Traders can provide you with all sorts of useful items in Dying Light 2. However, they often ask for hefty prices or rare items in exchange. One player has now discovered how to save properly – although it doesn’t look entirely legal.
What kind of trick is this? In itself, the trick is quite simple: You select an item you want to buy and move the cursor over it. Then you switch the tab to another category without moving the cursor.
This way, you have selected a cheaper item, for example, some component. Hold down the button/key to buy and switch back to the item you want just before the transaction.
The base price in money will still be deducted from you, but exchange items like trophies will not. This is shown by reddit user pyryii97 in his short clip where he tried the trick with blueprints:
How do I save time with this? The blueprints that pyryii97 bought actually require trophies from infected. As seen in the video, he doesn’t have these, but still gets the blueprints. You need blueprints to upgrade your items and tools, for example, the extremely useful grappling hook.
The trophies are rare, sometimes random drops from enemies. It can take many hours to farm the corresponding items for upgrading a blueprint. One user jokingly commented under the post: ‘You mean, I don’t have to farm 25,000 zombies for fully upgraded blueprints? WOWEE!’
While money remains an issue, as other users point out, the time savings are very welcome. Nobody has time for the grind, so this trick comes in handy – even if it probably isn’t entirely allowed.
“Trick” is apparently a bug – But is it also forbidden?
The trick is apparently a bug that is being exploited. Such a thing is called an “exploit” and is looked down upon by players in most online games, often even punished with bans by the developers.
We cannot guarantee that there is no penalty for exploiting game mechanics in Dying Light 2. If you want to be completely sure, you should avoid using this trick. However, Dying Light 2 is a very different type of game than, for example, Call of Duty.
In general, exploiting bugs in single-player games and games without competitive elements is not punished. Bugs are simply removed later, and corresponding exploits will no longer work. Players have already found other tricks of this kind, such as how to open locks without lockpicks – although it’s unclear if this is actually a bug.
The developers themselves come from a time when cheat codes and console commands were common, and these could even be found in popular magazines. They have included a secret developer room where there are unfair items available, which some players already see as cheating:
Secret item in Dying Light 2 protects your favorite weapons from destruction
