Many fans will be wondering if there are guns in Dying Light 2. The original emphasized melee weapons but also had a decent selection of pistols, rifles, shotguns, and SMGs. We’ll discuss whether there are any firearms in Dying Light 2 below.
Are there any guns in Dying Light 2?
There is one firearm in Dying Light 2. Players can craft a makeshift shotgun in the late game, but it’s used as a piece of equipment instead of an equipable weapon. Other than that, guns are only seen in the hands of NPCs.
The in-game reasoning behind there being no guns in Dying Light 2 is because the military somehow confiscated (almost) every firearm before abandoning the city. The devs said no skilled gunsmiths were left to manufacture new guns, so there aren’t any available. But, of course, the real reason is that Techland wanted to concentrate on melee combat. A common criticism of the original game is that guns made it too easy, so the game is now optimized primarily around co-op, stealth, melee combat, and parkour.
However, the in-universe reason that there aren’t any firearms is so bad that it’s almost immersion-breaking. Villedor is a European city, so there probably wasn’t the massive amount of guns one would find in an American city. However, there would still be a lot of small arms scattered in so many places that no military would be able to confiscate them all. As long as it doesn’t get moist, ammo won’t degrade, and the same goes for guns. A well-cared-for firearm can last centuries.
Guns also just aren’t that hard to make. They were mass-produced hundreds of years before electricity became commonplace. At the very least, someone in Villedor would be producing muskets and black powder. The latter is an incredibly unpleasant task, but it requires a very low level of technology to do.
