What Happened After The Harran Outbreak? [Dying Light 2]

Hello, and welcome to a video where I look at and unpack what happened in the 21 years between the Harran Outbreak of 2015 and the arrival of Aiden Caldwell in Villedor in 2036.

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[kaptainkoala]

The fact that spike is alive confirms that Crane didn’t blow up the city. There’s no way he would have made it far enough away in time.

[braidenr]

The harran virus is actually a variation of rabies, meaning the zombies arent being taken control of. The original person is still very much the same as the zombie, it's just likely that the zombies are really just Hella paranoid and think the survivors are the actual threat due to the psychosis caused by rabies. It also explains Aiden having conscious thoughts while actively mauling Veronica to death, and crane perceiving jade as a threat, choking her our right before she injects him with antizin because as he was turning, he was actually thinking she was the one turning

[madlan]

To me. Harran was an amazing map. I don't mean that the map in Dying light 2 is bad. It's beautiful but Harran has our memories.

[alistocracy]

One thing I wish they would've included is the sentient volatile aspect with Aiden's occasional turning throughout the game. Imagine being able to risk turning by staying out at night and gaining a boost in strength and speed, but if you let it go for too long you turn and die. Would be a cool gameplay mechanic and call back to the whole following thing.

[cyber]

I love how detailed the lore is, in most games/series like this is little to no explanation of the origin of outbreaks so this is a great change

[galahadkoa]

There is a storyteller in DL2 that talks about a darkness that came to Villedor. Something worse than the usual undead. A hero rose up, but the people laughed at him when he said he would destroy the darkness. He ended up doing exactly that, but the story never says who the hero was or what exactly the big bad thing was that came to Villedor. I choose to believe it was a sentient Kyle Crane that was looking for the last major population center on earth.

[ericx]

We need a "Return to Haran" DLC. It wouldn't take too much effort. They already have the map. They just need to do a little bit of visual reworking. That's it. It would be SICK. Imagine if we actually meet Crane, a sentient volatile, and communicate with him. Holy moly.

[cagric]

Crane already was against the idea of the ministry bombing the city, Why would he change his mind and nuke the city all of a sudden? Well maybe he lost his hope in the cure, but that's just against his personality. Crane is one hell of a stubborn guy

[dragons_red]

For DL1 to DL2, I didn't read it that way at all. DL2 and the devs leading up to the game stated the virus was suceesfully contained in Harran (due to wall off and coming up with a vaccine for those outside to be further protected). But the GRE obtained the virus and started playing with it (for weapon/research?) and a variant got out which spread so fast they didn't have time to stop it like they did with Harran.

[PresAlexWhit]

This is probably the best and most reliable lore video about DL. 3 things:

1) Harran is not in Turkey, but is instead an independent city state based off of Istanbul.
2) The GRE didn't entirely stop antizin drops, they simply slowed. There's cut dialog in The Following that Lena says this and the proof that Airdrops can still be found while playing The Following.
3) General Pratt is the one who ordered March Massacre while Colonel Chris Williams is known as The Butcher for the Black Monday Bombings and the death of 2 million people.

I really do hope you continue DL lore. This was very accurate and appreciated.

[generalkenobi]

There’s a Crane easter egg where there’s a wall with a ton of pictures of him. One of the pictures is a zombie variant we have never seen before, that one picture could be his volatile/night hunter form.

[DKSON]

The devs: No characters from the first game will make an appearance in DL2. Literally the first guy you meet is from the first game - Spike lol

[GhostAsakura]

So crazy how all these types of plots used to be fiction, but we are now living in a pandemic. Wild lol

[FridgeRain]

It turns out Kyle turning into an infected is true, you can run into an npc and talks about Kyle Crane and mentions what happens to him

[abbygornall]

I love your lore and order stuff. Not a video game player, but love the stories and you explain it all so well. You’re my favourite YouTuber to listen to, been here since a few thousand and it’s been awesome to watch you grow. Keep at it dude, love your content 👌

[devildavin]

i'm hoping for a DLC story where Aiden and Lawan make their way to Harran, we can visit the major parts of the city that was walled off but we can also go into the slums and old town and maybe even the country side, maybe a final boss fight with Kyle the Volatile

[Carlos.Oliveira.Fan.]

Man the dying light lore is so cool mostly because of the idea of a zombie outbreak happening in real life would be horrifying

[TheMostSourKraut]

I'd say that since there is an exclusion zone, at some point, some kind of nuke went off. I'd also like to believe that Crane is meant to become the Night Hunter because he's the only one who could possibly become the Night Hunter.

[shanoodle]

Yesss. I’m so glad you’re back to making videos and things worked out okay. I really enjoy this series and look forward to more!

[Arjunvandemataram]

Neve heard the full story before. Thank you very much for this video Gaming Harry. Very interesting and eye opening stuff. Now I understand all kind of elements in the DL + DL2 games better .