Warning: This article contains potentially disturbing imagery and violence from the video game Dying Light 2: Stay Human.
Despite being branded as a horror-based video game, Dying Light 2: Stay Human's glitches have provided fans with some laughs. Even after several patches and updates, fans still find not only their characters but also NPCs in the game having superhuman abilities that are not meant to be a part of the gameplay, like floating characters or brooms that clean up messes all on their own.
Since the release of the game on February 4, 2022, fans have enjoyed the intense zombie-apocalypse setting and the scares it provides, making the comic relief of the glitches even more unexpected and hilarious.
Zombies Or The Exorcist?
As GameSpot shows, some players have come across several NPCs in the game who are experiencing seemingly supernatural possession as they wait to be interacted with by the player.
The NPCs' bodies will repeatedly twist and contort into unnatural positions, making the characters look more like something from The Sims than a horror game. While the movements are funny at first, they become almost as horrifying as the game's zombies the longer players watch the actions.
Characters Flying Through The Air
Shortly after the game was released, fans, such as DASH FIRE, noticed their avatars were trying to take flight when they attempted to climb. The glitch would throw players into the sky, with nowhere to go but down. Upon their landing, they automatically die.
At times, characters resemble something from an old Looney Tunes cartoon. Despite players being aggravated by the glitch, players did find their characters frantically trying to find a landing place amusing. Fans of the Assassin's Creed series experienced similar glitches throughout the games.
An Unexpected Surprise
Like all the best zombie-based games, Dying Light 2's main objective is to eliminate zombies, combat other players, and stay alive. Players like GameSpot noticed that if an object is near, recently extinguished zombies or other players may appear inside the thing.
The glitch happens most often when the objects in question have lids. The glitch gives players a macabre jack-in-the-box style surprise that provides an unintentional jumpscare, which can make for classic comedy gold.
Falling Through The Ground
Players have experienced a glitch that the game developers have since patched, according to Gaming Hybrid. Players would try and walk up an incline and find themselves under the landscape they were about to traverse. The glitch allowed people to see through the ground above them but left them trapped.
Being stuck under the ground left players looking more like mimes trying to escape an invisible box than combatants attempting to survive in a terrifying world. The glitch gives players a brief reprieve from running for their lives and allows them to hide from other players for a moment.
A Disney Easter Egg?
Dying Light 2 has no affiliation with Disney, but in a YouTube video posted by TheAwkwardGuy, one player noticed that when other players were set on fire, they sounded like the infamous seagulls featured in Finding Nemo. According to Gaming Hybrid, this audio glitch and several others have been fixed throughout the game's patches and updates.
Given the extreme circumstances of the glitch, it is hard to laugh, but once the connection to the seagulls is made, it is hard not to chuckle at the strange noises the characters make in their attempts to flee.
Magic Hammer
Redditor MR_DELORIAN noticed a glitch in the game that gave household tools magical abilities. The NPCs are given tasks like sweeping or, in this case, making repairs. The hammer is supposed to be held by the NPC, but instead, it floats under its own power and continues to hammer at the wood on the wall.
The scene looks like something out of Ghostbusters rather than a horror game. But these helpful ghosts are seen in other parts of the game, sometimes taking over brooms and other tools.
Party For One
Reddit CanadianDashFire shared a glitch that shows the zombies are not immune to the glitches within the game. In one instance, the player caught a zombie having its own private silent disco as the rest of the zombies shuffled around the abandoned space.
The movements make the zombie look like they are at a rave rather than a flesh-eating creature. The glitch has been seen with other NPCs in the game and was still in the game as of a month ago.
A Change In Scenery
One Reddit named Misterman2158 experienced a glitch that moved them from their objective to falling through the floor. The funniest part of the glitch is the accompanying dialogue. Just as the character finishes saying, "This isn't the right department," the character is, in fact, transported to another "department."
The unintentionally appropriate language has made fans chuckle even though they meet their demise soon after, and it is a glitch that will live on as one of the funniest of the game.
Floating Main Characters
Later in the same video, Redditor glitch similar to one found in The Witcher 3. In this case, one of the main characters in the game floats in the air as if there is nothing abnormal about it.
Again, the dialogue aids in the comedic value of this glitch. Players wouldn't be likely to notice the glitch if the character had not been referring to her shoes at the same time she stepped off the platform. The character would float, and no one would be the wiser.
Clones Of The Player's Avatar
YouTuber rampage TV caught a moment in the game when their avatar appeared in front of them, headless and performing the same movements as they were. The glitch is no more terrifying than any of the other mishaps in the game but does provide a comedic moment.
The strange moment creates an out-of-body experience that is unexpected and humorous as the headless avatar tries to navigate the map before morphing back into the original avatar.
