Premise Kyle Crane, the protagonist of the
first game, returns as the protagonist of
The Beast. After his transformation into a sentient volatile at the hands of the Mother in
Dying Light: The Following, Crane was hiding from the Global Relief Effort (GRE) for 10 years, but was captured and taken prisoner by a mysterious villain called the Baron. After being subjected to 13 years of torture and experimentation by the Baron, Crane, who now has a mix of volatile and human DNA, escapes captivity and swears revenge on the Baron, while also having to fight the beast within.
Plot Years after being captured by the GRE and sold/experimented upon by a man named Marius Fischer, known as the Baron, Crane finally has an opportunity to escape when another test subject, subject beta, breaches containment. Taking advantage of the resulting chaos and with the assistance of a woman named Olivia, Crane escapes the lab but discovers that thanks to the experiments performed upon him he is part Volatile and can temporarily gain the strength of one. He meets up with Olivia outside the lab who agrees to assist him in his desire for revenge against the Baron in return for helping her escape the Baron's clutches. She explains that the Baron once owned a biotech company before the outbreak, and now he is obsessed with perfecting the virus so he can gain control over the world. In order to gain the strength to stand against the Baron and his army, Olivia instructs Crane to slay the Baron's experimental beasts called Chimeras, extract the GSB catalyst from their bodies, and use it to empower himself. In addition, he must find allies willing to help him fight against the Baron. Meanwhile, Olivia uses the samples collected from the chimeras Crane kills in order to figure out what exactly the Baron is trying to do with the disease. Seeking allies, Crane first comes across survivors in the local Town Hall, led by a woman called the Sheriff, who warn him that a "Beast" has been going around hunting down the Baron's men. Upon hearing that the Baron is personally overseeing an operation at a mine, Crane and the Sheriff infiltrate the grounds in an attempt to kill him directly. However, the Sheriff betrays Crane and tries to hand him over to the Baron, but the Beast, his real target, interferes and manages to escape thanks to Kyle, allowing both of them to escape captivity while the Sheriff flees, seemingly with the Baron. The Town Hall's second in command, Jacob, informs Crane about a group of infected who were originally members of the town hall. Called exiles, former test subjects that managed to escape from the Baron's lab and developed telepathy similar to the Mother’s from experiments. Crane makes contact with their leader, Lydia, and captures one of the Baron's scientists, Camilo, who agrees to help them enhance their telepathic abilities. Which will allow them control over the infected. Meanwhile, Olivia admits to Crane that her father was a scientist in Harran who was studying the virus, and is now being kept prisoner by the Baron. Eventually, the Baron sends Chimeras to destroy the Town Hall. The Sheriff returns from exile to help Crane defend the Town Hall until Lydia can use her telepathy to take control the Chimeras and send them away. The Sheriff apologizes to Crane, explaining she was coerced by the Baron into betraying him to protect her people, or she would be killed along with the Town Hall. With the Town Hall and exiles united, Crane figures their next step is to capture the Beast and use him to lure the Baron out of his fortress. He manages to lure the Beast into a trap and subdues him long enough for Lydia to take control of his mind. The Beast later wakes up and reveals that he is Aiden Caldwell (the protagonist of
Dying Light 2). He and Spike, an old friend of Crane's from Harran, had teamed up to try and rescue Crane from the Baron's custody, but were captured. The Baron then contacts Crane, revealing he has captured Olivia and Spike, offering to free them in return for turning over Aiden. Aiden escapes and turns himself in to the Baron in hopes of saving Spike, but the Baron changes his conditions and orders Crane to turn himself in as well. Realizing they are out of options, Crane and his allies decide to assault the Baron's fortress directly, but Olivia ends up betraying them as her father was infected during his captivity, allowing the Baron to capture them all. The Baron reveals that Crane's escape was planned from the beginning in order for Olivia (with Crane's assistance) to finish his work for him, and allow Marius to collect all the GSB samples from Kyle (whom had injected himself with a dose from each Chimera he killed). The Baron then executes Spike and Camilo before Olivia, who faked her betrayal, fights the Baron and distracts him long enough for Lydia to disturb the Baron's consciousness, having already infected himself in preparation for the final strain, and stabbing him in the eye before freeing Crane and his remaining allies. Crane then manages to corner the Baron at his helipad, where he injects himself with the perfected virus to turn himself into the ultimate Chimera. Undeterred, Crane defeats the mutated Baron, and kills him by impaling his heart with a metal pipe. He is then contacted by his former GRE superior, who reveals that the GRE is still active and thanks Crane for dealing with the Baron, since he had become a liability to them. As a reward for his service, the GRE grants Kyle his freedom and Crane’s former superior expresses her hope that they can cooperate in the future. Instead, Crane, Aiden, and Lydia swear to take their fight to the GRE, and end them. ==Development==