Dying Light: The Beast Beginner's Guide | Gameplay Tips & Tricks

Tips and tricks to help you early on in Dying Light: The Beast.

Game Guide by Joy Rahman on Sep 24, 2025

Techland's Dying Light: The Beast arrives in the genre to add flavour to the zombie horror genre. This edition brings enriched parkour, survival, and enthralling melee combat, taking place in the wild dystopian Castor Woods.

Here’s a beginner’s guide with some pointers to keep in mind to help you out early on.

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Unlock Safe Zones

Your main priority should be unlocking save zones as soon as the world becomes accessible to you. Most of them can be found in high towers or on rooftops.

Using binoculars can help you spot them from afar. When you mark them, they appear on the map, and you'll have access to most of the map from the very start, making them readily available to secure.

These zones will act as a safe spot for you to rest, fast-forward time to claim rewards like blueprints, armour, and gear upgrades.

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Side Quest Gear

It's important that you regularly acquire strong gear; from weapons to armour and blueprints, quest loot will play a massive role. The side quests will clearly display their rewards on the map, allowing you to decide which ones to prioritise.

Some of them will hand you powerful weapons like crossbows, so it's important that you prioritise them even though they might be difficult early on. Activity zones are also handy. They'll give you unique items on first completion.

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Stamina Levelling

Stamina is an essential part of combat, and it can’t be upgraded manually. You'll need to level up to increase your stamina. Whenever you run out of stamina during battles, it leaves you vulnerable, so pacing and timing a recovery are important.

Quest will provide you with a lot of XP and certain vendors that sell gear that increases the amount of XP you earn. Wearing a full set of armour that boosts XP, early on, can grant you additional XP boosts.

Also, want to keep in mind that at night, XP you gain doubles, making nighttime adventures and activities rewarding to pursue. Main quests at night can also double XP, though it can be a bit dangerous to travel to and from them.

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Skill Tree

In Dying Light: The Beasts, it's counterintuitive to unlock every available skill; it's more effective to build around the skills you have and push deeper into the trees to get your hands on certain abilities.

One of the more important skills that I would recommend is Beast Control, which allows you to manually activate Beast Mode instead of the game doing it automatically when the bar is full.

This allows you to save the ability for bossing encounters or large enemy encounters when you actually need to use the ability.

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Lockpicking Hack

Whenever you use lockpicks, as the game intends you to, they will eventually break after multiple tries. But one trick that makes lockpicks unnecessary to craft is that you can always exit the picking mini game before your tries run out and your durability resets. That makes lockpicking essentially free.

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Upgrades

Crafting and upgrading items revolve around manual pages; your first upgrade that you should always prioritise should be bandages.

Stronger healing becomes important early on in the game. Once you reach level six, intermediate pages become available, allowing you to upgrade them further.

Molotov or another upgrade that you consider early on, as well as they do significant area damage. You'll be able to upgrade these weapons at workbenches, and often upgrading is a lot cheaper than fully crafting them.

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Using the Environment

It's essential to his environment to gain an advantage; spiked walls and traps can quickly take out a group of infected. Those are really useful from higher up, and decoys are also one of the best tools for group enemies before using Molotovs.

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