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Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Offline trophies: 55 (46, 8, 1)
- Online trophies: 3 (2, 1)
- Approximate amount of time to platinum: 70-80hrs (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: 1
- Number of missable trophies: 4 (Boot Licker , Fit as a Fiddle , Ironheart , Audiophile and Archivist )
- Glitched trophies: Some story related trophies might not pop for some players so backup your save regularly.
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, you can play on Easy.
Dying Light 2 is the long-awaited sequel to Dying Light and is a post-apocalyptic, parkour-infused survival action RPG developped by Techland. You're looking at about 20 hours for the main story and about 50-60 hours to complete every side quests but getting the Platinum will take a bit longer than that as there are some very grindy trophies. Your main concern when playing this game should be collectibles. There are 250 of them and some of them are missable, including those in the Prologue so be very careful with that and make sure to not miss them or you might have to restart a complete playthrough. You will also need an online connection and a PS+ subscription for the Platinum as there are 2 online co-op trophies. Special mention: I want to thank Hinsusta which was a massive help with some trophies!
Regarding the missable trophies:
- Fit as a Fiddle and Ironheart are both marked as missable . It is impossible to max out both your Health and your Stamina on the same playthrough, unless you use a back up save. Please check these trophies to know the workaround and get them both on the same playthrough. Please check these trophies to know the workaround and get them both on the same playthrough.
- Boot Licker is missable because you cannot reach level 7 for both factions. The maximum you can reach is level 10, which means if you're not careful, you could end up at level 5 for both factions and completely miss this trophy so be sure to assign the zones to the same factions from the start to avoid this.
- Archivist is highly missable because there is one missable memento in the Prologue and you cannot acces this area later in the game, nor replay the Prologue in coop. There are also some other semi-missable mementos but you can access them through co-op if you miss them, same with tapes so Audiophile is also missable.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Play the story while getting missable collectibles and assigning the zones to the same faction but don't spend more than 38 inhibitors for Health and Stamina (level 12 each). Backup your save regularly in case of story related trophy glitches.
Be very careful and make sure to grab all the collectibles during the Prologue of the game, because they are all HIGHLY missable as you cannot access the Prologue area later in the game. There are only 3 collectibles in the Prologue but it is very important to pick them up. Then continue with the story but keep an eye out for collectibles, because some of them are semi-missable in certain side quests. Check the videos under the respective trophies, all missables will be at the start of the videos. Do as many Side Quests as you can, most of them will have collectibles and they are pretty much required to get enough Combat and Parkour points to be able to buy all skills. I also recommend making regular backup saves, because some story related trophies can glitch and not unlock.
During the story, you'll automatically assign a couple zones to a faction of your choice, it is very important to assign all zones to the same faction because there aren't enough of them to reach City Alignement 7 with both factions and you could possibly miss Boot Licker . You also need to STOP upgrading your Stamina or your Health once you reach Level 12 for each of them, because the trophies are missable, as there are not enough inhibitors in the game to max out both Health and Stamina so upgrade your Stamina and your Health normally until you reach Level 12 then make a backup save. Now with the last inhibitors, max out your Health or Stamina, reload your back up save and max out the other one. This way you don't have to restart a playthrough. See Fit as a Fiddle and Ironheart (you can also save 81 inhibitors from the start but I don't recommend that as it makes the game pretty hard, playing without any upgrades).
During this step, you will unlock:
You Never Forget Your First...
Into the Unknown
First Shot
Herzlich Wilkommen!
Flag Burning
Under Pressure
On the Trail of the Enemy
Light in the Darkness
Get Outta My House!
Night Hunter (not story related but a good place to get it in the next main mission)
We Will Be Heard!
Known Associate
Debris and Ashes
Brush with Death
Going Down
Family First
Your World, Your Rules
...and most likely:
Oh, So This Is How It Works!
Good Night & Good Luck
Sancho Panza
It Wasn't That Hard, Was It?
Tunnel Entrance
Step 2: Clean up and grind
After you're done with the story and all side quests, you probably won't have enough XP to max out your stats and get Parkour Master and Combat Master . The best way to get points other than main and side quests is to grind the random events. They give a lot of XP after the main campaign is done. There is also a trophy for getting 1 million Old World Money (Who Wants To Be a... ) and it is very grindy. You won't be anywhere close to that amount of money after finishing everything so you'll have to either grind the airdrops underwater but this will take a while or ask a friend to use a backup save and drop you some stuff that you can sell, then rinse and repeat. Use this step to do any misc combat trophies and finish collecting the collectibles.
During this step, you will unlock:
- "Map cleaning":
Tube Map
Tickets, Please!
Don Quixote
Can't You Read the Signs?
Find Anything Interesting?
Revenants
Ban Hammer
Boot Licker
Man On a Mission
True Nightrunner
- Combat/misc trophies:
Death From Afar
Tanning Salon
Terminal Headache
Slow Poke!
Lightning Reflexes
Modder
You're Going Down!
Don't Look Up
Get the Point?
Bing Bang Boom!
- Grind:
After the Fall
Who Wants To Be a...
Ultramarathon
Parkour Master
Combat Master
Fit as a Fiddle
Ironheart
- Collectibles:
Audiophile
Street Art Aficionado
Step 3: Co-op
There are only 2 co-op trophies which is for joining a session and killing 100 enemies with 2 other players. You can either join randoms through the Online ingame menu or play with friends. Lastly, you'll need to travel 960km and even after doing everything else you won't be anywhere close. The best way to do that is to use a rubberband method and turn around in circles in a safe zone (a Metro works fine), while ding somehing else but unfortunately, you will have to keep an eye out on your game, because the game can randomly pause.
During this step, you will unlock:
Being All Social
That's Teamwork!
Pilgrim's Path