- Twitter user c0mpl3x1ty who happens to be an electrical engineer had a few drinks and went to Twitter to bash how open world zombie game Dying Light's city has no way to generate power

- c0mpl3x1ty knows how power grids are supposed to work in real-life

- Twitter rant went on for nearly 30 minutes

- “I admit that I got kinda drunk,” he said

- he made the following tweets:

- c0mpl3x1ty showed some proof that he knows his shit:

“I work for the reliability coordinator,” c0mpl3x1ty told me. “Our company is like the air traffic controllers of power for the western interconnection. I see every power line 115kV and up in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. I travel some and always make a point to take pictures of substations.”

- And here’s proof:

“The only thing more horrifying than the zombies in the game is the NERC [North American Electric Reliability Corporation] violations at these substations,”

“Granted, the game probably doesn’t take place in North America, but even in Brazil, they have high safety standards regarding their electrical grid because if they don’t, people DIE. If I saw one of those giant switches at a sub that looks like something out of Frankenstein’s lab, I’d shut the power down and dismantle the whole substation myself.”

- Dying Light developer Techland responded via email, saying the following:

Ok the cat is out the bag. Yeah it’s true, our electrical systems break conventional design. But when you’re stuck in a zombie outbreak you’re going to have to adapt and therefore bypass certain “rules”. The people of Harran had to apply a really resourceful design which required the existing infrastructure to be tweaked. That’s why when you look at the current electrical setup in Harran things appear “wrong”.

We didn’t want this ground-breaking design out in the public before we could patent it, but your interest has shown us that electrical engineering world as a whole needs to know there are other ways to generate electricity despite “conventional knowledge”. Feel free to share this with your fellow engineers.

- The Dying Light devs then revealed a terrible secret about how the city gets it's power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIl7og6WQqw

- Techland continued:

“We’re totally open to any investors who want to buy this flawless design from us for heaps and heaps of cash,” said a Techland spokesperson. “This will then let us fund our other great ideas like a Dying Light theme park, Dying Light: A VR Farm Simulator Experience, and Dying Light: The Sitcom.”

http://kotaku.com/dying-light-creators-respond-to-fans-drunken-rant-1734010921

man are techland awesome at marketing dying light. seriously any other dev would have ignored this nonsense drunk rant. but they actually made a funny video and it got them more exposure to their game. this is a fantastic example of how to interact with a games community.

as for the video its self, its pretty funny.

Are you serious?

This is awesome.... it's a game and some internet idiot went on a drunken rampage and they took it all in good spirits and made an awesome video. These devs are getting *ALOT* of good comments since their Drink for Dying light marketing, these guys are playing it right imho.

I don't know. I think in this case its good Versus_Evil.

EDIT: Actually looking at it again there is a lot of deflecting

That's awesome and pretty clever. I'm going to have to remember that when the real apocalypse hits.

Nothing wrong with what the guy tweeted, either. He didn't insult anyone. Everyone is like that when their area of expertise is glossed over.

This. Is. Awesome.

Deflecting ...?  What?

Why is he an idiot? There are some many worst things that people could do after a druken rampage. This was actually funny. Kudos to the devs for replying. Was the reply patronising? Yes, it was. But the video was still funny though.

It's a computer game, it's not real.....

Nice handling from Techland. Dying Light is very decent game, it does get a bit repetitive in second half, but quite enjoyable experience nevertheless.