The Old Town Skills — Dying Light: The Beast Walkthrough

Enhance Crane's capabilities with The Old Town Skills in Dying Light: The Beast. Invest your hard-earned experience points to unlock new abilities and improve your combat and parkour prowess.

The Skill System Explained

Dying Light: The Beast features a robust skill tree system divided into three main branches: Power, Agility, and Survivor. Earning experience points (XP) through combat, parkour, and completing quests allows you to unlock new skills within these trees, making Crane more effective and versatile.

Power Skills

These skills focus on improving Crane's combat effectiveness, particularly with melee weapons.

Key Power Skills:

• Heavy Attack: Unlocks a more powerful, slower attack that can stagger enemies.
• Ground Slam: Allows Crane to perform a devastating downward attack from a height.
• Drop Kick: A powerful kick that can knock enemies down or off ledges.
• Weapon Mastery: Increases damage and durability for specific weapon types.
• Charge Attack: Allows Crane to charge up a powerful melee strike.

Agility Skills

These skills enhance Crane's parkour abilities, making traversal faster, safer, and more dynamic.

Key Agility Skills:

• Vault Kick: A kick performed while vaulting over obstacles, useful for stunning enemies.
• Slide Kick: A sliding maneuver that can knock enemies down.
• Wall Run: Allows Crane to run along walls for a short distance.
• Grapple: Enables Crane to grab and pull enemies towards him.
• Air Control: Improves aerial maneuverability, allowing for better control during jumps and falls.

Survivor Skills

These skills focus on Crane's survivability, resourcefulness, and effectiveness in dealing with the infected.

Key Survivor Skills:

• Lockpicking: Allows Crane to open locked doors and containers, accessing better loot.
• Crafting Speed: Reduces the time it takes to craft items.
• Increased Health: Permanently boosts Crane's maximum health.
• Better Looting: Increases the amount and quality of loot found.
• Night Vision: Improves visibility during nighttime.

Skill Progression Strategy

The best approach to skill progression often involves a balanced build, but prioritizing certain skills can be beneficial:

• Early Game: Focus on basic parkour skills (like Vault Kick) and essential combat skills (like Heavy Attack) to survive the initial encounters.
• Mid Game: Invest in skills that improve looting and crafting efficiency (Lockpicking, Crafting Speed) and more advanced combat or parkour abilities.
• Late Game: Unlock powerful ultimate skills in each tree to maximize Crane's potential for tackling the toughest challenges.

Table of Skill Tree Focuses