Dying Light 2 Stay Human

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hey it's larry hryb xboxes major nelson over there with jeff jeff how are you my box it's bigger well it's and yet it feels lonely well let's be clear um normally we're like this but as you can see we don't have a third here because rebecca is not with us today so jeff and i we we had a couple folks who were trying to get in here but schedules were just kind of crazy so uh she's on a well-deserved vacation as well remember she talked about last year lunar new year yeah so yes um but the good news is yeah we we make up for that next week we do hey i was gonna save that for the end of the show but i i guess i'll this is why i don't run the show i'll bring it right to the top all the episodes we're doing on uh tuesday tuesday which is what's the date what's that what's the day of the week on tuesday it's tuesday the tuesday february 8th or 8th february for those of you not in the united states uh we are going to do the show live we're gonna do the show live for the first the sexy this is this is actually epic for the first time ever rebecca larry and jeff will be in the same place at the same time we've never done this show jeff and i have done it you know in the same place at the same time and i've been with rebecca without jet but we've never all been at the same time in the same place in the same so we're going to do that next um next tuesday next tuesday we'll be streaming on my channel on on twitch and also probably on youtube we'll also be on the xbox channel because we're going to be leading into who's streaming that day jeff yeah that will be oh has that been revealed yet i don't want to take it away but we have a great uh we have a great streamer uh who's gonna be joining for our black history month uh creator takeover that'll be the second week uh we've had some great folks on this week as well and uh i don't want to ruin the announcement if he hasn't announced yeah okay but somebody somebody that should be familiar someone you might be surprised to see on an xbox channel well i'll leave it at that you've piqued my interest but anyway we'll do that on tuesday and don't worry about it if you're watching this on uh youtube or spotify or any of the other places then i'll just take this and i'll upload it like i normally do so don't worry about it if you if you don't if you're like oh i missed it or am i how am i gonna see don't worry about it we've got you covered where may just be some more visual gags we may play something live yeah we'll we'll see what happens we'll have we're gonna have fun we're gonna have but i'm looking forward to having you and rebecca in the same place at the same time so that's that's actually like i said it's so hard i mean we've more or less gotten used to doing the show this way but there's so much in terms of like a conversa a conversation when you're in person you can see in their eyes you can see with their body language that they want to say something or they disagree and your timing is just so tight and because our voices need to go like all the way out to new york and then come all the way back and then all the way back again sometimes yeah like like you know there's always a thing where all right i'm gonna count to like three before i talk cause i don't wanna talk over rebecca i wait till three i start talking and inevitably i we talk at the same time it happens every time it's kind of like old school when i used to do um broadcast interviews on news and they would use satellite and it was the same thing it was a satellite i'd have to go all you know 22 500 miles up bounce off come down it was it was difficult but we're not gonna have that problem next week are we no no because uh you know we're not gonna be constrained by you know stupid physics and the speed of light which is by the way not getting any faster not helpful like where's the where's the evolution here where's the work put in the work don't be a constant we need we need warp drive well that'd be good quantitative imagine if we had quantum podcast probably the the least valuable use of of quantum computing would be applying it to the podcast but i want to do it i want to be the world's first quantum powered pocket i need to tell this story because i'm sure you know this jeff but for the listeners they don't we actually have a whole team of people at microsoft that work in quantum computing i have no idea what they do i have no idea i'm like it's like it's like i mean i consider myself a nerd and i know jeff you've got nerd tendencies but this is this is like in a completely different level like i don't even i don't even i don't even want to walk into that classroom i tried learning a little bit about it and how it works and it's like if a particle moves then it's got another particle somewhere else in the galaxy and it will move at the same like how what like it doesn't this is beyond me thank you for being like english thank you for tuning in to the uh this is the science podcast you didn't know what you got yourselves into hey you know what i found out today we are the only video game news and information video show on spotify you know i've been talking for a few weeks about how we're on spotify with video we are the only video game news and information there's i think there's one other review show but they don't do news and information and we only do information not misinformation that's not what we do no no if you we tell you it it's true unless it's about quantum computing in which case we will lead with we don't know we don't know but anyway good to see you jeff it's uh should we talk about what we're playing we've got a nice interview this week about dying light 2. i've got some i've got some props here to show off have you started playing that that's that's definitely next on my list um i have it i think i have it downloaded but uh for those of you that don't know you know what's out this week um i started playing because we are recording this just after it released so i haven't had a chance to get like three or five or six hours and i think maybe 45 minutes in to be honest with you and i wanted to at least play it because i'm doing the interview later on so we'll uh we'll we'll kick that off in just a minute but um yeah i'm playing that and of course you and i are playing our playing playing our nightly halo slightly halos yeah jeff says hey i'll be brt you know you text me and i'll be right there so we go in and yeah yeah i kind of have that thing where it's like i see who's on if no one's on playing then i'll play something else but we've we definitely have a nice little routine here that we haven't had for a long time yeah i feel like probably not since we were you know when apex first came out and we were actually that apex i wouldn't say faze but we we were every day playing actually the new apex stuff that is coming out next week looks really cool well that was a funny story you and i were playing halo and your daughter was in the same room last night playing apex so you guys i don't know how you're doing that a lot a lot by the way yeah i was fine with it you all were kind of like you know playing off of the things she was saying every time i opened my mouth and i was talking lower than normal i was like you are you were top top med he's got he's got he's got rocks you know and every time no matter how low she would just glare at me like i'm really very much embarrassing her by being alive in the sa and in the same room as her so we've got a great relationships no i mean normally we do but you can tell when there's friends involved she can't mute fast enough right because god knows what i'll do so i i actually i had to tell you i'm a little disappointed i have not heard you bust out the too many dad jokes uh here there's a lot of puns like like like the groanier it is like the more my my wife and my daughter will think it's funny they will say it's stupid but then they're falling on the ground laughing so the more situational things i think and i'll just come up with the dumbest thing but um now our dad joke expert like our the person who's got like who could write a book of dad jokes is is rebecca and she's not here today which is so funny because she's not a dad but she she hasn't she she's got a great relationship with her dad if i have a relationship as good with my daughter as rebecca does with her dad when you know when my daughter is the same age then uh i've done something right yeah well i'm people while i'm too busy embarrassing her on stream i'm getting a little bit about now with my four-year-old chef dad you know i'm getting a little bit you've seen a little bit of that when we come over yes just wait exactly just wait hey speaking of right so what were you playing what else are you playing i mean i i i i'm playing dying light i'm playing in the mic larry i'm sorry i know i was i was turning around looking at because i was getting my gloves ready um playing rainbow six extraction we played that a little bit we talked about that last week in fact next week um hopefully after a little bit either during or towards the end of the stream we're gonna play rainbow six extraction for folks uh that tune in on the tuesday live show wow we're just gonna really stink it up uh live you know what why not point out why not we're not we're not scared uh but it's not scared to fail but i'm playing i ever haven't had a lot of chance to play too much i've been really busy with some work stuff and some other projects um working on a real nerdy i told you the nerdy project i'm working on for my car right yeah i had a raspberry pi involved and that's when i just you know come on you could do some fun it was clever all right you want to you want to tell people what you're working on why would you do that at the end of the show i mean should i do it at the end of the show is he going to be back on the show he could be he's he's dying to get back on uh no i have i have a tesla and there's this uh there's a github with tesla usb which basically takes all the footage and copies it to the raspberry pi and when you pull into your garage it copies it over to my server so that's it very clever speaking of e yeah uh i picked up the new pokemon pokemon legends arceus arceus um is that what you're playing it's great i am playing that i'm playing a lot of stuff knowing that i was going to get into dying light 2 and i actually finished after six months i finished octopath traveler phenomenal game if you love an old-school rpg it's on game pass get it i i just i can't recommend it highly enough it is this like the way you remember you know classic final fantasies being like super nintendo era just like um it's just it's very good and i miss it when you you know a game is great when you're done you spend a lot of time with it and then you go to sit down you know to play something and then you're like oh wait that came off of like there's like a almost a sense of loss yeah um you know yeah i could go and i could grind you know the rest of the achievements but that happened to me with breath of the wild yeah no totally get it and yeah cause we we both played that for over a year before we beat it we just we just kept going and grinding and having fun it wasn't you know what it never felt like grinding no and you know what it was one of those things here i was almost saving it a little bit you know um i mostly played it when i was on the go and then when i finally beat it yeah there was that sense of that's like actually there's we're traveling a lot so you mentioned breath of the wild and and i've seen this new pokemon game um sort of like compared to breath of the wild it's it is largely open world a lot more than if you played sword and shield which was also really good um this but this game is like instantly capturing me because it's not like the same thing is that the one that got taken down or was it pikachu fps did you see that yes that that's because that's not a licensed game i guess i know surprising that that happened yes i did read about a game where you can shoot pokemon and i don't i don't i don't approve although i did watch the video uh but yes the uh i would say if you you maybe you grew up playing pokemon games i've been playing since red and blue and they're all like the mainline ones they're all kind of the same you would you would you would be like a child leaving town and uh you would you know you'd wake up in your bedroom and you'd have like a nintendo on the uh you know in your room i know you were just leaving you would try to hunt and the professor would help you out this is completely a completely different type of game right and um i i i think it's really cool like what they've done with it like you're back in time and you're you know people are afraid of pokemon and and you're sort of like figuring it out and it's almost like a stealth action game at times but you're still doing battling i don't i think they found read the reviews don't take it from me uh but if any of that stuff sounds interesting to you if you liked the classic rpg styles and you want to play more of that by all means i think this is something that you might be you might be into all right i'll check it out i mean i don't really play pokemon that much but i'll take a look at it yeah i don't know if it's for you per se but i think uh uh it's for me i guess i'll put it down that's all that matters we've got something that might be for you that i tried out again knowing that that dying light was coming out i didn't want to start another big 80 hour game except for pokemon because i i had a momo but i i ended up trying a lot of smaller games over the weekend that were worth talking about so one a game that came to game past the the the taiko drum game taiko we talked about the drum master we talked about a little bit um how do you do the drawing like all right so there's basically like uh a or you can program it however you want but like a is like the main drum so it's just all button-based it will be like the other one it's it's basically like playing rock band but you're using a controller i i do need to look into it i think if there was a drum controller that would be something else but it's just so different wait a minute wait a minute he makes a lot of pleasant noises that had fun playing it for a half hour could you turn this into a drum controller

i think you could you absolutely could the adaptive controller it looks like a drum pad right i i can i borrow that one because i'm going to try that out that could completely larry you're a genius you're a genius trying to help uh try to be really interesting now i'm going to try it out i'm going to try because that's that that's wireless so i'm going to check that out okay well there you go it's uh yeah so uh the drum master is in uh game pass and so you should try it out the other one was a game i mentioned briefly last week um a tactical game uh made in brazil and i wanted to try it out because one i love tactics games or two i don't know if i had ever played a game made in brazil before so let's let's see what it is go ahead i could name it off the uh off the top of my there's a huge gaming community in in brazil um i speak to our our um our teammates in sao paulo pretty pretty frequently actually but i didn't know if i anyway uh so reverie knights tactics is the game and if you like tactics games it's pretty um try it's almost like vandal hearts-esque uh maybe not as much anyway it's a pretty detailed uh tactics game with like some interesting like hi find and hunt it's also super challenging um i played it a little bit recklessly and have you been to brazil

so i have a visa for brazil yes i do never use you and i have business for for the same reason right because we were supposed to go to brazil game show many years 2014 2015. i can't even remember and the visa came in too late and so we couldn't get on the plane and it came we were supposed to leave right the day after we were supposed to go and i'm still i'm still upset about it yeah so we need to get down there somehow somewhere um you know what they love down there in brazil i don't know what you're going to say here larry trick carefully okay there you go they love xcloud i mean everybody loves xcloud but wow i just saw some brazilian numbers and they were like whoa big so that's awesome good stuff there uh oh boy anyways interviews you want to do the news uh like tell me what's on your mind you know what let's why don't we just go ahead and do the news then we'll end it with the interviews you know what we're going to mix it up this week we're going to do something completely different we're going to keep the show going uh we'll do some news but before we do that i have some you know oh yes please screen larry please this is not necessarily news per se jeff but let me let me get myself full screen here stand by um but i got

oh you've got the opi i've got all of the nail lacquers uh which here's the these are available we did a partnership with opi this one is for uh forza yes so this is and you can't the the the one over here is racing for pinks and this one over here is trading paint so each one of these comes with um comes with uh some like for instance you can get a code that'll get in forza will give you a skin and forza and then this is the one for halo it matches those colors which is what's really cool so this one this one is actually pretty kind of cool as well so achievement unlocked can't control me um trading paint pixel dust so there's a whole bunch here and they have a code inside so we're doing this great partnership with opi i mean this is kind of there there's some people i mean men women they like they like them they're nail colors like i've never seen you with a uh with a um trading paint color on jeff i have a i have a daughter and yours is as she gets older and you let her paint her nails she will ask to paint your nails and i let her uh what i found and i don't know why it it made i felt like maybe it was mental but i was like my hands feel warm after after having my but why these are better colors than we had i do have an embarrassing story actually to tell i'm actually looking for because there's actually something really cool about this that i want to tell you about your inbox is on the show you might want to move i don't know i just i was actually my that's what i'm looking for right now there's uh there's some interesting details about the um about the uh they're gonna do a stream next week this opi group is gonna do a stream um and then i wanted to make sure that everybody was aware of that on thursday february 15th at 3 p.m pacific that's six o'clock eastern they're gonna have a few appearance by some of opi's nail artists to discuss how they came up with the nail designs for the campaign they're gonna give away a few of the custom controllers and oh somebody that we know is gonna be hosting and playing that'll be malik yes yeah malika my team he's gonna get his nails he's gonna get his nails painted for us uh hold that box back up because then you could see there is a halo oh i thought it was maybe it's not on there but one of them does have a code that one is for forza and i think that one includes a code for um a multiplayer skin like a a special color that's only available um i think it is that you had me at halo or it's the achievement unlocked one of those two colors but it looks like a really cool skin and i want it yeah they're going to do this so this stream will be next uh february 15th so right right after valentine's day which is coming up did you did you order your chocolate in your flowers jeffrey for your no here's the thing about valentine's day is never art cliche things like chocolates and flowers flowers more expensive and never are they effectively worth less like if i give my wife flowers on valentine's day she's gonna be like oh well it's valentine's day so that you know what you know what the best time to give flowers the day well no because then they're clearly a day old you know you know july july 19th that's a great day for me to send flowers to my wife because it's like what are these for example just because that's just because because i love you just because i love you um but anyway so yeah tune in to that stream at twitch.tv forward slash xbox for all the opi stuff and i know apparently we are now we're not you know maybe we should we're going to be fashion influencers jeff right let's do it uh let me get i don't know let me i don't know if that's really our jam but we can certainly uh wanna i just really wanted to call these out because it's so great to see uh xbox doing we have a great brand team that does all sorts of stuff and co-labs as they like to say uh they do so i'm looking forward to seeing what else they got planned but anyway opi stream coming up yeah if you're looking where to get them by the way yeah um i think ulta is where you can get them that's a nationwide uh chain so i think we have one in my neighborhood so um i it feels like they're yeah they're actually in the us they're exclusively at ulta beauty um uh and that'll be until like march 31st and then we actually get them on amazon everywhere else around the world you can get them uh on opi.com xbox details for your regional market so all right we're done with that part cool what else you got for news yeah so we're into february and and as i'm sure you know february is black history month yes and we celebrate at xbox um in a number of different ways and we have a blog post up on xbox wire um but the parts that uh there's two things i want to call out one is we talk about this actually pretty frequently on the show is microsoft reward so we have three rewards or something that you will rack up as you're playing like a game pass game for instance just playing games doing what you're doing anyway every time you like every single time i launched uh octobat traveler it would pop up you just hold down the uh the xbox button you cash in those points and then now i've got i've got thousands and so then what you do is you can go into uh you can go into the hub and you can uh for microsoft rewards and then you can you can use them for all number of things i recommend for those who can uh who can spare it to donate to uh the relevant charities that we have up there we cycle them out pretty frequently and so we have uh three different organizations supporting black communities with xbox this uh this black history month uh community uh black girls rock and game heads um and so uh very good highly vetted um uh organizations that we think do great work and i'll be donating to all three of them uh definitely this month and encourage you to play games rack up some points and do the same thing all right that's the other thing i want to call out and we mentioned it actually briefly is that we're um doing uh once again our uh creator takeovers and so we are sort of handing the stage over uh to a number of creators from the black community over the course of the next few weeks to come on stream we had a friend of mine king phoenix on uh he was yesterday so we're taping this earlier in the week and he had just a great stream playing halo infinite he's a really very funny guy and uh you know the hope is that uh we're helping creators uh introduce them to uh the xbox channel audience and and hopefully they find uh more people to follow and more people to support more streamers to support but i want to point out that it's it's not just you know you you don't go after we we do a lot your team does a lot of work with the larger streamers but you kind of find the up and coming ones and kind of tap them on the shoulder and say here you go you are you're a king maker i wouldn't go that far but what i would say is as we want to um i would say our philosophy with creators in general is yeah we could go to just like you know dr lupo and tim the tatman and pokemane for everything um uh and and they're great creators um and and we love them and we love what they do but we we see our role as really being able to ensure that opportunities access when we have events you know uh that we can bring creators in that are up and coming they're on the way up and give them those opportunities give them access to you know games and to be able to create cool content and that's uh i would say one of our missions really uh on our team and so we'll be seeing some great folks this week um and more folks next week including someone we'll be leading into so we'll have to do a really good show next week uh so we can give him a we don't

no it's but i mean like i know we can just do it better it'll be a live show and it'll be it'll be it'll and we'll all be together for the first time and we've got so we got a couple of surprises i saw the email thread about that earlier so i know we're working on some cool stuff right yep a lot more stuff okay sure uh very excited to see this uh as we gear up for the baseball season it's february so uh spring training starts actually starting february i feel like it starts february doesn't it uh we're starting to talk baseball and happy to confirm that mlb the show 22 for the second year running will be uh coming to xbox and we'll be part of xbox game house second year in a row amazing yes the amazing pitcher and hitter shohei ohtani is going to be on the cover this guy like does it all like in a way that like i don't feel like we've seen since like bonos you're like what like bojackson even bro he was two sports that's right and by the way if you were born like you know in the 90s you don't even know who he is and that's incredibly famous had a sneaker and everything but um uh like you have to go back to like the like the babe ruth days where you had people that would pitch and hit equally well and right you can see that and like ohtani plays every day like he had 46 home runs last year 100 rbis but also was a nine and two record as a as a pitcher like like but that just doesn't have that doesn't happen anymore so it's crazy it's just kind of crazy and so he's on the cover uh looks awesome and um you'll be able to play april 5th is when um the game will be about on uh xbox game pass and we'll have to get um your friend on again yes ramon russell ramon broke the block ghost here it was great to have him on last year as i recall we did that interview i was on vacation in hawaii but ramon's such great people like that uh i dialed in remember i was sitting outside right in like the airbnb i'm like

whatever i was sitting on but uh it was so hot i was like please wrap this up before i'm like sweating down my my forehead but anyway we'll get ramona on again he's he's uh he's officially a friend of the show now so we're gonna get him back on and it's great to see rbs speaking i mean it's unrelated yet related uh what about that uh that that news with uh we got some news this week with uh sony and bungie that's some that's some interesting stuff

yep that's all we can say just because i wanted to say because you know people down below in the comments i can't believe they didn't talk about it that's all we can say because we don't know anything i don't know what to talk about so yeah okay i mean we have lots of friends over at bungie and sony so good for them yeah and they have uh they have a blog post talking up about you know on bungie.net i think about you know how they're thinking about things and yep but i've got nothing to add obviously there what i do have to add yes is uh more games coming to xbox game pass in addition to mlb which will be coming in april some things that are out there a little better but it worked look you drove a car right through my game pass segment i did i did i'm sorry but it was it was relevant because rbi okay good it not rbi mlb mlb mlb anyway uh so out now uh some games uh that that are hitting this week and also next week so the ones this week they're already there so contrast contrast uh if if you recall um that was that was the game before we happy few oh that's right uh from compulsions i think one of our studios uh yeah and they're now part of uh now part of xbox game studios and uh contrast was their first game uh it's available now if you've ever played it uh it's an id and xbox game available on xbox game pass uh for cloud and console uh dreamscaper telling lies which i think you had played telling lies it's like real like fmv they used to call it like yeah actual motion video actual video yes uh and also stars i think oh i remember her now i remember you were telling me you were telling me who was in it yeah now it was in westworld right west right so you can see that picture yeah exactly uh this was from the creator of her story which was uh critically acclaimed a few years back crossfire crossfire x yeah so looking into next week crossfire x will be available day one on game pass so there's the single player uh campaign is part of this the multiplayer is i believe free to play uh also edge of eternity which is a cool looking rpg for some reason those age of eternity and infernax and skull look all you definitely edge of eternity skull is a roguelite uh right actually so i'm just gonna probably not be good at it uh so that's skull the hero slayer and then there's the last catch on earth and then on february 14th valentine's day nothing says uh you know let's let's let's play a game together like arc ultimate survival edition uh so this has this is the definitive collection everything like 2013 or 2014. back when it was in uh like when the game preview was one of the first game preview games call yep and um like we we've talked about it we were like banging rocks together and then like six months later i'm watching someone fly on a pterodactyl with like dual wielding smgs or something like it was just like it's ridiculous we were not playing the same game we i think you froze to death and then that's because i yeah we didn't have we didn't know how to make pants

yes is uh infernax also available on february 14th uh it's about the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued by unholy magic yeah this is something i would play so you're right on with that i told you yeah told you couple of big sales this week uh first one is a sale from thq nordic uh save up to 80 on titles including biomutant uh kingdoms of amalor re-reckoning darksiders three spongebob uh rec fest destroy all humans uh thq nordic has a lot of great games and if you haven't played them the sale is going on and up to 80 off depending on the game in the school until february 7th which is uh the day before we go live until monday monday yeah until monday and then uh we also have anime month uh so you can save up to 85 on select anime inspired games this is definitely in my wheels all of them yes uh scarlet nexus which uh i really enjoyed one of my favorite games last year uh tales of a rise code vein chris tales um and that goes until february 14th and then there's gonna be a second collection uh in the second half of the year of the month rather that goes through the end so if you're interested buy now but then uh keep an eye out for more more games coming out uh later they'll also be not just the anime inspired games but the animes themselves so things like one piece my hero academia attack on titan uh the movies and tv part that app on your computer uh or on your xbox uh those games are on sale as well you can even get a gift card if you spend fifty dollars on any of this stuff you get five thousand microsoft rewards points which you could use to donate to those charities as mentioned earlier you also get a five dollar gift card so that's like a ten percent off the top what about game pass members we can't leave them out of the out of the fun that's right larry what a segue game pass is celebrating out of a month with a collection

uh you can discover it uh and you can earn up to 300 microsoft reward points when you play uh or achieve quests uh game pass quests in games such as near automata become as god's edition uh one piece warriors4 and a.i the sombium files fantastic play to win play to win two last bits of news a couple of games that have wow wow alright well he's giving some release dates we're sharing the news sharing the news uh shadow warrior three we have a date for that launching on march first and then uh chernobyl light which is a game that's coming to uh series x and s uh on april 21st uh takes place apparently they they actually mapped the chernobyl exclusive exclusive zone i think it's called where were you illusions basically exclusion zone thank you i knew there was a word for that so they actually mapped that like that's the map of the game and then there the game itself is like a um survival horror rpg um this is the second chernobyl conversation we had today remember the one i where i brought it up earlier in the meeting earlier were you there for that meeting i don't know if i was there for that no we were we were talking about how i went into the office and it was like priypet which is the big time next which you know which is when chernobyl melted down back in the 80s that it um that everybody had to evacuate immediately and like they're there's half you know the glasses are half filled that's where this takes place yes so you're you're you're igor uh physicist that worked at chernobyl returning 30 years later to pripyat to investigate the mysterious disappearance of this fiance so it seems really interesting um it's a 30 game and that is coming out uh like i said in uh april april 21st thank you for that that there's the news there you go do you have the chat window open over there just to make sure you have that open there you can get us into the next segment so oh yes you know we should probably wrap up the show here because we're going to just like i said we're going to get ready for the big live show next week with rebecca we'll all be in studio on tuesday and then you know if you want to join us live we you know we may have some giveaways too jeff i i should hope that we do so we're going to end the show with a nice interview with the game that everyone is talking about this week dying light too we are pleased to welcome uh david uh lubroyka the animation director from dying light 2 and dying light 2 is out now one of the first big releases of 2022 is here and it's now dying light to stay human is out now and available on xbox and a bunch of other platforms joining me today is the animation director uh david lubrica david thank you for joining us how are you today thanks i'm great how are you first of all congratulations on launching the game always a great moment i mean this game i remember seeing it a few years ago and it was just so exciting to see the open world elements and the parkour for those folks that you know let's refresh their memory a little bit that maybe aren't following along too closely about dying light too and you know what what can we expect in the game right so uh the major thing that we want to uh show you is the vast open world and that is really really stretched out in verticality so it's not only playing in you know a huge horizontal stretches but it's also uh it allows you to climb buildings to jump between them uh to use some tools like park glider to jump from the building to another building or use some parkour helpers or just pure parkour skills that throughout the game uh will allow you to like become better and better in in traversing in parkouring so let's just back up a little bit this is a an open world action role-playing survival horror game i think that's the best i mean i don't want to i'll let you define your game but there's something you meant you talked about the verticality so would you say is it fair to say it's a platformer for gamers that know that term or is it more it's more complicated than that isn't it it's it's more complicated because uh like in platformer you uh the the goal of the game is to like progress on kind of you know on this platform manner but for us this is the the um the world is the place that we want you to explore so you can uh explore the city freely uh you can go pretty much whatever you see you can go there uh so uh this is just the playground for you to um to have your fun to like define your your own story your own gameplay so we've got a role-playing game and i know i remember you guys talked a little bit a few a few weeks ago or a few months ago there's quite a bit of gameplay in here isn't there in terms of the length of the game and so forth uh tell us a little bit about that yeah so the story uh itself it's like 20 plus hours depending on how deep you want to go plus some side stories so the the side quests will give you plenty more and then there is the open world experience which can give you like even 500 hours but of course it depends how far you explore but the the world is pretty big and it's even for me it's really easy to get lost in it yeah there's i mean we cert i saw a little bit of the video we're just playing and i had a chance to play it um we're recording this right as it goes out so that's um i haven't had a chance to really play that much of it but it's certainly an amazing open world that you've created with with that verticality to as your role is the animation director do you i mean i assume you just go through all the elements of the player and the npcs and so forth just to make it seem fluid tell us about your role and what that animation director um you know what your day-to-day looks like right so um i am overseeing pretty much all the animation teams at teclan we have a team that is responsible for narration side and we have team responsible for the gameplay side and some teams that are responsible for you know more technical aspects uh and i'm trying to bind them together in communication uh i myself am more on the gameplay side uh so i'm i'm this kind of a player that you know likes to take a pad or a mouse and keyboard and and play and have like pure fun of exploration uh so my uh my main area and my favorite area is is parkour actually uh when we when we looked at the game we saw a little bit of it in in the in the uh in the video that i was showing and i'll go ahead and play a little bit more here we we saw this interesting dynamic of the day night cycle tell us about the gameplay and the day night cycle here right so um in dying light one uh there was also a game you know the day and night cycle but night was really uh terrifying so some players came back and said like well it's too terrifying we want to wait until the day comes and they they tried to skip it some some loved it but overall there was kind of this you know imbalance between day and night so in dying light 2 we wanted to fix that and make it more even so we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make it more even so during the day you have some activities that are easier and like better to do during the day and during the night for example the the dark zones the dark places that the infected reside in they are full during the day but they become empty during the night so that makes the player actually wants to explore during the night but the traversal through the city is much more difficult because all of the infected are actually on the streets but if you actually get to the dark place you can explore it much more freely and the loot there is really rewarding so that helps in this balance i noticed i was reading some notes on it and this in the timeline this takes place about 20 years after the original dynamic correct and the the original dying light i mean that was millions of people played that game so i can imagine that you're gonna have that much and more with this game but one of the great elements about this is that that i'm very excited about is co-op tell us about co-op and how that works right so um it's similar to dang light one like you can uh get through the game in cop after you finish the first part of the game the prologue uh the uh you could do the first few missions and then you can play in cop with your friends with others in online mode and you can actually finish the game together but we believe that it's better to finish the game first in single mode and then get back to it in cop because if you play in cop you miss out on the story a little bit so it's it's not as great experience in terms of the story but it's great because you can create your own story because of the vast open world and exploration aspects i mean that's one of the funds of playing a co-op game is you go in there with your friends and you just have this massive wide open sandbox so that's actually an interesting tip is if you know if you're for dying light fans go through and spend some time and you know perhaps go through the single player or you know kind of have a single player experience first and then then grab your buddies and come on in and then start wreaking havoc in the in the in the real world or excuse me in the game world when you're when you're playing the game you know what should what what should folks look for you know just to kind of get them started some people are just maybe going to download it for the first time this weekend and get into it um so would you tell us a little bit about what they should focus on in terms of the skill tree and so forth um yeah so like try to go balanced because the skill tree is divided in two branches so one is for combat and one is for parkour and of course depending on your play style if you prefer to avoid combat then you can invest more in in parkour but you will get best of the game experience if you think of you know which skill may help you in in which area and of course there is you know a description that that helps you decide that but i personally uh love dropkick we we have it uh kept for all the fun of the fans from dying light one who loved dropkick so i would go for that first if you have a chance uh it's still there don't worry that's good to know now folks for those of you that you're thinking like wow have i seen some of this gameplay before or maybe some of the parkour i went back and checked it was e3 2018 when we had you at the xbox conference so it's been it's been a little while and i know that game development takes a long time in this game especially with a game of this scope and there's just so much in this game that for folks and players to enjoy that uh it's there's going to be a lot to to to jump into right it's it's really huge uh for me it was six years and you know all this time was not only to create new content it was to make sure that the content that we have uh works uh better and like a lot of this time was making sure that the gameplay is is fun that you know the enemies that we already have are fun and you know we constantly iterated on on the stuff that we had to just to make sure that uh players will will have you know great experience so it's not just you know releasing the game as it is is just you know trying to make it really good and uh as good as it can be so uh in you know attack on we have uh you know huge amount of uh good players and for us it was also super important that all the players around the world will love it as we love it would you say before i let you go would you say that dying playing the original dying light is required to understand some of the mechanics or the world or are you are are they okay to jump into dying light too no not at all it's it's okay to jump into dang light too the story is different uh the mechanics are revised uh some of them are similar so uh you can still uh like find the similarities but the parkour is reworked like pretty much every element is is reworked so don't worry if you haven't played the first game you can start with the second one and then you can jump into the first one if you if you want to see the differences but don't worry it's not a big deal all right dying light stay human it's now available on xbox series x and x s xbox one it's available on playstation nintendo and of course it's available on windows dave lubrica the animation director there at techland for dying light 2 thanks so much for your time and again congratulations on the game launch thanks for having me and have a great time playing the game thankshey it's larry hryb xboxes major nelson over there with jeff jeff how are you my box it's bigger well it's and yet it feels lonely well let's be clear um normally we're like this but as you can see we don't have a third here because rebecca is not with us today so jeff and i we we had a couple folks who were trying to get in here but schedules were just kind of crazy so uh she's on a well-deserved vacation as well remember she talked about last year lunar new year yeah so yes um but the good news is yeah we we make up for that next week we do hey i was gonna save that for the end of the show but i i guess i'll this is why i don't run the show i'll bring it right to the top all the episodes we're doing on uh tuesday tuesday which is what's the date what's that what's the day of the week on tuesday it's tuesday the tuesday february 8th or 8th february for those of you not in the united states uh we are going to do the show live we're gonna do the show live for the first the sexy this is this is actually epic for the first time ever rebecca larry and jeff will be in the same place at the same time we've never done this show jeff and i have done it you know in the same place at the same time and i've been with rebecca without jet but we've never all been at the same time in the same place in the same so we're going to do that next um next tuesday next tuesday we'll be streaming on my channel on on twitch and also probably on youtube we'll also be on the xbox channel because we're going to be leading into who's streaming that day jeff yeah that will be oh has that been revealed yet i don't want to take it away but we have a great uh we have a great streamer uh who's gonna be joining for our black history month uh creator takeover that'll be the second week uh we've had some great folks on this week as well and uh i don't want to ruin the announcement if he hasn't announced yeah okay but somebody somebody that should be familiar someone you might be surprised to see on an xbox channel well i'll leave it at that you've piqued my interest but anyway we'll do that on tuesday and don't worry about it if you're watching this on uh youtube or spotify or any of the other places then i'll just take this and i'll upload it like i normally do so don't worry about it if you if you don't if you're like oh i missed it or am i how am i gonna see don't worry about it we've got you covered where may just be some more visual gags we may play something live yeah we'll we'll see what happens we'll have we're gonna have fun we're gonna have but i'm looking forward to having you and rebecca in the same place at the same time so that's that's actually like i said it's so hard i mean we've more or less gotten used to doing the show this way but there's so much in terms of like a conversa a conversation when you're in person you can see in their eyes you can see with their body language that they want to say something or they disagree and your timing is just so tight and because our voices need to go like all the way out to new york and then come all the way back and then all the way back again sometimes yeah like like you know there's always a thing where all right i'm gonna count to like three before i talk cause i don't wanna talk over rebecca i wait till three i start talking and inevitably i we talk at the same time it happens every time it's kind of like old school when i used to do um broadcast interviews on news and they would use satellite and it was the same thing it was a satellite i'd have to go all you know 22 500 miles up bounce off come down it was it was difficult but we're not gonna have that problem next week are we no no because uh you know we're not gonna be constrained by you know stupid physics and the speed of light which is by the way not getting any faster not helpful like where's the where's the evolution here where's the work put in the work don't be a constant we need we need warp drive well that'd be good quantitative imagine if we had quantum podcast probably the the least valuable use of of quantum computing would be applying it to the podcast but i want to do it i want to be the world's first quantum powered pocket i need to tell this story because i'm sure you know this jeff but for the listeners they don't we actually have a whole team of people at microsoft that work in quantum computing i have no idea what they do i have no idea i'm like it's like it's like i mean i consider myself a nerd and i know jeff you've got nerd tendencies but this is this is like in a completely different level like i don't even i don't even i don't even want to walk into that classroom i tried learning a little bit about it and how it works and it's like if a particle moves then it's got another particle somewhere else in the galaxy and it will move at the same like how what like it doesn't this is beyond me thank you for being like english thank you for tuning in to the uh this is the science podcast you didn't know what you got yourselves into hey you know what i found out today we are the only video game news and information video show on spotify you know i've been talking for a few weeks about how we're on spotify with video we are the only video game news and information there's i think there's one other review show but they don't do news and information and we only do information not misinformation that's not what we do no no if you we tell you it it's true unless it's about quantum computing in which case we will lead with we don't know we don't know but anyway good to see you jeff it's uh should we talk about what we're playing we've got a nice interview this week about dying light 2. i've got some i've got some props here to show off have you started playing that that's that's definitely next on my list um i have it i think i have it downloaded but uh for those of you that don't know you know what's out this week um i started playing because we are recording this just after it released so i haven't had a chance to get like three or five or six hours and i think maybe 45 minutes in to be honest with you and i wanted to at least play it because i'm doing the interview later on so we'll uh we'll we'll kick that off in just a minute but um yeah i'm playing that and of course you and i are playing our playing playing our nightly halo slightly halos yeah jeff says hey i'll be brt you know you text me and i'll be right there so we go in and yeah yeah i kind of have that thing where it's like i see who's on if no one's on playing then i'll play something else but we've we definitely have a nice little routine here that we haven't had for a long time yeah i feel like probably not since we were you know when apex first came out and we were actually that apex i wouldn't say faze but we we were every day playing actually the new apex stuff that is coming out next week looks really cool well that was a funny story you and i were playing halo and your daughter was in the same room last night playing apex so you guys i don't know how you're doing that a lot a lot by the way yeah i was fine with it you all were kind of like you know playing off of the things she was saying every time i opened my mouth and i was talking lower than normal i was like you are you were top top med he's got he's got he's got rocks you know and every time no matter how low she would just glare at me like i'm really very much embarrassing her by being alive in the sa and in the same room as her so we've got a great relationships no i mean normally we do but you can tell when there's friends involved she can't mute fast enough right because god knows what i'll do so i i actually i had to tell you i'm a little disappointed i have not heard you bust out the too many dad jokes uh here there's a lot of puns like like like the groanier it is like the more my my wife and my daughter will think it's funny they will say it's stupid but then they're falling on the ground laughing so the more situational things i think and i'll just come up with the dumbest thing but um now our dad joke expert like our the person who's got like who could write a book of dad jokes is is rebecca and she's not here today which is so funny because she's not a dad but she she hasn't she she's got a great relationship with her dad if i have a relationship as good with my daughter as rebecca does with her dad when you know when my daughter is the same age then uh i've done something right yeah well i'm people while i'm too busy embarrassing her on stream i'm getting a little bit about now with my four-year-old chef dad you know i'm getting a little bit you've seen a little bit of that when we come over yes just wait exactly just wait hey speaking of right so what were you playing what else are you playing i mean i i i i'm playing dying light i'm playing in the mic larry i'm sorry i know i was i was turning around looking at because i was getting my gloves ready um playing rainbow six extraction we played that a little bit we talked about that last week in fact next week um hopefully after a little bit either during or towards the end of the stream we're gonna play rainbow six extraction for folks uh that tune in on the tuesday live show wow we're just gonna really stink it up uh live you know what why not point out why not we're not we're not scared uh but it's not scared to fail but i'm playing i ever haven't had a lot of chance to play too much i've been really busy with some work stuff and some other projects um working on a real nerdy i told you the nerdy project i'm working on for my car right yeah i had a raspberry pi involved and that's when i just you know come on you could do some fun it was clever all right you want to you want to tell people what you're working on why would you do that at the end of the show i mean should i do it at the end of the show is he going to be back on the show he could be he's he's dying to get back on uh no i have i have a tesla and there's this uh there's a github with tesla usb which basically takes all the footage and copies it to the raspberry pi and when you pull into your garage it copies it over to my server so that's it very clever speaking of e yeah uh i picked up the new pokemon pokemon legends arceus arceus um is that what you're playing it's great i am playing that i'm playing a lot of stuff knowing that i was going to get into dying light 2 and i actually finished after six months i finished octopath traveler phenomenal game if you love an old-school rpg it's on game pass get it i i just i can't recommend it highly enough it is this like the way you remember you know classic final fantasies being like super nintendo era just like um it's just it's very good and i miss it when you you know a game is great when you're done you spend a lot of time with it and then you go to sit down you know to play something and then you're like oh wait that came off of like there's like a almost a sense of loss yeah um you know yeah i could go and i could grind you know the rest of the achievements but that happened to me with breath of the wild yeah no totally get it and yeah cause we we both played that for over a year before we beat it we just we just kept going and grinding and having fun it wasn't you know what it never felt like grinding no and you know what it was one of those things here i was almost saving it a little bit you know um i mostly played it when i was on the go and then when i finally beat it yeah there was that sense of that's like actually there's we're traveling a lot so you mentioned breath of the wild and and i've seen this new pokemon game um sort of like compared to breath of the wild it's it is largely open world a lot more than if you played sword and shield which was also really good um this but this game is like instantly capturing me because it's not like the same thing is that the one that got taken down or was it pikachu fps did you see that yes that that's because that's not a licensed game i guess i know surprising that that happened yes i did read about a game where you can shoot pokemon and i don't i don't i don't approve although i did watch the video uh but yes the uh i would say if you you maybe you grew up playing pokemon games i've been playing since red and blue and they're all like the mainline ones they're all kind of the same you would you would you would be like a child leaving town and uh you would you know you'd wake up in your bedroom and you'd have like a nintendo on the uh you know in your room i know you were just leaving you would try to hunt and the professor would help you out this is completely a completely different type of game right and um i i i think it's really cool like what they've done with it like you're back in time and you're you know people are afraid of pokemon and and you're sort of like figuring it out and it's almost like a stealth action game at times but you're still doing battling i don't i think they found read the reviews don't take it from me uh but if any of that stuff sounds interesting to you if you liked the classic rpg styles and you want to play more of that by all means i think this is something that you might be you might be into all right i'll check it out i mean i don't really play pokemon that much but i'll take a look at it yeah i don't know if it's for you per se but i think uh uh it's for me i guess i'll put it down that's all that matters we've got something that might be for you that i tried out again knowing that that dying light was coming out i didn't want to start another big 80 hour game except for pokemon because i i had a momo but i i ended up trying a lot of smaller games over the weekend that were worth talking about so one a game that came to game past the the the taiko drum game taiko we talked about the drum master we talked about a little bit um how do you do the drawing like all right so there's basically like uh a or you can program it however you want but like a is like the main drum so it's just all button-based it will be like the other one it's it's basically like playing rock band but you're using a controller i i do need to look into it i think if there was a drum controller that would be something else but it's just so different wait a minute wait a minute he makes a lot of pleasant noises that had fun playing it for a half hour could you turn this into a drum controller

i think you could you absolutely could the adaptive controller it looks like a drum pad right i i can i borrow that one because i'm going to try that out that could completely larry you're a genius you're a genius trying to help uh try to be really interesting now i'm going to try it out i'm going to try because that's that that's wireless so i'm going to check that out okay well there you go it's uh yeah so uh the drum master is in uh game pass and so you should try it out the other one was a game i mentioned briefly last week um a tactical game uh made in brazil and i wanted to try it out because one i love tactics games or two i don't know if i had ever played a game made in brazil before so let's let's see what it is go ahead i could name it off the uh off the top of my there's a huge gaming community in in brazil um i speak to our our um our teammates in sao paulo pretty pretty frequently actually but i didn't know if i anyway uh so reverie knights tactics is the game and if you like tactics games it's pretty um try it's almost like vandal hearts-esque uh maybe not as much anyway it's a pretty detailed uh tactics game with like some interesting like hi find and hunt it's also super challenging um i played it a little bit recklessly and have you been to brazil

so i have a visa for brazil yes i do never use you and i have business for for the same reason right because we were supposed to go to brazil game show many years 2014 2015. i can't even remember and the visa came in too late and so we couldn't get on the plane and it came we were supposed to leave right the day after we were supposed to go and i'm still i'm still upset about it yeah so we need to get down there somehow somewhere um you know what they love down there in brazil i don't know what you're going to say here larry trick carefully okay there you go they love xcloud i mean everybody loves xcloud but wow i just saw some brazilian numbers and they were like whoa big so that's awesome good stuff there uh oh boy anyways interviews you want to do the news uh like tell me what's on your mind you know what let's why don't we just go ahead and do the news then we'll end it with the interviews you know what we're going to mix it up this week we're going to do something completely different we're going to keep the show going uh we'll do some news but before we do that i have some you know oh yes please screen larry please this is not necessarily news per se jeff but let me let me get myself full screen here stand by um but i got

oh you've got the opi i've got all of the nail lacquers uh which here's the these are available we did a partnership with opi this one is for uh forza yes so this is and you can't the the the one over here is racing for pinks and this one over here is trading paint so each one of these comes with um comes with uh some like for instance you can get a code that'll get in forza will give you a skin and forza and then this is the one for halo it matches those colors which is what's really cool so this one this one is actually pretty kind of cool as well so achievement unlocked can't control me um trading paint pixel dust so there's a whole bunch here and they have a code inside so we're doing this great partnership with opi i mean this is kind of there there's some people i mean men women they like they like them they're nail colors like i've never seen you with a uh with a um trading paint color on jeff i have a i have a daughter and yours is as she gets older and you let her paint her nails she will ask to paint your nails and i let her uh what i found and i don't know why it it made i felt like maybe it was mental but i was like my hands feel warm after after having my but why these are better colors than we had i do have an embarrassing story actually to tell i'm actually looking for because there's actually something really cool about this that i want to tell you about your inbox is on the show you might want to move i don't know i just i was actually my that's what i'm looking for right now there's uh there's some interesting details about the um about the uh they're gonna do a stream next week this opi group is gonna do a stream um and then i wanted to make sure that everybody was aware of that on thursday february 15th at 3 p.m pacific that's six o'clock eastern they're gonna have a few appearance by some of opi's nail artists to discuss how they came up with the nail designs for the campaign they're gonna give away a few of the custom controllers and oh somebody that we know is gonna be hosting and playing that'll be malik yes yeah malika my team he's gonna get his nails he's gonna get his nails painted for us uh hold that box back up because then you could see there is a halo oh i thought it was maybe it's not on there but one of them does have a code that one is for forza and i think that one includes a code for um a multiplayer skin like a a special color that's only available um i think it is that you had me at halo or it's the achievement unlocked one of those two colors but it looks like a really cool skin and i want it yeah they're going to do this so this stream will be next uh february 15th so right right after valentine's day which is coming up did you did you order your chocolate in your flowers jeffrey for your no here's the thing about valentine's day is never art cliche things like chocolates and flowers flowers more expensive and never are they effectively worth less like if i give my wife flowers on valentine's day she's gonna be like oh well it's valentine's day so that you know what you know what the best time to give flowers the day well no because then they're clearly a day old you know you know july july 19th that's a great day for me to send flowers to my wife because it's like what are these for example just because that's just because because i love you just because i love you um but anyway so yeah tune in to that stream at twitch.tv forward slash xbox for all the opi stuff and i know apparently we are now we're not you know maybe we should we're going to be fashion influencers jeff right let's do it uh let me get i don't know let me i don't know if that's really our jam but we can certainly uh wanna i just really wanted to call these out because it's so great to see uh xbox doing we have a great brand team that does all sorts of stuff and co-labs as they like to say uh they do so i'm looking forward to seeing what else they got planned but anyway opi stream coming up yeah if you're looking where to get them by the way yeah um i think ulta is where you can get them that's a nationwide uh chain so i think we have one in my neighborhood so um i it feels like they're yeah they're actually in the us they're exclusively at ulta beauty um uh and that'll be until like march 31st and then we actually get them on amazon everywhere else around the world you can get them uh on opi.com xbox details for your regional market so all right we're done with that part cool what else you got for news yeah so we're into february and and as i'm sure you know february is black history month yes and we celebrate at xbox um in a number of different ways and we have a blog post up on xbox wire um but the parts that uh there's two things i want to call out one is we talk about this actually pretty frequently on the show is microsoft reward so we have three rewards or something that you will rack up as you're playing like a game pass game for instance just playing games doing what you're doing anyway every time you like every single time i launched uh octobat traveler it would pop up you just hold down the uh the xbox button you cash in those points and then now i've got i've got thousands and so then what you do is you can go into uh you can go into the hub and you can uh for microsoft rewards and then you can you can use them for all number of things i recommend for those who can uh who can spare it to donate to uh the relevant charities that we have up there we cycle them out pretty frequently and so we have uh three different organizations supporting black communities with xbox this uh this black history month uh community uh black girls rock and game heads um and so uh very good highly vetted um uh organizations that we think do great work and i'll be donating to all three of them uh definitely this month and encourage you to play games rack up some points and do the same thing all right that's the other thing i want to call out and we mentioned it actually briefly is that we're um doing uh once again our uh creator takeovers and so we are sort of handing the stage over uh to a number of creators from the black community over the course of the next few weeks to come on stream we had a friend of mine king phoenix on uh he was yesterday so we're taping this earlier in the week and he had just a great stream playing halo infinite he's a really very funny guy and uh you know the hope is that uh we're helping creators uh introduce them to uh the xbox channel audience and and hopefully they find uh more people to follow and more people to support more streamers to support but i want to point out that it's it's not just you know you you don't go after we we do a lot your team does a lot of work with the larger streamers but you kind of find the up and coming ones and kind of tap them on the shoulder and say here you go you are you're a king maker i wouldn't go that far but what i would say is as we want to um i would say our philosophy with creators in general is yeah we could go to just like you know dr lupo and tim the tatman and pokemane for everything um uh and and they're great creators um and and we love them and we love what they do but we we see our role as really being able to ensure that opportunities access when we have events you know uh that we can bring creators in that are up and coming they're on the way up and give them those opportunities give them access to you know games and to be able to create cool content and that's uh i would say one of our missions really uh on our team and so we'll be seeing some great folks this week um and more folks next week including someone we'll be leading into so we'll have to do a really good show next week uh so we can give him a we don't

no it's but i mean like i know we can just do it better it'll be a live show and it'll be it'll be it'll and we'll all be together for the first time and we've got so we got a couple of surprises i saw the email thread about that earlier so i know we're working on some cool stuff right yep a lot more stuff okay sure uh very excited to see this uh as we gear up for the baseball season it's february so uh spring training starts actually starting february i feel like it starts february doesn't it uh we're starting to talk baseball and happy to confirm that mlb the show 22 for the second year running will be uh coming to xbox and we'll be part of xbox game house second year in a row amazing yes the amazing pitcher and hitter shohei ohtani is going to be on the cover this guy like does it all like in a way that like i don't feel like we've seen since like bonos you're like what like bojackson even bro he was two sports that's right and by the way if you were born like you know in the 90s you don't even know who he is and that's incredibly famous had a sneaker and everything but um uh like you have to go back to like the like the babe ruth days where you had people that would pitch and hit equally well and right you can see that and like ohtani plays every day like he had 46 home runs last year 100 rbis but also was a nine and two record as a as a pitcher like like but that just doesn't have that doesn't happen anymore so it's crazy it's just kind of crazy and so he's on the cover uh looks awesome and um you'll be able to play april 5th is when um the game will be about on uh xbox game pass and we'll have to get um your friend on again yes ramon russell ramon broke the block ghost here it was great to have him on last year as i recall we did that interview i was on vacation in hawaii but ramon's such great people like that uh i dialed in remember i was sitting outside right in like the airbnb i'm like

whatever i was sitting on but uh it was so hot i was like please wrap this up before i'm like sweating down my my forehead but anyway we'll get ramona on again he's he's uh he's officially a friend of the show now so we're gonna get him back on and it's great to see rbs speaking i mean it's unrelated yet related uh what about that uh that that news with uh we got some news this week with uh sony and bungie that's some that's some interesting stuff

yep that's all we can say just because i wanted to say because you know people down below in the comments i can't believe they didn't talk about it that's all we can say because we don't know anything i don't know what to talk about so yeah okay i mean we have lots of friends over at bungie and sony so good for them yeah and they have uh they have a blog post talking up about you know on bungie.net i think about you know how they're thinking about things and yep but i've got nothing to add obviously there what i do have to add yes is uh more games coming to xbox game pass in addition to mlb which will be coming in april some things that are out there a little better but it worked look you drove a car right through my game pass segment i did i did i'm sorry but it was it was relevant because rbi okay good it not rbi mlb mlb mlb anyway uh so out now uh some games uh that that are hitting this week and also next week so the ones this week they're already there so contrast contrast uh if if you recall um that was that was the game before we happy few oh that's right uh from compulsions i think one of our studios uh yeah and they're now part of uh now part of xbox game studios and uh contrast was their first game uh it's available now if you've ever played it uh it's an id and xbox game available on xbox game pass uh for cloud and console uh dreamscaper telling lies which i think you had played telling lies it's like real like fmv they used to call it like yeah actual motion video actual video yes uh and also stars i think oh i remember her now i remember you were telling me you were telling me who was in it yeah now it was in westworld right west right so you can see that picture yeah exactly uh this was from the creator of her story which was uh critically acclaimed a few years back crossfire crossfire x yeah so looking into next week crossfire x will be available day one on game pass so there's the single player uh campaign is part of this the multiplayer is i believe free to play uh also edge of eternity which is a cool looking rpg for some reason those age of eternity and infernax and skull look all you definitely edge of eternity skull is a roguelite uh right actually so i'm just gonna probably not be good at it uh so that's skull the hero slayer and then there's the last catch on earth and then on february 14th valentine's day nothing says uh you know let's let's let's play a game together like arc ultimate survival edition uh so this has this is the definitive collection everything like 2013 or 2014. back when it was in uh like when the game preview was one of the first game preview games call yep and um like we we've talked about it we were like banging rocks together and then like six months later i'm watching someone fly on a pterodactyl with like dual wielding smgs or something like it was just like it's ridiculous we were not playing the same game we i think you froze to death and then that's because i yeah we didn't have we didn't know how to make pants

yes is uh infernax also available on february 14th uh it's about the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued by unholy magic yeah this is something i would play so you're right on with that i told you yeah told you couple of big sales this week uh first one is a sale from thq nordic uh save up to 80 on titles including biomutant uh kingdoms of amalor re-reckoning darksiders three spongebob uh rec fest destroy all humans uh thq nordic has a lot of great games and if you haven't played them the sale is going on and up to 80 off depending on the game in the school until february 7th which is uh the day before we go live until monday monday yeah until monday and then uh we also have anime month uh so you can save up to 85 on select anime inspired games this is definitely in my wheels all of them yes uh scarlet nexus which uh i really enjoyed one of my favorite games last year uh tales of a rise code vein chris tales um and that goes until february 14th and then there's gonna be a second collection uh in the second half of the year of the month rather that goes through the end so if you're interested buy now but then uh keep an eye out for more more games coming out uh later they'll also be not just the anime inspired games but the animes themselves so things like one piece my hero academia attack on titan uh the movies and tv part that app on your computer uh or on your xbox uh those games are on sale as well you can even get a gift card if you spend fifty dollars on any of this stuff you get five thousand microsoft rewards points which you could use to donate to those charities as mentioned earlier you also get a five dollar gift card so that's like a ten percent off the top what about game pass members we can't leave them out of the out of the fun that's right larry what a segue game pass is celebrating out of a month with a collection

uh you can discover it uh and you can earn up to 300 microsoft reward points when you play uh or achieve quests uh game pass quests in games such as near automata become as god's edition uh one piece warriors4 and a.i the sombium files fantastic play to win play to win two last bits of news a couple of games that have wow wow alright well he's giving some release dates we're sharing the news sharing the news uh shadow warrior three we have a date for that launching on march first and then uh chernobyl light which is a game that's coming to uh series x and s uh on april 21st uh takes place apparently they they actually mapped the chernobyl exclusive exclusive zone i think it's called where were you illusions basically exclusion zone thank you i knew there was a word for that so they actually mapped that like that's the map of the game and then there the game itself is like a um survival horror rpg um this is the second chernobyl conversation we had today remember the one i where i brought it up earlier in the meeting earlier were you there for that meeting i don't know if i was there for that no we were we were talking about how i went into the office and it was like priypet which is the big time next which you know which is when chernobyl melted down back in the 80s that it um that everybody had to evacuate immediately and like they're there's half you know the glasses are half filled that's where this takes place yes so you're you're you're igor uh physicist that worked at chernobyl returning 30 years later to pripyat to investigate the mysterious disappearance of this fiance so it seems really interesting um it's a 30 game and that is coming out uh like i said in uh april april 21st thank you for that that there's the news there you go do you have the chat window open over there just to make sure you have that open there you can get us into the next segment so oh yes you know we should probably wrap up the show here because we're going to just like i said we're going to get ready for the big live show next week with rebecca we'll all be in studio on tuesday and then you know if you want to join us live we you know we may have some giveaways too jeff i i should hope that we do so we're going to end the show with a nice interview with the game that everyone is talking about this week dying light too we are pleased to welcome uh david uh lubroyka the animation director from dying light 2 and dying light 2 is out now one of the first big releases of 2022 is here and it's now dying light to stay human is out now and available on xbox and a bunch of other platforms joining me today is the animation director uh david lubrica david thank you for joining us how are you today thanks i'm great how are you first of all congratulations on launching the game always a great moment i mean this game i remember seeing it a few years ago and it was just so exciting to see the open world elements and the parkour for those folks that you know let's refresh their memory a little bit that maybe aren't following along too closely about dying light too and you know what what can we expect in the game right so uh the major thing that we want to uh show you is the vast open world and that is really really stretched out in verticality so it's not only playing in you know a huge horizontal stretches but it's also uh it allows you to climb buildings to jump between them uh to use some tools like park glider to jump from the building to another building or use some parkour helpers or just pure parkour skills that throughout the game uh will allow you to like become better and better in in traversing in parkouring so let's just back up a little bit this is a an open world action role-playing survival horror game i think that's the best i mean i don't want to i'll let you define your game but there's something you meant you talked about the verticality so would you say is it fair to say it's a platformer for gamers that know that term or is it more it's more complicated than that isn't it it's it's more complicated because uh like in platformer you uh the the goal of the game is to like progress on kind of you know on this platform manner but for us this is the the um the world is the place that we want you to explore so you can uh explore the city freely uh you can go pretty much whatever you see you can go there uh so uh this is just the playground for you to um to have your fun to like define your your own story your own gameplay so we've got a role-playing game and i know i remember you guys talked a little bit a few a few weeks ago or a few months ago there's quite a bit of gameplay in here isn't there in terms of the length of the game and so forth uh tell us a little bit about that yeah so the story uh itself it's like 20 plus hours depending on how deep you want to go plus some side stories so the the side quests will give you plenty more and then there is the open world experience which can give you like even 500 hours but of course it depends how far you explore but the the world is pretty big and it's even for me it's really easy to get lost in it yeah there's i mean we cert i saw a little bit of the video we're just playing and i had a chance to play it um we're recording this right as it goes out so that's um i haven't had a chance to really play that much of it but it's certainly an amazing open world that you've created with with that verticality to as your role is the animation director do you i mean i assume you just go through all the elements of the player and the npcs and so forth just to make it seem fluid tell us about your role and what that animation director um you know what your day-to-day looks like right so um i am overseeing pretty much all the animation teams at teclan we have a team that is responsible for narration side and we have team responsible for the gameplay side and some teams that are responsible for you know more technical aspects uh and i'm trying to bind them together in communication uh i myself am more on the gameplay side uh so i'm i'm this kind of a player that you know likes to take a pad or a mouse and keyboard and and play and have like pure fun of exploration uh so my uh my main area and my favorite area is is parkour actually uh when we when we looked at the game we saw a little bit of it in in the in the uh in the video that i was showing and i'll go ahead and play a little bit more here we we saw this interesting dynamic of the day night cycle tell us about the gameplay and the day night cycle here right so um in dying light one uh there was also a game you know the day and night cycle but night was really uh terrifying so some players came back and said like well it's too terrifying we want to wait until the day comes and they they tried to skip it some some loved it but overall there was kind of this you know imbalance between day and night so in dying light 2 we wanted to fix that and make it more even so we spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make it more even so during the day you have some activities that are easier and like better to do during the day and during the night for example the the dark zones the dark places that the infected reside in they are full during the day but they become empty during the night so that makes the player actually wants to explore during the night but the traversal through the city is much more difficult because all of the infected are actually on the streets but if you actually get to the dark place you can explore it much more freely and the loot there is really rewarding so that helps in this balance i noticed i was reading some notes on it and this in the timeline this takes place about 20 years after the original dynamic correct and the the original dying light i mean that was millions of people played that game so i can imagine that you're gonna have that much and more with this game but one of the great elements about this is that that i'm very excited about is co-op tell us about co-op and how that works right so um it's similar to dang light one like you can uh get through the game in cop after you finish the first part of the game the prologue uh the uh you could do the first few missions and then you can play in cop with your friends with others in online mode and you can actually finish the game together but we believe that it's better to finish the game first in single mode and then get back to it in cop because if you play in cop you miss out on the story a little bit so it's it's not as great experience in terms of the story but it's great because you can create your own story because of the vast open world and exploration aspects i mean that's one of the funds of playing a co-op game is you go in there with your friends and you just have this massive wide open sandbox so that's actually an interesting tip is if you know if you're for dying light fans go through and spend some time and you know perhaps go through the single player or you know kind of have a single player experience first and then then grab your buddies and come on in and then start wreaking havoc in the in the in the real world or excuse me in the game world when you're when you're playing the game you know what should what what should folks look for you know just to kind of get them started some people are just maybe going to download it for the first time this weekend and get into it um so would you tell us a little bit about what they should focus on in terms of the skill tree and so forth um yeah so like try to go balanced because the skill tree is divided in two branches so one is for combat and one is for parkour and of course depending on your play style if you prefer to avoid combat then you can invest more in in parkour but you will get best of the game experience if you think of you know which skill may help you in in which area and of course there is you know a description that that helps you decide that but i personally uh love dropkick we we have it uh kept for all the fun of the fans from dying light one who loved dropkick so i would go for that first if you have a chance uh it's still there don't worry that's good to know now folks for those of you that you're thinking like wow have i seen some of this gameplay before or maybe some of the parkour i went back and checked it was e3 2018 when we had you at the xbox conference so it's been it's been a little while and i know that game development takes a long time in this game especially with a game of this scope and there's just so much in this game that for folks and players to enjoy that uh it's there's going to be a lot to to to jump into right it's it's really huge uh for me it was six years and you know all this time was not only to create new content it was to make sure that the content that we have uh works uh better and like a lot of this time was making sure that the gameplay is is fun that you know the enemies that we already have are fun and you know we constantly iterated on on the stuff that we had to just to make sure that uh players will will have you know great experience so it's not just you know releasing the game as it is is just you know trying to make it really good and uh as good as it can be so uh in you know attack on we have uh you know huge amount of uh good players and for us it was also super important that all the players around the world will love it as we love it would you say before i let you go would you say that dying playing the original dying light is required to understand some of the mechanics or the world or are you are are they okay to jump into dying light too no not at all it's it's okay to jump into dang light too the story is different uh the mechanics are revised uh some of them are similar so uh you can still uh like find the similarities but the parkour is reworked like pretty much every element is is reworked so don't worry if you haven't played the first game you can start with the second one and then you can jump into the first one if you if you want to see the differences but don't worry it's not a big deal all right dying light stay human it's now available on xbox series x and x s xbox one it's available on playstation nintendo and of course it's available on windows dave lubrica the animation director there at techland for dying light 2 thanks so much for your time and again congratulations on the game launch thanks for having me and have a great time playing the game thanks