesting to push specifically with the amount of toys that we have."