Episode 1: Rise and Shine

"See the Light Again" is the first mission in Dying Light: The Beast and serves as the tutorial level. The mission begins with an opening cutscene that briefly recaps the story of the original Dying Light, then fast-forwards to the present day where Kyle Crane has been imprisoned by the Baron as a test subject for 13 years. During an emergency situation, you get your chance to escape.

This is a quick and simple step. Crawl towards the corpse and investigate it to obtain the radio. A voice on the other end will help you escape.

Since the door is locked, you'll need to exit the current room through the ventilation system. Crawl toward the vent cover behind the bed directly in front of your current position. Open the vent cover by clicking or holding the button displayed on screen. Crawl through the vent to reach the Recovery Room. This is a Quick Time Event (QTE). If you didn't change the setting from "Click" to "Hold" when starting a new game, you can change it from the settings menu. Open the main menu and navigate to "Options". Select the "Accessibility" tab and set "QTE Hold Mode" to On. Save the changes for them to take effect.

From the Recovery Room, enter the hallway and turn right. The voice will direct you to the room on the left. On the mobile cart in front of the lockers, you'll find the mentioned adrenaline injector. Interact with it to start a cutscene. After the cutscene ends, you'll be able to walk and explore your surroundings. You can pick up a pack of cigarettes in this room, which is a valuable item to sell to merchants.

Return to the hallway and go through the open door. You'll enter combat with a prompt for quick attacks. There's only one infected to deal with, requiring about 4-5 effective hits to take down. After defeating it, go through the half-open door. You'll have to face two more enemies. Although you're instructed to use the UV (ultraviolet) setting on your flashlight, it's not necessary. You just need to kill the two infected to proceed. In the hallway, you'll be directed through the door on the left. You'll need to crawl through another vent to reach the main operating room. This area is packed with infected, but they're busy feeding. The goal here is to stealth past all the infected to the exit on the other side of the room.

Start by crouching and following the cone of light from your flashlight on the floor. Crawl under the table, follow the blood trail to the other side of the surgical area, and move behind the curtain where the table is positioned. To get through the door, you'll need to stealth between two feeding infected. In the hallway, you must enter the containment area where all infected are locked in cages. Due to the emergency, some have escaped. Pull a pipe from the wall as a weapon and defeat the two enemies charging at you.

Once they're dead, quickly head toward the elevator. Olivia must override the emergency controls to get the elevator running, but this will open all the doors in the area. Prepare to survive in this horde. Arm yourself with the pipe and take down as many charging infected as possible. This is your first experience with Beast Mode. This mode triggers when the red bar (meter) below your health is completely filled. Attacking enemies, dodging, and getting hit all increase the meter. In Dying Light: The Beast, as you progress, you gain enhanced strength, speed, and a different set of abilities. However, you cannot use weapons in this mode. Use your beast power to tear through the horde until they're all eliminated. Once the elevator arrives, enter it and begin ascending to the ground floor.

If only it were that simple. Someone desperately wants to keep Crane in the facility and locks down the elevator. Olivia also abandons you, leaving you to find your own way out. After the cutscene ends, you'll be in the elevator shaft and need to climb the rest of the way. Jump to the nearest ledge and start climbing up. Use the white pipes and ledges on both sides to climb to a metal platform. Climb the adjacent elevator shaft the same way to reach an open ventilation duct. Crawl through it, then drop down into a warehouse area. So close, yet so far. A cutscene starts showing a vault door closing on the right as you exit the warehouse into the exit corridor. Run left down the hall, jumping over or sliding under small passages you encounter. You need to pass through three vault doors to reach the final one and complete the "See the Light Again" mission.

Upon completion, a cutscene will greet you as you exit the Baron's lab facility, seeing sunlight and trees. You'll receive your experience points and a quick skill selection tutorial. The next mission "Safe Haven" will be added to your journal. Reward: 10,000 XP (Level 2)