Dead Island 2
Developers | |
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Deep Silver Dambuster Studios[1] | |
Former (2012-2016) | Yager Development[2] |
Former (2016-2019) | Sumo Digital[3] |
Publishers | |
Deep Silver | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 21, 2023 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
OpenCritic | 75 |
IGDB | 74 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Survival horror, Action, RPG, Open world |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Zombies |
Series | Dead Island |
Dead Island | |
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Dead Island | 2011 |
Dead Island: Riptide | 2013 |
Escape Dead Island | 2014 |
Dead Island: Epidemic | 2016 |
Dead Island: Definitive Edition | 2016 |
Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition | 2016 |
Dead Island: Retro Revenge | 2016 |
Dead Island 2 | 2023 |
Dead Island 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person survival horror, action, RPG and open world game in the Dead Island series.
Initially announced in 2014, the game was set to be released earlier but due to various issues during development, it went through multiple developers, to finally land under Dambuster Studios. It was then announced to release in February 3, 2023, and then delayed to April 28, 2023, and then moved a week forward to April 21, 2023.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition also available. | |||
Steam | Deluxe Edition and Gold Edition also available. |
- All versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[4]
- Region locked for activation in multiple countries for steam, check discussion tab for the countries list.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | None |
Version differences
- (Digital) Deluxe Edition: Includes base game and Golden Weapons Pack (Golden Mace and Golden Pistol) and Character pack 1 & 2 (Unique costume and weapon) bonus content.
- (Digital) Gold Edition: Includes everything part of Deluxe Edition alongside Pulp Weapons Pack (Eye Opener and Homewrecker Weapons) bonus content and Expansion Pass.
- Pre-order Bonus: Includes Memories of Banoi Pack (Banoi War Club, Banoi Baseball Bat, Weapons Perks, Skills Card).
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename video files |
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- Will still have to manually skip through all the Legal and Autosave information
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIsland\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor |
Steam | %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIslandSteam\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/934700/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIsland\Saved\SaveGames |
Steam | %LOCALAPPDATA%\DeadIslandSteam\Saved\SaveGames |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/934700/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | See Ultra-widescreen to further improve ultrawide support. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | 70-100. See Ultra-widescreen for more customization. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA, Temporal Low, Temporal High | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | FSR 2.0 [5]. DLSS can be modded in |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | [citation needed] | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Ray tracing (RT) | [Note 2] |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Ultra-widescreen
Use Dead Island 2 Fix |
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Installation
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | [citation needed] | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | [citation needed] | |
Surround sound | Microsoft Spatial Audio API is supported | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Not changeable through ingame menus. | |
Royalty free audio | Has streamer mode which block licensed music. The licensed title sequence music is not blocked, however.[6] |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 3 | Co-op |
Issues fixed
Issue
Opening the Inventory or Trading Menu might crash the game when using FSR 2[7] |
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Turning off FSR 2 will fix this issue. |
Other information
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | User Profile, see vorpx forum for introduction |
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 12 | https://deadisland.com/news/technical-faqs |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Play Steam version without Epic Online Services
Delete & edit folder and file[8][9] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | AMD FX-9590 Intel Core i7-7700HQ |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Intel Core i9-9900K |
System memory (RAM) | 10 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 70 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon R9 390X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible | Radeon RX 6800 XT Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/934700/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (934700) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ No mention of ray tracing support in any of the technical specs, reviews, videos or interviews
References
- ↑ Gematsu - Deep Silver Dambuster Studios takes over Dead Island 2 development - last accessed on 2021-01-15
- ↑ Eurogamer - California Dreamin': Dead Island 2 embraces the slaughter - last accessed on 2021-01-15
- ↑ MCV/DEVELOP - Sumo Digital takes charge of Dead Island 2 - last accessed on 2021-01-15
- ↑ Dead Island 2 is using the Denuvo anti-tamper tech - last accessed on 2023-04-21
- "And, after five CPU changes, we were met with the following message. So, as you can clearly see, Dead Island 2 uses Denuvo. The game’s executable file also hints at the inclusion of Denuvo (as it’s around 438MB in size)"
- ↑ AMD FSR 2 Games List - last accessed on 2023-03-14
- ↑ Dead Island 2 Technical FAQs - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ Dead Island 2 Inventory Crash Fix PC - last accessed on [unknown]
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/934700/discussions/0/4368004468485657992/#c4368004468485672669
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3230687385