Dying Light 2’s Bloody Ties DLC is taking us to the circus this week

techland has given us a great look at the first part of the DLC story for Dying Light 2, bloody tieswhich is released this week.

Bloody Ties will take you to The Carnage Hall, “a place of fame, fortune and power”, where you will have to face a series of tests to face new enemies. Of course, there will also be new weapons, challenges, and places to explore. The Carnage Hall is a repurposed opera house, now dedicated as a fighting venue where people fight each other instead of zombies.

“In its former glory, Carnage Hall was a grand opera house. Then, it was rebuilt and turned into this elite fighting venue with arenas, bloody shows, and brutal duels,” conceptual artist Anna Krzemien said of the new area in a blog post. deep dive into the DLC. “Even now, you can see that the remaining pieces of the interior are mixed with the sophisticated and the crude.”

For new players, or those who haven’t finished the game yet, Krzemien also noted that you don’t need to have beaten everything, as long as you’ve finished The Only Way Out quest.

Narrative director Piotr Szymanek also shared some “secrets” about the arena, saying, “Inside Carnage Hall you’ll meet some really important personalities…one of them is Astrid, the number one post-apocalyptic artist and entertainer, who thinks people needs bread and circuses”.

As for the new enemies and weapons you can look forward to, there are new mutant infected like the gorilla smasher, cataclysm, and inferno, and if you’re looking for some defensive options, there’s the carnage manica, which can be used as a power. barricade.

Bloody Ties releases later this week (November 10), and if you pre-order before release you’ll get the Aristocrat Pack, though if you own the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition it’s already included.