The light can finally die.

Techland has just released Hotfix 1.2.1 for Dying Light: The Beast, addressing a couple prominent bugs that players have reported since the game's mostly smooth launch. The new update is available now on PC and is expected to roll out on consoles "soon."

This update comes after players immediately reported a few immersion-breaking issues, including a broken day/night cycle and a bizarre bug that caused rain to fall indoors.

What Hotfix 1.2.1 Fixes

While Dying Light: The Beast has received praise, the post-launch experience was hampered by a few key bugs. This hotfix directly targets the two most reported issues:

• Broken Day/Night Cycle: This resolves the major bug where the in-game time would progress, but the environment would get stuck in perpetual daylight or nighttime.
• Indoor Rain Bug: A fix for the odd weather effect that caused rain to appear inside buildings where it shouldn't.

Fixing the day/night cycle is a critical gameplay update. The bug was causing highly dangerous nighttime enemies to spawn during the "day," which made them easier to avoid and significantly reduced the game's signature tension. The previous workaround required players to quit and reload the game, which only fixed the problem temporarily.

Free APEX Car Skin for Players

Along with the bug fixes, Techland announced a special bonus for early adopters. Once the hotfix is live on all platforms, a free APEX Car Skin will be waiting in the in-game stash for all players who pre-ordered the game or own the Dying Light 2 Ultimate Edition.

Techland announced the update on their official channels:

While this hotfix addresses the main gameplay bugs, players are still awaiting the return of raytracing features, which Techland temporarily removed just before launch to iron out some issues.