Xbox Series S Handles Dying Light: The Beast’s Open World Well, Despite Lack Of 60FPS

It performs solidly, shows Digital Foundry

by Ben Kerry 53m ago

Digital Foundry has just dropped its tech review for new open-world zombie adventure Dying Light: The Beast, and the results are welcome ones for console players – despite them being fairly predictable.

The upshot of it is that this new Dying Light spin-off has solid performance across pretty much every console mode, with Xbox Series X and PS5 turning in similar results across their 30FPS and 60FPS modes. The Beast is the latest game on Xbox Series S to feature just one 30FPS mode – but it performs very well throughout the open world in DF’s testing.

Series X and PS5 users get a nice bonus as well; Dying Light: The Beast contains an unlocked frame rate mode on all consoles apart from Series S – meaning if you have a 120Hz VRR-enabled display, you can push the game beyond 60FPS. It doesn’t get close to 120FPS by any means, but it does rise above 60 and with VRR should be a fairly smooth experience overall.

In general, then, the outlet seems impressed enough by Dying Light: The Beast’s console performance. However, the review closes out by mentioning that Dying Light 2 had a wider range of options on console (including a patched-in 60FPS mode on Series S), and it’s hoping to see developer Techland improve this new entry somewhere down the line. We too hope to see more options at some point – and in the meantime, you can check out the full video review up above to hear about how the game is performing on Xbox right now.

Have you been playing this one yet? Tell us if you’re impressed by Dying Light: The Beast on Xbox down below.

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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